Chapter 443 Kamen Rider Chronicles
Philip completely lost consciousness and fell to the ground, with data characters constantly floating on his body. It was hard to imagine what would happen if this continued.
Kawahara suddenly shouted towards the space.
"That's enough! Stop it!"
wow——
The rapidly rotating bookshelf stopped instantly.
I don't know when the illusion of the earth under my feet came together again, and the entire Earth Library was quiet as if nothing had happened.
That seems to be...
A forbidden area that cannot be touched.
Kawahara saw that Philip's condition had improved slightly, and he calmed down a little. Then he stood up and looked at the bookshelves around him. After thinking for a while, he suddenly spoke.
“The third keyword is Earth Library.”
Green characters flashed in the air.
All the bookshelves moved and disappeared instantly, and in the end only one book was floating above Philip's body.
"Arcle Memory".
"Knight Power".
"Earth Library".
The name of this book is – Chronicle.
Kawahara took the book in his hands.
"chronicle?"
Perhaps he thought of something, he felt a little ridiculous, then he opened the book with a golden cover, and found out expressionlessly -
It is a book without words.
Kawahara looked at the book speechlessly, then looked at Philip lying on the ground.
He tried to communicate with the Earth Library again: "Why don't you put some text that humans can understand?"
But nothing has changed around...
But at this moment, a familiar and somewhat anxious voice suddenly sounded in the void of the Earth Library—"Philip?!"
"Ok?"
Kawahara suddenly looked at the illusion of the earth beneath his feet.
At the same time, a digitized W drive condensed around the waist of Philip, who was lying on the ground. He suddenly opened his eyes and sat up with his head raised, as if he was dying!
Swah——
Philip, who was suddenly awakened, paused slightly. He looked down at the W driver that appeared on his waist, and then looked at Kawahara in front of him.
Kawahara also looked at him in confusion.
After a while, Philip turned his wandering gaze away with an unclear expression, stroking his lower lip with his right hand as usual, and pressed the golden memory stick that emerged from the left side of the W drive with his left hand.
"Powe (authority)!"
Kawahara: “?” Why does it sound familiar?
The next moment, Kawahara knew why Philip had looked so guilty, as if he had been caught.
Because Shotaro Sa's data illusion appeared in the Earth Library.
“Philip, why did you suddenly—Waaaaaa—!”
Just as Shotaro Zuo was about to ask something concerning, he turned his head and saw another rather scary guy standing next to him. He was so shocked that his eyes widened and he pointed his finger over.
"It turns out it's you!"
……
After upgrading the Earth Library for the first time, Philip had the ability to obtain all information with one click, but it was easy to cause mental overload and lose himself, so that he completely merged with the data of the Earth Library.
Philip called that method "engraving" - a way to engrave knowledge directly into the brain without reading.
Therefore, Shotaro was wary of him obtaining information in this way.
So in order to prevent Philip from occasionally getting carried away and losing control, at Shotaro Zuo's strong request, Philip made a protective device based on the "Powe Memory" he used last time, which would allow Shotaro Zuo to connect to the "Earth Library" at a critical moment, so as to wake up the out-of-control Philip again.
This is not the first time that Shotaro Sa has entered the "Earth Library".
Initially, the Fang Memory was used. Philip fell into a state of out-of-control consciousness due to the power of fear, and Shotaro Sa entered the library through the W drive and found Philip.
Later, when experimenting with "Powe Memory", he also entered the upgraded Earth Library.
But because of an unexpected situation...
This is the first time.
……
"So it's all because of you!"
Shotaro Zuo immediately rushed forward in dissatisfaction and wanted to argue something, but he seemed to remember Kawahara's behavior, so he took a step back.
Kawahara didn't know what to say, so he greeted him awkwardly but politely: "Long time no see..."
"Who wants to meet a guy like you...but why are you here? Didn't Philip say that your Gaia memory has disappeared?" Shotaro Zuo said in disbelief.
“……” Even Shotaro Zuo knew about this.
In the end, he himself didn’t know it!
Then Kawahara looked at Philip meaningfully.
Philip rubbed his chin with his fingers, looking a little absent-minded. While listening to their conversation, he suddenly noticed that Kawahara was holding a book in his hand.
"what is this?"
His eyes lit up, and he immediately forgot what was happening. He stepped forward and tried to take the book, but was pulled back by Shotaro Zuo.
"Hey, wait a minute—"
"Don't worry."
Then Kawahara took the initiative to hand over the book.
