Meanwhile, in a section of Tokyo.
Raven found himself walking alone on the streets. After wandering for half a day, the world seemed normal on the surface. The pedestrians were diverse: office workers, grocery-shopping housewives, students, and people from all walks of life. Everything appeared just like the normal world.
But in reality, he knew that these seemingly normal people were all Orphnochs.
"H-help… help me!"
Just then, a cry for help came from a distance. A ragged man burst out of a bakery, clutching a large bag of bread as he fled in panic.
"Catch him! He's a human!" The bakery owner, wearing a white chef's hat, angrily chased after him, immediately transforming into his Orphnoch form. The surrounding pedestrians stopped to watch the fleeing human.
Before long, a group of guards patrolling the street started pursuing the man.
"Save… save me!"
The human male eventually ran toward Raven. Judging by his emaciated appearance, he looked as if he hadn't eaten for days. Raven felt a pang of pity, lamenting that in this world, humans were truly pushed to the brink, denied any space to survive.
The bakery owner, now an Orphnoch, ignored Raven and was about to continue the chase, but Raven met him with a kick that sent him flying.
Everyone watching, including the fleeing man, was stunned.
"Ahh! That hurt!"
The bakery owner, who had been sent flying, was so weak that the kick forced him out of his transformation. He clearly wasn't very strong.
However, the guards who arrived next all transformed into Riotrooper armor using their belts, surrounding Raven.
"Please present your identification, or you will be treated as a human remnant and eliminated!" the leading Riotrooper warned Raven. In this world, "identification" meant proof that one was an Orphnoch.
"What is this, a bunch of weaklings?" Raven said dismissively, digging his finger into his ear.
"Attack!"
The Riotrooper squad leader immediately moved to subdue Raven, clearly seeing him as an accomplice of the human man and intending to eliminate them both.
With pure physical strength, Raven defeated the five Riotroopers surrounding him, forcibly removing their belts. His movements were swift and decisive, astonishing the onlookers.
The Orphnoch civilians watching the spectacle were shocked. The human man who stole the bread was completely dumbfounded.
"T-that's too strong."
"Ugh… Damn it!"
The squad leader, easily defeated and detransformed, flew into a rage and transformed into his Orphnoch form. It was an Elephant Orphnoch, visibly stronger than a typical Orphnoch.
Raven finally took things slightly more seriously, revealing the Kaixa Gear he was wearing at his waist. With his other hand, he quickly entered the transformation code: 913.
"Standing By."
He then closed the phone, placed it on the belt's driver, and pressed down, calmly announcing: "Henshin."
"Complete!"
As the belt activated, the yellow Photon Blood flowed into the Photon Frames covering Raven's body. After a dazzling flash of light, the transformation was complete. Kamen Rider Kaixa had successfully made his debut!
"It's a Kamen Rider!"
"Run!"
Seeing this, the surrounding civilians scrambled to flee, their curiosity gone. In this world, the Kamen Riders were the true "monsters," an evil force that cruelly murdered their kind. In particular, Masato Kusaka, who also used the Kaixa Gear, was a ruthless Orphnoch killer. Countless Orphnochs had died by his hand over the years. Kaixa had become a figure used to frighten children into silence among the Orphnochs.
In contrast to the terrified civilians, the human man who stole the bread looked ecstatic, as if he had seen a savior!
"Amazing! It's Kamen Rider Kaixa!"
At this moment, the Elephant Orphnoch was momentarily stunned but quickly recovered, charging toward Raven recklessly.
Facing this moderately strong Orphnoch, Raven didn't even look at him. He pulled out the Kaixa Shot (the camera) and put it on his hand like a knuckle weapon. He then pressed the confirmation button on the phone. Energy instantly filled the Photon Blood.
Unflinching against the charging, heavy-duty Elephant Orphnoch, Raven met the charge with a single punch.
BANG!
In an instant, the Elephant Orphnoch's body was marked with the Kaixa X-mark. It then burst into blue flames and turned to sand.
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