Several days after Reflekdoll's attack, Washio witnessed a surprising rise in popularity of his alter-ego. Figurines with the effigy of his basic form and Futuring Shinobi came out in the stores, it amused him that in such a short time his image became as well known and used as Ladybug and Cat Noir, all that was missing was an animated film.
However, his amusement at this gave way to a serious expression when he saw everyone leave the classroom where they were except Adrien who went to see one of their classmate who was putting away his things.
She was a slender teenage girl of average height with green eyes and long brown hair loosely tied at the ends with orange stripes where she has two strands of shorter hair. She wore red-orange bracelets on her right arm, a red-orange jacket over a dark gray dress with tiny white spots, light gray tights and brown high-heeled boots.
He watched them discreetly and managed to hear what they were saying.
"Hi, Lila. Nino told me about your problem. I can always help you with your homework if you want." Adrien suggested.
"Really? Would you do that? You're a big help! You save my life, you know." Thanked Lila accepting the help of the boy with blond hair.
"No problem, Lila. I'm happy to help." He says.
Washio thought it was of no interest and was about to leave, until he saw Marinette crawl towards Lila and Adrien before being stopped by Alya.
"I wasn't spying on Lila at all. I was just... tying my shoes." Said Marinette trying to deny what she was doing.
"You don't have to worry. Nino told me that Lila said she didn't have a crush on Adrien at all." Said Alya trying to reassure her friend.
"Why don't we go to your house and do our homework? It would be a lot quieter, wouldn't it?" Lila asked as she noticed Marinette.
"My dad would never agree to that." Said Adrien.
"I bet you I can make him change his mind." Said Lila as she grabbed Adrien's arm before leaving the classroom and was followed by Marinette.
Washio had already heard Marinette reproach her friends for believing Lila's lies, that she was a very good liar and that you shouldn't believe everything she says.
"I have to make sure she doesn't do anything to ruin my plan." Said Washio while alone in the classroom.
He took out of his pocket a silver Ridewatch with a touch of red and a symbol of a Red Falcon on a blue background. He pressed the button in the same voice as the Ridewatch he used to beat up Poupéfleka and it clicked.
Taka Watchroid! Taka!
He pressed the button a second time and the Ridewatch turned into a small mechanical hawk.
Search Hawk! Daga Taka, Taka!
"Watch Adrien Agreste and broadcast what you see." Says Washio as he opens a window before the Mechanical Falcon emits a small chirp and flies away to accomplish its mission.
Much later, without the Tuileries garden, Kagami was practicing fencing under the eyes of a woman.
She was a thin Japanese woman with pale skin and medium height, with long dark blue hair in a bun held with red pliers. She wore a white shirt, red long pants and black sunglasses, and used a bokken as a support cane.
The training went well until she suddenly received a message, taking her phone out to try to see him.
"We had agreed that there would be no cell phones during training, Kagami. You can check it when you're done." Says the woman.
"I'm sorry, Mother." Said Kagami, putting her phone away and getting ready to continue his training.
"I think it can wait a little longer." Says a sight coming from behind the two girls.
Kagami turned around and saw Washio walking towards them. She was surprised to see him, remembering what she did when she was Another Shinobi, but she showed as little as possible as her mother spoke.
"Who are you?" Asked Kagami's mother.
"Someone who would like to speak with your daughter. This is very important, ma'am. It concerns the man who turned her into a monster a few days ago." Said Washio politely.
Kagami's mother took a pensive look before finally nodding, allowing her daughter to talk to the teenager before they took a few steps forward to get out of the woman's hearing.
"Why did you come to see me?" Kagami asked.
"I wanted to know how you were feeling. The transformation into Another Rider is something quite trying. And the way you stood up to him despite your condition was admirable." Washio replied, which brought Kagami's head down and he looked down at the ground.
"It's not the first time I've been through something like this. But this time... I was conscious, but out of control. This man, Wrath... who is he really?" Kagami asked.
