Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

bang——

Just as the wheelchair was about to tip over, it was suddenly pressed down by a hand, and the girl sitting on it leaned forward, her upper body resting on Kino's shoulder.

"Wang Wang Wang!!"

The puppy was furious. Once Kino was no longer holding it back, it rushed out and bit the man's trouser leg tightly.

While the man was stunned by the sudden situation, he felt a pulling and biting force under his feet, and he hurriedly sat down on the ground.

"Get away! You dead dog! Get away!"

The man kicked out a few times in a panic and anger, and the puppy let go of his trouser leg, then stood guard beside the wheelchair and barked at him.

After Kino carried the wheelchair up and placed it in the room, Shinnosuke Tomari and the others, who had heard the commotion nearby, rushed over and were somewhat surprised to see him there.

"Kino?"

“You’re not a very professional caregiver, detective.” Kino smiled at him.

"What happened?"

Tomari Shinnosuke didn't seem to care about his teasing. After seeing the little dog standing guard nearby, watching the man intently, he looked thoughtful. Then he looked at the man who looked annoyed.

After the Special Investigation Division announced the girl's existence, a man named "Igarashi Kazuya" appeared and claimed to be the girl's boyfriend.

Based on the information provided by the other party, the Special Investigation Division did indeed find out the girl's identity. In order to awaken the girl's consciousness as soon as possible, they agreed to let Igarashi Kazuya stay with Hatori Mirei for the time being to take care of her.

Igarashi Kazuya, who had fallen to the ground, looked up and met Kino's eyes as he was being helped down the stairs. He probably realized that his attempt to push Kino down the stairs had been seen, so he immediately turned the tables and shouted, "This guy set his dogs on me!"

"Wang! Wang!"

The puppy even cooperated by barking angrily again, as if it was about to bite.

Then Igarashi got even more excited: "Look, that's it! I was walking with my girlfriend when it attacked me!"

Humans take advantage of the fact that puppies can't talk.

After watching the man's evasive arguments with great interest for a while, Kino waved to Tomari Shinnosuke, then took out his tablet and showed him a video.

The video begins with Kazuya Igarashi pushing a wheelchair towards the stairs, even capturing the sound of a dog barking, and ends with the moment he reaches out and pushes the wheelchair out.

There was no further recording because Kino had already used Flash to get there.

Shinnosuke Tomari gave Kazuya Igarashi a meaningful look. Although the latter didn't know what they had seen, he could guess that his plan to murder Mirei Hatori had been completely exposed.

His expression changed several times, and suddenly he jumped up, turned around, and ran away!

But Tomari Shinnosuke, who was prepared, rushed forward, grabbed his shoulder, and twisted his arm behind his back to restrain him.

"Let go! What right do you have to arrest me!"

Kazuya Igarashi continued to shout in his death throes.

Shinnosuke Tomari pulled out handcuffs and cuffed him: "Of course, you're being arrested on charges of attempted murder!"

After Genhachiro Oda arrived, Shinnosuke Tomari handed the man over to him, leaving the rest of the investigation to the Metropolitan Police Department.

He then looked at Kino, and then lowered his gaze to look at the dog.

"This dog is—"

"Xiang!"

The self-answering of Tomari Shinnosuke and Kino's response rang out simultaneously, clearly indicating that after hearing about Medic's search for the dog, Tomari Shinnosuke had already guessed some of the truth.

After Mirei Hatori was admitted to the hospital, some women in the vicinity would unconsciously say "I want to see you, Sho" and then fall into a coma. Even Reina Sawakami from the Special Cases Department was unfortunately affected.

The Special Cases Division initially thought "Xiang" was a person's name, but in fact, all those who were infected had owned dogs.

That's why they were able to resonate with Mirei Hatori's longing for her beloved dog.

After Igarashi Kazuya was taken away, the puppy gradually relaxed its guard and immediately turned around and pounced on Hatori Misuzu, wagging its tail wildly and placing its two front paws on the girl's knees.

Hatori Mirei's previously lifeless eyes seemed to light up, and she suddenly looked down, then a smile appeared on her stiff, puppet-like face.

"Xiang? You're still alive, that's great."

"Wang~wang~"

"I miss you so much, Xiang!"

Mirei Hatori's expression came to life. She reached out and hugged the puppy she hadn't seen for so long, gently rubbing its head.

Seeing that she had regained consciousness and the puppy was reunited with its owner, Kiriko Shijima, standing nearby, smiled with a mixture of emotion and relief: "That's wonderful~"

At this moment, Tomari Shinnosuke looked at Kino.

"so……"

He lowered his voice and said, "Now that you've brought Xiang back, Medic has also completed its super evolution, right?"

Kino mimicked him and whispered, "You guessed perfectly, do you want a reward?"

Tomari Shinnosuke: "..."

But now and here is not the right time to talk about serious matters. Seeing that the two of them seemed to be whispering to each other, Shijima Kiriko immediately took a few steps closer out of curiosity and blinked at Kino.

So Shinnosuke chuckled awkwardly and pulled Kino a short distance to the side.

Although Shijima Kiriko seemed a little unhappy, she knew they should be discussing serious matters, so she didn't go up and disturb them further.

Once everyone was out of sight, Tomari Shinnosuke spoke again: "Since you already know that Sho can wake up Mirei, why are you still helping Medic Super Evolution? Do you want to help the mechanical mutants?"

Kino found this question quite novel.

In the original series, it was clearly Shinnosuke Tomari who was supposed to help Medic complete his super evolution, although that was also to unravel the mystery surrounding Mirei Hatori.

