"Tch. Not bad." Kabuto commented as he stood up to face his assaint.

  In front of him stood a young brunette wearing a bck colored kimono with floral patterns, and a white kitsune mask with red markings. Her halo resembled a bck sakura blossom, with a red star in the center of it. What struck the most from her appearance is her pair of fox ears on her head, and a bushy fox tail with a white bow tied near the end.

  "Ara~ Are you the GSC's newest pdog?"

  Kabuto stood up, and faced the fox girl.

  "I would not say that I am. I am too good to be joining an organization."

  "Hoo~ Big talk, for someone too good, to be easily brought down to the ground."

  A couple of rounds from Yuuka's dual-wielded MPXs hit the fox girl, however she remained still as the bullets merely bounced off her.

  "Sensei! W-we aren't able to defeat her! S-she shrugs off bullets painlessly like they're nothing!"

  "Insolent girl." Wakamo retorted, as she then shoots an energy powered bullet from her Arisaka Type 99.

  However, in the bullet's midflight, Kabuto merely flipped his gun over, and used the barrel of his pistol as a grip of an axe, before lifting it up in reflex. The bullet from the fox then ricocheted back at her.

  "OW! Y-You!" The fox girl growled, before she unloaded 5 more energy filled rounds toward Kabuto.

  "Yuuka. Looks like the hero type doesn't suit you." Kabuto commented, as he flipped his kunaigun back to gun mode, and shoots the rounds the fox girl fired at him.

  The bullets hit each other, and thus no damage occurs between the two.

  "S-Shut up! You have no halo, and your safety is our top priority! She could've hurt you badly!"

  "What good comes out of it, if you can't even save someone?"

  "Look, the Fox of Camity is notoriously known not just for her destructiveness and perseverance, but her agility is beyond a normal student! Your... suit, or exo-suit or whatever!? It's too bulky to match her agility! You need to find a way around it!"

  "I know already." Kabuto replied bluntly.

  "What!?"

  "I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I have a long retionship with this belt. I was merely seeing how long I would st fighting in this world in this form."

  "No way..."

  The fox girl's rifle made clicking sounds, as her clip ran out of bullets causing her to click her tongue in annoyance as she grabbed a stripper clip to reload her rifle. As she was doing this, Kabuto motioned his left hand toward the beetle-shaped device's horn, and tugged on it as if it is a lever. An emergency siren like noise is then heard as the bulky armor parts begin to detach from his suit, starting from his gauntlets all the way to his bulky shoulder pads, continued with the chest and helmet armor parts. His hand remains, holding the beetle's horn.

  "Cast-Off!"

  With that chant recited, he then pulled the horn from his left to his right.

  "CAST OFF"

  After that warning from the mechanized voice, the bulky armor parts spring off from Kabuto's body, revealing the sleeker red colored chest and shoulder armored ptes. The flying parts that sprung off from his body nearly hit Yuuka, however, the shockwave from the force of the cast-off sequence knocked her off her feet. The sequence ends, as the Rhinoceros Beetle horn on Kabuto's chin rises up, and attached to the center of the helmet, continued with his eyes flickering with a white light.

  "CHANGE BEETLE"

  The fox girl tilted her head in awe at Kabuto's sleeker form, and slowly approached him only to have several more thugs and delinquents move in front of her to protect her.

  "Protect the fox!"

  "Ojou-Sama, please head to the tower as pnned, we'll take care of this... adult in a bug costume!" The minigun wielding thug said after she squinted her eyes to see what Kabuto looked like.

  "If you say so~ Please, take care of him."

  "Got it!"

  The thugs and delinquents begin to open fire, but before Kabuto is able to make a move, Yuuka jumped in front of him and with a quick use of some sort of programming in her phone, she summons a nanoswarm hive shield around her, effectively shielding her and Kabuto who is behind her. However the shield did not st long as one of the delinquents brought in a rocket uncher, and bsted the shield apart, sending Yuuka flying back to where the impromptu defense team was.

  "Clock up!" Kabuto chanted, before spping the button on his belt's right hip.

  "CLOCK UP"

  In the vision of everyone else, Kabuto suddenly disappeared from view. However not even a second ter, an unseen force knocks the thugs and delinquents off their feet. The remaining delinquents begin to shoot randomly at the air, trying to find him but to no avail.

  The clocked-up rider form... can move in speeds far greater than any human

  After the final delinquent is brought down, Kabuto went to his bike, the Kabuto Extender (which is the modified Honda CBR1000RR), and sped off through the ruined streets before his speed returned to normal, just as Yuuka nded on the asphalt.

  "CLOCK OVER"

  "That was... Sensei?" Yuuka asked, her eyes blinking in disbelief.

  "Yuuka! Are you alright!?" Chinatsu asked as she stormed out of one of the buildings where the civilians are currently hiding.

  "Barely. But Sensei... He took off to chase the Fox of Camity on his own!"

  "What a reckless adult--"

  "No, Chinatsu. H-He transformed! I-It's some kind of exosuit that I have never seen before..."

  "For once I have to smile at this Gehenna student's mistake for not joining in the fight." Hasumi said, making a proud smirk.

