Kamen Rider

"Yuri-chan, look! Isn't this keychain adorable?!"

Hearing Rinka's call, Baihe Hua shifted her gaze from the passing half-bird, half-snake Weird Tale to the keychain Rinka was holding. To be honest, it was quite cute.

But...

"Don't want!"

Hearing Baihe Hua's incredibly cold rejection, Rinka was slightly taken aback and said:

"Huh? Why? This One-Eyed Monk is so cute, okay?"

"That One-Eyed Monk is disgusting!" Baihe Hua looked at the adorable little monk, but couldn't help but think of the guy who was punched to dust by her own stand. His head was full of veins and wrinkles, his eyes were huge and repulsive, and his tongue was two feet long. He kept licking his eyes, dripping drops of murky mucus. The sight of that guy made her feel extremely resistant to the thing, both physically and mentally.

"Disgusting? Really?" Rinka shook her head, not quite understanding, holding the One-Eyed Monk's keychain, but still put it back on the stall and picked up another style—

"And what about this Zashiki-warashi?"

"No, not either!" Baihe Hua shook her head again, remembering that strange dream.

"I don't want anything related to monsters or Weird Tale! Absolutely not!"

"That would be troublesome. What in the East doesn't include elements of Weird Tale? You don't want to buy a formal suit, do you?"

Rinka sighed, Baihe Hua also felt a bit of a headache upon hearing this.

Previously, she had never thought there was anything wrong with this; she simply considered it a popular trend. After all, long before she was born, various Weird Tale and monster-related cultural elements were already very popular in this country.

For a long time, she was even quite fascinated by these mysterious things. After all, weren't mysterious creatures that everyone knew existed but few had actually seen cool?

But now, she doesn't feel that way at all; in fact, when she thinks about it more deeply, she finds it terrifying.

This is a country ruled by inhumans, where humans are nothing more than livestock raised by these Weird Tale. When they are in a good mood, they will grab one or two from the barn and eat them, and then continue to watch the other livestock live under the rules they have set.

Just thinking about it makes Baihe Hua feel suffocated.

"Don't overthink it, that's not something you can worry about." The inorganic voice of the substitute echoed in her mind. Baihe Hua didn't say anything, but simply walked to a milk tea shop by the roadside and ordered two cups of Hong Kong-style milk tea.

Just as she was about to go back to find Rinka with her milk tea, she saw a slightly dejected middle-aged man coming towards her.

He looked to be in his thirties or forties, with very dark circles under his eyes, wearing a somewhat worn suit, and the stubble on his chin looked like it hadn't been groomed in a while.

Although he looks no different from an ordinary decadent uncle, Bai Hehua instinctively feels a special temperament, not the sense of crisis that he felt when he saw the ghost story before, but a very ridiculous...

"Is this man worth fighting?"

"Why would I have such a strange thought?" Baihe Hua grinned. Although she liked hardcore manga like JoJo and enjoyed watching fighting matches, it didn't mean she was a fighting fanatic!

"Could it be because she awakened her Stand? And that's why her fighting spirit was ignited?" Baihe Hua suddenly thought of a certain lady who couldn't control her Stand because she lacked fighting spirit, and a weak woman who only summoned her Stand after gaining fighting spirit. She immediately felt that this was probably the answer.

Without thinking further, he turned and walked towards Rinka.

"Yuri-chan, what do you think of these two?"

Turning around and seeing Baihe Hua return, Rinka immediately picked up two plush toy pendants. Compared to the Weird Tale, these two cartoon characters made Baihe Hua breathe a sigh of relief. She took one of the rabbit pendants, which she liked better, and said:

"This is fine. Oh, and I bought you milk tea!"

"Ah, I'm actually a little thirsty!" Rinka excitedly took the milk tea, took a big gulp, and then took out her money to pay the shopkeeper.

The two chatted idly as they strolled through the streets, and before long it was almost lunchtime.

"What should we eat for lunch?" Rinka looked around. There were quite a few fast food restaurants on the street, but she still needed to think about which one to choose.

Baihe Hua glanced at the shops, each one shrouded in Weird Tale, and wanted to suggest not eating there, but just then, her eyes suddenly narrowed.

At the edge of his line of sight, on a wider street, the disheveled middle-aged man from before was standing there blankly.

However, the focus wasn't on the middle-aged man, but rather on the gloomy man standing about seven or eight meters away opposite him, wearing an oversized trench coat and a baseball cap, who looked like an exhibitionist.

"Hey, Yuri-chan, what are you looking at?" Rinka frowned slightly, following Baihe Hua's gaze, and saw a middle-aged man staring blankly. Her expression immediately became subtle:

"Who is that middle-aged man who looks like he lost his job? Is he someone you know?"

"No..." Baihe Hua shook her head, watching as the Weird Tale around her gradually moved away from her position and began to gather towards the old man. She wisely kept her mouth shut.

But just then, the man suddenly pulled a plastic box out of his bag!

"Transform!"

"Weird Tale the Strange!"

A strange sound effect suddenly rang out in the street, and before Baihe Hua could realize what was happening, Rinka suddenly let out an exaggerated scream—

"A fake... Kamen Rider?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, countless passersby turned their attention to him. They saw the disheveled middle-aged man insert a crystal card that exuded an ominous aura into a plastic box that had turned into a belt. As the devices on both sides of the box were squeezed, a large amount of strange substance spread out of the box and completely enveloped him.

"Kamen Rider! It's Kamen Rider! Yuri-chan, that's Kamen Rider! This is the first time I've ever seen a real Kamen Rider!"

Rinka's eyes almost lit up as she watched the Kamen Rider transform on the street. However, Baihe Hua was far less relaxed than Rinka, because she could clearly see that this Kamen Rider was confronting Weird Tale.

However, this situation quickly changed, because the surrounding environment seemed to be in some kind of disorder due to the fluctuations caused by the Kamen Rider's transformation.

Then, screams suddenly erupted from the crowd of onlookers—

"Weird Tale!"

"Is it Weird Tale?!"

Run!

"Kamen Rider, save me!"

"What exactly happened?" Baihe Hua murmured. Feng Xue, who had been observing Kamen Rider, paused slightly upon hearing this, then thoughtfully replied:

"Perhaps it's because the process of Kamen Rider 'entering the other side of the world as a human (the protagonist doesn't know the term 'the Eternal World,' so it's described as the other side of the world)' was observed, which led to these people also being able to see the Weird Tale of the other side of the world?"

The issue of resurrection time is rather complex.

You can think of this as a process similar to casting in a mold, like epoxy resin.

To bring something back to life, you first need a mold, then the raw materials need to be available, and then it needs to go through many steps such as vacuuming, solidification, and polishing before you can complete the process.

After Weird Tale dies, the Supernatural Tale Fire becomes a mold (metaphorically, not a real mold), which passively collects knowledge about itself as raw materials to fill it.

The revival process will only begin when there are enough raw materials.

The larger the mold (larger size) and the more intricate the design (complexity), the higher the quality requirements for the raw materials. If the quantity is too small, the mold cannot be completely filled; if the quality is too poor, the mold's full features cannot be accurately reproduced.

Once this is achieved, a vacuum must be drawn to remove air bubbles from the raw materials (to remove impurities from the [consciousness]).

Finally, you just have to wait for the raw materials to slowly solidify and take shape.

Just like how larger epoxy resin solidifies more slowly, the larger the size of the Weird Tale, the longer it takes for the [knowledge] to completely solidify.

Even after solidification, some grinding, polishing, and finishing are required before it can be considered a truly perfect revival.