"Let's try this one out."

Lavenza hands me a driver called the Desire Driver, together with an ID core, which I put into it and soon have it attach around my waist.

"DESIRE DRIVER."

"I only have a Magnum Raise Buckle on me currently, so use it with this driver."

"O~kay!" I reply as I grab the Buckle and insert it into the slot on my right.

"SET!"

"Henshin!"

Spinning the cylinder like shape on the Buckle and then pressing the trigger, I first go into the Entry form before the Magnum part of my suit gets slid on.

"Magnum. Ready, fight"

"So this is Geats, huh?"

"Indeed, though I don't think you can do much with it currently, I cannot find a Boost Buckle to go with it, but then again, in the world it comes from, it's a rare item..."

"Eh?"

"Nothing, let's just move on with testing the features of the Desire Driver."

"Oh yeah, this button has me curious..."

So I press on it and it makes the front of the driver tilt a bit, so I take and rotate it...

"Revolve On"

That causes my whole body to shift around, and make my bottom part become the top part and vice versa..?!

"AAAAAAAHHH, AAAAAAAH, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!"

"C-Calm down, you didn't get harmed by it in any sort of way at least!"

"No, I am just worried how I will look like after I detransform..!" I reply as I take off the Magnum Buckle and the suit disappears, and yet...

"Huh, nothing has changed on my body..?"

"These devices all works in mysterious ways after all." Lavenza says as I take off the Desire Driver as I stretch myself a bit.

"Welp, I can't stick around here for too long, I have to go to CiRCLE for my shift, I promised Marina I would help her after her, or rather our, boss has put some ridiculous deadlines for a coming live."

"Aah, then you absolutely should help her."

"But also take your time when you are on your own to try out the belts, just so you get used to about using the best one for any threats that comes along."

"Gotcha, see you around, Lavenza!" I tell her as I exit out from the pocket dimension she is in as I am back at my room.

I put the Desire Driver in the bed drawer, were I have all other belts, just to make sure no one finds them so easily.

After all, Lavenza did tell me I have to keep my identity as a Kamen Rider secret, or a lot of uproar could happen, and I get that, it could ruin my life depending on people's opinions on me.

"Well, to CiRCLE it is."

On my way there, I can just feel how more satisfied I feel with things, because I can both be able to save people like I have always wanted to, and Touko 100% likes me.

What is there to not like about this?!

Arriving at CiRCLE, I see Marina, but apparently she is already getting a helping hand.

"I'm so sorry I ended up having you help me, Tsukushi!" Marina says to her while bowing, but Tsukushi just laughs.

"Now, now, I chose myself to even help to begin with, if I was mad about it, it would be at myself!"

"Oh, hey, sorry for interrupting." I awkwardly say, not really wanting to interrupt, but Marina and Tsukushi turns to look at me, with the former walking up to me happily while the latter blushes a little seeing me arrive.

"Good that you came! Could you take over from Tsukushi? Just wouldn't want to have someone just work here for free after all... even if the boss probably would like not paying out any salary..!"

Marina realizes she is going off on a tangent, before she points to where Tsukushi is.

"We are setting up some extra lights so it gets a bit brigher in here during evenings when we hold lives, though it was in the plans for a time now!"

"Aah, I see." I reply as I walk up to Tsukushi, who begins blushing even more as I approach, even trying to hide the blush with her hand.

"Hey there, Tsukushi, it's great to see you."

"Heh, likewise..." She replies back with as she is unsure what to say more.

"...Oh, uh, this is what we are supposed to do!"

Tsukushi shows were the extra lights are going to go, and soon enough I begin with hanging it all up.

It's actually just kinda like the sort of lights you use in a Christmas tree, but only with light bulbs in it and much brighter by all means.

Hanging it all up definitely takes awhile, but after two hours or so, I am done.

Getting down from the ladder, Tsukushi comes up to me with a drink in each hand, one of them she reaches out to me.

"Here, I bought a glass of soda for you!"

"Thank you so much, Tsukushi!"

I grab the one she was reaching out to me, and drink a little of it.

"Man, it's always great with something cooling after you have worked your ass off..."

"Mhm, I figured you would get thirsty going at it for two hours straight."

"I will make sure to pay you back-"

"No need, it wasn't expensive anyway!" Tsukushi tells me with a smile as she takes a sip out of her soda as well, before breathing out in satisfaction over how cold it is of it.

"I see, but I gotta repay you somehow-"

"Keep on doing your very best, that's all I need to see in order to be repaid."

"Oh, well then I shall do just that!"

"I'm glad!"

