Yet Shotaro gradually calmed down.
Compared to Zhang Qi's identity, the urgent priority now was stopping the madman across from them from turning Fuuto into a true Ice Age.
"Y-you... what are you going to do?!"
Zhang Qi answered. As he spoke, he inserted the crystal-like Memory into the slot at the center of the golden Driver around his waist.
This belt was a modified version modeled after the Sonozaki Family's Gaia Driver.
Whether it was the Lost Driver or the Gaia Driver, their essence was a safety device that used special interfaces to limit the vast, chaotic Earth Memories within the Memories, preventing the user from being overwhelmed by the flood of information.
But Zhang Qi naturally did not need to worry about such things, so the purpose of his belt was to release the Memory's power to the greatest possible extent.
"TRUTH."
An electronic voice completely unlike that of any other Gaia Memory rang out.
There was no gale, no explosion.
Centered on Zhang Qi, light like that refracted through a prism spread outward.
Within that light, Zhang Qi gradually transformed into another form—
"This is... a Dopant?"
Seeing what emerged from the light, Shotaro's mouth fell open into an O, and his mind completely crashed.
Though he had seen quite a few Dopants over the years, this was his first time seeing one of this type.
A Dopant was a monster created by directly injecting Earth's memories into a human body.
Because of that immense amount of data, a person's body and mind would undergo irreversible distortion.
That was why most Dopants were twisted—
But this thing before him was completely different.
It had no physical body. Or rather, its body was composed of flowing light.
Seven-colored auroras slowly flowed within it, outlining a perfectly harmonious humanoid