“I know the cause of the crisis. It’s that the author, Shotaro Ishimori, was killed in the past. But what exactly is the so-called crisis? Why did you bring me to this world?” Jiang Xia asked after coming back to his senses from Oma Zi-O’s memory.

Oma Zi-O did not answer, but stretched out his finger and drew a line in the air in front of himself.

A light golden ray of light shot out from a distance, reaching far away.
This line also separates Jiang Xia and Oma Zi-O.

“What is this?” Jiang Xia shifted his gaze towards the virtual light in front of him that was emitting warm and bright light. It was like a stream emitting warm yellow light, flowing endlessly forward.

And at this moment, a lot of information emerged from the light, and the information was constructed into pictures that appeared in Jiang Xia’s eyes.

The bloody fight between Kuuga and Daguba on the mountaintop, Agito punching the gods, the knight war of the Dragon Knights, Faiz’s burning life…

Starting from the very beginning, scenes worthy of being recorded in the history of knights appeared one by one in Jiang Xia’s eyes. Most of these were the scenes that people talked about the most. Even if he had seen them countless times, when these scenes appeared again, he would still look at them again seriously and confidently.

Because these images represent Kamen Rider and heroes.

“The orthodox timeline of the Heisei Knights.” Jiang Xia said the name of the extending light.

As for why it is called canon, it is because this timeline only contains TV canon scenes in the ‘real’ world.

All parallel worlds, comic worlds, novels, and secondary creations are not included.

“This is the history of our world before Shotaro Ishimori was killed. It is also the so-called correct history, known as the official history of our knights.” Oma Zi-O said.

“I see. Toei said that some of the theatrical versions are connected to the original timeline, while others are parallel worlds. Because of some setting conflicts or arrangements, they have different endings. It’s easy to understand.” Jiang Xia expressed it in ‘realistic’ terms. “If I were the author, and what I wrote was very profitable, but the original story has already ended, if I want to continue, then a sequel or an if line would be a very good choice.”

“Yes, this is the predetermined ending. It is very difficult to change the Knight’s Official History, it is almost impossible to do so, so the Knight’s Official History is also called the stable timeline.” Oma Zi-O said.

“Don’t tell me that there is a problem with the stable timeline because of the impact of Shotaro Ishimori’s death.”

Jiang Xia guessed it instantly. It was not difficult.

Moreover, the name of the stable timeline tells us that those who claim to be stable will definitely become unstable due to some unexpected events.

It is almost obvious that only those who are unstable will call themselves stable.

“Now if you come closer and look at it, and see how it’s changing, you’ll know the specific reason.” Oma Zi-O gave a light push, and the stable timeline moved directly in front of Jiang Xia’s eyes.

Now Jiang Xia is very close to the stable timeline known as the Knight’s Official History. As he waits, the stable timeline gradually changes.

A hint of red quietly polluted the golden light from the source of the stable timeline. Jiang Xia knew that this was the impact of the death of the author Shotaro Ishimori. The red looked like dripping blood.

And when the red color completely replaced the source of the timeline, the beam of light that was originally flowing forward suddenly twisted, and it formed an arc like a circling dragon.

The next second, countless tiny branches suddenly appeared on the surface of the distorted light beam. These tiny branches were very, very small at first, just like the fine hairs on the skin. If you didn’t look very carefully, you couldn’t notice them at all.

But as time continues to flow forward, these tiny branching timelines begin to grow outward, becoming longer and more dispersed.

When these branch timelines grow to a certain size, they will continue to split like the stable timelines before.

The result is that the originally isolated stable timeline split into almost infinite branch timelines as it flows forward.

The stable timeline is like the main trunk of a big tree, and the branches of the tree extend in all directions from the trunk.

These branches grew rapidly like a waterfall, submerging the original stable timeline in a blink of an eye.

They were entangled with each other, and finally formed a spiral ball of light that swirled together, with the front and rear ends desperately extending to both sides. It was simply an irregular tangle.

The stable timeline changed from emitting a soft and warm light to a tangled mess of timelines after they were superimposed. The light had changed from yellow to the orange-red of the setting sun, as if it was burning.

