Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"Yu, is your leg okay?"

Although she had heard the good news, when she actually saw the other person stand up, Saaya was still surprised because she knew how difficult it had been for Yu.

"Yeah, I stood up!" Speaking of this, Yu nodded with renewed energy. "The doctor was right, I can stand up, but the process wasn't very pleasant..."

"Really?" While walking and talking, Saaya's gaze moved to Ash's face, who was sitting next to Hana, supporting his chin with his hand, not saying a word and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

It seems that this doctor really has some real skills.

But is there any other deeper secret that he has hidden from us?

As for Ash himself now... he really doesn't have any evil ideas. He just wants to see this special effects movie that he has never seen before as soon as possible. He is eager and looking forward to what kind of story he will see.

"What do you want to do after you stand up?" While chatting with her friends, Sa Ling's eyes were always looking at an empty seat in the distance, as if she was waiting for someone.

"Yes, I've already quit my job as a flight attendant because of this period of time. In the future."

Now that I've overcome my fear and stood up, maybe I should be more courageous? For example...

"I've actually wondered if I could ever jump on the ice again." Yu, no longer the self-deprecating self he once was, could now jokingly address this somewhat heavy topic. "It was something I excelled at and dreamed of as a child, but it's been so long now, I guess I can't do it anymore."

After all, everyone has expectations for the future when they are young, but how many people can actually realize them?

"Saiya, I really envy you." Looking at his friend's profile, Yu's eyes revealed genuine longing. "It's amazing that you've achieved your childhood dream and become the famous actor you always wanted to be."

"Become whoever you want to be..." It seemed that these words touched her heart. Her gaze never moved, and Yakushiji Saaya bit her lips tightly with an unwilling look on her face.

"Saiya?" Feeling vaguely that something was wrong, Yu called out his friend's name, but received no immediate response.

"I say, Yu." Without even turning around, Sa Ling asked, her tone filled with uncertainty. "Is fulfilling your dreams truly happiness? Won't the dreams and aspirations of the past become shackles that bind your future?"

"Saiya...w-what's wrong? Why are you saying this all of a sudden?"

In the past, I did take my mother as my role model and wanted to stand on the same stage with her, so becoming a famous actor was my childhood dream.

But now, after being branded with her back since my debut, and having experienced the hopeless reality of such hard work, I'm a little unsure about my future dreams...

"Senior Hua, what would you like to drink?"

After hearing Emi's reminder, Hana looked at Ash next to her. After seeing him order an American coffee from the waiter, she also pretended to be elegant and ordered a cup of espresso.

Ever since she was attracted by Ash's true feelings that day, Hua herself realized that she cared more and more about this man. Although she was rejected as a joke at that time, she still believed that one day she would be recognized by him!

"But it's really unexpected that Xiaohua actually likes such strong black coffee?"

"Speaking of the first choice for mature women, this is it." I have said goodbye to my troubled body, gained a beautiful and sophisticated look, and even have a handsome male companion. Now my charm as a woman is invincible!

Today, I am about to transcend the past impressions and officially take the first step towards becoming a mature woman that I have always longed for but could not achieve since I was a child!

Hana thought so and followed Ash's example and drank the coffee in one gulp.

"puff--"

Then he spurted out under Ash's unsurprised gaze.

"You, would milk coffee be a better choice?"

"It's okay... I actually like it, cough cough cough--!" It's killing me! Why is it so bitter? If I don't rinse my mouth...

With this thought in mind, Hua stood up in a hurry and before Ash behind her could remind her, her high heel stepped on the bottom of her other shoe again. She fell in front of the frightened waiter and rolled up a layer of carpet, making people think that the coffee was poisoned.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"

Why did it turn out like this! I was finally preparing to debut as Shin Nonoka, but in the end it was a huge failure...

Seeing him hurriedly stand up and face the gazes of others with his cheeks flushed instantly, and then repeatedly bow and apologize to the guests who were speechless and even couldn't help laughing, even Ash couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hand.

"What is this idiot doing?"

Could it be that what I said to her that day caused her to misunderstand?

If that's the case, I have to explain it to her...

"Hey, hey... Hey, who invited that lady in? This is a high-end place."

Originally, this was just a scene where Nonohana was embarrassed, but for some reason, a discordant voice that shouldn't have appeared here was heard from the crowd.

"What are you doing? This isn't the rooftop for school plays. Who are you trying to show off to by acting so funny?"

