Cannot Kick, But I Can Slash

"Damn it!" Hearing the opponent's extremely arrogant lines, the Alien Knight Face Stealer roared angrily. The countless white tentacles suddenly retracted, trying to make Feng Xue, who was standing on them, stumble. He then wielded the rusty scissors enhanced by the power of "Net Cut" and charged towards Feng Xue.

Leave your power behind!

The scissors, clearly designed for direct attacks, closed in as Another Rider, Faceless, Face Stealer. However, Feng Xue, already Meme Power Buff, was exerting far more force than a typical Kamen Rider. He casually tapped the Transformation Belt, which had no buttons or mechanisms.

"Demons and monsters~~"

"Possessed by evil spirits~~"

Two extremely arrogant sound effects were emitted at a seemingly slow but actually fast pace, as if Time Stop Commentary. The ukiyo-e style Weird Tale then transformed into phantom images that flew out from his body.

They lined up in front of him.

Logically, Feng Xue should have launched a flying kick at this moment to finish the fight with a standard Knight Kick, but he couldn't.

Because, for him, who is Meme Power Buff, "the Knight Kick the right weapon."

However, it didn't matter. Feng Xue reached out and grabbed at the floating phantoms in front of him, and more than a dozen phantoms seemed to be compressed and converged into his hand.

"Attack Control~~"

"The Lord of the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons!!!"

Countless phantoms transformed into a blunt rapier resembling an ice spike, and on its round blade, reliefs like demons climbed from the guard towards the tip.

With books, the distance is long; without books, it is short. At this moment, the Otherworldly Knight, Face Stealer, holding scissors, was less than three meters away from Feng Xue. He had finally taken his first step after transforming, but this step already took him more than ten meters away.

What happened in that instant was beyond human perception. As the ear-piercing sound, like the wailing of a hundred ghosts, dissipated along with the black light, Feng Xue, wielding a rapier, had already switched places with the Face Stealer. As the rapier and armor fell away, the Strong Man man with the ordinary-looking face, standing at 1.95 meters tall, casually tossed the Transformation Belt onto the Pineapple Pineapple Da Knight, who had just recovered. Behind him lay the "Alien Rider Face Stealer," whose head had already fallen to the ground.

"Who are you?!"

Holding the Transformation Belt, which was noticeably different from before, Pineapple Pineapple Da Knight asked Feng Xue in a slightly cracked voice.

"Didn't I tell you? I'm just a Kamen Rider's passing by."

After saying that, the tall, muscular figure, who should have been very conspicuous in the crowd, took a step and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Pineapple Pineapple Da Knight wanted to give chase, but then remembered his job and immediately pulled out a rather bulky-looking camera from his waist bag, snapping a picture of the decapitated "Alien Knight: Face Stealer".

With a crisp click, Face Stealer's body, along with his armor, transformed into a stream of data and entered the seemingly bulky camera.

"Wow, that's amazing! Yuri-chan, did you see that? That guy who came to the rescue just now must have been the main rider, right? Seriously, why do they always have to include these kinds of scenes in real life where the secondary rider gets the short end of the stick and the main rider comes to the rescue? And it looks like the main rider and the secondary rider don't even know each other, the suspense... it's so authentic!"

Watching the disheveled middle-aged man with dark circles under his eyes ride away on his motorcycle and disappear into the distance, Rinka excitedly grabbed Baihe Hua's arm and shouted. Baihe Hua, however, felt a strong sense of hunger and exhaustion wash over her. If it weren't for her reason telling her that she was too obviously unconscious at this moment, she would have loved to just fall asleep.

"I'm so hungry! Let's go eat first." The suggestion was delivered in a very pleasant tone, and Rinka, who already had a big appetite, immediately agreed. The two found a fast food restaurant on the street and began to feast.

After a few hamburgers, Baihe Hua's reason finally prevailed over her appetite. Looking out the window at the site of the previous battle, she said with some concern, "Is this really okay? A few Weird Tale died here just now. Won't we get revenge from other Weird Tale later?"

"If anyone's going to take revenge, it should be the Kamen Rider, not us! Weird Tale also have rules. As long as you don't break their rules Weird Tale killing, they won't attack ordinary people. If we had run away when the Weird Tale manifested, we would have broken their rules and been attacked. But since we stayed to watch, we'll be fine!"

Rinka spoke confidently, but Baihe Hua, knowing her best friend well, sensed a hint of uncertainty in her words.

"Is Rinka's information reliable?" Baihe Hua asked in her mind, and Feng Xue's inorganic voice provided the universal answer:

"I have no idea."

After saying that, he didn't forget to add a sentence—

"Don't forget, I am you, and I only know what you know."

"Alright." Baihe Hua sighed helplessly, looking at Rinka was still trembling slightly, and hesitated for a moment before speaking:

"How about I come to your place tonight? Didn't you say that Weird Tale only attack people who are alone?"

"Okay!" Rinka agreed almost instantly, but Feng Xue's voice rang out again—

Is this really a good idea?

"At least with me around, there's still room for resistance, isn't there?"

Meanwhile, after a round of checks, the Tired Uncle had returned to the secret base, finally entered the conference room, where he was met only by several screens with code names written on them.

"Please report the details."

A distorted voice, clearly altered, emanated from the screen displaying the letter "A." The Tired Uncle immediately recounted how his mask had been Face Stealer and how he had been rescued by an "Evil Rider."

"Where's the Transformation Belt?" the letter "F" asked, immediately receiving a reply from "K."

"It has been sent to the maintenance department along with the Weird Tale factor from the Face Stealer. The specifics are still being tested, but based on the initial examination, it can already be confirmed that it has undergone some kind of ability modification. All parameters have been improved, and its utilization rate of the Weird Tale factor has also changed considerably."

"Based on this, he can't be Kamen Rider from another country; it can only be the power of Weird Tale," F said with certainty, and A echoed in agreement.

"It's highly likely, but why would he use our Transformation Belt? Considering he can freely modify and optimize Transformation Belt, there shouldn't be any reason for him to do so."

"Maybe it's to help us? Since the Weird Tale strengthen themselves through popularity, making us amateur Kamen Rider stronger would help increase the power of his Weird Tale, right?" K's screen displayed a speculation, and A immediately responded:

"We can't rule out that possibility, but we can't completely trust the other party. After all, Weird Tale are just Weird Tale. Besides, we're not sure what connection he has with that Kamen Rider Orca from back then. If he drives away Hundred Tales and another group of Kamen Rider comes, that would be a disaster."

"But we have no other choice, do we?" K said, then paused for a moment before continuing:

"The test results are in. There are three signs of modification. One of them is a purely mechanical change, which we can try to replicate. The other two require further investigation. We need more Weird Tale. Also, the concentration of Weird Tale in [Face Stealer] far exceeds any previous instance. Making it into a one-time transformation card would be a waste. Should we experiment with other options?"

P. S.: Regarding the real-world Kamen Rider... Because the protagonist transformed into Kamen Rider Orca in the fall of 2013 and killed Sea Monk, the Kamen Rider plan was exposed. Subsequently, in December, the month of the Shi-zui), human Kamen Rider appeared in the eastern country for the first time and attacked the Weird Tale.

Therefore, theoretically, the only Kamen Rider series currently airing is Witch Rider, and even though Gaim started airing in October 2013, it was only broadcast for a maximum of two months before being banned.