#natsumi hikari

[unsteadyheroes]

who up journeying through the decade....

[asknarashikari]

Natsumi: CAUHGT IN 4K. With Onodera! Daiki: You fucking cheater!!!

Tsukasa: Does it look Onodera is my type?! Yusuke: *eye rolls* Clearly this is fake!

Rider's reaction?

[mangolon]

With there already being numerous female third Riders, Majade being the first female Secondary, and Revice already being pitched as having one of the two main Riders being a girl, it's only a matter of time until we get a female main Rider.

[pulaasul]

Destroyer of Worlds

Decade arrives in the World of Desire where a Desire Grand Prix was held. He encounters one Kamen Rider Buffa who wants to destroy any and all Kamen Riders in existence.

A/N: Fair warning, I'm being very liberal with Decade's powerset, I got him access to the powers and forms of the Reiwa Era, specifically Zero-One and Geats.

A/N Special shout out to the biggest fan of Kamen Rider Decade, @flaim-ita​, for helping me with my characterization of the characters of Kamen Rider Decade. 

Shout out to @rainixdra​ @tokuteasings​ @narashikari​ @askrikkaiandhyotei​ for their posts also helped me out a lot when I wrote this piece.

FFN I Ao3

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"I got the gist of things."

It has been a few days since one Kamen Rider Buffa successfully culled the populace of Tokyo to a meager size, including the murder of various Kamen Riders affiliated with the Desire Grand Prix.

In one man's opinion, these Jamatos, plant-like monsters that were not unlike the Helheim monsters that Gaim fought in Zawame, were a lot worse than when Shocker managed to dominate the world.

Yes, humanity wasn't free in those times, but none were also running for their lives whenever one was spotted. Even the monsters that Shocker has created didn't indiscriminately attack the populace, at least they don't attack the people in crowded and public places.

However that situation wasn't ideal, nor was the current one.

"It's time to destroy this world."

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"You're Buffa?" A man in pink clothes walked up to the man wearing black clothes.

"Who's asking?" The man growled in response.

"Just a passing through Kamen Rider, remember that." The man presented the card to the man opposite him and placed it inside his belt buckle. "Henshin."

"The man glowed pink before he was encased in pink armor with a helmet that looked like a barcode."

"Another Kamen Rider? Perfect!" The man in black clothes – Buffa – presented a purple buckle and placed it on his belt.

"Set"

"Henshin"

Buffa glowed purple as a zombie-like armor materialized beside him before it was pulled into his person with a bull-styled helmet falling on his head.

"They weren't kidding when they said you were a bullhead."

Buffa ignored the pink Rider's remark and immediately rushed at him with his chainsaw and began slashing at him from every direction.

"And you're just proving their point."

"Attack Ride: Slash"

The pink Rider blocked every slash with his oddly-hilted sword with ease before hitting the zombie Rider with the same sword.

"Stay still!" Buffa growled, ignoring the hit took as he brought down his chainsaw from above the pink Rider.

"How about," The pink Rider jumped back. "No."

The pink Rider placed a card on his belt like he did when he transformed earlier.

"Attack Ride: Illusion"

Three more copies of the pink Rider emerged and rushed at Michinaga.

"Coward! Fight me yourself!" Buffa yelled as he took down the copies of the pink Rider but one escaped destruction and he took advantage of the bull's vulnerable back and slashed the zombie Rider's back.

"If I remember correctly, you did not earn your victories yourself," The pink Rider clicked his tongue. "You triumphed over Tycoon while he was distracted from the world-shattering scene he witnessed and you snatched victory from both the producer and Geats when they were distracted with each other."

"Who cares?! I won! That's it!"

"Then why should I fight fairly, as the other two did?"

"I will destroy every last one of the Kamen Riders and destroy this ridiculous world made of Kamen Riders!" The bull-themed Kamen Rider flailed his chainsaw around in an attempt to hit the last copy.

"You're right about one thing, this world will be destroyed, but not by your hand, Buffa."

"Oh, so you admit that you're the destroyer of worlds, Decade?"

"Narutaki."

"That's it, Buffa, Kamen Rider Decade will destroy your ideal world if he continues to exist, destroy him before he destroys yours!"