"It's really ugly. Even her friends would be embarrassed, right?"

As luck would have it, these words happened to reach the ears of Hua who kept apologizing, causing her back, which was bent over with her head lowered, to tremble even more.

"I heard she was invited by one of the leading actresses? Being friends with someone like that, she's really just... "

"You guys!" Sa Ling immediately erupted, her usual gentle demeanor shattered, and she flashed a terrifying expression towards the source of the discordant voice. "Stop commenting on someone like that."

"Sorry, everyone." She interrupted Saaya, who was about to lose her temper. Suddenly, she raised her head and put on a forced smile. "My stomach suddenly hurts a little, hahaha, I need to go to the bathroom..."

"Wait, Xiaohua, why are you so sudden?"

"Hana-senpai--ahhh!" Emi, who was holding her head and feeling a little irritated, cast her gaze on Ash again, but saw that he seemed to be looking up at her without paying any attention at all. Suddenly, the fire in her heart ignited again.

"What are you doing? Didn't you bring Senior Hua here? Talk to her too!"

It’s okay to comfort me, even if you don’t mean it, but you are a man after all!

"Someone." Ash's sudden and inexplicable reply confused her.

Ash narrowed his eyes, and just as those strange noises appeared, he followed his intuition and looked towards the second floor above his head. He just happened to see the back of a familiar decadent man holding a book leaving... So.

As the crowd around them were discussing the incident, which was gradually expanding its impact, they suddenly felt a chill all over their bodies. Almost as if by instinct, they retreated a large circle around Yaxiu.

Ash stood up with a cold face, and amid the shocked reactions of the people around him, he kicked over a chair with a loud bang, and walked towards the direction of Mao Zedong with determination against the countercurrent of the crowd.

【Bonus】Case File 54: Distorted Love and the Distortion of Love

Now Ash's anger was growing and exploding, and the fabric of his custom-made suit began to crack as his muscles expanded. When everyone looked at him, they had a vague illusion, as if they saw an angry whale swimming upstream towards them. When they noticed this, they naturally began to make way.

At this moment, Ash was very worried and angry, just like the piece of barbecued pork that you secretly like in your heart and saved for the last enjoyment was eaten up by the loser next to you without mercy. This was Ash's reaction now.

Hua is my patient, and I can say whatever I want to her, but if someone else dares to point fingers at her... who do you think you are? Do you have any keys? And this guy's timing is just too coincidental.

"is it you?"

Originally, he didn't have any special ideas, he just wanted to see the movie as soon as possible.

He is a little different now, his heart is guiding him to do something else.

A little bit, it makes me angry.

"Wait, where are you going?"

Easily sprinting past the crowd that made way for him, and shaking off Emi and the others who were shouting at him from behind, Ash had only one goal in mind. He headed straight for it. As expected, he finally ran into a man in a corridor, dressed in a white T-shirt, completely absorbed in the book before him.

“Even the most beautiful flower in full bloom will eventually wither and fall. The only way to keep that beauty forever is to stop all beautiful moments.”

Ash didn't say anything, his hands in his pockets, his eyes like a lion that had been awakened as he walked towards him step by step.

"It's obvious that as long as the future doesn't move forward, the tragedy won't happen."

"Ash, what you did was wrong, and I was right."

Ash still didn't say anything. He was now gradually approaching him, and the decadent man still looked confident.

"What you did was meaningless. I mistakenly thought you would ignite yourself like a burning flame, saving the poor girl and bringing new possibilities to the future, but I was wrong."

Ash didn't say anything. He took out his right hand from his pocket, and with his legs as the root and his waist as the axis, all the muscles on his raised arm instantly tightened like tangled hemp ropes, roaring like angry thunder, and crisp sounds like popping beans rang out from his clenched fists.

"Everything you do is just like a poisonous flame, burning and stinging the hand she reaches out to you. Even if she transcends fate and survives, she will still be burned by this flame again and again."

"Your fate has been decided. From now on, don't get close to her. This world can only be abandoned with regret. I will have to save you in the next world—Guwaa!!!"

All that could be heard was the crisp sound of something being broken.

The man held the torn book in two pieces in his hand, and his eyes were wide open with veins bulging. At this moment, there was a deep fist mark on his cheek, and his white teeth were spitting out from the corner of his mouth along with blood and saliva. The man fell headfirst and broke the glass behind him, and flew backwards to the green grass outside.

