AN: Hey, guys, with school just around the corner I've figured it's time to release my latest chapter of Neon Genesis: W to out in a bang with. I hope you all enjoy it especially with my Wizard just around corner. Also this is my first tenth chapter in a story! So hooray! Now, ShowTime!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen Rider or Evangelion.
Episode 8: A Heated Cookout
Shinji was watching Ramiel's remains being cleaned up from the window in his office while Rei was downstairs doing what she normally does best. Shinji was wearing a black vest, red shirt, jeans, and black shoes along with a black fedora. Rei was wearing a light blue sleeveless hoodie, a black and white striped shirt, black tights, and white boots. In the GaiaLibrary she was searching up famous chefs and recipes.
Rei didn't know how to cook that good in fact the ramen she made was kind of proof. It's always been Shinji who was cooking for them the past couple of years. Also her curiosity was well planted into this category. After a few minutes she got out and went upstairs after hearing her stomach rumbling.
"Hey, aibou, when's our lunch here?" Shinji looked at his watch.
"Soon, Rei. I'm really hungry."
"Same here." Asuka said. It was Saturday and Misato had to go to a meeting that will take all day and Asuka got really bored spending the day at the place so she decided to spend the day with the two detectives.
"Finally!" Shinji said before he opened the door. He sees Mr. Hibachi, a local food cart owner.
"Shinji, you have to help me!"
"What?"
"My cart…it's been ruined. A monster attacked it!"
"Does that mean no lunch!?" Asuka asked.
"That is obviously out of the question!" The three then had a need for revenge against the one who ruined their lunch.
"Don't worry, I'll find whoever did this. No matter what!" Shinji said with determination before all three heard their stomachs growling.
(Play WBX Xtreme by Aya Kamiki and TAKUYA)
[Start of the song] Kamen Rider W watches over the city on the top of the building. Scene slowly shifts to the logo with Shinji and Rei on top of it. Scene changed with Shinji putting on one of his hat and Rei putting her book away.
[W-B-X Crime and the City]
[Mata dareka ga totsuzen Door wo tataku] Scene changes to a mysterious person knocking on the door.
[Jiken no yokan Welcome to Windy City] Scene shift to the figure talking to Shinji.
[Kono machi ni wa namida niawanai ze] Scene changes to Shinji going around town asking questions revolving his case without being caught.
[Yami ni hisomou KEYWORD mitsuke dasou] Shinji accidentally bumps into a person which is revealed to be Asuka and hits him with her slipper. Then the word, "KEYWORD", is written on the board. While Shinji and Asuka are exploring a dark place while Rei is in RevolGarry about to go into the GaiaLibrary.
[Hittori de wa todokanai yume (Kensaku suru mugen no Archive kioku to iu umi e to Dive)] Rei finds the book she needs while Shinji and Asuka are caught and Rei starts reading it.
[Kimi to nara kanaerareru Half & Half (Double Boiled Extreme!)] Scene changes to the six halves of W then Rei and Asuka teasing Shinji and soon W took their place riding on the HardBoiler. Then the 6 halves begin walking towards the screen with Joker, Trigger, and Metal on the left and Cyclone, Luna, and Heat on the right. The scene shows Shinji getting out his Joker memory and Rei getting out her Cyclone Memory. The two makes their henshin position despite being far apart.
[W-B-X! Futari no Body & Soul (Hoka naisa only tsumari ainori) hitotsu ni] The Joker and Cyclone halves form W. Next scene shows Shinji and Rei being told about the case and the next in which the two are trying to avoid NERV.
[W-B-X! Saikou no Partner deau toki] Scene shows various forms of W and then W on the HardBoiler in the RevolGarry, which is starting to close.
[Kiseki Okoru (So we can make it!) W wo sagase!] W rides on the highway on the HardBoiler with RevolGarry behind and behind that is Eva-01 with the same color as W.
As song ends Shinji and Rei stand back-to-back and the camera rotates on them and W. The logo appears again with forms of W and ends with the Cyclone and Joker form performing the famous pose.
Shinji and Asuka were at the Fuumen Cart and investigating the damage done to it. Whoever it was the damage was really brutal.
"Aw man, I'm ruined." Mr. Hibachi said. Shinji was taking pictures with the Bat Shot while Asuka was looking over the wreckage.
"Are you sure you want to come with me? It gets pretty dangerous." Shinji said.
