Akai looked back to Yui. "Yui, I will trust you to convince Sayuri, we really need as much help as possible."
Yui nodded. They went separate ways to do their jobs to gather the other knights, Yui went on her way to meet Sayuri whom she texted. Yui is waiting in the playground sitting on one of the swings, the rendezvous spot. Sayuri soon arrived, she was still in her uniform, the Emblem can be seen underneath her collar.
Sayuri walked toward Yui. "What is it Yui? It's unusual for you to call me to meet in person."
"Sayuri-Nee... You are Mage, are you not? Akai told me about everything yesterday... The knights and stuffs..." Yui awkwardly said.
"Akai-san...? You mean..."
"Yes, I am also chosen by the emblem... I called you because we need help, Akai is struggling—"
"Yui, I'm sorry but I can't do it...!" Sayuri turned away, she's grasping the strap of her bag. "I don't want to get involve with any of this! I just want to live normally... If I decide to do this... Then I will just get more stressed, having to both work, study, take care of my younger siblings and now... Play a hero? I'm sorry but I just can't."
Sayuri start to walk away, not wanting to hear anymore of this. Yui understands what Sayuri is getting at, after all she's still her friend, she knows all the problem, debt and struggles Sayuri faces. However, she still need to do something.
"Sayuri-Nee..." Yui looked down, hearing woe in Sayuri's voice. "I understand you concern but don't you think Akai is not aware of that? Do you really think Akai wouldn't consider the state of your life?"
Sayuri stopped and looked back to Yui. "Akai-san...?"
"I had been friend with Akai since elementary school, he's not the kind of person that would make decision without considering the possible problems. You should know about that because in all of our friends, he interact with you the most!" Yui said.
"Even so... What can I even do...? I can't even stand to see Spawns... What makes you think I can even go as far as to fight those things?" Sayuri replied, her voice shaking. "I will be no help even if I join..."
Yui looks at Sayuri, she can see her eye are tearing up in fear. "Then... Why do still have the Emblem? Why do you wear it instead of hiding it?"
"That's..."
Yui's tone is getting serious. "Sayuri-Nee... Have more trust in Akai, he will not let anything happen to the people close to him. I know because he always come to help our friends whenever we struggle." Yui looked up in the sky, smiling. "I also refused to join at first... But seeing how even though he hates Twilight, he still came to save him... That I realise that there is nothing I should be afraid of because I know Akai wouldn't put us in danger."
Sayuri looked down, she don't know what to say. She knows what Yui said was correct, Akai had been helping her keep up the other other students of 3-A. No matter how little it is, he will come to help.
"Sayuri-Nee, why don't you talk with Akai about it? I am not forcing you... But tell me once you finally had your decision."
Yui left the playground, Sayuri is left there standing, she's really considering. She is not sure whether to join or not, soon she also left. Yui sent a message to Akai who was still at the Gyoikou residence at the moment.
Yu: [I'm sorry Akai, I tried my best. :'(]
A: [It's alright]
A: [I fully understand why she doesn't want to join.]
Yu: [What are we going to do now?]
A: [As of right now, Haruto is talking to Archer.]
A: [He's bonding with him so I am fully expecting to at least give him more reason to join.]
A: [Although, I might say, I still feel conflicted on letting them join.]
Yu: [You care about them, don't you?]
A: [I do]
A: [I don't want to strip them of their normal life considering how things had been since the appearance of Spawns.]
A: [I'll try talking to Sayuri later, for now just rest.]
Yui shoved her phone back to her pocket and went her way home. Later that night, Ginko is by the bridge, he was looking down at the water of the city's river. His brows are crossed, clearly mad about his recent losses. In his one month of being Silver Twilight he never faced defeat, he's just looking down.
"Damn it!" He kicked the rails of the bridge, it hurt him but he doesn't show it. "S-Shit...!"
He sat down on the ground leaning on the handrails. The water below slightly roars from it hitting the bridge's foundation, the sky remains calm, no clouds to block the moon.
"This is stupid... Am I really weak...? I wasn't able to even beat Kamishiro in a fist fight, Osamu had to save me twice and now... I am just purposefully avoiding both Osamu and Historia..." He intensely scratches his head. "I need to get my shits together! I am Silver Twilight! I will not lose next time!"
Getting his composure back together, he stands up and leave the area. As he walks around he reaches an intersection, from the road came running or rather jumping frog Spawn. This startled Ginko but the monster didn't even bother looking around to attack something. The frog Spawn jumps past him and what came after is a motorcycle engine roaring in the night, it is Historia chasing after the Spawn.
Ginko transformed and decided to sneak up the rooftop to see what is about to happen. Historia caught up with the monster, his motorbike splits in half and becomes two razor blade weapons he used to slice the monster in thin strips. There was nothing left of the monster aside from the mince flesh and blood on the road, Historia's weapons disappeared. His book portal opened up but before he even took a step, Silver Twilight jumps down with his weapon in hand. He lands perfectly, upon seeing this, Historia closed the portal.
"Still alive, huh?" Historia crossed his arm, impressed by Twilight's presence. "I am not gonna lie, I thought you died from our last battle."
"I may have lost, but I will keep coming back until I defeat you!"
Twilight pulls back his Trident charging it with his innate magic, he thrust at Historia in a straight line. His body is engulfed in silver energy. He is past Historia's position thinking that he made impact, this however isn't the case as looking back, Historia already change form to his Healing Scroll form.
*†‡["My life is here to clear this with no continues"]‡†*
"Very aggressive, aren't we?" Historia pulls the card and return back to his base form.
"You are not going to fight?" Twilight keeps his guard up.
