My youth story cannot be a knight war

Turning his gaze from the blue sky and white clouds back to the front, Hikigaya, who had unilaterally hung up the phone with his sister not long ago, had a calm look in his eyes and an expression as indifferent as a martyr ready to die.

"Some things have already happened, but at least we can now know in advance what caused them."

"I want to know...why I do this."

[clang!]

“Sizzle~!!!”

The silver-white blade slashed straight through the hard chest shell, and the fragments of biochemical armor and purple blood splattered everywhere. The humanoid spider monster was blown away by the tremendous force carried by the knife and hit the load-bearing column of the building heavily.

The huge impact tore the solid pillar into tiny cracks. The spider monster fell to the ground, curled up, covered the bleeding wound on its chest and let out a miserable scream.

MiSpider (Venom Sac Spider)

A line of silver letters appeared below the monster in the curtain, telling everyone the name of the monster.

[Its appearance is extremely miserable now. More than half of the poison sacs on its body have been cut, especially the one on the chest, which almost cuts off the torso horizontally.

However, Hayato Hayama, the instigator, did not feel any sympathy for the monster because of this scene. When he arrived just now, he saw with his own eyes that the guy was squatting and swallowing a bloody human arm into his mouth.

This scene was enough to make him sentence this monster that devoured humans to death in his heart.

hum~

He casually threw the "Dragon Sabre" behind him, and with his right hand, he pulled out a card from the edge of the card box in the center of the V-belt buckle at his waist and flipped it over. A red dragon head opened its mouth and roared on the card surface. Ye Shan stuffed the card into the card slot of the "Dragon Summoning Machine" in his left hand and pushed the V-shaped relief backwards.

『Strikevent』

Silver flashes fell from the sky, and the rapid friction with the atmosphere caused the flashes to be wrapped in a layer of crimson flames. Ye Shan raised his right hand high, and the fireball falling from the sky hit his palm squarely.

The crimson dragon head emerged after the shock wave dissipated, and its upper and lower jaws, covered with silver teeth, separated. At the same time, the ground behind Ye Shan suddenly exploded, and a slender crimson figure rushed out from the flying rubble.

"Ouch~!"

The Dragreder that broke out of the ground swayed its body and circled Ye Shan. As Ye Shan pulled back his right hand equipped with the "Dragon Claw", the red dragon also stretched its body, and its snake-like body bent into a powerful crescent moon, and its open jaws lit up with a blazing red light.

"drink!"

"Dragon Claw" shot forward, and Dragreder rushed straight towards MiSpider, who staggered to his feet, like a shot arrow, and a red fireball spewed out from its open mouth!

--boom! ! !

In the empty urban area, a mushroom cloud with a radius of about five meters rose out of thin air. The dazzling flash temporarily overwhelmed the sun in the sky, and the world was covered with a layer of anti-dark tones after extreme exposure.

In the steaming dust and raging fire, a ball of purple light floated upwards. The red dragon roared excitedly, swaying its body, soared into the sky, opened its huge mouth and swallowed it into its stomach.

"..."

The "Dragon Claw" that looked exactly like Dragreder's head turned into red light and dissipated from his right hand. Although Ye Shan defeated the monster, there was no joy in his heart. Instead, his expression under the mask looked gloomy and lonely.

He slowly turned his head to look at the other side of the square. There was a pool of blood on the ground at the edge of the street. A red handbag was slowly evaporating into blurry particles in the pool of blood and dissipating.

Things in the real world cannot exist in the mirror world for a long time, whether they are people or objects.

"…I'm sorry I couldn't save you in time."

Just before the handbag completely disappeared, Ye Shan lowered his head in silence and uttered a whisper full of guilt from under his visor.

This is not the first time.

Ye Shan is not a magician who can predict the future. Even though he possesses the power of Kamen Rider, he is just an ordinary person. He can only notice things when they happen.

Sometimes he arrived in time to save humans attacked by mirror monsters, but more often than not, the tragedy had already happened when he arrived, and he could only avenge the dead humans with apology and anger.

In just over a week, he had killed about a dozen mirror monsters that attacked humans. This was because Ye Shan would patrol various places in Kyoto Prefecture on his own initiative during his free time every day. Otherwise, there would probably be more humans killed by mirror monsters.

Ye Shan also knew that things like today's would never come to an end, and there would only be more similar tragedies in the future.

In the end...when will this battle end?

Ye Shan was not very willing to think about this problem which would damage the morale of the battle, but he would always think about it after every battle, and every time he felt only confusion in his heart.

Zizzi~

"Ok?"

Suddenly, an unusual sound was heard from his body. Ye Shan raised his right hand and looked, and was shocked to find that his armor began to emit the same fuzzy particles as when the handbag disappeared just now.

Seeing this scene, he reacted immediately.

"Is it almost time already?"

