Reiyouki Sentai Seitenger

4.4 Rival's Taunting

At the famous racing stadium in town, the motorcycle-based Triske Monster had already created a transparent dome around the stadium, trapping civilians inside in the process. Some managed to escape, thankfully. But there are more civilians trapped inside the dome, particularly racers preparing for a big race in the coming week.

The monster was challenging racers in the area in a death race.

"You've got to be kidding me... We would race with that heck of a creature who doesn't even know the rules," one racer commented.

But before the others could agree to that or even retaliate, the trapped individuals saw that the dome released a surge of electricity coming from both the top of the dome and from the ground, as well. In the process, the victim's energy would be drained from them.

"So... no one would race against me, then? Either way, you won't win against me. I'm the fastest racer ever and none of you would be able to beat me to it," the monster gloated before cackling loudly.

"Just because you're a monster doesn't mean you're already the best there is."

The monster stopped cackling almost immediately and turned around to look for the source of those words. When he already found the person who turned out to be a racer who was still wearing his helmet - covering his face from the others, the monster approached the person and stopped just a few feet in front of him.

"Who do you think you are to say that to me, puny human?"

The masked racer could be heard scoffing. "Why? You can't accept that there's someone who's still better than you? I doubt you could beat that person at all. He wasn't called the racing world's Fire of the Fang just for the heck of it."

"Fire of the Fang?"

"He's not talking about...?"

But the monster just laughed sarcastically and faced the masked racer once more. "Fire of the Fang, huh? The nickname isn't even that scary to hear. So where's this Fire of the Fang that you're talking about? Let me race with him and I'll prove it to you puny humans that no one can beat me to it."

"Do you think he would waste his time racing with the likes of you?" the masked racer taunted once more.

"Hey, Raisaki! What do you think you're doing?"

"Do you want to get electrocuted?"

"You're putting Hiwara in danger with what you're doing!"

"Then let this monster do it!" The masked racer who soon revealed himself as Raisaki Amuro upon removing the helmet dared with conviction. "That's the only thing it was good at, anyway. If it can't accept the truth that there's always someone better than this monster, it would electrocute anyone who it thinks would get in its way."

"You little - !" Before the monster could even stop itself, it ordered the dome to release surges of electricity to Amuro and several other racers inside.

None of the victims were able to avoid it, therefore electrocuting them and draining their energies. One by one, the affected humans collapsed to the ground. The remaining civilians trapped inside the dome only backed off and cowered in fear before running away from there, even if it was just to hide from that monster.

"Stop right there, Tarean!"

All of those who heard that, including the Triske Monster, turned to the source of it. But they didn't see anyone from that direction and the monster even had to look around wildly just to see the source of that voice. Soon after, the dome slowly showed signs of cracking before fully being destroyed, causing an explosion above the stadium. When the rage of the explosion dissipated, the monster saw five figures holding weapons.

"Ah. So the Seitengers have finally appeared."

As it turned out, it was indeed the Seitengers holding their weapons who appeared before the Triske Monster and the ones who destroyed the dome. But the warriors were surprised to see other people already unconscious and had collapsed to the ground. SeitenWater and SeitenEarth looked around and both of them were able to see a few more people hiding from the monster in some areas of the stadium.

SeitenWind and SeitenLight did what was necessary and approached the still conscious civilians to help them escape together with the affected humans that the Triske Monster attacked.

"Everyone! Run to the exit, okay? You're free now," SeitenLight said to the others.

"If you can, will you help us carry the other people that the monster had hurt earlier?" SeitenWind inquired as politely as she could.

Thankfully, some didn't hesitate to help as most of the attacked humans were their fellow racers who didn't want to deal with the Triske Monster. As for the other three Seitengers, they were the ones who dealt with the summoned Gargonema and the creature who soon introduced itself as the Triske Monster Motross.

"Motross? Somehow, I can feel that his name does fit him," SeitenWater couldn't help commenting as he dealt with the Gargonema surrounding him using the Shark Water Spear. Soon after, he began casting his attack as he spun the weapon. "Sacred Water Whirl!"

The spear was surrounded by a blue glow together with a water-like silhouette circling the blade. The spinning of the weapon allowed SeitenWater to cast it towards the Gargonema, destroying them all in that one attack.

"I guess Shuichi-san has to deal with a Triske Monster who does the same thing as he could," SeitenEarth said as he eyed the said red warrior who only replied with a shrug before fending off the Gargonema on his side. He soon charged his Tiger Earth Slasher with Hasureiki and cast his attack using it. "Sacred Earth Crash!"

Soon after, he stabbed his weapon hard at the group of Gargonema on his end and none of the enemies were able to avoid that. SeitenEarth made sure that no Gargonema would survive when he did that.

As for SeitenFire, he cast a fire spell towards the group of Gargonema that he was dealing with as soon as he split his Lion Fire Blade in two, thus forming twin swords. "Sacred Fire Helix!"

The spell was thrown towards the enemy and had even affected Motross when he leaped and spun around for the spell to cover more ground, to make sure that every enemy was dealt with. When SeitenFire landed on the ground, he looked around to check if there were any more civilians in the area. His sight soon landed on one area where he saw something that stiffened him because of shock.

"Amuro?"

When the other two Seitengers heard that, they followed the direction that SeitenFire was looking in and soon approached to confirm his suspicion. To their surprise, it was indeed Amuro who was among the unconscious racers in the area. The said racer's uncle Matsumoto Yushiro was the one helping SeitenWind and SeitenLight in evacuating the other civilians as the man carried Amuro just right after SeitenFire approached the other racer.

"You're kidding, right? Even Amuro got hurt," SeitenWater said as he approached the red warrior.

But that alone was enough for the blue warrior to sense something dangerous towards SeitenFire.

"This isn't good..." SeitenWater muttered as he faced SeitenEarth who just shrugged as if saying that it was something to be expected.