Seeds Of Agito

Like in the anime and manga, Megumi's apartment is invaded with Class Q there to help her out, and this time I'll be bending the rules a bit as I brought a member of Pluto out from the manga and in to this chapter, which he has not appeared in the anime.


At the Tokyo pier, Hikaru arrived and saw the Armadillo Lord attacking the boy so she changed into Agito and fought the Lord, but then the Lord spins his body and formed a huge ball and does a spinning attack, which neither her punches nor kicks could get through his thick skin, and the Overlord of Light hid behind a trailer, expecting something good will happen. And it did, as Hikaru's motorcycle came to life and moved on its own, slowly changing into another form, vaguely resembling a dragon though it retained its motorcycle appearance and plowed through the Armadillo Lord, breaking his spinning attack and Agito was dumbfounded by what she just saw.

"Huh? My bike just evolved…?"

Deciding to find out, she hopped onto her motorcycle in "dragon" form and rode off towards the Armadillo Lord, doing a spinning attack and the motorcycle in "dragon" form picks up speed while Agito's "horn" opens up, and she prepares to execute the Ground Kick , in which the motorcycle in "dragon" form stopped, and Agito was thrown off, yet she executed her attack, breaking through the Armadillo Lord's skin and he exploded, and there she realized that the Overlord of Light has disappeared, though she checked back at her motorcycle, which as reverted back to vehicle mode, and she was again dumbfounded by what just took place.


At the secret hideout, Kaori was told by the mysterious man that to make up for her failure at the Karuizawa incident, she must keep an eye for Megumi Minami, and when she questions him why, he did not reply and reiterated that she must complete her mission, which she reluctantly agreed.

"Very well…I'll do it."

"Good…now go…or you'll know what would happen to you…"

"Yes…I'm leaving right away."

So Kaori left, Yurie came and questions her master's intention and as to why he is interested in Kyuu as well, seeing them both a threat to Ryu's "well being", yet all he did was smirk before making a reply.

"Patience, Yurie…patience…you'll soon get your answers…"

"That's what worries me, master…for master Ryu might…"

"I assure you he will not…"


Agito by Shinichi Ishihara

(Opening song from Kamen Rider Agito)

Yami no naka mitsumete 'ru...
Te wo nobashi... Tsukamitore Kimi motomeru mono

Mata dare ka ga heiki na kao wo shite
Yume da to waratte mo...

Ready to Go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Kimi no mama de kawareba ii
Here we go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Ima kimi ga inai to... Get on!

Atarashii hokori ni wa...
Atarashii... itami sae tomonau darou

Sono dare mo ga akiramesou na
Nani ka ni tachiagaru

Ready to Go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Mite 'ru dake no kimi de ii kai?
Here we go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Ima kimi ga inai to... Get on!

Ready to Go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Kimi no mama de kawareba ii
Here we go, Count ZERO Kamen Raidaa AGITO
Ima kimi ga inai to... Get on!


39: Gōtō

At DDS a few days later, Class Q was having a session of self-study which Kazuma plays the "teacher" and gives his classmates some trivial questions which Ryu narrowly answered them as Ms. Katagiri is at the principal's office taking Dan's place as Dan went to the MPD to meet with Kinta's dad. As the hour passed by, Class Q was ready to depart as Megumi recalled what her elder sister prodded her to do and she finally took the initiative and talked to Kyuu.

"Um…hey…Kyuu…want to come at my place? My elder sister asked m to take you with me…she wants to meet you…"

"Me…?"

The Class Q leader was taken aback, as he is now being tempted by romance once again after his brief romance with Sakurako Yukihira. If he decides to explore his feelings with Megumi, he has to be careful after his first romance ended with both him and the Class A leader losing their virginities and parted ways in good terms. He didn't want THIS to end up the same. Both blushed and looked down at the floor, and blushed deeper seeing the others watching them.

"So my analysis is correct…romance is developing between you two…"

"Hey, Kyuu…talk to me if you need advice…"

"…"

Needing to distract her classmates, she came up with the idea of inviting them to her house, which Kinta agreed to while Ryu and Kazuma gently declined the offer and left, and the three Class Q members left immediately or Megumi's apartment. As the trio left the school gate, Ryu was boarding his car as Yurie prepares to leave, and the Blue-haired Class Q member saw the trio walking off, and yet Ryu couldn't do anything. By then Hikaru Shidou arrived at DDS via her motorcycle, and she and Ryu waved at each other, and a comment from Yurie caused him to nearly jump from his seat.

