Hero Appears

"Yuri-chan, wait for me!" The school bell rang, Baihe Hua picked up her School Bag as usual, but she was slightly taken aback when she heard Rinka's voice.

"Don't you have club activities?" Baihe Hua was slightly surprised to see Rinka looking like she wanted to be in the club too.

"There have been so many Weird Tale lately that the Weird Tale Club's activities have actually decreased. How about we go to the shopping district together? I heard that the place where Kamen Rider fought has become a popular photo spot! It's a pity that the fight videos are blocked online, so they can only be circulated within a small circle."

Rinka recited her prepared lines, but her mind was elsewhere—

There are many Weird Tale living near Baihe Hua's house, and coupled with the nightmares and increased appetite Baihe Hua mentioned before, she has reason to suspect that her best friend is being haunted by Weird Tale like the Black Monk that steals life force!

So for the next few days, she plans to stay with Baihe Hua and see if they can encounter that Weird Tale.

"Once I find it, I'll destroy it with the power of Kamen Rider!"

Baihe Hua listened to Rinka's explanation, but had a different thought—

"It seems that Rinka was frightened by the previous battle. Isn't there a saying in Yan Kingdom, 'Lord Ye loved dragons but was terrified'? Perhaps she encountered a real Weird Tale and therefore no longer likes Weird Tale. But this is also a good thing, after all, Weird Tale club is the kind of group that is very likely to encounter Weird Tale."

The two best friends, each with their own thoughts, acted as if nothing was wrong, picked up their School Bag and headed to the shopping street. As usual, they ate snacks, drank milk tea, and even watched a newly released movie.

"It's either Guardians of the Galaxy or X-Men, why are there so many Superhero in theaters lately?" Baihe Hua complained as they left the theater, while Rinka replied matter-of-factly:

"What can you do? Popcorn movies are so profitable! But the kung fu movies from Yan country are pretty good too. Although the dialogue is a bit convoluted, the fight scenes are much better than Superhero movies! Every punch feels real, and you can't even see the special effects!"

"Maybe it's because they can't match the grand scenes of Hollywood, so they focus on the details?" Rinka offered a plausible guess, but she completely failed to understand that it wasn't special effects at all.

Just as the two were thinking it was time to go home, a loud bang suddenly caught their attention.

Screams, running, and two sharp, piercing gunshots immediately told everyone that something had probably happened, though it was some distance away.

"What's going on?" Rinka squinted, looking in the direction from which the people were running. A Stand appeared beside Baihe Hua, and with its help, she saw the direction from which the commotion was taking place—

"It looks like a robbery, let's get out of here!"

"Robbery!" Rinka shook her head. "Let's hurry up and leave, the police will come and take our statements."

"Generally speaking, we don't need to go this far, do we?" Baihe Hua took a step forward and said with some surprise. Rinka shrugged and said:

"Who knows? I only saw it on TV... Waaah!"

At this point, Rinka's expression suddenly twitched slightly, then she clutched her stomach and said:

"Um, I think I drank too much iced cola earlier, my stomach hurts a bit. I'm going to the restroom. If you can't wait, you can go back first!"

"I'll wait here." A glint of shrewdness flashed in Baihe Hua's eyes, but Rinka darted back into the movie theater.

"Out of sight!"

"What's wrong?" Feng Xue immediately emerged from Baihe Hua's body. Although this part of his consciousness remained in Baihe Hua's house to maintain the effect of the [Suspicious Cardboard Box], after arriving in this world, his consciousness had already connected to the internet and separated a part to micro-manage the substitute, just as easily as when he descended into other Chinese Descendant bodies to beat up the Black ATM.

The only problem is that most of the Internal Force that makes up the Stand is inside the cardboard box. It's fine to show it occasionally, but if you want to fight, its endurance is extremely limited.

"Go check on the situation over there." Baihe Hua said, but she had already given the order in her mind. Feng Xue, who was already in a remote control state, did not try to take control from Baihe Hua. She immediately took a step and walked towards the shop where the accident had occurred.

"Phew, thankfully Yuri-chan didn't suspect anything." Rinka slipped into the movie theater's restroom, letting out a slight sigh of relief. Then, she pulled out her Kamen Rider Transformation Belt from her bag. As a Kamen Rider, how could she turn a blind eye to evil?

