Kamen Rider Zi-O has been trucking along for a while now and, from what I've seen, I've liked it. Better than its direct predecessor, but we'll see if it'll eventually top the trinity that is Ex-Aid, Gaim, and Wizard. We will see…
I've wanted to try my hand at writing something connected to the Zi-O cast for a little while now and I have an interesting idea in mind. This three-shot will end up having a purpose that you'll see in due time, so be patient and wait to see what this will lead to.
Onto continuity. This takes place after the last episode that's in 2018, but before the arrival of the other Woz and the Riders fighting Another Shinobi. Also, Heisei Generations Forever will not have happened just yet.
Well, let's go ahead and begin.
Kamen Rider belongs to Toei, Bandai Namco, Shotaro Ishinomori, etc.
Woz was shown sitting in a dark place and holding out his book with a calm smile on his face, "According to this book, average high schooler Tokiwa Sougo embarks on a path which leads him to become the demonic king of time, Ohma Zi-O. Though a disturbing divergence has appeared as a result of his attempt to stray from this path, he nonetheless finds himself before yet another foe before it turns into do-"
He then quickly shut his book and gave a somewhat apologetic look, "I suppose I have read to far ahead…"
Within the city was a pair of teenagers in the midst of a card game tournament that was approaching its conclusion at a rapid pace as one quickly played down one card.
"Ancient Shoukan! Appear, Technomage Magician!" one teenager yelled as he placed down a card, "You're finished! Attack!"
The other teen just sighed as he saw the health points drain to zero and his foe was announced the winner.
The male walked away from the tournament area with a smile on his face and trophy in his hands. He continued on his way, but then stopped when he heard somebody else walking. He quickly turned around, yet saw nobody there. As he was about to continue forward, however, he was suddenly grabbed by the neck.
"Cards…" a monsterous voice said in an almost monotone voice as he looked at the card deck that was in the teen's other hand. The monster just stared for a moment before slamming the teen to the ground and hurrying away.
A short distance away, a trio of teenaged women walked along in some kimonos and were talking amongst themselves.
"Izumi-san's line is so amazing!" one of them said as she spun around in her flowered patterned kimono.
"Yeah, it is," another one of them agreed as she showed off her own kimono for a bit.
The group laughed happily for a moment before a sort of mist began to flow towards the four of them. All of them turned around as they saw somebody approaching the four of them. The mist soon enveloped the area around the four of them. Once the mist died down, though, the four women were all gone and only their sandals remained on the ground where they stood…
Since 2000
20 Kamen Rider Kicks
The Heisei Kamen Riders have passed through this era. And now, they pass their legacy on to the next generation! Rejoice, for the birth of a new king!
Oh yeah… Ohh…
Isshun de tsukamitoru no sa Are you ready? [Are you ready?] (Catch it in an instant! Are you ready? [Are you ready?])
Atarashī rekishi wa soko ni Feel it! Feel it! [Crazy crazy!] (That's where the new history is! Feel it! Feel it! [Crazy crazy!])
Hikari wo kate ni kasokushite (Use your bonds of light to accelerate)
Konomama Shout it out! Shout it out! (Just keep at it! Shout it out! Shout it out!)
Ima wo susume yō (Let's keep going in the present)
Madō hi mo ikudo tonaku asu no tobira tatake... (There will be confusing days, but knock on the door to tomorrow...)
Mitsumeta sono saki ni tobikonde mitara (Just plunge into what's ahead of you!)
Believe Yourself!
Now, Over "Quartzer"
Toki no ame Surinukete Tomo ni (Let's slip through the torrents of time together)
You, Over "Quartzer"
Mirai wo koe yō (Let's cross over to the future)
Kako no ishi wa Uso de wa azamuke nai (Lies can not fool the will of the past)
Kanjiro sō Nexus Future (Feel it in your bones! The Nexus Future)
Now, Over "Quartzer"
Mabayui sekai... (That dazzling world...)
Misete (Show me it)
Kamen Rider Zi-O: Another Story
Episode 01: Trouble in 2018
Sougo sat within a room at the clock store and seemed to be lost in thought as he stared at his Ride Watch. He continued to stare at it for a few minutes before he heard the door open and quickly tucked the Ride Watch away.
"Sougo-kun. Your friend is here," Sougo's uncle called out.
He looked down to see it was Woz and that he was carrying what looked to be wrapped presents.
"For you," Woz said as he handed a smaller present to Sougo's uncle.
