"Her stomach... and thighs..."
"Was that too much?"
Yayoi somehow felt that the ease she had displayed earlier might have been a little too "sweet."
"...Not really."
"Yayoi?"
Akane tilted her head as she listened to their whispers, feeling as though she had missed something. "What's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
Her eyes darted around wildly, utterly unsure where to look. In the end, she could only silently stare up at the pitch-black ceiling.
Ah... I feel like I've gone back to being Yayoi who knows nothing...
"?"
What was going on? Supporting Reika as she could only take careful little steps, Akane was completely baffled.
Were you all hiding something from me? Why does it feel like I'm the only one left out?
"Unauthorized personnel are forbidden ahead—ah, you're Kamen Riders!"
The two hulking men guarding the entrance to the throne hall like door gods had just begun to shout at the intruders when they cried out upon seeing the Driver at Ash's waist.
"That person said never to let any Kamen Rider go! We'll defeat you right here!"
Ash and the others did not even need to expose their disguises. Amid surges of dark energy, the two giants tore apart their elf-like outer shells, revealing savage forms beneath, bristling with sharp fangs. One of the ogres, carrying a Kanabo, even burst into laughter at the group that did not reach his knees.
"You actually delivered yourselves right to us! How foolish of you, saving us the time of looking for you!"
"Now then~"
Such clumsy provocation no longer worked on Ash. The man did not bother arguing back either, merely opening the thick tome in his hands.
"Who exactly is the foolish one?"
"Dragonic Knight! Magnificently riding a dragon, the dramatic battle of a super-class knight!"
"People from the Tragedy