Kamen Rider: High Beam Rider - Starting with Saber

Chapter 54 Eiji's Rootless, Drifting Life

Inside a dimly lit bar.

Mezir, the water-type glutton, was sitting at the bar, holding a straw and blowing bubbles from the foam inside the bottle.

The insectoid glutton, Wu Fan, idly hit a wine bottle with a golf club. "There aren't many humans left. Let's hurry up and clean up."

"We must obey the king's orders," Kazali, the cat-like glutton, replied casually as he sat on the sofa, painting his nails.

Upon hearing this answer, Wu Fan felt a surge of resentment. "This has nothing to do with him, right?"

"Is that so?" Kazali asked in return.

"Snoring".

A pair of bubbles floated toward Ufan and Kazali, and Meziel warned, "If you want to anger the King and turn back into a coin, then keep arguing like this."

"I hate going back into the coin!" The weight-based greedy Gamel stomped his feet like a child to express his disgust.

"Whoosh."

The curtains fell to the floor with a thud, and a figure slowly emerged from the shadows of the bar.

Upon seeing the newcomer, the four greedy individuals rose and bowed respectfully.

King Oz slowly walked into the light and held up a finger. "Another greedy one has been resurrected."

Mezier asked in confusion, "Another greedy one?"

"Could it be Anku?" Kazali immediately thought of Anku, who had always been their enemy.

"I will seize Ankh's Core Medal. With that, I will become stronger and completely solidify my position." King Oz stretched out his palm and slowly clenched it, as if Ankh's Core Medal was already in his hands.

"Leave it to me! I'm going to steal that guy's Core Medallion no matter what."

Wu Fan took the initiative to accept the task, seemingly already tired of the tedious waiting.

The other three greedy individuals all looked at Ufan, with Mezir and Kazali staring at him as if he were an idiot.

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Lansu and Bina followed Anku into a tunnel under a bridge, where they found an iron gate in the wall on the east side of the bridge.

"Is Eiji really in here?"

Hina looked at the dilapidated iron gate and felt puzzled.

That's what he told me.

Anku opened the iron gate and led Lansu and Bina inside.

The three walked through the collapsed corridor and entered a spacious area that appeared to be a private entertainment room.

Lan Su stopped and turned to look behind a wall. Ying Si walked out from behind the wall.

"Ankh, you brought Hina along, and a new friend too."

"Eiji!" Hina heard Eiji's voice and immediately turned around. When she saw that it really was Eiji, she excitedly went up and hugged him.

"Thank goodness, you're still alive."

Eiji's expression stiffened, as if he couldn't quite accept this concern. "I'm sorry for making you worry."

"Because the injuries are too severe, I will stay here to recuperate for the time being."

Lan Su scanned Ying Si's body with his mental energy, his eyes gleaming slightly as he saw the poisonous insect-type core coin inside Ying Si's body.

They are a centipede, a bee, and an ant.

Completely oblivious to Lan Su's spying, Eiji approached Anku and said, "You brought Hina along, so you must know what happened, right?"

"Yes, I know." Ankh felt increasingly that something was wrong with Eiji in front of him. He answered politely but secretly activated his Eagle Vision to observe him.

"I'm going to defeat that guy, Ankh, can you lend me a hand?"

Without even thinking, Anku immediately refused, "I refuse!"

"Ankh?" Hina was a little confused. Although Ankh was a bit arrogant, he wouldn't talk to Eiji like that.

Anku retorted defiantly, "Are you an idiot? I'm a greedy one! What does the fate of humanity have to do with me?"

"Hahaha." Eiji laughed from behind.

"What are you laughing at?" Anku glared at Eiji, annoyed.

Eiji smiled and approached Ankh. "I just felt that you would tell me the truth."

"Then, as a condition for the exchange," Eiji said, holding up one index finger in front of Anku.

"What?" Anku grabbed Eiji's outstretched finger.

"Ankh, if you help me, I'll give your Core Medal back. Don't you want your Core Medal back?"

Eiji's words made Anku's heart sink; he had already seen the three unfamiliar core coins inside Eiji's body.

But he was still unwilling to give up and tentatively said, "Since you want me to help you, try an ice pop first."

Upon hearing this, Eiji laughed heartily, "I knew you would say that."

He took an ice pop from the freezer and handed it to Anku. "Here you go."

Anku took the popsicle, tore open the packaging, and took a bite without hesitation.

"It's so nice, it feels like we're back to the light we used to be." Seeing Ankh and Eiji reach an agreement, Hina's face also lit up with a smile, and she couldn't help but think of the time the three of them spent together.

While the group was talking, Lan Su was also busy.

He carefully observed Eiji's current physical condition; his vitality was almost completely gone, and his mental strength was also almost gone.

The reason we are able to move freely now is entirely due to the power provided by the core coin of "Godda".

"By the way, Eiji. How is that little girl?" Hina asked about the little girl that Eiji had risked his life to protect.

