Ace Ukiyo was like a fox, so he would not act impulsively unless someone touched his reverse scale.
Instead, he had a few ideas.
Unless there was other help, the only option now was to wait until he won this DGP Grand Prix and became a Desire God before he had a chance to defeat him.
Because of Stellaron Hunter Sam's appearance, he had altered the wish he wrote this time.
Now, as Ace Ukiyo faced Sam again, he showed neither resentment nor hostility. Instead, he took several steps toward her and set down the water gun in his hand as a gesture of goodwill.
Of course, the main reason was that even at maximum power, a water gun could not do anything to the Rider before him.
So the clever fox was mainly using it to express his attitude.
"Stellaron Hunter Sam, you should be targeting the DGP Grand Prix, right?"
"That has nothing to do with you."
Sam held a Poker Jyamato in her hand. Under her power, this Jyamato was completely unable to resist.
Ignoring Ace Ukiyo outright, she fixed her gaze on another Jyamato. That Poker Jyamato happened to be a match for the one in her hand.
That was also why she had come here!
Sam had already appeared before, but there were far too few Jyamato in this round to farm Points.
More importantly, normal methods could not kill them completely.
Fortunately, having watched the story, she roughly understood the rules.
Concentration, a very classic card game.
A deck of cards was placed face-down and spread across a table.
Then, the players flipped cards over.
If two cards had matching suits and numbers—diamonds and hearts being the red group, clubs and spades being the black group—the cards were collected and scored.
If they did not match, the cards were turned face-down again.
This type of card game was called Concentration because it tested the players' memory greatly.
These Poker Jyamato corresponded to that game. Especially after Sam defeated one Poker Jyamato and saw the suit that appeared, she connected it with the Concentration card game and understood how to break this round.
As long as she found Poker Jyamato with matching suits and numbers, then killed them at the same time.
She could eliminate them all!
After Sam successfully killed a pair of Poker Jyamato, she triggered an achievement mission.
If she cleared all the Poker Jyamato here, she could directly obtain 1,000 Points.
Although she could not farm Points, the reward was still pretty good.
After she cleared some of the Poker Jyamato, the Jyamato in her hand could no longer find its match.
She did not find it until she reached Ace Ukiyo and Nene Arakawa...
Sam grabbed the Jyamato in her hand and appeared directly before the other one. Holding one in each hand, she destroyed them both at the same time.
"They were actually killed completely. They didn't revive!"
Beside them, Nene Arakawa stared dumbfoundedly at the scene. After Sam destroyed those two Jyamato, they had not revived again.
That was incredible!
Come to think of it, Firefly-chan seemed to belong to the same faction as this Stellaron Hunter Sam, right?
Had she appeared here because of that Oddity on her body?
Although Nene Arakawa was very curious, she wisely did not ask. She merely watched Sam clear the Poker Jyamato with curiosity.
"So that was it..."
After watching Sam's actions, Ace Ukiyo confirmed his earlier guess. That really was the rule.
The two people who needed to form a team had to cooperate to kill matching Jyamato. No wonder this time they had been assigned teams. But for Sam, one person could accomplish it before absolute power. Too violent!
He did not rush to start stealing monsters, nor could he possibly win against the Stellaron Hunter in front of him.
Instead, he was more curious about something else.
Although Sam appeared cold, Ace Ukiyo did not give up and spoke again.
"Showing up so openly again and interfering with the Grand Prix, aren't you worried the DGP management will take action?"
"So what? Do you think I would be like you?"
Casually crushing another pair of Jyamato to death, Sam responded flatly to Ace Ukiyo's words.
"...You seem to know me very well?"
Sam's answer made Ace Ukiyo thoughtful.
From that single sentence, he had learned a great deal. The Stellaron Hunter before him was powerful and did not take the management seriously at all.
She even seemed to be looking forward to the DGP management stepping in.
And she seemed to know about him. Perhaps she even knew that he was searching for his mother.
"...Who knows."
Ace Ukiyo's counterquestion startled Firefly, and she immediately realized that her words seemed to have revealed too much information.
After all, she was not entirely Firefly.
The foolish, honest Firefly would not realize she had been coaxed into revealing everything. Especially during her conversation with Acheron, she had practically spilled everything to Acheron without noticing.
Yet she had not gotten even the slightest bit of information from Acheron.
Perhaps for that reason, Elio had given Firefly very few lines in her script.
She had long understood Firefly's circumstances and personality.
