Hey, everyone. This is the second chapter of this story.
As for the other stories that I had done, I'm still either having a story block or losing my motivation to write it until I have regained my drive to write.
This chapter is identical to the second episode, but I modified it although it might be boring to you.
To answer itspowertime's question, I'm not going to answer that because I might change my mind later on or not.
If you spot any grammar and spelling errors, I try my best to write it better unless I'm going to rewrite it if it does not suit your taste or you hate it with passion.
Disclaimer
I don't own any characters from Kamen Rider and Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan Franchise as both belong to their respective owners except my OCs
Page 2: The Water Swordsman Along With a Blue Lion
"Kamiyama Touma. Mind handing over the Wonder Ride Book and Rekka, the Sword of Flames?"
Touma and Mei were speechless at the most bizarre sight in his bookstore; A man riding on a mechanical lion. They were unable to control their composure upon seeing them and they could not even take a break after being in another world and fighting the monster. They wished that they had enough of their misadventure and rested for the whole night if it was not for the strange visitor.
"A blue…"
"Lion?!"
The blue mechanical lion roared.
"Right?! He's even riding on it!" Mei said in shock as he began to walk towards the lion for a close inspection, but was stopped by Touma. "What the heck?!"
"I read in a book that in your culture, it's rude to enter with shoes on," said the man, pointing out their duo's country's culture.
"...I'm pretty sure using a lion is just as bad," Mei corrected the man with her deadpan expression.
The man sweatdropped as he realized his mistake and hopped off his companion lion. He took out his opened Wonder-Ride Book and his lion transformed into a couple of pages before being absorbed into the book. He felt embarrassed by his action and lack of knowledge as he might have scared the duo.
"Oh, my apologies. I'm still not fully versed in this country yet." The man apologized to the duo with a smile.
"And you are?" Touma asked for the man's name.
"I am Shindo Rintaro of the Sword of Logos," The man, Rintaro, introduced himself.
"Sword of Logo? I never heard of the company or public organization with Blazers in our country," Mei voiced her question to Rintaro.
"That's because we're a secret organization," Rintaro answered, referring to his organization.
"I see," Touma nodded in understanding.
"But do not worry, you shouldn't feel suspicious of me whatsoever," Rintaro reassured the duo of his status quote with a smile, which unfortunately was not reassuring at all.
A silent awkwardness became tension among the people while the model train made a sound, moving through the rail.
"Yeah… I don't think so," Mei said, displaying her doubt towards Rintaro. "You're the definition of suspicious!"
Touma silently agreed with Mei.
Rintaro cleared his throat and moved towards the duo, but they began to move as well around the displayed table to distance themselves from him.
While walking, Rintaro began to speak, "The Sword of Logos is a secret guild that has maintained the balance of the world for eons." He stopped and continued. "The Wonder Ride Book you hold possesses great power, which makes it very dangerous."
Touma took out his Wonder-Ride Book to show Rintaro his question. "What exactly is this?"
"I'm afraid I can't say anymore," Rintaro frowned, refusing to answer Touma before reasoning. "You might still be in danger, so would you mind handing it over?"
Touma was conflicted about handing "Brave Dragon" to Rintaro. He knew that Rintaro had known so much about his book, a secret organization, and the strange world that he and his friends had encountered. He should have handed it over to him for safekeeping so that no one ever used it for a dangerous purpose. However, he remembered the dream that he was having and desired to find an answer to it.
After a few moments, Touma answered, "I can't do that."
The model train made the sound again.
Rintaro was shocked by Touma's answer but quickly recovered and repeated it. "Perhaps you didn't hear me correctly?"
"This is something very important to me. I'm sorry, but I can't hand it over," explained Touma, seriously.
Rintaro frowned at Touma's explanation and before he was about to speak, a noise disturbed their conversation.
GATRING! GATRING!
Touma and Mei scanned around to find the source until they saw Rintaro taking a strange-looking opened book-like phone.
Rintaro pressed the green button with the call sigil and moved it to the side of his face to answer.
"Yes?"
The duo was curious about the identity of the caller.
"I understand."
Rintaro ended the call and walked to the side where the bookshelf was.
"Kamiyama Touma, I'll be using this space," Rintaro said before taking out a brown Wonder-Ride Book with the picture cover of the tunnel hole made out of the books and the title at the top of the foreign language, "Book Gate". He opened it, revealing the right "page" of the blackhole-like portal silhouette.
BOOK GATE
The bookshelf transformed into a door.
OPEN GATE
The door opened itself to reveal a portal.
Touma and Mei were awed at the door with her screaming, "An Anywhere Door!"
"No, this is a Book Gate, not an Anywhere Door," Rintaro corrected Mei before turning to Touma. "Kamiyama Touma, I've linked this door to our headquarters. Would you mind coming with me?" He turned to Mei. "You can wait here, Ms. Sudo Mei."
Mei frowned and became grumpy at Rintaro that Touma could go, not her.
"You're so stingy, Rintaro!" Mei shouted with a cross.
Rintaro could not fault Mei for being irritated with him for not allowing her to go to the portal, but he allowed Touma only because he had both Rekka and "Brave Dragon'' Wonder-Ride Book. He noticed the crepes on the table and widened his eyes in shock as if he saw something special about it.
Mei noticed Rintaro looking at the crepes and smiled broadly that he was drawn to it, believing that he was hungry for sweets.
