He would start work there tomorrow.
It made sense to get familiar with the building layout beforehand.
Apart from certain confidential areas, he could move freely inside the Security Bureau building.
The workplace was like a battlefield.
Louis naturally wanted to build good relationships with his colleagues.
As he walked, he kept a gentle smile on his face.
His 1.8-meter height paired with that bright cheerful smile meant that if he was not generating goodwill, at least no one would want to make things difficult for him.
The image of a likable junior was slowly taking shape.
Louis soon reached the floor where the Criminal Investigation Special Response Team was located.
This would be his future workplace.
It was also where he would fight alongside his seniors.
Through the corridor window, he could see the situation inside the office.
Zhu Yuan was pacing back and forth in front of a blackboard, occasionally saying something while the other team members listened and took notes.
Louis did not go in to disturb them.
After watching for a while, he walked away.
Although he was interested in Zhu Yuan, that was just normal male instinct.
Even if he wanted to pursue someone, he should do it discreetly.
Who would openly go up and harass someone?
Unconsciously, Louis reached the end of the floor.
The restroom was located here, with a ventilation window open beside it.
He walked into the restroom, familiarized himself with the layout inside, and then stood in front of the mirror to tidy up his appearance.
He was wearing a white shirt today, with an ordinary sports jacket over it, and matching athletic pants and sneakers below.
Apart from his slightly messy spiky hair, there was not much to criticize.
Just as Louis used some water to style his hair, a flash of red light passed by the open restroom window.
A metallic rhinoceros beetle flew in from outside.
Its metal wings created strong gusts of wind with every flap.
When it reached Louis’s side, it completely messed up his hair.
“I know you’re eager, but don’t rush yet.
It’s not your time to appear.”
Louis reached out and grabbed the red metallic rhinoceros beetle.
Once caught, it retracted the shell on its back, becoming motionless and docile, with only its lightbulb-like eyes still flickering.
He placed the beetle in his left hand and gently stroked the scar on its shell with his right.
Looking down, he could see a white scratch on the red metallic shell on its back.
Of course, this was not from battle.
It happened when he had dropped it.
It sounded ridiculous.
A weapon created by gathering the most advanced technology from another world actually got a scratch just from being dropped.
How was that even possible?
Stroking the scratch, Louis could not help but recall the events before he came to this world.
He had originally lived on a blue planet as an ordinary office worker.
He had no particular hobbies, did not smoke or drink, and could wear clothes and other items for over ten years as long as they were not torn.
But he absolutely had to buy every new release of the CSM Kamen Rider belts.
After buying them, he would place them in a cabinet, take them out every day to polish them, and grin like an idiot.
That was the self-cultivation of a true toku fan.
In his previous home, an entire wall was covered with Kamen Rider belts.
Waking up every day surrounded by them was a feeling ordinary people could not imagine.
And without enough money, they could not experience it either.
Not just the belts, Louis was also proficient in every Kamen Rider’s transformation poses and catchphrases.
He had rewatched tokusatsu series over and over for more than a decade, always finding something new with each viewing.
Because he frequently handled the belts and transformation devices, accidents were inevitable.
This little guy, the Kabuto Zecter, had suffered one such mishap and gained a scratch on its metallic paint.
That day, Louis was so heartbroken he nearly passed out.
However, he did not choose to repaint it or fix it.
Instead, he told himself that the battle-damaged version actually looked pretty good too.
Not long after that incident, while he was watching another tokusatsu series, a blinding light suddenly filled the entire room.
It swept him and all his possessions away.
When he came to his senses, he was already on Sixth Street in New Eridu.
What kind of crazy world was this?
Louis studied it for a long time but could not figure it out.
Moreover, even though he clearly was not from here, he had a complete identity here.
A top graduate from the police academy.
At the time, Louis was utterly bewildered.
He was usually too scared to kill a chicken, so attending the police academy was a joke.
And after learning about this world, he almost fainted.
“It did not even arrange a truck for me.”
Louis sighed helplessly.
When other people transmigrated, they at least had some stroke of luck.
But his transmigration was rather shabby.
He had arrived in a completely different world from Earth, where disasters called Hollows occurred from time to time.
Simply put, a Hollow was like a circular dome opening up in the real world.
Everything caught inside would be eroded by the power within the Hollow.
Inanimate objects would turn into bizarre items, while living beings would be corrupted and become monsters called Ethereals.
These Ethereals primarily hunted.
Humans who entered a Hollow were in dire straits.
Either they were corrupted into Ethereals or they were killed by Ethereals.
Even if they could defeat Ethereals, facing spatial distortions, inability to find an exit, mutated food, and other problems, they could only wait for death.
There was simply no way out.
In such a perilous world, Louis, an ordinary office worker, had arrived here.
One could say he was prepared to give up and wait for death.
But there was also good news.
Ethereals could not enter the real world.
They could only expand outward through Hollows.
As long as the Hollow did not grow larger, the Ethereals were like fish in an aquarium.
They were something for humans to observe, provided the observer had a strong enough constitution.