Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Seriously, it's all because of the sword that I've seen so many bad endings. If the leaders of Tragedy Kingdom are only this good, then aside from that clown who might need to be careful, I can handle the rest by myself!

"You! You act so awesome, you say it so lightly, but you'll end up getting hurt!" Whether it was because of Ash's arrogance or his "despicable" behavior, Akane, completely displeased with him, began to argue with him. "Besides, we all saw you wait until Miyuki and the others were struggling before you came out. They were clearly fighting hard too. Don't make it seem like everyone else is just your appendage!"

"The most important character, of course, has to appear last."

"It's so easy to say, but everyone is worried!"

Just because Ash has a good relationship with Hoshizora Miyuki doesn't mean he gets along with the other four Pretty Cure girls.

Ash could understand why they didn't welcome him, and he himself didn't have the habit of trying to please someone he didn't like, even if the person being ignored was Pretty Cure.

So the relationship between them became strained.

I'm afraid Ash still has a long way to go before he can gain the recognition of all the heroes in this world.

"It's all thanks to my hard work." Ash nodded as he took out the damaged driving book and watched the tragic energy left after the battle being absorbed into it. "It's a beautiful victory."

"Here we go again. You love to show off so much. Are you an elementary school student?" Feeling exhausted, he couldn't help but sigh and put his fist on his head which he couldn't help but lower.

What's wrong with this guy... He's so smug, how come he's just like my brothers? No, my brothers are naughty, but at least they listen to me, their older sister. This guy isn't as cute as them at all!

At this moment, hiding behind the sighing Midorikawa Naoto, Yayoi, who recalled the unpleasant encounter, showed a very subtle expression on her face when she saw Ash's smug look.

After being defeated, the former powerful enemy was impressed by the protagonist's sincerity and became a partner in fighting the enemy together. Although such plots are the kind of development that excites the audience in special effects and animations, why is it so annoying when it happens in reality now?

Seeing Ash's smug look on his face, with his nose almost raised to the sky, Yayoi pouted in dissatisfaction, and the hand that was carefully placed on her chest was nervously grabbing her collar.

So annoying... Even though he said he was our companion, I still hate him. This guy is clearly the one who was whitewashed and joined our side in the cartoon, right?

But after being whitewashed, why does he still look like a bad guy? And has his personality become weird?

Thinking of how Ash "cheated" her and how he lectured her for no apparent reason, tears of grievance couldn't help but seep out from the corners of Yayoi's eyes.

"Yayoi, I hate this person..."

"Alright, alright, Akane, stop talking. Look at that, Mr. Ash, he's also trying hard to help us...!" Before the bickering between Ash and Akane was about to turn into a real fight, Miyuki, with a panicked look on her face, quickly ran out to mediate the relationship between the two parties.

But she was clumsy and didn't know how to calm both sides down and reconcile. She could only desperately play the unsuitable role of middleman, desperately trying to ease the relationship between the two sides. "Isn't it great that we can defeat the clown monster? Anyway, let's go to the Mysterious Library to celebrate this victory as usual, hahahahaha... how about it?"

"Miyuki, you are just too kind-hearted to give in to such a person!" Akane, who could not feel Ash's sincerity at all, finally could not bear the anger that had accumulated over their relationship until now. She angrily took out the dull smile makeup box from her pocket.

"That's enough! Hurry up and give us back our power. We are the ones fighting alongside Miyuki!"

Not only Akane, but Nao and Yayoi also took out the makeup boxes of their transformation devices. Instead of just watching Ash's activeness, they wanted to use their actual strength to help Miyuki and the others.

Since you said you've become our partner, it's only natural for you to make up for the mistakes you made earlier, right?

But facing their request, Ash shook his head.

"Why?"

"It's not that I can't, it's that I can't do it." Ash closed his eyes and pondered slowly, "The Dark Sword Yue'an can seal the Holy Sword. When combined with my [Universal Adaptor] ability, it can also achieve the ability to seal other powers. However, removing it is not so simple. At least I can't do it for you."

After all, in order to prevent you from lifting the seal by yourselves and ruining my plan, I also mixed dark echoes into the seal.

"In fact, if you want to break the seal, you can do it yourself." At this point, Ash's previously nonchalant attitude suddenly became serious. "As long as you can use your own awareness and desire to call upon the hidden power within to break the seal and let the power of the legendary warrior respond to you, you will be able to transform again."

After hearing what Ash said, hope appeared on the girls' faces again. However, this hope did not last long before it was shattered by Ash's next words.

"But with your current situation, can you still do it?"

Chapter 34: Lonely Yayoi

Just as the other Pretty Cure girls except Miyuki find it difficult to identify with Ash.