  "Hasumi-San, you shouldn't be saying that..." Suzumi commented.

  SCHALE Building Basement

  "I don't see what is the big deal about this pce... what am I supposed to destroy?" The fox girl asked in a sing song voice, as she wandered around the mysterious basement in curiosity.

  The basement has a pedestal which holds a mysterious stone that hovers above it, but then the fox girl stopped wandering the moment she sees something that doesn't belong in any kind of basements that don't lead to a garage. A motorcycle.

  "Umu~?"

  "Yo. You're te." Kabuto said, as he appears from the shadows, approaching the fox girl.

  "Ara? You really are a pain, aren't you?" She asked.

  The fox girl detaches the bayonet from her Arisaka Type 99, and puts on a stance as Kabuto pulled the barrel of his pistol off, revealing a searing red colored kunai bde. The two begin to swing their bdes, with Wakamo being able to y down a few scratches on Kabuto while the tter was able to catch the fox girl off guard with a leg sweep after Wakamo's third ssh. However, she used the trip as momentum to spring back up with an arm drag counter, but Kabuto himself recovered effortlessly as he was sent rolling towards a wall which he used to spring back up to his feet.

  The two then struck each other by thrusting their bdes toward each's heads, resulting in a loud shattering noise combined from both the fox girl's mask shattering revealing her golden yellow colored eye, and Kabuto's visor revealing a bit of his face.

  "You... are an interesting fellow."

  The fox girl gasped, as Kabuto's beetle-shaped device has it's horn reverted to it's original position, and detaches itself from the belt buckle. In an instant the suit deforms revealing Tendou. The way he stopped her attack from reaching his eye is also a close call, as he used his free left hand to catch the blunt side of the bayonet's bde, and his hand barely bled as a result. The yellow eye of the fox girl begins to blink a couple of times groggily.

  "Uh... I... I... Well..." The fox girl starts to stutter as she scanned Tendou's appearance from top to bottom.

  Tendou tilted his head, awaiting her complete reply.

  "I, uh... I WAS JUST LEAVING!"

  In an instant, the fox girl ran off as quickly as she appeared in the basement. Now with the mastermind behind the attack out of the way, Tendou awaited Rin to arrive, to which she did just a minute after the fox girl ran away.

  "Sorry to keep you waiting, Tendou-Sensei."

  Rin then raised a brow the moment her eyes gnced towards the Kabuto Extender being parked inside the basement.

  "Did I... miss something? And how did you even drive that into the basement?"

  "I have my ways, Nanagami--"

  "Please, call me Rin."

  "If you insist, Rin."

  "You haven't answered my question."

  "Nothing in particur happened. The fox couldn't figure out how to destroy the building."

  "If so, then it is good news that Kosaka Wakamo, the Fox of Camity, was unable to commit the ultimate camity in these urgent times. Now onto the next task, this is what the president left behind."

  Rin hands Tendou a smart tablet. Smartphones and tablets are becoming common in use ever since the 2010s hit in his homeworld, and it doesn't even take Tendou a minute to understand how it worked, and that the technology implemented what ZECT has previously used back in 2006, which is most notably, the feature of a touch screen. With no hesitation, Tendou gently took the tablet from Rin's hand.

  "It is called the Shittim Chest. It may seem like a normal tablet, but it's origins are a mystery. It's manufacturer, OS, system structure and components are completely unknown. The president has left this artifact yo you, so that you'll be able to take control of the Sanctum Tower."

  Tendou begins to inspect the tablet as Rin excused herself after telling him that the other GSC members are unable to open it, and that Tendou might be the only hope left to restore the Sanctum Tower into full functionality. as Rin stepped away, Tendou proceeds to switch the tablet on, and not long after the tablet requested Tendou to insert the password to unlock it. Before his trip to the GSC Headquarters, Tendou received another flickering image in his mind of the password. With no hesitation, he immediately inserted the password while also being careful as to not pressing the wrong key.

  We thirst for the seven wailings.

  We bear the koan of Jericho.

  After a few seconds of patiently waiting for the password to be processed, the tablet dispyed new text.

  Password Accepted. User Identified as Souji Tendou. Confirmed.

  The room surrounding Tendou then changed. He is no longer in the SCHALE basement, but rather, in a ruined cssroom next to a sprawling seaside. This reminded him of the time he was sent to the seaside near Tokyo after failing to save Hiyori from Area X in Shibuya, in which a certain someone maniputed time and space to transport him and Hiyori to another realm, while Tendou was sent to the seaside.

  Gncing from the seaside over to one of the desks in the cssroom, he sees a cyan haired girl pressing her head against the desk, sleeping peacefully.

  "Hmmm… Strawberry milk… hehehe…"

  Hearing this reminded Tendou of the amnesiac girl Gon, who often tags along with one of his rivals, Kamen Rider Drake. Strawberry milk was the drink that Gon received from Kamen Rider Drake before she started to become his companion. As of 2019, Gon should already be a grown adult, and because of him not being around during Yaguruma's actions of becoming Another Kabuto, Tendou never got the chance to see Gon.