"And being with Wonder Girl doesn't get boring? All she does is go into that library of hers at least with you it doesn't get boring." Asuka explained.
"You got a point right there." Shinji said as he put his camera away. "I will avenge you, Fuumen Cart." Just then Asuka hit him with his slipper.
"Don't say that it like its dead, baka!" Asuka said.
"But look at it." Shinji pointed out. He soon went over to Mr. Hibachi. "Ok, so tell us, how did this happen?"
"I don't really know. I just came here to open up shop but when I got to my cart…well you can guess what happens next."
"I see."
"If it means anything this isn't the first time a local food place got trashed around here."
"Huh?"
"Recently there have been a number of restaurants and food carts being trashed."
"Well that kinda makes things easier if there are multiple food service places being destroyed then we can easily point out a place where the culprit is." Shinji said. But then Mr. Hibachi approached him.
"Thing is, Shinji, is that us food owners have an active community amongst ourselves. We're all good friends so we can't possibly imagine any of us doing this." Mr. Hibachi explained.
"There has to be something." Asuka said. Mr. Hibachi seemed to be thinking until he thought of something.
"Every week we would always have this cook off to see who would be the best cook but that was just for fun."
"So when is the latest one?"
"Actually it was couple of nights ago and I won."
"What about last week?" Shinji asked.
"Asuno won and his place got destroyed the next day. I think it just got repaired the last I heard."
"Where is it?"
"Just down the street, you can't miss it." Shinji and Asuka went there. They went to the Chow Shack.
"Welcome to the Chow Shack, can we get you a table." The two were about to say no but quickly changed their minds as they heard their stomachs growling. While eating Asuka decided to start a conversation.
"So...are you now considered allies of NERV?"
"Yeah, I don't like it but it's the only way me and Rei could access the Eva."
"I still don't get why you or Wonder Girl hate NERV. We do some good."
"Why do you support NERV?"
"I don't have to explain myself to you."
"Ok, then means the same for me and Rei." Just then the check came in and after paying Shinji went to the front desk. He ordered some food to go for Rei and requested to speak with Mr. Asuno. They were led to his office. Shinji showed his ID and badge.
"Mr. Asuno, I'm Shinji, I've been hired to look into the recent destruction of food stands and restaurants." Mr. Asuno immediately got what he was saying.
"It's about time that someone does something about this. I've heard what happened to the Fuumen Cart, it's really bad."
"So was this often?"
"As far as I can tell, all the victims were participants in the cook off." This slightly surprised Shinji.
"Not just the winners?"
"No, sometimes it's the one who loses that gets his place trashed."
"Are these cook offs public?" Mr. Asuno nodded.
"Anyone could watch them. We usually hold it at night in Tomoko's Grill and Show."
"When's the next one being held?"
"We usually hold these a couple of times during the week. So in two days, I think." Shinji nodded.
"Alright thank you, Mr. Asuno. We'll keep looking into this."
"Good, whoever did this, needs to face up for his crime." Shinji and Asuka left and while walking Asuka decided to break the silence again.
"Alright, I have a question."
"Okay."
"Do you have feelings for Wonder Girl?" Shinji blushed.
"What is that supposed to mean!?"
"So you do!?"
"Well, I respect her as my partner and she's also my best friend."
"But do you want to be…more than that with her?" Shinji thought about it while the two did know each for a couple of years and been through a lot together so it is possible that he might've developed feelings for her but he didn't want to say anything until he knows that the feeling is mutual.
"She's my partner and friend that's it."
"That's just what Wonder Girl said but like her I could definitely tell you're hiding your feelings."
"Whatever." Shinji said. Shinji got on his phone and called Rei.
"Hello?"
"Rei, I have some keywords for you to use along with a plan to catch the culprit."
"Shinji…I can't focus when I'm too hungry. I didn't even go into the GaiaLibrary after you and Asuka left."
"Alright, alright, I'll come back with food." Shinji said, holding the bag of food he got for Rei. It was kind of hard to pick since she doesn't eat meat. "We should probably get this to Rei soon before she starves to death. I really got to buy some groceries later."
As they were walking they see people running away as if something terrified them. Shinji and Asuka looked to two monstrous figures. One looked like a knight but his armor was black, looked demonic, and had these red glowing eyes. The other had a black body with fire surrounding it.
"You're that detective! Trust us when we say this but stay off this case!" The Magma Dopant demanded.