Except for the outstanding performance of Aoki Reika and the simple-minded Hoshizora Miyuki, Ash also did not recognize the other three.

"Rather, if you can't even do this, then you're not going to face the dangers you might encounter at any time during battle." Ash, returning to his usual complacent demeanor, glanced at the three of them with a rather subtle look. "It's better not to be a Pretty Cure, right?"

"Are you—looking down on us?! We're recognized warriors too!"

"No, I'm just saying," Ash shrugged, seemingly casually saying, "Compared to the dangers you might encounter due to your lack of strength, at least this way, your family and friends won't worry about you, right?"

People of this age should naturally understand that when they gain such power, they should also be prepared to have the corresponding awareness.

"...Damn it!" The three girls lowered their heads and clenched their fists, but they were defeated by Ash's last words.

It has to be admitted that they have lost the energy to transform and can't do anything now.

It seemed that what was missing was the awareness and courage that Ash mentioned.

In order to protect their companions, they once stood in front of the bad guys of the Tragedy Kingdom in their human bodies, so they were recognized as Pretty Cure.

But when such a thing happens to them again, and they become mortals again, having lost their initial drive, can they make such a choice again?

At least now that Ash asked them the question, they couldn't give their own answers.

"Hmph." Ash adjusted his nonexistent glasses, not feeling the slightest bit of guilt for the shock he'd caused them. "What kind of future do you think I saw that would seal the Transformer?"

He has said this many times.

What can be protected by just the thoughts?

Needless to say, the yellow color performs the worst, there is also the orange color which only has firepower but is extremely immature, and the green color which is always troubled by various concerns... Although he has met many examples of characters that correspond to them in his past travels, Ash is not their father, and considering the situations in the past two worlds, he doesn't want to have any close relationship with unnecessary people.

I don't even bother playing the role of a spiritual guide! I'm just saying this: even if I, Ash, lose to the Kingdom of Tragedy and become a wreck, I don't even bother to care about their business!

"Tangtang, I hate this tense atmosphere, Kulu..."

Tangtang, an elf with a simple mind even more simple than Miyuki, even though she also finds it difficult to trust Ash, she also doesn't understand why others have conflicts and quarrels with him. She just finds it difficult to accept the team atmosphere that has become very bad after joining Ash.

Could it be that Miyuki's decision to invite him was really a mistake?

"After all, he probably lives in a different world from us."

Holding Tangtang in her arms, Lihua, who was watching the whole process, sighed.

"We haven't found a way to reach mutual understanding with him yet."

Her intuition told her that this embarrassing situation would probably continue for a long time as they spent together.

The result of this battle was that the two sides parted on bad terms due to Ash's deliberate actions.

"If it were in the past, I wouldn't mind treating you guys to ice cream, but now..."

Ash didn't walk back with them, but the sharp-eyed Ash noticed that not only him, but also the little girl who looked like a yellow mushroom parted ways with them and walked away.

"Forget it, it has nothing to do with me..."

[Ash, it was your fault last time, so let's go and see what happens this time.]

"Sigh..." Ash sighed. "Really? What did I do? I hate trouble the most."

He said so, but after the system's reminder, Ash, who felt a little touched in his heart, followed with a disloyal attitude.

Perhaps it was because I myself felt a sense of disharmony that contradicted my smile.

Before becoming a Pretty Cure and becoming friends with Miyuki and the others, Kise Yayoi was a lonely child.

As a petite and cute girl, she likes boyish characters such as giant robots, special effects and heroic warriors in cartoons. Even her own strengths and interests are drawing comics, which are always classified as things that are recounted by boys.

So as a girl, she does not have the same interests and topics as girls of the same age. Similarly, as a girl, she cannot play with boys. After all, boys of this age consider playing with girls to be a very shameful thing.

She was so lonely that she always existed alone until she became Pretty Cure.

It was not until she met the innocent Miyuki, the straightforward Naoki, the enthusiastic Akane and the gentle Reika that she was able to gradually open up her lonely heart and the lonely yet firm tenderness beneath her timid expression after gaining irreplaceable companions.

However, this warmth later disappeared in the hands of that man. Having lost her identity as a hero, she also lost the courage to move forward with her companions, as if she had become a single and lonely person again.

Although she hates that man, sometimes even Yayoi herself feels that what he said might be right... The name of hero is inherently incompatible with her timid self. To her, Pretty Cure may really be just a dream-like existence.

"There's no one else here...right?"

After saying goodbye to her companions in advance, Yayoi, feeling extremely depressed, found a quiet park bench with a blank sketchbook in her arms. The pencil in her hand made delicate sounds on the white paper, drawing beautiful traces one after another.