"A girl?" Eiji suddenly asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Yes, it's the little girl you rescued before."

Eiji seemed to have thought of something, and said in a calm tone, "Ah, that girl, she's already dead."

"There's nothing we can do about it; life and death are predestined."

"Eiji!" Ankh put down the ice cream he was eating and looked at Eiji with a cold gaze, but in the end he did not expose him.

"Mr. Date..."

"Ah, you felt it too, didn't you?"

Goto and Date, who had been secretly following from the shadows, also noticed that Eiji was acting strangely.

"Whoosh!"

Just then, Wu Fan followed Anku's scent and came over.

As soon as he appeared, he lunged at Anku with a clear objective.

Eiji's eyes lit up, and he seized the opportunity to ask Ankh for the Core Coin.

Due to the critical situation, Ankh had no choice but to toss the Core Medal to Eiji, allowing him to transform into Oz and fight.

"Oh! I've been wanting to try this for a while now."

Eiji took the coin and placed it into the Oz Driver, which swept the O ring across.

"TAKEA (Eagle)! TORA (Tiger)! BATTA (Locust)!"

"TATOBA! TATOBA! TATOBA! (Eagle, Tiger, Locust Company)!"

Oz, having successfully transformed, immediately attacked Ufan with swift and decisive moves, leaving everyone frowning as they watched.

"You've all noticed, haven't you? That guy isn't one of your comrades."

"I sensed the same aura of a glutton in him."

Lan Su approached Hina, Date, and Goto, who had somehow gathered together, and stood with his arms crossed, watching the battle unfold.

During the battle, Oz wanted to ask Ankh for other Core Medals, but Ankh hesitated.

Seeing that Ankur was slow to hand over the coin, Oz actually reached into Uvan's body and snatched the Core Coin from him.

"How could this be..." Hina didn't want to believe what Lan Su said, and turned to look at the two people beside her, as if she wanted their support.

"As expected, that person wasn't Hino."

Ida looked at Oz, who had just defeated Ufan with a Bug-type combo, with a serious expression and a sense of dejection in his eyes.

The victorious Oz was not satisfied with just defeating Uvan; he even wanted to crush Uvan's Core Medal, but was stopped by Ankh.

"Hey, Ankh, what are you doing?"

Although Eisuke was puzzled, he casually tossed Wu Fan's coin aside and let him leave.

The crowd moved closer to Eiji, wanting to find out his true identity.

"Are you a glutton? Why are you taking over Eiji's body?"

Now that things have come to this, Anku went straight to the point and exposed the fake Eiji's identity.

"Haha, no wonder you were my former partner."

Kaeji scratched his hair in distress, turned his back, and when he turned back, his eyes and hair had changed color.

"My name is Goda! I'm just borrowing Eiji's body for now."

Hina: "What do you mean?"

"I saw the Greedy One's Core Coin inside Eiji's body."

"You say your name is Goda? I've never heard of any greedy person named Goda."

Anku stared at "Godda," wondering where this strange, greedy person had come from.

A small robot made of canned food appeared in the middle of the crowd and transformed into a projection device.

Kougami Mitsuo appeared before the crowd. "Let me speak!"

"In the past, the Hongshang Foundation wanted to manufacture its own core coin..."

Upon hearing Hong Shangguang's first words, Anku sighed wearily, "You guys really know how to create trouble."

Lan Su strongly agreed with Anku's statement that many disasters in the Oz world were caused by the Hongshang Foundation.

"After countless failures, I realized that creating the Core Medal requires an extremely strong desire."

"Therefore, Eiji caught my attention, and the artificial Core Coin, based on Eiji's massive data on desires, was born!"

"And the artificially created glutton is none other than Godard, standing right before you!"

Looking at Hong Shangguangsheng's expression, which showed no remorse but rather great pride, Lan Su felt his blood pressure rise.

"Now that they know the truth and have a good understanding of the situation, let's move on to the final stage."

If the story continues as originally planned, Ankh will team up with Goda to defeat King Oz.

Then Godard lost control of his desires and became the next out-of-control King Oz!

"It doesn't matter what you do, just give Eiji's body back to me!" Anku stepped forward, trying to force Goda to leave Eiji's body.

Goda looked at Ankh with smug confidence. "Hahaha, are you sure? You know better than I do what the consequences would be if I left this body, right?"

"That won't do..." An ominous premonition flashed through Anku's mind.

Hina asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Anko explained, "Eiji's current physical condition is probably very bad!"

"No, no, no, it's not a bad problem at all, it's death!" Goda told Anku and the others this cruel truth directly.

"No way..."

The scene fell silent for a moment, and everyone's heart seemed to be gripped tightly.

Except for Lansu.

Lan Su stepped forward into the middle of the crowd, looked at Goda with a mocking gaze, and curled up his lips in disdain.

I doubt it!

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