I was originally waiting for Philip to wake up and help with reading.
"So how do you feel now, and what exactly happened just now?" Kawahara asked on behalf of Shotaro Sa.
"The amount of information I needed to read was too huge. It seemed beyond my current understanding, so I forced myself into the 'imprinting' state. But in order not to be assimilated by the Earth Library, my consciousness will protect itself." Philip explained.
"So what did you read at that time?" Kawahara narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Nothing at all."
After saying this casually, Philip had already taken the book.
He looked at the cover with interest. "Chronicle? I seem to have escaped from the 'imprinted' state because you changed something. Is this how this book came about?"
"I changed the last keyword to 'Earth Library'. Can you help me take a look at it?" Kawahara said.
"Earth Library?...I see, that's right! Earth Library itself can also be a keyword!"
Philip could not wait to open the book and read.
Shotaro Zuo leaned over to him and then frowned, obviously feeling as bored as Kawahara.
Even though they were in the Earth Library, they still couldn't see what was in the books. Shotaro Sasaki quickly lost interest in exploring and walked up to Kawahara.
"So how did you show up?" Shotaro asked in a low voice.
"I used some special abilities to get Philip to help me find out why some of Arcle's memories disappeared, and also to investigate some of Kamen Rider's powers," Kawahara said.
"Kamen Rider?" Shotaro Zuo raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Speaking of this... Shotaro, have you heard of other Kamen Riders when you were in Fuuto?" Kawahara suddenly asked curiously.
"Like O and Fourze?"
Shotaro Zuo unexpectedly understood what he wanted to say very quickly.
Compared to the immature Shotaro Sae who was always startled before, Shotaro Sae now is still easy to bully, but he seems to be much calmer when he gets serious.
"So, do you know something?"
Kawahara looked at him.
Then, as if he had entered some kind of commissioned state, Shotaro Sae raised his lips into a confident smile, and he stroked the brim of his wide-brimmed hat with his fingers against his forehead, posing as if he was a tough guy.
Kawahara raised his brows as he watched this scene.
"Of course~"
Shotaro said slowly: "Apart from O and Fourze, from what I understand, there is a Kamen Rider active in Tokyo recently, right?"
Kawahara looked at him and said, "You got the information from Terui Ryu, right?" Shotaro Sa: "..."
Then the two looked at each other in silence for a long time.
Shotaro Sae was exposed in the blink of an eye and tried to argue: "So I know that there are other Kamen Riders..."
It's just that his voice isn't as strong anymore.
Kawahara thought thoughtfully: "As expected, the connection between you all depends on some kind of will, or a sudden connection of time and space? Because at a certain moment your wills reached the same consensus..."
He thought of the countless earths he had just seen.
Rather than saying that the knight power related to him involves the issue of "timeline", it is better to say that it is related to other worlds.
Before this, the Earth Library encompassed the knowledge of the entire universe, and after absorbing his Gaia memory for the second upgrade, it might even have reached the level of "outside the world".
Perhaps the "Arcle Memory" at that time spread this power to different related worlds through the Earth Library, and created corresponding knight props using "Kamen Rider" as the medium.
If you say so...
The mirror world experiment he tried to conduct in the Earth Library might have been reproduced in a different way...
But if you think about it carefully, both the Great Shocker Organization and Consortium X have already caused a big fight in these Kamen Rider worlds...
So their world has been in chaos for a long time.
Thinking of this, Kawahara looked at Shotaro Zuo again.
"what?"
Shotaro Zuo looked puzzled.
Kawahara thought for a moment and asked, "If a demon king suddenly appears and asks you to hand over the future of your world to him, although this may cause your world to be invaded by monsters from twenty or so other worlds, he can guarantee that your history will not be erased, are you willing?"
Shotaro Zuo: "???"
For a moment he couldn't tell whether this guy was teasing him or was serious.
Shotaro's brain, which had finally grown up, was confused for a while.
"Is it ZiO?"
Philip's voice suddenly came at this moment.
Kawahara looked at him in astonishment.
Philip looked at the book in his hand and continued: "Kamen Rider Chronicles, starting from Kamen Rider Kuuga, AgitΩ, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva... then W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, Ghots, Ex-Aid, Build——"
Philip read out all the Kamen Rider titles in a calm voice, closed the book with a snap, and looked at the two stunned people.
"Finally, it's ZiO who has gathered all the strength!"
"........."
Kawahara was stunned for a long while without any response.
