Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

Therefore, support players should not act alone. They should stay close to Brian and reunite. Instead, they choose to run off on their own.

If you happen to run into Banno Tenjuro, this whole thing will be a complete waste!

Although Medic is now a powerful super-evolved being, her main ability is still healing. She can usually beat Brian because the latter is too cowardly.

Kino put away the tablet and looked at the two of them: "Alright, let's go find Heart now. I think they might need some help."

"You already knew?" Medic looked surprised.

"There's nothing I don't know, after all, I'm your father!" Kino said smugly, hands on his hips.

"..."

……

At this moment, on a rooftop.

Not only Heart and Brain were there, but even the Hunter, whom Shijima Kiriko had anxiously remarked was "very strange," was with the two of them.

However, all three of them looked quite disheveled.

The hunter lay wounded on the ground, his face displaying an unprecedented range of expressions, like a real human being capable of crying, laughing, and experiencing complex emotions.

This is what Shijima Kiriko meant by the strangeness.

In the pursuit, they learned to express their emotions!

However, what granted him this ability was a "feather circuit" created by the mechanical mutant 099, which is equivalent to a virus. This ability does not grant him real emotions, but rather puts him in a fantasy dream.

However, the hunter became uncontrollably entangled in it.

"She gave me a miracle, taught me how to understand human emotions, and also earned human gratitude."

With a sorrowful look in his eyes, he said, "So, I want to believe her."

These words made Brian, who was trying to help him remove the feather circuits, frown.

Heart looked at him with a complicated expression: "Chase, it's not unusual to be thanked by someone."

When Hunter looked over with a somewhat bewildered and helpless expression, Heart wore his usual warm smile.

“I thanked you before, but now, it should be Tomari Shinnosuke and the others thanking you! Isn’t that enough? I think you’re not the kind of weak person who can’t fight without praise,” Heart said sincerely.

“Heart…” The hunter’s gaze trembled.

"It's a bit disgusting."

"..."

"..."

The sudden outburst of a sarcastic remark stunned the three people on the rooftop.

Heart was the first to react, and she turned her head sharply to see a young man in a school uniform walking out of the stairwell on the rooftop.

"Ahhh—wild!!"

Brian let out a girlish scream and scrambled toward Heart, staring in terror at Kino as he approached them.

However, after Kino, two real girls also emerged one after another.

Medic's eyes lit up when he saw Heart. He ran past the two people in front of him, shoved Brain aside, and hugged Heart.

"Lord Heart, let Medic treat you!" Medic said with a pained expression.

"Medic, how could you..."

Heart was somewhat surprised by the current situation.

After the Golden Drive was destroyed, he was then provoked by the mechanical mutant 099 and had no chance to know that Kino had returned.

Kino and Banno Tenjuro are indeed two different people, and Heart has been convinced of this ever since he was provoked last time.

He then looked over there and saw Kino squatting helplessly beside the hunter.

"I've said this before, Chase, just be yourself. Becoming like this is really a little disgusting."

Kino subtly bent his thumb and forefinger to create a little space between them.

The hunter's pupils trembled: "Disgusting...?"

"Yeah, it's kind of weird~"

Kino squatted down in front of him and unbuttoned the hunter's purple coat, revealing a metallic gold feather stuck to the other's chest.

This is the ability that the mechanical mutant 099 gained after its super evolution—"Feather Circuit".

The mechanical mutant 099 replicated a dying psychiatrist and acquired from him the emotion of "giving everything to cure the human spirit," which then evolved into an extreme ideal.

World peace!

It sounds like a great ideal.

However, 099 achieves her ideal by "dominating all living beings to achieve ultimate peace." Her "feather circuit" can not only allow mechanical mutants to experience emotional sublimation in fantasy, but can also be used to control human minds.

Once the creatures she controls are caught in a beautiful dream, it's as if everyone can realize their dreams.

To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than trying to create a false utopian world.

But a fake is still a fake.

Kino stroked the golden feather: "It's been too long and has begun to erode your core program, Chase. It seems I'll have to perform open-heart surgery on you."

Still in a daze, the hunter, upon hearing this, reflexively flipped back to create distance, shaking his head frantically: "Wait! But this feather can let me—"

"Become a disgusting, lewd man?" Kino chimed in.

"........."

Even with its rich expressive abilities, the pursuit at this moment has lost all language and means.

Kino sighed and said, "While this feather circuit can indeed bring you closer to humanity and gain human recognition, it ultimately doesn't depend on your own will. Don't forget you're Kamen Rider Chaser! A Kamen Rider can admit their weaknesses, but they shouldn't succumb to them!—Besides, having weaknesses makes you more human, doesn't it?"

The hunter stared at him blankly: "I am... Kamen Rider..."

Seeing that the hunter had calmed down, Kino moved up again to check the feather circuit on his chest. This time, the hunter did not resist.

Kino gently tugged at the edge of the metal feather, which had already fused with the replicated human body. Forcibly removing it would likely damage the body.

As expected, open-chest surgery was the only option!