"Indeed if you know what's best then stay off this case. We won't warn you again." The Knight Dopant said, agreeing with his partner.
"Asuka, get to a safe spot." Asuka nodded before Shinji gave her the food. Shinji got the Double Driver out and placed it on. "Anyways, guys, I don't think so. Ikuze, Rei."
(Double Detective Agency)
Rei was sitting down but her upper body was slumped on the table. She felt the Driver on her and got up.
"I'm really hungry, Shinji. But I guess I don't really have much of a choice." She said before getting out her Cyclone Memory.
"CYCLONE!"
"Henshin!"
Rei placed the Memory in the Driver which soon went away causing her to fall into the chair but her upper body resumed being slumped on the table.
Shinji got his Joker Memory out.
"JOKER!"
"Henshin!"
A few seconds later the Cyclone Memory appeared. Shinji jammed it in and placed the Joker Memory in the remaining slot. He soon pushed the two slots away from each other.
"CYCLONE-JOKER!"
As the tune was playing Shinji transformed into W.
"Kamen Rider!" Both the Dopants remarked. W's right eye started blinking.
"Two Dopants? How interesting. I guess our battle today is going to be very different."
"Probably but the result is the same." Shinji said before W charged. W jumped and kicked the Knight Dopant causing him to stumble while he dodged the Magma Dopant's attempts to swat him away.
The Knight Dopant withdrew his sword and charged. W sees him and quickly moves away causing him to slash at his partner by accident.
"Watch it!" The Magma Dopant said.
"It wasn't my fault."
"Sounds like these two aren't the best partners." Rei remarked.
"Yeah, they aren't." W said before getting out the Metal Memory.
"METAL!"
W replaced the Joker Memory with the Metal Memory.
"CYCLONE-METAL!"
W changed and withdrew his staff before charging.
W hit the Knight Dopant away before sending multiple hits to the Magma Dopant. The Knight Dopant placed his sword away while he withdrew a bow and arrow. The Knight Dopant hit W causing him to stumble back. The Magma Dopant used this opportunity to punch W multiple times before kick him away.
W flew back before he rolled on the stairs. W got up and picked up his staff. As the two Dopants got close to him W stood up in a combat position.
"For a Kamen Rider, I expected more than this." The Magma Dopant said.
"Just watch." W said before he charged again. W blocked the Knight Dopant's sword while he kicked away the Magma Dopant. W then ran, pushing the Knight Dopant up against the wall. "So you two are the ones wrecking the food business around here!?" W demanded to know.
"Maybe, anybody obtaining the balance will deal with us."
"Perfect balance?" Rei wondered while the Magma Dopant went to them.
"Shut up, idiot! We can't have him know what we're doing!" The Magma Dopant screamed.
"It's not like he's going to stop us."
"You'd be surprised." W said. Before he disarmed the Knight Dopant and slashed at him with his staff. The Magma Dopant pulled W off of him in a headlock. The Knight Dopant then ran up to W before bashing him with his shield.
W, having enough, kicked the Knight Dopant away and flipping the Magma Dopant over.
"Alright, let's see if you guys can handle this." W said before placing the Metal Memory in his staff.
"METAL! MAXIMUM DRIVE!"
"METAL TWISTER!" W announced, from both sides, before charging his staff with an aura green wind. W charged but the Magma Dopant moved out of the way leaving the Knight Dopant as an open target. W sent multiple strikes at the Knight Dopant before sending one last powerful hit.
The Knight Dopant soon exploded leaving an unconscious worn out man and a broken GaiaMemory. The Magma Dopant appeared to be in shock.
"You're next." W said as he got his staff ready.
"This isn't the end of this." The Magma Dopant said before making a wall of fire between him and W. When it faded, he was gone.
"He got away." W said in frustration.
"Yes, but we did capture his accomplice." Rei pointed out making W look at the unconscious person.
"Yeah, I suppose that's something. Let's leave him for the police." W said before walking away.
(Later at Double Detective Agency)
Shinji and Asuka come back in to see a starved Rei slumped on the table.
"Rei, you're back in your body now you can get up." Shinji said.
"I know…but I'm too hungry to move."
"How long have you been like that?" Asuka asked,
"What time is it?"
"It's one o'clock."
"I've been like this ever since you two left."
"And you haven't even visited the GaiaLibrary?" Rei shook her head.
"It's not fair that you two get to eat without me." Rei stated. Shinji drops the bag in front of her causing her to quickly regain her composure.
