Self-cultivation of Kamen Rider ZIO

Chapter 353 Guiding Hope
Gray, as if under a sky where all hope had been lost;

Black, like the earth drowned in despair;

A bloody figure whose face could not be seen swayed forward, and slowly raised his bright red palm...

……

Inside Tedder's castle.

Tid suddenly woke up from the chair, pressed his forehead with an ugly expression, and murmured:
"Dream...?"

"But why would I have such a dream?"

"Who is that person who is dripping with blood and whose face cannot be seen clearly?"

He got up and looked around.

But the familiar scenes around him did not bring him the slightest sense of peace of mind.

So he raised his head...

At this time, the minute hand of the clock has just crossed the last minute of December 12.

It was getting dark, but there was still a waning moon in the sky.

A ray of moonlight shines on the seat where the seat is through the skylight, and reflects on Tidd's face, making his complexion paler.

Tid looked at the waning moon hanging in the sky, his expression gradually fascinated...

Suddenly, he vaguely heard someone calling his name.

"Ted, hey, Teed!"

Tid suddenly came back to his senses, turned his head, and found that the person calling his name was none other than Swaruz.

"how do I……"

Tid's pupils contracted, and the doubts in his heart disappeared in an instant.

Scene transition.

The Swaruz standing in front of his seat disappeared. In contrast, a new Swaruz was slowly walking in from the gate.

But at this time, Tidd has forgotten everything before, and only remembers the reason for this scene...

It was the first time that Swaruz, who was active on the Zi-O line, came to "seek refuge" with him.

That's right,

Swaruz,

The orthodox prince of the time family,

Come to him, the executor of the marginal bloodline!

what!
It really makes people want to laugh out loud!

It seems that in this era ruled by the King of the Devils, not all good things happened.

Thinking of this, Tidd said with a reserved and elegant smile:

"Welcome to watch my enthronement ceremony, Your Highness Swaruz, this is my honor."

Having said that, there was no hint of humility in Tidd's eyes and expression.

Arrogant, contemptuous, provocative...

Even, after staring at Swaruz for a while, he froze for a moment, concealed his anger, but suppressed the expression of not attacking, and only endured it for a moment, and then showed it without concealing it.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--!!!"

He started laughing, wantonly and triumphantly.

In the laughter, all the scenes began to blur.

Tid suddenly came back to his senses, his memory came back, and he found that he was still standing in front of the throne on the high platform, maintaining the posture of looking at the waning moon in the sky at night.

The familiar laughter was still in his ears, but his expression suddenly became extremely bewildered.

Because he couldn't figure out why he suddenly remembered that scene just now.

This added a little irritability to Tidd's mood on top of the anxiety.

He subconsciously began to look for a reason for himself to suddenly recall that scene...

such as,

Swaruz brought him the watch of the alien Zero North,
Another example,
Swaruz took the initiative to lead the King of Time to...

"!!!"

Thinking of this, Tidd snapped back to his senses.

He remembered...

He had previously received a notification from Swaruz, saying that the King of Time has now entered the space-time tunnel and has begun to wander at the boundary of the two timelines, so...

"Why didn't I complete my plan, but stayed here?"

As soon as he had this idea, the scene changed again.

Tidd immerses himself in the new scene.

He sensed that the power of the time king was approaching, so he robbed it, and then he got the time king's knight watch.

Tid looked down at the Zi-O knight watch in his hand, was stunned for a moment, and then returned to the scene.

And as soon as he returned, he saw a huge palm dripping with blood, probing towards him from outside the sky.

The scene that seemed to break the dream and reality really startled Tidd, who had just returned to consciousness, and made him subconsciously take a step back, and fell down on the throne with a "boom".

The palm got closer and closer until it completely covered the moonlight that had been dyed red by it.

The castle without lights was instantly plunged into darkness.

Tid's eyes were suddenly filled with light.

Scene transition.

A female voice sounded from under his throne.

That was the result of Ola, the time robber who also came from the Zi-O line, reporting to him to monitor "Shogo Tokiwa".

"The King of Time is here..."

Bad news!
For Tidd, it was a sad news that even the melodious girlish voice could not cover up!
Unreasonable anger and irritability rose from the heart.

"Humph—good job! I'm not afraid of him coming, on the contrary, if he doesn't come, I will be worried!"

He made a wild declaration.

"Hehe, Ola, your behavior is really as Swaruz expected!"

He blew himself up vilely about the bet he and Swaruz had made with Ola's choice, and began to criticize Ola's choice.

