"Please, lend me your power! This is my only request, so please lend me your strength!"
As he spoke, Senba Gari inserted the orange-yellow card into the right side of the Beast Soul Driver. Then a miracle happened!
The Beast Soul Driver's LCD screen displayed a gorilla with its fists colliding, and the Beast Soul Driver played several synthesized mechanical sounds.
Vehicle armour appear (Armor manifestation)
As the first mechanical sound rang out, orange-yellow armor outlines appeared around the various parts of Senba Gari's body.
armed (Armament)
Then, as the second mechanical sound rang out, the orange-yellow armor outlines equipped Senba Gari with armor.
Divine King Kong (Diamond)
His entire body was covered in heavy armor. Irregular, earth-like patterns adorned his black reinforced skin and orange-yellow armor. Heavy orange-yellow greaves protected his legs, while orange-yellow gauntlets covered his arms, leaving only his hands exposed. He wore thick shoulder armor, and his helmet resembled a gorilla's head, complete with brown compound eyes.
"Bang!"
Divine watched the Mole Mlortha charging at him. His brown compound eyes flashed, and the Mole Mlortha felt an enormous gravitational force press it hard against the ground, leaving it barely able to breathe.
Then Divine rose to his feet and slowly walked toward the Mole Mlortha. The ground shook with every step. When Divine reached the Mole Mlortha, the gravity weighing it down suddenly vanished. Divine lifted the Mole Mlortha high with one hand, then slammed his other fist into its stomach.
"Boom!"
The Mole Mlortha was sent flying by Divine's punch, smashing through numerous pillars and walls along the way. It finally hurtled out of the ruins of the department store and landed on the ground.
The Mole Mlortha had appeared before everyone, but it paid no attention to the people around it. It stared in terror at the hole it had just smashed through, and everyone followed its gaze toward the opening.
An orange-yellow armored figure—Divine—slowly emerged from the hole. He inserted a card bearing the image of a fist striking a rock into the left gauntlet.
Kill weapon (Finishing weapon) Energy storage (Energy charge) Heavy grinding (Heavy Fist Smash)
When the three mechanical sounds rang out, the Mole Mlortha knelt on the ground in terror and begged Divine for mercy.
[Please, please spare me! I'll never do it again!]
Looking at the Mole Mlortha begging for mercy, Divine spoke disdainfully.
"Hah. Spare you? Why don't you think about the people you killed? Why didn't you spare them? So let the power of the earth put an end to your evil."
Then Divine slammed his left gauntlet, blazing with orange-yellow light, into the Mole Mlortha.
"Boom!!!"
Flames erupted in an explosion, while dust and fragments of the Mole Mlortha drifted through the air.
On the rooftop of a distant building, Hagoromo Gitsune, dressed in a cherry-blossom-colored kimono, watched quietly. Suddenly, a voluptuous woman appeared behind her. She wore an unusually revealing outfit and had waist-length purple hair, but her eyes were tightly shut as if she were blind.
Hagoromo Gitsune turned to the purple-haired woman and spoke.
"You came all the way here to see me. What is it, Medusa?"
"You came all the way here to see me. What is it, Medusa?"
Hagoromo Gitsune turned away with an expressionless face, her purple eyes coldly fixed on Medusa.
Though Medusa's eyes were shut like a blind person's, she could still hear the chill in Hagoromo Gitsune's voice. She didn't mind, though, and spoke with a teasing lilt.
"Oh, little Yuyi, don't be like that. Your big sister missed you, so she came to visit. Surely that's all right?"
Hearing Medusa's words, Hagoromo Gitsune chuckled and chided her.
"Hah. Medusa, I'll warn you again: stop trying to act so familiar with me! I have no affection for any of you! I'm sick of you all!"
"Oh, little Yuyi, don't be angry. If you don't want to see me, I'll leave right now. But there's something I have to tell you first."
Seeing that Hagoromo Gitsune was getting angry, Medusa prepared to leave. But before she did, she left Hagoromo Gitsune with a few words.
"Little Yuyi, take my advice: you'd better stop hoping you can change any of this. We can't decide our own fates, because someone else decided them long ago."
Then Medusa vanished, leaving Hagoromo Gitsune alone. She turned to look at Divine, standing beneath the distant flames, and murmured so softly that only she could hear.
"Decided long ago, huh? No. Maybe he's the hope that will put an end to all this."
Then Hagoromo Gitsune vanished as well.
On the ground, people stared in disbelief at the orange-yellow armored monster before them. He had defeated the Mole monster with just one punch. More importantly, the armored monster looked almost exactly like the Kamen Rider from the great battle ten years ago.
When the flames died down, the Mole Mlortha had disappeared, and Ainosuke's figure appeared before everyone. A black, diamond-shaped crystal floated out from the area around Ainosuke's heart, then broke apart and scattered through the air. Divine pointed at Ainosuke, who lay on the ground, and called to the police officers maintaining order nearby.
"Hey, officer! That guy's the one who brought this building down. You saw how he did it just now, didn't you?"
"Y-yeah, got it. Hey, you! Take him for medical treatment!"
The officer stared blankly for a moment when Divine pointed at Ainosuke, who was lying on the ground. Then he hurriedly called over the medical staff and had them take Ainosuke away.
Just as Divine was about to leave, a male reporter with fluffy gray hair and brown eyes stopped him. Divine asked in confusion,
"Um, can I help you?"
"Hello, I'm Ryo Ukawa, a reporter for Kanda News. Could you tell me your name?"
Ryo Ukawa stared excitedly at Divine and kept edging closer to him.
"Uh, Divine. Kamen Rider Divine. Anyway, what do you want?"