Sougo's uncle gave a smile before he opened it up to reveal a clock that had pink katakana on it for 'Rider' by the clock hands. He then walked off to find somewhere to place it as Woz walked over to Sougo.
"Hello," Sougo greeted.
"Merry Christmas, waga maou," Woz said as he bowed to Sougo before raising up the present, "Allow me to present you with this."
"Thanks," Sougo responded as he accepted the present.
At the top of the staircase, though, both Tsukuyomi and Geiz were watching Sougo receive the present. Both nervously paled as they watched Sougo unwrap the present.
"This doesn't look good…" Geiz muttered as he reached for his pockets.
"Keep it down…" Tsukuyomi responded.
"Wow~," Sougo gawked as he held up the present, "New set of the King of Cards game!"
"Enjoy," Woz said with a smile before he headed out.
"...huh. That was… unexpected…" Tsukuyomi commented.
Sougo continued to have a beaming smile as he looked over the deck before turning to Tsukuyomi and Geiz, "Either of you want to play a round? I may not have played this game in a long time, but I'm pretty good at cards!"
"I'm going out for some air. See you two whenever," Geiz said quickly as he headed for the door and left the building.
Tsukuyomi simply stared for a moment before Sougo grabbed her arm and dragged her off to his room to play the game. She just let out a sigh as she was dragged along.
Geiz simply roamed around outside as he mulled over recent events, spending a couple hours simply walking, but then came to a stop when he saw police tape around an area. He quickly looked to see some police officers were looking over the area and one was talking to an older woman.
"Police area, please do not bother us!" one officer quickly told Geiz and a few other people that were looking at what happened, "Go away and do not disturb!"
Geiz looked over the scene quickly to see that there seemed to be signs of at least one fight, yet nothing else seemed to indicate what had happened. He then noticed a building nearby the area that didn't look like the police were at, but seemed to have had a vantage point of what could have happened. He quickly headed over to the building and casted a quick look to the sign. He stopped with a confused look as he stared at the sign of the company that owned the building.
"B. R. & D?" he muttered.
"The building had recently been bought out and is in the middle of rebranding," a staff member told Geiz, "Are you with the police? I've been waiting for somebody to talk to about what I saw last night."
"I'm… a pre-investigator. I gather some info and then somebody else will talk to you. Kind of a comparison of notes thing," Geiz lied quickly, "What happened?"
"There was this young man passing through the area on his way from what looked to bea tournament because of a trophy and he got attacked by this monster. I couldn't see much of it, but I think the back of it said 2004 on it…" the woman began.
"Alright."
"And then there were these girls passing through, but then there was a mist and they were gone when the mist vanished."
Geiz nodded his head a bit in response, "Alright. Another officer will come by and you just talk to them as well. Thanks for your help."
Meanwhile, Sougo and Tsukuyomi had sat down in Sougo's room and had been playing the game for a few hours. Tsukuyomi ended up winning every round that they had played.
"Wow…" Sougo sighed as he had lost once more, "You're good at this."
"More like lucky…" Tsukuyomi responded.
"Gotta remember to thank Woz for this gift," Sougo commented. He was about to reshuffle the deck when he noticed a bit of sad look on Tsukuyomi's face, "...you alright?"
"Huh?"
"You look… sad."
"Sorry. Just… haven't had a chance to relax like this in a long time."
Sougo then gained a bit of a guilty look on his face as he looked towards his Ziku-Driver and recalled what the future looked like, "...gomen…"
His eyes then wandered over to the tower containing the various Ride Watches, "...hey, Tsukuyomi?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think we might be able to find a way to restore the other Kamen Riders?"
"I'm honestly not sure…" Tsukuyomi admitted.
"...I at least think we will. Cause, well-"
"Let's not worry about that right now. Why not go another round?"
Sougo then perked up a bit as he readied his deck, "Gonna try my best to get my ninja card out. With 'shinobi' written on the blade and heart, this card has given me many victories when I played in the past."
"Never say your strategy out loud. Just allows your foe to counterplan," Tsukuyomi said with a smirk as she shuffled her own deck.
"Sougo?" Sougo's uncle called out, "Can you come here for a minute?"
"Sure," Sougo responded as he quickly walked out of his room and saw his uncle watching the news, "Something up?"
"Does this name look familiar to you?" his uncle asked as he unpaused the screen and Sougo saw the name 'Yuki Yuya' on the screen, "I think it sounds like somebody you know."
