Starting with Firefly, Speedrunning the World

If they were different, flip the cards over again.

The reason this kind of card game was called Concentration was because it tested the players' memory.

These Playing Card Jamato corresponded to that very game. Especially after Sam defeated one Playing Card Jamato and saw the suit that appeared, combining that with the card game Concentration made the method for breaking this round clear.

All they had to do was find the Playing Card Jamato with matching suits and numbers, then kill them simultaneously.

That would eliminate them all!

After Sam successfully killed a pair of Playing Card Jamato, she triggered an achievement mission.

If she cleared out all the Playing Card Jamato here, she could directly obtain 1,000 points.

Although she could not farm points, the reward was still decent.

After she cleared out some of the Playing Card Jamato, she could not find the matching one for the Jamato in her hand.

It was not until she reached Ukiyo Ace and Kurama Neon that she found it...

Sam appeared directly before the other Jamato while holding the one in her hand. With one in each hand, she destroyed both of them simultaneously.

"They were completely killed—they didn't revive!"

Kurama Neon stared wide-eyed at the scene. After Sam stepped in and destroyed those two Jamato, they had not revived again.

That was incredible!

Come to think of it, Firefly seemed to belong to the same faction as this Stellaron Hunter, Sam, right?

Had she appeared here because of that Curio on her?

Although Kurama Neon was very curious, she sensibly did not ask. She merely watched Sam clear out the Playing Card Jamato with curiosity.

"So that was it..."

After watching Sam's actions, Ukiyo Ace confirmed his earlier guess. So this was indeed the rule.

The two teammates had to work together to kill matching Jamato. No wonder this round had a team format. But for Sam, overwhelming strength meant she could accomplish it alone. That was just too brutal!

He did not rush to start stealing kills, nor could he possibly win such a contest against the Stellaron Hunter before him.

Compared to that, he was more curious about something else.

Though Sam appeared very cold, Ukiyo Ace did not give up and spoke again.

"Showing up again so openly and interfering with the Desire Grand Prix—aren't you worried the DGP management might take action?"

"So what if they do? Do you think I'd be like you?"

Casually crushing another pair of Jamato to death, Sam answered Ukiyo Ace's question flatly.

"...You seem to know me well?"

Sam's answer made Ukiyo Ace thoughtful.

In that brief sentence, he had learned quite a lot. The Stellaron Hunter before him was extremely powerful and did not take the management seriously at all.

She even seemed to be hoping for the DGP management to enter the fray.

And she appeared to know about his circumstances—perhaps even about his search for his mother.

"...Who knows."

Ukiyo Ace's counterquestion caught Firefly off guard, and she immediately realized that her words seemed to have exposed a great deal of information.

After all, she was not entirely Firefly.

The foolish, honest Firefly would not even realize she had told someone everything after being led along. Especially during her conversation with Acheron, she had practically revealed everything to Acheron without noticing.

Yet she had not obtained the slightest bit of information from Acheron.

Perhaps that was why Elio gave Firefly so few lines in her script.

He had long understood Firefly's circumstances and personality.

Realizing this, Sam stopped indulging Ukiyo Ace.

But after thinking of something, Firefly could not help saying one thing to him.

"Your direction has never been wrong, but your efficiency has been almost zero."

"How pitiful."

He had tried to find his mother from two thousand years ago through the Desire Grand Prix. There was nothing wrong with that. The Goddess of Creation was his mother, but after two thousand years, he had only gotten this far...

His mother was already close to the end.

"What do you mean?"

Ukiyo Ace's expression instantly turned grave. Could something have happened to his mother?

But Sam did not waste any more words on him. Instead, she turned her gaze to the side.

The target had finally entered the field.

Not far away, a figure wearing a Game Master's uniform had appeared at some point. He wore a white suit adorned with a black coat, while a special mask concealed his face.

It was the Game Master, Girori.

Sam casually tossed aside the Playing Card Jamato in her hand and focused her attention on the newcomer.

Compared to that, the Rider belt worn by the administrator before her was far more important.

However, his strength also far surpassed that of the other Riders. He possessed direct administrative authority—a completely unreasonable combat privilege.

Rather than being powerful, he was more like someone abusing admin privileges.

An ordinary Kamen Rider or Pathstrider might genuinely have found him difficult to deal with.

But against the power of Sam, one of the Stellaron Hunters, he was no problem at all.

Besides, her power did not fall within the scope of the other party's management system.

Master System! Kamen Rider Glare!

"Stellaron Hunter, Sam!"

"You actually dared to show yourself again. You truly have no respect for DGP operations."

Girori stared fixedly at the Stellaron Hunter before him as though he were looking at a dead person.

Although Sam's appearance had raised the Desire Grand Prix's viewership somewhat, the complaints had also increased considerably.

More importantly, Sam had appeared time and again, disrupting the Desire Grand Prix's normal proceedings and making DGP operations look terrible.

If he were allowed to keep causing trouble, there would be no point in continuing the Desire Grand Prix.

It completely violated the Desire Grand Prix's rules.

He had to be expelled!

"You finally showed yourself, Girori."

Sam kicked the Playing Card Jamato beside her away and took several steps toward Girori. Rather than fearing his appearance, she was full of anticipation.

"What?"

Girori's expression shifted slightly at Sam's words.

What did that mean? Had everything been intended to force him into the field? What exactly was Sam trying to do? What was the goal?

More crucially, this person actually knew his name.

Everything had been prepared in advance.

Sam was targeting the Desire Grand Prix—targeting him.

"Who exactly are you?"

Girori's eyes were full of suspicion. He had already had some guesses when he spoke with Niram earlier.

Sam had immediately revealed information about their future-human origins, knew all this, and possessed a power that did not belong to the DGP Rider system.

It was even unaffected by the Goddess's power...

Was Sam some audience member hiding in the shadows, or someone who had illegally crossed over directly from the future?

After all, even in the future, there were plenty of criminals. To satisfy their twisted interests, those people would do anything.

A considerable number of DGP operators and viewers were already utterly vile, but among those future humans, they did not even meet the passing grade.

Take the future's wanted criminal, "Godslayer Mela," for example. A vicious wanted criminal from the future world, Mela traveled through different eras killing gods, earning the title of "Godslayer."

In the age of Norse mythology, Mela killed Loki and seized Loki's mimicry ability, taking on Hodr's form in order to kill Baldr.

Then, after killing Susanoo from Japanese mythology, Mela followed Melo's suggestion and set sights on Ukiyo Ace's era.

Taking pleasure in destroying worlds, Mela repeatedly traveled to different dimensions to set new records for the fastest world destruction.

Those brutally evil wanted criminals from the future were all incredibly troublesome.

"..."

Sam did not answer. She understood her own nature.

The more she said, the more mistakes she could make. Responding to him would only expose too much information, so it was better to act directly and obtain what she wanted.

Sam moved, charging straight at Girori to take him down and seize the Vision Driver.

Noticing Sam's movement, Girori instinctively took a step back, not daring to let his guard down.

He was not like those Kamen Riders, who exchanged a few bare-handed blows before transforming only after being seriously injured.

Though after a Kamen Rider transformed, their injuries were generally almost healed anyway.

The instant Sam made her move, Girori immediately revealed the administrator belt at his waist—[Vision-Drive].

(Vision Driver!)

Unlike the Desire Drivers used by the other contestants, this Driver required the corresponding fingerprint and a Providence Card to operate.