"Must we dance to the same tune, Narutaki?"

"I was right! Kamen Riders are the blight of this world!"

"That's where your wrong, Buffa."

"Kamen Ride: Ichigo."

The pink Kamen Rider – Decade – transformed into a different Kamen Rider altogether, he was now wearing green armor with a grasshopper theme.

"Narutaki is right, I am a villain, but these Kamen Riders are heroes."

Decade, in Ichigo's armor, rushed at the purple Rider and disarmed him of his chainsaw.

"A lot of these Kamen Riders did not choose to be one, they were chosen to be one."

"Kamen Ride: Kuuga."

"Once chosen, they fight to protect the smiles of others."

Decade, now sporting red armor, parried all of Buffa's strikes while simultaneously kicking the chainsaw away from its owner.

"Kamen Ride: Ryuki."

"They rise up to the occasion and fight."

"Ja-ja-ja Strike"

"Attack Ride: Guard Vent."

A draconic shield appeared on the new form's shoulders that defended Decade from the vines that the bull rider summoned.

"They refuse to let others be sacrificed."

"Attack Ride: Strike Vent."

A dragon's mouth fell on Decade's right hand and fire was spewed by it, burning the summoned vines to ashes.

"Form Ride: Heat Metal."

"At times, it is at their own expense."

Decade, now wearing a red and silver armor split down the middle, used his metallic staff to parry any and all other summoned vines and burned them as soon as they made contact.

"Kamen Riders are all selfish scum of the world."

Buffa growled as he made use of one of the vines to retrieve his weapon from the ground.

"Poison Charge."

"They should all be destroyed."

The purple rider brought down the spinning chainsaw on Decade, who had been changing from one form to another.

"If not for these Kamen Riders, Tohru would have –"

Decade brought his metallic staff up and blocked the strike from the bull Rider's chainsaw.

"I get the gist of things." Decade nodded as he parried the chainsaw, disarming Buffa once more. "Yes, there are Kamen Riders who are the scum of the Earth."

Buffa charged at Decade as soon as he was disarmed of his weapon.

"Why does that mean every Kamen Rider is responsible for your loss?"

"Form Ride: Zi-O II."

"Attack Ride: Precognition"

Decade kicked the purple Rider's abdomen and slammed him to a light post.

"The sins of the few are hardly the sins of everyone affiliated."

Decade ducked and dodged an attack from behind courtesy of the vines that Buffa had summoned.

"Form Ride: Flaming Tiger."

"I walk the path of the destroyer so they can save the world from me."

Decade stomped his foot and lit the ground on fire, incinerating all the summoned vines to ashes."

"Kamen Ride: Geats."

Decade's form changed from a green and orange form with a tiger and grasshopper theme to a white and red form with a fox theme.

"I will continue to drag my name into the mud, to walk the path of villainy so they can be heroes that people revere."

"Final Attack Ride: Ge-ge-geats."

Decade jumped as a red bike zoomed in on location and changed into a fox that jumped after him. He positioned himself to perform Kamen Rider Geats's rider kick as the fox from earlier burst into flames and encased his extended foot with fire.

The kick hit Buffa's chest, and the resulting explosion de-transformed him out of his bull-zombie suit as Decade, in Geats's form, landed behind the defeated purple Rider.

"If you can't even touch me while using a fraction of my power, using a fraction of the powers of a few Kamen Riders, what hope do you have of destroying us."

"I… Swear… I… Will… Des… Troy…"

Buffa fell unconscious, unable to finish his train of thought as the white and red Kamen Rider changed into the pink Kamen Rider.

"Tsukasa-kun!"

The pink Kamen Rider – Tsukasa – looked behind him as he de-transformed out of his pink armor wearing a pink suit and snapped a picture of his surroundings.

"What now, Narutaki?!" Tsukasa called out.

One of these days, Decade, you will get your just dues!"

Narutaki, the man in a bowler hat that was goading Buffa earlier, sneered before he walked to a distorted space and disappeared.

"He was here?" The woman questioned.

"The whole time." Tsukasa nodded.

"Where were you?"

"Just roaming around, Natsumikan, you know that."

"The last time you roamed around, you intervened with Zi-O's story." Natsumikan raised an eyebrow.

