"I see, then please, Brother Ryotaro."

Shingo Kunaga promised Ryotaro Nogami that he would accept his protection until he was free from the pursuit of monsters......

Thinking like this, Shingo Kunaga was suddenly stunned, he scratched his hair suspiciously, and muttered:

"Wait, am I ...... Forgot something? ”

"Shingo?"

Ryotaro Nogami noticed Shingo Kunaga's strangeness and asked with concern.

When Shingo Kunaga heard this, he came back to his senses, shook his head, and his eyes returned to normal after a moment of confusion.

"I'm fine."

He replied to Ryotaro Nogami.

"Well, that's good."

Ryotaro Nogami nodded, then asked.

"Ah, by the way, did you make any wishes when that monster appeared?"

After a pause, Ryotaro Nogami added.

"...... to that monster"

Hearing this question, Shingo Kunaga's expression suddenly became a little strange.

"Brother Ryotaro ......"

Shingo Kunaga complained.

"No one would make a wish to the monster who chased them, would they?"

"Ah......h

When Ryotaro Nogami heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his expression was quite embarrassed.

"Yes, yes......"

……

den-liner.

Putarus, who had just been happy that Ryotaro Nogami had learned to lie, sighed lightly.

"Alas......"

He shook his head elegantly and contacted Ryotaro Nogami through the words.

"Ryotaro, at this time, you should ask, 'Did that monster force you to make a wish to him?' instead of 'Did you make a wish to that monster?'"

At the same time, he complained in his heart.

Thanks to that kid is a sunny heart, if he changes to a slightly more irritable object, I'm afraid that he won't directly listen to "make a wish" as "begging for mercy", and then ......

Thinking of the lingering unlucky attribute in Nogami's Ryotaro, Putaros couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

……

Meanwhile.

Under the guidance of Putarus, Ryotaro Nogami, who got the correct posture, finally got the answer to that question from Shingo Kunaga smoothly.

"Nope."

Shingo Kunaga thought for a moment, then shook his head and replied.

It is true that he begged for mercy from the alien Zeronos, but he did not make a wish to the alien Zeronos, and the alien Zeronos never asked him to do so.

In fact, the only thing the alien Zeronos said to him was the original one......

Are you asking me? 】

Thinking of this, Shingo Kunaga hurriedly said:

"I remember, though......"

But as soon as this sentence began, it came to an abrupt end.

Seeing this, Ryotaro Nogami hurriedly asked:

"What do you remember?"

Shingo Kunaga was silent and did not answer.

- I remember, that monster was changed by an older sister!

He wanted to share this information with Ryotaro Nogami, but as his eyes froze for a moment......

Shingo Kunaga has lost this idea.

Therefore, under the questioning of Ryotaro Nogami, Shingo Kunaga showed only confusion and confusion about the current situation.

In the face of such a Kunaga Shingo......

After a moment, Ryotaro Nogami said softly:

“…… I'm sorry. ”

However, he couldn't ignore the anomaly that Shingo Kunaga had just shown.

Just now, Shingo Kunaga obviously wanted to say something......

But now, he had even forgotten what he had just said!

This made Nogami Ryotaro feel that the situation faced by Shingo Kunaga might not be as simple as being possessed by a demon god.

So, Ryotaro Nogami decided to ......

Substitution!

With the blue light lingering under his eyes, Putarus appears elegantly.

"There are thousands of needles hidden in the words, monstrous falsehoods, outrageous lies, boy ......"

The corners of Ryotaro Uraban's mouth were hooked, his right hand was raised, and he gently pushed the frame of the glasses, smiling.

"You can try to take my bait, too."

……

……

Shotaro Ishimori's residence.

Ding Dong –

As the doorbell rang, a moment later, an old man's voice rang from the walkie-talkie on the doorbell.

"...... you?"

Sakurai approached the camera set up on the doorbell and said bluntly:

"I'm Yoto Sakurai, he's the Gates of Meikoin, we want to visit Mr. Ishimori, can I ask?"

There was a moment of silence over the doorbell intercom.

After a moment, click-

The door in front of Sakurai and Gates suddenly opened, and an old man of about eighty years old appeared in front of them.

The old man was wearing a pair of reading glasses, and as soon as he appeared, he looked at Sakurai and Gates for a while.

"Zero North, Geiz."

The old man looked at Sakurai Yoto and Gates, and complex emotions flashed in his eyes, such as surprise, doubt, suddenness, and incredulity, but in the end, these turned into a smile of relief.

"Come in."

The old man sent out an invitation to Sakurai Yoto and Gates.

"I'm what you're looking for, Shotaro Ishimori."

……

……

In 1969, Shotaro Ishimori had a whimsical idea to create a heroic work that was different from the current popular works on the market...... So, after a long period of thinking, design, and materials.

Finally, Shotaro Ishimori draws the image of the "new hero" he was looking forward to - Kamen Rider No. 1, Takeshi Hongo!

But what Shotaro Ishimori didn't expect was that that night, the hero he drew on the drawing paper, Takeshi Hongo, "came to life" in his dream.

And, still going through the story that he only has an outline at this stage.

After waking up, Shotaro Ishimori was silent for a long time before he picked up his paintbrush and wrote down what happened in his dream.

Then, he began to enrich the story of Kamen Rider No. 1......

In the process, Shotaro Ishimori had a burst of inspiration and designed a wonderful plot.

Although, it was a tragedy.

However, as a manga artist, Shotaro Ishimori was happy that he was able to design such a plot.

However, when he actually saw from his dream that the hero named Takeshi Hongo had actually experienced the plot he had designed......

The next day, Shotaro Ishimori was silent for a long time in front of the drawing paper, and finally, he decided to change the tragedy.

Although, that's a very good plot.

However, Shotaro Ishimori is confident that he can draw great stories even without tragedy.

However, the story in Shotaro Ishimori's dream did not follow his revised plot, but continued to follow the original plot layout and develop downward......

After that, Shotaro Ishimori tried many adjustments to the plot of the manga.

However, the story in the dream still stubbornly continues along its original outline.

Even later, Shotaro Ishimori couldn't tell whether the original outline of the story was his own idea, or whether he resonated with the information from another world, so his inspiration exploded, and then the story "emerged" directly in his mind.

In short, in the end, Shotaro Ishimori deleted all his changes to the tragedy and chose to faithfully record the history of Kamen Rider No. 1.

That is, his respect for the hero named Takeshi Hongo.

After that, Shotaro Ishimori told many Kamen Rider stories one after another......

From Showa to Heisei ......

I think he will continue to narrate it in the future.

As long as he is alive, the end of Heisei will not be the end, but a new beginning.

Even if he dies, there will be a successor......

The story of Kamen Rider will never end.

Because, no matter what era, there will definitely be heroes!

Heroes don't disappear!

The spirit of Kamen Rider is too!

Inheritance is eternal!

It's just that Shotaro Ishimori didn't expect that one day, the hero of his dreams, the characters he wrote, would really come to him from another world.

……

……

Inside the house, living room.

Sofa, wooden table, three people sitting.

Shotaro Ishimori looked at Sakurai Yoto and Gates, and smiled calmly:

"Are you here to collect a debt from me, an old man?"