He stared at the screen for a moment before he gasped, grabbed a jacket, and headed outside. Tsukuyomi quickly followed Sougo out of the building and chased after him.
Both eventually arrived at a hospital and found the room where the teen who had been competing in the card tournament was now laying.
"Yuki-san?" Sougo called out.
The teen turned towards Sougo and gave a smile, "Tokiwa-san. Good to see you again."
"Who's this?" Tsukuyomi asked as she and Sougo entered the hospital room.
"This is Yuki Yuya. He and I used to play King of Cards as kids. Yuki-san, this is Tsukuyomi."
"Well… nice to see the kid with dreams of being king managed to get himself a girlfriend," Yuya smiled.
Both Sougo and Tsukuyomi gave an embarrassed blush in response to what Yuya had just said.
"What brings you by?" Yuya questioned.
"I saw the news. What happened?" Sougo asked in concern.
"...I was on my way back home from a tournament and some kind of monster attacked me."
"Monster?"
"Looked to be blue and silver with red eyes, but that's all I can remember," Yuya informed before he sighed, "Looks like my family just has bad luck. My sister got kidnapped ten years ago and now this…"
"...wait. Your sister was kidnapped?" Sougo asked.
"Yeah. She disappeared around October 5th, 2008, and she still hasn't come up again…"
Tsukuyomi gave Sougo a look, Sougo gave her a nod, and Tsukuyomi stepped out of the hospital room. She quickly got out her Faiz Phone X and dialed up Geiz.
"Geiz?"
-Huh. I was just about to call you…- Geiz admitted, -Well, listen. There was an attack and-
"I know. Sougo knows the person who was attacked. Has to be an Another Rider."
-Yeah. Somebody saw the year it was from on its back.-
"Alright…"
Sougo walked over to Tsukuyomi's side and she turned to him, "What's up?"
"We're meeting up with Geiz. Come on."
"Just one moment," Sougo told her as he turned to Yuya, "See you around."
"Stay safe, king-boy," Yuya told him.
Sougo and Tsukuyomi ended up meeting up with Geiz outside of a card store and began to compare the information that they currently had.
"Looks like we're dealing with an Another Rider from 2004…" Geiz muttered.
"...there's also something we'll need to look into from 2008," Sougo commented.
"Why?"
"Yuki-san's sister was never kidnapped before he moved out of town. She was with him and his family when they left town in 2009…"
"Maybe the Another Rider has a vendetta against the family?" Tsukuyomi speculated.
Before they could continue to speculate, though, they heard several people yelling in fear. The three looked up to see the blue and silver Another Rider.
=BLA~DE…=
Another Blade let out a fierce growl as it charged towards the card store. Sougo and Geiz quickly got their Drivers on and got out their Ride Watches.
=ZI-O!/GEIZ!=
Both quickly inserted the Watches into their Drivers and got them into position.
"Henshin!"
They spun the Drivers around and charged towards Another Blade as their suits formed.
=KAMEN RIDER~ ZI-O~...=
=KAMEN RI~DER~ GEIZ!=
Pink katakana and yellow hiragana quickly attached onto their respective helmets as both Riders kicked Another Blade away from the store.
"Kamen… Riders…" Another Blade growled as he pulled out a card from his side and scanned it along his arm, "...duel."
"What?" Kamen Rider Geiz blinked.
=STAB!=
Another Blade charged forward and punched Kamen Rider Geiz right in the chest before the card he had scanned boosted the power of said attack and sent the red and black rider flying. Another Blade quickly scanned another card along his arm.
=THUNDER!=
He then scanned another card.
=UPPER!=
One of Another Blade's fists charged with electricity and he delivered an electrically charged uppercut to Kamen Rider Geiz. Zi-O quickly fired his Zikan Girade in gun mode to blast Another Blade away from Kamen Rider Geiz.
"If you feel like playing games… then I'll play," Zi-O declared as he got out the Ex-Aid Ride Watch.
=EX-AID!=
Zi-O quickly loaded the watch into his Diver and spun it.
=ARMOR TIME!=
The armor generated in front of Zi-O and then quickly attached onto him.
=LEVEL UP! EX-AI~D!=
Zi-O then struck the ground to generate blocks that then raised Another Blade up. Zi-O quickly jumped up the blocks and smacked Another Blade back down towards the ground.
"Yosha!" Zi-O cheered… before Kamen Rider Geiz stepped on his shoulders and used him as a springboard to soften his landing, "Ow…"
"Thanks," Kamen Rider Geiz told him quickly as he got out the Faiz Ride Watch.