"You know Zi-O's powerset would have forced us into the story whether we liked it or not," Tsukasa pointed out as he took out a pink thing that looked like a watch. "It was better that only Kaito and me were there because we kept our agencies and memories as we went through the story."

"We could have helped, you know." Natsumikan pointed out.

"And you would have probably been a great asset, convinced Zi-O not to go on a suicide mission and found another way."

"Wait…"

"We're similar in that regard, too similar for my tastes."

"Oh, Tsukasa-kun."

"No matter, it seemed like I needed to put a bull in place." Tsukasa pointed towards the fallen rider.

"Did you –"

"No, he's just unconscious."

"Oh, Yusuke told me who the Kamen Riders of this world were, at least the four prominent ones."

"I already know their names."

"You know their Rider designations, but not their human names."

"That's fair."

"Geats is Ukiyo Ace, Tycoon is Sakurai Keiwa, Na-go is Kurama Neon, and Buffa is Michinaga Azuma."

"Huh, it's interesting that another Sakurai is a Kamen Rider," Tsukasa hummed as he looked over Natsumikan's shoulders and read through the text that she received from Yusuke. "They have the same Kanji too. We should tell Kaito or Zeronus."

"That's weird, the words 'is' and 'was' keep interchanging."

"Geats and Tycoon are presumed dead," Tsukasa revealed. "Killed by the Bull over there." He pointed at his fallen enemy.

"If it's interchanging…"

"There is a high chance that they'd either be revived sooner than we thought or were never dead in the first place." Tsukasa nodded.

"Should you have interfered in this world's story, Tsukasa-kun?"

"There is a high probability that Buffa might just forget our entire encounter, we're probably safe."

"if you say so."

[hordikanate]

me running from Natsumi/Kamen Rider Kiva-la (she wants me to give her $50,000)

[hopelessbeliever05]

natsumi was truly ahead for her time fr

Natsumi Hikari is genuinely one of the only if not THE only female lead in a Rider who feels like a coprotagonist (others on this list, but slightly lower: Yuri Kiva, Tackle, Mai Gaim, and Hiyori Kabuto. This is not a ranking of their treatment just their roles)

Like she is definitely our POV character but while most of the time non-Main POVs fade out… she doesn’t. She is consistently our window into Tsukasa. And she can take his bullshit and argue against it in equal measure.

She is the center character of the final form arc for fuck’s sake!

Of course she is the only one who can kill Decade. Even if he lets her. Because they both know he gave his life to her already.

(She has just as much depression and terror as fate creeps closer, if not more, than Tsukasa shows.)

The reason he managed to grown during All-Riders Vs Dai-Shocker is because she MADE HIM THINK. The only reason she could move forward on World of Nega was—

Oh, not Tsukasa. HERSELF, from this World. That is how she works as a character. She is just as much of a lens as Tsukasa, sees things he doesn’t from the heroes they help but most of all Natsumi Hikari can understand Tsukasa, and Yuusuke, and Daiki, and their whole tragic mess of a fate because she is Decade’s storyteller. That’s why she has to kill him. She has to end his story before it begins.

Natsumi is just fascinating.

She is the “normal one”. Except that her grandfather is Dai-Shocker. She is good except she too is rude and unsure. She is the one who ended it except that Tsukasa let her, and yet she brings him back anyways.

Anyways I love Natsumi actually. A lot of positives come down to the whole “one of like 3 female Riders pre-20… oh. God. 2016 or so? Who did not die.” And “killed the main Rider” which, while they are certainly accomplishments, they do not even begin to grasp how narratively and in-universe (which it’s Decade, those two things are the same here) she is significant to every single aspect of the show.

[iyuro]

one of the quartets of all time tbh idc idc

[kazukibou]

Kazukibou 2024

[495mm]

[jettiebettie]

Loving DiEnd is not enough! I must consume him!

But what's this? Tsukasa, look out! A sneak thief is taking advantage of the situation! Count your cards! 😖

[variouspolltournaments]

Anti-Propaganda is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote for something and not give reasons to vote against something.

Propaganda

Otto/Ford/Lucrecia/Compton/Bob/Cassie/Helmut: I adore the idea that it is not just a polyamory, but it has great dynamics between every character and they're all old. Old People Polyamory showing that love exists in every single form.

