At the moment of descent, a cluster of orange-red flames ignited at Hui Jin’s fingertips.
In the fierce wind, the flames surged into a roaring blaze, spreading from her fingertips to her palm, and a broken sword covered in cracks was born from the fire.
She was like a missile, cleaving straight toward Zhan Che’s head.
The flames tore through the air, leaving a bright red arc!
Sizzle!
The scalding blade split Zhan Che’s head in two as if cutting through butter.
Before she landed, the head burst open like an overripe fruit, and thick, foul black blood sprayed out like a fountain.
“Tch, so filthy.”
Hui Jin clicked her tongue in displeasure, pointed the blade toward the ground, infused it with magic, and then swung it fiercely!
Boom!
The orange-red flames shot straight into the sky, forming a wall of fire.
The black blood that fell on it was completely vaporized, emitting a sizzling sound.
“Hiss hah!!!”
Zhan Che was like a wounded beast, letting out an instinctive roar, but from beginning to end, it never saw the shadow of the one who had hurt it.
The next second, the towering wall of fire split from the center, and an arc-shaped sword aura wrapped in flames burst through the wind, smashing hard onto Zhan Che’s forehead!
It clutched its head in pain and howled, but what it didn’t notice was that behind the sword aura, a petite figure was hidden!
With a flip of her wrist, the broken sword slashed upward.
At that instant, Hui Jin gathered magic again.
Orange-red flames converged from the broken sword’s edge, forming a longsword made of pure magical fire!
Although it was not as good as the two-handed greatsword in its burning form, compared to the broken sword, this flaming longsword had far greater reach.
This strike thrust straight at Zhan Che’s neck!
Sizzle!
As if a red-hot iron was plunged into ice water, Zhan Che’s hideous wound let out a piercing shriek.
It howled and reached out to grab the blade, but how could a monster touch a sword forged from fire?
The flames on the blade surged upward like a pack of wolves surrounding prey, tearing at every inch of Zhan Che’s flesh.
“That’s it, that’s exactly how it should be!”
Hui Jin’s eyes trembled, and she laughed wildly:
“I’ll cut you apart! Slice you open! Mince you to pieces!”
The girl gripped the hilt from above, pouring all of her remaining magic into the blade.
Gradually, the orange-red longsword was stained with dots of pitch-black patterns, which spread across the blade like spiderwebs.
Next, with just a slight exertion, she could split this damned monster in two like cutting through butter.
But Hui Jin’s movement stopped.
Her mood right now was very good, very, very good.
And this good mood was entirely because she was torturing the monster before her.
If she killed Zhan Che so easily, wouldn’t she be unable to obtain pleasure anymore?
Would she have to return to that hell, suffering that damned torment over and over in repeated performances?
Why did she have to suffer all that?
The annoying Task Force, the pretentious Xia Che, the completely disobedient Ye Xiao Chi…
Hui Jin slowly released her grip.
Losing its source of magic, the flames instantly dissipated, and the broken sword clattered to the ground, turning into dust.
The girl stared blankly at the wound she had pierced through Zhan Che.
She stood motionless, as if unable to hear its shrill roars.
‘…If only they would all just disappear.’
“!!?”
Hui Jin was startled by the thought that suddenly popped into her mind, and her eyes instantly became clear.
‘How could she have such a terrifying thought?’
‘No… that’s not right…’
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She looked at her trembling hands in terror, step by step retreating, completely unaware that Zhan Che had turned its fist into a claw and was thrusting toward her!
At the same time, bullet comments in the live stream fell like snowflakes:
-What’s wrong with Hui Jin? Why is she spacing out?
-Dodge it!!!!!
Even the commentator was stunned:
“The originally one-sided situation has suddenly reversed! Magical Girl Hui Jin is suddenly frozen in place. If she doesn’t dodge now, she will undoubtedly be pierced through by Zhan Che’s claw strike!”
The shadow completely enveloped the girl.
