Then he finds the first monster.
Kohtaro looks at his black gauntlet, dripping ichor.
He remembers the priest’s final words before he escaped: “Your brother chose power. You chose love. Both will betray you.”
Behind him, a shadow stretches—not his own. It has horns. It has red eyes. kamen rider black ep 1
He hears Nobuhiko scream beside him—not in pain, but in loss .
First credit: “Kohtaro Minami… is no longer human.”
A truck nearly hits him. The driver leans out: “Watch it, kid!” Then he finds the first monster
They have been told this is a “graduation.” A gift from the secret cult that raised them in disguise—the Gorgom. Their reward for 19 years of loyalty: a transformation into the next generation of leaders. A new creation.
The priests arrive in crow-masks. They chant in a language older than human screams.
Kohtaro straightens up. He takes the bicycle chain and wraps it around his fist like a knuckle-duster. You chose love
The gate is chained. A for sale sign rusts in the yard.
He looks at the rising sun.
A spider-mutant, priest-class, its abdomen a pulsing sac of human skulls. It hisses, “The traitor returns to the web.”
He finds the room where they kept the other “candidates.” Empty cages. Blood-smeared altars.