Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

It hurts so much... It hurts so much... How am I going to go home and tell Sister Tao and my parents about this?

"What a deep-rooted resentment." Ash echoed with a normal expression, as if he was listening to something that had nothing to do with him.

"So, we lost again?" Ash's words made the girl freeze. "Is this what the enemy did? Hey...it looks really painful."

Ash took the stool and laid his upper body on it, staring at Erika, who was crying and looking at him, until she turned her head away with a snort of anger.

"If you want to laugh, just laugh..."

"Puff--" Seeing Erika, who was always so arrogant and complacent, now with the expression of a defeated kitten, Ash really couldn't help it, so he actually laughed out loud with his eyes open on the spot.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--!"

"You—" Erika hadn't expected this person to actually laugh. She was so angry that she couldn't even curse. Tears of grievance streamed down her cheeks. "You actually laughed at me, and laughed so happily! I was clearly trying so hard..."

This store manager... is just as annoying as that Timmons!

The sweet smell she smelled made Erika's worries stop. She looked up and saw a huge cup of luxury fruit cream ice cream completely occupying her sight.

Desserts have a fatal attraction for women of any age at any time.

"Special edition of colorful ice cream, highly recommended by Xiaozhi! This is a craft that I spent a lot of effort to learn from an old man." Ash pushed the ice cream with a spoon in front of Erika in a very exaggerated tone, took the handkerchief handed by Lily and wiped away the tears of today's injured.

Erika was not the only one gazing at this "colorful" thing. One could faintly hear the subtle sounds of four people swallowing saliva.

"Okay, cheer up after eating this, and make your enemies suffer next time."

"Thank you, thank you..." The resentment towards Ash in my heart quickly faded, especially after putting the sweet taste on my tongue.

So sweet and delicious!

Well, the store manager doesn’t look that unpleasant. He’s actually quite handsome.

"All of this was done by a man named Timmons who calls himself Kamen Rider."

Lily explained on behalf of Erika, whose face softened with sweetness. However, the voice that reached her ears made her stunned for a moment, and her eyes couldn't help but shift to the TV.

"Who's suddenly knocking on this door again? I have a premonition of a crime. Welcome to Windy City~?"

On TV, the two-colored Kamen Rider was speeding through their city on a motorcycle, fighting crime.

"You're calling yourself Kamen Rider..."

There's a huge difference between Kamen Rider and Masked Rider.

"A destiny born to protect this beloved planet~?"

Ash pressed a button on the remote and changed the channel.

"Maybe it's not fake, maybe it's real?"

"Is there such an outrageous guy among Kamen Riders...?"

"If that's what you're asking?" Ash thought for a moment and nodded. "It's quite a lot."

Hearing Ash's answer, Yueying Lily sighed.

"Really, you tokusatsu geek!" Erika grumbled indignantly, holding the Spider-Man pillow in front of her. "Even after I was beaten like this by Kamen Rider, you're still watching Kamen Rider and stuff. How annoying!"

"Erika..." Lei wanted to say something but didn't know what to say about his best friend's somewhat unreasonable words. He glanced at the store manager he admired and also at the angry Erika. The girl caught in the middle could only laugh awkwardly.

"Okay, I'll stop teasing you guys." Ash clapped his hands and turned off the TV in the cafe with some regret. "Since I said I'd support you, then this is my job. Let me... eh?"

Ash's hand, which was halfway out, was firmly grasped by Lily, and the strength in her hand became even tighter.

"Yeah!?" Seeing Ash's hand reaching out without any hesitation, Erika screamed like a rabbit whose tail was stepped on, and without caring about the pain, she began to burrow into Lei's arms.

"No, don't touch it!"

“Manager…”

It seemed that he had offended everyone. Even Lei, who was close to Ash, had a resentful look behind her glasses, and Lily looked at him with a sharp gaze, as if she was catching a pest.

What? I really don’t intend to do anything bad this time. I just want to help.

"Manager, it's not appropriate for men and women to touch each other... If you had really touched me just now, we would have had to go to the police station to visit you."

“…I forgot.”

I was so used to it that I had forgotten about it.

"Can you just forget about something like this?!"

Erika, who is usually full of energy, is now exhausted due to the cramps. She is complaining as if she is listless. Ash rubs the dirty hands on his head with a smile and is too lazy to brush them away.

"Okay, no more showoffs." Putting a bottle of spray in Lily's hand, Ash took out a bag of ice cubes from the freezer backstage.

"I'll leave the spraying to you guys. Afterwards, apply ice and the swelling will go down in no time."

Erika responded weakly, her throat gurgling as she hugged the Time Ranger and Kuuga dolls on the sofa.

"The store manager really has everything."

Facing the emotional Lei, Ash pretended to be mysterious and gave a faint smile.

“There’s nothing that doesn’t exist at Nasta Cafe.”

Chapter 13: Capitalist Ash

After a period of adjustment, the Pretty Cures did indeed regard this place as their default gathering point. Since business was not good here, it was quiet enough, so there was no need to worry about the Pretty Cures' affairs being leaked out. Ash also promised to keep their secrets. As a high school student, Tsukikage Lily could also help them solve some troublesome matters very reliably, such as tutoring them with homework.

Although the unreliable behavior of a certain store manager almost shattered Lei's dream.

But today, Lei finally mustered up the courage to make her proposal to the store manager.

"Manager, what do you think of this proposal?"

Faced with Lei who mustered up the courage to talk to him, Ash put down the "Kuaga" manga in his hand.

"Proposal, are you saying you guys also want to be waiters at Nasta?"

"Yes!" Lei nodded, holding her round-frame glasses, and Erika beside her also nodded. After a few days of recuperation, she was able to sit down, but she still kept twisting her butt awkwardly.