"He is dangerous, he turns people into Another Rider hoping to find the one who will allow him to bring back his king." Washio replied.
"His king?" Kagami asked, not understanding what the Kamen Rider was talking about.
"It's a long story." Washio replied vaguely before taking a red and silver Ridewatch out of his pocket. "I think given the way you stood up to him, you deserve this." He said as he placed the Ridewatch in Kagami's free hand.
"It's..." Said Kagami noting the similarities between this Ridewatch and the one that turned it into Another Shinobi.
"Unlike the one Wrath used on you, it will make you a real Kamen Rider once you activate it. However, I ask you to activate it only in case of an emergency." Said Washio.
Kagami looked carefully at the pensive Ridewatch, it before a symbol resembling a dragon head seen from above and below the year 2002. She understood that Washio did not give her this object for nothing and gave her a calm and determined look.
"... Thank you..." she said.
"There is no need to thank me. By the way, my name is Washio. So you won't have to call me Kamen Rider Woz when I'm in civilian clothes." Said Washio before she left.
Kagami put the Ridewatch in one of his pockets before joining his mother.
"What did he want?" She asked her daughter.
"Nothing, just to know if I was okay." Kagami lied before resuming his training as if nothing had happened.
Once he was far enough away, Washio took out his phone to see a message he received at the same time as Kagami. He was slightly surprised to see a picture of Lila kissing Adrien's cheek and seemed slightly surprised and embarrassed by this act. However, the teenager quickly understood when he saw the name of the person who sent the message but who was holding the phone: it was sent from Adrien's phone, but it was Lila who was holding the phone.
"I wonder how far she's willing to go." Washio thought before looking at what the Taka Watchroid sees on his phone.
At the same time in the manor of Agreste. Gabriel is looking at an unconscious woman in a seeming box located in an unknown part of the manor illuminated by lights along the side walls and what appears to be a ray of sunlight coming from a skylight at the top of a vaulted ceiling.
She was a thin, fair-skinned woman with blond hair that she kept in a ponytail at her side. She was wearing a black blouse with a light pink jacket worn over it. On the jacket, a brooch in the shape of a five-petalled flower with a pearl in the center is visible. She also wore light pink business pants and black high-heeled shoes.
That's when he receives the photo of Lila and her son.
Furious, he left the room and entered the hall where Nathalie and Adrien's bodyguard clumsily conceals Lila who was about to leave.
However, the girl had other plans in mind and slipped away as she headed towards Gabriel.
"Mr. Gabriel Agreste! I am a big fan of your creations, this is the most beautiful day of my life!" She said before, clearly wanting to try to brush him in the direction of the hair, but Gabriel remained of marble with a scowling look. "I know you're very busy, so I won't take up any of your time. Have a great evening!" She said before leaving through the front door, leaving those who had let him in at Adrien's request alone with their boss.
"It's my fault sir, I am..." Nathalie began by trying to justify herself while avoiding the bodyguard to suffer the anger of Gabriel.
"In my office, NOW!" Said Grabiel as he turned around to go to the room he indicated while unknowingly Wrath appeared in the reflection of the windows standing on the stairs of the mansion.
"That's interesting, I did the right thing following the kid." He says before entering the office, always in the reflection, keeping the discretion that he brings him.
Once inside, he was able to see Gabriel show the photo on his phone to Nathalie.
"What was she doing here?" Asked Gabriel in a disgruntled tone.
"She was helping Adrian with his math homework." Nathalie replied.
"I'm the only one who decides what's good for my son! This isn't the first time you've been fooled by his schoolmates." Reproached Gabriel, turning his gaze towards a window.
"Do you want to take Adrien out of school?" Asked Nathalie.
"No. But I won't allow Adrien to be influenced by the company he keeps. On second thought, I think this photo is going to help me get that young girl in particular away from my son once and for all." He said before noticing Wrath leaning over his desk from the reflection in the window.
