Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

Kino turned to look at him and laughed, "Who told you to bully a bunch of kids? Aren't you ashamed, you soldier?"

"Because those brats deserve to be taught a lesson, and didn't you bully them too?" Huang Lian refused to admit her mistake.

“Although my eldest child is already twenty-one years old this year, I’m still young too~ How can something between young people be considered bullying?” Kino said with a matter-of-fact expression.

"...Are you serious?"

Huang Lian looked at him with a look of horror in her eyes.

Kino raised an eyebrow slightly: "Compared to this matter, what are you trying to do by following me? Let me make it clear first that it's impossible to return the belt to you right now."

Huang Lian crossed her arms and said unhappily, "If it's just to make them undo their transformation, then you probably don't like seeing these street dance knights either, so why give the belt back to those brats?"

“I told you my ideas are completely different from yours, you Capricorn old lady! And I think you’ve never understood why the Street Dance Riders exist.” Kino shook her head.

"That's enough, you brat from Aquarius!!"

If this continues, the Phoenix Lotus will explode again.

But Kino patted the back seat of the car on him: "Okay, get in first and we'll talk later. Let's go sit in your cake shop."

Huang Lian, her anger abruptly extinguished, looked at him suspiciously, but he had already chased him for several streets and was indeed too tired to continue the fight.

After Huanglian sat down, Kino left the riverbank under his guidance.

Kino originally wanted to continue looking for "Kamen Rider Baron," since he came to this world with the idea of ​​a quick victory. What's even more perfect is that at this time, the Kamen Riders in the Gaim world are still in their infancy, which is just the right time to touch their belts!

As it turned out, those guys didn't perform on a public stage, which caused him to wander around for ages without being able to find Baron's hideout...

After riding the motorcycle around a few times, Kino's mood gradually calmed down, and he began to have other thoughts.

……

Charmant, a Western-style pastry shop.

This shop's cakes are renowned in Sawame City and are considered the top choice by countless dessert-loving young women and women.

Huang Lian went out hunting street dance riders today, so she didn't open her shop. Now that she's back here, she's acting like she's back on her home turf, and she's become quite flamboyant again.

"Just you wait, you tasteless brat! Watch me surprise you with the most delicious cake in the world! Hehehe~~"

With such arrogance, Huang Lian spread her arms and spun around, then skipped into the kitchen with a charming and playful air.

Kino rubbed the goosebumps on his arms.

He sat in a booth by the window, where he could see the beautifully decorated flowerbed at the entrance, but he chose to pick up the menu on the table and study it to pass the time.

For some reason, Kino felt more relaxed when he came into this world.

Even in 1986, it was quite easy.

After returning to the Drive world, he seemed to be preoccupied with mechanical mutants, even forgetting about the crucial matter of "taking a picture of himself as a Kamen Rider." He only remembered to steal Shijima's camera next time.

But now that I think about it carefully...

Actually, he didn't need to go back to the Drive world so quickly to deal with the mess.

Before leaving, Kino put on the "Gord Drive" driver and then locked it up to prevent Banno Tenjuro's consciousness from being hidden in the belt.

If the other party is really inside the belt, then destroying the belt will solve the problem. The trouble is that the wild spirit's consciousness has moved into his body along with him.

But when traversing worlds, the wild consciousness and he must be separated.

So let's look at it from another angle...

If Banno Tenjuro had already seized the opportunity to cause trouble at this time, wouldn't it be better for him to travel back in time after Tomari Shinnosuke and Shijima Tsuyoshi had eliminated the other party?

After all, apart from the Drive world where he first awakened, whether it was the Kiva world he traveled to or the current Gaim world, it seems that [Kamen Rider Chronicle] always transported him to his own body.

So once his body in the Drive world is destroyed, and there's no longer a vessel there, will he be able to separate from Tenjuro Banno when he teleports there again?

Kino rested his chin on his hand, thinking, his fingers tapping idly on the table, until Hōren placed a strawberry triangle cake in front of him.

"How was it~"

Huang Lian looked at him with her chin held high and her hands on her hips, exuding arrogance.

Kino looked at the exquisitely made pastries in front of her and shook her head sincerely: "Ugh~ I don't like strawberries."

"What?! You actually hate strawberries?!"

Huang Lian shrieked, "This fruit is so cute, even its shape is adorable! It's round, bright red, and sweet and sour. Eating it is just like falling in love—you have no taste!"

Kino honestly replied, "I like lychees."

"I hate lychees the most!" Huang Lian retorted immediately.

"..."

This shop is uninhabitable.

But now Kino wanted to find a place to stay, so he picked up the delicate cake fork next to the plate, and just as Hōren's eyes were about to turn to relief—

Kino picked up the plate with her other hand and devoured half a strawberry cake in one gulp, showing no interest in savoring it.

Huang Lian gasped instantly.

"Get out!!"

……

Chapter 51 Zhanji Lingma: I accept this challenge!

Night falls.

Kino stayed there without any qualms.

Huang Lian sat opposite her with her arms crossed.

"So, what does this Helheim you're talking about have to do with the 'Otherworldly Game' those kids are playing? Is it a myth?"

"Helheim is just a code name; you can also call it the Forest of Helheim. In any case, the monsters that attack people in Sawame City mostly come out through those cracks," Kino explained.

Among the young people in Sawame City, there is a game called "Exotic Game", in which a small monster similar to a hermit crab can be summoned by Lockseed and controlled by the summoner. People often use this Pokémon-like competitive method to compete.

