Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

"Do you mean...another history?" Tsukuyomi asked sharply.

“That’s right,” Kino agreed.

"Oh~"

Sougo Tokiwa nodded in realization.

At this moment, Meikoin Geiz shouted sternly: "Regardless of any other history, what exactly is this Demon King plan you just mentioned? So your goal is the same as Woz's, to make ZiO become Oma Zi-O and then rule the world, right!"

Kino glanced at him: "Woz and I have different goals. Sougo will become king because he was 'born to be king,' and that cannot be changed. So what we need to do is make him—"

Kino suddenly stopped speaking at this point.

Meikoin Gates frowned and pressed, "Why did you stop talking? What did you ask him to do?"

Kino wanted to continue speaking, but suddenly a kaleidoscope of dazzling arcs of light flashed before his eyes, a familiar dizzying sensation washed over him, and then the whole world began to spin.

—Really?

Before losing consciousness, Kino frantically muttered to himself: "Will I have to be pulled like this every time we change to a new map?"

But this time the effect seemed different from the past. Kino even felt a sharp tearing sensation in his mind. In the rapidly flashing fragments of light, he seemed to see a young man in a casual suit, and the pink camera hanging on his chest was particularly clear.

Then came a knight's belt in the same color and a card covered in mosaic, accompanied by a knight's sound effect that sounded like it was stuck.

『DDD——』

Okay, no need to read it aloud.

We already know who this guy is.

No wonder the chronicle is so chaotic; it turns out another guy with multiple parallel worlds is coming. Looks like this world will be destroyed sooner or later, haha!

This world really is his nemesis!

……

Chapter 410 Ghost Knight

At this moment, at the dining table.

The three of them were originally planning to catch someone and ask them what was going on, but Meikoin Geiz had only just started to speak when he looked on in bewilderment as the boy suddenly slumped onto the table.

Or perhaps what he looked like just now was more like him falling down.

"Eh?"

"What……?"

Tsukuyomi was the first to react, quickly going to Kino's side to help him up. Tokiwa Sougo and the slightly slower-moving Meikoin Geiz also rushed forward. Finally, the three of them stared at the boy carefully for a moment before confirming—

"She's fainted?!"

The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

So why did I suddenly feel dizzy?

Meikoin Gates suddenly remembered something: "When I first saw this guy, he was lying on the side of the road, but he didn't look injured."

Tsukuyomi was taken aback upon hearing this: "How could this be? Is your health not good?"

"How should I know!"

Meikoin Geiz frowned, recalling the first time he met this person. He would then think of the scene where his Time Driver and Ride Watch were stolen, and this person transformed into "Kamen Rider Geiz" right in front of him.

That's really not a memory worth reminiscing about.

"Anyway, he escaped this time. Just throw him into a room. He should wake up on his own in a while anyway!" Meikoin Gates said before turning and leaving.

Tsukuyomi couldn't understand why he was angry again. She exchanged a glance with Tokiwa Sougo, and the two of them helped Kino up to the guest room on the second floor.

Then Tsukuyomi looked at the unconscious person and sighed: "Leave the rest to me. You check him to see if he is injured anywhere. After all, he didn't look very relaxed when he collapsed."

Tokiwa Sougo nodded: "Yes, thank you for your hard work!"

After watching Tsukuyomi go downstairs, Tokiwa Sougo looked at the person lying on the tatami mat who seemed to be asleep, and then reached out a finger to poke the boy's face.

No response.

That being the case...

Energetic and wicked, Tokiwa Sougo extended another thumb, bent two fingers, and pinched the soft flesh of the other person's face—

Although this person claims that they were caregivers in another timeline, Tokiwa Sougo still finds it strange, since from his perspective of having no contact for the past eighteen years, they are just peers of roughly the same age.

After secretly taking his revenge, Tokiwa Sougo checked Kino's body again and found that he was not injured. He then prepared to leave, but when he turned around, he saw a few pieces of paper on the desk.

He couldn't resist his curiosity and went over to take a look.

Among the scattered and overlapping papers, one sheet had a very clear, bolded title written on it: "The Demon King Training Plan."

Tokiwa Sougo: "..."

No, such a thing really exists?

He couldn't help but pick up the other papers and start looking at them. Thinking that the other person seemed to be seriously planning this kind of thing, he couldn't help but smile with interest. But as he smiled, he couldn't smile anymore.

Because it's too serious...

If this were true, Tokiwa Sougo trembled as he realized that this schedule could ruin his entire vacation. Perhaps the other party had only just learned about his uneven academic performance, but now, this schedule even included having him run ten kilometers while memorizing vocabulary...

terrible!

Is the path to becoming king really this terrifying?

And is this really normal?!

Tokiwa Sougo stared at the strange plan. Perhaps because his resistance was so strong, he vaguely saw himself actually carrying it out so seriously before.

But he didn't feel any resistance; in fact, he enjoyed it. Even though he was exhausted, he felt that this was an essential trial to becoming a king...

Tokiwa Sougo was so frightened that he threw the plan aside.

This stuff is poisonous!

