"Who am I... and where... is this place?"
The handsome young man struggled to open his eyes. He was naked, his body lean and muscular, and he found himself lying on what felt like an operating table.
The bright lights stung his eyes.
His chest was riddled with various tubes.
Through his blurred vision, the young man could see several figures in full protective gear and masks performing some kind of procedure on him...
"Why can't I speak? Why can't I hear anything?"
The young man felt zero sensation in his limbs or any of his five senses.
Only his eyes were able to observe the outside world.
He had no idea what these people were doing to him...
At that moment, by the entrance of the lab.
Several figures were standing there.
One was a middle-aged man in a suit with an expressionless face, and the other was an old man in a white lab coat who appeared to be a scientist.
"The experiment has been a great success. The lysogenic cells have perfectly fused with the subject's own cells, with zero rejection. Chief, the strongest Amazon you've been anticipating is about to be born..." the old man said to the man in the suit.
"I don't want to repeat the mistake we made with Sigma this time. How much of his original consciousness does he still retain?" the expressionless middle-aged man asked.
This was Yugo Tachibana, the Department Chief of the Nozama Pharmacy International Business Strategy Headquarters.
"Chief, please rest assured. We have already solved that problem. Before the experiment, Subject D's original memories were wiped, and a control chip has been implanted in his brain," the old man stated confidently.
"As long as we have the controller, we can issue commands to him. Even if he goes berserk, we can activate the final trump card—a self-destruct mechanism for the chip, which will destroy all of his cells, starting with his nerves... Even an Origin has to die."
"In short, his life and death are entirely in our hands."
Yugo Tachibana nodded upon hearing this.
A faint smile appeared on his normally placid face.
This new Sigma project was his renewed attempt after the failure of the old Sigma project.
The goal was to create the strongest Amazon under their control, a terrifying Origin!
Now, it seemed, success was close at hand.
At that moment, inside the lab.
The young man lying on the operating table, devoid of feeling and his five senses, suddenly heard a voice.
Ding!
[Host detected to have been modified into a Dinosaur Amazon Origin.]
[System activation successful!]
"Sy...stem?"
The young man was stunned, but he asked internally:
"What exactly is my situation? Who am I... why am I here... can you explain it to me in detail?"
He had lost all his memories and couldn't recall his identity.
[Host, you have transmigrated into the world of Kamen Rider Amazons. Because you were undocumented and had no form of identification, you were captured by a laboratory under Nozama Pharmacy and used as a test subject. You underwent human modification experiments, were injected with Dinosaur genes, and have been transformed into an Amazon Origin!]
"I've been modified..."
The young man was utterly shocked.
It was only then that a flood of memories surged into his mind.
He remembered everything.
His name was Raven, and he had been a university student.
He had gone mountain climbing alone during the holidays, but accidentally slipped and fell off a cliff.
Logically, that height should have guaranteed his death...
"So I... transmigrated..."
Raven's emotions were a complicated mix.
He didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
He had survived his accident only to be transmigrated into the world of Kamen Rider Amazons.
Worse, he was unlucky enough to be captured, experimented on, and turned into an Amazon.
He had watched the Kamen Rider Amazons series before. It was known for being extremely gory and cruel.
It was a show that had left a profound shock on him back then.
He never thought he would end up becoming one of those man-eating monsters, and the most volatile of them all—an Origin!
As Raven was still processing all of this, an unknown amount of time passed, and the researchers finally finished their modifications.
The tubes and wires connecting him to the machinery were all removed.
Soon, he felt the sensation in his body and his five senses returning at an astonishing speed.
In no time, he was able to prop up his upper body.
The researchers who were cleaning up immediately backed away a few steps, watching him with panic.
For the moment, Raven ignored them, looking curiously at his own body.
He was completely naked, and the gruesome wounds from the surgery were healing at an incredibly fast rate.
A moment ago, wounds the size of bowls were already completely closed.
Aside from the residual bloodstains on his skin, there was virtually no trace of a wound or scar.
This was the terrifying regenerative ability of an Amazon Origin.
Unless he suffered direct fatal damage like a crushed heart or decapitation, any physical injury could be quickly healed.
Next, Raven's attention was drawn to a golden armband on his left arm.
He recognized the device; it was meant to suppress the Amazon's impulse to eat people.
However, ordinary Amazons wore silver armbands.
The difference between the gold and silver armbands was the dosage—the golden one provided a much stronger suppressive effect.
It was clear that the people who had modified him were extremely cautious, resorting to this special measure to prevent him from going berserk.
After piecing everything together, Raven turned his gaze to scan the room.
His eyes finally settled on a few of the researchers.
They kept a safe distance, and the leader, a bald man, looked slightly nervous.
He was one of the researchers on this project.
He knew just how dangerous Raven was due to the immense quantity of lysogenic cells in his body.
He was like a nuclear bomb waiting to explode at any moment.
"How do you feel right now... Subject D."
The bald man had a cold sweat on his brow, but he forced himself to speak.
After the initial panic, he remembered that they had implanted a control chip in Raven's brain.
He shouldn't lose control so easily, which allowed him to relax slightly.
What he didn't know was that the moment the system bonded, Raven had recovered all his memories, rendering all of their implanted brainwashing memories completely useless.