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[rideseveryone]

*In some strange tokuborg-accessible location if only because no one would really care, there is a ten-foot-tall statue.

Overhead is a banner reading "39 YEARS OF JUSTICE".

Tsukasa is standing at the statue, taking pictures of it, looking quite reverent.*

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[autovajin]

. . . what the hell.

[rideseveryone]

Takumi. Do you have your belt?

[autovajin]

Yeah.

[rideseveryone]

Kamen Rider Faiz... It's a pretty interesting work.

[autovajin]

What about it?

[rideseveryone]

Do you know where the name came from? For those who are dubbed "Kamen Riders".

[autovajin]

I got the belt shoved onto me and forced to transform. The most I know about anything is that Mari's dad had something to do with making them.

[rideseveryone]

... Perhaps, for your world's Riders. But your world only found Kamen Riders much later. After the first era.

[autovajin]

First era?

[rideseveryone]

Kamen Rider Faiz, or Kamen Rider Decade... We come from different worlds, with different stories. But in the first era, all of these Riders were from the same world.

But this man, and his partner... They are the only ones who are worthy to be called simply 'Kamen Rider'.

[autovajin]

Oh.

[rideseveryone]

He's Takeshi Hongo. The very first Kamen Rider.

[autovajin]

The first, huh?

[rideseveryone]

Aa. A cyborg created by Shocker.

[autovajin]

Shocker?

[rideseveryone]

An organization devoted to taking over the world. They created cyborg kaijin, brainwashing them into slaves. They did the same to him, but he escaped before he could be brainwashed, and used the power they gave him to fight.