=FAIZ!=
He quickly inserted it and spun the belt around.
=ARMOR TIME!=
=COMPLETE! FAIZ~!=
The armor quickly combined into Kamen Rider Geiz and he readied the Faiz Phone X for combat. Another Blade managed to get back up, but was quickly shot at by the red and black colored Rider.
"Yosha!" Zi-O cheered as he charged in to smack Another Blade with the two Gashacon Breaker fists. He quickly smacked the monster with them, yet the monster didn't seem at all phased by it, "Huh?"
He then noticed that Another Blade's body was now coated silver as if it were made out of some kind of metal. Kamen Rider Geiz continued to fire the Faiz Phone X at Another Blade, but the shots all bounced off of the Another Rider without even leaving a dent. Another Blade tossed Zi-O away from him as he prepared to scan another card.
"We're gonna need something tough…" Zi-O muttered as he got back up.
"Sougo! Use this!" Tsukuyomi yelled before she tossed over a Ride Watch to him.
Zi-O caught the Ride Watch and looked it over for a moment. The watch was pink and white and had the year '2016' on the bottom of it, "Wait… where'd you get this from?"
"Just hurry up and use it!"
"...hai…" Zi-O nodded as he spun the Watch into position and loaded it into the Zikan Girade.
=FINISH TIME!=
Pink energy charged for a short amount of time before Zi-O pulled the trigger.
=POPPY, ZURE ZURE SHOOTING!=
Various music notes and hearts fired out from the gun at a rapid pace. Another Blade tried to defend against the onslaught of energy, but it managed to crack through the iron defense the Another Rider was being defended by.
"Yosh…" Zi-O muttered before he gave a small motion to Kamen Rider Geize, "Ikuzo, Geiz. No continue de naka clear de kira iga tsuru!"
Kamen Rider Geiz gave a small nod as he quickly inputted a code into the Faiz Phone X.
=READY, POINTER ON!=
Part of the Faiz Armor extended as both Riders prepared their finishers.
=FINISH TIME! EX-AID!=
=FINISH TIME! FAIZ!=
Both Riders quickly spun their Drivers around as the energy charged around them.
=CRITICAL TIME BREAK!=
=EXCEED TIME BURST!=
Zi-O knocked up some generated blocks along with the katakana for 'Critical Time Break' into the air, looked down to the ground, punched the two Gashacon Breaker fists against the ground to knock Another Blade up into the air, jumped up, and punched one of the blocks against Another Blade to stun him.
As the two Gashacon Breaker fists charged with more energy, Kamen Rider Geiz jumped up into the air and had part of his armor send out a red blast that kept Another Blade in the air. Both Riders then collided with the Another Rider and knocked him back down to the ground with an explosion occurring not long after that.
"Yosha!" Zi-O cheered.
"You really need to look up their actual finishers because that was embarrassing to look at…" Kamen Rider Geiz said bluntly.
"Nah. I'm fine doing it how I wanna do it," Zi-O said with a small shrug.
The other Rider simply rolled his eyes at this remark before they both turned to where the Another Rider landed, but saw that nothing was there.
"Wait… where'd he go?" Zi-O questioned.
Both Riders looked around the area for a moment before they both reverted back to normal.
"At least we know it's attacking here…" Sougo commented.
"We're going to need to stake this area out and wait for it to come back," Geiz stated in a serious tone.
A few hours had passed since the trio had set up across the street to watch the card store and await the return of Another Blade. Geiz had a calm and serious look on his face as he kept waiting, Tsukuyomi was also watching with a calm look, and Sougo simply had a look of boredom on his face.
"It has been two hours and ten minutes… still nothing…" Geiz muttered.
"You said that same thing one minute ago… except with nine minutes instead of ten…" Sougo bluntly commented.
Geiz simply ignored Sougo as he went back to watching the card store. Sougo gave off a sigh before he noticed something nearby and he quietly got Tsukuyomi's attention.
"Two hours and fifteen minutes… still nothing…" Geiz muttered, "You two see anything?"
Neither of them responded.
"Guys?" Geiz spoke as he turned around… only to see neither Sougo or Tsukuyomi were there, "...where are they…?"
He quickly picked up a pair of binoculars and noticed Tsukuyomi's mantle on the inside of a clothing store two stores away from the card store.
"This yukata looks nice…" Sougo commented as he motioned to a white one with pink flowers.
