The Jyamato were cultivated from plants that would conquer the world in the future.
They were monsters evolved from the power of plants themselves.
In this abandoned city, countless plants and the tops of towering trees were covered in Jyamato embryos—babies that wailed like demons.
And now, flames swept through... beginning to burn this place... completely to ashes!!
"Aaaahhh!!!"
In contrast to Firefly's calmness, Archimedes' eyes were bloodshot and crazed. He could not bear it.
Watching his life's work turn into a sea of flames, with the cries of the Jyamato endlessly echoing in his ears, Archimedes went completely mad.
"Kill her!"
"I don't care who she is, kill her!"
Archimedes did not care who this woman was. Right now, he only wanted her dead.
To be buried alongside his children, his precious treasures.
At his command, the Jyamato throughout the entire Jyamato Garden—the ones he had already cultivated to maturity—appeared one after another without holding anything back.
Then, they charged at Firefly all at once...
"Gyagyagyagya!"
"Gyagya!"
There were an enormous number of Jyamato here, but most of them were soldier-class Jyamato. Only a small portion were higher-level beings.
But one Jyamato was different. It was the Jyamato that had originally served as the final boss of the DGP Grand Prix.
A Jyamato with the ability for limitless growth...
Listening to the chaotic cries of the Jyamato, Firefly slowly turned around. Looking at the Jyamato emerging behind her, her expression remained utterly calm.
There were countless Jyamato here, all rushing toward her. At a glance, they formed a sea of bodies.
But unfortunately, numbers alone had never been something that could make a Glamour Iron Cavalry fear.
The Firefly IV Strategic Assault Armor existed for precisely this purpose.
Though compared to existing as a weapon, Firefly wanted more to exist as a human being—as Firefly...
As the Jyamato drew closer and closer, Firefly released the sword in her hand, lowered her head, and slowly closed her eyes.
"I once dreamed of a scorched earth..."
At some point, a beautiful Transformation Device appeared in Firefly's hands. She clasped it with both hands and held it to her chest.
Flames ignited out of thin air beneath Firefly's feet, spreading outward with the girl at their center.
"A new bud broke through the soil. It blossomed toward the rising sun, whispering softly to me..."
With the girl's voice, Firefly suddenly raised her head and opened her beautiful eyes, her gaze filled with determination. Then she gripped Sam's Transformation Device in her right hand and raised it to the side.
At that instant, the Transformation Device in her hand unfolded its beautiful wings.
"Moths fly into the flame..."
Fire engulfed Firefly's entire body, cyan patterns appearing across her form. At the same time, mechanical armor began forming around her.
"...and are reborn through death!"
Reborn through death!
The former was Firefly's voice from within the armor, while the latter was a heavy mechanical voice emitted by Sam.
The transformation was complete. Looking at the Jyamato that had already closed in, Firefly—no, Sam—raised her foot...
Jet system loading initiated!
"Execute destruction!"
Her foot struck the ground. The next moment, the earth shook and the mountains trembled, while the city street before her split into a massive fissure.
Large numbers of Jyamato lost their footing and staggered about. Some were even swallowed by the cracks in the ground.
At that moment, flames blasted from beneath Sam's feet, and she charged into the massive horde of Jyamato ahead.
The annihilation sweep had begun!
Today, blood would surely flow like rivers...
At this stage, the Jyamato were basically nothing more than fodder in Sam's eyes. They were not worth mentioning.
Even that so-called final boss was no exception!
Although Jyamato capable of destroying worlds—and even a Jyamato god of the Future People—would be born in the future, that was still a thousand years away.
At least, there was no such thing now!
And the fate of those Future People was absolutely not worthy of sympathy.
They had only brought it upon themselves!
"..."
"It's him! No, it's her!"
"It's that Stellaron Hunter Sam!"
"You damned Stellaron Hunter, you deserve to die! Die!"
Archimedes looked at the scene before him in unbearable agony and disbelief. His children were dying in droves at the hands of that Stellaron Hunter.
Watching this happen before his very eyes was like having his flesh carved away one slice at a time.
He recognized who that damned person was. She was Stellaron Hunter Sam, the one who had been targeting the DGP Grand Prix all along.
No one had expected the true appearance of this Stellaron Hunter to be that of a woman.
But he did not care about that. He only cared about his precious treasures, the treasures he had painstakingly cultivated, all about to be destroyed in her hands.
