Not Fighting Means You Can't Survive

Although she subconsciously made a sarcastic remark, Rinka quickly came to her senses. Looking at the Kamen Rider in front of her, clad in ukiyo-e style armor, her expression shifted several times in an instant before she murmured:

"I think... I'm dead?"

"Dead, but not completely dead." A voice, seemingly coming through an iron barrel, came from behind the Kamen Rider's mask. He pulled out a Transformation Belt and said:

"I am Kamen Rider from another world, and my time in your world is limited..."

"So you want me to become your human form? Seriously, why is Kamen Rider using Ultraman's settings?" Rinka's expression was very strange, but the Kamen Rider shook his head and, without a word, tossed her a belt and a card case.

"Fight! Without fighting, we cannot survive!"

"Huh?" Rinka instinctively caught the card box thrown at her, completely bewildered. How did it suddenly "click open"? And you even took out your belt...

Before Rinka could finish speaking, everything in front of her suddenly blurred, and the world returned to its previous state. The enormous spider was right in front of her, and she could even see the fine hairs on the spider's hideous mandibles.

"Gurgle--"

Rinka instinctively took two steps back, but the moment she moved, the world, which had seemed completely frozen, began to show signs of "collapse".

A series of cracking sounds echoed in their ears, and the giant spider, seemingly sealed in amber, began to tremble.

Although there was no evidence, Rinka instinctively knew that in just a few dozen... no, just a dozen seconds, this spider Weird Tale would break free from this strange state.

A mere ten seconds or so wasn't even enough for her to run out of the alley!

"Kamen Rider! Where are you! Come save me!" The somewhat helpless girl couldn't see Evil Rider, but then she noticed that she was actually holding the Transformation Belt and the card box in her hand!

"I'll fight!" Rinka was no longer in the mood to think about what she would do after transforming. All she knew was that if she didn't fight, she might die here!

Since that's the case, I'll leave the rest to myself!

Rinka adjusted her mindset in just a few seconds. She placed the Transformation Belt in front of her, and as a strangely textured strip popped out of the Transformation Belt, the somewhat plastic-looking Transformation Belt was fixed to her waist.

"Time to Transform ~~"

Are you ready?

A sound effect brimming with chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) emanated from the Transformation Belt. Rinka opened the card box, looked at the card inside which only had one image and the rest were blank, and sighed.

"If we're talking about preparation, then of course we weren't prepared."

Rinka took the only card out of the card case, looked at the girl standing in the snow scene on it, and, imitating what she had seen on the street before, inserted it into the cartridge.

"But given the current situation, where is there any time to prepare!"

Rinka let out a complaint, but the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up.

She pressed down on the mechanisms on either side of the Transformation Belt and whispered—

"This is my first Hoshino Rinka transformation in my life, Kamen Rider!"

Click!

The Transformation Belt snapped shut, and streaks of light emerged from the indicator lights that lit up one after another, wrapping around Rinka's body. From the transparent circular structure in the center of the Transformation Belt, which revealed the snowflake-shaped ice crystal on the back of the card, a beam of ice-blue light also spread out, and hexagonal ice crystal-shaped decorations spread across the simple armor, forming a layer of crystal-blue structure.

"The All Things ~~"

"Thousand Miles Frozen!!"

"Kamen Rider-- "

"Demon Rider!"

"The Death Country!" Rinka exclaimed, glancing at her reflection in the glass by the roadside.

Even excluding all added value, this outfit looks a bit like Rock Sugar Gourd, but considering the Kamen Rider series' strong aesthetic style, Rinka thinks it's not entirely unacceptable.

Or rather...

"This look is actually quite cool!"

"Snap!"

With a clear, crisp sound like a beer bottle hitting a concrete floor from a height of over ten meters, Rinka finally snapped out of her excitement from her first transformation. However, the giant spider gave her no chance to test the machine's performance, and in a very unnatural way, spat out a wisp of spider silk from its mouth.

"Wait a minute, I haven't..."

While frantically dodging the spider webs, Rinka tried to read the user manual that popped up in the window in front of her, but before she could translate the complicated instructions into understandable operations, she was already completely wrapped up like a dumpling.

"Am I, Hoshino Rinka, going to die on my very first day as Kamen Rider —no, during my first transformation? Mr. Evil Rider, come save the day!"

Although Hoshino Rinka was pleading for help, she showed no sign of stopping. She writhed like a maggot, trying to break free from the spider silk clinging to her armor, while her eyes scanned the lines of text, trying to find a way to escape this predicament.

"That's right, that's exactly it! You have to believe in your own strength!"

Hoshino Rinka didn't know if it was a hallucination or if there was a real voice guiding her, but she ignored it completely. As the spider's mouthparts were already pressed against her chest, she finally found the control command in the constantly flowing subtitles.

Snap!

The small opening she managed to create by twisting her body wasn't enough to free her from the spider webs, but it was enough for her to press the button on the Transformation Belt.

The originally red structure emitted an icy blue glow. She, who was entangled in spider silk and could only wriggle on the ground like a maggot, suddenly stood up against gravity. The air suddenly became cold, and snowflakes froze in the air.

"Click, click..."

A faint crackling sound came from within; the sticky, tough spider silk had already become brittle at the low temperature.

"Frosty Wind Cold Night ~~"

"Chills the Heart ~~"

Amidst incredibly melodramatic sound effects, Rinka forcefully broke free from the spider silk, while the ice crystals in the air seemed to be stirred by some force, condensing into a red samurai sword in Rinka's hand that didn't fit the image she had in mind.

Although it was made of ice crystals, it was reflected in a blood-red hue, yet a chilling aura emanated from Rinka's armor and spread outwards, freezing the spider that was trying to escape to the ground.

"Attack Control!"

"Red Plum Blossom Under Snow!"

Although the sound effects were incredibly exciting, Rinka had never learned how to use a sword. Amidst the arrogant sound effects, she could only clumsily walk up to the frozen spider with both hands, like a beginner, and then forcefully slash down!

Click!

Instead of a swift and decisive strike, the spider shattered into countless ice blocks the instant it made contact. The card holder fixed to her arm after the transformation emitted bursts of light. Rinka looked at the flashing characters before her and raised her left hand towards the spider's corpse.

From the card box, streaks of light surged out and wrapped around the spider's body. With a burst of light, another card appeared in Rinka's card box.