Rintraro however shook his head to control himself and became composure.
"Shall we?" Rintaro asked before entering the door.
Touma walked to the door and stepped inside, but he was then unable to control his balance upon entering as he was flying inside the portal while Rintaro was able to control his balance well.
"I'm upside down!"
The door was opened as Rintaro and Touma entered the room while Touma dizzily tried to balance himself after experiencing the flying through the portal. He was glad that Mei was not coming with him or otherwise, she would vomit after experiencing it. As he stood up straight, he was surprised to see the room.
The room was filled with many filled bookshelves and an unknown technology along with its decoration which was a book theme.
"Holy smokes, this is amazing!" Touma outburst excitedly with his eyes sparkling before rushing to the technology in front of him to take a close examination. "I've never seen anything like this!"
Rintaro ran towards Tomua and grabbed him to pull him away. "I understand your sentiments, but please don't touch anything."
A 'ting' sound was heard, causing the two to look upward and the bookshelves began to slide to their opposite revealing, a young woman with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a white dress and on her head was a gold headpiece.
She stepped out of the elevator and walked forward to look down to see Touma and Rintaro.
"I am Sophia, a protector serving the Sword of Logos," the woman introduced herself. "This northern base is located in the North Pole."
"North Pole?!"
Touma was in disbelief that the Sword of Logos' headquarters was
s stationed in the north pole. No wonder the League of Mage-Knight or other public organizations did not know about it and its location and they had no idea that it was located in the plain snowy environment.
"R-Right, the North Pole…"
"We have been operating from here alongside the swordsmen chosen by the Scared Swords to protect the book of greater power that created this world. This is how we've been maintaining its balance," Sophia explained the intention of Sword of Logos.
Rintaro was a little surprised that Sophia had decided to tell Touma about the existence of their organization. He was against it because Touma was not part of their organization, although he trusted Sophia's judgment on their conversation.
"Is it all alright to tell him?" asked Rintaro.
Sophia nodded.
"Books that hold power and swords…" Touma muttered in amazement.
"That Sacred Sword has deemed you worthy of becoming a Kamen Rider," said Sophia.
"A Kamen Rider?" Touma asked as he took his Seiken Swordriver out and glanced at it.
"Yes, Swordsmen chosen by the sacred Swords go by that name," Rintaro explained about the title of the Swordsmen.
Touma admitted that everything Sophia had said about Sword of Logos and their mission was a lot to take in. He also could not believe that the whole world that he lived in was created by the greater powerful book.
"So, where's the powerful book that you speak of now?" asked Touma.
The question caused a grim expression to appear on both Sophia and Rintaro's faces.
"The powerful book, Book of Ancients, which contained every single piece of the information and much more, doesn't exist in its popper form at the moment," Sophia answered dejectedly, causing Touma to blink. She then explained, "A long time ago, the conflict surrounding the Book of Ancients caused the pages to scatter across the world, transforming into Wonder-Ride Books."
"Seriously?" Touma exclaimed in shock as he took "Brave Dragon" out and stared at it.
"Yes, it's true," Rintaro replied.
"Does the government or league of mage-knights know about this existence? They surely will help you with this matter," said Touma.
"Unfortunately, they don't because we cannot risk exposing ourselves to the public to make matters more difficult, or else few will harness the book for misuse of power like Megido." Sophia solemnly explained to Touma.
Touma was distressed by the revelation. He knew that Sophia was right about the misuse of power that would cause a major incident or disaster if not handled properly. The government and the League of mage-knight were out of options to be entrusted. He nonetheless continued to ask Sophia more questions.
"Megido?" asked Touma.
"They're a group of monsters who aimed to obtain the power for world domination. They are led by three leaders; Storious, Legeiel, and Zooous, including the traitor to our guild, Calibur," Rintaro explained before asking, "Do you remember the golem you fought with?"
"Yes, I remember. He is part of that group, isn't it?"
Rintaro nodded. "They're responsible for moving the part of the city to Wonder World, a world beaming with the power of imagination, created by the Book of Ancient too."
"That's a lot to take in…" Touma muttered in a little shock at hearing more information. He then glanced at Sophia with determination. "What should I do?"
Sophia smiled.
"This is a battle that started long ago and will continue without end. What you should do can only be dictated by your heart."
The sound of the door opening caused everyone to look at the visitor. The visitor stepped into the room and they turned out to be a young woman with light green braid ponytail hair and dark green eyes, including her spectacles. She paused at her track when she saw everyone in the room and her eerily expression was visible.
"Miss Sophia, Did I interrupt something important?" The young woman asked in worry.
Sophia shook her head. "No, we just finished the meeting, Sara."
"I see," noted the woman, Sara.
Sara noticed Touma and Rintaro, but her eyes popped off when he glanced at Touma in shock.
"What's wrong, Sara?" Rintaro asked with worry.
"Kamiyama Touma!? The author of the famous novel, Lost Memory!?" Sara shouted at the top of her lungs.
Everyone was taken aback by Sara's scream.
"What is he doing here?! Is he the recruit?!" Sara asked loudly.
"Yes, He's the current wielder of Kaenken Rekka," Sophia replied while slowly recovering from Sara's scream.
"Eeeeehhhhh?!" Sara screamed in dismay before becoming dazed and fainted with a loud thud.
