Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Hearing the heavy truth his daughter confided to him, the man as a father opened his mouth and didn't even know how to comfort her for a moment, until he remembered another thing and asked hurriedly.

"Lily, you've grown so big....What about your mother, Haruna? Is she okay?!"

Not only did he recognize the existence of Lily's transformed Pretty Cure, but decades of life's memories were also gradually unearthed from deeper within the father's mind.

"Ah!" Hearing her father's frantic question, the resentment she had been holding back towards him for abandoning her and her mother vanished. "Mom has always been waiting for you. She always leaves a pair of chopsticks for you at mealtimes. It's a routine."

I couldn't help but shed tears again, but this time they were tears of genuine happiness. The tears of joy finally overwhelmed the sadness of the tragedy.

"father!"

Upon hearing Lily's sincere call, the other three couldn't help but be moved to tears, except for the Dark Pretty Cure, whose expression grew increasingly grim the more the father and daughter interacted.

"That's great—finally, we're reunited!"

"Yeah! Lily-san finally..." Erika slurred her words as she hurriedly wiped away her snot and tears with her sleeve. "Ash finally did something human! It was almost like a terrible scene of father and daughter killing each other!"

"It's great to be reunited, but..." Wu Mu, who was also very moved, saw the atmosphere between the two people getting better. He suddenly blinked his gradually widening eyes as he remembered something.

However, although now is a touching time for reunion, it does not mean that everything that happened in the past has been forgotten.

"It's really... it's too late...!"

"I'm sorry, I...I am!"

The man's expression froze on his face again. This time, it was no longer memories of his past, but memories from another self, when he once called himself "Dr. Shabak" and acted as a desert apostle. He remembered all of them.

“Uh-oh—”

For a moment, a greater impact came, forcing him to half-kneel on the ground with his hands covering his head. The reason why his pupils trembled violently at this time was not the pain caused by the swelling of his brain, but the amount of information contained in this memory.

Thinking back, I remembered everything - I was once a world-renowned botanist, but because I couldn't find the legendary "Tree of Heart" no matter what, I was bewitched by a young man who called himself Dune, put on a mask, and became a member of the Desert Apostles who wanted to wither life on Earth.

And after that...I have done something irreversible!

Facing her father who had finally woken up from his dream, Lily was at a loss as she looked at his struggling expression and thought of the same thing as him.

In other words, he has always been considered my mortal enemy who must be defeated. As my opponent, he has also tried to defeat me in various ways and has done excessive things in various senses, even creating a dark pretty girl similar to me to fight against me. He is also the murderer who actually killed Koron.

And this enemy, whom I hated so much not long ago, turned out to be my father?

"How could it be—" Even though Ash asserted that he was under Dune's control, Lily still found it difficult to accept this fact. "This is too much!"

“Uh-oh—”

Moreover, there is also Dark Pretty Cure——she was created by me, so——Yuri, Haruna, how can I face you!

Covering his head, Yueying Yingming was shocked by the unbelievable result and stumbled and ran as if trying to escape with his head in pain.

"father!"

The man who had lost his way accelerated recklessly in extreme pain. His tilted steps kicked over two trash cans and knocked over Eddie who came to check the situation. He disappeared along the way. Lily, who was calling for her father from behind, hurriedly followed him.

Chapter 179 I Don't Want to Lose Again

"Squeak-"

A sound of gnashing teeth, not sure whether it was anger or sadness, leaked from the corners of the Dark Pretty Girl's rather ferocious face.

As early as when this real father and daughter were talking to each other, she already had an extremely ugly expression. In a sense, the long-awaited reunion made Yueying Yingming focus all his attention on Lily, but he ignored the feelings of the Dark Pretty Girl who was also his "daughter".

The Dark Beauty, whose expression became increasingly grim, reached her limit of patience. With a swish, she spread out her hidden wings from behind her, and rushed towards the place where Yueying Yingming last disappeared like an arrow.

But before that, a hand gently rested on the place where her shoulder blade connected to the bat wing.

Feeling the tingling sensation coming from the back of her shoulder, the girl, who of course knew who it was, gritted her teeth and tried to break free, but was unable to do so for a moment.

"Ash, let me go!"

The dark beauty, her mind shaken, struggled even louder, but all she got in return was an even tighter clenching of her hands.

"Let you go, let you go, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to bring Dr. Shabak back. He's actually Moonlight's father... Impossible! Something must have gone wrong. It's definitely fake!"

"Please, Lord Dune, if you can only bring the doctor back, that's right, if only..."

Faced with the Dark Pretty Girl's self-deceiving words, Ash's grip tightened even more.

"And let what has already happened repeat itself?!" Ash's lion-like roar thundered into Xiao An's ears, interrupting her trembling movements. "You clearly see the truth, yet you still refuse to accept it? This is too ugly!"

