I'm really just human

"Class 3, go north!"

"Where's Captain Shimura?"

"The captain went to the city..."

Suburbs of Tokyo.

Kazuma Kenzaki led a team to search for undead creatures alone. After entering a dark forest, he suddenly lost contact with the combat team members.

"Hey! Can you hear me? Where is the person?"

After calling for a while but getting no response, Kenzaki Kazuma put down the communicator angrily, summoned his belt in advance and continued to investigate further.

There was a little green blood scattered among the leaves piled on the ground, indicating that the pursuit direction was not wrong.

I just don’t know how many there are.

Kenzaki Kazuma nervously inserted his transformation card Ace of Spades into his belt.

This time, I originally planned to borrow a few cards from the research institute to improve my combat ability, but such a big event unexpectedly happened.

If all these undead creatures fled into the city, there's no telling what trouble would happen.

"ah--!"

Suddenly, a scream echoed in the forest, and a terrifying aura filled the surrounding area.

"Who's over there? What happened?"

Kazuma Kenzaki looked in the direction of the sound under the moonlight and called out tentatively, but there was no response at all, only the breeze blowing.

This place is so scary.

But he had to come. He didn't know if undead creatures were really immortal, but it was true that they could only be sealed through the knight system.

He didn't allow himself to back down either.

He must keep fighting in order to be saved and forget the pain.

"Woo!"

The deeper you go into the woods, the more terrifying the surrounding atmosphere becomes, and the sound of the dark wind seems to turn into the cry of ghosts.

After a while, a series of black shadows hanging on the trees came into Kazuma Kenzaki's field of vision. When he got closer, he discovered that they were the combat team members who had disappeared before.

"asshole……"

Kenzaki Kazuma's eyes trembled and he clenched his fingers tightly. He didn't care to continue checking, and shouted as he looked into the darkness around him.

"Come out!"

"call!"

There was no response from the surroundings, but there was a vague hum in the wind, as if it was a spell, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

"Come out!"

Kenzaki Kazuma tensed up, and as he roared, a vine tentacle suddenly shot out from behind, wrapping tightly around his neck before he could react.

"Well!"

The vine tentacles continued to tighten, and a huge dragging force came, as if they wanted to pull Kenzaki Kazuma into the darkness and hang on the treetops like the others.

hateful……

"Transform!"

Kenzaki Kazuma pulled back, grabbed the tentacles on his neck urgently, and quickly closed the core of the belt while breathing hard.

"Turn up!"

As the energy of the Ace of Spades fuses, a huge luminous card like a door appears in front of Kenzaki Kazuma. He changes his clothes and simultaneously flicks away his tentacles.

It was only then that the undead creatures in the woods were completely revealed.

The black and green body is mixed with various vine colors, and the source of the tentacles is the opponent's right arm. The whole thing looks like a distorted stem, which is extremely disgusting.

"Uh-huh!"

Kenzaki Kazuma hurriedly pulled out the blade of the Awakening Device on his side, and while resisting the attack of the vine tentacles, he sprinted towards the vine monster with his whole body.

"Scared!"

"call!"

Natsukawa Kallis walked up a high hillside, with an aggressive and sharp posture, and the cold armor reflected under the full moon. His red heart-shaped compound eyes followed Kazuma Kenzaki's transformed blade below, and finally locked on the vine monster. body.

The undead creature fighting Kamen Rider Sword was of a lower level, and he wasn't too familiar with it, but he did take a look at it when he picked up the card.

It just so happens to be the undead creature of the heart deck.

Vine undead, 7 of hearts.

"boom!"

Natsukawa's eyes moved slightly, and he quietly watched Kenzaki Kazuma's frantic slashing attacks.

He has the same irritable character as the protagonist of "Blade", and he fights relentlessly, as if he is desperate.

But the actual effect was worrying. The attacks had almost no effect. Most of them were dodged by the undead vines. In the end, even sword-type weapons were knocked away by the tentacles.

Not an opponent at all.

This undead creature is equivalent to a level 3 monster, but Kazuma Kenzaki seems to be still a long way from being a level 3 knight, and cannot exert much Category A power in the knight system.

The most important thing is that Kazuma Kenzaki seems to be unable to even swipe his card.

Worse than the early stages of the protagonist in Blade.

"Uh-huh!"