We soon sit down in the lounge sofa as we decide to catch up a little on what we have been doing, though of course, I can't mention that I have become a Kamen Rider, but I sort of doubt she would believe that.

"Oh yeah, the other day when you were on a... date with Touko, did you get hurt or anything? I heard something happened and you had stayed behind according to her in order to try and stop a monster."

"Ah, yes, an attack did happen right outside the cafeteria we were at. I did want to buy Touko some time so she wouldn't get harmed, but I hid soon myself as well."

"That explains why I haven't seen you in this footage, because instead there is someone in an armored suit battling that monster or whatever it was."

"Footage?"

Tsukushi brings out her phone and shows me a video that is someone having filmed with a drone of my battle with the Malgam.

"That's the Kamen Rider that appeared that day, Gotchard to be specific."

"Oh? Well, he was certainly impressive with the way he battled that monster, if only we knew what he sounded like in his voice..."

"I suppose we all could try guessing who would be beneath the mask?"

"Yeah, hehe~" Tsukushi says as she puts away her phone again, though she keeps on looking at me.

"S-Stephan, I know this is sudden to ask, but would you mind if we two went on a date someday..?"

"I mean, I did promise to come over to your home someday soon to try out your cooking, so we could have that be a sort of date."

"True! Then how about coming over this Saturday? We won't be practicing and I am heading straight home after school, so we could go together if I go by your school, as long as you don't mind of course..!"

"I don't mind it in the slightest, would only love having you as my company."

"Great, then it's decided!" Tsukushi says, looking very happy to the point I can't help smiling myself.

I figure it's only fair I hang out with her as well because she is both Touko's bandmate and friend, and I do really like Tsukushi as well, even if I really can't say it currently because how unsure my heart is regarding her and the two others...

Or is it three others, because I haven't really been able to forget Sakiko since I met her, she was really pretty and cute.

"I'm going to make sure to cook the best curry yet-!"

But as Tsukushi begins speaking, panicked screams suddenly are heard from outside, which causes me to stand up at once.

"No way, a Malgam?!" I quietly say to myself as I look to Tsukushi. "Stay inside, I will investigate what is causing panic!"

"But..!"

"I don't want you to come to harm, so please, Tsukushi."

"O-Okay..."

I soon rush outside and a bit further away from the live house, a kaijin is rampaging again.

"Crap, I didn't bring any belt with me..!"

"Let me help." Lavenza says as she appears out of the usual door.

"Is it a Malgam?"

"No, this is a whole other type of kaijin, and from the looks of it, it's a Yummy."

"Yummy?"

"They feed on human greed in order to grow, get stronger and eventually produce a lot of Cell Medals, though then I know which driver is best used for this." She tells me before she brings out what I remember her calling the OOO Driver.

She also gives me three medals to insert, each of different colors.

"Alright, let's do this." I say to myself as I bring the OOO Driver in front of my waist, and much like the drivers I tried before, the belt appears and goes around my waist.

Inserting the three medals, I tilt the driver, take the O Scanner that is on my hip and hold it up so it goes into a standby.

"Hey asshole!" I yell at the Yummy to catch its attention. "Eyes on me."

Sliding the scanner across the three medals, each medal gives off an almost harmonizing chime of them, before the O Scanner initiates the transformation.

"Henshin!"

"TAKA, TORA, BATTA!"

"Ta-To-Ba, Tatoba, Ta-To-Ba!"

"OOO?! Here?!" The Yummy says in anger as it sees that I have transformed into Kamen Rider OOO.

The Yummy runs at me, but I extend the claws of the tiger part of my suit, and slash at it, making it fall onto the ground from the force of my swing.

It soon gets up again and fires projectiles at me, which catches me off guard and makes me fly back and fall on my ass as well.

"Haha, I actually got OOO- EEEEEH!"

I am soon up and running again, sprinting towards the Yummy to do some payback.

"The golden rule of fighting; Don't get too cocky or the whole fight might shift against your favor!"

"As if I will listen to anything OOO has to say!" The Yummy lashes out in anger as it shoots its projectiles again, but this time I am more ready and slash them so they break up and thus doesn't hurt me. "Uugh..!"

"I'm the Wolverine, motherfucker!"

"Take this seriously, OOO!!"

"You are asking the wrong guy to be fully serious of him!"

"Gaaah!"

The Yummy jumps at me, but I once again manage to slash it as it falls onto the ground and starts throwing a temper tantrum.

"Why, why?! OOO is just using the Tatoba combo, why am I the one losing?!"

"Losing focus already, you big baby?"

"NOOOOO!"

The Yummy is really pissed off now as it begins blasting me with its projectiles, now not caring if they hit me or not.

