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A shiver suddenly ran up his back as Wataru felt uneasy. What was this sudden feeling of dread? Another enemy? Aside from those Neo-fangires that his future son came back in time to warn them about? But they have already defeated those enemies! So what now? Is there a new enemy that he's sensing now? He thought he's finally able to live peacefully! Must he keep living like this until the last of his breath? And what new enemy would he have to fight this time?
"Wataru, is something wrong?" Shizuka suddenly asked as Megumi's attention suddenly turned towards him. Wataru blinked.
He and Shizuka were supposed to be helping out at the Café Mald'amour today, since Shima-san, Master and Nago-san had some errands to do today. And here he had been spacing out doing nothing...
"Err... nothing! Excuse me..." cried Wataru as he left whatever he had been doing and staggered towards the back door.
To his surprise, he was suddenly standing at Castle Doran as he looked around, clueless. Wataru sighed. Jiro-san should stop whisking him back to the castle unannounced like this!
"Wataru."
Wataru turned at once to start giving Jiro a scolding before stopping himself as he saw his serious face. Wataru suddenly became wary.
"What is it?" he asked.
"There has been a new door."
Wataru was frowning now. The only other door that did not lead to any rooms in this castle had been the time door. What about this new one?
Ramon, Riki and Tatsulot had been hovering in front of this new door as Wataru and Jiro reached them. Kivat the third came out from behind Wataru as he also eyed the door curiously.
"No one's been able to open this door, nii-chan!" Ramon suddenly spoke before turning towards them, as if Wataru and Jiro had never left their sides. Wataru felt that feeling again. Did this door appear the very same moment he had these strange feelings?
Wataru slowly lifted his hand to touch the doorknob. Immediately the door opened and pulled him in...
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Wataru blinked as he was now back at the city but somehow the city felt different. A scream suddenly filled the air as Wataru turned around, to see Lion Fangire chasing a woman. Lion Fangire? Rook? Hasn't Rook been destroyed by Megumi-san not so long ago?
Wataru darted towards them as he called for Kivat. But he suddenly froze as he overheard their conversation.
"You have violated the law for taking the lives of normal humans! By our King's orders, you shall be punished!" the Lion Fangire suddenly spoke. Wataru gasped. What was happening right here?
The woman suddenly revealed herself as another Fangire before exclaiming aloud. "Humans had always been our food before the previous King decreed it not! What's the reasoning for that? I shall not obey this stupid rule!"
"Then you shall die!" said the Lion Fangire as the woman was executed.
Wataru stared in disbelief as he witnessed the scene.
"What is this? What's going on right here?"
"The worlds are changing..."
Wataru turned around as his father walked towards him, but that was impossible! His father was dead!
Kurenai Otoya smiled at him.
"Don't be so surprised. This is not the same world we used to live in."
Wataru frowned. And what did his father just said?
Worlds?
Otoya just shrugged. "Perhaps you could understand it better if you see this," he said again as Otoya flicked his finger.
Suddenly a strange apparition wall appeared and went through them as they were now transported to another place. His house. But this was not his house! Because he would never leave this place in such abandoned state...
"What's this?" Wataru started to say as Otoya told him to keep quiet. Not long after, he heard a familiar tune being played... just that this one sounded as if the player had only started learning the melody. Wataru turned his attention towards the sound as he saw a small boy struggling to play the tune. The boy sighed as he stared at a small picture frame nearby. Straining his neck to look, Wataru could barely see a picture of a woman playing the violin inside that frame.
"Mother... I can't do this. I could never play this tune properly..." the boy said to the picture frame sadly.
Wataru stared back towards his father in surprise. "Who was that?" he exclaimed. Because the child he was staring at was definitely not him!
Otoya shrugged at him. "The boy's name was Wataru. Just Wataru."
Wataru stared at him in disbelief as Otoya grinned at him.
"Haven't I said so? This is not our world. The worlds' order had started to fall apart. Ours and many more, this was just the beginning..." said Otoya again as the apparition wall appeared again to run them over.
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Wataru blinked as he found himself back at the city, though he was not sure if he was still in that other world or his own. He looked around to find himself alone. Could it be a dream? But he was still awake.
"Wataru!"
Wataru turned to find his half-brother staring at him in alarm.
"Wataru... what's going on right now?" Taiga said again as he held his hand towards him. Taiga's hand had suddenly become transparent before turning solid again. Wataru gave a cry.
"Strange things has started happening around here!" Taiga exclaimed as Wataru saw his three Arms Monsters running towards him.
"Nii-chan! Where have you gone to?" Ramon had shouted before the three stopped beside them as Jiro eyed him in concern.
"Wataru, is there something wrong? What happened after you entered that door?" he asked as Wataru blinked.
Suddenly the area had become night as Taiga, Jiro, Riki and Ramon disappeared. The only one standing before him was his father, hovering in front of him like the spirit he was.
"It had started. Go find that person, it's the only way you can stop this..."
Wataru blinked again as he was back in his own reality. Taiga and the Arms Monsters had been staring at him, waiting for his answer. They started talking again when he did not, but somehow Wataru tuned out all of their voices. The only voice that kept resounding in his ears had been of his father. Urging him to find the person who could put an end to all of this.
"Find him. Find the Destroyer of the Kamen Riders. Find the one who called himself Decade..."
"Decade..." Wataru suddenly spoke the name out, softly. To no one in particular.
Immediately images of eight more Kamen Riders appeared in his mind as Wataru pondered over his father's words...