Tsukasa/Daiki/Natsumi/Yuusuke: That feeling when you have to save the worlds (plural) because the first guy is destroying them and you all live in a photo studio because of it

[unsteadyheroes]

decade dump

[asknarashikari]

Everyone is looking at Kaguya's final form.

Everyone: Yep. Definitely the chaos duo lovechild, alright.

Haruto: He even copied his parents' many cards aspects.

DecadeCast reactions?

Natsumi: I don't want to even know how that happened considering the weird baby acquisition stuff that already happened

Onodera Yuusuke: ...Oh god, they reproduced? And the kid has their powers and a powerup? Why hasn't the world ended yet?!

Chaos duo: ...Hey!

[mangolon]

I Love the Third Riders

Screaming

Goro's Husband

Who Actually is This Guy?

Heart Eyes

Anyway, Here's Wonderwall

Ultimate Makeup

Teddy

Edward Cullen

Laughter Pressure Point

Too Hard-Boiled to Live

Alien Goo Girl

Doesn't Die

Turns Evil and then Not Evil

Itte Iiyo!

Prince Takoyaki

Has a Sidekick

Otoya Kurenai

Iwae!

Cheated Out of a Final Form Fight

Depressed Best Friend

Snek

Build-a-Baby

[pulaasul]

Deserve

Hikari Natsumi calls for the Girls Remix to be reactivated to give Beroba her divine retribution.

A/N: As @tokuteasings published their vent fic about Neon’s circumstance in Geats 29, here’s my vent fic. I would like to thank @narashikari @thehistorynut19 @tokuteasings for helping me brainstorm this idea.

credits to @asknarashikari​ as it was her prompt that gave me this idea. 

credits to @flaim-ita because she helped me figure out how to introduce Kamen Rider Decade to Keiwa. I used and modified her answer to the anon ask she responded to, and yes, the anon was my cousin XD

FFN I Ao3 

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"Sakura, could you call Narumi-san?" Yukimi called out to her daughter, who was studying by the waiting area.

"Do you want a case to be solved, mama?" Sakura questioned, curious why her mother was asking for a detective.

"Remember the celebrities you kids brought over a while ago?" Yukimi handed her phone to her daughter. "It seems like one of them is a Kamen Rider and I just received this video from someone I don't know."

"Eh, Neon-chan is?"

"What's wrong?" Ikki went out to the waiting area. "You want to speak with Terui-san's wife, Kaa-chan?"

"Ikki-nii, look at this."

Ikki and Sakura watched the video that was on their mother's phone. They're watching an artwork of a chibi woman announcing something about how one Kurama Neon was a product of the Goddess of Creation and how she replaced the deceased Kurama Akari.

"This reminds me of the time when we found out that Tou-chan has Giffu's cells." Ikki commented.

"This is very frustrating!" Sakura exclaimed.

"I'll call Terui-keiji and try to get his wife to come," Ikki volunteered. "I'm leaving this in your care, Sakura."

"Eh?"

"You can do this."

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"The Desire Grand Prix is a tournament for Kamen Riders in a bid to wish for their ideal world." A woman in pigtails narrated. "This is the fourth time where a tournament like this was held, the first one was with Kamen Rider Ryuki, The Second Time was with Kamen Rider Gaim, and the third time was with Kamen Rider Ex-Aid."

"Ryuki…" Sakura trailed off. "That seems familiar."

"Kamen Rider Ryuki – Kido Shinji, Kamen Rider Knight – Akiyama Ren, we met them sometime last year." Ikki called out from behind the wall.

"Eh, I don't remember." Sakura blurted out.

"Just don't mind it."

"I thought Kamen Riders are heroes?" Yukimi questioned as she processed the explanation the detective relayed.

"Not all Kamen Riders are heroes, Igarashi-san," Akiko shook her head.

"I also participated in the Desire Grand Prix once." Ikki contributed. "I know some of the Kamen Riders participating there."

"Eh? I don't remember that." Sakura looked at her brother in surprise.

"We met Kido-san and Akiyama-san during that Grand Prix." Ikki offered.

"Really?"

