I, Minami Kotori, Son of the Sun

The broken streetlight flickered, casting distorted shadows. Kidd leaned against the broken wall, his heavy breathing causing pain in the wound on his chest.

The terrifying existence that can stop time - the Heterogeneous Zi-O, like a god of death reaping lives, is approaching step by step. The brick and stone fragments under his feet are trembling due to its heavy force.

"Magician? Phantom Thief?! This time, turn yourself into another one for me to see!!" The Alien Zi-O's voice was cold and full of sarcasm, and the gray-white skull mask reflected an ominous light in the shadows.

This time, he didn't hesitate at all. His right fist, wrapped with the power of time and space that distorted space, pierced through Kidd's pale flame-shaped stand in front of him like lightning, and hit him heavily in the chest!

"Ah--!" Kidd's body suddenly arched, blood gushed out, and he fell heavily to the ground like a broken doll.

The gorgeous white dress was instantly soaked in the glaring scarlet. Every breath brought out large amounts of blood foam, and a small pool of blood quickly formed on the ground.

Zi-O looked down at him and took a step forward, his boots covered in golden armor stepping on the loose hair hanging from the brim of Kidd's hat.

"Do you know why I haven't killed you yet? You should know."

"Tell me about your stand ability." He squatted down, and the cold skull mask almost touched Kidd's face which was distorted by severe pain.

Kidd spat, and the saliva mixed with blood "popped" and stuck accurately to Zi-O's red skull face.

"Dad, you once taught me to keep a poker face at all times, but... facing this extremely evil guy, I can't suppress the anger inside me!"

"Okay!" Zi-O laughed angrily, reached out to wipe the dirt off his face, and the murderous intent in his voice was as cold as ten thousand years of ice.

"You're quite brave, boy! Then - just watch with your own eyes! I'll kill them one by one!" He turned his head abruptly, his hawk-like eyes fixed on Tachibana Tohei, who was desperately trying to crawl towards his daughter, his lower body pinned down by rubble.

"Repair! My power is to repair!" Kidd roared in a low voice, as if to prove it. He tried his best to summon his stand and restored the broken street lamp to its original state.

Zi-O stood up, looking thoughtfully at the pained and scarred Kidd. "Oh? Look at your expression? It seems your power can't be used on yourself. What a pity."

He let out a deep laugh. "It's a powerful force, but what a pity it can't be used on oneself."

This cannot be called invincibility.

The old man tried his best to break free from the stone slab that was pressing on him. He almost flashed to Xiaozou's side and pushed the frightened Xiaozou to a safe corner in the distance: "Xiaozou! Run! Run!"

"Run?" Zi-O sneered, and with a flash of his body, he appeared like a ghost on the path where Xiaozou had just taken a step. He grabbed her neck with one hand and lifted her up like a kitten.

Xiaozou lifted his feet off the ground and struggled in fear, trying in vain to pry open the cold, solid gauntlet with his hands.

"Let her go!" Dad's eyes were bloodshot and he rushed over desperately.

Zi-O casually threw Xiaozou to the ground and stepped heavily on her back, making her unable to move. He turned his cold skull to his father and threatened: "I will only ask once, answer obediently, and I will guarantee the safety of you and your daughter.

"Tell me!" His voice was filled with undeniable pressure. "RX's true identity!!"

"As you can see, I'm a man who keeps his promises. Look," he kicked Kidd, who was lying in a pool of blood not far away, "Isn't your Kaito Kid still lying there alive and kicking?"

Hearing that Kidd might still be saved, Xiaozou, who was being trampled on the ground, suddenly felt a ridiculous hope, while his father's eyes were full of struggle and despair.

"I..." Dad couldn't help crying, "What should I do?"

On one side is his most precious and last biological daughter, and on the other side is the great hero who saved his life. Knowing that Xiaoniao had been without a father since childhood, he had long treated Xiaoniao as his own daughter.

But now.

If he were alone, he would have swung the iron rod at the Spider-Man without hesitation, just like he did when he first met the bird, but now.

He is a father.

As if noticing his father's struggle, Xiaozou spoke calmly: "If I tell you, can you really let us and Mr. Kaito go?"

"Xiaozou..." Dad whimpered, helplessly accepting his fate, "Xiaoniao, I'm sorry."

He didn't say it out loud, nor did he stop Xiaozou's thoughts.

"Dad..." Xiao Zou looked at his father with tears in his eyes, his voice distorted by sadness.

Fragility spread in her eyes, which was the hope for the possibility of Mr. Kaito's survival.

Shaken by fear and the false promise, she struggled to get up from under Zi-O's feet and moved closer to the golden devil.

"Hahahahaha!!! Rx!! Finally, I finally get to know what you look like under that ugly fly-head mask of yours!" Kira Yoshikage laughed like crazy, "Coward! A coward in a mask! Finally, finally!!!"

"Your mask is very scary. Can you remove this form? Otherwise, I'm scared." Xiaozou said in a weak voice.

"Okay! That's great! It's totally fine, my lovely girl. You have lovely hands, so I won't deny your request." Kira Yoshikage removed his mask, revealing the face of the blond office worker. "Go ahead, tell me, slowly, there's no rush."

However, just as Xiaozou was about to speak, Kira Yoshikage's eyes flashed with a fierce look of success.