"Ah! Sara!" Rintaro shouted in shock as she rushed to unconscious Sara to check her.
Sophia covered her mouth in shock before descending the stairs fast to join Rintaro to check on Sara.
Touma was a little troubled by Sara, but judging from her, she might be a fan of his novel. He felt a little responsible for the cause of her faintness and he could not blame her for seeing a famous novelist like him realistically. He hoped that she was alright because she hit the ground hard.
A bell rang and the young people walked out of the room, wearing the uniform which was the same as Izuku.
Izuku sighed in tiredness while listening to his teacher rambling about the history of Blazer. He was glad that he was not called out for being lazy and not listening to his teacher's talk. It was because of yesterday's eventful incidents such as transporting to another world, a strange monster attack, and Touma transforming into an armored knight.
Izuku had to lie that he got caught in a car accident which was more believable because of his injury caused by the Gansekiou Golem. If he told the teachers about it, they thought that he would be mentally ill unless one of them had the same experience as him and his friends.
"Izuku!"
Izuku turned around to see the young boy with black blue hair tips and yellow eyes walking towards him with his hand waving.
"Nagaoka," Izuku greeted the young boy.
"I heard that you got into a car accident," said Nagaoka with a concerned tone.
"Yeah, but it's nothing serious. Just a minor injury," Izuku coolly dismissed Nagaoka's concern for him.
"If you say so," Nagaoka shrugged before asking Izuku. "Hey, have you heard the news?"
Izuku knew what Nagaoka was talking about and pretended to be clueless. "What news?"
"The news said that the area was suddenly transformed into a large open book and later returned after a few minutes. Some people who have been trapped inside talked about their experience and said that they have transported into another world," Nagaoka explained to Izuku in detail.
"Another world?"
"Yeah, they say that the world that they were stuck in was out of a fantasy book and they saw a flying whale and dragon."
"That's… Amazing."
"I know and some of us are talking about the topic posted on the internet, especially that newspaper girl in our academy."
"Kagami is very hungry for exciting rumors and news to post on the internet and blog."
"Fortunately, she is more focused on Rank F student, Ikki Kurogane."
Izuku was silently relieved that Kagami would not investigate yesterday's incident since she would be focusing on Ikki. Although he was going to feel sympathy for him because from what he heard, she tended to be too hungry, it was the only way to distract her from it. He never wanted her to investigate something more dangerous that would kill her and he hoped that it would stay that way.
Izuku and Nagaoka stopped in their tracks as many people were crowded in their path. They wondered why, but they noticed something behind the crowd. They saw a girl with crimson red twin ponytail hair arguing with another girl with silver short hair while the boy with spiky black hair was powerless to top and the third girl with peach blonde short hair and spectacles taking a picture with her camera which he knew was her identity: Kagami Kusakabe.
What a nostalgic sight.
This reminded Izuku of the news displaying the scene of two celebrity women arguing with each other while over the man who was stopping them in front of the paparazzi.
"Damn, Ikka sure is going to be super popular… I wish that I'm more popular than him," Nagaoka said with jealousy, looking at the black-haired boy.
"Keep dreaming," Izuku replied sarcastically with his rolled eyes as he began to walk away from Nagaoka.
"Hey, wait for me!" Nagaoka shouted as he jogged to join Izuku.
The wooden hand was writing.
"Things are proceeding well."
The man with black combed hair that held an extension on his left that went down below his waist walked to his group with a smirk.
"A new Alter Book nears completion."
The purple swordsman, Calibur, stood silently.
'Kamen Rider…'
Touma was glancing at his Seiken Swordriver and "Brave Dragon" with a conflicted expression. He does not know if he was capable of being the swordsman of Flame despite defeating the Gansekiou Golem on his first try. He had no experience of handling the sword for his entire life and he was not even Blazer. He was just a mundane novelist and bookstore owner in his daily life. However, on the other hand, he knew that being a swordsman would be a burden to protect the world from evil, but he would be glad to do it because he hated to see everyone's demise including the children who had a bright future ahead of them. He also desired to resolve his missing fragment of childhood memories to find the identity of the girl in white.
The door, which the bookshelf has transformed, opened, revealing Rintaro stepping out.
Touma noticed Rintaro coming out of the door.
"Rintaro…"
"A part of the city has yet to be recovered and I'm going to go save those people now," Rintaro said with a serious tone before asking. "What are your plans?"
"I'll come with you, of course!" Touma replied without hesitation and with determination on his face.
"This is a huge responsibility that comes with danger."
"Even so, I want to save everyone!"
Rintaro nodded in acknowledgment with a smile.
"I understand, but do not worry, I will be alongside you the entire time."
Touma and Rintaro were standing outside of the invisible barrier of the enormous holographic opened book.
"How many members in Sword of Logos and are they Blazers as well?" asked Touma.
"Yes, but there are too many for me to count," said Rintaro. "As for your second question, yes and no. Some of us are non-blazers while others are not."
"Are Blazers useless against Megido?"
"No, they can hurt them, but they can't destroy them without proper equipment like our Sacred Sword and the Wonder-Ride Books."
Rintaro placed his Seiken Swordriver, similar to Touma's, except instead of the red guard of the sword, it was blue, on his waist.
A large blue translucent book materialized in front of Touma and Rintaro and opened.