"Part of the Desire Grand Prix's operation is to erase the memories of everyone not involved in the Grand Prix but were caught in a crossfire."

"You won, didn't you, Ikki?" Yukimi looked at her son before she caressed her son's face.

Ikki nodded. "It's how I remember Vice."

"Since we're all involved with Kamen Riders, I don't think I will keep this a secret from you all," Akiko smiled. "I know why you called me here, Sakura-chan, it's about Neon-chan, isn't it?"

"How?"

"Apart from my reputable source, there's someone who takes pride in all-female Kamen Riders and she definitely did not like how Neon-chan was treated currently, she can't confront everyone involved on her own so she contacted everyone who she thought would best deal with the situation.

"Sakura!" Hana got inside the Igarashi's waiting area, out of breath, followed by an equally frazzled Daiji and Tamaki.

"You got a video about Neon-chan too?"

"If Hana-sama wants to help, I wa-"

"Let's leave this to them, Tamaki." Ikki swung his arms around the younger male.

"Sakura and the others can handle this." Daiji affirmed his brother's statement.

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Keiwa was sitting in his cell. Due to Ace's previous rampage, Michinaga postponed the third round of the game, which meant he stayed in the cell for the night.

He didn't know why, but Beroba and the others did not take his phone away, which meant he was also able to inform his sister that he won't be able to make it home for the night.

"Keiwa-kun, are you okay?"

"Eh? I-Igarashi-san?" Keiwa was surprised to see the other man outside his cell. "W-what are you doing here?"

"To get you out of here, of course."

"Y-you-"

"I don't know what Ace wrote on my desire card, but I didn't forget about the DGP."

"Neon-chan!"

"Don't worry about Neon-chan," Ikki smiled. "Now I need you to stand back for a bit."

Keiwa nodded as Ikki brandished a neon blue axe and pressed the Rex Vistamp on its stamp pad and hacked on the cell, cutting the cell's bars into pieces and created an opening for him to go through.

"We need to stay here until my sister arrives."

"Third Round of the Bullfighting Game starts." Beroba's voice could be heard in the room as a holographic screen graced Keiwa's and Ikki's presence. "Naa-go Vs. Rook. Fight!"

Neon was seen on the screen entering the battlefield and she was immediately attacked as soon as she stepped foot into the arena.

"Neon-chan."

Before Keiwa could even react two chains suddenly sprouted from the ground and restrained the attacking Jamato as the space behind Neon becomes distorted.

"So as we wait for Daiji and the others, here's a bento, my mom made it for you." Ikki handed Keiwa a bento, to which Keiwa bowed in gratitude.

"Thank you."

"Mom also insisted that we bring you a change of clothes." Ikki handed Keiwa a bag of clothes.

"You really didn't have to, getting me out of the cell was help enough."

"Don't mention it, mom wanted to be prepared in case things weren't favorable to you."

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"Chain Now."

"King Cobra."

"Queen Bee."

"Invincible Je-je-jeanne!"

"Aaaah – Aguilera!"

Blue and Orange streaks started attacking the restrained Jamato and none of them let up until the new Blue-Orange entity kicked the Jamato in the air.

A number of golden bees swarmed the Rook Jamato before it was blown away to a nearby wall from the explosion the swarm generated.

"Chain Now."

Another set of ice chains

"What's going on?!" Beroba demanded as the Jamato struggled to get up from the attack it just endured.

But a smirk appeared on the supporter's face.

Unbeknownst to the attackers, there was another enemy, it may have been discovered by Tycoon and Geats, but Beroba doubted that the latter was able to inform Naa-go about it.

Suddenly behind the Blue-Orange, Gold-Blue, and White-Orange attackers, another Jamato phased through the floor in an attempt to wound Neon as she stood behind her saviors.

"Not on my watch!" Another person, this time someone wearing brown with red accents with an orange helmet stepped in front of Neon and placed her hand on her belt.

"Barrier Now!"

An intricately-patterned barrier appeared in front of the warrior and defended both Neon and herself from the Jamato.

The Blue-Orange warrior used the dreadlocks on their helmet and bound the Jamato with it and threw it towards the other Jamato that they just defeated.

"Why yo-"

"Blizzard now." The warrior with the orange helmet froze the two Jamato together, rendering both immobile.