In the end, he took out the Alien Den-O Watch from his body, and used it and the Alien Zero Norse Watch to transform Hisunaga Shingo and Hana into Alien Knights.

Watching them leave his castle, Tidd blinked slightly, and the scene in front of him returned instantly.

"call--"

A gust of cold wind blew away the dark clouds covering the waning moon.

The moonlight reappeared, still bright.

Where is the huge palm dripping with blood?
Looking at the scene in front of him, Tidd suddenly couldn't tell which was reality and which was illusion.

But no matter which side he was on, the irritability in his heart kept piling up.

In order to avoid being swallowed by those [anxiety], Tid stood up from his seat, walked quickly down the high platform, and walked quickly to the laboratory where the singularity was stored.

He wants to do something to make himself feel at ease...

During this process, his expression changed several times, and his pace became faster and faster.

"Bang!"

The door of the laboratory was pushed open by him.

Tidd was about to step into it when his expression froze suddenly.

Scene transition.

He discovered that he was transforming a different demon god into the power of a different electric king through the perspective of Jiu Yong Shengo, and the different demon god who was being transformed into power by him was exactly...

"The little bug that escaped before..."

The scene shifts again.

"……give me."

Tid suddenly came back to his senses and found that he was standing in front of "Shogo Tokiwa".

And what he handed over in his raised palm was none other than Zi-O's knight watch.

Tidd immerses himself in this new scene...

Tidd remembered that he had just forcibly split the Alien King's line.

He felt that although he had temporarily trapped the King of Time in other times, that did not guarantee that the King of Time would not come desperately when his plan was about to be completed.

Therefore, he needs a powerful combat force that can block the King of Time at critical moments.

Thinking about it this way, wouldn't "Shogo Tokiwa", who is also Sogo Tokiwa, be the best candidate?
Looking at "Shogo Tokiwa" who raised his hand to receive the Zi-O knight watch, Tidd smiled.

"you……"

The scene suddenly returns.

The smile on Teed's face froze.

He found that the door of the laboratory was still closed, and he was stretching out his hands to push it.

But he clearly remembered that he had already opened that door! ?

"This is me, is it still in memory?"

"But why, in this memory, I can recall what just happened?"

Thinking of this, Tidd raised his hand to press his forehead, and he found that the boundary between illusion and reality in his mind was not only becoming blurred, but had even begun to get mixed up...

Immediately afterwards, as if to confirm his idea, when he put down the palm on his forehead, he was surprised to find that he was standing in front of the laboratory door and was about to open the door. He had clearly just taken a nap. Waking up, still sitting on the throne and not getting up!

Tid was silent for a moment, then suddenly got up and ran to the laboratory.

However, at this moment, the door of the laboratory suddenly opened.

"call--!!"

A strange sound of wind began to howl.

It's as if a monster that devours everything is slowly inhaling with its mouth wide open in the laboratory.

Tidd stopped quickly, trying to turn around and flee.

But as soon as he turned around, the suction suddenly increased to the point where he couldn't resist, sucking him away in an instant.

"Do not--"

he yelled in horror.

As a result, the next second...

He stood in front of the laboratory again.

In front of him was the laboratory door that he had just opened.

As far as the eye can see, everything is so peaceful and... familiar!
It's like going back to the beginning.

However, this [familiarity] made Tidd stagger back uncontrollably.

But just as he started to back up, he heard a "crash", the skylight behind him shattered, and someone broke in.

Zero North, Sakurai Yuto.

Tid turned around quickly, and saw Yuto Sakurai inserting a black and green card into his belt, but it turned into a purple-black hollow, sucking him into it in the blink of an eye.

Tid struggled subconsciously, and then fell off the throne and rolled off the high platform with a "plop".

He "woke up".

But it is already unclear whether this is "again" or "again".

It is also unclear whether this is "memory" or "reality".

It seems that there are countless mouths talking in my mind.

"Hey, Teed!"

"carry……"

"The King of Time is here..."

"Fleeing bug!"

"The strange demon... this is the end..."

"For me... to become a different..."

"Masked... Shi... Doomsday..."

"The plans... are all fake... Oh..."

Those noisy noises kept "buzzing" in his head, causing Tidd to hug his head and hit the ground hard.

"Boom! Boom!"

then……

The sense of weightlessness came suddenly.

The ground disappeared, turning into a bottomless pit to swallow him.

He began to fall continuously in the endless darkness...

However, the [irritability] that filled his heart did not disappear, but piled up like snowflakes;
Then, [irritability] became [irritability];
In the end, [tempered] became [manic].

