Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

After saying this, the two of them smiled at each other without prior arrangement.

Ukiyo Hidetoshi then continued, "You want to escape from your mother's side. I'm the opposite; I want to find my own mother, but DGP can't help me achieve that wish."

Kurama Nene was somewhat surprised: "Why? Are there still wishes that can't be fulfilled?"

"Perhaps the operators are also in a difficult position. Anyway, they can't fulfill any of the things I really want." Ukiyo Hidetoshi's smile had a deeper meaning.

"Yeah……"

Kurama Nene was stunned. If even DGP couldn't fulfill the other party's wish, she seemed to understand what Ukiyo Hidetoshi meant by "a way to achieve happiness without desire in the Grand Prix".

But why can't DGP, which can revive people who died in previous matches, fulfill this wish?

What is the secret of DGP?

Ever since learning the truth about DGP and his mother, Hidetoshi Ukiyo, who has lived for two thousand years, has tried every means to get closer to DGP and has written a lot of random things on wish cards.

But whether it's going back to her mother, finding that guy, or even going directly to the world of the future, none of these are possible.

That's why Hidetoshi Ukiyo, unable to contain himself any longer, directly attacked the operators of DGP, but quickly calmed down...

Looking at Kurama Nene, who was leaning against the railing and seemed to be lost in thought, Ukiyo Hidetoshi put on his usual charming smile and walked over to stand beside her.

"Na Mao, how did you get back?"

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Chapter 98 The Power That Dares Not Be Touched

A few days after the first round ended.

While running breathlessly on the road, Ukiyo Hidetoshi unexpectedly encountered Azuma Michinaga, who seemed to have just finished get off work but had chosen to run home.

The two men, who met unexpectedly, stared at each other in bewilderment.

The latter even turned around to look behind him.

Hidetoshi Ukiyo couldn't help but laugh: "What a coincidence~ But Father didn't come to supervise today."

Master Azuma said expressionlessly, "It has nothing to do with me, but... Extreme Fox, you deliberately eliminated that person that day, didn't you?"

Given the power of the thrusters, the Extreme Fox shouldn't have been unable to stop the demons from stealing the pirate flag, which can only mean that the other party deliberately let it go.

Although Master Azuma doesn't usually think about things outside of battle, this mistake in the last game almost got him eliminated, so the more he thought about it after he got back, the more serious the problem seemed.

"Oh?"

Hidetoshi Ukiyo raised an eyebrow in surprise.

He smiled noncommittally and said, "That Punk Jack, he's the staff member from the operations company who appeared before, you remember him, right?"

"Staff from the operations company?"

Upon hearing this, Master Azuma thought for a moment.

In the previous round of the Desire Grand Prix, a Kamen Rider with pumpkin bear features did appear. At that time, due to a shortage of players, the opponent was sent by DGP to temporarily team up with Sakurai Keikazu.

However, everyone thought he was a bot.

My wife, the Taoist priest, exclaimed in surprise, "It's him?!"

Hidetoshi Ukiyo remarked meaningfully, "It's suspicious that someone who's an official member of the Desire Grand Prix is ​​participating with us."

Master Azuma nodded in deep agreement, but after a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

"He's only targeting you guys, isn't he?"

"That's hard to say."

Ukiyo Hidetoshi shrugged with a smile, turned around and ran ahead. Azuma Michonne slowed down, frowning, and suspiciously looked at his back.

If PunkJack really was sent by DGP, then it means that everything DGP did in this matter is suspicious.

Will they continue to hinder the later matches?

Master Azuma didn't want to think about all that, but he also didn't want any unexpected events to hinder his victory. Regardless of DGP's motives, he only wanted to fulfill his own wish.

—Defeat all the Kamen Riders!

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Night falls.

As the city's hustle and bustle gradually subsided, the bars hidden in the shadows began to come alive.

In the dim light, the bar was bustling with noise, the sound of dice rolling and incomprehensible cheers rising and falling, and colorful lights poured down from the ceiling, casting hazy and illusory images of people's heads in the interplay of light and shadow.

A band was playing on stage, their energetic electric guitar melodies and drumbeats intertwined, and some audience members were swaying to their music.

But in the booths in the corner of the bar.

No one paid attention to the punk band putting on a great show; a few young people sat together, laughing and raising their glasses in a toast.

One of the young men, dressed in studded clothing and with strands of fluorescent pink in his hair, was making a slurred jeering. Just as he raised his beer glass to drink it down, his ear was suddenly twisted by a hand that reached out from the side.

"Eh? Ouch, ouch, ouch...!"

Everyone else in the booth was stunned.

A boy in a school uniform smiled kindly, grabbed the other person's ear, and led them outside.

They didn't even understand their relationship with each other; they were just shocked by this inexplicably disconnected scene and watched in bewilderment as their friend was forcibly taken away.

"...Who is it?"

After a long while, someone finally spoke up after looking at each other.

"Could it be Qing's younger brother?"

"But that guy doesn't have a younger brother, does he?"