A zipper appeared above Michinaga and Daichi, as they were about to attack the invading force, released vines that bound both men in mid-air.

"Wha-" Beroba immediately retrieved her Laser Raise Riser but another tendril of vine stopped her from equipping her Laser Raise Riser with her Rise Cartridge." Jamato? How?!"

"These are not your Jamatos, these are Helheim's plants."

The grip the vines had on Beroba's hands tightened forcing her to drop her weapon and transformation trinkets as a woman in white with yellow hair descended from the open zipper the vines came from.

"Noroshi Muchuu!"

Smoke enveloped Neon and before anyone could react, she was suddenly in front of Beroba with another warrior wearing brown and gold armor.

"What are you going to do, Kurama Neon-chan?" Beroba taunted. "No, Kurama Akari Nigou-chan?"

A resounding slap echoed through the arena.

Beroba wasn't facing Neon anymore as the force of the slap forced her to look to the side.

"How dare you?" Neon's voice whimpered as she struggled to hold back her tears. "How dare you tell that story on Akari-chan's birthday, on my birthday!" She yelled.

"I live for the people's suffering, bleh." Beroba stuck out her tongue, proud of what she just said.

"Right, We're all just entertainment for you," Neon took a deep breath and turned her back on the woman responsible for everything that had gone wrong. "Berobaa-san."

"How da- How dare you call me that?!" Beroba's lost her composure as she struggled against her restraints. "You, you, you person! You were only created by the goddess's power!"

"The future must be full of dumb people, no offense to the other supporters." Neon continued her spiel ignoring the ballistic woman, struggling against the vines that restrained her.

"Do not ignore me you fake!" Beroba continued to struggle against her bonds.

"How come Neon-chan?" The blonde woman in white asked as she smiled at the youngest woman in the group as flicked her wrists and tightened her hold on the captives.

"If the time they came from is our future then that would mean that destroying our present would erase their time," Neon as she faced the three people in the Jamato faction. "That also means that you both are dumb Michinaga, Isuzu."

"Do not ignore memphfff"

Vines sprouted from Beroba's restraints and gagged the already-restrained woman leaving only aggressive sounds from her.

Michinaga clicked his tongue.

"I'm smarter than you'll ever be, spoilt fake princess." Daichi retorted

"My existence may be a fake, but I still made my life, what about you, Isuzu?" Neon smiled sweetly. "You never figured out that I was the Dezastar."

"What has got that outdated game have to do with this?"

"That you may think you're smart but you're actually dumb," Neon shrugged. "You know who did figure it out? It was the person who you framed in the very first round."

"No, that's impossible!"

"Unlike you, Keiwa observed and worked with every information he got," Neon smiled. "Which means he's a lot smarter than you."

"He got it wrong the first ti-."

"Sae-san was covering for me." Neon cut off Daichi's sentence. "That and he figured it out because he actually knew me, knew Ace and me for him to be confident in his deduction, which you wouldn't have figured out because all you got were superficial information.

"Are you telling me, friendship made him able to figure it out? Don't make me laugh!"

"I didn't really think someone dumb like you could ever understand."

"Du-"

Vines covered Daichi's mouth, muffling his next words.

"Who cares if it's your future, it's still free entertainment." Beroba giggled.

The woman in white raised an eyebrow at the remains of the vines that were used to gag her.

"Looks like I was right, you are indeed dumb, Berobaa-san." Neon smiled.

Beroba glared at Neon but she didn't explode as she did earlier.

"She has a point." The ethereal woman agreed as she chuckled at how humorously dull the woman was. "Well, maybe not as dumb as the scientist who wanted to destroy the universe without thinking that he'd be destroyed alongside it."

"Aah! That's right!" The Blue-Orange and White-Orange warriors pointed at each other as they figured out what Neon was talking about.

"Indeed," The Blue-Gold warrior nodded.

"This has gone on long enough." The brown warrior slammed the hilt of her sword onto each of the enemy's necks, knocking them unconscious.

Well except for one.

"Don't tell me."

"Yes, we are all Kamen Riders here." Everyone de-transformed out of their Rider suits and revealed their identities to everyone present, well revealed their physical appearance to everyone.

