In the real world, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya stared at each other, wide-eyed.
A few minutes ago, Gu Yu and the cherry-blossomed girl with donkey ears, who were preparing to fight on the battlefield, had simultaneously stopped moving as if time had frozen.
Kiana, possessing the bloodline of the Kaslana clan, could clearly hear the faint breaths coming from Gu Yu's face, which was covered by a mask.
From this, Kiana believed Gu Yu was still alive.
The thought of her companion seemingly being in trouble made Kiana want to rush over and help multiple times.
If Raiden Mei hadn't stopped her, worried that Kiana would interfere with Gu Yu's potential battle plan, Kiana might have already charged forward and swung her metal baseball bat at Yae Sakura.
And so, the three waited anxiously, and then...
"What did you do to Rin!"
They saw a fierce glint flash in Yae Sakura's eyes before she directly charged forward and grabbed Gu Yu, who had just de-transformed.
Just as the Stigmata space was about to eject Yae Sakura and Gu Yu, Yae Sakura clearly saw Gu Yu throw a card towards the soul of her sister, Yae Rin.
Then, to Yae Rin's shocked expression, her soul was directly absorbed by the card.
As the space shifted, Yae Sakura's consciousness plunged into darkness.
When she came to her senses, she immediately grabbed Gu Yu's shoulders with both hands.
"What happened to Rin!"
"I already said, miracles and magic aren't free."
"But even if these things aren't free, they do exist."
Gently pushing away Yae Sakura's hands, Gu Yu took a card that popped out from his Card Holder and handed it to Yae Sakura.
"Take some time to recall your past with your sister."
Looking at the card in front of her, which bore a portrait of her sister, Yae Sakura paused for a moment before slowly closing her eyes.
After calming down, she could feel that the person before her held no ill will towards her.
Coupled with everything Gu Yu had done in the Stigmata space earlier, Yae Sakura, who had already developed a slight liking for this man, felt that this young man was not a bad person.
Perhaps, trusting him once wouldn't be a bad thing.
With this thought, Yae Sakura began to recall her past with her sister.
Memories of them playing together as children, the promise Sakura made to Rin after she fell gravely ill, the day they decided to run away, and the moment she personally performed the ritual.
Both good and bad memories played repeatedly in Yae Sakura's mind.
"Huh, what's this?!"
Kiana, who had been about to charge forward and smash Yae Sakura with her bat, stopped when she saw a small, young figure gradually materializing beside Yae Sakura.
Beside Yae Sakura, Yae Rin, dressed in a kimono, looked at her materialized form in disbelief.
When she bid farewell to Yae Sakura in the Stigmata space, Yae Rin had already prepared herself to dissipate.
She was merely a wisp of a soul clinging on by sheer willpower. If she hadn't been unable to bear watching her sister be tormented by Hiyorimar, she would have vanished long ago after her death.
After her lingering attachment ended, she should have, and indeed deserved to, vanish from this world.
However, now...
"Rin, this is..."
The girl, who was constantly moving her limbs, looked at Yae Sakura, who had opened her eyes, in disbelief.
"Sis... Sister?"
"Rin!"
Seeing her sister reappear before her, Yae Sakura embraced Yae Rin tightly.
"It's so good... it's really so good..."
"Even if it's just for a minute... it's so wonderful to hold you again."
Logically speaking, no one would interrupt such a reunion of sisters after death.
But as the several girls were slightly moved by this inexplicable scene, Gu Yu spoke up, completely ruining the atmosphere.
"Um... a minute isn't quite right."
"It's a card I created by expending a considerable amount of Honkai Energy, how could it be used up in just a minute."
"Don't underestimate the history of a Kamen Rider, alright."
Watching the two sisters, who were crying but had their reunion interrupted by Gu Yu, the three girls watching all had a vein pop on their foreheads.
This guy really has no sense of timing.
Interrupting a reunion of two sisters at a time like this, is he a demon?!
"I... I truly don't know... how to thank you, sir."
Thinking about how the young man before her had resolved all her troubles, Yae Sakura truly didn't know how to face her benefactor.
"I told you, miracles and magic aren't free. Consider it a favor you owe me, Yae Sakura."
"Oh, and by the way, keep this card safe. It's a matter of your sister's life and death."
After saying this, Gu Yu glanced at the girls around him and suddenly felt something was off.
Raiden Mei, the Third Herrscher.
Kiana Kaslana, the Second Herrscher.
Yuno, formerly a Pseudo Herrscher.
Yae Sakura, a Pseudo Herrscher.
Besides Bronya and Yae Rin, his card holder also contained the Twelfth Herrscher, Hiyorimar.
Why were so many Herrschers slowly gathering around him???
This situation felt very wrong!
So, the mechanism for Yae Rin's revival needs to be explained here.
First, let's combine it with previous plot points. The card system for Decade is to release things sealed in the two-dimensional [plane] into the three-dimensional [reality] for combat.
Of course, it's not just for fighting.
In the plot of Movie War 2010, Tsukasa Kadoya once gave Kamen Rider Skull's card to Shotaro Hidari, allowing the latter to summon another world's Shōkichi Narumi [Kamen Rider Skull].
And also in this work, Tsukasa Kadoya completely vanished after choosing to be killed by Natsumi Hikari.
However, after all worlds were restored, Natsumi Hikari, Daiki Kaito, and Yusuke Onodera, along with seven other parallel world Riders, brought Tsukasa Kadoya back to life through their thoughts of him.
Yes, revival. There's no such thing as a "thought-form." That's a popular fan theory. The official explanation is that Tsukasa Kadoya was directly revived.
So, combining these two plot points, Yae Rin has a remnant soul, the Power of Decade can seal things, and revival can be achieved through thoughts.
Under these strict conditions, reviving Yae Rin shouldn't be... too much of a problem, right?
That child Yae Rin had a really tough life since she was little. I figured it wasn't a crucial plot point, so it wouldn't hurt to force her revival a little for the little girl, probably.
Well, there shouldn't be any similar revival plots appearing later. After all, it's like Dragon Ball; using it once causes the plot to collapse.
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