Yet there was nothing he could do. He could only watch it all happen.
Watch as his children's corpses piled up everywhere.
No, no!
He still had one trump card. That Jyamato which had originally served as the final boss—though he was unwilling to do so... the deaths of these children could provide it with nourishment, allowing it to grow rapidly.
"Stellaron Hunter Sam, I will not let you go."
"Grow quickly, my child... Once you have grown, devour that Stellaron Hunter for me."
"Show these people who the true winner is."
Archimedes communicated with the Jyamato, urging it to accelerate its absorption of the other Jyamato's nourishment.
"..."
Jet system!
Sam rushed into the Jyamato horde, carrying out indiscriminate destruction.
Every strike brought them an equal death.
Compared to the previous Jyamato, the ones here had undoubtedly grown much stronger, but they still posed no pressure.
Sam was like someone playing a real-life Dynasty Warriors, choosing the strongest hero and mowing down ordinary soldiers without restraint.
Every blow could take out massive numbers of Jyamato.
She did not even need to activate Secondary Burn. Her most basic state was already enough.
Then, in less than half a minute, Sam had slaughtered every Jyamato before her. For a moment, wreckage was scattered everywhere...
"Is it over?"
She had not even finished warming up, yet it was already over.
It was a little unsatisfying.
Then again, it would have been strange if fighting these Jyamato required a long, drawn-out battle.
Compared to these Jyamato, there was something here that Firefly cared about more. That was also why she had not immediately unleashed a nuclear strike.
That thing should be on the little old man who had cultivated these Jyamato.
But just as Firefly was preparing to search for that little old man, she suddenly sensed that something was wrong.
Something was being drawn out from the remains of the Jyamato she had eliminated.
Could it be...
Realizing something, Firefly looked toward the center of the abandoned city. Sure enough...
There, a very strange Jyamato was continuously growing larger.
At first, it was only the size of an ordinary person. In the blink of an eye... it had grown to ten meters, then twenty...
By the time Sam came back to her senses, it had grown into a colossal hundred-meter giant—a terrifying monster.
It was clearly absorbing the nourishment of the dead Jyamato here, rapidly growing into a special Jyamato boss.
"Roar!!!"
Having stopped growing, the enormous Jyamato boss let out a furious roar toward Firefly and Sam.
Archimedes' rage and the deaths of those Jyamato were driving it to seek revenge against the Stellaron Hunter before it.
The vibration from its voice alone instantly made the entire city shake, causing buildings to collapse.
There was no doubt that the Jyamato before her could easily destroy a major city, perhaps with even greater brutality.
"Hahaha!"
"That's it! You are the strongest being."
"Now you can take revenge on that hateful Stellaron Hunter! Kill her!"
Although the giant Jyamato's voice left him extremely uncomfortable, Archimedes covered his ears as he looked at it, his face filled with excitement.
To Archimedes now, the Jyamato's existence had surpassed even his own life.
Like parents wishing for their children to find happiness, willing to sacrifice themselves for it. Though his idea of happiness for the Jyamato was incomparably twisted.
It was absolutely fervent!
And upon hearing Archimedes' words, the Jyamato seemed to respond to him.
Its gaze locked tightly onto Stellaron Hunter Sam as it took enormous strides toward her. The abandoned skyscrapers ahead of it were like paper mache before its body, offering no resistance whatsoever.
They were effortlessly smashed... trampled into powder...
Its eyes held only one goal: kill the Stellaron Hunter before it, then devour her.
Upon reaching Sam, the giant Jyamato stomped down at the tiny human in its eyes. The terrifying force made the earth tremble once more.
However, Sam's reaction speed was extremely fast. The instant it stomped down, the Jet Device beneath her feet activated, and she flew at high speed to a skyscraper not far away.
"So that's where you are."
Firefly did not care about the super Jyamato in front of her. Instead, following the voice from earlier, she locked her gaze onto Archimedes.
The Jyamato before her looked intimidating. An ordinary Kamen Rider would indeed have a hard time dealing with it, but Sam was absolutely not included among them.
Seeing that it had failed to stomp on her, the giant Jyamato became enraged as well.
Countless vines extended from its hand, and it swung its palm at Sam atop the skyscraper.
"One strike is all it takes to finish you!"
Facing the giant Jyamato's attack, Sam made no move to evade. Instead, she leaned forward, assuming a ready-to-jump stance.