"Well not all of us," The ethereal woman chirped in.

"Eh, close enough, Mai-chan." Another woman walked out of the distorted space below. "You are Kouta-kun's equivalent after all and he's Kamen Rider Gaim."

"Why thank you, Natsumi-chan." The woman – Mai – expressed her gratitude for the praise.

"Tch." Michinaga clicked his tongue once more.

"Get this over with," He growled.

"There is still a chance, Michinaga." Neon offered.

Michinaga used all of his strength to roll his sleeve up and show everyone the moss and grass that grew on his hand.

"Whatever chance you're talking about, doesn't exist," Michinaga growled. "I only live solely to destroy every Kamen Rider."

"Good luck with that." The woman who just exited the distorted space before it fizzled out of existence laughed.

"I must agree."

"Tch."

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"Enjoying ourselves?"

The space in the hallway distorted and out came a man in Magenta followed by people in blue carrying guns.

"They're clever, installing a barrier to prevent anyone from entering." The man in pink hummed. "How you got here before us, Revi, is a mystery."

"I asked Natsumi-san the entrance to this place and waited for Neon-chan to get inside." Ikki informed." I timed my entrance with Neon-chan's so that I could get in."

"That's why Live mentioned you immediately ran off."

"Thank you for helping us save Keiwa, Kadoya."

"Think nothing of it, Revi." The man – Kadoya shook his head. "It was a favor from Natsumikan." He casually pointed at the woman who exited the distorted space on the screen.

"Mou nii-chan, you didn't have to rush here, we would have gotten here eventually."

"I know, but someone needed my help." Ikki rubbed the back of his neck.

"Well that's how you are nii-chan, I guess it couldn't be helped."

"There's still some time before the ladies will be done with Beroba, Nadge-Sparrow, and Buffa." Kadoya announced. "You can have your men do some routine check-ups on Tycoon, Live."

Daiji merely nodded before gesturing for one of his men to check on Keiwa.

"Ano, what did they mean about 'Good Luck' when Michinaga stated his sole reason to live?" Keiwa couldn't help but ask as he was ordered to remove his shirt, revealing some untreated bruises he got when he fought in the first round and lost to cheaters.

Kadoya scoffed as he watched the girls give Neon some comforting hugs on screen.

"The last time a Rider tried to kill all others was me," He gave wistful smile. "It took months, with far less of us."

Keiwa looked at Kadoya with a look of abject horror, inching slightly backward from the man in pink.

He then stared at Ikki, as if prompting the man to explain himself.

"He got better?" Ikki offered, still not sure of the stories he heard from the other Kamen Riders he had met, least of all Kadoya himself.

"Who are you?" Keiwa couldn't help but ask as he gulped saliva.

"Depends on what you want from me." Kadoya hummed as he snapped a photo of the rescued man's distressed state.

"A name would be nice."

The man looked Keiwa in the eyes.

"Kadoya Tsukasa," The man in magenta – Kadoya Tsukasa, said. "I'm just a passing through Kamen Rider… and destroyer of worlds."

Keiwa could only gulp as he realized how much of a folly Michinaga's wish was.

"Don't worry about it, like nii-chan said, he got better." Daiji offered, even when he shared his brother's feelings about Kadoya.

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Natsumi, Akiko, Mai, Mayu, Yaiba, Reika, Sakura, Hana, and Neon were at the lounge area of the Igarashi's bath house, enjoying their time together. They were wearing the bathhouse's yukatas and drinking milk.

"You know had Natsumi-san not contacted me, I wouldn't have known that there's another Rider Battle tournament going on." Mai, who now has black hair and is dressed in a simple shirt and blue hoodie, stated. "Even if I don't really consider what happened in Zawame as a Rider Battle."

"So, Kamen Rider…" Neon trailed off. "They have always existed?"

"Since the 70s," Natsumi answered. "At least in this world."

"In this world?" Sakura asked.

"Parallel Worlds," Akiko offered. "Not that my source really knows a lot about it, every time we are presented with options there is a world where we chose the other option."

"That makes sense, the Gaia Library wouldn't have that much information about other worlds."

"Gaia library?" Reika questioned. "Is that like the libraries we have at the Sword of Logos?"

