A/N: I've been wanting to write about stuff post ep 40 for a while...
What should he do?
He couldn't stop recalling that scene. A single Jamato writhing in flames... before the monster form disintegrated to reveal its 'host'. A familiar hair clip falls to the ground. His sister, Sara... looking at him as she collapsed to the ground. He couldn't forget the sight of the vines grasping his sister's body... pulling her in... swallowing(?) her into the ground!
"I'm sorry... Keiwa!"
Why was Big Sister apologising to him? Why should she feel bad when HE was the one who couldn't protect her? The one who should've apologized to his sister... was HIM!
"There's no reward in playing this game after all..."
What should he do now? After his sister... after Sara... he had no one else! He'd already lost his parents to the stupid DesiGra! Why must he lose Sara to the same damn monsters from that STUPID DesiGra as well? How should he live by himself now when the people he held dear in his heart were no more? What's the point of him remaining when everyone else was no more? Could he even get his sister back? How could that even be possible when Ace himself couldn't promise that he would be able to fix everything that went wrong in this world?
"Can YOU turn a blind eye to someone getting attacked by a Jamato?"
"Do YOU have what it takes to protect the world?"
What's the point of protecting other people when you couldn't protect the ones who truly matter? What's the point of protecting the world if, in the end, your heart remained empty and hollow?
What's the point of everything anymore?
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"Look at you. How'd you fail to keep your family safe?"
"Where's that peace-loving boy go?"
He wished the frog could just throw himself out of the window because he just can't... can't be bothered with it.
"I wanted it for her sake... the only family I had left—!"
"What's even the point of wanting world peace, not that she's gone—?"
He really couldn't be bothered... why was he even need to be alive?
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"You KNOW that there is a way—!"
He knew that he shouldn't listen to whatever Kekera said to him now. Because there would always be a catch. There MUST be a catch to anything that came out of the frog's mouth.
And there was... as Kekera started telling him about the things he should do.
Whose side should he turn to now...
Who was it that he should betray...
Whose happiness should he sacrifice in order to recover his...
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But was that the right thing to do? What would his sister think if she knows that he resorted to doing THIS, in order to get her back?
"You're gonna become a true-blue Kamen Rider!"
No... this wasn't right. Even if it was a surefire way to get his sister back—get Sara back to him—there were lines that he shouldn't have crossed—!
"Lines... shmlines... who fucking actually care about that kind of thing NOW?"
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Suddenly Keiwa felt a hand somehow push him far back. And for some strange reason, he found himself inside a shadowy space and there was someone sitting on the floor in front of him.
No. That wasn't just ANYONE. It was 'him'... but he was right here at this time! How could he be seeing himself as a third person, as if he had been separated by his own flesh body?
The 'person' in front of him turned around to look at him... and Keiwa found himself looking at an almost exact mirror of himself. How was this even real?
The 'person' in front of him sneered at Keiwa.
"Stay put there for a while. And I'll show you how MY WORLD PEACE actually looks like."
"I'll be taking over the operations from here..."