Special Effects: I Want to Be a Fun Person in Children of the Earth

"Uncle, are you here to teach me how to do this? I'm so sorry for letting you see me like this..."

"The betrayal of friends, the helplessness of losing a partner, and the powerlessness of not being able to fight, to be honest, it's really hard to breathe." Shotaro smiled bitterly.

"Come to think of it, if it wasn't for me, uncle wouldn't have died that night a year ago, right? Sometimes I wonder, if uncle were here, would he have done a better job than me?"

Shotaro thought that this was an illusion of the uncle that he had imagined, so he said a lot for a while.

"Uncle... I don't know what I am fighting for anymore."

Ming Hai Shouji listened quietly to his disciple's story.

Come to think of it, Shotaro has always been quite stubborn and always keeps things to himself.

It is rare to see such a scene of stomach ache as today's.

"Shotaro." After he finished speaking, Shouji spoke.

Shotaro was stunned for a moment. The uncle spoke?

Is my hallucination that serious?

Sure enough, there are some side effects when using a crazy doctor for treatment...

Just as he was falling into self-doubt, Shouji continued speaking.

“Compared to complex evidence reasoning, sometimes you prefer to trust your intuition and the kindness of people… This may be naive, but it’s also good.”

Zhuang Ji smiled softly.

He recalled the time when he fell into depression because of the death of his partner.

But he rose up again after hearing the words of his childhood Shotaro and Fumine, saved Shotaro, and defeated the Antlion hybrid again as Skull.

Later, he discovered Shotaro's gentleness and accepted him as his disciple.

It can be said that without this gentleness, perhaps I would have been a useless person long ago...

"Although I'm happy that you like the 'hard-boiled' style that I like, you don't have to follow my old path. Even if you can't become a complete 'tough guy', you are still qualified to wear that hat, and that's what I wanted to tell you at the beginning."

He turned his head and saw the white hat that was always placed at the highest point on the coat rack.

"So, believe it again. Believe in your own heart, and believe in your companions who once fought alongside you." He said softly.

"Uncle..." After hearing his words, Shotaro's confusion gradually dissipated. He laughed at himself and said, "Sure enough, in the end, I am still that half-baked one."

Finally, his eyes became firm: "But, half-hearted is fine...Uncle, I already know what to do next!"

He stood up, as if ready to take action immediately.

"Wait, I have one more thing to say to you now." Zhuang Ji stopped him.

Shotaro seemed to have thought of something, with disbelief and a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

"Shotaro, whether as a detective or a Kamen Rider, you have already passed the test... From today on, you just need to be yourself and everything will be fine."

He paused, then said with a relieved smile on his face.

"I am really proud to have you as my disciple!"

"Congratulations, you've graduated!"

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"Click."

Mavis was standing by and secretly took a photo.

Master and apprentice, great scene, isn't it?

He didn't let the sound get out.

He really likes to see such scenes, but this kind of situation cannot be disturbed at will.

On the other side, Shotaro couldn't help but burst into tears.

The uncle's recognition is really important to him!

Ever since the moment he became the other party's disciple, he has been thinking about this.

"Really? In my fantasy, I admitted myself in the tone of an uncle? I'm really useless." Shotaro looked up at the ceiling, trying not to let the tears fall.

After a while, he calmed down, turned around, and found something surprising.

"Eh? Uncle, why are you still here?"

Shotaro suddenly asked this question, which made Ming Hai Shouji a little confused.

"This is my office after all, right?"

"That's not what I meant. It's just that according to what was played out in the TV series, the uncle's soul should have disappeared after appearing to point me in the direction to go, right?" Shotaro touched his chin, lost in thought.

Could it be that I missed some details when I was watching the drama?

"...Although he has become more mature, his slowness is the only thing that hasn't changed." Ming Hai Shouji sighed, "Shotaro, ghosts don't need to open the door..."

"Eh?" Shotaro almost fell to the ground.

Because Zhuang Ji's words made him unable to refute.

"Wait, wait! In other words, you are the uncle himself? You are not dead?" Shotaro said in disbelief with his eyes wide open.

"Isn't this obvious?" He walked over and flicked Shotaro's forehead.

"It hurts!" Shotaro screamed first, then suddenly realized, "It hurts, which means this isn't a dream?"

A huge surprise instantly filled his heart.

"Uncle, what's going on?" Shotaro just asked, but suddenly a light bulb went off in his head and he suddenly understood something.

Yes, that night, which was the "starting night" between him and Philip, they were not the only ones present.

There is also a Mavis!

Moreover, the uncle's "corpse" was also handled by the other party at that time.

When thinking about the power that Mavis possesses...

Connect it all, everything is connected!

At this moment, Shotaro felt like a pig for taking so long to think of this.

"It seems that you understand something." Zhuang Ji shook his head.

"What about Asuko? Does she know about this?" Shotaro asked hurriedly.

During this period, he told a lot of lies in order to "conceal" the death of his uncle.

"Your clumsy lie doesn't seem to be able to cover up anything. Didn't you notice that she doesn't seem sad at all?"

Shouji suddenly regretted admitting that Shotaro was equally qualified as a "detective".

"I trusted her too much!" Shotaro argued, "Why didn't she tell me earlier?"

"Who knows? Maybe it's just waiting for the day when you discover the truth." Zhuang Ji said helplessly.

In fact, Mavis did not take the initiative to ask Asuko to hide the truth. This was completely a spontaneous act of the other party.

So, it is said that birds of a feather flock together.

"Philip is so smart, and Mavis is his older brother. With his intelligence, he must have figured out the truth long ago."

"So, actually everyone else knows, and I'm the only one who has been kept in the dark?" Shotaro couldn't hold it in and felt a little overwhelmed.

He had figured it all out. This was definitely a plan that the guy with a bad taste had come up with just to make him look bad!

Even a calm man like Zhuang Ji looked at his disciple with pity at this moment.

How miserable...

As for Mavis, she was already laughing like crazy at the moment.

……

After giving his disciples the "last lesson", Zhuang Ji also planned to leave.

"Uncle, aren't you going to take this hat back?" Shotaro asked.

"No, I already have a new one, given to me by a friend." He took off the hat on his head.

This was the gift that Mavis gave to him after saving him, and this gift also symbolizes a new beginning.

Although the other party's actions at the time were very sloppy, there was no need for too much sense of ritual between men.

it is more than words.

"As for that hat, just leave it there as a 'relic'." Zhuang Ji waved his hand and walked out of the office.

Mavis, who had come out and waited before him, also waved and greeted him.

"Satisfied?" Zhuang Ji looked at him helplessly.

"Of course, I took some pretty good photos~" Mavis shook the camera in her hand, "But, do you really trust him so much?"

Zhuang Ji shook his head. "He is just barely qualified now, but he still has a long way to go to be 'excellent'..."

"But now he is no longer the little kid who followed me back then." Zhuang Ji smiled slightly.

He then pulled out his Lost Drive.

"But because of this, we can fight side by side from now on!"