Kino suddenly became agitated, rubbed his wrist, and said with a professional air, "The patient is terminally ill, I'll start the surgery right away!"

The Hunter: "..." Are you serious?

Kino had already opened [Kamen Rider Chronicle] and was preparing to select a few gear-shifting vehicles as assistants, but the next moment, he suddenly realized something and turned around sharply, almost instinctively reaching out to grab something flying from the air!

"boom!"

Like a golden ring struck by lightning, it swept across the open palm, sparking a burst of sparks and splashing warm blood.

Kino's body swayed from the impact, his left hand gripping his torn palm, and he looked up at the golden, gear-like ring that flew past.

“Father!” Blood stepped forward with concern.

The sudden turn of events put the people present on alert.

"Could it be that Angel discovered this place as well?!"

Brian looked around in a panic, then suddenly realized how Blood addressed Kino, and turned to look at him in disbelief.

The situation was critical, and Medic had no choice but to suspend Heart's treatment, help him up, and then cautiously guard his surroundings.

Now that the angelic mechanical mutants have located them, they will not give up easily, and Heart and the others, who were injured in the previous battle, will be in great danger.

Kino shook the blood off his hands and chuckled, "Is it to stop me from removing the feather circuit? Looks like 099 still likes you quite a bit, Chase."

He vaguely remembered the plot here: the hunter used the power of the "feather circuit" to obtain the super-evolved form of the mechanical mutant.

After Heart managed to persuade the man to return, the mechanical mutant 099—also known as the "Angel Mechanical Mutant"—seized the opportunity to launch a sneak attack and steal Heart's digital core.

By absorbing digital cores, the Angelic Mechanical Mutant's power also increases; for this reason, she has already devoured several mechanical mutants that follow her.

Kino raised his hand, and dozens of geared vehicles and signal motorcycles flew out of the void around him, trailing flashy light streaks as they moved through the air. Several mechanical mutants nearby thought he had robbed the entire Drive base.

"Go! Find that bad kid."

The gear-shifting tank and signal motorcycle scattered instantly.

Kino used the handkerchief Blood handed him to wipe the blood from his hands, watching the wounds on his palms heal amidst a sea of ​​data, before turning his gaze back to the Hunter.

"Don't use the super virus core that 099 gave you anymore, otherwise the feather circuit will be even more difficult to remove later."

"I will fight too!"

Huntsman struggled to his feet: "Angel is powerful. Now that you've lost 'Gord Drive,' it'll be very difficult for you to defeat her alone!"

Kino raised an eyebrow and said, "Even so, you're not the only Kamen Rider who can fight. Chase, you should learn to rely on Shinnosuke and the others."

Upon hearing this, the hunter paused: "Shinnosuke and Tsuyoshi have been investigating the 051 case these past two days, and they don't know about what's happening here yet."

"Actually, they already knew."

Kino's face was full of honesty: "It's just that the way you've been behaving lately has been too abnormal, and they've been scared of you, so they're embarrassed to bother you."

The hunter: "…………"

Kino then looked at the mechanical mutants: "You too, if you can't fight, don't force yourself. I can still cover for you."

He was mainly referring to Heart.

Heart, who loves the thrill of combat, certainly couldn't stand hearing that!

But he didn't have a chance to say anything.

Just then, dozens of golden rings flew out from the distant sky, destroying the geared vehicles that were searching one by one, and then the attacks rushed towards the rooftop again.

There are simply too many to defend against!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The entire rooftop was instantly engulfed in a violent explosion, and several people on the edge were thrown out by the shockwave and crashed heavily onto the ground below.

Kino leaned against the wall, and after the smoke from the explosion dissipated, he looked up and saw a golden mechanical mutant floating in mid-air in front of him.

—Angel Mechanical Mutant!

"Ah~"

The eyes hidden beneath the ring-shaped crown were watching him.

A gentle and seductive voice emanated from the monstrous angel, like a lover whispering in your ear, with an ambiguous, hoarse, and tender tone.

"It's our father!"

……

Chapter 67 A False Utopia

Angelic Mechanical Mutant - 099!

It has clearly reached a state of super-evolution.

Its golden body, with a gear-shaped golden ring on its head and wing-like extensions on both sides of its arms, makes it look like a real angel.

It's just a monster-themed version of an angel.

"099--"

As soon as Kino spoke, the angelic mechanical mutant interrupted him with a soft but undeniable sound.

"099 was my name before I evolved. Now, you should call me—Angel!"

"A bit rustic."

Kino said sincerely, "It sounds like some kind of non-mainstream online name, it's already outdated."

The angelic mechanical mutant seemed to fall into a subtle silence for a moment, then chuckled softly, its suspended body leaning down slightly to gaze at him.

“You’ve changed a bit, but it doesn’t matter. Anyway, I’ll be able to save this world soon.”

"Saved?" Kino raised an eyebrow.

"That's right, I am an angel, and I will bring a perfect, ultimate, and peaceful world to both mechanical mutants and humans, a world where 'everyone can realize their dreams'!"

Is that utopia?