"A sacred sword allows travel to the other side," Rintaro informed Touma about Seiken Swordriver's ability.
As Touma and Rintaro prepared to enter the opened book portal, they heard a familiar voice at the distance from their spot.
"Touma!"
Touma turned around and became shocked at the source in front of him.
"Mei!?"
Mei, who appeared to be riding on her bicycle, smiled happily and began to ride toward Touma and Rintaro.
"I'm going too!" Mei shouted in high spirits.
"H-Hey, wait for a second!"
It was too late.
The trio crashed to the ground out of the portal and moaned that they hit the ground badly.
"Owie…" moaned Mei.
While everyone slowly stood up to his feet, he began to speak with a stern tone towards Mei, "Ms. Mei Sudo. This is no place for ordinary people. Going head-on with a bicycle…"
"What is that?! It's disgusting!"
Rintaro followed Mei pointing in the direction and widened his eyes at the bloomed burned page-like all over the building.
"The abnormalities are reaching the final stage," Rintaro said grimly as he examined the building and stepped out of the trio. "Leave it to me. I will show you how to fight."
Touma and Mei were surprised at Rintaro's declaration.
"Eh?! You can transform too, Rintaro?!" Mei questioned as she looked over to see the Seiken Swordriver strapped on Rintaro's waist.
Rintaro stepped forward and proclaimed, "In the name of Nagare, the Sword of Currents, I will keep this world free from harm's reach."
Rintaro took out the "Lion Senki" Wonder-Ride book and opened it, revealing the silhouette of the lion on the right "page".
'This blue mane records anew the wars of a noble king.'
Rintaro closed and placed his book on the middle-hand slot of his driver.
A standby sound played and a giant version of the "Lion Senki" Wonder-Ride book appeared behind Rintaro.
Rintaro placed his hand on Nagare before pulling Nagare out of the driver and the "Loin Senki" opened, revealing the torso and left arm of an armored figure.
NAGARE BATTOU (Unsheathe the Current)!
"Henshin!" Rintaro shouted before making a horizontal slash with his sword.
~LION SENKI!~
The blue mechanical lion came out of the book and fused with Rintaro, donning him in a black undersuit with gray portions, and white and blue accents decorating it. The center of his body held the face of a blue lion on his chest. There were two blue stripes on his back and two attached to his belt. His helmet was mostly black with the forehead being blue and a sliver blade protruding like a horn. The horizontal slash placed itself on the mask, transforming into a visor that flicks upward to the right.
NAGARE: VOLUME 1 - When the king of the wilds and Nagare, the sword of Currents unite, the azure blade shall bare its fangs!
NAGARE, THE SWORD OF CURRENTS!
Touma and Mei were amazed at Rintaro's Kamen Rider.
"I am Kamen Rider Blades, Swordsman of water." Rintaro, as known as Blades, introduced himself before dodging incoming projectiles when he noticed something flying toward him.
Blades stood up and prepared Nagare as he glanced at a black humanoid-ant with blank skin and silver armor-like parts.
The Ant-Megido, Ari, growled and spitted out its projectile at the trio.
Blades deflected the incoming projectiles with Nagara, which its blade was coated in water, while Touma moved Mei away for a safe spot.
As Blades barely dodged the projectile to the side, it flew past the duo and hit the pillar, melting the surface.
"Is it shooting acid?!" Mei exclaimed with fear and shock.
Blades deflected and dodged the acid projectiles. He swung his sword and fired a hydro blast at Ari into the air. He then jumped up and slashed it.
Ari hit the ground and hurriedly stood up as the book symbol on its chest glowed and multiple monster humanoids with black and silver skin along with a sliver mask-like face summoned. Draped around them are light brown and they carried a short sword. They began to rush towards Blades to overpower him.
Blades was, fortunately, able to fend off the monsters easily. He jumped back in the sky when he noticed the Ant Megido trying to attack from behind his back. He landed on the top of the shelter roof and examined them
"An Ant Megido… I sense a horde will follow," Blades mused, scanning the opened area.
His words came true as the horde, which was identical, came out of the hiding spot.
"As I suspect, but that's fine by me," Blades said before jumping off the roof and pressing the flipped "page" of his wonder-ride book.
LION SENKI!
"Lion Wonder!" announced Blades as the water holographic opened book appeared in the air and the blue mechanical lion flew out. He then swung his sword, turning the opened book into a vertical slash at the horde.
The vertical slash hits the horde, stunning them and the blue mechanical lion does the damage to them until they explode. The lion roared before jumping.
Blades landed on the ground, followed by the blue mechanical lion from behind with a roar.
"Awesome!" Touma exclaimed in bewilderment.
Blades chuckled with a smirk under his helmet and walked to the duo.
"This is but one way to fight."
"I knew you were strong!" said Touma.
"So much power! And you finished the fight in no time!" added Mei.
Blades however stopped the duo's compliment and turned around in seriousness.
"I'm afraid it isn't over quite yet," said Blades.
"The swordsman of water, Blades, has appeared," Calibur said, looking at the portal screen.
The three men's reactions towards Blades were mixed.
"Over here, everyone!" Touma shouted as he was pointing his finger in the direction to evacuate the people out of the building which slowly transformed.
As the last person leaving, Touma stepped forward with determination.
"I promise I'll make sure to save everyone," Touma stated before placing his Seiken Swordriver on his waist.