Ye Shan is no longer the novice knight who holds the card box but knows nothing about it. Now he knows very well that this abnormality on his body is a reminder that the time limit for his stay in this world is about to expire.

There were several times before when Ye Shan transformed into a knight in advance to save trouble and searched for traces of monsters in the mirror world, but many times he failed to find the monsters before the deadline and had to choose to leave.

After several times, he also understood that even if the Kamen Rider used the power of the contracted mirror monster to transform, the time he could stay in this world was also limited. If he exceeded this time, the whole person would dissipate in the mirror world.

After taking a final, heavy look at the pool of blood that was also dissipating in the blurry particles, Ye Shan suppressed his inner depression and turned to walk towards the nearest reflective object.

Advent

"!?"

The sudden call made Ye Shan stand there in a daze, and he couldn't help but stop his forward steps.

“Is this… someone fighting here!?”

His eyes widened in shock under the helmet, and Ye Shan immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the sound.

——But what he saw was a huge open pair of sharp claws.

Before he could react, the giant pincers were already charging towards him, the blades, thick with a fierce aura, opening wide before suddenly closing!

13.Kaman rider Scissors (5K)

[Fiery sparks flew, and the ferocious pliers blades closed but remained motionless. The double pliers core, comparable to an industrial hydraulic press, continued to exert force, but the pliers blades were still unable to move forward despite the vibration.

"Well--"

Hayato Hayama clenched his teeth, raised his hands and put them together on both sides of his neck to block the closing giant pincers. The protruding sharp teeth of the pincers rubbed against the surface of the "Dragon Summoning Machine" on his left arm, producing brilliant sparks.

His arms felt a terrifying tightening pressure. Even though he tried desperately to hold them open, the sharp teeth continued to approach his neck. The ferocious beast, which looked like a large crab, raised its other huge claw and slammed it hard on Ye Shan's chest.

"Pooh!"

"Gululu~"

The squeezing force came from both sides of the ribs, and the intense pain made Ye Shan bend over and groan in pain. The crab-shaped mirror monster saw the pain in the red knight's face under its attack, and a cold light flashed in its open mouthparts. It opened its mouth and bit towards the back of Ye Shan's neck as he bent over!

Before the sharp teeth were about to pierce the back of the neck, Ye Shan raised his right leg and used the armor on his knee to elbow the mirror monster in the lower abdomen. The powerful force knocked it back repeatedly, and it covered its abdomen with its pincers and began to jump, letting out a faint scream.

Volcancer

"Tsk! There's actually another one here?"

While smacking his lips and shaking his left hand, Ye Shan took out another card from the card box on his waist with his right hand without hesitation and quickly stuffed it into the card slot of the "Dragon Summoning Machine" on his left arm.

『Sword Vent』

"drink!"

Holding the "Dragon Saber" that fell from the sky in his right hand, Ye Shan ignored the particle flow still emanating from his body and rushed towards Volcancer with the saber before the Volcancer could react.

He gripped the hilt of the "Dragon Sabre" tightly with both hands, and the blade slashed from top to bottom in the standard "Tang Bamboo" hand position, the sharp blade tearing through the air and slashing towards its head!

Based on the brief encounter before, Ye Shan could judge that the strength of this crab-shaped mirror monster was at the absolute bottom level compared to all the mirror monsters he had fought before. To him now, it was an absolute "paper tiger".

But no matter how weak the mirror monster was to him, it was an irresistible nightmare to ordinary people. Ye Shan, who had witnessed the tragic scenes created by these mirror monsters, had already made up his mind that if he saw any moving mirror monster again, he would take the initiative to attack them and send them to hell!

Even though there is not much time left to stay in the mirror world, if he only deals with the monster in front of him, Ye Shan is confident that he can completely crush it to ashes in this short time!

"Gululu!!!"

The silver blade tore through space, and the air beneath the blade was like layers of torn silk. The sharp cracking sound spread throughout the entire corridor. Volcancer looked at the blade that was slashing down with terrifying force, and couldn't help but take several steps back. The scream in his mouth was quickly filled with fear.

Clang——

There was a sound of steel clashing that made one's teeth tremble slightly, but there was no scream of a monster being severely injured or the sound of an explosion.

The blade of the "Dragon Sabre" was clamped by two sharp blades that opened and closed. Sparks kept bursting out at the intersection of the three blades. Volcancer looked at the blade hovering just a few inches away from his head and lowered the two pincers that were crossing in front of his face to block it.

In front of Volcancer, the bright yellow knight raised his left hand equipped with pincer-shaped claws to block the chopping "Dragon Sabre". The visor with multiple double-eye structures above and below was looming in the stream of sparks, making the already ferocious helmet face even more ferocious.

"you--!?"

Seeing the yellow knight appear in front of him and block his attack, Ye Shan's pupils under the helmet contracted and he looked at the other party in disbelief.

