Chapter 7: What

【Kamen Ride: Kabuto!】 (Kamen Ride! Kabuto!)

As for dealing with the Golden Knight,

Clearly, the Sun God Kabuto, who also bears a title, is most suitable.

When that crimson armor, like flame, enveloped his entire body,

The Kabuto Rider Form appears! "Kabuto!!"

"How is this possible!"

Lu Qingzhou, who had just been punched backward and barely stabilized his stance, widened his eyes in shock, disbelief radiating from him.

He felt unease and instinctively stepped back.

"You're not thinking of running, are you? And even if you were, could you escape from the Sun God Kabuto?" Su Jing sneered.

He swiftly pulled out a card, inserted it into the Driver, and shoved it hard.

【Attack Ride: Clock Up!】 (Attack Ride! Clock Up)

The Decade cards are typically divided into three types.

Kamen Ride, Attack Ride, Final Attack Ride, Final Form Ride.

Kamen Ride transforms you into the corresponding Rider Form.

Attack Ride activates that Rider's abilities.

Final Form Ride famously turns the Rider into a weapon or mount! Final Attack Ride is the Rider's ultimate technique—such as the Rider Kick.

The Clock Up card belongs to the second type: Attack Ride, and now, as it activates,

Su Jing's body instantly vanished from his original spot!

"You can even use Clock Up?!" Lu Qingzhou was stunned.

What on earth is this pink Rider?!

Why can he transform into Kabuto's form?! And why can he use Clock Up—the very technology developed by the Jianghuai Association!! Clock Up is exclusively theirs!!

Other associations must borrow personnel from the Jianghuai Association to combat the Worms!

So he was utterly astonished.

Yet, even amid his shock, he realized something and sneered: "I don't know how your broken body still lets you fight!"

"But you'd better understand one thing: Clock Up technology consumes enormous stamina!"

"Can your body even keep up?!"

"Hmph!"

He let out a low, cold grunt, then slammed his hand hard onto the Clock Up device on his waist! 【Clock Up!】

He too entered the accelerated state.

The instant he entered it, he saw Su Jing's body closing in.

Around them, everything seemed to freeze.

The noisy sounds outside, the hurried footsteps—all halted.

In this domain unique to Clock Up and Super Speed,

Only Su Jing and the Lu Qingzhou before him could move.

Su Jing raised his right fist and struck straight forward.

Lu Qingzhou hastily blocked, while simultaneously lifting his right leg to thrust at Su Jing.

"Kabuto?!"

"Truly astonishing—but Kabuto is merely a failure!"

"Sun God Kabuto? A meaningless title!"

"I don't know why you can become Kabuto, but a failure like that could never defeat my Golden Knight!"

"Failure?" Su Jing raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Yes! Though Kabuto was one of the Riders planned by the Jianghuai Association, it was defeated after completion—so it's just a failure!" Lu Qingzhou sneered.

So that's how it was.

The Jianghuai Association really did develop Kabuto.

But it was defeated?! Yet "don't you dare equate someone else's Kabuto with mine!"

Rider battles primarily depend on Rider performance and the user.

When performance is nearly equal, the user's skill decides victory!

As the saying goes:

What's strong isn't Kabuto—it's the King!

And as the user, Su Jing himself is undoubtedly the best. After all, he once used Zero-One, which had almost no special abilities—his battles relied entirely on close combat and raw stats. As the representative of Reiwa's stat monster, to unleash that overwhelming power required exceptional skill!

Thus, Su Jing, who became the strongest using Zero-One, truly deserves the title of most skilled operator! Facing Lu Qingzhou's counterattack, Su Jing simply stepped back and effortlessly dodged, then spun and delivered a sweeping right kick.

Boom!!

The powerful, heavy whip kick slammed directly into Lu Qingzhou's waist, sending his body tilting leftward.

Before he could steady himself, Su Jing immediately raised his right fist and punched straight into his face.

Lu Qingzhou wouldn't stay on the defensive—he tried to counterattack.

But his strikes seemed completely anticipated, effortlessly dodged.

And Su Jing's relentless assault flowed like a continuous stream.

Chaotic yet clean, precise, with no wasted motion.

In just a few moves, Lu Qingzhou's Golden Knight was completely overwhelmed! Boom! Boom! Boom! Under each heavy thud, the Golden Knight was battered backward repeatedly.

Before he could regain his footing, another heavy whip kick slammed into his shoulder! "Ahh!!"

Lu Qingzhou let out a cry of pain, his entire body slamming violently into the warehouse wall, cracks spreading outward from the impact.

Feeling as though his whole body was about to fall apart, Lu Qingzhou, wracked with pain all over, half-kneeled on the ground, his strength nearly gone.

He struggled to lift his head, feeling that everything was completely different from what he had imagined.

"What is going on!"

"Why is your combat power..."

"Didn't the hospital say you were nearly disabled!"

"How can you still unleash such combat power!"

"Heh~" Su Jing sneered faintly, "Does it matter?"

"What's important to you now isn't..."

"... how to face me at my full strength!"

He directly drew the Kabuto weapon—the Kunai Gun! He took a step forward, and a cold gleam slashed out.

Riiip!

"Hngh!"

Lu Qingzhou suffered a heavy blow, his body crashing into a nearby table.

The heavy force crushed the table to pieces.

Lu Qingzhou was in immense pain, but compared to the injuries on his body, he found the current reality even harder to accept.

"How could this happen!"

"How did your body suddenly recover without any warning? You couldn't even transform to resist before!"

"And how is it possible for Kabuto to defeat me, the Golden Knight!"

"A failure, how could he possibly win against the Golden Knight's Jin Dou!"

Hearing this, Su Jing simply wiped the Kunai Gun with his hand.

He didn't even know how to answer Lu Qingzhou's question.

Isn't it perfectly normal for Kabuto to beat Jin Dou?

Unless you have the Hyper Zecter.

The Hyper Zecter is the ultimate cheat for the Kabuto series.

After using it, one can surpass Clock Up; that ability, developed to its extreme, can even traverse time!

If there really were a Hyper, that would indeed be troublesome.

But obviously, the Jianghuai Association hasn't developed it yet.

So isn't it perfectly normal for a Jin Dou without a Hyper Zecter to lose to Kabuto! Besides, you're a Jin Dou without a Hyper; do you even understand how to play? If you don't understand, just turn into a card for me! He casually wiped the Kunai Gun with his hand, then thrust it out again.

Lu Qingzhou hurriedly raised his arm to block.

Su Jing wasn't in a rush to attack; he had some questions now.

"Yan Qing collaborating with the Worms to kill me—that was your arrangement, wasn't it?"

"Does Yan Qingxue know about this?"

Hearing this, Lu Qingzhou couldn't help but sneer, "Of course she knows!"

"Of course, she doesn't care about the specific details of the arrangement."

"That Speaker Yan only wants you dead!"

(End of this chapter)