"Oh! Kamen Rider? Could you be the Kamen Rider who disappeared ten years ago?"
"How should I know? Anyway, I'm leaving, so move—huh? You're..."
Divine had been about to ignore the strange reporter and leave when a little girl with soft, golden hair grabbed his hand, stopping him.
"Arisa!"
Eli Ayase had seen her little sister, Arisa, suddenly run over and grab hold of Divine. She hurried over to Arisa and said to Divine,
"Sorry, I should have kept a better eye on my little sister. I hope she hasn't caused you any trouble."
When he saw that Eli and the others had made it out safely, Divine felt a weight lift from his heart. He crouched down, patted Arisa on the head, and asked,
"Don't worry about it. So, little girl, why did you grab me just now?"
"Um, Mr. Rider, could you please save Big Brother? He fell underground with the monster while saving Arisa and Big Sister Nozomi."
"Oh, you mean him? Don't worry. My partner already rescued him, so there's no need to worry."
As Divine patted Arisa's head, he thought,
Because I'm right in front of you, kid.
"Really? That's great! Sis, did you hear? Big Brother's all right!"
Arisa hugged Eli excitedly. Seeing how happy her little sister was, Eli thanked Divine, not noticing that the corners of her own mouth had curled up slightly.
"I see. Um, thank you."
"All right, I'd better get going before this gets troublesome."
As he spoke, Divine called out to the area nearby as he turned to leave. A silver-white motorcycle slowly approached from the side.
"Phantom!"
Master, you finally made it out.
As Divine climbed aboard, Silver Phantom's voice rang out.
"Yeah, so I'm starving. Let's get out of here."
All right, Master. Also, Master, you've gotten heavier.
"That's not my fault."
"So that's Kamen Rider Divine..."
Nozomi Tojo walked over to Eli and gazed thoughtfully at Divine in the distance.
A First Meeting in a Dream: Unicorn
Under a sky swept by raging winds, Senba Gari lay quietly on a white cloud. His chest rose and fell, which meant one thing: the guy was still asleep.
[Hey, hey, kid, wake up! The sun's over your head!]
"Hm?"
A voice reached Senba Gari's mind. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up. Before him stood a unicorn pegasus with a jade-green body, a pair of jade-green wings, silver-white eyes, a flowing white mane, and a spiraling silver horn. The sight instantly woke him up.
"Whoa! How did I end up in another weird place? And who are you?!"
[Me? I'm one of the Beast Soul Driver's forms, Hurricane Soul—Unicorn. What do you think? Pretty awesome, huh?]
As it spoke, Unicorn raised its head proudly, wearing an expression that said, "I'm amazing."
"Oh, I see."
Senba Gari stared at Unicorn with a dead-fish expression and replied calmly. His calm demeanor only made Unicorn lose its composure.
[Hey! Do you have to be so calm? At least give me a reaction!]
"Come on, I only saw King Kong in a dream last time, and Fenrir in the dream before that. Why do you all keep dragging me in here while I'm asleep, except Garuda?! (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻"
As he spoke, Senba Gari flipped over the table in front of him. (Where'd you get a table? [?_??] Senba Gari: Come on, this is a dream world, right? Anything's possible in a dream. ╮(‵▽′)╭)
[Uh, ahem. Well, you humans put that thing about receiving messages in your dreams into stories and stuff, so we wanted to try it out.]
Seeing the veins begin to bulge on Senba Gari's forehead, Unicorn awkwardly explained itself.
"So you're just messing with me, huh?"
After hearing Unicorn's explanation, the veins on Senba Gari's forehead didn't fade. More appeared instead. His eyes were obscured by his black bangs, and dark smoke billowed behind him. Seeing this, Unicorn broke into a cold sweat and hurriedly said,
[Uh, w-wait, calm down, calm down! I really do need your help, and you wanted my power, didn't you? So please, calm down!]
"Oh, fine. I'm calm now. Give me your power."
At Unicorn's words, the dark smoke behind Senba Gari dissipated, as if nothing had happened.
Unicorn, the only witness to the whole thing, thought to itself with relief,
Damn, why are humans so scary these days? Damn it, Garuda, Fenrir, and that big oaf King Kong—you set me up!
Then Unicorn looked at Senba Gari, who was acting as if nothing had happened, twitched its lips slightly, and said helplessly,
[I'm saying, do you have to be so direct? Forget it. Turn around and look over there.]
Following Unicorn's instructions, Senba Gari turned around. A gigantic tornado stood before him, with a jade-green wind-eye symbol hanging motionless right in its center. Senba Gari turned back to Unicorn and asked in confusion,
"Is there something wrong with that tornado?"
Hearing Senba Gari's question, Unicorn conjured a jade-green bow and held it out in front of him.
[See that wind-eye symbol hanging in the middle of the tornado? If you can hit it with this bow, I'll give you my power.]
"Oh, so if I hit that wind-eye symbol, you'll give me your power?"
[That's right. But can you hit it?]
As it spoke, Unicorn gave Senba Gari a provocative look.
"Whether I can hit it or not, we'll just have to see!"
With that, Senba Gari picked up the jade-green bow in front of him, then...
"Hey, Unicorn, where are the arrows?"
[Ah! I forgot.]
Hearing Unicorn's words, Senba Gari stared at it, his mouth twitching.
[Ha, haha. It was an accident, an accident!]
Unicorn gave Senba Gari an awkward look, then conjured a quiver of arrows in front of him.
Senba Gari held the bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right. He nocked the arrow, drew the bowstring, and released it.
"Whoosh!"
The arrow flew, but the wind around the wind-eye symbol swept it away. Senba Gari tried shooting another arrow, but that failed too.
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