Kamen Rider Gloria

Qiao Yifan never thought that he and Gao Yingjie would meet again on such an occasion.He has imagined the scene of meeting again, maybe after all this is over, he returns to City B; maybe it is an accidental encounter on the streets of some other city.

But definitely not at this time.

He looked at Gao Yingjie, forced to suppress the excitement that he didn't want to say, and sighed softly: "... Yingjie."

Gao Yingjie took a few steps over the bricks on the ground, and hurriedly ran towards Qiao Yifan.He didn't hide his emotions, and he completely forgot all the quarrels before the separation at this moment.

He just felt that the sun in the sky was so bright that Qiao Yifan seemed to be mixing with the light in the air - Gao Yingjie was really afraid that all of this was his own illusion.

Gao Yingjie held a cold mineral water bottle all the way in his hand.He took time out to investigate today, and under the unexpected high temperature, there was only ice water and a hint of coolness.He subconsciously brought the plastic bottle close to Qiao Yifan's arm, and then stuffed it into the opponent's hand.

"It's hot today, take it." Gao Yingjie didn't let go, the palms of the two overlapped to absorb the coolness of the icy water.

So Qiao Yifan let go of those emotions in his heart.To be honest, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The reunion after a bad breakup would be a bit embarrassing no matter what, but since Gao Yingjie had already brushed it off, Qiao Yifan couldn't say anything else.

What is more important right now is the ruins - the place that should have been the Tiny Herb fast food restaurant seems to have been razed to the ground at this moment.

"Where's Brother Bie?" Qiao Yifan looked around, took out his phone to compare the location, and finally said in disbelief: "Here... was attacked by Glorium?"

"That's probably the case," Gao Yingjie nodded, his eyes full of worry, "Bie Ge is in the hospital, he was lying here when we found him, covered in blood." He pointed to a piece of land in the distance, The bricks are piled higher there than elsewhere.

"Since that incident happened a year ago, Brother Bie has never transformed again. We don't know where he received his belt."

"Not once?" Qiao Yifan was surprised.

Gao Yingjie nodded.

The two searched the area for a while, but found no clues except for some sundries in the fast food restaurant.

What happened to Liu Xiaobie happened less than a week ago.As Ge Caijie said earlier, ordinary people don't care about the accidents that happened here, as if this place should be a ruin that has been preserved for a long time.

The two found a slightly flat piece on the highest stone pile and sat down.It was getting late and the sky was getting cloudy.

The weather became cooler and less unbearable.Gao Yingjie also told Qiao Yifan what had happened in the past few days, just like those days when he poured out bitterness to Qiao Yifan about his daily troubles, and Qiao Yifan listened quietly, sometimes interjecting... .

He said that Tiny Herb was in a mess these days, the director went abroad for work a few days ago, and it took ten days and a half months before he could come back, and when Liu Xiaobie's incident happened, people panicked even more.Not to mention that Liu Xiaobie hasn't transformed in the past year, but he is Tiny Herb's Kamen Rider after all. People with this strength have ended up lying in the hospital and still unconscious, and the others are even worse. I can't imagine what it would be like if this happened to me.Every day when Gao Yingjie went to the hospital for an internship, he had to endure the whispers from the people around him, and he got into his ears some words that we should have Kamen Riders.He knew it wasn't aimed at him, but every time he heard it, his face would turn red uncontrollably, and he turned his head away hastily.

The dean gave him the transformation belt before going abroad to prevent any accidents.

In the end, the accident really happened, but Gao Yingjie didn't dare to transform by himself.

"What about you?" He suddenly heard Qiao Yifan ask: "Yingjie, have you ever used the Kamen Rider belt to transform into a fight?"

These words hit Gao Yingjie's ears ten times more deeply than those he heard in the hospital.The temperature of his face rose rapidly, Gao Yingjie moved his eyes away from Qiao Yifan, hesitating and unable to answer.

Qiao Yifan understood his friend's temperament.It's not because he's afraid of fighting, but because he's not used to being alone in front of others.

Due to his personality, Qiao Yifan didn't know what to do, maybe now was the right time, and he didn't know whether the Dean's going abroad was a coincidence or on purpose.

Thinking back to the days when he was doing school homework, waiting for Gao Yingjie to accept Wang Jiexi, the dean of Tiny Herb's extracurricular tutoring, and then thinking about the time when he seemed to be very strict with everything, but would let him down on certain days. Qiao Yifan suddenly missed the dean Liu Xiaobie ran errands to buy snacks for the two of them.

If not a year ago...

"What happened that night a year ago?" Qiao Yifan couldn't help but ask.That's why he's here.

Glorium is not human, they may have human emotions, but it is impossible for them to gather here for the reason that city B is the capital.

Since Ge Caijie mentioned the sudden change that happened in various places that night a year ago, then some things that happened to Liu Xiaobie in City B that day must be related to this.

He expected that Gao Yingjie's answer would bring him some keys to solve the mystery, but he didn't expect to be led into the next mystery immediately.

He heard Gao Yingjie say.

Liu Xiaobie killed a child that night one year ago.

"Bie Ge didn't come back that night. The dean was a little anxious and asked us to go out separately to find it. As you know, City B is so big, we can only go to a few places that Bie Ge often goes to." Gao Yingjie Sighed, frowning.

"Later, I heard the sound of a fire engine. Sister Liu Fei said that she had tried her luck in the past, but she did come across...there, um, it's not far from here. It was a construction site a year ago," Gao Yingjie raised his finger diagonally. He gestured ahead, "It was said to be a small shopping mall, but it caught fire for no reason that night. When we rushed over, we happened to see them carrying Brother Bie out."

"Then that child is...?" Qiao Yifan clenched his lower lip, feeling that the atmosphere of the whole story was a bit weird.

"There is no child at all." Gao Yingjie spread his hands, his face full of helplessness: "The doctor said that brother Bie's memory might be confused that night, maybe he just remembered it wrong. But brother Bie said that he killed a child, Said he didn't have time to save that kid from Glorium..."

"Glorium?!" Qiao Yifan thought that this incident might just be an accident that had nothing to do with Glorium, but now that he suddenly heard this word, he felt a chill in his heart.Although the current temperature is hovering around [-] degrees.

Gao Yingjie was surprised by Qiao Yifan's big reaction, and he was stunned for a while before continuing: "Yes. Brother Bie insisted that he saw Glorium and fought against it, but we went to search the scene again later, and there were no children. Nor the smell of Glorium."

"That's why he..." Qiao Yifan vaguely guessed the reason why Liu Xiaobie chose not to transform himself into a battle.

Gao Yingjie nodded, a little helpless: "He felt that his lack of ability killed a child who didn't know if it really existed."

Maybe... Maybe it really exists.

Qiao Yifan recalled the conjectures that Gai Caijie said in his mind, and always felt that what happened that night could not be so simple.

The sun in the sky disappeared at some point, and when I looked up, I could only see the cloudy sky—the city that had been sweltering all day was finally about to usher in a heavy rain.

"Let's go." Gao Yingjie stood up first, patted the dust off his pants, and pulled Qiao Yifan up from the pile of stones.

"Where are you going?" Qiao Yifan was still thinking about the incident a year ago, without turning his mind for a moment, he looked at Gao Yingjie with confused eyes.

"It's going to rain, let's go to the hospital. If Brother Bie wakes up, we can ask him directly." Gao Yingjie said again: "Well...the belt is in the hospital, since you are back, maybe I can try... ...transfiguration."

He raised his eyes and looked into his friend's dazed eyes.

It's been a year.Gao Yingjie thought.

Good thing it's only a year.