He turned around violently surprised by what he saw, but saw no one on his desk.
"Is something wrong?" Nathalie asked, concerned about her boss's reaction.
"No, it was probably just my imagination playing tricks on me." Said Gabriel, quickly regaining his calm.
A few minutes later back to the Jardin des Tuileries. Kagami finished her training and looked at the message Lila sent with Adrien's phone. Seeing the picture, Kagami became furious as she threw her phone away in anger and rage and looked inside her notebook with the rose that Adrien gave her before picking up her bokken.
In Hawk Moth's lair, he sensed Kagami's fury and decided to use it.
"Such a tornado of negative emotions surrounding such as meaningless photo. But the strongest anger isn't always necessarily the nosiest one." He said before he turned a butterfly into akuma and let it fly away. "Fly, my evil akuma, and unleash her anger!" He said.
A little minute later, Kagami used her bokken to cut down a tree before dropping it and she started sobbing and while holding the rose in her right hand she took the Ridewatch out of her pocket with her left hand, resisting the urge to use the powers of this object to attack this girl.
It was then that the akuma arrived without her realizing it, he was about to enter her bokken, but at the last second he changed direction and entered the Ridewatch and the symbol of Hawk Moth appeared on the girl's face.
Hawk Moth was surprised at what he could feel through the Ridewatch, all the power he could give another form to satisfy his dark desires. He then decided to take advantage of it and was inspired by the new danger that hovers over Paris for this new super villain.
"Another Ryuki, I am Hawk Moth. I'm giving you the power to track down Lila Rossi and make sure she never gets close to your loved one ever again. Adrien Agreste is way too innocent to be wary of her. Of course she'll persuade Ladybug and Cat Noir to stop you from accomplishing your duty. You must therefore bring me their Miraculous, to punish them for their naivety." Dit-il télépathiquement à Kagami.
"Yes, Hawk Moth." Dit Kagami en plaçant la Ridewatch maintenant entièrement noir au niveau de sa taille et une énergie noire se propage autour d'elle.
Meanwhile, Washio was in his Time Mazine, continuing to watch Adrien through Taka Watchroid. Since he spotted Plagg after Lila's departure, he decided to continue watching him.
"Does this little critter allow you to turn into a Cat Noir? "Demanda Washio has Adrien knowing that he can't hear him as he opens the book he uses as Kamen Rider Woz to see something he wrote the day before the creation of Another Shinobi. "Adrien Agreste has a vision of Kamen Rider Shinobi in his dream. And to think that by talking about your vision under the identity of Cat Noir, you indirectly told me who you are." He says.
This little moment of peace was short-lived when he saw on his phone Adrien facing a red and silver monster resembling a mixture between a warrior and a Chinese dragon armed with a sword in his right hand, a dragon's head in place of the left hand and at the waist a silver belt on which is the Ridewatch that Washio gave to Kagami.
"Another Ryuki! But how...?!" Says Washio to himself before understanding what it could be when he saw the buckle on the monster's belt and decided to put away his phone and get ready to go help Adrien.
Outside of the Agrest mansion, Marinette was lining up trash cans together before seeing Another Ryuki land on the ground in front of her and run through the streets of Paris.
"I can transform now?" Marinette asked as Tikki got out of her jacket.
"Yes, Marinette." Tikki replied before she and Marinette hid in a garbage can to do this without being seen.
"Tikki, spot on!" Said Marinette in while a pink light emanates from the inside of the trash can.
From Adrien's room, he and Plagg watched from the open window of his room.
"With all those girlfriends chasing you, I guess it was only a matter of time before they ended up fighting." Says Plagg
"I don't have a girlfriend." Says Adrien before preparing to leave in pursuit of Kagami. " Plagg, claws out!" He says before Plagg gets sucked into his ring and turns into a Cat Noir.
In the streets of Paris. Lila was walking home when she heard a slightly distorted but recognizable voice.