Tidd also changed from a scene of repelling memories to anticipation.

Because only in the scenes of those memories can he temporarily escape from the noise in his mind and escape from the bottomless pit from which he cannot escape.

But even in the memory, the emotions that have been diffused in his heart will not disappear.

【annoyed】【irritated】【angry】

These emotions are constantly devouring his sanity.

His desire to talk is getting stronger and stronger, and it is becoming more and more difficult for him to communicate...

Then, he began to enjoy the feeling of his sanity being devoured and his heart constantly deteriorating.

He greedily longed for a new round of memories.

Even if those memories are like drinking poison to quench thirst, every time he "returns", there will be an extra noise in his mind.

But how painful the "return" scene is, the more he desires to enter the memory as soon as possible.

He was already looking forward to the moment when his sanity would be completely swallowed up.

That, Tidd thought, must have been a supreme pleasure to him.

But no matter how much he expected, how longed, how much he prayed, he still couldn't sink completely.

It was as if, deep in his heart, there was another self who was completely opposite to his choice. No matter how painful it was, he was consistently sticking to the last line of defense of his own reason.

And just when Tidd thought that this hell would last forever, he suddenly entered a scene that was different from his previous memories with those noises...

……

……

[2018:12 on December 3, 17]

The gray stagnant space-time, the time that stopped advancing to the future.

Tid, who was immobilized by a blood-stained clock magic circle, looked angrily at the figure in front of him that was bleeding and shaking, but refused to fall and shouted:

"Are you crazy?"

"Stop! Even if you do, you won't get any benefit!"

"You will just completely disappear in this timeline!"

"I can promise you, as long as you stop now, not only your uncle, but even your parents will be resurrected in the new world, how about it?"

Anxious persuasion failed, and Tidd began to lose his temper.

"Damn! My plan is perfect! Even if I do it all over again, nothing will change!"

"You can't stop me!"

"You can't stop anything!"

Finally, the figure walking in front of Tidd spoke.

"Ah."

He raised his head, his seven orifices were bleeding but he smiled unusually calmly.

"You really don't understand anything."

In this timeline, the original "Shogo Tokiwa" continued to speak while raising his palm to press Tied.

"There is only one reason why I made this choice, that is, I don't see any future possibility in you."

Ted shouted with a ferocious expression:
"What shit is the possibility of the future, the only mission of this timeline is to be ruled by me! Serve me! You will not succeed, I will definitely turn this time back! At that time, I..."

At this point, Tidd's shouting stopped abruptly.

Because, the bloody palm of "Shogo Tokiwa" finally landed on the top of Tidd's head.

As for Tidd's last harsh words, "Shogo Tokiwa" replied:
"Really? If you can really do it, then I will witness it with my own eyes in your spiritual world and give you applause."

After the words fell, Den-Woman's knight watch emerged from the body of "Shogo Tokiwa", and built a railroad track between him and Tied's spiritual world, and then changed into a small Den-Liner on the railroad track. Walk back and forth.

Then, "Shogo Tokiwa" also turned into a static sculpture just like Teed.

"Click!"

Under them, in the strange magic circle of the clock, the pointer shaped like a Den-Liner began to rotate in reverse...

……

……

Tid pressed his headache-ridden head and clearly felt the difference in the memory scene this time.

at this time……

In the calm sky, a wormhole suddenly opened.

The badly damaged Den-Liner fell out of it, falling to the ground.

Tidd raised his head, looked at the train that fell from the sky involuntarily, and subconsciously took a step forward... No, it wasn't his subconscious step forward, but something in that train that attracted him and was to him. There was a suction... It was that suction that pulled him to take a step forward.

Tid took control of himself and thought, What is it?What is there that attracts me?Or, what is there about me is being pulled there?

And just when he was thinking this way, he suddenly froze...

Because he discovered that he actually started to "think normally"! ?
Tid lowered his head, slowly raised his hand to press his chest, and then raised his head suddenly.

"Ha ha ha ha……?"

The corners of Tid's mouth seemed to be trembling, but also seemed to be laughing convulsively.

He seemed to understand what was pulling him there... It was the "noise" filling his mind, the culprit that trapped him, the poison that made him unable to stop after trapping him, the things he was constantly experiencing Ah!

At this point, Tidd laughed wildly and said:
"Take it! Take it! Take it all! If these are what you want, then take them all!!!"

Tidd no longer controls himself, he wants to take the initiative to step forward and give everything away.

But at this moment, Tidd suddenly found that his body did not obey his orders.

