Kamen Rider Denrai: Transformation Lessons
仮面ライダー伝来： 変身章
Kamen Raidā Denrai: Henshin-shō
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“Easy Breezy”
Artist: chelmico
Album: Easy Breezy
Easy Breezy~ Easy Breezy~
Easy Breezy~ Easy Breezy~
Yes, it started, it tangled
はい始まった絡まった
Hai hajimatta karamatta
People who made fun of me went away somewhere
からかったやつらはどっかにいっちゃった
Karakatta yatsu-ra wa dokka ni itchatta
It’s not like somebody asked me
誰に頼まれたわけでもないのに
Dare ni tanoma reta wake de mo nai no ni
But I can’t stop writing
止まれねー筆
Tomare nei fude
Everyone is king here
ここでは誰もが王様なのね
Koko de wa dare mo ga ō-sama na no ne
It doesn’t feel like it’s gonna last long
てか長続きする気がしない
Te ka nagatsudzuki suru ki ga shinai
Who cares if I am bad thinking that way
とかそんな性格でなにが悪い
To ka son’na seikaku de nani ga warui
I like what I like
ただ好きなもんは好き
Tada suki na mon wa suki
Stop it, bystanders, you’re being irresponsible
外野はお黙り君無責任
Gaiya wa o danmari kimi mu sekinin
This is earth, zero gravity
ここ地球、ゼログラビティ
Koko chikyū, zero gurabiti
Shut up, don’t bother me
うっさいなぁ邪魔しないでね
Ussa i nā jama shinaide ne
Let’s make a scene
いっぱつ派手にやってみようや
Ippatsu hade ni yatte miyou ya
Brain, imagination
脳味噌イマジネーション
Nō miso imajinēshon
Everything you hear and see
見たもん聞いたもん
Mita mon kiita mon
All become blood
それ全部血になる
Sore zenbu chi ni naru
You can fly, fly! Let them talk
飛べる飛べ！なめさせとけ
Toberu tobe! Namesa se toke
In my head, I see how it’s supposed to be in the end
頭ん中もう完成形見えた
Atama n-naka mō kansei kei mieta
In my head, I am free to do whatever
頭ん中もう自由自在
Atama n-naka mō jiyū jizai
Make your filter of the heart finer
心の網目細かくして
Kokoro no amime komakaku shite
It’s going to be the ultimate world!
最強の世界できちゃってるわなー！
Saikyō no sekai deki chatteru wa na!
Easy Breezy~ Easy Breezy~
Easy Breezy~ Easy Breezy~
Put on your best clothes
一張羅パリッと着込んで
Itchōra paritto kikonde
Get ready to fight, what’s going on?
戦闘モードなんだこりゃ？
Sentō mōdo na n da korya
If you are gonna do it, make yourself difficult to others
どうせやるならめんどくさくなろうぜ
Dōse yarunara mendo kusaku narou ze
Let it happen, Easy Breezy
なるようにするのさ Easy Breezy
Naru yō ni suru no sa Easy Breezy
It’s a good feeling to make a commitment
いいもんさ覚悟決めたなら
Ī mon sa kakugo kimetanara
Go ahead and do it, see what I can do!
やったりゃいいじゃんどんなもんだ！
Yattari ya iijan don'na mon da!
Even if you struggle, make it work somehow
やぶれかぶれでも どーにかこーにかしようぜ
Yabure kabure demo do ni ka ko ni ka shiyou ze
Let it happen, Easy Breezy
なるようにするのさ Easy Breezy
Naru yō ni suru no sa Easy Breezy
Episode Two: Revolve Chapter
第二挿話：回転章
Dai Nisōwa: Kaiten-shō
“Hello and welcome back to what I assume is going to be the weekly edition of Transformation Lesson!” Raiden spoke, stepping into the usual empty classroom as the lights turned on magically, almost like someone mysterious had pressed the switch and clearly not a phantom apparition summoned by the author (also known as me) to make the life easier for the main character. “And— holy crap, this place looks like a mess.”
