"【Year 2009】?"
Iori Izumi looked at Tokiwa Shougo in astonishment.
"You mean, [past]?"
"Yes."
Tokiwa Shougo nodded.
"Kadayaji, Kamen Rider Decade.
"Right now, he is guarding a certain important node in that year for me...no, for the stability of the time and space order that we both recognized.
"Therefore, for him, that year was both an object of guarding and a cage of imprisonment.
"He could not leave, and therefore, existed only in [that year]."
[Just like, my future self...]
At this point, Tokiwa Shogo, who had this thought flashing through his mind, paused and continued.
"That's the thing. He can't come to this banquet, so we can only send someone to [2009] to send him these things that we all have and that he should have."
"I see……"
After understanding what Kado Yashi was doing from Tokiwa Shogo's words, Izumi Iori nodded slowly with a shocked expression.
Although he has not yet met Kadoya Shi, he already has great respect for him.
It’s just that Iori Izumi didn’t notice. After discovering that he began to respect Kadoya Shi and fantasized about Kado Yashi’s tall image, Tokiwa Shogo raised the corners of his lips slightly and looked at his eyes with a smile, a look of fun and pity. quietly flowing in it.
[Don’t blame me, Mr. Iori. ]
[Now that you have entered my History Management Bureau, this is what you will have to experience sooner or later...]
[I am very optimistic about you. ]
Izumi Iori suddenly felt a chill running down his spine, but when he looked up, he saw Wang Zheng, who had just joined the organization, looking at him expectantly.
Iori Izumi: "..."
[Illusion...? ]
[Well, it must be an illusion. ]
Izumi Iori, who comforted himself in this way, asked: "What about the rest? There is more than one necklace left in the end."
To this, Tokiwa Shogo's answer was: "Oh, there are relatives and friends of Kadoya Shi there, and I have prepared them for them too."
"So that's it." Izumi Iori nodded and finally asked, "So, how should I get there?"
"It's very simple."
Faced with this problem, Tokiwa Shougo smiled normally and spoke in a relaxed tone, as if he was just going out for a walk.
"Just like you usually travel, take the tram."
Hearing this, Iori Izumi subconsciously thought of the Zio-Liner he had been in contact with recently, but the problem is...
"Isn't Zio-Liner being repainted and modified? Has it been completed?"
His wife, Izumi Kasumi, just sent him a selfie in the desert of time.
Tokiwa Shougo shook his head and denied Izumi Iori's guess.
"No, not really."
Saying this, Tokiwa Shogo reached forward, grabbed a prepared ticket from the void, clamped it on his fingertips, and handed it to Izumi Iori.
"But who said that our Historical Management Bureau only has one 'trolley'?"
Seeing this, Iori Izumi was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to take it, and when he looked down, he found that it was a ticket with a full-length portrait of the Demon King and an "unlimited" permission stamp printed on it.
"This is……"
"The train of time, the ticket of Den-Liner."
Tokiwa Shogo told Iori Izumi.
"With this ticket, you can enter the time desert by opening the door at any time with the same number, such as '9 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds', board the time train Den-Liner, and go anywhere you want. Go time.
"Alternatively, you can take this ticket to Ryotaro-senpai and he will tell you what to do."
After saying that, Tokiwa Shogo looked at Iori Izumi who seemed to find it incredible, laughed meaningfully, and said meaningfully.
"What's your expression, Mr. Iori?
“After what you witnessed last night, haven’t you looked at our historical administration again?
"If this is the case, then please remember what I say next!
“We undoubtedly saved the world once and corrected the history of the aliens.
“So I have nothing to apologize to you for, other than the date of its establishment.
"Because the concepts and capabilities of the [Historical Administration] I explained to you have been absolutely false from the beginning. Do you understand?"
Saying this, self-confidence, pride, and scornful majesty naturally radiate from Tokiwa Shougo's body.
The awe-inspiring momentum built up from real achievements shocked Izumi Iori's mind, causing him to lower his head involuntarily, not daring to look directly at the king's face.