Touma opened and closed "Brave Dragon" when he took it out and placed it on his driver.
A large version of his wonder-ride books appeared behind Touma.
"Henshin!" Touma announced before removing Rekka from his driver with a quick motion.
REKKA BATTOU (UNSHEATH THE FLAME)!
-BRAVE DRAGON!~
Touma donned his armor on himself and transformed into Saber.
REKKA VOLUME 1 - When the brave dragon and Rekka, the Sword of Flames unite, the crimson blade shall pierce through all that is evil!
REKKA, THE SWORD OF FLAMES
Saber charged toward Shimis and began to fight. He slashed the grunts from left and right and he then straight-struck Ari. He however pushed back, overwhelmed by the grunts, and received a hit from behind.
The grunts were about to strike the downed Saber, but they missed the attack as Saber dodged their strike.
Saber stood up and continued to fight as well as Blades. He saw two Ant Megidos shooting their acid projectile at him and managed to avoid it by jumping. He then pressed the flipped "page" of his wonder-ride book.
BRAVE DRAGON!
Saber switched Rekka upside down and pulled his arm back while his fist was coated with flame.
"Dragon Punch!" Saber announced as he forwarded his punch and the red mechanical dragon flew off the now red large holographic open-book in front of him.
The red mechanical dragon rammed through the horde, destroyed them, and flew away to disappear.
As Blades finished the last Shimis, he turned around to Saber and became impressed with him for defeating the horde with ease. He believed that Saber had potential as a Swordsman despite him being a novice. He might be the most capable person who was willing to defend the world from evil.
"You wield your sword well," Blades complimented Saber.
Saber chuckled.
All of the sudden, a high-pitch sound was heard, causing Saber and Blades to wince in pain.
"Argh, my ear hurts!" Mei yelled as she was also affected and tried to cover her ears with her hands, but with no luck drowning the sound.
The high-pitch sound had stopped and Saber and Blades were in a daze while slowly recovering, but they noticed something coming toward them. They were fortunately evaded, but not expecting that it passed by them. They then looked up to see a green humanoid grasshopper on the roof joined by Ari, who was a little different because it did not drool with acid and its black color was less dark while its silver color was brighter.
"Humans think they're so clever…" the Grasshopper Megido, Kirigirisu, said in a male voice with mockery.
"Yes, they are, but they are not," Ari agreed with Kirigirisu in a female voice.
"So there was another one!" Blades exclaimed with caution.
"Look for yourself! Once this book is completed, this will become the new normal!" Kirigirisu laughed.
"What?" Saber said in shock before noticing the glowing book symbol on Ari's chest.
Both Ant Megido and Grasshopper Megido turned around and jumped up to retreat.
Saber and Blades were about to chase after the Megidos, they stopped in their tracks to hear Mei's agony voice.
"I can't go on…" Mei said weakly before collapsing to the ground.
The riders were shocked at Mei and rushed toward her to check on her,
"Mei!" shouted Saber, panicking.
Blades placed his two fingers on Mei's neck and felt her pulse pumping normally.
"Don't worry, she's still breathing. Let's take her back and regroup," Blades said with a sense of relief that Mei was not physically hurt.
"Thank goodness," Saber sighed in relief.
Touma and Rintaro barged into the room with the door opening loudly, causing Sara to drop a dust sweeper.
"What are those guys trying to do?!" Touma demanded Sophia for Medigo's intention.
"They must be replacing lost Wonder Ride Books to recreate the book of world creation," Sophia answered grimly.
"A book of world creation?!" Touma exclaimed in shock.
"They intend to obtain that great power," explained Rintaro.
"Then we need to go back there!" Touma shouted as he was about to walk to the door before being stopped by Sophia.
"That place has already been rewritten with Megido's book," said Sophia
A large chunk of the city area was on top of the holographic opened book in Wonder World.
"If they continue to rewrite reality, your lives as swordsmen will be at risk," Sophia continued with dejection. She knew that the city area was going to disappear soon so she decided not to allow the swordsmen to lose their life in destroying Megido.
Rintaro became depressed upon hearing from Sophia that the city area could not be saved even if his and Touma's lives were on the line.
"It can't be…" Rintaro muttered with frustration.
Touma however suddenly remembered the words from Grasshopper Megido.
"That creep said nothing would ever return to normal if that book is completed," Touma said before looking at Sophia. "That means if we defeat them before it's complete, then things will still be all right!"
"Recklessness and bravery are two different things," Sophia persuaded Touma to stop as she does not want him to lose his life in saving the almost wiped-out city area.
Balling his hand into a fist, Touma spoke with determination. "Even so, we must save the city because hope exists beyond our resolution!"
Sophia widened her eyes in shock to hear the familiar quotes from Touma.
"Those words…!"
A bright red light radiated brightly, causing everyone to look at it coming from the container before it opened itself.
Everyone was shocked and Touma walked toward it to examine the source. As he reached closer, he saw a black Wonder-Ride Book with the picture of a red sport motorcycle bike with the pointing sword's blade design front and title below the unrecognizable text, "Diago Speedy".
"What is this?" Touma questioned with curiosity, examining the "Diago Speedy" Wonder-Ride Book.
"It's a book that only you can use; Kamen Rider Saber," answered Sophia.
Touma picked up the black wonder-ride book to glance at it.