It was not known whether Jiang Xia was hallucinating or not, but as he looked at the ball of red light, he actually heard a thudding sound, as if someone was hitting a drum with a heavy hammer.

“The history of the Knights lost its creator and began to grow wildly in all directions, which not only caused the official history to become a mess, but also caused the original resources to be almost exhausted due to the rapid splitting of parallel worlds. Finally, due to the plunder of resources, the different Knight Universes launched wars, which led to the collapse of all universes.”

Jiang Xia stroked his chin, looking at the timeline in front of him that was constantly vibrating and had almost become a small sun that was constantly expanding, and said: “In the end, it should cause a big explosion that sweeps across all parallel universes. The power of the explosion should be thousands of times more powerful than the Big Bang of the universe.”

“By then everyone will be dead, Kamen Rider will no longer exist, and we will have to restart the world.”

“No, even restarting the world won’t save it. Everything in time and space will vanish into thin air. It’s complete annihilation.” Jiang Xia sighed, “Am I right? This should be the final outcome of the future of the Kamen Rider universe.”

“That’s right, especially the word ‘future’ is used very accurately.” Oma Zi-O stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly.

The timeline of the expanding sun, which had just been twisted into a distortion, quickly separated as if time was flowing backwards, and retreated back to the shape of a ray.

However, this ray is still curved, and the number of branching timelines split out is not so many, and it remains within a controllable range.

Not to mention causing an explosion, they rarely even come into contact with each other. Although they will split into more over time, it is not now.

The Knight Universe has not yet gone to war over resource issues, and it has been quite a long time since the explosion of the universe.

“Most of what you said is correct, but there is a very small part that is different.” Oma Zi-O said as he twisted the stable timeline to its current correct state.

The appearance just now was just a simulation he made using his own ability to control time. If the time really came and there was only one way left, which was to close his eyes and wait for death, there would be no need to summon Jiang Xia to this world.

“I want to know what you mean by a very small part. My perception tells me that the Knight Universe did collapse and explode because of the war.” Jiang Xia asked after thinking for a few seconds.

“This is the result of the collapse of the universe, not the cause.” Oma Zi-O said, “Kamen Rider will never invade other universes due to resource issues. Even if they know the world is going to be destroyed, they will not do so because it will sacrifice others.” “The knights in the Decade world don’t think so. In the end, they fought each other to death for their own world.” Jiang Xia spread his hands, “In the end, they even attacked Kadoya Kadoya, and they were resurrected because Kadoya Kadoya remembered them.”

“Ahem, you just have to choke me, don’t you?” Oma Zi-O coughed, “In the end, they still chose to help and unite against the outside world. Let’s not talk about this anymore. Let me tell you where you are wrong.”

At this moment he didn’t look like an old man, but more like a child.

“Just kidding, next tell me where I went wrong.” Jiang Xia stopped joking and became serious.

“It was not their intention to make the Kamen Riders fight each other, but because they were manipulated and became weapons of war to plunder resources.” When Oma Zi-O said this again, his tone suddenly became as hard as cast iron.

“Could it be that who controls them?” Jiang Xia narrowed his eyes, and he thought of a scene that was originally written in the knight’s setting.

“You’re right. If we just keep branching different timelines, it will be much easier, because the power of Oma can take away the entire history of the Knights.” Oma Zi-O described the terrifying power of his ability, “In this way, the branched timelines will eventually merge with the stable timeline. As long as they are not separated, these timelines will merge forever.”

“I see. This is just like the situation where Oma Zi-O ruled until 2068. Knight History Collection.” Jiang Xia nodded.

The twenty knights of the Heisei era can all be integrated into one planet, and this is only the most basic attraction ability of the power of Oma for the knight universe.

Even with the power of Oma Zi-O, he can directly release his attraction to the world of knights, and even strengthen it exponentially, making the aggregation between the worlds even stronger. This is the underlying logic of the power of Oma to seize the history of knights.