  Tendou walked toward the girl, and poked her in the cheek.

  "Yo."

  No response, as the girl keeps on sleeping. With a small mischievous smirk, Tendou then chose to poke her in the forehead, immediately waking her up from her sitting position.

  "AH! Wait, what!? Oh, who are you? Wait a moment..."

  After a moment of guessing, her eyes immediately widen in a comedic fashion.

  "S-Sensei!? If you are here, then it means... You are Tendou-Sensei!?"

  "Of course it is. Who do you think I am? Walking the path of heaven--"

  "I-I got it, I got it!" The girl said, waving her hands around to signal Tendou to stop raising his hand to the sky.

  "Then I suppose it is time for your own introduction, then."

  "Oh, right! I-I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Arona."

  Arona then introduced herself as the system manager that lives within the Shittim Chest as well as functioning as it's OS, basically serving as a secretary to a Sensei, of sorts. Artificial intelligence is not a foreign term for Tendou, as tech in his homeworld improved drastically ever since the worms and Negishi's pns to end humanity got foiled. What was left over from ZECT's technological achievements were included over to Japan's technological development. Arona then revealed that she has waited for Tendou for so long, that she ended up dozing off on the desk.

  "It is time for me to verify your biological authentication. Um... It is part of the protocol, but do you mind if I get closer to you? As a matter of fact, p-please lower your finger, and point at me."

  Arona then pressed her index finger against Tendou's, and after a few seconds, the biological authentication is completed. Afterwards, she asked Tendou what has happened to Kivotos during her long wait, which took five whole minutes as Tendou recalled every single word that Rin has told her, even including Yuuka and Hasumi's reports. After processing what she have heard, she revealed to Tendou that even she has very little data about the GSC President as well as why she disappeared, but nonetheless, she is still able to restore the Sanctum Tower to full functionality.

  Remembering what Rin asked him, Tendou asked Arona to transfer power of the tower to the GSC. Afterwards, Tendou says his goodbyes as he then left the Shittim Chest, finding himself back in the SCHALE basement, now having it's lights back on, and down comes Rin who congratuted him for restoring the Sanctum Tower to functionality. Rin then led him to the SCHALE office, which is where Tendou would start work from then on, and although there are no new tasks as of current, Tendou's role as the advisor of SCHALE gives him unrestricted access into all school districts. Furthermore, Tendou can recruit any students from those schools as he please, to be the club members.

  "You really have a lot of freedom, essentially. However, given Kivotos' size, I'm concerned if you can handle going to every one of them to familiarize yourself--"

  "It is fine, Rin. Grandmother said this: People become stronger through adventures."

  "Speaking of which... what's your grandmother really like, anyways? You quote her often ever since we met."

  "It's a long story..."

  After everything that's done, Tendou left the SCHALE club building, to see the four students that he led for it's impromptu defense.

  "Sensei!" Yuuka shouted, marching angrily towards Tendou.

  "Yuuka--" Chinatsu tried to stop her, but Suzumi then held her by her shoulder.

  "No, let her."

  Tendou is met with a sp from Yuuka, who then grabbed him by his suit jacket.

  "I know that everything is fine, but you-you were too reckless, even with that suit of armor on! That fox nearly killed you!"

  "You worry too much, Yuuka. It's not good for you."

  "Y-You... You really think Kivotos revolves around you, just because you have that armor?"

  "Grandmother said this: Force the world to revolve around you. It's more fun to think that way.... Is it not?"

  "W-well, in a manner of speaking--"

  "Well, she is Millenium's demon treasurer after all--" Hasumi joked, but then was silenced.

  "Oh, shush! Anyways, what happened today will be all over Kivotos in a matter of minutes, on social media!"

  "Well, I'm not surprised that would be the case." Tendou said, as he saw a drone with the logo of KRONOS floating away.

  The girls then bid their goodbyes for now, with Chinatsu having to report about Tendou's success to her superiors. The girls also hoped that Tendou would visit them sometime at their respective schools, to which he happily nodded before the girls walked off. However there is also one st student that wished to see him again. From an overpass, a girl with a broken kitsune mask giggled.

  "Oh no, this simply will not do... Hehehe... Hehehe~"

  "What simply will not do?"

  "!?"

  Wakamo turned around, to see Tendou approaching her.

  "O-Oh, Sensei! H-how did you get here so--"

  "I recognize that expression of yours. A girl in love."

  "Y-Y... I guess you're right. But... can I even...?"

  "What if I tell you, that I can let you into SCHALE?"

  Wakamo widened her eyes.

  "R-really!?"

  "You can simply change out of your outfit. Nobody has ever seen you unmasked, right?"

  "W-well, you are right on that part... But, my face... my face would terrify you, won't it? E-everyone has made rumors that I have a demonic face beneath this mask--"

  "Rubbish. Grandmother said this: All girls are equally beautiful." Tendou quoted, as he slowly unmasked her, revealing that Wakamo is indeed, a beautiful girl.

  "S-Sensei..."

  Immediately, Wakamo fainted from disbelief and lovestruck.

  "She truly is an interesting fellow."