"Saber…"
ISSUE THE ISSUE, DIAGO SPEEDY!
A large blue translucent and opened book portal materialized and Touma and Rintaro stepped out of it before it disappeared.
The city environment was in the worst state of destruction as more burned page-like appeared all over the city and decaying buildings and streets.
"I will not accept this world," Rintaro said in seriousness.
'So this is the inside of a Megido's book…" Touma thought, examining the area.
"In the name of Nagare, the Sword of Currents, I will keep this world free from harm's reach," Rintaro proclaimed before opening "Lion Senki".
~LION SENKI!~
"I will save both the city and its people!" Touma announced before opening "Brave Dragon".
~BRAVE DRAGON!~
The duo placed their wonder-ride book on their Seiken Swordriver and pulled their sword out in quick motion.
REKKA/NAGARE BATTOU (UNSHEATH THE FLAME/CURRENT)!
"Henshin" The duo announced before transforming into Saber and Blades.
~BRAVE DRAGON!~
~LION SENKI!~
REKKA VOLUME 1 - When the brave dragon and Rekka, the Sword of Flames unite, the crimson blade shall pierce through all that is evil!
NAGARE: VOLUME 1 - When the king of the wilds and Nagare, the sword of Currents unite, the azure blade shall bare its fangs!
REKKA, THE SWORD OF FLAMES!
NAGARE, THE SWORD OF CURRENTS!
Blades took out his opened book-like phone and pressed the icon on the screen. He closed it like a book and threw it forward.
RIDE GATRIKER!
Blades' closed book-like phone transformed into a dark gold yellow three-wheeled motorcycle with orange detail and two Gatling Guns at the front.
Saber placed "Diago Speedy" on the left empty slot and pulled Rekka out.
START UP THE ROAR!
DIAGO SPEEDY!
"Diago Speedy" transformed into a motorcycle bike identical to its picture.
Saber was in awe to see Daigo Speedy for the first time along with Ride Gatriker.
"Let's ride," Blades said as he sat on Ride Gatriker.
"Right!" Saber nodded before sitting on Daigo Speedy.
Saber and Blades began to drive off.
The wooden hand continued to write.
"That Megido has been given another power, isn't it, Storius?" said the man with the brown highlights in his black hair.
The man with black combed hair, Storious, smirked. "Surely those swordsmen will be unable to stop it now."
Saber and Blades were driving through the street to locate both Ant and Grasshopper Megidos until they saw a crowd of enormous size black ants blocking their way.
As the riders reached closer, Saber took Rekka out and slashed the ants while Blades fired the Gatling guns to shred some into pieces. They went into the tunnel and continued to cut and shoot to clear their path until they exited with the explosion in the tunnel appearing behind them. They saw the collapsed hallway and jumped over it. They then landed perfectly and continued to drive, but interrupted the flying Kirigirisu.
Kirigirisu was stopped in front of them in the far distance and floated in the air while looking down at them.
"I'll turn you two into a part of our book too!"
"No doubt, that's the one controlling the ants…" said Blades as he prepared to attack Kirigirisu.
"Hold on," Saber said, stopping Blades before explaining. "The story is 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'. That would mean the grasshopper is protecting the ants!" He turned to Blades. "Go and find the shining ant! That's the queen multiplying their numbers!"
"Got it! Finding the shining ant…" Blades replied, acknowledging Saber.
The duo riders began to drive.
"Like I'd let you get away!" Kirigirisu shouted as he glided towards them to stop, but was interrupted by Saber.
"You'll have to face me first!" Saber shouted as he swung Rekka on Kirigirisu while Blades jumped off the hallway.
Blades was stepping the pedal to drive faster to find Ari until he, fortunately, spotted her in the open and empty street in the distance.
"There she is!"
"Damnit!" Ari yelled in fear as she summoned a couple of enormous ants in front to block Blades. "He's supposed to protect me!"
"Here goes!" Blades shouted as he pressed the trigger of Nagara twice.
FINAL PAGE!
Blades gestured his hands before firing a hydro blast out of his lion's mouth. It blasted through, destroying the enormous ants with ease, and hit Ari, causing her to float up in the air while trapping her in the cocoon of water.
Blades jumped up to the air from the Ride Gatriker and headed straight toward Ari with one of his legs covered in water.
LION! ONE VOLUME STRIKE - WATER!
"Lion Cascade!" Blades shouted before striking Ari, causing an explosion to occur.
As Blades landed on the Ride Gatriker safely, something came flying out of the explosion which he caught and when he properly looked at the object, his eyes widened in surprise; a light blue-green cover of Wonder-Ride Book with the picture of a giant beanstalk along with a boy climbing up it underneath the tile of "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" (Jackum and the Earthly Beanstalk)
"'Jackum-to-Domanenoki'," Blades said in the title of the Wonder-Ride book. "They used a Wonder Ride Book's power…"
Blades heard the noise and turned his head around to see Kirigirisu being chased by Saber.
Kirigirisu tried to attack Blades while flying past him, but Blades easily tilted his head to avoid his blade.
Saber braked Daigo Speedy beside Blades.
"Did you defeat the queen ant?" Saber asked Blades.
Blades nodded and displayed "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" to Saber. "A Wonder Ride Book can be used like this as well."
Blades moved "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" to the tip of Nagara and scanned it.
JACKUM-TO-DOMANENOKI (Jack and the Beanstalk)!