"Lila..." Said this voice, which turned out to be Kagami's voice.
Lila looked around without finding the source of the voice and ran to a door. However, in the reflection of this door there was Another Ryuki coming out of it, frightening the girl even more.
"Lila Rossi!" Said Another Ryuki as she pointed her sword at the girl.
"I forbid you to go near Adrien. Give him up and I will spare you." Said Another Ryuki as she brought the blade closer to Lila.
"Adrien? I don't know anyone named Adrien." Lila innocently retorted.
"Don't lie to me!" Said Another Ryuki as he raised his sword threateningly.
"I'm really sorry, but I always get what I want. It's not my fault." Lila said in a panicked tone.
"This time you're going to have to give in. Whether you like it or not." Said Another Ryuki, putting down his gun, determined to kill Lila who closed her eyes not wanting to see what would happen to her.
However, she heard a simple metallic impact sound, and as she opened her eyes, she saw Woz in his Futuring Shinobi form blocking the sword with his own weapon as Ladybug and Cat Noir arrived.
"Don't you want to know the opinion of the person concerned?" Said Cat Noir before Another Ryuki started attacking him. "Hey, I'm just trying to help." He said.
As Cat Noir fights Another Ryuki, Ladybug and Woz move towards Lila.
"Come on, this way!" Said Ladybug while dragging Lila on the Place des Vosges while being followed by Woz until Lila succeeded in freeing Ladybug's handshake.
"I don't need you, Ladybug. I was perfectly capable of defending myself. Besides, this awful monster doesn't stand a chance with Adrien." Said Lila.
"It can be a lot more dangerous than you think." Says Woz resisting the urge to slap Lila.
"And why is that?" Lila asked.
"Because she's not an akumatized person like the others..." Woz revealed surprising Ladybug.
"Wait! It's not Another Rider?" Asked Ladybug.
"No, yes... it's complicated..." Said Woz before taking a slight breath. "The girl who was forced to become Another Shinobi, I gave her something... and obviously the Butterfly introduced an Akuma to make it into a kind of artificial Another Rider." He explained.
"And where is this object?" Ladybug asked.
"I think the belt buckle. It's not the one of the Rider to whom the object I gave him corresponds. Ladybug, I want you to let me fight it." Said Woz.
"Look, I know you must feel guilty that she's like this. But if you help us against the Butterfly, we have to team up." Said Ladybug.
Before Woz can insist further, Cat Noir lands between Ladybug, Lila and Woz.
Another Ryuki threw Ladybug and Woz out of his way and points his sword at Lila's forehead.
"Back off!" Said Ladybug as he grabbed the sword with his yo-yo who wrapped himself around the guard while Another Ryuki noticed that Lila ran away.
"There's no point in running. Wherever you go, I'll find you." Said Another Ryuki.
"Not until we capture your akuma anyway." Said Cat Noir recovering from his fall before noticing something strange. "Where's Woz?" He said making Ladybug realize that the Kamen Rider disappeared.
Meanwhile, on the road in Paris, Miss. Bustier was returning from work when she saw Lila.
"Oh, Miss Bustier, I'm being followed by a super villain and Ladybug is failing miserably. Please you have to help me!" Said Lila
"All right, come on. We'll go to the police center, they'll be able to protect you." Says Miss. Bustier before running with Lila to the police station.
On the Place des Vosges, Ladybug and Black Cat faced Another Ryuki while trying to remove the object from her belt buckle, but the super villain managed to pull them aside and then she used the dragon head on her right arm to spit fire in their direction, distracting them long enough to enter the reflection of a window, disappearing from the sight of the heroes of Paris.
"Where can he be going." Asked Ladybug, winning a nod from Cat Noir's shoulder.
On the way to the police station, Mrs. Bustier looked worriedly at Lila. She wondered why a supervillain was after her. However, her thought was short-lived as Another Ryuki appeared from a reflection of a scary car Ms. Bustier and Lila were driving.
