"Well done!"
Terui Ryu's praise was accompanied by cheers from the police officers.
When Gates listened, he was stunned for a moment, and his thoughts were empty for a moment.
He once had a group of comrades who would stand in front of him, laugh with him, and cheer for him. However, because of Woz's betrayal, they all fell into the trap of the Demon King, and then... died. .
"Gates, are you okay?"
Gates suddenly came to his senses and saw Ryu Terui walking towards him.
Gates shook his head: "I'm fine."
"That's good, we'll see you again when we get the chance." Terui Ryu patted Gates on the shoulder, passed him, and walked towards the motorcycle parked nearby.
"Ah good."
Gates answered subconsciously, but after seeing Ryu Terui pick up his helmet and get on the motorcycle, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Wait!" He quickly called out to Terui Ryu, "Mr. Terui, you should go to the hospital now!"
"Hospital?" Terui Ryu looked back at Gates and raised the corner of his mouth. "No, it's not the leisure time to go to the hospital yet. After I finish dealing with those adulterated bodies, I will go to the hospital for good treatment and rest."
After that, Terui Ryu put on his helmet, started the motorcycle, waved his hand in the direction of Gates, and sped off.
Gates, who was still trying to persuade him, saw this, twitched his mouth, and quickly threw out the Raider control watch, turned it into a motorcycle, sat on it and chased after him.
The police officers who were handling the scene sent their sincere blessings to their Kamen Rider after seeing this.
All around, including the diamond dopant body, lay a dozen dopant body transformers who had passed out due to their memory being destroyed.
The crimes they committed will not be eliminated with the destruction of Gaia's memory. What awaits them next will be legal sanctions against them.
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After turning the accelerator and trying his best to catch up with the speeding Ryuu Terui, Gates said: "Mr. Terui, your current body really can't continue to participate in the battle!"
"What did you say? I can't hear you clearly!" Terui Ryu shouted.
Gates was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and also shouted loudly: "I - say -! Mr. Terui! You should go to the hospital now instead of continuing to fight!!"
Terui Ryu heard clearly this time, but his answer was still "no."
"Didn't I already answer it? Now is not the leisure time to go to the hospital! And, if I'm not mistaken, you are also injured, right? We are in the same mood now!"
Gates was silent for a moment and replied: "It's different."
Terui Ryu didn't hear clearly, so he asked: "What?"
Gates shouted at the top of his lungs: "We are different! We are different!!"
Bang! squeak--! !
Terui Ryu suddenly grasped the brakes, stopped, took off his helmet, and looked ahead at Gates, who also grasped the brakes and parked the motorcycle sideways in front of him.
"Tell me, what's different?"
Terui Ryu asked seriously.
"Why did you become a Kamen Rider, and why did you fight?"
Gates fell silent again.
"I am……"
He hesitated and replied: "I became a Kamen Rider to fight against a person, and I fought to fight against that person."
After listening to this, Terui Ryu carefully observed Gates' expression at this time and said.
"Is that just this? No, your words, your words, there should be other more important reasons, right? Think about it again, think about it just now, why did you stand in front of us? Why did you stand in front of us? Are you going to fight that diamond dopant? Mingguangyuan Gates, what is the reason for your desire for power?"
This time, Gates remained silent for longer.
Then a clear look of sadness and anger came over his face.
"To protect..."
He just struggled to say these four words and couldn't say any more.
He joined the Demon King's Resistance Army in order to protect the innocent people who died due to the rule of the Demon King, but he began to witness and experience more deaths with his own eyes.
In order to protect his comrades, he longed to gain power, but was betrayed by Woz, fell into a trap, and lost the comrades he wanted to protect.
In order to change that desperate future, he went to the palace of Demon King to steal the knight's watch and became a Kamen Rider.
But after coming to this era, he seems to be pushing the young King of Time to get closer to the path of encountering the demon King of Time.
Not only that, he even vaguely had the idea that "if it were the current Tokiwa Shogo, this would be good", and he even started to deal with Woz again without knowing it.
His dissociation is not because he likes to act alone, but because he increasingly hates himself...
The expression on Gates' face all fell into Terui Ryu's eyes, which made Terui Ryu frown secretly.
The psychological problem of the junior in front of him was more serious than imagined. This was something he did not expect.
However, recalling the time before and after Gates joined the battle, Terui Ryu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as his heart remained unchanged, perhaps, all he needed was a frank conversation with his friends.
"Don't you have two companions? How about having a good talk with them after this time?"
Terui Ryu said.
"I don't know your past, so I can't understand your current mood. Only you can untie the knots in your heart, but at least the hearts we want to protect now are the same, right? Don't worry, I’m called a man who can’t die no matter what!”
[Don’t worry, I’m said to be a man who can never die! 】
After hearing this, Gates sighed deeply.
It's because of this that I'm even more worried.
"go together."
Terui Ryu smiled and nodded.
"OK."
Put your helmet back on and start the motorcycle.
The two riders drove away.
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When Gates and Terui Ryu rushed to the next scene, they unexpectedly found that the fighting had ended and the remaining police officers were finishing up.
After seeing Ryu Terui, the police officer who was recording something came over immediately.
Terui Ryu asked: "What happened here?"
The police officer replied: "Just now, a Kamen Rider in green armor helped deal with those adulterants."
"Green armor...can you describe his appearance in detail?"
Terui Ryuu asked as he looked around. The unconscious dopant transformers and the intact Gaia memory that had been confiscated meant that the Kamen Rider did not defeat these dopes with the Ultimate Drive. bodies, but use other powers.
This made Terui Ryuu have a suspicion in his mind, and he couldn't help but look at Gates, and then he saw the same surprised look on Gates' face.
The police officer replied: "Well, he has two catalpa-shaped insect-like horns on his head, holds a sickle like a praying mantis, and his legs can become as slender as a locust. By the way, he can also emit thunder and lightning."
After listening, Terui Ryu looked at Gates again, and this time, he got a positive answer.
"It's him."
According to the police officer's description, there is no doubt that the Kamen Rider who appears here is Zi-O in the form of the OOO insect team.
But why did Tokiwa Shougo appear here? Shouldn't he be fighting the alien knight now?
While doubting, he remembered his previous decision on whether to protect the people in this alien history, and compared it with Shogo Tokiwa's choice. For the first time, Gates began to seriously think about the difference between the current Shogo Tokiwa and the demon king he knew. , is it really the same person?