HMM, HMM…
Blades swung his sword, firing the beans coated in the water towards Kirigirisu and he successfully hit him.
"It can learn?!" Saber asked loudly, referring to his and Blades' sword as he got off Daigo Speedy.
Kirigirisu recovered from staggering by the bean and turned around to face Saber and Blades.
"It doesn't matter what you do! This will become our world!" Kirigirisu shouted arrogantly before flying up to the sky with his laugh.
"What?! exclaimed Saber.
Blades handed "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" to Saber. "Please give it a try!"
Saber nodded.
"I'll give it a shot," Saber said as he grabbed "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" from Blades.
Saber slotted Rekka back to his driver and closed "Brave Dragon" before hurriedly placing "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" on the left empty slot.
This however caused Blades in shock.
"Wait, it's too early for you to try two volumes!" Blades shouted to stop Saber but fell deaf to him.
The giant-size "Brave Dragon" and "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" appeared behind Saber.
Saber drew his sword in a quick motion.
REKKA BATTOU (UNSHEATH THE FLAME)!
The Wonder-Ride Books opened, with "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" showing a left arm in green armor.
WHEN TWO BOOKS SYNTHESIZE, THE SACRED BLADE IS INFUSED WITH POWER! WONDER RIDER!
The mechanical red dragon flew around Saber.
Green vines came out of the newly added Wonder Ride Book and covered Saber's left side. His left side was now gray and green along with a trench-coat piece covering his left leg. The sword-like horn on his head had a vine winding around it.
DRAGON! JACKUN-TO-DOMANENOKI (Jack and the Beanstalk)!
THE BLADE EQUIPPED WITH TWO ATTRIBUTES WILL BE HONED!
Blades was in shock that Saber was able to utilize two Wonder-Ride Books' to transform into a form. He thought that he was not ready to use the form which would put a strain on him since he had not trained like a Swordsman. He was proved wrong.
"...Or, uh, maybe it isn't."
Saber looked at his new appearance and chuckled that he received a new form before firing the bean at the ground, which caused Blades's shock again.
"There's no meaning in attacking the ground!" Blades shouted in panic before repeatedly pointing at the sky where Kirigirisu was. "Aim above!"
"It's fine this way!" Saber reassured with a smile under his helmet.
The ground suddenly glowed and a large green holographic Wonder-Ride book appeared on the ground and opened. It revealed a giant beanstalk shooting up from it.
"Wait, what," Blades muttered.
Saber walked to the Daigo Speedy and sat on it. He then drove towards the beanstalk which continued to grow.
"Hehehe, those swordsmen were useless to chase me in the sky!" Kirigirisu laughed excitedly as his victory was in his hand.
However, when Kritigrisu looked down, he was shocked to see a beanstalk growing at a fast pace. He then heard a motorcycle sound and spotted Saber riding onto it.
"Get back here!" shouted Saber.
"What the!" Kirigirisu exclaimed before flying through the air.
However, the beanstalk changed direction to follow the grasshopper megido.
REV UP THOSE TIRES AND AWAKEN THE CRIMSON BODY WITHIN!
With the blade as a symbol, the flowing words accelerate with every issue!
DIAGO SPEEDY!
"That's a brilliant way to use that power!" Blades commented, impressed.
As Saber reached closer to Kirigirisu in the sky, he swung Rekka and hit him.
Kirigirisu fell but regained control of his flying.
"It's too late, no matter what you do! This book is nearly completed!" shouted Kirigirisu.
Saber hopped off Diago Speedy and stood in front while looking down at Kirigirisu.
"No, I don't think so as I'll be the one to write how this story ends!" Saber stated before pressing the trigger of his sword and jumping off the beanstalk.
DRAGON! JACKUN-TO-DOMANENOKI (Jack and the Beanstalk)!
Saber's leg was covered in flames and took the form of a sword.
ONE VOLUME STRIKE - F-F-FIRE!
"Flaming Dragon Crushing Kick!" Saber shouted as he flew towards Kirigirisu.
Kirigirisu attempted to stop Saber's finishing move by throwing energy green slices at him, but the attacks were all knocked to the side by the vine that was attached to the left gauntlet. He screamed as the kick made contact with him, causing an explosion to occur.
Saber landed on the ground and when he turned around, he saw something flying in the air and caught it. He glanced at it and it turned out to be a light blue cover of Wonder-Ride Book with the picture of the boy and the girl holding their hands together while flying in the night with the fairy and the title, "Peter Fantasista".
"Peter Fantasista," Saber said in the title of the Wonder-Ride Book.
While riding Ride Gatriker, Blades spotted the remaining giant size ants and stood up onto them.
"With my swordsman pride on the line…" Blades announced while placing his hand on Nagare. "I will keep the balance of the world!"
Blades pressed his sword and pulled it out of his driver.
FINAL PAGE!
NAGARE BATTOU (UNSHEATH THE CURRENT): LION! VOLUME ONE SLASH - WATER!
"Hydro Stream!"
Blades began to cut the crowd of giant size ants one by one into pieces, leaving a trail of explosions until nothing was left.
Blades joined Saber as the destroyed city environment began to disappear into a cloud of golden dust, returning to reality while the building was repaired.
"Looks like we did it!" Blades said with a smile under his helmet.
"Look like it," Saber returned a smile.