Until he suddenly discovered the key point in those words.
"Where's Decade?"
"Ok?"
Philip seemed to think about it before saying, "The target of this book is the 'disappeared Arcle memory'. That power uses the origins of these Kamen Riders in your memory as a carrier to spread the power to the corresponding Kamen Riders. This is all a reaction to your own strong will. Arcle memory just responds to your expectations and connects to those worlds through the Earth Library."
Philip paused at this point.
And then, in Kawahara's changing expression.
He said earnestly: "You must hate Decade, right? That's why you don't want to give him power at all!"
Kawahara: "..."
Shotaro was completely unaware and thought, "That pink guy? But if you think about it, I don't think he's that annoying after all."
Because Kamen Rider Kadoya gave the "Kamen Rider Skull" card to Shotaro, every time Shotaro takes out the knight card to reminisce, his favorability towards Decade will continue to +1+1+1...
Kawahara did not continue the topic.
It suddenly occurred to him that he had replaced the last keyword because of Philip's unusual condition.
——The only timeline.
The value-added riot at the Earth Library at that time seemed to provide another answer.
That is not the answer to “uniqueness”.
If the knight's tools were created based on his personal will, does that mean that the "unchangeable timeline" that Kota Kuzuya speculated about is also related to the knight's power that has spread out?
It's like a thread connected in series.
after all……
If there is any way to protect his world from interference from external forces, then the timeline will be locked tightly so that even time travelers cannot change history - this is indeed what Kawahara is willing to do.
Is that why he has been willing to leave those powers to those Kamen Riders during this period of time?
I never thought that spreading power could have such an effect.
But will this work?
Thinking of this, Kawahara looked at Philip again.
The Earth Library is the embodiment of miracles. As long as something has happened in this world, there must be an answer here.
It's just that Philip can't read it for the time being.
Kawahara sighed softly, then smiled again: "Is that so, then I think I understand!"
Philip looked at him curiously: "Oh? So you really hate Decade?"
Kawahara: "..."
There is also an astronomical switch in Kawahara's hand. He then said: "I will send you something in a while. If possible, please help me give it to Kisaragi Gentarou!"
"Oh~that crew cut!" Shotaro Zuo's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes, that's the airplane head."
Kawahara couldn't help but smile.
His own "Kamen Rider power gadgets" are basically useless if they stay with him, so if dispersing them can achieve his desired goal, Kawahara doesn't mind giving it a try.
He then said to Philip: "Then there is one more thing I want to ask you to search for..."
Before he finished speaking, Zuo Xiangtaro was the first to become alert!
“It’s a normal thing.”
Kawahara looked at him helplessly and said, "Can we try to see if the Earth Library can find Kadoya's whereabouts?"
Philip tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Looking for someone? Shotaro likes to use it this way, but Decade can travel through different worlds, right? You have to give me the exact keywords."
"Then it's up to you. If you can't find it, forget it."
Kawahara really had no idea what the key words were.
Philip simply entered some keywords about Decade, and the result was that the bookshelf had not changed much at all.
Kawahara felt something strange.
Even if Kamen Rider Kadoya has a anywhere door, he usually just travels between different Kamen Rider worlds.
So where will that guy go after leaving the Wizard world?
In fact, after receiving some encouragement from Kota Kuzuba, and now that he has confirmed that the knight props may be able to achieve the results he wants, Kawahara is no longer so averse to his "Knight Ring" in Kadoya Shikamaru's hands.
What's more, Philip has already used the "Earth Library" to confirm that Decade is not recorded at all...
He is now mainly worried that the guy will mess up and create another Big Shocker x Big Cruelty incident!
And for some reason, Kawahara always had a uneasy feeling since Kadoya Kadoya left with his knight ring and there has been no news since then.
Could it be that the other party has already run to ZiO's time and space?
With this doubt in mind, Kawahara thought there was nothing else to do, so he said goodbye to Philip again.
"I'll come back if I need anything."
Kawahara's figure began to disappear at his will.
"Nothing good will happen if you come here."
Shotaro Zuo made a secret complaint.
Philip quietly watched Kawahara leave. After a long while, he looked down thoughtfully at the blue illusion of the earth beneath his feet.
When the Earth Library forcibly imprinted information on him before, his consciousness seemed to have entered a vague darkness.
Then I saw something flash by.
Like the hum of gears.
Thinking of this, Philip looked at the book in his hand that he had never put down - Kamen Rider Chronicle.
...(End of chapter)