"Yes!" he said, "I understand."
…
…
【Year 2009】
After getting off the Den-Liner and pushing the door to leave the desert of time, Iori Izumi heard a shutter sound in front of him.
Click!
Then he saw a man wearing a magenta lining and a suit jacket holding a dual-lens camera hanging around his neck, pointing the lens at him and saying:
"Come on, smile and take another picture."
Iori Izumi: "..."
Iori Izumi: "???"
Who is this person! ?
Of course he couldn't laugh and looked confused.
But the shutter sound still sounded quickly.
"Oh, this expression is not bad either."
The man said this, let go of the camera, let it hang on his chest, put it in his pocket and turned around.
"Come in, remember to close the door."
Iori Izumi: "..."
Did he go to the wrong place?
After closing the door and opening it again, Izumi Iori walked out of the store, looked at the signboard that read "Light Photo Studio", and twitched the corner of his mouth.
That's right...
Could it be that that person just now was Kadoya Shi?
It was nothing like what he imagined!
But even so, the task must be completed.
What Kadoyaji does is always true, right?
After all, the royal capital said so...
Thinking like this, Iori Izumi held his handbag, took a deep breath, and re-entered the Hikari Photo Studio.
"welcome."
A kind and kind old man walked out of the back room and asked Izumi Iori.
"Photograph?"
"No……"
Iori Izumi shook his head and politely replied to Koei Jiro.
"I'm here to see Kadashi."
"Come for the scholar... Well, the scholar is over there."
Following the direction of Koeijiro's finger, Izumi Iori saw the man just now.
"..."
It’s really him!
After a silence, Izumi Iori stepped forward and came to Kado Yashi.
Putting down the coffee cup in his hand, Kadayaji leaned back, crossed his legs, looked at Iori Izumi, smiled, looked at it and said:
"Sent by the Demon King?"
"Um."
Iori Izumi opened the handbag and took out the packaged timepieces and necklaces one by one.
"This is……"
Iori Izumi was about to tell.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Kadoya Shi.
"I see, I probably understand."
He picked up a timepiece necklace and looked at it with an expression that said, "I've got everything under control."
"..."
Izumi Iori, who was forced to hold back all his words, was silent for a moment and then spoke again.
"Then, Mr. Kadoya, I wonder if you are willing to accept this gift from His Majesty Tokio..."
"It does not matter."
Before he finished speaking, Izumi Iori was interrupted again by Kadoya Shi.
"?"
Even with Izumi Iori's good temper, it was starting to become a bit unbearable at this time.
"Then what's important?"
he asked rhetorically.
"That's what I'm going to ask you."
Throwing the timepiece necklace in his hand back to the table, Kado Yaji looked at Iori Izumi and spoke word by word.
"Think about it carefully. Is there something that you didn't tell the Demon King?"
"What can I hide from His Majesty the King..."
"Think carefully!"
For the third time, Kado Yashi interrupted Izumi Iori's words in a serious tone.
"Think about it carefully, there should be some, right? It's something that you ghosts have encountered and fought, but it doesn't belong to the history of ghosts."
"How could that kind of thing be possible..."
At this point, Izumi Iori seemed to have suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened suddenly, and the words in his mouth stopped abruptly.
Seeing this, Kadashi smiled slowly.
"It seems you have already thought of it..."
…
…
at the same time.
Outside the photo studio.
Woz, who was leaning against the door, closed the "Demon Advent Calendar" in his hand with a "snap", stepped forward, and gradually walked away along the street while narrating:
"This book records that the ordinary high school student, Tokiwa Shougo, will become the king of time in the future, the Demon King of Time."
"In this case of the strange ring ghost, he discovered some clues that were different from the previous cases of strange knights."
"Obviously, the darkness lurking in the deepest parts has begun to reveal itself."
"This is just the beginning."
"And the challenge he will face next comes from beyond the sky."
"The key word is..."
"【insect】!"
(End of chapter)