He felt so guilty that he didn't dare look at the boy sleeping on the tatami mat. He hurriedly left the room, making sure to close the door tightly behind him.

Meikoin Geiz in the opposite room hadn't closed the door. Turning around, I saw him running away, looking as if he had been frightened.

What's the Demon King up to now?

……

Tokiwa Sougo felt guilty until the next day.

Especially when he saw Kino yawning as she came down the stairs, he subconsciously looked away, afraid that if the two of them made eye contact, he would be dragged out to run ten kilometers.

Upon seeing Kino, Tsukuyomi asked with concern, "You suddenly fainted yesterday, what happened?"

Upon hearing this, Kino casually replied, "It's a problem with this world. Its spacetime is not very stable, which makes me feel somewhat unstable here as well. It's not a big problem."

The people at the table looked completely bewildered.

They probably didn't understand.

But when she heard the phrase "spacetime is not very stable", Tsukuyomi seemed to be in a daze for a moment. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she felt like she had forgotten something.

So she thought for a moment and then asked, "Could it be because we traveled back here from the future?"

However, before she could finish speaking, Meikoin Geiz immediately said, "If that's the case, the real problem should lie with the Time Jackers!"

That's good; this young man is definitely not prone to internal strife.

Kino sat at the breakfast table left for him, drank some miso soup, and looked at the Demon King next to her, who was shrinking his neck like a quail to minimize his presence.

"Zhuang Wu".

"Have!"

Tokiwa Sougo instinctively straightened his back.

Meikoin Geiz and Tsukuyomi, who were sitting opposite him, looked at him strangely, not understanding why he was suddenly so excited.

Kino said slowly, "If you're free today, you can go out for a stroll. You might run into a Ghost Rider or something~"

Tokiwa Sougo: "...Huh?" A ghost?

When Kino woke up this morning, he discovered that all of Kamen Rider Gaim's equipment had returned to the Chronicles, and at the same time, no Rider Belts from any year had been activated.

Because he didn't include Kamen Rider from 2015.

Fortunately, Kino remembered that when the destroyer of a certain world appeared, it was during the era of "Kamen Rider Ghost". He could try to see if he could collect the official Kamen Rider in this world.

However, to achieve this condition, it is estimated that the original knight will first need to regain his knightly power.

"Ghost Rider? Are you talking about the Another Rider that will appear this time?" Tsukuyomi suddenly asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, that's right."

Kino looked at her: "Also, could you help me find out where there's a place called [Daisou Tenku-ji-in]?"

Finding a place is simple, but Tsukuyomi couldn't understand how he knew so much. Meikoin Geiz, who shared her doubts, also raised the question.

How did you know that an Another Rider had appeared?

“Because I know this has happened in history, and as I just said, the spacetime of this world has changed, so the Time Jackers must have created Another Riders again,” Kino said while eating grilled fish.

"..."

This explanation was reasonable, and having failed to find any fault, Meikoin Geiz sat back down and continued eating breakfast, while Tokiwa Sougo glanced at Kino without making a sound.

This has happened in history—does it refer to Sougo in another timeline?

I wonder if Sougo ever became a true king, after all, he endured such terrible, devilish training...

And what happened to that history in the end?

……

……

"that……"

In hopes of encountering the Ghost Rider, Tokiwa Sougo went out for a stroll, but he was accompanied by Kino.

Tokiwa Sougo chuckled awkwardly, "Kino-san, although you said you're mine in another world... but look, this is the first time we've met in this world, so is that way of addressing me okay...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Kino flicked his forehead with her finger.

"No, as long as you are Kamen Rider ZiO, then no matter which world I am, I am your father, so call me father!"

"..."

Tokiwa Sougo pursed his lips, looking aggrieved.

He thought for a moment but couldn't help asking the question: "Mu... um... why did you come to my time? What happened to the history you lived in? Why did you adopt me?"

Kino didn't hide anything: "I adopted you after you were in a car accident when you were eight years old, but that history may have been lost, so I came here."

"Disappeared?"

Tokiwa Sougo was taken aback upon hearing this.

Then he realized something and quickly said, "I don't have any memories of seeing you when I was a child. If that history disappeared, does it mean that someone went back to that time period and changed something, so I wasn't adopted by you? Wait... why is it the year I had the car accident when I was eight years old?"

Who would go back to the year of his car accident to change that history?

And thinking about it carefully...

Actually, it was from that year that Tokiwa Sougo started having strange dreams.

What impressed me most was a mysterious person in my dream who said he was "born to be a king"—he would become king and save this broken world, and that was his mission.

Tokiwa Sougo couldn't remember what that person looked like at all, but now, recalling the dream again, he couldn't help but overlap the image of the mysterious person in his dream with the image of the Kino in front of him.

Then I discovered...

It doesn't look like it at all!

"emmm..."

Kino thought for a moment before saying, "You're only half right, because ZiO's power can actually extend into different parallel universes!"

After all, that world doesn't even have a key figure like "Uncle," so it can only be an alternative ZiO from a parallel universe.

This setting is also recorded in the seven Zi-O games.