Without hesitation, Another Ryuki was about to spit flames at the teacher and her student. When suddenly, Woz emerged from Lila's shadow to attack the Akumatized, forcing him to stop his attack to block the Kamen Rider's attack with his sword.
"I understand your anger, but you must not use this power for revenge. You won't be a Rider... but a threat that I should eliminate... don't make me." Said Woz while forcing on his weapon to force Another Ryuki to back down.
"That girl, either she stops seeing Adrien of her own free will, or she'll die!" Says Another Ryuki, as her body begins to be surrounded by a golden glow.
Seeing this, Woz moved backwards as the appearance of Another Ryuki changed. His armor became more imposing and royal, almost all the white of his armor became red, the dragon head became red except for the top of the skull which is silver and the sword blade was at the muzzle.
Suddenly a voice like that of the Ridewatch resounded.
Ryuki Survivre!
In his Hawk Moth lair, he could feel this change in appearance that he had not planned while he was observing the actions of Another Ryuki through the akuma.
"What is this power?" He asked in amazement.
"The power of a Kamen Rider that unlocks his final form." Said Wrath's voice as he emerged from the reflection from Hawk Moth's brooch.
"How did you get here?" Hawk Moth asked as he picked up his cane, ready to fight the newcomer.
"I've been here ever since your son came to this mansion with the liar." Wrath replied. "I'm amazed at what you've done. Using a Ridewatch for your new villain was something to think about. And it seems to have had an unexpected effect." He said as if he could see what was going on. "When he's beaten up, I can make you an offer you probably can't refuse." He said, ending the conversation for the moment.
On the side of Woz, Ladybug and Cat Noir had just joined him and were observing the change at Another Ryuki.
"She changed her appearance?" Cat Noir remarked.
"Do you think so?" Ladubug asked rhetorically.
"This is not the time! I've never seen this before, put them away while I save you some time!" Woz shouted before attacking Another Ryuki.
Ladybug and Cat Noir hastened to do what Woz said as the latter attacked Another Ryuki using all the powers of Kamen Rider Shinobi at his disposal. Unfortunately for him Another Ryuki was able to use all the Kamen Rider Ryuki's abilities, and with this new form they were even more powerful, so much so that he was quickly overwhelmed.
To the point of ending up on the ground and struggling to get up again.
"Kagami, let me help you..." Woz says weakly.
"I'm sorry. But you didn't have to stand in my way." Said Another Ryuki before raising his sword arm to finish Woz off in view of his condition, in the best case would be seriously injured and would return to normal, forcing him to reveal himself more...
When suddenly, Ladybug and Cat Noir arrived to help him. He also noticed that Ladybug had a completely red fire extinguisher with black dots.
"You saved me." Woz said speechlessly.
"Even though you seem to be more lonely than us, since you've been helping us you're part of the team." Says Cat Noir.
"And we have to stick together." Ladybug added, helping him up.
"... Thank you..." Said Woz, still stunned by this help.
The three heroes began a fight against Another Ryuki, with Woz mainly helping Cat Noir in hand-to-hand combat while Ladybug blocked the flames their enemy was projecting with the fire extinguisher.
And it lasted until Woz grabbed Another Ryuki's sword arm while Ladybug grabbed the other arm.
"Cat Noir, the belt buckle!" Woz shouted.
"All right! Cataclysm!" Cat Noir screamed as a dark energy crackled from his hand holding his ring with which he struck the buckle of Another Ryuki's belt which fell to dust releasing the akuma and a light golden dust that disappeared in the reflection of the Cat Noir's stick.
"You've done enough harm as it is, little akuma! I free you from evil!" Said Ladybug before opening her Yo-yo to capture the akuma to purify it, and once the butterfly was released she threw her fire extinguisher into the air. "Miraculous Ladybug!" She says, as the fire extinguisher transforms into a swarm of ladybugs surrounded by pink energy that repair all the damage caused by Another Ryuki during their fight while making him become Kagami again who collapses to the ground unconscious.