"Never say I'm unfair." Shinji said before he and Asuka allowed Rei to eat. Rei instantly opened the bag and started eating. After a few minutes of allowing her to eat she went to the GaiaLibrary.
"Keyword?"
"Keyword: Cook off." Rei soon sees a few bookshelves disappearing but enough to last a few years.
"Keyword: Tokyo-3." More bookshelves disappeared leaving only a couple more left.
"Next?"
"Keyword: Magma Memory and Knight Memory."
With that placed in the results there were only a handful of books left.
"Shinji, I still have a lot of books here. Maybe one last keyword can do." Shinji thought about what to use until he remembered what the Knight Dopant said.
"Rei, try this. Keyword: Perfect Balance." Rei placed that in and soon enough only one book was in front of her. It was called Perfect Balance; she took it and started reading it. Soon she got out and started explaining.
"Perfect Balance, is a way of describing a food's taste and the manner in which the ingredients have been used. It is also one of the indicators that the judges of this cook off could use. In this cook off a judge can categorize a food by Perfect Balance, Balance, or Ruined."
"But Mr. Asuno said that the losers still had their places trashed."
"Let me explain; even if a person obtained Perfect Balance and another obtained Balance. The person with Balance can still win only if the judges can plead a strong case. This, you know, is an indicator of who the Dopants attack."
"We already got one but the other escaped."
"Perhaps maybe we should lure them out." Rei suggested.
"Yeah, we need to participate in this cook off but I can't." Shinji said. Asuka and Rei looked at him in slight surprise. "What? The Dopants saw me transform. If I go up then our culprit will just leave easily."
"Should I go?" Asuka asked.
"Nah, it'll be a Monday night so you'll probably be asleep. So…" Shinji and Asuka looked at Rei.
"Me? I don't think I can." Rei said.
"Rei, we need you on this besides I don't see Misato achieving Perfect Balance. Besides you're a good cook."
"Really?"
"Uhhhh…yeah." Truth be told, Rei was a not so good cook. She can cook simple things like Ramen but when it comes to more complicated stuff she's…the opposite of good. "Besides, we don't have much of a choice. The Dopant knows I can transform and we don't know anyone. Besides, you have your GaiaLibrary and I can give some advice. I could also be your food taste tester." Rei seemed to think on this.
"Alright, since we have until Monday to get ready I'll do it." Shinji looked at her with a smile.
"I knew you wouldn't let us down, aibou. But, we still have to get ready though." Rei nodded.
(Sunday)
Shinji was looking over old case files while Rei approaches him with Donburi. Shinji opened it up and the mixture didn't seem that bad. Shinji got the chopsticks and started eating it.
"Well, how is it?"
"Not bad actually. Show me what you used to make this." Rei led Shinji downstairs where there are several ingredients and kitchen utensils.
"I've simply used a recipe of Gyūdon." Shinji nodded his head.
"Ok, the beef wasn't off at all but though I didn't taste enough of the onion." Shinji said. "You should consider putting more onion in it along with soy sauce. Other than that I think you did a pretty good job."
"Really?" Shinji nodded again.
"Yeah, I kind of expected worse."
"Well at least you're honest. I am going to the GaiaLibrary to check on more recipes."
"Ok." When Rei went to the GaiaLibrary Shinji could hear his stomach growling before rushing into the bathroom.
(Monday)
Shinji was reading the paper that the Knight Dopant was Hideki Sato, a simple man though. No background information regarding food. So the Magma Dopant would be the real mastermind behind this and convinced Sato to help him. But unfortunately Sato was still worn out from the Knight Memory and an interrogation was out of the question.
Rei soon approached him a bowl of ramen and places it front of Shinji.
"Here, try this." Rei said. Shinji got up and filled a glass with water up to the brink of it.
"Alright, I'm ready." Rei chuckled.
"Don't worry, Shinji. It's nothing like that anymore."
"Well, I hope you're right, Rei." Shinji said as he started tasting it.
"How is it?"
"Well, I don't need that glass of water so-." Before Shinji could finish he passed out on the desk. Rei poked Shinji's head.
"Shinji? No wonder that book I found said that this recipe is for people with sleeping disorders.
After a good thirty minutes Shinji wakes up and decides to talk around the community regarding the vandalism before tonight's cook off.
Shinji soon went to the Umami: Sushi Bar. Shinji sees a decent number of customers eating and talking. A waitress sees him.
