Looking at Sno before him, clad in red and black with starlike musical notes embellishing his body and "zzz" symbols—presumably representing sleep—embedded in the eye section of his visor, Klein felt an old complaint catch in his throat.
It could not exactly be called ugly; at the very least, it was ugly in a distinctive way. Yet the longer he looked at it, the more he felt it was somehow rather cool. Forcibly maintaining his expression with the Clown Potion before his sense of aesthetics was completely violated, Klein asked—
"What is this?"
"Based on the methods used to make fashionwear and the information in the documents you brought out, I developed a new type of fashionwear. According to the ancestors, it is called Kamen Rider. Beyonder Characteristics from different pathways can be made into dedicated discs, and equipping them grants the abilities of the corresponding pathway. When this armor is damaged, it can also neutralize one fatal attack. It has many advantages, but its flaws are obvious as well—for instance, other Extraordinary Items cannot be used while wearing it. I'm considering developing hybrid discs... but I don't have a suitable Shepherd Characteristic to serve as the base disc."
Sno tried moving his body. Although it looked like a rubber suit, it did not hinder mobility at all. It even provided a certain degree of physical enhancement for a Sequence Three like him.
Of course, once one reached Sequence Three, nobody really fought using physical strength anyway. Right, Warrior?
Klein dearly wanted to ask for one too, but considering that Creeping Hunger was currently his main source of combat strength, he gave up on the thought.
Sno did not try to sell it to him too hard either. The Kamen Rider belt was only a semi-finished product, and he had