"Pound it!" Ladybug and Cat Noir say as they write a check while Woz takes Kagami in his arms.
Ladybug quickly slipped away while Cat Noir stayed a little longer.
"I think you almost forgot that." Said Cat Noir as he gave Woz the Ryuki Ridewatch. "The Miraculous Ladybug also repairs the objects that contained the Akuma, or that my Cataclysm destroyed." He explained to the Kamen Rider.
"I see. Thank you." Said Woz as he placed the Ridewatch on one of his bracelets.
"No problem. See you next time!" Said Cat Noir before leaving.
In Hawk Moth's lair, the latter and Wrath stood face to face each with their eyes fixed on the other.
"What do you want?" Hawk Moth asked.
"An alliance." Wrath simply replied. "My goal is to bring back someone I care about, just like you. However, I don't need the Miraculous Ones for that. I need special people. That's why I'm offering you this alliance. We will not interfere in each other's affairs, but in exchange, when we deem it necessary, we will help each other. Is it a deal?" He said, reaching out a hand to Hawk Moth.
He thinks about it for a while before finally shaking hands with the new bad guy from Paris.
"I accept." He says he is satisfied with the way things are going.
"Perfect. And I advise you to keep this girl, Lila Rossi, close to you. Her talent for lying will be very useful to you. And I can even help you make her unsuspected in your plans." She advised Wrath.
Hawk Moth thought vaguely about the board of his new ally, and in retrospect he thought he was right. Lila is an outstanding liar. And if he was able to put her talent to good use.
"You're right, I was wrong about him. I shouldn't kick her out. She could be a very good ally." Says Hawk Moth as the Iris in his window closes.
Much later, without the Tuileries garden, Kagami regained consciousness and saw that she was sitting on a bench with Woz sitting on the one opposite. He stood up and approached her.
"What happened?" Kagami asked.
"You were akumatized. With this." Woz replied, pointing to the Ryuki Ridewatch. "I made a mistake entrusting it to you now." He said.
"But why? I made a mistake, but it won't happen again, I promise you." Said Kagami, still hoping to have a chance.
"Don't worry, I still see potential in you. However, I'm keeping the Ridewatch until I think you're ready." Says Woz.
Kagami wanted to protest, but in doing so she knew the Kamen Rider was right. She resigned herself to it as Woz put a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry. But I'll keep an eye on you to see when you're ready." Said Woz before leaving. "This guy, Adrien Agreste, he's a good person, trust him." He says.
The next day at Collège Françoise Dupont, Washio could see Lila rethinking what she had done. But it was not as successful as last time. He had to admit that seeing her was in bad shape. But he had a strange feeling, as if her role in this story was going to be more important than he thought.
For her part, after her new attempt failed, Lila received one from an unknown number, to which she responded. Later she arrived at the Agreste mansion, where she met Gabriel in his office.
"Thank you for inviting me here, Mr. Agreste." Said Lila politely.
"You entered my house without my permission. By lying and manipulating my son." Says Gabriel calmly.
"I only wanted to do the right thing. Adrien needed to talk. You're doing such a good job of protecting him from bad influences that he actually feels very alone." Says Lila hoping to be seen.
"Hm. You're opening my eyes to a problem I didn't even know existed. What would you advise me to do?" Asked Gabriel.
"I think he needs a friend his own age. Someone who understands him, who can protect him from negative influences. Someone you can trust." Lila replied.
"You and I feel the same way. See you soon, Lila." Said Gabien, shaking Lila's hand.
"See you soon, M. Agreste." Said Lila.
Gabriel then looked at the reflection of one of the windows in his office, where he could see Wrath while he was out of the room, holding a purple and black Ridewatch, with a monster face with large orange question marks on either side of his face in brain-like patterns.
Quizz!