Everything was strewn around like a mess, exactly how Raiden had described it. It was very clearly a mess. And it was big. And it was a big mess too. Maybe death? Maybe a mess of death? Okay, probably not that. Maybe a big mess of death is a good way to accentuate how messy it was while also elongating how many words I get to use to describe the condition of the room without individually going into each part of the classroom, because that would probably take too many words—
“Okay, anyways.” Raiden snapped his fingers, the mess suddenly disappearing, and the rest of the strewn-around stuff in the classroom going back to their normal positions. “Like I was saying— did you know that I actually remembered that this chapter was supposed to be a Legend Rider transformation with a trinket thing that I thought shouldn’t have existed? Turns out, in the next chapter there’s—”
Spoilers. You have now been silenced for what I assume is twenty million pico-seconds. Which, according to my made up units calculator that I clearly didn’t make just for a single joke, should be around two seconds. Enough to read this sentence and break free of the binding spell—
“There we go. Anyways, ONCE AGAIN, as I was saying—”
“HEY THERE!” Aiko uncharacteristically shouted, kicking the door to the classroom open as she waltzed into the room, snapping her fingers in the process. It’d almost felt like a scene straight out an old musical, back when all people could see was black and white and the only thing rampant in the Americas besides death was raci—
“NOT THE TIME FOR THAT.” Raiden vented his frustrations at the author, clearly being a butthurt little baby for his train of thought disrupted at least but not limited to three times or so. “TRANSFORMATION TIME, NO INTERRUPTIONS—”
Conveniently, other people happened to enter the room. Particularly Rairi, Chloe, Kanon and Mei. So… practically everyone who saw Raiden transform up to this point but not including Ryotaro and Shun because they were clearly doing other things like probably being weird except they aren’t because they’re actually scribbling down notes in their notebooks in their rooms because the teacher suddenly decided to give more homework because she could.
“Anyhow… let’s get into the more important stuff, as in we’re actually going to transform!” Raiden got down to business, the new entries into the room taking seats in what were probably chairs in the corner of the room (which were probably more like eldritch abominations that happened to take the form of chairs rather than anything mundane, because eldritch horror is funny).
Pulling out what appeared to be the Revice Driver— “Oh, COME ON, this isn’t the correct Driver, why is my totally mysterious HAMMERspace pocket which supposedly should normally have my Driver now suddenly has other Drivers in it, unless it’s possibly the running gag of the special and if so I HATE IT—”
Tossing the Revice Driver to the side, it landed in the ‘Wrong Drivers I did for a gag lmao’ pile, landing on the Libera Driver with a very loud clunk and a ka-thunk. Eventually, he rummaged around in the opening to his hammerspace, eventually pulling out the Genkai Driver and holding it in his right hand. “Now! Let’s get down to business.”
“First things first! Equip the Driver by putting the Driver on your waist! That’s a given. Unless you’ve managed to make your own Driver out of Lego like some people have managed to do in the past, like seriously how do you make a Lego Driver that’s somehow functional? Well, not in the functional sense but you get what I mean— sorry, off track, you might have to equip the clunky belt straps yourself in that case.”
Looking at his waist, he closed his eyes, taking a deep breath as he held the Driver to his waist. Recalling the Heika Monstrum incident, the memories flashed in front of him, as a navy blue belt strap began to emerge from the sides of the Driver, wrapping around his waist and tightening just enough.
Genkai Driver!
限界ドライバー！
Genkai Doraibā!
The Driver whirring to life, its waves of sound pierced through the veil, forming cracks in the parts of the veil unreachable to Raiden. He maintained his posture, as he pulled out the two transformation trinkets, preparing to transform. The Monstrum got up, no longer dazed, as it roared in anger, charging in the direction of Raiden. However, a barrier of lightning and stars materialised, crackling in anger and attacking the Monstrum, sending it reeling and onto the ground, paralysing it again.
“Hello! It’s me! I’m back again! Ms. Aiko Fujiwara is commentating over the hero man transforming because he’s too in the zone or whatever the cool kids call it nowadays.” Aiko’s voice, now holographic in nature, began to speak. “ Insert the trinkets in the Driver, because, ya know?”
As Raiden inserted the two transformation trinkets into the slots on the Driver; inserting the yellow lightning-themed transformation trinket into the right side of the Driver, and the black terracotta-themed transformation trinket into the left side of the Driver, the barrier began to crackle even more, as sparks began to angrily attack the Monstrum that had dared to attack Raiden moments earlier.
Folklore of the ancients! Storm of the Thunder Beast!
古代人の伝承民間！雷獣の嵐！
Kodaibito no denshō minkan! Raijū no arashi!
The Driver continued to whir, a standby tune beginning to play and the gears within the transformation device clicking and rotating, as Raiden prepared to transform. Rairi could only react in a mixture of shock, the realisation beginning to set in as the pieces began to fall together, the Rider’s younger sister finally connecting the dots as to why Raiden had been injured from the day before.
“And. The usual.”
“Henshin!”