"This hand of mine is burning red!"

In front of him, Ash clenched his fists in anger and maintained the straight punch technique of the Beast Tiger Fist. Under his ferocious and angry face, the protruding joints of his fists emitted a bright hot breath after colliding with the flesh.

"It shouted, 'I want you to beat me up! ! ! !'"

Leaping up from a ten-meter-high floor, Ash didn't care about his fist being scratched by the glass. He clenched his fist even harder and punched into the disgusting face again.

"Wow...Gu, this is the worst..."

The girl's tears splashed on the red rose that decorated her chest.

She looked at the marks on her dress caused by her own saliva with a feeling of complete lack of confidence. At this point, the mature and elegant image that Hua Jingxin wanted to become was once again completely shattered.

It is true that I am getting further and further away from the person I imagined myself to be when I was a child. Why am I getting further and further away from the person I imagined myself to be?... It would be better to say that I have been focusing my life on being a "cure yeller" for the past eight years and basically have no time and energy to create the existence of "Nonoka".

"This is not a toilet, Hua." She could understand without looking back that such a signature cynical voice, of course, came from her doctor's mouth.

"Doctor Ash, am I..." When Ash took the initiative to approach, Hua, who was squatting beside the car like a curled-up bird, laughed at herself weakly. "It's very, very ugly? Hahaha..."

"Just like an ugly duckling living in a swan pond, even if it could swim in the same pond with the swans, it would never grow up to be covered in white feathers as it wanted."

It was said out loud. Such self-destructive words that would never be said in the past were now spoken by Hua herself.

She thought about that incident again.

'Actually, I'm the one who cures yell, precure!'

'Good jokes, keep it up.'

That's too much...

I mustered up the courage to give you everything I have. I want to have someone I can rely on. I want you to protect me, and I want to protect you, so I said this.

This is the first time I’ve told this to someone, why... do you say that?

It was Ash, even if it was Ash——this is too much!

Thinking of the vibrant feeling that he had finally brought out of her gradually dead heart not long ago, but which was ignored by him as a joke, Hua felt more and more aggrieved.

"This is really ugly." She shook the blood off her fist. It was just because she was grumbling about her own antics that Ash, not noticing her true expression, nonchalantly stabbed her again. "But why are you telling me this? You know I never care about this kind of thing."

"But I care!" She squatted on the ground so that the man could not see her expression, but he could hear the crying sound in Nonoka's voice.

"I care! I care about the people I care about seeing me look so ugly right now!"

Could it be that my life only has meaning when I am a cure yell?!

"I do care about it... I also want to live a life like a normal girl..."

The crystal-clear pearls kept falling to the ground and shattering, and the shoulders facing away from Ash were shaking slightly.

What...what did you do? I just went to beat up a stalker. Did I say anything wrong? Why are you crying all of a sudden?

He opened his mouth in confusion, not knowing what to do or say. He didn't dare to touch the flower that was obviously not right with his outstretched hand hanging in the air. He could only put his hands in his arms in annoyance and pretend to be mute.

"Ash."

Nonoka finally stopped shaking and stood up from the ground, her makeup stained by tears. The wind blew her hair down her back, creating a poignant and beautiful expression.

"I like you."

Ash, who had nowhere to put his toes, kept tapping the ground, and then stopped.

Because of the angle of the backlight, Hua couldn't see Ash's expression shrouded in darkness. She longed for him to hug her and felt that this meaningless waiting time was very unbearable.

It could be 1 second, or it could be half an hour, but no matter how long it was, it was equally difficult for her.

"Flowers." Ash said word by word. "I have someone I like."

The beating of my heart seemed to stop for a second at this moment.

"Really? Who is she?" Maintaining a sad smile, she pinched the back of her other hand with her flower fingers and placed both hands on the skirt in front of her, pinching them into a pale and bloodless appearance. "Is it Yu, or Sa-ling? Emi-chan is also good~"

"That woman's name." Ash shook his head at her answer, but seemed to smile just thinking about her name. "Cure Yell."

"yes...?"

"You look quite like her." The man's words shocked her whole body, but then her mood plummeted to the bottom with the following words.

"But you're not her."

The sad smile on Nonoka's face grew even brighter.

The clenched hands squeezed tighter, almost pinching the pale back of the hand to bleed.

"Yes...."

Is that so... So Nonohana is just an accessory to Cure Yell?