"I suppose…" Tsukuyomi responded as she took the sleeve and felt the material.
"Have you ever celebrated New Year's before, Tsukuyomi?"
"...once, I think. I was really young at the time…"
"I see…" Sougo nodded, "...would you like to go to a celebration?"
"...that sounds nice."
"What are you two doing here?" Geiz questioned, making both turn to see him, "We're supposed to be watching the card store."
"I saw something on the news during out stake out and said there had been a string of kidnappings after people came to this store…" Sougo began to explain.
"I'm aware. What does that have to do with anything?!"
"Another Blade was spotted near a disappearance. Maybe we don't need to wait for him… maybe we can get him to come to us."
Geiz then blinked in realization, now catching up with what Sougo was thinking, and he nodded.
"And I already have a plan to lure him out," Sougo smiled.
"Which is…?" Tsukuyomi began to ask.
That evening, Tsukuyomi stood outside a park in a white yukata and simply had an annoyed look on her face as she looked at what she was wearing.
"I already hate this plan…" Tsukuyomi sighed before she resumed walking. She roamed around aimlessly for a little while before she heard something approach, "...this better be it…"
Another Blade then slowly walked forward and stared at her for a moment. He just continued to stare when suddenly…
=KEN!/ONO!=
The two clock Riders jumped out of hiding and slashed at Another Blade with their weapons. Another Blade rolled on the ground as both Riders approached.
"You won't be getting your hands on her," Zi-O said defensively as he got out a Ride Watch.
"...what…?"
=GAIM!=
Zi-O quickly loaded the Ride Watch into his Driver and spun it. The Gaim Armor then spawned above Zi-O and fell onto him like an Armor Part.
=ARMOR TIME!=
The armor unfolded as pink katakana and furigana spawned and attached onto the helmet.
=SEIYA! GAI~M~!=
"Hanamichi de… on parada da~!" Zi-O proclaimed as he posed. He then quickly grabbed two Daidaimarus from the suit and began to attack Another Blade with a rapid series of slashes.
Another Blade attempted to grab a card and scan it, but Zi-O's quick attacks managed to keep him from putting a card into the scanner.
"...I guess he can handle this on his own…" Tsukuyomi commented before she started to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Kamen Rider Geiz questioned.
"To get out of this outfit. I'm a little tired of it…" Tsukuyomi responded.
Suddenly, though, the lights that were above the group suddenly turned off. Mist suddenly began to float over towards Tsukuyomi and, out of nowhere, something grabbed her chin. She tried to reach for her Faiz Phone X, but whoever it was that had her was keeping her from moving.
"...help…" she weakly managed to utter.
"Tsukuyomi!"
=ARMOR TIME! DRIVE! DRIVE~!=
Kamen Rider Geiz, now in his Drive Armor, dashed over and punched the monster away from her. He then looked to see it had the year '2008' near its heart region and he gasped, "...another one…?"
=KI~VA…=
"Zi-O! There's two Another Riders!" Kamen Rider Geiz yelled as he slashed at Another Kiva with his axe.
Zi-O, meanwhile, managed to knock Another Blade to the ground. He quickly acted on his chance and readied a finisher.
=FINISH TIME! GAIM!=
He quickly spun his Driver around, readied the two blades, and charged forward.
=SQUASH TIME BREAK!=
Zi-O slashed through Another Blade and quickly turned towards him as the form began to spark, "This time… I'll see who you are…"
Another Blade's form continued to spark before it broke away to reveal… Kamen Rider Blade.
"...eh?" Zi-O gasped.
Blade's suit then sparked again and reverted back into Kazuma. Zi-O just stood there, staring, in response to what was before him.
"Naze miterun desu?! (Why are you just standing there?!)" Kamen Rider Geiz yelled as he continued to attack Another Kiva.
Zi-O fell to his knees in disbelief, "...Kamen Riders are supposed to be heroes… to fight for the right reasons… so… why?"
Kazume simply tried to get up, but was unable to due to the attack Zi-O had inflicted on him.
"...ondurur ragitta ndesu ka, BLADE?!" Zi-O yelled.
Jikai, Kamen Rider Zi-O: Another Story
Sougo: Why did you do this…?
Kazuma: Fight me… and you will have your answers…
Geiz: We're going to need to split up to do this.
=TURN UP!=
Woz: Sono namae wa Kamen Rider Zi-O Blade Armor!
Chapter 02: Turn Up 2004
Zi-O: Kore ga ore no kirifuda!
