"Eh?! Wha... what! Yukarisu!"
Shimamura Mitsuba fell back onto his buttocks in shock. For a moment, he found it hard to accept that his girlfriend was one of the Shocker Combatmen. But there was no mistake; he and his older brother had seen the Shocker Combatmen's bodysuits and that iconic eagle emblem with their own eyes when they were children.
His face was full of questions as he asked, "What on earth is going on? Why is Yukarisu one of the Shocker Combatmen, and why was she brought here by you?"
"Ahem, it's like this: I am a teacher at Seirei Academy, and your girlfriend Yukarisu, she..."
Okada Yuriko explained the situation once more. After all, she was the one involved, and she was the one who had defeated Yukarisu.
Shimamura Mitsuba sighed dejectedly, "To think that's how it is. Yukarisu is actually a member of the Shocker Combatmen. In that case, isn't she an enemy to me and my brother?"
Shiraishi Shin inquired with interest, "An enemy to you and your brother? What do you mean by that? Is your brother a man of extreme justice, or does Shocker itself have a grudge against you?"
Shimamura Mitsuba said without hesitation, "A grudge. When my brother and I were kids, Shocker Combatmen once broke into our house to rob us. It's a long story."
Shiraishi Shin said, "Oh? Then tell us in detail. the three of us are quite interested."
"Mhm, hurry up and tell us, we're all listening."
Tanzaburo Tojima was full of excitement, waiting as if to hear a story. Yesterday he had heard Shimamura Mitsuba mention that he and his brother encountered Shocker Combatmen as children, but he didn't expect a story about them robbing his house. This was much more interesting than his forty years of dull life.
Seeing this, Shimamura Mitsuba pulled himself together and said, "Since you want to hear it so much, then let's begin the flashback arc: 'The Encounter with the Monster'."
Tanzaburo Tojima and Okada Yuriko were shocked, "What? It wasn't Shocker Combatmen, it was a Monster!"
"That's right, it was a Monster!"
Then Shimamura Mitsuba began his narration. It turned out that when he and his brother were young, they lived at their grandparents' house in the countryside. One day, thieves suddenly broke into the house, and those thieves were Shocker Combatmen.
However, his grandmother was no pushover back then. Relying on her impressively strong physique and weapons, she actually defeated those Shocker Combatmen.
But when he and his brother chased them out, they found that while the Shocker Combatmen were dead, their grandparents' necks had been easily snapped by a Monster.
Finally, that Monster glanced at the two brothers but didn't kill them, seemingly out of disdain. Only then did they escape with their lives.
In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Monster spread bat-like wings from its back and flew away. That Monster was very similar to the Bat Man from Kamen Rider.
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"That's right, it was Bat Man! The Monster that killed my grandparents!"
Just then, a voice suppressed with anger came from behind them. Everyone looked over to see a man dressed in all black, wearing a helmet and a white scarf, standing on a high railing, looking down at Shiraishi Shin and the other three.
Shiraishi Shin pointed at him and said, "Hey, I know you want to act cool with a stylish entrance, but don't you know it's rude to stand up there and talk to people?"
"To!"
The man shouted, performed two and a half rotations in mid-air, and landed steadily. He seemed to be a powerful expert with impressive skills.
Tanzaburo Tojima asked, "Who are you!"
"Niisan? Why are you here? He's the brother from my story just now, Shimamura Ichiyo."
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Shimamura Mitsuba was startled. He didn't expect his brother to suddenly appear. It would be bad if he saw Yukarisu's appearance, so he quickly blocked Yukarisu's front to hide her face.
"I was planning to go to your restaurant to find you when I heard a familiar voice talking here. After getting closer, I realized it was you telling old stories."
Shimamura Ichiyo explained, then looked at Shiraishi Shin's group of three, asking in a questioning tone, "But who are you three, to actually make Mitsuba tell the story of his encounter with a Monster?"
He was very puzzled. These three shouldn't be ordinary people; otherwise, his younger brother wouldn't be telling them about their real experiences.
"Shiraishi Shin."
"Okada Yuriko."
"Tanzaburo Tojima."
After the three introduced themselves, Tanzaburo Tojima felt a spark of inspiration and added, "The three of us have defeated a Shocker Combatmen before, and just last night, we even truly defeated a Monster!"
"Na... Nani!"
Shimamura Ichiyo was struck as if by a bolt from the blue. His fairly handsome face was filled with dramatic shock, and the helmet in his hand fell to the ground.
He said in disbelief, "De... de... defeated Shocker Combatmen, and even defeated a real Monster? How is that possible!"
A Monster's combat power was not something Shocker Combatmen could compare to. Just these three?
A student.
A woman.
A somewhat muscular middle-aged man.
This trio could defeat a Monster? What kind of American joke is this?
"Gah!"
Shimamura Mitsuba's mouth also hung wide open. Shocker Combatmen aside, but even a real Monster could be defeated by human strength?
Tanzaburo Tojima said proudly, "How is it impossible? We don't need you to believe it, as long as we believe it ourselves. Right, Okada? Shin?"
Facing someone's questioning, how could Okada Yuriko let their momentum falter? She placed her left hand under her right arm and pushed up her reflective glasses with her right hand, saying, "That's right, this is our record. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not."
Shiraishi Shin shrugged and said nothing.
Shimamura Ichiyo somewhat believed it now. He pointed at Tanzaburo Tojima, then looked at Okada Yuriko and Shiraishi Shin, asking, "You... you three, who on earth are you!"
As soon as he heard the words 'who on earth are you', Tanzaburo Tojima seemed to trigger some kind of mechanism. He raised his hands and performed a sequence of Kamen Rider Ichigo's Henshin poses.
"Rider... Henshin!"
After shouting the Rider Henshin in a low, raspy voice, he quickly turned around and crouched down, pulling out the Rider mask he always carried with him.
"I am Kamen Rider!"
After Tanzaburo Tojima put on the mask, it was as if he had received some kind of buff. His middle-aged man aura vanished instantly, replaced by a heroic spirit.
"You!"
Shimamura Ichiyo's eyes widened, as if he saw the Rider's Soul in Tanzaburo Tojima. Without a doubt, this guy was the same as him. No wonder they could defeat Shocker Combatmen and Monsters.
Then he looked at Okada Yuriko and Shiraishi Shin, saying, "Then what about you two?"
"This..."
Although Okada Yuriko could put on the Denpa Ningen suit to fight without hesitation in a crisis, doing it in this kind of situation... she really couldn't bring herself to be that chuunibyou.
However, she could still announce her title. She pointed her right index and middle fingers toward the sky and said, "I am Denpa Ningen Takkuru!"