"I don't understand, I don't understand!" The dark girl, who had never been so fragile before except that day, was shaking violently with emotion. She turned and glared back at Ash. "I don't understand what's going on. I don't care about justice or evil! I just want Dr. Shabak back! As long as we can achieve that, everything else is fine!"

Unlike the others, Dark Pretty Cure, though also a Desert Apostle, is the Light Pretty Cure's greatest rival. However, unlike the others, who follow Dune's philosophy and desolate the Earth as their ultimate command, she is not evil and has no interest in, or perhaps even indifference to, destroying the Earth's deserts. For her, as long as she completes Dr. Shabak's orders, anything is fine... Now, perhaps there's also a connection to Ash.

So no matter what happened with Pretty Cure, the Desert Apostles, or even the Heart Tree and Dune, she didn't have ordinary people's values ​​and was just like a child. She absolutely, absolutely didn't want to let go of "Timmons" and "Shabak" who were good to her. That's all.

So Ash didn't give her any more time to say or do anything, and without saying anything, he grabbed her hands from behind. Perhaps because of Qi Jiela or because the girl was too excited, Xiao An was completely unable to break free from his restraints.

"This kind of thing happened once, it's enough. If you repeat the tragedy again, even I will decline your kindness. Let's go back, Xiao An."

Maybe I should give her a corrective slap... With this thought in mind, Ash activated the instant mobile device of the base that he had hacked into, and the figures of the two people instantly blurred in front of everyone.

"No, no!" In front of everyone, Xiao An, who seemed like a girl being abducted by Ash, stretched out her hands desperately towards the white-haired man's departing back with tears in her eyes.

"I don't want to lose someone important again!"

A little bit, hearing her voice like this, even I feel a little heartbroken.

“Hoo-haaaaaa!”

Having experienced a war in every sense not long ago, and now such unimaginable intense scenes were being played out before her eyes. Lei, feeling weak all over, sat down on the ground, taking deep breaths of fresh air to calm her mind.

"What the hell is this?"

Why did it end up like this? Why did Ash leave in the end?

"Even if you ask me...?" Erika was even more confused. At this moment, she didn't even know whether to pursue Yuri or Ash, so she both lost the best opportunity.

“I don’t know either…”

Wu Mu shook his head, feeling that things couldn't end so simply.

Although the Dark Pretty Cure is a cool and beautiful woman, she is not popular with the Desert Apostle, a villain who is completely incompatible with lust.

As for the reason, it's a long story. Forget about Shabak, the guy who was appointed by Lord Dunn. He joined the organization after himself, but he didn't listen to the orders of the three major cadres at all. Instead, he only obeyed Shabak's orders. In her own words, she would not obey the orders of people weaker than herself.

So this time when the Dark Pretty Cure returned to the base, no one came out to greet her, or rather, the person who was supposed to greet her was no longer in the base.

"Why, Ash—why!" The Dark Pretty Girl tugged at the man's collar, demanding again with tears in her eyes. "Why would you do this? Dr. Shabak is my creator, he's my father!"

"That Moonlight guy stole her from me. It's all her fault!"

"But without her, you wouldn't exist."

With just a few words, Ash defeated the unreasonable Pretty Cure of Darkness.

She is not stupid and can fully understand what Ash means, but the girl also cannot accept it at all. After all, she appeared as a villain from the beginning. Isn't it unusual for a villain to accept the truth?

"One lie can conceal the truth," Ash said, raising his index finger as an analogy. "But ten thousand lies can't alter the truth. The truth is always there, waiting to be discovered. It won't change."

"You will know the truth sooner or later. I just revealed it in advance."

With his hands behind his head, Ash relaxed and casually lay back on the sofa. He grabbed the doll that was blown off the sofa by his movement and threw it into the hands of the Dark Pretty Cure.

This doll was naturally the Q-version Shadow Moon doll that Ash gave her for the first time. Xiao An actually treasured it and kept it. She gently stroked the cloth on the doll. This was a patch that Shabak had sewn for her in his spare time. To be honest, it was really ugly.

But when she stroked the piece of cloth, she thought of Shabak, who was no different from her biological father. Her eyes flushed red and even though she didn't cry, she couldn't help feeling painful and sad.

"But - Dr. Shabak already has his real daughter, and for this reason... I, I will be abandoned!" Holding the doll in her arms, hugging her knees with both hands, she lowered her head in deep panic.

"No, you won't."

She could feel a warm palm gently buried in her hair, conveying the warmth of that man.

"Didn't I say that? I need your strength so I hope you can help me, in other words."

"At least I won't leave your side."

At least not yet...

ps: I recently finished reading "Cyberpunk Edgewalker"

The author's current state after reading it in one breath:

CDPR, I'll kill you, Polish idiot! Also, I highly recommend it. It's been a long time since I've seen such an animation with such strong art and a good plot. If you haven't seen it, go check it out.