"Don't get too close to her, master Ryu…for Agito is within her own world…"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

Yurie went mum as she drives off, ignoring Ryu's prodding questions as he became agitated after hearing what she just said and he is in a state of disbelief from what his "caretaker" had just spoke about.

"Are you saying she's Agito? What proof do you have? Are you trying to scare me off or something? Answer me! I order you! If you don't have proof to back up your claim…then stop making stuffs about my schoolmates…"

A TV attached to the back of the front passenger seat played, and it showed Hikaru changing into Agito and fought the Armadillo Lord, and this made the Class Q member went still with shock, and the next footage showed Umi becoming Gills fighting the Panther Lord before getting into trouble with Kojima and his men, and by then Yurie made her comment.

"Now you know…so it's best that if you steer clear from these two girls…or the "Unknown" may target you and THAT we cannot have. And also, try not to get too close to one of the Class Q members…he too is targetted by the "Unknown" and is the same as the two girls…he might infect you so please heed our word…"

"You lie…are you implying that one of the Class Q members is Agito? I thought Class M is one?"

But Yurie went silent as the car drives off towards an unknown destination…


At the Metropolitan Police Department, at Superintendent Touyama's room, Touyama listens on after Fuu Hououji told him what she knows and he was clenching his fists at the fact that Kojima lied to the media about his actions and for the way he manhandled Teruo, yet both knew that they couldn't do anything about this for now and had to wait for Commissioner Hiiragizawa to return so he can deal with Kojima and his "cronies".

"That Kojima…using that boy to lure out Agito and yet a second Agito showed up and chose him over that Unknown…I swear…if I had a higher position I'd made sure he's out of the force…Fuu, all we can do right now is to have patience…once the opportunity arrives, then we nail him."

By then Dan and Nanami arrived and both Dan and Touyama exchanged pleasantries while Fuu bowed to the DDs founder. There Dan and Nanami heard what the two were told and both sides knew that the MPD's higher-ups are favoring Kojima to some extent and started to suspect a conspiracy, yet they changed the subject as Dan said he came here for a reason, and Fuu, then waved to Nanami as she saw an odd-looking box attached to the phone connector, which Nanami grabbed and smashed it to pieces.

"Nanami-sensei…what's that?"

"Dan-sensei…look at this…"

"THAT, Touyama, is why I came here…Pluto has returned, and is once again operational…"

"But I thought they were dealt with…"

"So do I…so now we must be careful…their master of disguises and state of the art technologies enabled them to enter any establishment…even here…"

"Then the janitor that just cleaned my room…"

"Yes…"

Everyone went silent until Fuu got an alarming theory which made Dan even more concerned.

"Then this organization…they even heard our conversation…"

"Yes…now they know that you're G3…so you too must be careful…"


At the road, a van was cruising away, as it turn out that this van was parked outside the MPD building but left after the "bug" was discovered and the vehicle immediately left before the police cars are about to be deployed. By now the van that was spying to the MPD superintendent is safe from being pursued. At least now they have something to report to Pluto, about a certain DDS student having access to the MPD and the fact that she is G3.


At the door outside Megumi's apartment, tension gripped Class Q as the key she brought did not opened the door, thus Kyuu and Kinta assumed that someone may have broke in since the key lock did not respond to her keys and Kinta forced his way in, and there things look fine until a certain clue led them to suspect that someone is inside. As they scanned the area, Megumi's photographic memory scanned the insides of the house, and a few comments changed the tide and the suspected "clue" made itself apparent by jumping out of the closet and there Kinta clobbered the person, which appeared to be a burglar, and Megumi called for the police and within minutes a police car arrived and took the burglar away.

Minutes later, the three Class Q members sat on the couch sipping cups of milk and discussed the chain of events that led to the exposure of the burglar and how they knew that this was the case:

- The front door of Megumi's apartment has been tampered;

- The dish set inside the cabinet have been re-arranged;

- The windows were not opened;

- The shoes in front of a cabinet was spread while the other set of shoes remained stationary;

- The suspect heard that they found the wrong hiding place which tricked him into jumping out to make a daring escape which Kinta took advantage and pinned him down.

