Henshin

But Gu Yu quickly realized that he had no time to pay attention to the Knight Emblem in his hand.

The instant the emblem appeared, he felt endless memories and knowledge flooding into his mind.

Aguru, Change Ring, V Pocket, FaizGear, Awakening Belt...

Seal Energy, Power of Light, Contract Beasts, Photon Blood, Power of the Undead...

As a massive amount of knowledge related to Kamen Riders poured into Gu Yu's mind, his previously normal head suddenly began to ache terribly.

"Pain... It hurts like hell!"

Gu Yu staggered back several steps, clutching his head, completely failing to notice that Raiden Mei's aura had changed as her gaze gradually turned cold.

"Hmph. I don't know why I woke up, but you've got an aura about you that really irritates me."

As the Herrscher of Thunder gradually took control of Raiden Mei's body, she approached Gu Yu with the elegant steps of a lioness stalking her prey.

But unlike before, Raiden Mei, who had nearly completed her Herrscher transformation, was no longer standing on the ground.

Her feet had left the ground due to some special power, and the beautiful girl gradually floated into the air.

"You haven't been corroded by Honkai Energy and turned into a Meele? Then I suppose you're just unlucky."

Looking at Gu Yu, who was still in pain, the Herrscher of Thunder slightly raised her right hand.

"If you'd become a Meele, I could have ignored a maggot like you and let you struggle a little longer."

A sphere of lightning gradually condensed in the Herrscher of Thunder's right hand, growing larger and larger.

"But now..."

Then, with a slight curl of her lips, she hurled the lightning sphere in her hand straight at Gu Yu.

"—Die!"

"Ah, I finally get it. So this is how this thing is used."

As the Honkai Energy was gradually drawn away by the Herrscher of Thunder, Gu Yu came back to his senses and finally understood the true purpose of the Knight Emblem in his hand.

As the thought flashed through his mind, the Knight Emblem in Gu Yu's hand erupted with incomparably brilliant light.

At the same time, a magenta driver and a black-and-white card case appeared at his waist.

Catching a card that automatically popped out from the card case, Gu Yu looked at the lightning sphere about to strike him and inserted the card into the driver.

"Henshin!"

[KamenRide Decade (KamenRide - Decade)]

As an emotionless mechanical voice sounded from the belt, enormous power erupted from the driver at Gu Yu's waist.

The lightning sphere, which should have easily killed this ordinary human in the Herrscher of Thunder's eyes, was actually deflected on the spot by the force of that impact.

"What? This guy is...?"

Watching the magenta armor finish forming over Gu Yu's body, the Herrscher of Thunder narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Interesting. So you aren't an ordinary human after all?"

"Perhaps. At least when we first met, I was an ordinary human."

After transforming, Gu Yu flexed his fingers, feeling an incomparably powerful force flowing through his fingertips and joints.

Then, looking at the Herrscher of Thunder as she watched him with interest, he drew a card from the card case.

"This is such a headache. It hurts like hell!"

"Making me face an enemy on the level of a Herrscher right off the bat—what brain-damaged bastard wrote this script?!"

[Form Ride - Kuuga Titan Form]

After Gu Yu flung the card into the driver, the Herrscher of Thunder watched as the Knight before her shifted from magenta to dark purple, gathering Honkai Energy around the left side of her body.

"You changed your appearance? For an insect, you really are rather interesting."

As Honkai Energy gathered around the Herrscher of Thunder, four wings made of Honkai Energy and lightning immediately formed along the left side of her body.

"Then, once you're ready..."

After Gu Yu switched from Decade's base form into Kuuga Titan Form, which specialized in defensive combat, the Herrscher of Thunder instantly appeared at his side using the four Honkai Energy wings.

"—How much fun can you bring me?!"

With a swipe of her claw, the girl's seemingly delicate hand broke the sound barrier on the spot, empowered by an incomparably terrifying magnetic field.

Gu Yu, who was utterly unsuited for high-speed combat, had his left shoulder pierced by that strike.

"You stinking woman, get lost!"

Yet even as his shoulder armor was pierced, Gu Yu materialized the Titan Sword, Kuuga Titan Form's exclusive weapon, and slashed out with it.

"Hmph. Boring."

Easily dodging the slow slash, the Herrscher of Thunder looked at Gu Yu's left shoulder wound and spoke with faint boredom.

"It is over, human."

"You have tried hard enough."

Although the Herrscher of Thunder awakened through the Third Honkai Outbreak had not fully awakened all her abilities, the girl before Gu Yu had already mastered at least sixty percent of the Third Herrscher's power.

The Herrscher of Thunder could not only use electromagnetic fields to defend against most physical impacts and energy attacks, but could also inflict a certain condition upon enemies she injured.

By wielding this power, the Herrscher of Thunder could use electromagnetic pulses to destroy the chemical bonds within an enemy's body, achieving molecular destruction.

No matter how powerful a creature was, it was still made of molecules.

In other words, an enemy whose chemical bonds had been destroyed by the Herrscher of Thunder's electromagnetic pulses naturally could not continue living as a biological being.

Since this was her first awakening today, the Herrscher of Thunder had not used her speed to press Gu Yu again after he swung his sword.

Instead, she did not move at all, coldly watching Gu Yu's body begin to crumble from his shoulder armor as she waited for the enemy before her to perish completely from molecular collapse.

If it had been an ordinary human, even if their vital points had been spared, they absolutely could not have survived molecular collapse.

However, the Rider form Gu Yu had chosen, Kuuga, happened to possess an extremely special trait.

One of Kamen Rider Kuuga's signature abilities was precisely the ability to manipulate molecules and atoms in battle.

Whether transforming or picking up an object and turning it into a weapon, Kuuga essentially relied on molecular manipulation to achieve his desired ends.

And Kuuga Titan Form, the form Gu Yu had chosen, happened to possess the strongest armor recovery ability.

No matter how powerful the damage, as long as Gu Yu was not killed in a single blow, he could completely repair it through molecular manipulation.

After enduring the initial pain, Gu Yu, kneeling on one knee with a hand pressed against his armored chest, quietly took a card from the card case.

"Hey, Herrscher. You seem to think the battle is already over..."

[Form Ride - Kuuga Dragon]

After rapidly swiping the card, the incredibly heavy armor on Gu Yu's body suddenly changed into azure light armor.

At the same time, the Titan Sword in his hand transformed into the long-handled Azure Dragon Staff along with the form change.

Before the Herrscher of Thunder could react at all, Gu Yu made a light leap, jumped directly behind her, and thrust his staff forward.

"Sorry..."

"I can still keep fighting!"