A deathly silence hung over everyone.
With calm, measured steps, Lin Xiao walked up to Mishima Masato, who was pinned firmly against the muddy ground.
Plop.
Lin Xiao casually tossed a thick, top-secret dossier onto Mishima Masato's face, which was pressed against the ground.
"Here. Give that pathetic fig leaf of yours a good wipe."
Lin Xiao looked down at him from above.
"The old man who really calls the shots behind ZECT is named Negishi. He's a Native who landed on Earth thirty-five years ago, right?"
"Your ultimate plan is to distribute anti-Worm necklaces throughout Japan and forcibly assimilate every ordinary human into a Native, right?"
Boom!
Those words exploded in Mishima Masato's mind like thunder from the heavens! His eternally expressionless face finally twisted with pallor and horror. "You... how could you possibly know about 'the assimilation of all humanity'?! That is absolutely top secret!!"
"And while we're at it, Kagami."
Lin Xiao turned to look at Kagami Arata, who sat stunned on the ground, and added calmly:
"Your Pops, the superintendent general, is no saint either. He's known the truth about the Natives for a long time. He secretly installed a 'berserk program' in the main Rider Systems that can slaughter all insect species indiscriminately, friend or foe."
"The organization you risked your life to protect has only ever treated you as expendable experimental material."
Plop.
A loose page from the scattered documents fluttered down onto Kagami Arata's knees.
"This... this is..."
Kagami Arata reached out with trembling, bloodied hands and picked up the pages.
When the horrifying phrases [Native assimilation proposal] and [Forced slaughter directive] met his eyes, his pupils contracted violently, and he felt as though he had plunged into an ice cellar!
"This has to be a lie..."
Kagami clutched the documents, his voice