[Battlizer]

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Imperer just continued to try and get one for the other Riders to hire him. His only goal seems to be money. Though apparently he was desperate enough to draw Kanzaki to give him a deck. Still he seems like he got in over his head. Shinji's a bit too quick to trust him though...but then again, he's Shinji so.

Kitaoka keeps attempting to steer Reiko away from discovering too much about the Rider War, while Asakura is sent by Kanzaki to kill Kagawa and Toujou...but misses them as they'd moved locations. Also we finally find out how he survives out in the wilderness. On lizards, apparently. Kitaoka finds him and confronts him...ad so do Ren and Shinji eventually.

Kagawa eats dinner with his family and invites Toujou, who continues to make very scene he appears in as uncomfortable as possible. Kagawa must be too focused on his goals to see what a nutcase his pupil is.

But then there's this bizarre comedy bit...that just has Shinji, Ren, Kitaoka, and Asakura pretty much just chilling for a bit with the latter three insulting Shinji. That was weird as hell! I thought it was kind of cool though that they just sort of all hung out for a bit, even Asakura. Ironically, though they all just made fun f Shinji while they were there, I still feel like they wouldn't even all be this friendly if it wasn't for his influence.

Imperer reveals his true colors when he attacks Yui under the payroll of Kagawa. Then Kagawa and Toujou join in to join in beating Shinji to a pulp...but then Yui reveals she can also control the mirror monsters! Though I have no idea what's up with the freaky effects around her now.

.....Ugh fuck you, Tiger. Seriously?! So he gave p the idea of sealing the mirror world to fight in the Rider War and win it to be a hero. What a lunatic. But uh..what he hell's up with Yui?!

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More weirdness as Yui goes missing and Ren and Shinji go to search for her in the mirror world. Imperer is still running around, making contracts and haha holy shit, Shinji just kicked his ass in a normal fight. Well 'fight', Shinji mostly just went and beat the shit out of him. If a dude who is super idealistic and is able to have jokey comedy moments with people who tried to kill him, including a sociopathic criminal, and you're the one he beats up, you know you've fucked up, Imperer.

Imperer doesn't give p though, as he's trying to ally with Kitaoka now...and later goes on to see Asakura kick tiger's ass. Aha, kinda a dick move Kitaoka to send Imperer to Asakura of all people, but really you'd think Imperer would bother to read the "letter of recognition" first.

Tiger sure likes to beg for his life when he's about to die, ironically enough. Kitaoka finally gets to use his finisher again on both psycopaths and both get hurt pretty bad. And Imperer saves Tiger, because he's not a good judge of character at all.

And Shinji finally tracks down Yui, but she's not alone so far...of course she'd eventually run into Kanzaki.