Kamen Rider Zi-O: Another Story
Another Supplementary Plan
01: The Many Mysteries of Another Story
"Sougo was fraught with anxiety…" Sougo muttered as he read the script in a recording studio, "Okay. Here we go. 'Blade is shouted with much anger in passion'. Okay… ondurur ragitta ndesu ka, BLADE?!"
A thumbs up was given to Sougo and the recording was stopped. Sougo then glanced at his script in confusion before he walked out of the studio and over to the clock store set, "Hey, guys?"
"Yes?" Tsukuyomi responded.
"I'm… a bit confused. I think I was yelling some gibberish at Blade for the final scene of the episode. 'Ondurur ragitta ndesu ka'. ...it's gibberish."
"Yeah, it kind of is…" Geiz agreed.
"Actually, there is a perfect explanation for that," Woz declared as he walked over with his book in tow, "According to this book, Kamen Rider Blade has many memes. Many many memes… like… a lot of them."
"...what does this have to do with my script?"
"The actor who played Kamen Rider Blade spoke with a slight slur and that messed up a line reading in the very first episode. The line should be 'hontōni uragitta ndesu ka', or 'have you really betrayed us'. The slur the actor's voice had made it come out as the gibberish you read," Woz explained, "Geiz's line before yours was another meme. Another line said by Kamen Rider Blade in response to another Rider just standing there staring…"
"O~h…" both Sougo and Geiz said in response.
"Well, that's not the only confusing thing this script has…" Tsukuyomi commented as she flipped through it, "It says Sougo was friends with this Yuya guy, but an episode of the show proper says he didn't have any friends as a kid."
"The script did not say what their connection is. Merely that they played a game together," Woz retorted.
"Wait…" Geiz muttered as he looked at the script for a moment, "Oh. I get the reference."
"What reference?" Sougo questioned.
"Yuki Yuya, King of Cards. They're both a reference to Yu-*bleep*h," Geiz explained.
"Yeah. Yuki is from Ju*bleep*ai and Yuya is from the lead of Ar*bleep*," Tsukuyomi added in realization.
Sougo just nodded his head a little bit in response before he took something off of a table, "Okay… now that we've solved the mystery of this 'ondul thing' and references… we got a bigger mystery to solve."
"...being?" Geiz and Tsukuyomi both asked.
"This," Sougo said as he held the Poppy Ride Watch in his hand, "Where did this come from?"
Geiz and Tsukuyomi both stared at the Ride Watch for a moment before they both flipped through their scripts to try and find an answer.
"...Tsukuyomi had it…" Geiz responded.
"But where did she get it?"
"From Kamen Rider Poppy…" Geiz weakly responded.
"But we've never met her before! Plus, she would've been negated out of existence along with the monsters from Ex-Aid!"
Woz simply sighed as he flipped through his book to find an answer, "According to this book, we will be obtaining it in a future project that will chronologically proceed this one."
"And that would be…?" Sougo began to ask.
"It is…" Woz started to say, but he then paled, "No… it doesn't say what it is! My book doesn't have an answer about this..."
The prophet then curled up into a ball on the ground and Sougo simply began to softly pet his shoulder to try to calm him down. Geiz and Tsukuyomi, meanwhile, just stared at this in disbelief.
There will be an explanation for where that Ride Watch came from, but we won't be getting it for a while because that project is taking some time to do.
Also… I recently learned that Kazuma's actor is going to be appearing in Zi-O sometime in the near future. ...well… potatoes. *gets look* That was just a random word I could think of. ...I'm still proceeding with this story regardless of what the show does. As you can see, this plot is different from what the show would do.
Before I get asked about the Yu-Gi-Oh references here… I honestly thought Sougo may play it since the title is, more or less, Japanese for 'king of games'. It makes sense. Oh, and if this was an actually episode, then Yugi's Japanese VA would make some sort of a voice only cameo somewhere. Maybe as the police officer from where Geiz was investigating what happened.
The shinobi card that Sougo used is meant to kind of connect with the hypothesis in the show that Sougo's dreams somehow created the three future Kamen Riders. Figured it would be a neat way to connect to that.
Onto a favorite part… gotta be when Sougo and Geiz first fight Another Blade. Sougo has only used Ex-Aid Armor a grand total of once in the show so far and that honestly irritates me. Glad that I kind of fixed that.
Hope you guys look forward to next time. I'm going to make this an interesting story and hope that you enjoy it.
Just Live More.