Activating the two devices, he slammed his left hand into the yellow lightning-themed transformation trinket, activating the copper-coloured lightning rod as a few sparks were released, while he pulled the spear-like object on the black terracotta-themed transformation trinket with his right hand, letting it slam into the side closest to the Driver with a powerful and loud thud. With the activation of both transformation trinkets, the gears in the Driver continued to whir, potentially whirring even more than before.
The barrier around him began to change colour, as the stars and lightning began to change from white and yellow to jet black and neon blue respectively. And from the barrier around Raiden, it produced a stream of stars that began to turn into pieces of armour.
Hero of once upon a time! Warrior of the future line! Kamen Rider~ Denrai!
昔の傑士！将来系の戦士！仮面ライダーデンライ！
Mukashi no kesshi! Shōrai-kei no senshi! Kamen Raidā~ Denrai!
Raiden stared down the Monstrum that roared angrily at him, now equipped with the under-suit that covered his entire outfit, before the barrier produced a stream of sparks that began to change shape, forming into more pieces of armour that locked onto the bottom half of the under-suit. Immediately afterwards, the pieces of armour that formed from the stream of stars began to attach onto the top half of the under-suit before locking on.
The armour pieces that served as his helmet began to lock around his head, as the HUD formed beneath the visor. Preparing to fight, he loosened his joints ever-so-slightly, as the suit pumped him up with a jolt of well-needed adrenaline, giving him the energy needed to fight the monster.
“Kamen Rider Denrai… AncientStorm Form!” Raiden screamed, his voice modulator activating and decreasing the pitch of his tone. “I will be the one who decides the legacy and the prophecy of the Kamen Riders!”
“Anyways! Skipping forwards to our new function! Revolve! That’s what the Desire Driver calls it anyways, we really need to make up good names for the functions of this thing eventually—”
Raiden pressed the button on the top of the Driver, causing it to loosen, rotating slightly counter-clockwise. Gripping both sides of the Driver, he rotated the Driver a hundred-eighty degrees, the Driver locking as the two transformation trinkets now landed on opposite sides of where they once were. The Driver whirred to life once again, the same familiar standby tune beginning to play as the gears within the Genkai Driver clicked and rotated.
Storm of the Thunder Beast! Folklore of the ancients!
雷獣の嵐！古代人の伝承民間！
Raijū no arashi! Kodaibito no denshō minkan!
“Dai… henshin!”
Activating the two devices, he pulled the spear-like object on the black terracotta-themed transformation trinket with his left hand, letting it slam into the side closest to the Driver with a powerful and loud thud, while he slammed his right hand into the yellow lightning-themed transformation trinket, activating the copper-coloured lightning rod as a few sparks were released.
The barrier that usually protected his transformation — of lightning and stars — returned once again, crackling to life. The armour pieces that had previously formed AncientStorm Form detached from Denrai’s undersuit, the two halves swapping places and hovering over the direct opposites of where they once were.
Warrior of the future line! Hero of once upon a time! Kamen Rider~ Denrai!
将来系の戦士！昔の傑士！仮面ライダーデンライ！
Shōrai-kei no senshi! Mukashi no kesshi! Kamen Raidā~ Denrai!
The pieces of armour began to lock on, the two halves attaching onto their respective halves of the under-suit. The armour pieces that served as his helmet began to lock around his head, as the HUD formed beneath the visor. Raiden took a deep breath as the HUD appeared, before letting out a loud kiai, allowing the barrier of sparks and stars to die down and paralyse the Monstrum in the process.
“Kamen Rider Denrai…” Raiden spent a moment thinking of a name to christen the form with, eventually settling for something rather familiar. “StormingAncient Form! I will be the one who decides the legacy and the prophecy of the Kamen Riders!”
Kamen Rider Denrai, StormingAncient Form (ストーミングエンシェントフォーム, SutōminguEnshento Fōmu).
And conveniently (also, unsurprisingly), he de-transformed in the process, once again returning to the classroom.
“Right, transformation cancelled, which means that it’s probably time for the chapter to end!” Raiden sighed. “Tune in to the next time our blessed, oh so unholy — what the frick is wrong with this narcissistic dude — author decides to post this chapter when his brain is having a bruh moment, where I finally get to use a Legend Rider transformation trinket thing that now exists! Even though I don’t know about it—”
And the lights to the classroom almost magically turned off, as if caused by an outsider. Probably a very unhappy author, who is actually me, why I am I even referring to myself with the third person point of view anyways, and why am I reusing this specific line even though I have very different feelings (read: not really) than I had last chapter—
Episode Three: Jeanne Chapter
第三挿話：ジャンヌ章
Dai Sansōwa: Jannu-shō
