At Yamanote Music University.
Takumi and Keitaro had just finished their delivery and were preparing to leave.
Just then, a scream suddenly echoed from a corner of the campus.
"Takumi, did you hear something?" Keitaro asked as they walked.
Takumi's hearing was naturally much sharper than Keitaro's. He quickly pinpointed the direction and rushed toward it.
The two soon found an Orphnoch attacking a student in a secluded spot. Judging by its form, it was an Owl Orphnoch.
"It's an Orphnoch! Go get the Driver!" Takumi shouted as he charged forward.
Keitaro dared not delay and quickly ran back toward the car.
Takumi managed to hold the creature off with some clever maneuvering, buying enough time for Keitaro to toss him the Driver.
After taking the Faiz Phone and inputting the 555 transformation code, Kamen Rider Faiz successfully made his entrance, complete with the transformation sound effect and the surrounding Photon Blood.
He immediately engaged the Owl Orphnoch in battle.
Within a few rounds, the Owl Orphnoch was defeated and thoroughly demoralized by Faiz. In its panic, it spewed a large cloud of black smoke and fled toward the crowd, attempting to revert to human form and disappear.
Sure enough, when Takumi and Keitaro recovered from the smoke, they couldn't find any suspicious person in the crowd of students. They had no choice but to give up.
At the same time, near a music classroom on the campus.
A middle-aged man was leaning against a wall, still looking shaken, taking deep breaths. "What was that person just now..."
This man was the university's guitar professor, and he was the one who had just attacked the student—the very Owl Orphnoch that Takumi had beaten. He was also Naoya Kaido's former mentor.
After calming down, the professor glanced at a motorcycle parked nearby. He recognized it as belonging to one of his students. This student possessed great guitar talent, just as Kaido once did.
"Kuroda, Kaido, people like you who have talent and abilities greater than mine deserve to be eliminated..."
The professor spoke to himself as if possessed, and then began tampering with the motorcycle. It was the same way he had caused Kaido's original accident.
However, everything he said was overheard by Yuji Kiba, who happened to be nearby.
As an awakened Orphnoch with superhuman hearing, Kiba heard every word the professor spoke.
"So it was you... you destroyed Kaido's dream..."
Kiba had learned from Kaido about his past misfortune: how someone had tampered with his motorcycle, causing an accident, followed by a car deliberately running over his guitar-playing hand. Kaido, a supposed guitar genius, had been ruined, and his life had spiraled downward.
The culprit behind it all was the very mentor he had trusted.
Kiba decided to take revenge on Kaido's behalf.
Meanwhile, Kaido was in a classroom in the same building, giving guitar tips to a junior student. He had completely forgotten he was supposed to be looking for his own revenge, and he had no idea that all the misfortune in his life came from his former teacher.
A few days later.
Thanks to Kiba's intervention, the professor who was the source of the recent disappearances at Yamanote Music University was eliminated.
Afterward, when Kaido learned the truth from Kiba, he was distraught for a long time, reeling from the blow.
....
On Raven's side, he hadn't seen any follow-up action from Smart Brain. He was beginning to feel bored.
"It's been a few days with no activity. Did those guys get scared off?" Raven had assumed that after the last incident, Smart Brain would continue to send Orphnochs.
After loafing around for a few days, and with the Café's business being slow, Raven was getting restless. He decided to go on the offensive and start hunting himself.
He felt that absorbing the Orphnochs' energy would strengthen him, and it was also a way to secretly undermine Smart Brain's power.
So, he left Yuka in charge of the Café and went out to wander, hoping to run into a few targets.
"System, do your thing. Help me keep an eye out for any Orphnochs up to no good nearby," Raven muttered as he walked.
While he intended to hunt Orphnochs, he didn't want to kill indiscriminately; those who only wished to live peacefully as humans were not on his list.
Ding!
[New System Mission Issued: Rescue Mari Sonoda, who is being targeted by the Scarab Orphnoch.]
[Mission Completion Reward: Junglaider (Sigma Upgrade) Motorcycle.]
Raven was quite surprised. After some time, a new system mission had appeared. And the reward was an Amazon-exclusive motorcycle.
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