The Cockroach Dopant's fist landed squarely on Shiraishi Shin's left wrist.
The next second, Shiraishi Shin was enveloped in white armored combat gear, with blue flame patterns around his wrists.
"What!"
Seeing the Kamen Rider complete his Henshin, the Cockroach Dopant immediately tried to retreat.
Before he could move, however, Shiraishi Shin kicked him, sending him flying backward.
[Zone!]
"To avoid causing a bigger scene, he and I will step away for a moment."
"I'll be back soon."
Shiraishi Shin said to Okada Yuriko.
Then, using the newly activated Zone Memory, he teleported both himself and the Cockroach Dopant away, causing them to vanish from the rooftop in an instant.
In less than the blink of an eye, the two appeared in a dense forest.
"Where is this?"
The Cockroach Dopant was stunned.
Just a moment ago, they had been on the school rooftop.
Now they were standing in the middle of a forest.
What kind of ability is this? He can even teleport other people...
"Come on."
"Let me see what you're made of."
Shiraishi Shin beckoned to the Cockroach Dopant.
After being provoked, the Cockroach Dopant could no longer hold himself back.
"So what if you're a Kamen Rider?"
"We both transformed using Gaia Memories."
"You insert yours into a device, while I insert mine directly into my body."
"My power should be stronger than yours!"
"Ignorant."
Shiraishi Shin scoffed.
The Cockroach Dopant stomped the ground and lunged forward in an instant, intending to overwhelm him with speed.
But this level of speed was far from true high-speed movement.
Shiraishi Shin calmly shifted to the right, effortlessly dodging the attack before unleashing a whip kick.
With more than a dozen tons of force behind it, the Cockroach Dopant was launched backward even faster than he had charged in.
Shiraishi Shin continued walking forward at an unhurried pace.
The Cockroach Dopant hadn't expected his opponent to possess not only incredible reflexes but also overwhelming physical strength.
He stretched out his right hand and fired a stream of blue liquid from his palm.
The liquid was incredibly sticky.
Once it touched someone, it would severely restrict their movement.
Shiraishi Shin never stopped walking.
As the liquid flew toward him, he merely tilted his head slightly or casually raised an arm, allowing the attacks to pass harmlessly beneath his armpit.
Although some of it splashed onto the cape behind him, the Eternal Robe was completely immune to such attacks.
"Damn it!"
Seeing every shot miss, the Cockroach Dopant relied on his speed to circle behind Shiraishi Shin.
Finally reaching his left side, he threw a fully powered punch.
Shiraishi Shin remained motionless, patiently waiting for the flashy maneuver to finish.
The moment the punch arrived, he sidestepped.
His left hand caught the Dopant's fist.
His right hand grabbed the Dopant by the face and lifted him into the air.
After releasing the captured fist, Shiraishi Shin repeatedly hammered the Dopant's chest with his left hand.
Every punch ignited blue flames.
Each impact forced the Cockroach Dopant to scream in agony.
Listening to those satisfying screams, Shiraishi Shin suddenly threw the Dopant upward by the face.
Then he raised his right leg and ruthlessly slammed his shin into the Dopant's chest.
The impact sent the Cockroach Dopant crashing through three trees before finally coming to a stop.
The instant he hit the ground, blue sparks danced across his body.
A moment later—
Boom!
The Cockroach Dopant exploded.
Shiraishi Shin had destroyed him without even using a finishing move.
For a Monster that had come specifically to murder him, he had no interest in playing around.
Every punch and every kick had been intended to kill.
Besides, as the king of the T2 Gaia Memories, was it really difficult for him to blow apart a Dopant empowered only by a mass-produced Gaia Memory?
The two weren't even on the same level.
"Cough... cough..."
After his Dopant form was destroyed, a bespectacled man with an exhausted appearance and a strong otaku vibe lay curled on the ground, coughing up blood.
The Gaia Memory he had used had been forcibly ejected from his body before shattering into pieces.
In fact, inserting a Gaia Memory directly into the body came with a serious drawback.
There was always a chance it would fail to eject, causing the Memory to remain inside and kill the user instantly.
"Blood!"
"Ah! I'm coughing up blood!"
The man stared at the blood staining the ground beneath him in terror.
He had lived for more than thirty years and had never coughed up blood before.
The pain throughout his body made him tremble uncontrollably.
Tap... Tap... Tap...
Hearing approaching footsteps, the man looked up.
The Kamen Rider was slowly walking toward him.
Terrified, he pushed himself backward with both hands, desperately trying to crawl away.
Tears and mucus streamed across his face as he cried out,
"No... don't kill me!"
"I'm just an ordinary person now!"
"You are a Kamen Rider!"
"You cannot kill me!"
Shiraishi Shin walked over, stepped on the man's chest, and pinned him firmly to the ground.
Then he asked coldly,
"Talk."
"Who told you to kill me?"
"Ahhh! It hurts! It hurts!"
"It... it was a request posted on an underground website I developed called Dark Pest Extermination."
"It's used to punish bad people."
"I'm the Dark Executioner."
"I carry out executions on the people others submit to be killed."
"A person named Asano posted your name and identity on the site and asked me to kill you."
Before obtaining the Gaia Memory, the man had been nothing more than an ordinary civilian.
How could he possibly endure such terror?
He confessed everything immediately and hurriedly took out his phone to show the website.
"Asano?"
Hearing that name, Shiraishi Shin immediately thought of the bespectacled classmate named Asano.
Could it really be him?
Taking the phone, he found that the website required real-name registration.
The username was indeed Asano.
The request read:
«"A guy named Shiraishi Shin from Seirei Academy deserves to die. He actually held hands with the female teacher I like on the rooftop. During the Summer Camp, she also said she already had someone she liked. It must be that brat. Please, Dark Executioner, kill him so I can confess to the teacher."»
So it really was that Asano.
Thinking back, the rooftop incident had indeed happened once.
On the day he defeated the Money Dopant, he had called Okada Yuriko to the rooftop.
They had even shared her water bottle, and after class, he had held her hand until the next lesson began.
Asano must have witnessed everything during that break.
It was understandable for someone to fall for a beautiful teacher like Okada Yuriko.
With both her appearance and figure being top-tier, who wouldn't?
Even Shiraishi Shin liked her.
But Asano had clearly crossed the line.
Listing someone on a murder website simply because of jealousy...
He was courting death.
As for the man before him, he was even worse.
Looking at the dozen or so completed requests on the website, it was obvious he had already murdered more than ten people.
For someone like this, the law was no longer enough.
Only absolute justice could judge him.
"Please... let me go."
"You can hand me over to the police."
"If you don't want to reveal your identity..."
"...then you can simply let me go."
The man looked cautiously at Shiraishi Shin.
In his eyes, a Kamen Rider represented justice and would never kill an ordinary human.
His final sentence even carried a faint hint of threat.
If Shiraishi Shin handed him over to the police, he would expose the secret that the first-year student Shiraishi Shin of Seirei Academy was the Kamen Rider.
If he was released...
Then everyone could simply pretend nothing had happened.