Clock Out, Then Transform into Kamen Rider

[Original] Also known as: “Can a Middle-Aged Slacker Who's Lost His Dreams Still Have a Day When He Transforms into a Kamen Rider?”

Jiang Chenglu is a thirty-six-year-old divorced man. After failing in both marriage and career, he decides to end his life. As he sorts through his belongings, he finds a plastic toy he bought in middle school, a Kamen Rider transformation belt, in a dusty cardboard box.

Memories of childhood heal the disillusioned middle-aged man, and Jiang Chenglu decides to face life bravely. But on his way to work, a sudden disaster shatters his ordinary life. A demon army pours out of a hellish subspace, mercilessly slaughtering the people of the city.

Jiang Chenglu has been a coward all his life. At the final moment, he decides to be a hero for just one second. He steps forward, only to fall beneath a demon's blade, just as expected.

As he teeters on the brink of death, a boomerang he threw as a child strikes him right between the eyes. The plastic Kamen Rider transformation belt shines with a miraculous light.

“Are you ready?” “Henshin!”

When the middle-aged man rises again, his wrinkled work clothes have become a pitch-black suit of armor: Kamen Rider Kenko, here!

But those who gaze into the abyss will eventually be assimilated by it. When Jiang Chenglu comes to, his fists are already drenched in demon blood. The thrill of battle, his blood boiling, gradually sends him spiraling into a vortex of slaughter. Just as he is about to become a demon, he hears a child's voice:

“Hey, Kamen Rider, do you believe in the light?”