Chapter 180 Hatred and Sadness

Someone once told him not to make promises he couldn't keep. Ash did remember what others taught him, but how he understood and actually implemented this principle was another matter.

However, judging from the Dark Pretty Girl's mood immediately improving as he spoke, Ash himself might not have realized how deceptive he was in this regard... maybe not all of it was a lie.

But at least he noticed the burning gaze directed at him, so Ash continued to explain for himself and for the bastard father who made his two daughters kill each other.

"What I'm saying is that the reality won't necessarily turn out the way you say." Ash shook his head, dismissing her pessimism. "You might not realize it yourself, but that person's kindness to you as Shabak certainly didn't seem fake. Now, I imagine he's still struggling with how to face you, but he certainly won't abandon his responsibilities."

After all, the middle-aged man looked like he had kidney deficiency, but he was already the father of a daughter. If he couldn't even shoulder this responsibility, then Ash didn't mind "teaching" him how to acknowledge his responsibility.

After hearing what Ash said, the Dark Pretty Girl's complexion visibly improved, but she seemed to have thought of something again, so she asked again with a look of fear on her face.

"But, Ash, are you also going to... go to their side?"

After all, she also remembered that Ash once said that he did not intend to be her enemy, but wanted to use her power to do something. Seeing that he was still in contact with Precure, she couldn't help but wonder, could the things he said he was going to do be related to Pretty Cure?

Could it be that by wanting to borrow her power, she meant to fight alongside the Pretty Cure? Impossible, absolutely impossible! After the battle at Shabak, she would only hate the Pretty Cure even more, especially Moonlight, her mortal enemy in every sense of the word!

After thinking about this possibility, Xiao An inexplicably felt betrayed, but couldn't help but want to continue to believe him.

"I'm not going to their side." Ash closed his eyes and heard the sound of footsteps in the distance. It must be the panic of the three officers who noticed Dr. Shabak had jumped. "It's my position from the beginning..."

Ash didn't explain it clearly, but the answer from his attitude was obvious.

The girl no longer hesitated and almost flew into the man's arms.

"Ash, please, don't leave again!"

The dark beauty completely disregarded her image, and tucked her upper body into Ash's body, holding him tightly with both hands as if she was afraid that he would run away immediately.

It was no longer the cold voice of the past, but a sad and fragile voice like that of a simple little girl who saw that her most important treasure was about to be taken away.

Since I was born, I have lived for Dr. Shabak's orders. Now Dr. Shabak has left. What if you, my most important friend, also leave?

"If you leave too, I really don't know what to do...!"

Facing the dark beautiful girl crying in his arms, her words almost pleading, he wanted to comfort her with his usual tricks of changing the subject, but when he gently placed his hand on her shaking shoulder, he couldn't open his mouth.

"Ash, are you worried about Duane?" Xiao An's voice, thick with tears, came from his arms. "If that's the case, I'll just find a way to get the Doctor out! Then the three of us can escape to a place where he can't find us... Yeah! We can escape to other planets, and it doesn't matter if we lose everything else. As long as you, the rest of you, are here, I can endure anything!"

"Xiao An, don't say such things—" He should have loudly rebuked her for her "cowardly" behavior, but after hearing her clumsily yet incredibly hard work in coming up with ideas for him, he couldn't bring himself to say anything. "I wasn't afraid to begin with!"

I've never been afraid of death. After all, it's not all bad for me. A gorgeous farewell is certainly necessary for the perfect ending in my mind. But why...

Since when did I stop wanting to die?

Since when did I stop wanting to deceive this girl who was so devoted to me and so straightforward that she almost wanted to dig her heart out and show it to me, using words that could fool her?

My past self found a sense of purpose in her, so I used various methods to hint at her, who was basically a war machine at that time. I wanted her to become more and more like a human being.

As for now, with Xiao An looking at me like this, am I a success or a failure?

"Qi, why are you pretending to be such a saint?" Ash couldn't help but scoff. "Are you going to tell everyone now that your conscience, lost in who knows where, has returned? Are you kidding me? If that's the case, who should I thank?"

[Thank you so much, Pretty Cure, you've been so helpful.]

After taking a quick look at the system panel that appeared and disappeared in an instant, Ash, after a series of not-so-complicated psychological struggles, sighed slightly and gave his answer to the dark beautiful girl who was unwilling to let go.

"Xiao An, listen to me."

The magical voice in her ears at this moment gradually calmed the girl down. She let go of her hand, and with light gray tears flowing in her eyes, which were different from those of ordinary people, she stared at the man's serious face.

"I've seen something similar to you before, and that's why I started caring about you, besides my own personal interests." Ash's gaze quietly shifted to the doll in her arms.

So Xiao An, let me tell you a story so that you can think carefully about what to do.

"Shadow Moon and Black Sun, Moon and Sun, once brothers, now slaughter each other for the title of King of Creation."