By then Megumi's elder sister, Akane, arrived and was surprised to see the front door wrecked and there Kinta introduced himself and Kyuu as Megumi's classmates at DDS and told her what transpired, and she seemingly forgive and forget, though she took several tries in teasing Megumi about seeing Kyuu for the first time and suggested that she hook up with him, causing the two younger teens to blush, and seeing Megumi's face, Kyuu's feelings towards her started to develop but had to resist it for now, having just broke up with Yukihira.


Much later, the burglar alighted from the police car, and it turn out to be Kaori in disguise and used hypnosis to kill her captors, and as she was about to make her escape, she saw Kyuu walking by himself and is considering making a sneak attack when another entrant shows up, who turn out to be the Sloth Lord, grabbing Kyuu and dragged him to an alley, where it was lit by a street light, and when the female Pluto agent approached the corner of the alley, she stopped at seing a bright light and Kyuu's shadow showed that he underwent a transformation and through the shadow she could see that the Sloth Lord was struck on the head and exploded.

She hid behind a car to see Kyuu emerging, looking quite weak and seemingly recalled nothing as he went ahead to go home. There she started to feel apprehension about the fact that Kyuu has some sort of power and decided to tell her superiors about this.


At Pluto HQ, Kaori told Anubis about what she has to report – Megumi possesses photographic memory and that Kyuu defeated the Sloth Lord, and told him that The Class Q may be Agito, but then another person came and is smirking at the discussion he just heard, much to her chagrin after he made fun of her.

"You're a Pluto agent and yet you get rattled by a 14-year old boy who has the potential to become an Agito…? Such a scaredy cat you are, Kaori-dear…"

"Grr…Kelberos…"

"Ah…Kelberos…nice of you to drop by…you have something to say…?"

"Yes…regarding what Kaori said, she saw the fight through lighted shadows…but I managed to get footage…see for yourselves…and I'm sure you'll be pleased…he might be the key to our victory over that Dan Detective School…and it might make that Kojima fool a bit of a use to us…"

And so Anubis and Kaori watched the footage that Kelberos supplied, and though she was surprised and shocked, Anubis grinned while rubbing his cheek, seeing a potential plan to defeat DDS in the future.

To be Continued…


Stranger In The Dark by Norio Sakai
(2nd Ending song from Kamen Rider Agito)

Mayonaka ni mezameta
Sairen no oto
Dare ka ga narashita
Keishou ni mimi wo sumasu

Te no hira wo mitsumete
Tokidoki omou
Ore ni kaserareta
Unmei wa nani wo umeku?

Risuku wo mayowazu ni
Yume nante katarenai

stranger in the dark
Dare demo nai jibun de
stranger in the dark
Dare to mo kurabenai kyou wo
Kachinokore
stranger in the dark

Oikakeru ashioto
Furimukanaide
Aruki-tsuzukeyou
Shiisoo ga katamuku hou e

Yukue sura shiranai
Ashita no koto mo
Kaze ni azukete wa
Tachimukau yami wo misueru

Suriru de hanaseru
Genjitsu wo koete 'ru

stranger in the dark
Arinomama no jibun de
stranger in the dark
Dare ni mo mane dekinai kyou wo
Tsukamitore
stranger in the dark

[Instrumental]

stranger in the dark
Dare demo nai jibun de
stranger in the dark
Dare to mo kurabenai kyou wo
Kachinokore
stranger in the dark


Quite a shock, as Kelberos made his debut, and he managed to video-taped Kyuu's fight with an Unknown. Now that Pluto has seen it, they're going to use this to help destroy DDS.


Preview:

A new teacher makes his debut and is one of the "big four" of DDS;

Class M gets into a fight with Pluto;

Kojima is being assaulted…karma has caught up with him…


Author's Note:

It turns out that Anubis is based on Kelberos, and that he is exclusive in the anime while Kelberos remained in the manga version, and since I found out about this just now, I decided to have the two exist as separate persons working for Pluto.

Also, I managed to download the RAW, Japanese manga from the internet and though I couldn't read kanji, I somewhat was able to follow most of the subsequent flow of the plot and there I asked Umeko for some answers which she did.

Many thanks to Umeko for the info on Anubis and Kelberos and on the manga.