The wooden hand stopped writing.
"Looks like you failed, Storious," said the spiky-haired man.
"And we lost two of our books," the man with brown highlights in his black hair added.
"It matters not, Legeiel, Zooous," Storious said, revealing the identities of two men before turning to Calibur. "Don't you agree, Swordsman of Darkness?"
Calibur scoffed. "This only accelerates my plans."
"So you must be Swordsman of Water, Shindo Rintaro, or Kamen Rider Blades, from what my cousin told me about."
"That's correct and you must be Mei Sudo's cousin, Izuku Hanshiro."
Izuku and Rintaro were having a greeting conversation and it was going smoothly. Izuku was informed by Mei on the phone line about Sword of Logos and Rintaro himself during his after school before arriving at Touma's store. It was shocking for Rintaro to know that Izuku was Mei's cousin, Blazer, and Hagun Academy's student. Nonetheless, it turned out to be fine. Nothing serious happened and ended up in an impossible fight.
Touma was lying on the sofa and sketching and writing "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" and "Peter Fantasista" in his notebook. As he finished, he stood up from the sofa and rushed toward Rintaro and Izuku with a sense of admiration and excitement.
"Rintaro!" Touma shouted, causing Rintaro and Izuku to face him. "Your sword skills were freaking insane," He demonstrated the sword swinging with his hand to Rintaro. "Mind telling me more about those books and swords?" He pleaded with him for the knowledge.
"Wonder Ride Books and Sacred Swords, to be precise," Rintaro corrected Touma before saying with a smile. "There's still a lot you can learn and feel free to call me Mr. Rintaro from now on."
Izuku chuckled at Rintaro for being happy to teach Touma a sword skill. Nonetheless, Rintaro could be a suitable teacher to teach Touma with a sword. Good for Touma.
"I can help him out with sword training if I had time since I'm a Blazer and a swordsman, but still, I need some training as well," Izuku said, offering his assistance to Rintaro.
"Sure! More people, merrier," replied Rintaro.
"I'll help you too, Rintaro!"
The trio turned to see Mei running towards them with a white box in her arm and pastry in her hand.
"You're being rather forward," Rintaro said to Mei.
"Mei, you know that you never wield a sword in your entire life," Izuku said with a frown.
"Come on, Izuku. I saw you practicing your sword with your blazer tutor and I know what I am doing!" Mei persuaded Izuku to believe in her.
"Are you sure? From the last time, you tried to swing a sword but accidentally threw it to the wall beside Touma," Izuku revealed Mei's past, pointing at Touma.
"Hey! I thought you completely forgot about it!" Mei yelled in embarrassment with a blush on her cheek.
"It's not that easy to forget, Cousin."
"Shut up!"
Rintaro chuckled at the banter of the cousins and turned to Mei. "I'm okay. I respectfully decline your offer."
Mei looked at Rintaro and pouted.
"If that's the case, then I don't have to share any of these!" Mei said, gesturing to the pastry in her hand, which was a long choux pastry topped with dark chocolate.
Rintaro widened his eyes and walked toward Mei with his interest in the pastry.
"Elairs au chocolat? I've only read about them, mind if I-"
Mei however turned her back on Rintaro with her smirk.
Rintaro realized what he was doing and stopped himself.
"No, a swordsman must have self-restraint and maintain their body…But sugar can help the brain, so what's the problems"
Mei became frightened by Rintaro.
"N-N-No way, they're eclairs! Wait, I can hear what you're thinking!"
While Rintaro and Mei were bickering, Touma took out "Jackum-to-Domanenoki" to glance at it in his hand and suddenly recalled the dream of the pop-up book that he had and the smiling girl in white.
'That girl again…' Touma thought with a frown, wanting to find out more about it since he joined Sword of Logos.
"Touma!"
Touma snapped out and turned to Izuku.
"We should eat it now or else these two might destroy it," Izuku said, pointing at Mei and Rintaro still bickering.
Touma chuckled with a smile.
All of the sudden, a bell rang, causing everyone to look at the front door to see the customer, but Izuku suddenly became surprised with his widened eyes. The customer who was standing in front of them was no other than Kagami Kusakabe.
"Kusakabe-Kun?" Izuku said Kagami's name.
"I'm glad that you heard about me and my newspaper club, Senpai," Kagami replied with an impressed tone.
"What are you doing here? Are you here to buy some books?"
"No, Senpai, I'm here to interview you, Sudo-San, and Kamiyama-San."
Izuku raised his eyebrow in confusion although he felt an omen feeling when Kagami entered the store.
"About what?" Mei asked with curiosity.
"Why of course, about the dimension world and your relationship with an armored knight/superhero!" answered Kagami.
The box crashed to the ground.
Next Time on Chivalry of Wonder
"Eeeehhhh?!"
"What are we supposed to do with her?!"
"Missing people?"
"Run!"
"I'm going to rescue them!"
Extra Notes
The next chapter is very different because I'm not going to not introduce Swordsman of Thunder yet until a certain chapter.
I made a Blazer that can hurt Megido, but they are not able to finish them with their power and devices because Scared Sword and Wonder-Ride Book can only destroy them. I want them to be useful and useless in the battle with Megido. They also do not know how to handle the situation, involving Wonder World and Megido and I think they could interface with the Swordsmen to make it a lot worse.
See you later.