"Hello sir, welcome to Umami! Shall I get you a table?" Shinji shook his head. He showed his badge and ID.
"I need to speak to your boss. It's regarding the recent vandalism among the food vendors."
"I see, in that case, follow me." Shinji did so.
"So who runs things around here?" Shinji asked.
"That would be Kenta Kimoto."
"What kind of boss is he?"
"Pretty decent. He always knows when to pay his workers and he does know how to run a pretty good business. He also knows how to cook pretty well." Shinji was then led to the office. He sees a middle aged man with glasses and slightly gray hair. "Mr. Kimoto, this is the detective investigating the recent vandalism."
"I see, thank you." The waitress nodded before leaving. Shinji took a seat. "For starters, aren't you a little too young to be a detective?"
"You'd be surprised how many people don't ask me that. But, I know how to get a job done besides this case is worth trying." Mr. Kimoto nodded.
"I see. I assume you want to know about the recent destruction." Shinji nodded.
"Has this place been trashed before?"
"Actually a couple of weeks ago."
"How come no one has reported that in?" Shinji asked.
"Because these attacks are random but they occur during the week. The police said that they would look into it but I don't think that's true." With the Dopants, it wasn't a surprise that anyone from the police department went missing.
"What about the cook off?"
"Yeah after I won the cook off that week a couple of days later I found that place nearly trashed."
"I see, so did during this cook off what did you achieve from the judges?"
"Two Perfect Balances and one Balance."
"And the loser?"
"Three Balances." Shinji nodded.
"Thank you for your time, Mr. Kimoto." Shinji said as he stood up. Mr. Kimoto nodded. Before Shinji opened the door there was one question left on his mind.
"One last question, does the name Hideki Sato ring a bell?" Mr. Kimoto seemed to think about this until he snapped in realization.
"Yes, Hideki was a frequent customer around here."
"Is he usually seen with anyone?"
"Not that I know off. Wait, why?"
"Hideki has been revealed as one of the culprits responsible for what happened."
"My god, it seems you can't be ready for anything. At least there's one person paying for his crimes I hope you can catch the other one, detective." Shinji nodded before leaving.
Shinji then started spending the entire day asking around local restaurants and food carts about what they know about this. So far he only obtained the same information he receives from Mr. Kimoto but what's weird is that Hideki was a frequent customer at all those places and no one has seen him with anyone.
Shinji went to the last known restaurant to be attacked: Atsui. Shinji went inside the front doors and sees no people along with none of the chairs set up. He sees a man cleaning up the tables. He notices Shinji.
"Sorry sir, but we're closed."
"I'm not here for food. I'm here to talk to the owner."
"You're looking at him." Shinji showed his badge and ID.
"Detective Shinji Ikari, I have a couple of questions for you, Mr.…"
"Yamato. Just Yamato."
"Okay, Yamato, I have a couple of questions regarding the vandalism done to your restaurant."
"Oh, now someone cares?" Yamato said with a disbelief look on his face. "You want to know what happened? I won the damn cook off and the next few days I see this place a wreck. I should've never entered that stupid thing." Yamato said.
"Ok, sir, I realize that this case hasn't been taking serious before but it is now. Doesn't it count for something?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Alright, Yamato you basically just entered my question but here's another one. Does the name Hideki Sato sound familiar?" Yamato thought about it until he snapped in realization.
"Actually yeah, he came here with a friend not too long ago."
"Can you describe this friend?"
"Not really, he did seemed kind of off though.
"Thank you for the information, me and my partner will put this to good use."
"Just be sure to take out the bastard. He's done too much." Shinji soon left. The day was starting to turn dark so he went back to Rei to give her some last minute advice and a plan he made.
(Later at night in at Tomoko's Grill and Show)
Mr. Hibachi got Rei a spot despite the fact that she doesn't work at a restaurant. Everyone was watching announcer doing his thing.
"Alright, everyone, welcome to our weekly Grill Battle Royale!" Everyone was cheering while Shinji seemed focused. "Tonight's match will be a real thriller considering that one of our competitors isn't even in the food business. So let's give a hand for our new competitor, Rei Ayanami!" The light shines on Rei and her table and soon everyone gave her a round of applause. Rei just raised her hand and sees Shinji staring at her.
"Just hang in there, Rei." Shinji quietly said.
"And in this corner we have Kyo Ya's own, Daisuke Goto!" The light shined on him while he waved at the audience. "Now let's go to our panel of judges!" The light soon shined on table with three people.