The other self hidden in his heart, the self that would not let him fall, the self that insisted on him being sober to bear all this, was resisting him and rejecting his choice like never before.

Except for the last line of defense that sticks to reason like a rock, this is the first time Tidd perceives other emotions from another self.

anger!
But the problem is...

"Me too, very angry!!!"

Tid took half a step forward with a distorted expression.

"tread!"

At the same time, in the Den-Liner, a strange time fluctuation suddenly swayed away.

Under the effect of the two phases, another defense in Tidd's heart instantly failed.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a crisp crackling sound, layers of "time" overflowed from Tidd's body instantly like smoke, and were sucked into Den-Liner's driving car.

Immediately, that strange time fluctuation was like a flame that had been fueled, rising again.

Immediately, a sudden change occurred.

A train phantom rushed out from the front of the car, flipped in the air, and slowly joined the Den-Liner.

During this period, the severely damaged Den-Liner quickly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, the flute sounded for a long time.

"Woo-!"

The Den-Liner, reborn from the ashes, re-launched in the nick of time, brushed past the ground, and left through the wormhole.

At the same time, just as Den-Liner left, Tidd also disappeared in place.

……

……

In the gray static time and space.

Above the blood-stained clock magic circle.

After the minute hand reversed for 17 weeks, a smile suddenly appeared on the lips of the sculpture-like "Shogo Tokiwa".

"The perfect answer is worthy of [me]!"

After the words fell, "Shogo Tokiwa" began to desertify little by little, and this phenomenon quickly spread to Tied along the railroad track connecting him with Tied.

And after they all started to have this phenomenon, the little Den-Liner on the railroad track turned back into Den-O's knight's watch.

At the same time, a yellow spot of light suddenly rushed out of the body of "Shogo Tokiwa".

It was the phantom created by "Shogo Tokiwa" in the mental world before. At this time, according to the plan of "Shogo Tokiwa", he rushed out of his spiritual world, came to reality, and began to materialize.

And in the process of his materialization, his body involuntarily began to absorb the sands of time that escaped from "Shogo Tokiwa" and "Tide".

As a result, the light spot quickly expanded into a photosphere.

When it was large enough to hold a watch, Den-O's knight watch entered it as the last step to endow the phantom demon with the characteristics of a different demon god.

In the end, the newly born Phantom Demon God soared into the sky and left this time and space through the wormhole.

That is the origin of the birth of Phantaros...

The time at that time was December 2018, 12, at 3:17.

In the time and space that was originally static, the gray that represented the old future disappeared, and the time when Tidd completed the plan has completely become history, and there is no possibility of turning back.

Colors are rendered, a new future is born, and a new continuation begins.

The impact of space-time transformation not only made the time point when "Shogo Tokiwa" disappeared into a special time node, but also made "Shogo Tokiwa" in a special place during that time, in the future of the old world. , and in the future superposition state of the new world.

At the same time, it is precisely because of being in such a special superposition state that "Shogo Tokiwa" said the above sentence, because he did "see" that future.

Well, it's a little difficult to understand.

So to put it bluntly,

Tid, whose time was reversed by "Shogo Tokiwa",

Keeping the psychological defense line,
In the process of trying to drag down "Shogo Tokiwa" to rewind time,

Because of Sogo Tokiwa's perfect response,
Ushered in a "doomed" failure.

……

……

[2018:12 on December 3, 0]

"Damn Time King——!!!"

Tidd's true will returned, and as soon as he opened his eyes from the seat after remembering everything, he smashed the armrest of the seat with an angry punch.

"I haven't lost yet! I haven't lost yet—!!"

Shouting like this, Tidd's figure disappeared in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was already standing in front of the laboratory gate, holding the watches of the alien king and the alien zero North in his hands.

……

inside the laboratory.

In the container on one side of the singularity power conversion machine,

Suddenly, fine sand dripped from Jiu Yong Shen Wu's body.

……

time Tunnel.

Zero-Liner,
Yuto Sakurai and Gates have seen the light of the end.

And not far behind the Zero-Liner,
Den-Liner gallops forward.

……

time desert.

Substituting "Shogo Tokiwa", through the stable spiritual connection established by the Gate astronomical switch, Sogo Tokiwa, who began to remotely control his body, opened his arms and stretched a lot. Then, he looked at Tsukuyomi next to him, with a touch of warmth on his face smile.

"Wait a little longer, I'll come pick you up soon."

After the words fell, a teleportation magic circle suddenly rose from the ground and engulfed him.

(End of this chapter)