Historia scoffs. "Oh, of course I would, but I am not wasting my energy using one of my powerful form considering I now know how weak you are." Historia whips his hand and appears seven cards on it. "Although, I give you a bit of a treat as I am experimenting the extent of my power."
All seven cards floats can scan themselves on the Historia Driver on after the other, he snaps his fingers and various armour appear hovering over his body.
"Henshin." He spread his arm in full regality, looking up at the sky.
The first one to integrate themselves was the Neon green boots with small grasshopper leg on the ankle, followed by the white and orange thigh armour with exhaust pipe as his coat turns ethereal, his arms are donned with pink and blue gauntlets with claws and teeth-like spikes, the right pauldron take the shape of a blue dragon's head, his chest area is a purple, blue and yellow chest piece that is in the shape of muscles and finally, the backside of his armour took the shape of a cowcatcher with four exhausts that blows off steam. His inner suit turns black and with red lines running through his limbs.
*†‡["Jump toward a Dream"]‡†*
*†‡["Xross Dragon Sword, Battou!"]‡†*
*†‡["Ultimate Up! Come on! Let's Go! Rex!"]‡†*
*†‡["Get Ready For: Fox Blaster QB9!"]‡†*
*†‡["Gachanko! Gotcha & Go! Rainbow Liner-1!"]‡†*
*†‡["Master Over Energy!"]‡†*
*†‡["Absolute Rider! ExDreamer!"]‡†*
Historia lowers his head. "Kamen Rider Historia, Reiwa Mode!" All of the colour on his armour desaturates until they become white, black or shades of grey.
"What in the...?"
"Grit your teeth."
Historia disappeared from Twilight's sight leaving white trails, he reappeared in front of Twilight. Twilight raised his Trident to up his guard, Historia does a backflip to kick and breaks through Twilight's defence. He got hit on the chin and was knocked up on the air in which Historia did a spinning heel kick directly to Twilight's temple. He was sent flying to a lamppost which bends it.
"Interesting, this mode is certainly balanced but clunky to lack of a more fancier word." Arrogance can be heard from Historia's voice. "But whatever, I can still feel that individually, they synergizes with certain form."
Twilight stands up using the pole as a support. "You really got the nerve talking to yourself when you are fighting me...!"
A hint of white energy is seeping out of Twilight's body, seeing this, Historia's body language becomes more serious. A visage of a warrior slightly took shape over Twilight, he reaches out for his Trident and it flies toward his hand. Historia summoned his sword and the nine rifles behind him.
"(You can feel it too, don't you?)" Historia grabs the handle of the sword it which it splits into ten swords.
"Twilight's strength is increasing, but only by a bit."
"(That and one other thing.)" He readies his claws. "(I feel a familiar energy... Like it was something I had encountered before...)"
"What do you mean?"
"(Something like I either fought or interact before...)"
Twilight roars and rushes at Historia with white aura covering him, his Trident filled with swirling silver energy he thrust his weapon at him.
"Was it something dangerous?"
Historia watches as Twilight charges at him. "(It could be, however...)"
Historia was able to dodge the attack, the force of Twilight's attack destroys the road up to about 30 meters far. Historia blitz past him and pull then push the grip on his buckle.
†[Hybrid Finish]†
*†‡["Reiwa Generational Ending!"]‡†*
Historia jumps up, the ten swords orbits his right leg with white streaks of line emits from his leg, energy swirls around him as he crashes down at Twilight. The energy regain their colour, green, red, pink, blue, white, orange, teal, purple and orange. The rifles blasted laser in front of him, to hold Twilight in place. Not being able to escape, Twilight took the kick. The sheer energy it emits as Historia crashed down shatters multiple windows and lightbulbs from buildings in a 100 meters radius from the impact, the attack leaved a large crater the made the entire road unusable.
Historia returns to his base form as he used up the cards' energy. He looked back to see the result of his attack, Twilight is no longer around, all that's left is his helmet. Historia looks inside it to see nothing, there is blood on the ground so the attack certainly attacked. The helmet turns into dust.
"Did that kill him?"
"I doubt that, I felt something blocked by attack. Although, I still break through it." Historia looks around, nothing. "There is a chance that he is still alive, but right now, we are considering that he is dead."
"By the way... You didn't finish you are saying earlier."
"That? It's just that his energy is somewhat familiar, like I felt it before ." Historia conjured his portal once again. "It could just be a guess but he could possibly someone I know in my past lives."
"Is that a good thing?"
"Who knows? But since he is not that much of a problem, possibly." He entered the portal back to his room.
Meanwhile, Ginko is currently walking in the alley of the city. He is severely injured, parts of his clothes his torn, blood is dripping from his forehead and arm, and he's using the wall as support. He is coughing blood and his vision is blurring, he is looking at the distance before he collapses. Footsteps echoed through the alley, Ginko lay on his back to get a better view on who's coming. It was Akai together with Haruto.
Akai looked down at the injured Ginko. "How pitiful, do you know see what cockiness gets you?"
Ginko tries to stand up using the dumpster as support. "Shut up...!" He coughs even more blood.
"If I didn't use my magic to weaken the attack, you would be dead." Akai turns his back at him.
"Are we not gonna help him?" Haruto asked.
"Why would I use my precious magic to help him?" He looked over his shoulder back at Ginko. "He seems to not need our help considering how much how uncooperative he had been." Akai starts to walk away.
Haruto just looked back at Ginko before following Akai. Ginko grinds his teeth before calling out.
"W-Wait...!" He coughs. "I..." Exhausted and injured, Ginko passed out.
"Carry him to the car." Akai keeps walking.
Haruto lifted the unconscious Ginko over his shoulder and left with Akai. The night gets deeper as the sound of a car drives off.
<=/|‡Episode Eight, End‡|\=>