A Knight's Journey Begins in Faiz

When purchasing daily necessities, Jiang Yang also bought a bunch of his favorite drinks and some emergency food and put them in his space, just in case.

Late at night, Jiang Yang couldn't sleep, something he hadn't done in a long time.

This is the first time I've experienced this insomnia since the blank core coin entered my body.

How to put it? It's like trying to drink marble soda and the bottle opening is always blocked by marbles, so you can't drink the beverage at all.

No, that description is not accurate, or rather, not entirely accurate.

Jiang Yang could feel that he was a little irritable, and this inexplicable irritability was the reason why he couldn't sleep.

As for the source of his irritability, if he knew, he wouldn't be irritable.

Since I can't find the source of my frustration, I can only try to stop thinking about it and think about something else to distract myself.

What do you want to say?

Takumi Inui? He should be fine. He didn't use Burst Mode. Although he doesn't have much time left, he should be able to hold on for a while longer.

Soga, without the lucky four-leaf clover, he probably wouldn't become the beach guardian.

Keitaro, I just don't know if he knows Yuka's true identity.

Kiba, being the president must be very hard work, but it suits him quite well.

Kaidou, I'm definitely going to punch him next time we meet. I wonder when that will be.

As long as my journey continues, there's still a chance we'll meet again.

After all, the history of knights is intricately connected, and perhaps they will meet again in some other world. It's just unknown whether those people in that world will be the same ones they know.

Then there's the Kiva world.

Akane Otoya's fate will not change, but it was his own choice, and he should have no regrets in his life, except for not being able to watch Wataru grow up.

There's really no way around it; King is too powerful, and Jiang Yang can't do anything about it. He had actually considered handing over Beyond IXA to Akane and having him take it back with him.

While having the ability to shout and surpass others isn't essential for me, it's very useful for Akane.

But he refused. Why? He simply asked Jiang Yang one question.

"In your world, did I obtain this thing (beyond IXA)?"

Jiang Yang didn't speak, but the answer was obvious.

"I'm already very grateful to you for having this (burst mode ixa)."

What can I say? Red Dad is a real man.

Jiang Yang was mainly worried about Xiao Du's future. He didn't know if the movie world would return to the TV main storyline. If it did, would Xiao Du still encounter Shen Yang? Would he still hesitate this time?

What a worrying child.

Hopefully, he won't be lost when we meet next time.

Perhaps because he had thought things through, Jiang Yang felt more clear-headed. Thinking too seriously had backfired.

Trouble.

Bored, Jiang Yang took out a Kazali core coin and tossed it up and caught it repeatedly.

It's quite peculiar that the coin remained completely unharmed despite the power of the IXA sublimation explosion.

I really have no idea what this thing is made of. Alchemy, it's truly an amazing thing. (Don't get excited, Hotaro from a certain body-training academy, I wasn't talking about you guys.)

Alchemy from eight hundred years ago could create greedy beings; I wonder what it would be like if alchemy had continued to develop to this day.

Thinking about it, I'd better not. I feel like my desires would run wild, the world would descend into chaos, and who knows, the world might be destroyed prematurely or something.

World: Oh right, right, right. You destroy me for no reason. If the world is destroyed, do you think you can still live?

Looking at the core coins in his hand, Jiang Yang was thinking about a question. The mission required ten core coins of five different types, but it didn't say that he needed two of each type. So, could he mean that he had already completed two-fifths of the mission?

Core Medals... By the way, is it possible to remove the Core Medals from one's own body?

Having experienced two worlds, he could roughly sense that his core coin had changed, but he didn't know exactly what it looked like now.

In fact, he still doesn't know what that sentence, "Imagine me, come closer to me, become me," really means.

He also tried to imagine some kind of power, but the Core Coin gave no feedback, no reaction, perhaps because some conditions had not yet been met.

However, he felt it was almost time; the Core Medal's enhancements to his body had stopped some time ago. Next, he needed to find a way to explore the Core Medal's true effects.

Speaking of which, that special mission, Awakening, could it be that it's about awakening this Core Medal?

Thinking about it this way, it seems quite possible. There's nothing in myself that needs to be awakened, so how could I possibly awaken some kind of superpower?

This isn't some kind of supernatural ability story.

However, it seems there are quite a few characters with superpowers in tokusatsu (special effects) shows.

Otherwise, I might as well stop time for myself. That way, I'll have the confidence to go up against the Time King. The King of Time is always being stopped by others. At worst, I can just stop time and run away.

Just kidding. Time stop isn't a magic bullet. Do you really think that being able to stop time would allow you to challenge the old demon king?

He can stand there and let you hack at him for a whole day and night without breaking his defenses.

Escape? To be honest, Jiang Yang couldn't think of a way to escape from the all-knowing and all-powerful old demon king. Unless he didn't want to be chased, he was doomed.

After putting the coin back into his spatial storage, Jiang Yang felt a little sleepy, lay back on the bed, and soon fell asleep.

While Jiang Yang was asleep, in an abandoned bar, three greedy individuals—Ufan, Gamer, and Mezir—gathered together, all of them now in human form.

"Kazali did not return."

Mezier has the appearance of a female student, and judging by her appearance alone, she would be the dream goddess of countless people. Unfortunately, she is a greedy person devoid of emotion.

"Kazali, is he dead?"

Gamel's appearance and inner self are completely mismatched. He looks like an adult, if not a working professional, but his personality is completely that of a child. And a bratty one at that.

"Could it be, OOO?"

Wu Fan was the most mature and steady of the greedy ones, and also the luckiest one to survive to the end, yet also the unluckiest one to survive to the end.

"OOO? Anku?"

Gamel tilted his head.

OOO and Ankh are in cahoots. This has been true even before they were sealed away, and it's surprising that this situation hasn't changed even now.

"This is impossible. The current OOO cannot possibly defeat Kazali. Could it be that Ankh has truly been fully resurrected?"

"Don't overthink it. It's probably just that Kazali doesn't want to share the Cell Coins with us, so he doesn't want to come back."

"That guy, maybe."

"Kazali, alone?"

Ignoring Gamel's words, Ufan looked at Mezir.

"No matter what, the task remains the same: retrieve all the Core Medals and fully revive the enemy. But before that, we need a large number of Cell Medals."

"Don't worry about the Cell Coins. I've found a suitable candidate, and I believe we'll be able to harvest enough Cell Coins soon."

"That's really nice."

Mezir, an aquatic greedy creature, raises a unique type of Devouring Monster: it builds a nest somewhere before it matures, and then hatches all at once after it matures.

If it were her, acquiring a large number of Cell Coins wouldn't be a problem at all.

But Wu Fan always felt that things weren't that simple, so just in case, he prepared to keep some backup plans.