Realizing this, Sam no longer played along with Ace Ukiyo.
But thinking of something, Firefly still could not help saying one thing to him.
"Your direction has never been wrong, but your efficiency has been almost zero."
"How pitiful."
His attempt to find his mother from two thousand years ago through the DGP Grand Prix was not wrong. The Creation Goddess was his mother, but after two thousand years, he had only gotten this far...
His mother was already close to dying.
"What do you mean?"
Ace Ukiyo's expression instantly turned serious. Had something happened to his mother?
But Sam did not waste any more words on him and instead looked to the side.
The target had finally entered the field.
Not far away, a figure wearing the Game Master's uniform had appeared at some point. He wore a white suit with a black coat-like decoration, and his face was concealed beneath a special mask.
It was the Game Master, Girori.
Sam casually tossed aside the Poker Jyamato in her hand and focused her attention on the newcomer.
Compared with anything else, the Rider belt on the administrator before her was more important.
But his strength also far surpassed that of the other Riders. He possessed direct administrative authority, utterly unreasonable combat privileges.
Rather than being powerful, he was more like a privileged system user.
Against ordinary Kamen Riders or ordinary Path Walkers, he might truly have been difficult to deal with.
But Stellaron Hunter Sam's power posed no problem at all.
What was more, her power did not belong within the scope of the other's management system.
The Master System! Kamen Rider Glare!
"Stellaron Hunter Sam!"
"You actually dared to show yourself again. You truly have no regard for the DGP management."
Girori stared fixedly at the Stellaron Hunter before him as though he were looking at a dead man.
Although his appearance had increased the DGP Grand Prix's ratings somewhat, there had also been many more dissatisfied voices.
More importantly, his repeated appearances had disrupted the DGP's normal games, leaving the DGP management in an extremely bad mood.
If they allowed him to continue causing trouble, there would be no need to continue the DGP Grand Prix at all.
It completely violated the rules of the DGP Grand Prix.
So he had to be expelled!
"You finally appeared, Girori."
Sam kicked the Poker Jyamato beside her away and took several steps toward Girori. She was not afraid of his appearance in the slightest. Instead, she was full of anticipation.
"What?"
Hearing Sam's words, Girori's expression shifted slightly.
What did she mean by that? Could it be that everything had been meant to lure him into entering the field? What did she want to do? What was her objective?
And more crucially, this person actually knew his name.
Everything had been planned in advance.
She was targeting the DGP Grand Prix, targeting him.
"Who exactly are you?"
Girori's eyes were filled with suspicion. He had already had some guesses during his earlier conversation with Nilam.
She had immediately revealed that they were Future People of the DGP. She knew all of this, and that power of hers did not belong to the DGP Rider system.
It was even unaffected by the Goddess's power...
Was she some audience member hidden in the shadows, or someone who had directly smuggled herself over from the future?
After all, even in the future, there were many criminals. To satisfy their twisted tastes, those people would do anything.
A considerable number of the DGP management and audience members were already incredibly vile, but among those Future People, they did not even meet the passing line.
For example, the future's wanted criminal, "God Slayer Mela." As a vicious wanted criminal from the future world, he traveled through different eras and killed gods, earning the title of "God Slayer."
During the era of Norse mythology, he killed Loki and seized his mimicry ability, disguising himself as Hodur in order to kill Baldr.
After killing Susanoo from Japanese mythology, he followed Mela's suggestion and set his sights on Ace Ukiyo's era.
Taking pleasure in destroying worlds, he repeatedly traveled to different dimensions to set records for the fastest world destruction.
Those vicious Future People criminals were all incredibly troublesome.
"..."
Sam did not answer. She understood her own personality.
The more she said, the more mistakes she would make. Responding to him would only reveal too much information, so it was better to act directly and obtain what she wanted.
Sam moved, charging straight at Girori before her. She intended to take him down directly and seize the Vision Launcher.
Noticing Sam's movement, Girori instinctively took a step back, not daring to lower his guard.
He was not like those Kamen Riders, who would exchange a few barehanded blows in battle and wait until they were seriously injured before transforming.
Although after Kamen Riders transformed, their injuries were generally more or less healed.
The instant Sam attacked, Girori directly revealed the administrator belt around his waist—Vision Driver.
(Vision Driver!)
Unlike the Desire Drivers used by the other participants, this Driver required the corresponding fingerprint and a Fate Card to use.
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