[Battlizer]

Ryuki 10

I'll never stop thinking that Nasty Vent is a really stupid name for an attack that should've been called Noisy Vent. So time ran out for Ron and Kitaoka's fight. It's weird how when they run out of time for their fight to the death, they can just sit back and converse.

Ron finds out that Kitaoka's only reason for becoming a Rider is to win eternal life. I guess...winning a Rider battle grants that. I dunno. Kitaoka's mocking Ron's reasons for being a rider.R on retuning home all bruised and speak to Yui of how Kitaoka can't be trusted with Shinji's case since he's a Rider.

Ron also reminds me that if Shinji doesn't fight, that fucking dragon will eat him. I don't know why, but it's easy for me to forget that the monsters they get they're powers from aren't friendly at all, even the main Rider's. That's...kind of creepy in a way.

Meanwhile, Kitaoka's still acting as Shinji's lawyer, clearly trying to bait him into saying something guilty. Holy shit, Shinji's dumb. Meanwhile Kitaoka's, marginally kinder butler is given gratitude by the kid he gave food too earlier, who pays him back with origami. Ron and Yui inform Shinji that Kitaoka can't be trusted. I still dunno if they told him he was also a Rider or not.

Oh boy, Shinji's boss and the reporter chick hear of Ron and Yui wanting to fire Kitaoka and reporter chick goes to investigate! It seems Shimada is out of the hospital. acting as weird as ever...when she bumps into Kitaoka, who's apparently dying from an incurable disease. Alright, that puts things in to a lot of perspective. He seems a bit less of a piece of shit now.

Or maybe not, he refused to take the case of the little girl's father from earlier. And...wow this all tied in a lot. The girl's father was the kidnapper...all because of that article from Shinji's newspaper place that got him fired from his factory job. And he needed that ransom money to pay for his wife's surgery. What a circle of tragedy.

Shimada and Shinji's boss act like morons for a bit, but Shimada's testimony along with the real culprits daughter's testimony set Shinji free. Kitaoka's pissed, since this is less convenient for him. And since his butler, Gorou, was the one who helped the kid in the first place, he's pissed at him as well.

Ah...it turns out the kid is making one thousand cranes for her mother in the hopes that she would get better. I remember reading a book as a kid about this in school. At any rate, her doing this to help her sick mother seems to strike a chord in Kitaoka and he pays for her mother's operation. Ron immediately thinks he's trying to harm the kid, but it's understandable this time.

So the monster arrives to attack the girl but Ren (I'm getting sick of the Ron joke for now) and Shinji save her. And then Kitaoka arrives and summons his beast, which is like a robo-minotaur weapons platform, and fires a shitload of missiles to finish them all off.


Ryuki 11

Ren and Shinji just get the shit kicked out of them by Kitaoka. Ren suffers a bad head wound that gives him some memory problems. Oh boy. Luckily, it was only the shock of the hit that concussed him into the temporary memory loss. Yui's mom still thinks little of him, lol.

Yui wants to stop the Rider battles because she knows Shinji and Ren would have to face each other some time. She heads out to find out more about her brother and Shinji heads out to find out where Ren is headed. This leaves poor Yui's mom all alone during an influx of customers.

Reporter chick is psychotically plotting against Kitaoka for trying to frame Shinji...And a new mirror monster just cleared out a whole train of people. Guess no rider was near enough to sense it. Shinji follows Ren to a bar, where he seems to be remembering slightly. Several pool players want to challenge Ren to a pool game as some sort of revenge for something or other. And now more people are chasing him down, wanting payback.

Is this a day in the life of Ren? does he just go around being enemies with random people.

Yui's brother is even more of a mystery it seems. His university professor seemed to fearfully refuse to give her any information regarding him. I wonder why Yui wanted to find out what his last University project was. Unless his major was Theory of Extradimensional Mirror Monsters.

Reporter chick went to investigate the ,missing people on the train. Her only evidence is some rambling old man. Then she seems to have just missed getting killed by a monster when a group of people sitting right next to her disappear on the train.

Shinji and Ren are able to book it from some thug who wants to punch Ren's face in. Seeing Shinji henshin is enough to spark a memory in Ren. Apparently Yui's brother directly gave him his rider card. And speaking of Yui and her brother....she finally found evidence of him at the university.

Oh! I knew the old man tied into it! He was in the yearbook picture next to Yui's brother! And now Shinji's defeated the monster. Ren's remembering a bit more...about someone called Eri....who was also in the college pic. Man, this show like's to tie in things, doesn't it?