The card holder fits snugly against the waist, and the strap immediately pops out to secure it.

"Time to Transform!!"

"Are you ready?!"

Although it was the same sound effect, Rinka's mindset was completely different. She assumed a pose she had practiced many times, pulled the spider card from the card box, and inserted it into the slot.

"Transform!"

"The All Things ~~"

"A net of heaven and earth!!"

"Kamen Rider-- "

"Demon Rider!"

It was still the same armor base, but the decorations that resembled the candy coating of Rock Sugar Gourd had been replaced by sharp spikes, and the patterns on the armor had changed from hexagonal ice crystals to a spiderweb-like appearance.

Compared to the Yuki-onna card, Rinka now exudes a more domineering aura.

Of course, she didn't actually like this form. Compared to the Kamen Rider series' destined-to-be-sacrificed spider, she definitely preferred the Yuki-onna form. But there was nothing she could do; the card seemed to have been lent to her by Mr. Evil Rider, and it disappeared without her noticing after she obtained the Earth Spider card.

"No matter what, get rid of the robbers quickly!"

A spider silk spurted from the spider decoration on the back of her right hand, and Rinka's body shot directly out of the movie theater's restroom window. Like Spider-Man, she moved quickly through the steel jungle using the spider silk, and in just two round trips, she arrived above the shop where the robbery seemed to have taken place.

"Hurry up! The police are on their way!"

Inside the jewelry store, a thug holding a pistol gave orders to his men. The glass display cases had already been violently smashed, and pieces of pure gold jewelry, along with shards of glass, were being shoved into sacks. The shop assistants and customers huddled together in a corner, trembling, and no one showed any sign of resistance.

"Boss, all done! These little gadgets were surprisingly heavy!"

The robber wearing a blue hood shouted, while the robber with a red hood and a gun picked up his bag with one hand, feeling its heavy weight, and said:

"What kind of gold wouldn't sink? Let's go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he walked out of the shop first, followed by several of his underlings who were also carrying bags. But just as they left the shop, a red and black figure suddenly plummeted from the sky, kicking up a cloud of inexplicable dust.

His vision was instantly obscured, but the robber, surprisingly clear-headed, ignored the man who had just decided to "commit suicide" and took the first step. However, he seemed to hear a voice—

"Now's the time!"

"Kamen Rider Youki! Reporting for duty! Huh?"

As the dust settled, Rinka, having landed perfectly, struck a heroic pose and raised her head, about to say, "Grandma once said," when she suddenly realized with embarrassment that all the robbers were lying on the ground, each with a clearly visible fist mark on their head—just like the Fighting-type symbol in Pokémon.

I had another strange dream.

I dreamt that I became Jeston... Luckily, it was still early in the story, and I was still one of the top ten employees at the beach umbrella company.

So I went to Ursus...

I encountered a pair of female healers, an ice mage, a small-time healer who hadn't yet turned evil and was capable of mass destruction, and his silent follower...

Up to this point, everything still followed normal time-travel logic, but things started to get strange. The Kingslayer somehow learned Originium Arts, allowing him to enter mirrors, and the mad scientist from the Rainbow Six Siege collaboration who discovered the essence of evolution was also brought in to research Oripathy inhibitors...

Then it dawned on me: should patriots now learn the sorcery of shrinking people?

Yeah, I can already predict the hot Misha, the drone mascot, the chain-fingered Chen Huijie, the melancholic blues Wuyou, the Exia who can't fire all six shots (did she miss the fourth one?), the Silver Town atrocities, the Golden Experience Amiya...

Uh, wait a minute, if that's the case, wouldn't one of the two female characters become an emperor with two souls in one body? So the emperor killed one of the female characters, then transformed into the other and hid in the assassination squad?

I woke up the moment that thought crossed my mind...

Tomorrow's JoJo, a serialized novel! (No way!)

Can you believe that Hayato Kawajiri's voice actress voices Skadi? Wait a minute, Hayato Kawajiri doesn't have a Stand, Skadi doesn't have Originium Arts... Holy crap!