During this time, Ash took the initiative to support Pretty Cure, and Rei and Erika also saw it. Although he personally said that he did not have the same strong power as Pretty Cure and could not fight side by side, but every time after school or after a battle, there was a place for quiet communication, free delicious desserts (the actual focus), and sometimes he could provide them with advice from "adults" from another perspective. This was already a treatment they were very grateful for.

The girls couldn't accept these benefits with a clear conscience, so after discussing with Erika, they decided to follow their senior's example and come here to help with the part-time jobs.

Lei couldn't help but fantasize, imagining herself wearing a well-fitting uniform, as a member of Nasta Café, elegantly serving a cup of delicious coffee to the guests... Although the latter part is questionable, this scene is really great!

"Guest, please enjoy."

Her cherry-colored eyes are very impressive after she takes off her glasses. "Lei" shows a decent smile and places coffee in front of customers in a polite manner. With a slight blink of an eye, she captures the hearts of customers.

"So cute... No, so cool! I want to be her—"

"Hey, Miss, can you give me your contact information?"

Faced with the request of the school's most popular hunk, "Lei" smiled and refused.

"No, as a lady, I can't give my contact information to anyone casually."

"Then please be my girlfriend!"

“Thank you, but I can’t because I’ve already…”

Hearing the other person's heartbroken and gray voice, Lei chuckled, turned around and looked back with the tray in her arms. The handsome boss sitting at the front desk also put down "Shakespeare" in his hand and smiled at her alone with a warm smile like the sun.

"Hey, Lei."

"Yes, manager."

The two smiling eyes only saw each other, and everything was said without words.

——Be the dividing line of Lei in Cure Dream——

"Oh, this is really unbearable!"

"What's wrong with her?" Erika shook her head as she pulled a lollipop from the counter, unwrapped it, and popped it into her mouth. "Who knows? Maybe she's just being a bitch again."

If Lei knew what happened next, she would probably regret it, but for them now, this is a romance worth looking forward to.

"Sure." Ash agreed easily. Even though his small shop with less than a hundred customers per week didn't need any extra waiters, he still agreed.

After all, Ash has always been indifferent.

"Really? That's great!" Even Erika cheered, but she was happy about something else.

She heard from Yuri Tsukikage that the hourly wage here is as high as 2200 yen per hour!

"That way, I can buy imported high-end fabrics!" Erika's eyes were filled with desire, and she couldn't help but wipe the saliva from the corner of her mouth. "And my own sewing machine! And Paris fashion magazine weekly!"

"Well... in that case!" After Erika said that, Rei also began to look forward to it. "Well, I want that rare seed set..."

"No."

Ash's simple words shattered the girls' fantasies and left them frozen in place.

"If I really pay you wages, I will be arrested by the police for employing child labor, so no—no—"

"You can come and help after school every day, but don't even think about getting paid."

Closing the Kuuga comic book, Ash knocked the gray-haired girl on the head, shattering her into sad ashes.

"Yada, yada, yada, yada! I don't want this, Ash, you capitalist who even exploits little girls—"

Erika, who had no ladylike manners at all, rolled on the ground and threw a tantrum. Ash did not tolerate her at all. He ignored her, put on a black windbreaker and a helmet, and walked out the door.

"Oh right... I almost forgot about this."

Ash walked back to the front desk, picked up a pot of golden flowers wrapped in a transparent container and placed it on the counter.

The golden petals are mixed with bright red, and this flower attracted Lei's attention almost the moment it appeared. The girl who loves flowers in her heart stared at the flower without blinking, and her sincere love emerged from her heart.

"Lei, please water her when I'm not around."

"This, this..." Blinking, Lei, who was certain she didn't recognize this flower at all, felt her love and curiosity grow even stronger. "Manager, what is this flower called?"

I've never seen this flower before, whether in books or on TV, or even at my grandma's botanical garden! It's truly a beauty among flowers, so beautiful and rare!

"You're asking for my name?"

Ash smiled mysteriously when he heard the girl's question.

"Her name is: Zijera"

"By the way, don't open her protective shield."

"Hey, why? Flowers would be pitiful if they couldn't get direct access to air and sunlight, wouldn't they?"

"It's not the flowers' problem, it's your problem."

The pollen of this flower is poisonous.

Thinking of the girl who was frightened by him, Ash laughed and took out a new mobile phone, plugged in his full bottle of Iron Tank and threw it out.

"[Build change]!"

The phone defied physics and transformed into a motorcycle with gears embedded in the front, allowing Ash to sit on it.

"It's a shame my Diego motorcycle was shipped... Well, this one isn't bad either."

Anyway, I have a lot of motorcycles, so I’ll make that thief jealous!

Twisting the accelerator handle and pressing the clutch in his palm, amid the roar of the mechanical creator, Ash took out the silver mask he had borrowed from Lupinranger before, ready to meet his friend on the other side.

Since I don't want to fight as much as before, I might as well find some fun from other places, such as... interpersonal relationships?

We need to build good relationships with the Pretty Cure girls and the Desert Apostles, only then can we be considered healthy.

Chapter 14: The Daily Life of the "Newcomer" Villain

The base camp of the desert apostles is naturally hidden deep in the desert.

Besides "Dr. Shabak" who leads his men and the mysterious "Pretty Cure" who acts alone, the three operational officers of the Desert Apostles are responsible for completing missions, transforming withered heart flowers into "Desert Monsters" and fighting against Pretty Cure.

The dark-skinned beauty "Scorpion Lina" with a Western-style outfit has the highest attendance rate and wants to get the merit of defeating the Pretty Cure.

"Spider Cargill", a hot-blooded and impulsive man who always clamours on his warrior spirit, is eager to fight and loves to develop special moves.