"Close," Natsumi answered. "However I won't be saying much, people would kill for access to that information."

"Understandable." Reika nodded.

"So there is a world where I was sacrificed for Giff." Hana hummed to herself.

"Or a world where I became like my nee-san." Mayu stated off-handedly.

"I find that not thinking of our parallel selves is beneficial for all of us," Akiko offered. "After all we are living our lives in the present."

"That's why you don't have to pay attention to the words of the people in the future," Natsumi looked Neon in the eyes. "No matter what they say, you are a Kamen Rider, you deserve to be one."

"You've visited that time period, haven't you, Natsumi-san?"

"Yes and it wasn't pretty," Natsumi shook her head. "I would even say it's worse than the world where Sougo-kun was Ohma Zi-O" He sighed. "The reason I was even aware of what was happening in the first place was that I was there when Beroba made the announcement."

"That bad, huh?" Akiko commented.

"Sougo-kun… You mean Tsukuyomi-san's friend?" Sakura asked.

"It's better if we don't think that far away, ourselves," Yukimi stated. "We just focus on the now and live our lives in the present."

"Are you a Kamen Rider too, Igarashi-san?" Neon couldn't help but ask the mother of the group.

"No, I am a proud wife and mother of Kamen Riders, and that's enough for me."

"Don't let her fool you!" Sakura responded almost immediately. "Mama is strong!"

Everyone just laughed at the outburst.

As everyone continued to enjoy their time Kyuun was outside the Igarashi bathhouse, eavesdropping on the conversation that happened as he looked at his Laser Raise Riser before walking away.

[aceparagonings]

tag dump part 3 ( dynamic and ship tags! )

･::･ﾟ☆ HANEKOMA: you took me under the gentle touch of your wings; you have always been my father. ☆ KAKYOIN NORIAKI 💎 meeting you was a fated encounter; you are my shining emerald; our radiance will envelop the galaxy itself. ♥☆💎 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ NORIAKI — the sunshine that illuminates your unbreakable emerald; you brighten my world & life. ☆ THE-COMPOSER ☆ you look after me like a guardian angel does; you are my first friend. with you I feel like I can do anything. ☆ KIRYU JOSHUA ☆ you waltzed into my life like an unknowing crescendo; yet our harmonies are melodic together. I will keep Shibuya safe. ☆ KISARAGI GENTARO ☆ my dearest friend — you and I are the stars that will light up the galaxy. with you at my side I have nothing to fear. ☆ G'RAHA TIA 💠 you inspire me to keep going despite the odds I face; with you at my side there is nothing to fear. ♥☆💠 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ G'RAHA — love that transcends time & space. when we’re together I feel like I’m home. ♥☆📷 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ TSUKASA — fate dictated that we are never to meet; and yet we are two halves of a whole. ☆ KADOYA TSUKASA 📷 destroyer of worlds & my other half — together we'll defy our destiny and forge our own path. ☆ JUGGLUS JUGGLER 🌙 with words laced with sweet venom to coil around a heart — yet you didn't need to cast illusions to win my heart. ♥☆🐍 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ JUGGLER — a heart of darkness cannot exist without a heart of light; let me be the guiding star on your path. ☆ DANTE SPARDA 🌹 the devil to my angel; on wings of rebellion does hope burn anew. ever stronger; ever higher. ♥☆🌹 HIKARU ｡･::･ﾟ★｡･::･ﾟ☆ DANTE — ''heaven or hell; let's rock!'' for you—I’d brave the flames of hell itself on wings of hope. ☆ TOKIWA SOUGO 🕛 oh valiant boy king — how brightly does your smile shine. may you never forget that brave heart as fate tests your will. ☆ MYTHCAELS ☆ heroes we are; standing side by side to protect what's important to us. as your mentor I vow to subvert your destiny. ☆ ONODERA YUSUKE 🪲 you who also protects everyone's smiles — because of your kind heart I've found another ally to always rely on. ☆ KAITO DAIKI 👑 although our ideals didn't always align — I know that I can depend on you. thank you for also keeping tsukasa safe. ☆ HIKARI NATSUMI 🍊 it's because of you that tsukasa is who he is today — you kept believing in him no matter what.