V simply picked up his fallen OOO coins, pocketed them, and called his familiars. Some powers, he decided, were worth keeping as a souvenir.
Nero looked at his hands. The Rising Hopper armor was flickering. The mod was corrupting—Devil Trigger and Kamen Rider conflicting. He felt the other power inside him, the true one, the one he’d denied. His real Devil Bringer.
*
The Qliphoth burned. And somewhere in the digital void, the mod’s creator—a shut-in demon with a Rider addiction—watched the replay and whispered, “Perfect.”
The first Caina lunged. Nero didn’t dodge. He leapt —forty feet straight up, caromed off a broken overpass, and came down heel-first. The kick didn’t just crush the demon. It shattered it into polygons of fading light, a digital death.
He laughed. It was giddy, unhinged. “Dante’s gonna lose his mind.” Dante, meanwhile, had his own problem. A new mod. “KAMEN RIDER: KUUGA – MIGHTY FORM.”
The mod menu flickered, a crimson script bleeding across Nero’s HUD. “KAMEN RIDER: ZERO-ONE – RISING HOPPER INSTALLED.”