In the woods, Kenzaki Kazuma wanted to retrieve his weapon, but was suddenly wrapped around his body by vine tentacles and lifted up into the air. He was tossed and knocked around without any resistance.

"Bang bang!"

"No, I can't beat him at all!"

Kenzaki Kazuma screamed and was thrown to the ground. Before he could recover, he hit the tree trunk hard again. Looking at the hanging team members around him, his voice became even more painful.

He can't save anyone.

Maybe I will die here too...

"call!"

Natsukawa Kallis jumped into the woods, glanced at the shouting Kenzaki Kazuma, unfolded the bow in his hand and fired several light arrows.

Still a little younger.

"Bang bang bang!"

The tentacles wrapped around Kenzaki Kazuma broke apart. The vine undead creature retreated in pain and looked at the source of the light arrow in shock and anger.

Xia Chuan, who was in the mist of the moon shadow, just inserted the Awakener component into the Kallis bow and gently brushed the 6 of spades against the undead creature.

"Thunder!" Buck, thunder and lightning bonus.

"Zizzi!"

Xia Chuan raised his bow again and pulled the trigger to aim. Suddenly, circles of thunder and lightning energy rippled under the moonlight.

"Are you...Callis?!"

The vine undead creature suddenly recognized Kalis's figure, turned around and fled in shock, but as soon as he took a step forward, he was pierced by an arrow from the lightning bolt behind him, and instantly opened the core of his belt to stabilize his body.

"Uh-huh!"

It's still the same as during the Extreme War.

Once the intensity of the attack exceeds a certain limit, the belt will be opened and can be sealed.

Xia Chuan waved a blank card.

As soon as the card touched the vine undead creature, it automatically absorbed it, turned it back into a seal card, then spun and fell back into Xia Chuan's hand.

7 of hearts.

The ability is to instantly generate tentacles to attack the enemy.

It doesn't seem to be particularly useful.

After reading the card information, Xia Chuan put it back into the card box, turned around and left the woods with the Kallis bow and arrow.

"rustle!"

The breeze ruffled the leaves, and the footsteps gradually faded away.

Kazuma Kenzaki struggled to free himself from the tentacles entangled around his body. He gasped and raised his head, but he could only vaguely see an elongated shadow of the knight under the moonlight.

"Callis?"

This is what the undead creature called out just now.

It sounds like a name.

The knight system that can seal undead creatures should be the same as his, but he has no impression at all.

"Is it possible that the new knight system has been successfully developed?"

Kenzaki Kazuma was confused and took out his communicator to call for help.

Their knight system is a machine that can be manufactured artificially. It is said that the research institute has been working backwards, and there are still three Category A cards in the plan that can be used to make the knight system.

…

The next day.

Kenzaki Kazuma returned to the team after receiving treatment in the hospital. When he was about to ask about the condition of the undead, he was suddenly approached by Captain Shimura.

"I heard that you were rescued by an unknown knight?" Shimura asked with a smile, "Kamen Rider Kallis?"

"Yes," Kenzaki Kazuma responded with a slightly excited nod, "That's what the undead creature shouted. That guy seemed to know Kalis and was very scared."

"Did you see the knight?"

"this……"

Kenzaki Kazuma's smile paused slightly.

"I didn't see it clearly, but the ability to seal undead creatures should be the same knight system as mine, right?"

"Seal?" Shimura's eyes changed slightly, and he turned to Kenzaki Kazuma and explained, "In fact, there was another theft case at the institute last night. Some of the sealed cards suddenly disappeared, including the black cards that were originally intended for you. Taoka.”

"Stolen?" Kazuma Kenzaki's figure was shaken, "Aren't all the cards unsealed?"

"Of course not. At that time, the sealed cards were not all put together, but were stored in two places. The ones that were unsealed were only the cards for experiments."

Shimura smiled and looked at Kazuma Kenzaki.

"How about I leave the investigation to you? No matter what, the other party took away the card that originally belonged to you."

"Captain, does he mean that Kallis took those cards?"

Kenzaki Kazuma's expression changed.

Kallis turned out not to be the knight system developed by the institute, and he also stole the institute's cards.

"What's going on? The knight system has never appeared before. If it doesn't belong to the research institute..."

"The knight system may not be the only one that can seal undead creatures. Maybe some undead creatures also have this ability."

Shimura sighed and shook his head.

"Don't think too much, Kenzaki, that guy... Kalis is not necessarily saving you, maybe he is just sealing other undead creatures."