He thought for a moment and said, "Chase should have already told you about the 'Promised Number' plan. Although Banno Tenjuro, having obtained the 'Gord Drive' form, is considered a super-evolved being, I won't participate in this. So, you only need to prevent other mechanical mutants from super-evolving, and this matter should be basically under control."

There are currently about twenty mechanical mutants remaining.

In addition to the power of Kamen Rider, the Metropolitan Police Department, with the help of the Special Investigation Division, now also has the ability to independently eliminate unevolved mechanical mutants.

Kino looked at Tomari Shinnosuke seriously and said, "So, in a way, I am indeed helping Heart and the others."

Shinnosuke Tomari was silent for a moment: "Why?"

“In my opinion, mechanical mutants are just a group of artificial life forms that blindly imitate humans, so what they will eventually become is actually determined by humans,” Kino said.

"Do you think humans and mechanical mutants can coexist peacefully?" Shinnosuke Tomari seemed to realize something.

"I don't make that assumption."

Kino shook his head: "Because whether they are human or mechanical mutants, as long as they do something I find intolerable, they are all the same to me. And my desire to give Heart and the others a chance is only out of a little selfishness."

But he doesn't think so much about philosophical questions like these.

Shinnosuke Tomari listened in stunned silence for a long time.

Kino continued, "You Kamen Riders can worry about this yourselves. Now let's talk about something else important—since Chase has already explained the plan to you, I will probably be leaving this body temporarily tomorrow. You need to be prepared to deal with it."

Upon hearing this, Tomari Shinnosuke became serious, then, as if remembering something, quickly added, "Oh, right, I've been looking for you lately!"

"Then let him find it." Kino waved his hand dismissively.

“No, what I mean is, should we tell him what happened to you?” Shinnosuke Tomari tentatively asked.

"Sure, just say what you want to say. Why are you asking me about this?" Kino asked, puzzled.

"........."

You really have no self-awareness at all.

……

Chapter 45 Gaim!

The night was dark and windy, and all was quiet.

The huge abandoned stadium was completely empty.

But at the open entrance, a figure crept in from the outside, tiptoeing along the wall into the inner area.

As he was cautiously surveying his surroundings, a loud "bang" suddenly came from the depths of darkness, and then the lights in the entire dark and silent laboratory instantly came on!

"Alas!"

The person who sneaked in was terrified.

He wasn't sure if he had been exposed, and as he lay on the ground, intending to sneak away, a figure squatted down in front of him.

Kino looked at him with a smile: "Oh~~ So it's our 'brain' back~"

Brian looked stiff, then raised his head with an awkward smile, his whole body trembling with nervousness.

Brian, who had been instructed by Heart to leave, hid outside for quite some time. Then he realized that nothing seemed to have happened, but he was a little worried about Heart's situation, so he found an opportunity to return to the vicinity.

But he hadn't encountered Heart yet, so tonight he gritted his teeth and sneaked in to investigate.

It just so happens that Kino is also here on business tonight.

He patted Brian's head and said with emotion, "It seems you do have some filial piety after all. I was planning to go out and find you tonight, but I didn't expect you to be so unwilling to let me go through all that trouble."

They even went out of their way to deliver themselves to your door!

Brian was so frightened that he screamed and sprang away, scrambling to escape.

However, just as he ran to the door...

"Shh!"

A tentacle of light flew from behind and instantly pierced Brain's chest, pulling out a glowing digital core.

—Mechanical variant 003.

The digital core is the true form of the mechanical mutants, housing their power and consciousness.

The body, having lost its core, collapsed downwards, only to be blasted into flames by a golden wave. The red numbers strung together by the tentacles of light continued to scream, distorted and terrified by this turn of events, and hurriedly looked behind them at the person who had launched the attack.

The golden drive exuded a naturally malevolent and oppressive aura. The light tentacles that had extended from its belt retracted, and Kino stepped forward, grasping the number 003.

The string of jelly-like soft numbers twisted and turned in his hands.

"I surrender! I surrender!"

Brain screamed in terror, "I'm a super-evolved mechanical mutant now! I'll do anything you want! Please, spare me!"

"Oh? It can really do anything?" Kino asked, squeezing it with great interest.

"Sure! I can do anything!"

Brain's digital core nodded frantically.

After pretending to think for a moment, Kino said very seriously, "Then go and copy a beautiful girl with long black hair and red eyes!"

Brain: "...???"

First of all, putting aside the question of what a black-haired, red-eyed beauty is, the more important thing is that if a human is replicated, that would mean resetting the core.

What's the difference between this and leveling up from scratch?

Brain had already been kicked by Kamen Rider Drive once in the previous super evolution event, and it hadn't been long since Medic revived him.

After teasing it for a bit, Kino casually tossed aside the brain-malfunctioning Brain and went back to fixing the machine.

The reason he wanted to destroy Brain was mainly because although the guy didn't seem very smart, he was actually quite clever, and if he directly installed a virus program, he would probably be discovered very quickly.

Therefore, spreading the disease through Medic's treatment is more discreet.

The digital core, which had been lying on the ground, was paralyzed for a while before it realized that it had not been executed. It carefully lifted the digital core slightly and glanced at the golden Drive that was smashing iron with a "clang, clang, clang".

So the noise we heard back then was what kind of experiment this guy was doing?

Brain was very curious.

But Brain doesn't dare to do anything reckless now.

Seeing that Kino really wasn't paying attention to this place anymore, it slowly moved its digital core out of the doorway. Once it reached the stadium entrance, it darted away at top speed!

"Waaaaah—Heart! Medic!"

The digital core of 003 jumped up and down in the night sky while shedding tears.

……

Kino picked at his ear in the stadium.