I, the Stand-in, Kamen Rider

"Eh?" Eiji and Hina, as well as Izumi Shingo and Ankh, all made strange doubts.

"...Don't you feel any difference?"

"Hmph, what can be different?" Ankh spread his hands, "Can I change anything?"

"Gu Jun... what you said is different, what is it?" Yingsi asked hastily.

"Ankh." Gu Chengxiu took out a piece of paper, which flicked open and turned into a popsicle.

"Today's popsicle."

"...Ah, what you owed earlier, you all have to repay me." Ankh was stunned for a moment, then took the popsicle from Gu Chengxiu's hand with some reluctance, and put it in his mouth.

"...Eh..." In just a second, Ankh immediately took the popsicle out of his mouth.

"Why...?" Ankh took a hard bite of the popsicle in disbelief.

"...This is..." The expression on Ankh's face gradually changed, and finally, two traces of tears slipped from the corners of his eyes uncontrollably.

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What is life?

It's kind of... pretty complicated.

At least, now Ankh feels the beauty of life.

"...Unbelievable, I can actually taste it..." Ankh looked at Gu Chengxiu, "Hey, you boy, who are you, that kind of power has so much to do with you..."

"Does it matter who I am?" Gu Chengxiu shrugged, "And, that's not a taste, Ankh."

"That's the proof that you have become a [life body]." Gu Chengxiu said.

"...Are you kidding me? We Greeed are just lumps of coins. It would be nice to be able to taste and have perception. You tell me that I have [life] now? Are you kidding me?" Ankh Even so, what he couldn't believe was what he saw now.

The world Greeed sees is bleak, the sound he hears is indistinct, his sense of taste is almost nonexistent, and his sense of smell is almost the same——

However, the world Ankh sees now is different from the world he saw in the past.

Beautiful, eye-catching, and radiant.

wonderful.

The sound heard is also very clear.

Ankh looked at Gu Chengxiu in disbelief, "Why, what is that power...?"

"Don't ask, I don't know the details if you ask, I just know that it is an incredible power—" Gu Chengxiu shrugged and said so.

"Ha...hahahahaha——finally satisfied, the desire that has lasted for eight hundred years——" Ankh smiled happily.

The wish that has continued since [-] years ago——

"...I see, that is, your desire, that's why I think you are different from other Greeed." Gu Chengxiu stared at Ankh and said.

All the other Greeed crave are things that humans have.

Uva aspires to be stronger.

What Kazari longs for is to be able to get everything that is human.

Mezuru longed to know the love of mother and child.

Gameru yearns for someone to lean on...

And Ankh, the thing to desire, his desire, was the biggest one—

A life that can perceive everything in this world.

So this is what Gu Chengxiu feels, Ankh is different from other Greeeds.

"Hmph, that's right." Ankh walked towards Yingsi, and then extended his hand to Yingsi, "Can you still stand up?"

"...Ah..." Yingsi held Ankh's outstretched hand and slowly stood up.

This scene, perhaps, is the best end of this event.

It's just that the real battle isn't over yet... it's just begun.

……

"...so tired." Gu Chengxiu lay down on the bed as soon as he got home.

The whole body seems to be falling apart.

"Unicorn...does it hide such power..." Gu Chengxiu took out the Unicorn memory, stared at the memory, and said.

Every time his emotions enter a state of agitation, anger, excitement, impulsiveness, such a state of agitation, when he desperately wants to defeat his opponent, something in his body resonates with Unicorn... and then that state appears.

I don't know why, but it's just...

"System, is this a part of evolution? You said that memory can evolve, right?" Gu Chengxiu asked.

"Yes, but rather than evolution, it's better to say that the host's emotional agitation causes the memory to adapt to the changes in the host's emotions." The system responded.

Gu Chengxiu was silent for a long time, and finally opened his mouth slowly, "I said, system, what are the white fragments? Isn't that incredible?"

"That's a kind of power." The system said so.