A clear, firm, and rock-hard voice suddenly rang out!

"Rx's identity is——" Xiaozou's cold voice sounded.

Everyone held their breath.

"However! I refuse!" It was Xiaozou's voice! But her face was expressionless, and her eyes seemed to be blank for a moment.

Something incredible happened!!

A small, humanoid substitute with a paintbrush and book pages instantly appeared in front of Xiaozou! A book suddenly appeared on Kirara Yoshikage's face, and the pages suddenly opened, and a strong light burst out!

“【Heaven’s Door】!!!”

"Don't hurt Dad and Mr. Kaito!" Xiaozou's consciousness burst out with amazing willpower under the blessing of the power of Heaven's Gate.

The strong will to protect the important people in one's life allowed Xiaozou, a 15-year-old junior high school girl, to have her own substitute in desperate situations.

"Bastard!" Zi-O obviously didn't expect that this seemingly weak little girl actually possessed such strange power.

Killer Queen instantly appeared behind him, and her pink cat-faced stand-in pressed the detonation button without hesitation!

"boom!!!"

There was a muffled sound.

Xiaozou's body was right under Zi-O's feet, and was blown into a cloud of black smoke and flying flesh and blood ashes by his stand - "Killer Queen"!

"How stupid!" Kira Yoshikage transformed again. He would not admit that he was frightened at that moment.

I was frightened by that petite girl with an expressionless face.

[Heaven's Gate——It sounds like some incredible ability, and the words it says are also very strange. It can't attack the Phantom Thief and the father...]

He turned to look at the two men who were hysterical because of Xiaozou's death.

"Xiaozou!!!!!!"

A heart-wrenching wail pierced the sky.

Witnessing his most precious daughter reduced to ashes, the heart-wrenching pain and endless hatred instantly overwhelmed the father's sanity.

His whole body was shaking violently, veins popped out on his forehead, his eyes turned completely red, and he struggled to get up from the ground like a wild beast.

All 30 billion cells in his body were responding to this poor man who was deeply saddened by the loss of his daughter.

[Kill him! Avenge my daughter!] Three billion cells now exist for only one purpose.

"Ahhhh! You bastard—!" Kidd roared like a beast in the pain. The bloody hole in his chest should have been fatal, but an unimaginable crazy will supported him.

"Crazy Diamond"—appeared behind him, emitting unstable red energy! It slammed its hands into Kidd's chest!

boom! boom! boom!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Crazy Diamond's fist pounded Kidd's torn wound frantically!

This is not suicide, but a "repair" power beyond the limit driven by Kidd at the cost of his own vitality!

Under the effect of the out-of-control Crazy Diamond, Kidd's own flesh and blood "grew" and "stitched" violently at a speed visible to the naked eye. The severe pain made Kidd's whole body convulse, but he gritted his teeth and used his stand-in's fists to forcibly "smash" the ruptured internal organs back into place and glue them together!

This is a reckless and reckless repair that only seeks to restore combat power in a short period of time!

He stumbled, covered in blood, with a terrifying hole that had just been forcibly "smashed" shut, its edges extremely rough, as if it could crack again at any moment. He rushed towards Zi-O like a vengeful god! Crazy Diamond's iron fist flashed with a violent pink light, smashing down with a rage that crushed everything!

"Kill you!!!"

. . .

"Impossible! I can't fight back, I can't do anything!" Zi-O was horrified! When he tried to fight back against his father and Kidd, an absolute "forbidden" force strangled his body!

Whether it was the stand ability or any attack command, they were forcibly interrupted, distorted, and imprisoned by an invisible force!

He could only watch helplessly as Crazy Diamond's iron fists struck him, fumbling to parry and dodge, his armor constantly ripped and dented. He felt as if he were trapped in a sticky swamp of anger, even his thoughts began to stagnate. This strange Stand ability, no, this power beyond the rules of the Stand!

"Impossible. That girl is already dead. When a Stand user dies, any ability should be ineffective."

But Kirara Yoshikage no longer had time to figure it out, simply because—

At this moment, accompanied by the roar of the locomotive engine and the strong red light, a steel shadow fell from the sky!

The one who finally arrived is our Kamen Rider Rx——Minami Kotori!

She had just arrived at this area of distorted time and space under Bai Li's instructions, and used the flash of the Emperor Stone to break the space barrier and enter here.

"Dad??!!! Kidd?!!!"

The moment she landed on the ground, she saw her fellow thieves with tattered bodies, her father who looked like a madman, and the charred marks on the ground that marked an incredible tragedy.

"Rx?! Xiaozou, Xiaozou she..."

Dad could barely speak clearly, but the birdie caught the key words right away.

"Xiaozou?! What happened to her?"

"That girl, was... killed by this bastard..." With one punch, Kidd lifted Zi-O up, and using his last bit of strength, he controlled Crazy Diamond and threw the skeleton armored man in front of Rx.

"Dad... Xiaozou her..." RX's voice changed under the helmet. She understood. Even though she couldn't believe it at all, she saw the look in her dad's eyes that could burn her mind and the wreckage on the ground.

A sudden fear was engraved into her soul - Xiaozou was dead.

Once again, she witnessed someone die in front of her.

Everything was reduced to ashes, and she couldn't even make a final attempt with the golden experience.