I get caught in the blast and fly back from it, landing very roughly onto the ground again.

"Shit, guess playtime is over..!"

I get up and grab onto the O Scanner again, it goes into standby before I do a second swipe over the medals.

"SCANNING CHARGE!"

The grasshopper part makes my legs shapeshift into legs similar to the aforementioned insect, before I with all my might jump up into the sky as it turns into a Rider Kick, aiming straight for the Yummy.

"SEIYA!!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!"

I hit the Yummy with enough force that it explodes and bursts into a rain of what Lavenza had previously told me are Cell Medals.

After I land from doing the kick, I stand up and tilt back the driver, which reverts my transformation.

"Alright!"

"Just your second battle with a kaijin and you seem to already get the hang of it." Lavenza says as she approaches after watching from the sidelines.

"I channel my will to protect everyone into the strength to defeat these bothersome kaijin, and besides, the powers of Gotchard and OOO has felt really good to use, even if just once for each so far."

"That is great, I'm glad to hear that things are going better than even I expected."

"What, you thought I wouldn't be good?"

"I am just estimating, I can't just say that you are doing perfect, because you are not."

"W-What?!"

"You have been reckless so far, and even if you have immense power as a Kamen Rider, it's still you beneath the armor."

"Oh, well... I can't argue with that." I reply to her as I scratch the back of my head.

She's right, if I one day am too reckless, it will just end badly, and my ass is not planning on dying anytime soon, especially not when I have met very great people so far.

"Besides, there is still the Den-O belt being out of our reach..."

"Why obsess over it, really?"

Lavenza looks at me, a bit unsure how to respond, but she soon has a more stern look as she replies.

"If you don't have it, it will be harder to fight Imagin, if they possibly will invade this timeline due to how things has turned out."

"Well, Momotaros seemed like a pushover-"

"He is one of the Imagins that protects the flow of time, that's the whole thing with the DenLiner and the crew in it."

"So otherwise, Imagin..?"

"Are possibly one of the most dangerous kaijin there is due to their ability to change the flow of time by going into the past."

"Oh shit..."

"That is why if an Imagin comes around, you have to become Den-O-"

"But hold on a minute, if I have to be Den-O, shouldn't I have just gone with them on the DenLiner to hear them out?"

"...Oh dear..."

I facepalm while groaning, because this really meant that I could've easy recieved the Den-O belt if I hadn't seen Momotaros as an adversary..!

"So now I might've accidentally antagonized the DenLiner crew and they might now be out for my ass instead!"

"Well, no, that wouldn't be the case."

"Eh, how so?"

"If they needed you, that means you are a singularity point, you are too important to die."

"...The hell did this come from, another thing you pulled out of your ass??"

"I... I say, could you not be so vulgar?? And no, I didn't come up with it on the spot, that's just how it is."

"I forget that you did say you aren't an expert on all this Kamen Rider stuff... Well, my bad, but still, this feels sudden to be considered important, I definitely do not fit that criteria-"

"Well, to some you might be important, you know..!"

I flinch a bit as I see that Tsukushi had come to us.

"I was getting really worried that you hadn't returned, and here you are talking badly about yourself." She says as she walks up to me.

"If there is something on your mind that troubles you... You can tell me about it."

"Tsukushi..."

Just like with Kurumi, Tsukushi definitely isn't a fan of me badmouthing myself either. Man, maybe I should just stop being so hard on myself...

"Oh, I didn't notice you at first, I'm sorry!" Tsukushi says as she now looks at Lavenza, who has some sweatdrops running down her forehead.

"Y-Yes, hello..!"

Lavenza suddenly grabs my hand, and with her surprising strength, she pulls me aside.

"Stephan, no one is supposed to be able to see me..!"

"Maybe some other rules here, considering how you seem to be able to travel between worlds or something."

"Mmm, maybe-"

"Is everything okay with you two..?"

"Ah, don't worry Tsukushi, my, uh, cousin just wanted to say a few dating advices to me!"

"No I am not-!"

"Work with me here, Lavenza! If you are going to be my side so much, we might as well do something to explain it apart from that you are making sure I go down a 'good' path."

"F-Fine..." She replies as she pouts, before we head back to Tsukushi.

"Dating advices, huh? Hehe, I could need that too, I have never been on dates that isn't necessarily with a friend."

"But aren't we friends?"

"Y-You know what I mean!"

Tsukushi pouts a little, before she laughs and I laugh as well, while Lavenza is just confused over everything happening.

We head back to CiRCLE and sit down in the lounge again, now with Lavenza as well accompanying us, though she is very awkward during the whole time she sits with us.