She looked up in a daze, and in her deep crimson, lifeless eyes, the pitch-black giant claw was rapidly enlarging.
‘Ah… I can’t dodge…’
‘That’s fine. Someone who has such thoughts doesn’t deserve to live in this world at all.’
‘Just die like this—’
“Don’t get distracted!”
A sharp shout startled the girl.
She almost instinctively dodged backward.
She heard a crackling sound by her ears as the giant claw smashed the road surface with terrifying force.
Even though she barely dodged, the sharp magic surrounding the claw still left a scar on the girl’s forehead like a knife.
Blood flowed profusely, dyeing her vision blood red.
“Who…?”
Ignoring her wound, Hui Jin looked toward the direction of the voice.
In the middle of the road, a tall figure stood against the light, his entire body wrapped in grayish-white armor.
No, rather than armor, it was more like a large iron can.
This design reminded her of the Mark 1 that Iron Man welded together from scrap metal in the Afghanistan cave.
Although the craftsmanship was clearly much better, the whole thing still exuded the air of a rough, unfinished product.
Not only was Hui Jin dumbfounded, but the bullet comments also exploded:
-There’s another expert?
-What’s going on?
Who is this tin can?
-Mark 1?
Alphonse?
At the commentary booth, Colonel Guan frantically flipped through the database, sweating profusely:
“Wait a moment, let me see who this is!”
Last time he commentated on Hui Jin, he was drenched in sweat.
How did another hero whose name he didn’t even know pop up out of nowhere this time?
“Hey! Monster!”
On the battlefield, the tin man called out to Zhan Che.
His voice seemed to be processed, heavy and mixed with electronic sounds, but it could still barely be made out to be a man.
Hearing the voice, Zhan Che slowly turned its cracked, unhealed head toward him.
“I said…”
The tin man raised his hand high, and what stood on that hand was clearly a middle finger!
“Fuck your mother!”
As soon as these words came out, both the person and the monster were stunned.
“Eh?” Hui Jin stared at him blankly.
“Roar—!!!”
Zhan Che let out an angry roar, slamming both claws onto the ground.
It dropped onto all fours and charged explosively at the tin man!
“Even without consciousness, it still gets angry at such words, huh? Seems it hasn’t died completely yet.”
The tin man touched the ground with the tip of his right foot, slowly rotating his ankle as if doing warm-up exercises before running.
Hui Jin felt that the tone of his speech sounded somewhat familiar.
Then, he suddenly lowered his body, one foot placed behind him, and his right hand slapped his waist.
Only then did Hui Jin notice that there was a square object at his waist, with a shoulder strap connecting both ends, looking like a cassette box shoulder bag.
When the tin man slapped the cassette box, the surface of the cassette box burst out with a dazzling pale blue light.
This light shot into the sky, projected a ring there, and finally wrote a vertical and a horizontal line:
It was the letter L.
“Found it!”
In the live stream, Colonel Guan cheered:
“I finally found it. This is the one who just became a registered hero two days ago…”
“—Kamen Rider L.”
Every step Zhan Che took made the ground crack inch by inch.
Its eyes were bloodshot, black aura trailing behind it, and its charging posture was like an enraged brown bear.
“Kill… you…!”
Fragmented words spilled from its mouthparts.
“According to the Task Force’s description, this Kamen Rider uses a temporary code name, and his combat armor is still in the testing phase. The current version is V1.0.2. There are no previous combat records for him, which means this is his debut battle!”
“Facing a C+ rank monster in his first battle—isn’t that a bit difficult for a rookie who’s just starting out?”
Amid Colonel Guan’s questioning voice and under the witness of countless eyes, Kamen Rider L shattered the ground and leaped into the air!
At the same time, the “tape” in the cassette box began to spin, saying in a magnetic and standard English voice:
“A jump to the sky turns to a Rider Kick!”
—A jump to the sky, Rider Kick!