"You? You think you can replace me?"
Tsukasa Kadoya rose as he spoke, his left hand whipping out a card.
Then he slammed the card into the driver at his waist.
[ATTACKRIDE:CLOCKUP!]
The cold electronic announcement echoed across the deathly silent battlefield.
Then someone hit pause on the world.
Behind Shadow Moon, the dust stirred up by the vast army of monsters and combatants hung suspended in midair, like a crude oil painting frozen in place.
The only thing moving was that magenta figure.
From Shadow Moon's perspective, Kamen Rider Decade vanished from the spot in an instant.
This was not simply the flow of events; he had changed the rate at which time passed for himself.
"Heh... useless."
Yet Shadow Moon remained unmoved by Kamen Rider Decade's Clock Up, not even changing his stance.
The next moment, an ominous crimson light flared in his locust-like compound eyes.
That light pierced the physical world's surface, revealing the underlying data that made up all things.
In his vision, the entire world became a gray-white static model composed of countless lines of code.
Amid that gray-white expanse, only one dazzling magenta stream of data darted and leaped wildly. Its trajectory traced Tsukasa Kadoya's movements.
At that very instant, he swung the Satan Saber again.
The swing was not fast, but it precisely anticipated where that data stream would appear in the next millisecond.
The blade sliced through the motionless air, raising a visible crimson ripple in space.
Thwack!
Time resumed its flow.
The fierce wind howled again, and the flames danced once more.
With a tremendous crash, Tsukasa Kadoya was forcibly smashed out of thin air.
Like a baseball struck by a bat, he rolled and bounced across the rubble-strewn ground, finally slamming into a broken reinforced concrete pillar before