"We have Yuji Hibachi from the Fuumen Cart."
"We have Sakura Ito from Yamashiro."
"And, last but not least, we have Goro Minamoto from Sakana."
All the judges stood up from their seats and waved to everyone. Everyone clapped while Shinji seemed focused on Rei. Rei notices this and nodded at Shinji. The announcer went in between Rei and Daisuke where there was a big box.
"Minna, time to reveal the ingredients that our contestants will be using."
The announcer then opened the box revealing various vegetables, steak, rice, and eggs.
"This week's food category will be donburi more specifically Gyūdon! So you two get ready." Everyone started counting down.
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
"Battle!"
Rei and Daisuke took several of the ingredients out of the box and started cooking. Shinji was worried that she might use that recipe earlier ago. Rei catches what Shinji was thinking before cutting up some pieces of onion and separating the layers. Rei seemed to be working real hard on her dish and didn't want to disappoint any of the judges.
"You're doing well, Rei." Shinji commented before Rei starts boiling the eggs. After removing the eggs she quickly placed the meat in next. She was about to cut up the scallions but she instantly went for the eggs.
A few minutes have passed before Rei got the rice and placed it in the bowl.
"Ten minutes, contestants!" The announcer said.
Rei nodded at this while Shinji observes that Daisuke was working just as hard. Shinji didn't seem to be too worried and just focused on what Rei is cooking. Fortunately she didn't follow the recipe that she obtained from the GaiaLibrary. Rei was now setting up the bowls and putting everything right where it should be.
"Five minutes, contestants!"
Rei looked over everything making sure she didn't miss anything. She sees nothing and proceeds with finishing the three bowls. Daisuke finished as well but his didn't look as well as Rei's.
"Alright, time is up! Please wrap everything your doing and place them on the table with the appropriate name tags." The announcer instructed.
Rei and Daisuke looked to see a table with name tags. They placed their dishes on the appropriate place.
"Good, now you are allowed a ten minute break before the judges call you again."
Rei and Daisuke got off the stage while the judges went over to test their food. Shinji managed to move through the crowd to get to Rei.
"How do you think I did?"
"Not too bad. Remember what to do if you win." Rei nodded.
"You have my back?"
"Of course, I am you partner after all." Shinji said with a smile.
"Ok, I trust you, Shinji." Rei said.
"Contestants come back to the stage now." Rei and Daisuke did so and stood in front of the judges.
"Daisuke, step forward." The announcer ordered. Daisuke did so.
"Daisuke, your donburi is not bad but it felt that it lack something. It just felt…plain." Mr. Hibachi said with Daisuke nodding his head. "Balance."
"When I was eating I found some raw pieces of steak. It shouldn't be raw also the egg was too hardboiled." Rei giggled at that comment. "Ruined."
"When I ate it felt okay for the most part. But…I just didn't feel the effort you put into this. It just didn't feel like you're the one to make it. Balance."
"Next, Rei Ayanami."
Rei stepped up while Daisuke stepped back.
"Rei, your donburi was actually good and the flavor was not off. But for someone who isn't in the food business it was actually good." Rei nodded her head. "Balance.
"Your bowl was actually really good and it felt that really came from a good restaurant. Like Hibachi said, it wasn't bad for your first time here. Balance."
Shinji and Rei gulped at the last judge. If they need to catch the Magma Dopant then they need a Perfect Balance.
"To me this dish was the best I had all week. The meat was cooked at the right time and the onions tasted good too. Overall good dish." Rei and Shinji looked at him in anticipation. "Perfect Balance."
Rei smiled that she got it while the announcer came up in between Rei and Saisuke.
"It appears we have a winner: Rei Ayanami!' The announcer raised Rei's arm. Everyone was soon clapping even Shinji.
(Later outside)
Rei was walking back to the agency until she sees someone in front of her. It was soon revealed to be Mr. Asuno.
"Mr. Asuno, why are you here?"
"I just want to talk. You made a good dish and you're not working in any of the restaurants so I thought you'd be willing to join my restaurant."
"As tempting as it is, I'm afraid I have to say no."
"Then you leave me no choice." The man got the Magma Memory and pressed on it.
"MAGMA!"
Mr. Asuno placed it in his arm and transformed into the Magma Dopant.
"I'm sorry, Rei but I can't let you get away." As the Magma Dopant got close to her the STAG beetle appeared and started slashing at the Dopant.