"Hmph~!"

An extremely suppressed and low-pitched snort, which made it difficult to tell whether it was from a man or a woman, came from under the yellow knight's helmet, and the multiple compound eyes on his face lit up with a strange emerald green light at the same time.

The double blades of the "Dragon Sabre" were tilted to the side as the opponent's wrist turned. The yellow knight swung his arms vigorously and snatched the "Dragon Sabre" directly from Ye Shan's hand!

The "Dragon Sabre" danced and was thrown into the distance. The yellow knight's left arm, with a pincer blade very similar in style to Volcancer, closed and stabbed towards Ye Shan, and before Ye Shan could react, he locked and bit his neck tightly.

The brutal force comes from the sharp edge of the neck. The crab's claws are the most aggressive organs of this species. The coconut crab, the strongest in the crab ecological niche, has a gripping force of its claws of a terrifying 3300 Newtons, which is more than ten times the maximum grip strength of humans.

This level of grip strength is comparable to a jaguar's throat-locking bite and can tear open a coconut shell as hard as a human skull. The crab's grip strength limit depends largely on the crab's body size.

But the coconut crab, which weighs only about four kilograms, has this deadly and fierce grip. When a body with similar physiological structure is enlarged to the same size as a human, the gripping power of the crab's claws is simply indescribable.

With his throat clamped by two pliers, Ye Shan felt as if his throat was being crushed by two motorcycle wheels. His fragile larynx let out a painful whine, and at the same time, the channel for inhaling oxygen was physically blocked.

The oxygen he depended on for survival was rapidly decreasing, causing his eyes to quickly become bloodshot, and the face of the knight in front of him was covered with a layer of purple-red color.

"Goo!"

In the first second of setting foot on the road to death, Ye Shan's strong instinct for survival made his body subconsciously unleash its potential. Powerful strength burst out from his limbs that were tired after the battle. He grabbed the two blades on his neck with both hands and pried them apart with force.

Feeling the force coming from his left arm, the yellow knight didn't show any surprise. The blade of his left arm scraped against the armor on Ye Shan's neck, sparks flew, and then he retracted it and kicked him in the chest, kicking him away.

“Ahem! You…”

Ye Shan, who was kicked away, fell on his back to the ground. The impact from behind made him cough violently. He covered his neck with one hand and stood up from the ground gasping for breath.

"A new... knight?"

The other party did not answer Ye Shan's words, but just raised his left arm equipped with a ferocious pincer blade. At the same time, Volcancer also excitedly waved his huge pincers and stood beside the yellow knight.

Looking at the almost identical armor designs of the new knight and Volcancer, as well as the way the two interacted, Ye Shan immediately understood that Volcancer was the other's contracted beast.

"Ahem—Stop it! I don't want to fight a knight!"

He immediately understood the other party's intention from this murderous behavior. Ye Shan quickly stretched out his palm in front of him to block the attack. After standing up, he endured the pain and said:

"I don't know about you, but I don't want to fight humans at all! I just want—!?"

『Strike vent』

hum-

The card was inserted into the card slot on the back of the left arm weapon, which opened as the forceps closed. The sound of the mechanical card reading interrupted what Ye Shan wanted to say. Amid Volcancer's howl, an exaggerated and huge forceps appeared on the new knight's right hand.

"……hateful."】

"Damn it! What the hell is going on!?"

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Yoshii Akihisa clenched his right fist and pounded it on his knee, looking at the yellow knight in the curtain waving his pincers and attacking the red knight, his eyes filled with incomprehensible indignation.

"We're all Kamen Riders! We transform and fight mirror monsters to protect humanity, right?! Why do we have to kill each other?! This is so weird!"

"Just like Mr. Zaimokuza and Mr. Kousaka, we should all work together to fight those monsters!"

"Ha... Stupid Akihisa, can't you see?"

Sakamoto Yuji, who was also sitting cross-legged next to him, was originally just watching silently with his arms crossed, but after hearing Yoshii's words, he sighed silently, turned to look at Yoshii and complained.

"Do you think everyone in this world is like you, that as long as they have games and saline solution, they can live happily?"

"Huh?! What do you want to say, Yuuji?"

Yoshii immediately looked at Sakamoto with dissatisfaction, but in response to his friend's indignation and confusion, Sakamoto just spoke calmly.

"Honestly, people with your mentality and thoughts are undoubtedly good people. After getting to know you, I briefly wondered if you were some fairy tale character brought to life. I don't sense any of the evil thoughts I see in others. Your heart is as pure and spotless as a cloud."

"I even feel that your character is on par with Zaimokuza Yoshiki and Kousaka Kyosuke."

"Eh? Yuuji...are you praising me???"

Hearing such sincere praise from his good friend for the first time, Yoshii felt stunned instead of happy. He pointed at himself blankly, his eyes full of suspicion.