The reason why Hōren had such a strong opinion about the street dancers was because there were many incidents of people being attacked by monsters in Sawame City. Coincidentally, several street dancers who had bought the Sengoku Driver were showing off their purchases while dining at his shop, leading him to mistakenly believe that these ignorant young people were deliberately controlling monsters to attack people.

So, Phoenix stole the Sengoku Driver from those people, transformed into Bravo, and began attacking those street dancers everywhere.

However, most street dancers play the lock-on seed to grab the stage. The real monsters attacking humans are because the randomly spawning rifts in Helheim are becoming more and more frequent.

“Although those kids did fight their own people after defeating the monsters, if they still have the Sengoku Driver on them, they can use it to deal with the alien monsters that escaped,” Kino said.

"Even if you say that, does something like Helheim really exist?" Huang Lian was still very skeptical.

"You can become the Durian Knight now, and the Lockseed can summon monsters, so there's no need to doubt the authenticity of those things anymore," Kino said, shrugging.

"Technology can do that too! Look at the technology the World Tree Foundation has demonstrated since they moved into Sawame City!" Huang Lian retorted stubbornly.

"emmm..."

Kino thought about it and realized that the Sengoku Driver was indeed a product of technology.

Furthermore, the Drive Driver is also technology, the IXA system is also technology, and in fact, most of the Kamen Riders are products of technology. It can only be said that the technology tree of the Kamen Rider world is a bit off track.

"It's better than..."

Huang Lian suddenly leaned closer to him mysteriously: "Will you take me to see that Helheim Underworld?"

Upon hearing this, Kino simply said, "We can only get in if we encounter a rift, or we can just fight our way in from the World Tree Foundation's headquarters, but if we do that, we'll probably get beaten up too."

Huang Lian raised an eyebrow: "Weren't you very powerful? You even put on such a grand show back then, so why can't you get in now?"

"Because there are quite a few experts in the World Tree Foundation. Kamen Rider Zangetsu alone won't be easy to defeat, not to mention that a group of people will come to gang up on me." Kino said honestly.

The most powerful Kamen Rider in the world right now is not Gaim, but Zangetsu, who has not yet appeared.

Kino thought for a moment. If he were to fight Zangetsu one-on-one, he could probably hold his own, but having another knight to hold him back would be very troublesome.

"Kamen Rider Zangetsu? Come to think of it, aren't they street dance riders? Why do you call them Kamen Riders?" Huang Lian asked curiously.

“It’s Kamen Rider who brought them all together,” Kino said matter-of-factly.

"So what is Kamen Rider?"

"A group of warriors who will fight for the freedom and future of humanity—that is Kamen Rider."

Swah——

As soon as Kino finished speaking, Huanglian's eyes lit up instantly, and she perked up, waving her delicate fingers and giggling, "Not bad, not bad~ I like this nickname!"

Kino shuddered again, the goosebumps rising on her body.

Calling this guy "auntie" was definitely the right thing to do!

……

After explaining the truth about the Helheim Forest and the Otherworlders to Huang Lian, Kino said no more and then took out the Sengoku Driver to study it.

Another advantage of returning with Huanglian is that the Durian Lock Seed is here, so Kino can snatch it again and try transforming.

"Durian—Lock On!"

"Durian Arms!"

"Mr. Dangerous!"

Kino: Huh?

Huang Lian, who was watching, exclaimed: "? You, you, you—didn't you say the belt was already bound to the first user? You little liar, give it back to me!!"

It was because Kino said that the Sengoku Driver had a verification code that Ooren handed over the Durian Lock Seed again. Unexpectedly, Kino immediately transformed into Kamen Rider Bravo!

Will this guy return it later?

After all, according to Kino, the Sengoku Driver produced by the Yggdrasil Foundation is not yet in mass production, and each belt is very rare.

So, while Kino was in a daze, Hōren pounced on him, mimicking his actions from earlier that afternoon by fastening the padlock and removing her belt.

After Kino deactivated his transformation, he ignored Ooren, who had jumped three steps away, and instead opened the [Kamen Rider Chronicle] to take a look.

Although he doesn't particularly like durian, the progress bar for "Kamen Rider Bravo" is now full, making it the first permanent rider belt obtained in the Gaim world.

"Is a belt ineffective for me?"

He didn't believe the problem was with the initialization settings of the Sengoku Driver.

Looking at the ancient book before him that resembled a certain calendar, Kino's eyes flickered slightly. He suspected that the power this book could bring was greater than he had imagined.

Now that things have come to this, he can probably use any knight belt at will, except for those that combine physical bodies.

"Kamen Rider Chronicles..."

Kino murmured thoughtfully.

How exactly did it come about?

……

The next day.

The cake shop is still closed today because Hōren asked Kino to take him to the Helheim Rift, but Kino asked Hōren to take him to Baron.

"Baron?"

Huang Lian thought for a moment: "Was it that street dancer knight who turned into a banana armor? Why did you go looking for him?"

Kino looked at him: "Just like you did yesterday."

"So you're going to fight Banana Boy? Wait, you stole those two guys' belts yesterday and then returned them, and you said that if Kamen Riders like them existed, they could eliminate the alien monsters, so why are you fighting them?" Huang Lian was suddenly confused.

"Because even if I tell them, 'Let me touch your belt and I'll return it,' they still won't give it to me."

"..."

"See, you got anxious yesterday too."

"........."

Huang Lian looked Kino up and down with a strange gaze: "Are you... sick in the head?"

You just like touching other people's belts, don't you?

Kino was also helpless.

If the Chronicles could trigger the function of recording everything at a glance, why would he need to beat up the Kamen Riders? After all, they are all Kamen Riders who protect the freedom and future of humanity. It's like hitting them hurts him more than hitting them!