A spider-mutant, priest-class, its abdomen a pulsing sac of human skulls. It hisses, “The traitor returns to the web.”
Kohtaro Minami, 19 years old, stands on a cliff overlooking a sea of black stone pillars. Beside him, his childhood friend—his brother by bond, not blood—Nobuhiko Akizuki, cracks a nervous smile.
He reaches the Akizuki house at noon.
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He leaps—forty feet straight up, through a stone ceiling—and lands behind the creature. One punch caves in its carapace. The spider screams in three voices.
Kohtaro’s first act as a Rider is not a heroic kick.
Under the skin, faint black lines pulse—like circuitry, like veins, like a countdown. A spider-mutant, priest-class, its abdomen a pulsing sac
The priests arrive in crow-masks. They chant in a language older than human screams.
Kohtaro feels it first—a needle of ice behind his navel. Then fire. His bones unknit and re-knit themselves. A black exoskeleton erupts from his pores, sealing his face behind a chitinous mask shaped like a locust’s skull. Two crimson eyes ignite in the dark.
The metamorphosis is complete.
Kohtaro walks, his transformation faded, wearing torn jeans and a bloody T-shirt. He looks human. He feels like a bomb.
He hears Nobuhiko scream beside him—not in pain, but in loss .
Kohtaro straightens up. He takes the bicycle chain and wraps it around his fist like a knuckle-duster. He reaches the Akizuki house at noon