"It seems that are plan worked, Shinji." Rei said as Shinji stepped out from a corner. The STAG beetle left and the Magma Dopant looked in shock.
"You knew I would go after her!?"
"Yeah, we also had to make sure you were following Rei and to do that we needed a ensured win." Shinji reveals the Double Driver on him and another on Rei. "We've had the Double Driver on since the beginning of the match and with it we were able to share each other's thoughts. I was helping Rei since the beginning."
"So you did that to lure me out!?"
"Exactly, but tell me, Mr. Asuno. Why do all this?"
"Ever since I achieved Perfect Balance I thought I was on top of the world. But when it started becoming more common I couldn't let that happen. So I had to ruin their business."
"What about Sato?"
"Sato was a very loyal customer. Despite his frequent visits to other restaurants he would always come to me. When I told him about this all he had to do was agree. I also had to have my restaurant destroyed so no one can suspect me. Now, I only told you this because you two aren't going anywhere!"
"We'll see about that. Ikuze, Rei."
"Hai, Shinji."
Shinji and Rei pulled out their Memories.
"CYCLONE!"
"JOKER!"
"Henshin!"
Rei placed her Memory in first which disappeared over to Shinji's. Shinji pushed it in and placed his in the free slot. He pushed the two slots aside.
"CYCLONE-JOKER!"
As Shinji was transforming into W Rei passed out again. W flickered his left hand before pointing it at the Magma Dopant.
"Saa, omae no tsumi o kazoero!" W said in his male and female voice.
The Magma Dopant roared before charging. W moved away and dodged most of the hits before kicking him. With the Cyclone Memory, W's kicks were faster and agile. The Magma Dopant felt the pain before heating his body up.
W wondered what was about to happen before getting hit with a fire ball. The Magma Dopant started sending multiple fire balls. W was trying to move as fast as he can to avoid being burnt. W's left side was blocking the fireballs while his right side got a new Memory.
"LUNA!"
W replaced the Cyclone Memory with Luna Memory.
"LUNA-JOKER!"
"Nice thinking, Rei." W said before using his extended arm to swat all the fire balls away. W then grabbed the Dopant's face before charging up to it. W got his Cyclone Memory back.
"CYCLONE!"
W placed it back in after removing Luna Memory.
"CYCLONE-JOKER!"
W reverted to his default form and started sending multiple hits to the Magma Dopant. The Magma Dopant groaned in pain as he tries to at least land a hit. But W's kick sent him flying real far.
Seeing the Magma Dopant extremely weakened now W placed the Joker Memory in the black slot of his belt.
"JOKER! MAXIMUM DRIVE!"
W was lifted by a small tornado at a good height. W then aimed both of his legs at the Dopant.
"JOKER EXTREME!"
W announced before splitting into two halves. With Joker in front and Cyclone behind. The two flew and each half hitting the Dopant. With both haves reconnected W jumped off while the Magma Dopant stumbled back before exploding.
Mr. Asuno was down unconscious with the broken Memory.
"Case closed." Shinji said from his side.
(At Double Detective Agency the next day)
"Never thought Mr. Asuno would be behind this but a lot of our cases are pretty surprising. Also since Rei won the cook off we get a discount at most of the restaurants here and someone else has been placed in charge of Mr. Asuno's place. As much I want to go, I'm not hungry."
Shinji soon hears work out music from downstairs and sighed, knowing Rei found a new subject to read. He goes downstairs and sees Rei, with boxing gloves, hitting a punching bag.
"Rei, what is this?" Rei stopped and looked at Shinji.
"I found a new interest in boxing and seeing how we fight Dopants I figured this could be useful."
"Rei, you focus on Soul Memories and most of the fighting is done by me." Shinji said.
"Yes, but most of your fighting techniques as W can't be done without me since I control the right side."
"But I do most of the physical work outside of W. That is kind of dangerous but not for a hardboiled detective like me."
"Oh really then show me how well you could punch the bag, half-boiled detective." Rei said as she tossed Shinji the gloves.
"Oh just wait till you see this." Shinji said before punching the bag.
AN: There's my latest chapter for this case. Also be aware that I have OOO down now. If you have any suggestions for Blade then I'm willing to see it. Now just remember to send your reviews or questions in the reviews or private messages. Alright I'm done, goodnight.
Episode 9: The Boxing Match of the Century!