Even if a hundred different timelines were split, Oma Zi-O would only have a hundred more knight dials. He would just become stronger and stronger, after all, he could automatically obtain the dials just by sitting.

The split timeline may be a very difficult thing for others, but it is an advantage for Oma Zi-O, because he is the Zi-O, the king of time.

But it is obvious that this approach is not feasible.

“I can’t do this now, because the history of these split knights is problematic. This is another very important impact after the death of Ishimori Shotaro.” Oma Zi-O paused for a few seconds before continuing: “We call this impact, alienation.”

“I see.” Jiang Xia said.

“So that’s why you said before that the world I experienced and the world summoned by Swartz have an essential reason. It turns out that it’s not because the Aurora Curtain and the power of the Time Royal Family distorted history and created anomalies, but because of the loss of Ishimori Shotaro, the possibility of the hero defeating the villain disappeared. In other words, Kamen Rider lost the favor of fate.”

Jiang Xia figured it out. The so-called alien world is actually a world where the villains win.

This is a world created by the combination of the power of the Time Royal Family and the Dimension Wall, which controls the important elements that constitute the world, time and space.

But such an alien world is inherently very fragile. Even the time that flows in it is only a few seconds. It repeats itself over and over again, with no future.

The Eternal Memory plus another twenty-five T2 memories can destroy the alien world.

What Oma Zi-O is talking about now, the world becoming alienated, is completely different.

When an author writes a heroic story, most of the protagonists have a very good ending after the battle.

For example: achieve success, get married and have children, travel around, open a restaurant, become a reporter.
The most common thing is to return to one’s own ordinary life and no longer use one’s own power.

There are only a very small number of heroic works in which the protagonist and the villain die together, leaving behind a very peaceful world where everyone lives and works in peace and contentment until the next hero is born.

The story of Kamen Rider has both, with bad endings like mutual destruction and good endings, and most of them are good endings without the sword.

But even the worst ending will never happen. The strongest, fiercest, and most ruthless villain will win, kill the Kamen Rider who fights for justice, and then pin the protagonist’s family and friends to the ground, and finally achieve the goal of ruling the world.

This is the most basic ending for a heroic story, a fixed framework, and the embodiment of the author’s pen.

But now the author is dead and the framework of the story is gone.

There is no such thing as justice always prevailing in this world. On the contrary, the possibility of justice always prevailing is almost zero.

There are some things that you just can’t reach no matter how hard you try, that’s reality.

So this almost zero possibility is embodied in the current stable timeline, which is the only possibility for the knight to win the final victory.

Most of the other almost infinite branching timelines are about the villain winning in the end.

He lost the halo of the protagonist, lost the deus ex machina, abandoned fantasy and returned to reality.

The underlying logic that justice must prevail has been destroyed, leading to the current situation.

Ultimately, it’s not a question of splitting into parallel worlds, but rather the story running wild and out of the author’s control.

Faced with the simultaneous alienation of endless worlds, even Oma Zi-O seems to be helpless.

“That’s right. This is the dilemma we’re in. There’s no way to integrate the power of Oma because after integration it will affect the only ‘Knight’s Official History’. If it’s not integrated, the final result will only be destruction.” Oma Zi-O nodded.

“I think I understand the solution. Just as you said, the worlds will eventually get entangled and explode. So we just need to destroy these branch times. This is the simplest way.” Jiang Xia’s eyes flashed with determination. “Although the knight has lost justice, Tokiwa Sougo, you will be born with the power of the devil. All you need to do is destroy time and space. You are an ability that you already possess.”

“Don’t tell me that as a demon king, you would be soft-hearted about destroying a timeline. In terms of the number of people, a branch timeline only has about 7 billion people. 7 billion is nothing in the universe. But if the villain wins, the population should drop sharply. Let’s assume that there are 3 billion of them. The remaining people will be taken away for transformation, the knights will be brainwashed, and finally invade other worlds. At this time, destroying them is the best option.”

When Jiang Xia was talking about this plan, Oma Zi-O just sighed softly without any objection or interruption.

“You’ve already done it, right? How much did you destroy?” Jiang Xia suddenly asked. (End of this chapter)