"And this kind of attitude is more like that of Qingjia Wenyin's father, haha~"

"That kid is such a loser!"

The group quickly became lively and oblivious to the commotion.

Anyway, Haruka Wen, who is not easy to mess with, would not be beaten up by a boy who looks like a high school student, right?

……

"Bam—"

The alley behind the bar.

Qingjia Wen, who tried to resist, was punched in the face, and the man slumped weakly against the trash can.

"Who are you?!" he roared angrily.

"Anyway, it's not your father."

Kino rubbed his fist, pulled out the Chronicle-manufactured Extreme Fox ID core from thin air, and grabbed Haruka Wen's finger without saying a word, pressing it onto it.

He wanted to try and see if this would work.

However, seeing Qingjia Wen suddenly become alert and her eyes become blank, it was clear that even core IDs from different manufacturers could still awaken the sealed memories of the people in this world.

Kino then put away the core, and Haruka On, who had been released, collapsed to the ground due to the loss of power.

The alley was dark and gloomy.

Only a sliver of neon light shone through the narrow alleyway, falling on Qingjia Wenyin's shoulders, which had suddenly lost all their strength, and outlining his drooping head.

"How is it?" Kino asked leisurely.

"..."

After a long while, Qingjia Wenyin finally spoke in a low voice: "That bastard really didn't give me back my memories!"

His tone betrayed barely suppressed anger.

These past few days he's been living in a daze. The emptiness and restlessness after losing his desires have been constantly eroding his reason. It's as if the whole world has become empty and hopeless in his eyes. He clearly feels that he should pursue something, but he can't seem to grasp that feeling.

That was a forgotten original aspiration—

Those who are eliminated from the Grand Prix of Desire lose their happiness in this way.

Kino smiled and said, "So, I risked being discovered by the management to help you regain your memory. How do you plan to repay me?"

Qing Jiawen looked at him with a complicated expression: "What do you want me to do?"

"I want you back to the Desire Grand Prix."

"Impossible! Since Kiroli didn't restore my memories, he can't possibly let me go back!"

"It doesn't need to go through him."

Kino looked up into the void: "As the sponsor of the Desire Grand Prix in this world, the Haru Family Foundation has access to more than just Kiroli from the future. The identity of another guy is even more important..."

Qingjia Wenyin looked at the person in front of her with a meaningful gaze, somewhat surprised.

"Okay, I see."

This person knew far more about DGP than he did, even knowing how he had joined the DGP operations team in the first place. He began to be interested in the other person's motives.

"I'll find a way to help you."

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All you need to get to the Palace of Desire, where the Goddess of Creation resides, is a DGP Administrator's Belt.

However, to activate the power of the Goddess of Creation, at least two Administrator Belts are required—this is the condition that DGP needs to meet when "granting a wish".

The next day, when the two were having lunch, Kino told Ukiyo Hidetoshi about it.

“If Kiroli has already seen my wish card, he might lose his temper and even personally eliminate me in the next match. At that time, I can take his administrator belt,” Kino said while eating fish.

"...But what if you get targeted by DGP and something like what happened last time happens again?" Ukiyo Hidetoshi's chopsticks stopped in mid-air.

"Then why don't you just go up there and take over?"

After casually finishing his sentence, Kino paused, then a smile of interest appeared on his face: "Oh, is Eiji worried about his father?"

Hidetoshi Ukiyo simply ate a bite of food without saying a word.

Kino then added, "So you should make up your mind as soon as possible. I won't help you with everything. In the end, you have to save this world yourself."

Ukiyo Hidetoshi, who was eating plain white rice, paused again. He looked up at Kino, seemingly hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong?" Kino asked, raising an eyebrow.

“That power… I don’t know what will happen then,” Ukiyo Hidetoshi said in a deep voice.

“You will turn into a fox,” Kino answered instantly.

"........."

Ukiyo Eiju felt that this was not the case at all.

When he first came into contact with the white buckle that Kino took out, even without using that power to transform, he felt a sense of unease and fear. His intuition told him that having this power was not necessarily a good thing.

That power was completely different from the thruster MKII, and Ukiyo Hidetoshi didn't even have the courage to try transforming.

Therefore, Kino criticized him for lacking determination.

After remaining silent for a long while, Ukiyo Hidetoshi changed the subject.

"So what exactly did you write down as your wish?"

The idea of ​​becoming a big star is just something to listen to, and at that time, Kino clearly had a mischievous smile on his face.

"If you want to know, you need to understand first what the Desire Grand Prix means to those 'future people' who are out of reach?" Kino said leisurely.

Ukiyo Hidetoshi thought about it carefully: "You said that because people in the future can customize their lives at will, they gradually lose the ability to empathize with 'emotions' and their hearts begin to yearn to experience some emotions that they have never truly experienced before?"

Kino chuckled: "To put it simply, the world where people in the future live is a world of unrestrained extravagance and entertainment to the death, so the Desire Grand Prix is ​​just a show for them to relieve boredom."

Therefore, Kino's wish is also very simple.

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