After it soon becomes darker outside, I decide to keep Tsukushi company to her house, just to make sure she remains safe.

Of course, Lavenza leaves on her own way, just so Tsukushi won't see the door she walks through.

When I arrive at the Futaba residence, Tsukushi thanks me before she walks up to the door and waves goodbye to me.

"Oh, and don't forget Saturday afternoon!"

"I won't, don't worry."

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As Tsukushi sees Stephan soon head on his way home to his apartment, she opens the door and walks inside, now blushing very red in her face.

"He's really such a down to earth person to talk with, I can't stop thinking about him..."

"Tsukushi, you're really red! Are you getting a fever?"

"E-Eh? Oh, mom, no, I don't have a fever, don't worry!"

Tsukushi's mom had come to the hallway to greet her daughter, and seeing her red definitely worried her for a bit, but she soon realized what else it could mean.

"Tsukushi, dear, is there... someone you like, possibly?"

"HUH?! Maybe... I mean, no..!"

"You can't hide things from your mother, you know~"

"Guh..!"

"Mommy, mommy, what are you meaning with that big sis likes someone?!"

Tsukushi's sisters comes to the hallway as well, having overheard the conversation.

"M-Mom, you made them hear..!"

"What, I am just curious?"

Tsukushi just keeps getting more red, until she sighs and twirls with her fingers.

"Okay, yes, I do like someone... He recently moved here as an exchange student in one of the high schools here in Tokyo, and he also works part time at CiRCLE, which is how I first met him..."

"Ooh, a foreigner, eh? They can be a little exotic depending on were they come from~"

"Mom, don't say that about Stephan!"

"Tsukushi, I was just joking..."

"S-Sorry, I just... feel defensive about him..."

"How long has this crush on him gone on for?"

"Maybe a little more than a month at this point, and every time I meet him, I feel so... light..."

Tsukushi covers her face from feeling so embarrassed blushing so red.

"A-aaah, I am in love with him, and it deepens every time..!"

"Does big sis Tsukushi have a boyfriend?!"

"E-eh, how did you come to that conclusion?! And no no no, I-I don't have a boyfriend-"

"Tsukushi has a boyfrieeeend!" The eldest little sister to her yells out as she begins running around repeating the same sentence.

"Hey now, your big sister does not have a boyfriend!"

"It's too late mom, you know how much she believes something the moment she hears about something..."

"Mmm, well, she will get over it by next week-"

"...I invited Stephan over this Saturday..."

"...Ah..! Wait, you should've mentioned that, now we might need to plan with dinner more-"

"I am going to be the one doing the cooking, I... I wanted him to taste the curry you tend to make, and I wanted to make it on my own this time..."

"Oh my, you are going great lengths for him, Tsukushi dear..."

"I-I know, but..."

Tsukushi falls silent before she speaks again.

"I love him very much, and I want to show my love for him in some way."

Mrs Futaba looks at her daughter, soon smiling with how much she reminds of herself when she fell in love with her husband all those years ago.

"Alright, though then I shall learn you everything about my recipe so you can make the most perfect curry for Stephan!"

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After I had arrived at home, I decided I wanted to try out another driver before heading to bed, so I take out what Lavenza had me told is called the Wizardriver, even if it just looks like a normal belt with a hand shape on it.

"I have been able to modify some of the belts and drivers so they can work without needing a very specific source of power to work."

"Doesn't that defeat the purpose of it using the enemy's power and instead I use it for good?"

"True, but some just wouldn't work otherwise, like this here Wizardriver. Otherwise you would need to harbor a so called Phantom in your body that you managed to suppress."

"But with this modification, you will be able to use it without a Phantom, though it will still convert the energy in your body to mana and therefore drain you, so be careful."

Seemed like a lot more than just being able to have cards, locks or just mere medals, but if it makes me being able to use it without having something in my body, then better for me.

I use the ring that has the same identical hand shape as the belt.

"Driver On! Please!"

The Wizardriver appears were the belt is, sitting around my waist like other belts has thus far.

"Don't use that in here, please."

"What the! Lavenza, ever heard about knocking?!"

"I figured you were free though?"

"Nevermind... But what's the matter with using it inside?"

"The Kamen Rider you turn into with this, Wizard, uses the four elements."

"Oh, so in short I could fuck up my whole apartment? Yeah no..."

I pick up one of the other rings I got with the Wizardriver, and try it out.

"Excite! Please!"

Suddenly I get one hell of a buff body thanks to the ring..!

"Whoa, I am like a real life Johnny Bravo!" I say as I flex my muscles, while Lavenza just facepalms.

"You really have a long way to go..."

To Be Continued