This was a habit she had developed in the past to relieve her worries and loneliness. Yayoi was used to immersing herself in the paintbrush and painting the picture in her mind as if she were alone.

As long as she waves the pen in this way, she can leave loneliness and worries behind and immerse herself in the simple and happy world of creation.

She poured her emotion into every stroke of her hand and devoted herself to it wholeheartedly. She was so focused that she didn't notice someone approaching from behind her, and didn't notice that someone was leaning behind his chair, watching her every stroke.

"Huh~" Time flies when you're concentrating. Looking at the finished painting, a simple smile appeared on Yayoi's face. "Okay, it's done now!"

"Well, the painting is great. I feel like it can be submitted to a magazine."

A sincere male voice rose from behind her, and Yayoi, who was praising her, chuckled a little embarrassedly.

"Hehe, I'm just drawing it for fun, it's not that great—ah!"

It was not until she was giggling happily that Yayoi realized that the voice talking to her was so familiar... and annoying.

The hot breath on her neck made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. With a smile frozen on her face, Yayoi mechanically turned her neck behind her, and Ash's indifferent face came into her sight.

Chapter 35: Ash is very good at making girls cry

"Yo"

Ash raised two fingers expressionlessly and flicked them forward, giving the girl in front of him a unique greeting.

As Ash moved, Yayoi's cheeks gradually turned from fair to red, as if she was drunk. Her originally stiff smile became shy, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

So close...

The face is too close, and you want to kiss me - you are about to kiss my face!!!

“Yiyi ya ya ya——!”

Holding her picture book, Yayoi, with a blushing face and a pounding heart, jumped up from the bench. In order to get away from the male face that was almost leaning against her, she leaned back and sat down on the ground.

"Oh~" Ash, quick-witted, grabbed her collar. "You were so careless! You almost fell, didn't you?"

"No, no!" Seeing her collar about to be pulled open, revealing her snow-white skin from her neck, she couldn't help but think of the difficult scenes in the comics where Yayoi was about to cry out. "Don't touch me, let me go!"

"?" Confused, Ash shrugged, loosened his hand as he wished, and watched her fall to the ground with a groan.

"Really?" Even Ash couldn't help but want to complain at the girl's pained and timid look. "I'm not some giant monster... Let me see."

"Wait, this is mine, give it back to me!"

What I drew this time is... awful, awful! I can't let him see this! If this arrogant person sees it, he'll definitely bully me!

Although he thought so, Yayoi's weak power was almost useless to Ash, so he took the picture book in his hand without any hindrance, looking at the girl's tearful expression, and flipped it over to the newly drawn side.

Ash carefully looked up and down at the contents on the screen in front of him. Under Yayoi's frightened eyes, he did not show any dissatisfaction. Instead, the corners of his mouth curled up because he felt funny.

"It's 2014 in this world, which also happens to be the year of Fourze and Tokumei Sentai."

Therefore, the dynamic and handsome character that Yayoi sketched on this white paper with just simple lines in pencil is none other than "Kamen Rider Fourze" who wears armor like a space suit, has a rocket head on top and has a pair of big, piercing eyes as his symbol.

Of course, Yayoi drew not only Fourze, but also another Kamen Rider, which is... him.

To be more precise, Yayoi painted a picture of "Fourze" using a rocket switch to beat "Calibur". With the girl's concise and capable brushwork, she vividly presented a dynamic JUMP comic-level storyboard. Even Ash couldn't help but praise her skills, which were probably only second to those of several of his painter friends.

Thinking of this, Ash looked at her with a simple smile, and Yayoi, who was squatting with her head in her hands, lowered her head even lower.

Yayoi doesn't have a very good opinion of Ash.

After all, when this hanged man first appeared, he had a dark and deep look, and looked like the villain BOSS in the early and middle stages of special effects dramas who looked down on others. Even if he has been whitewashed now, he still looks like someone who looks down on others and does what he wants. He will definitely bully me!

What she didn't expect was that she was caught in the act by someone else. She was secretly imagining the scene of diss-ing the other party with comics. The villain in her heart was about to turn into a shouting figure. Yayoi didn't dare to think about what she would encounter next.

“I… wu…”

Ash stretched his neck and moved closer, only to receive more small wails from Yayoi.

“Wu…Wu…No, I hate it…”

Originally, Ash didn't have any strange thoughts, but when he saw the appearance of Yayoi, a timid little animal that couldn't escape, a strange and simple curiosity began to emerge, just like the idea of ​​flooding an ant nest with water, making Ash unable to help but want to bully her more.

"You don't have to be afraid~" The hot air blowing from her ears made Yayoi's back tremble. The "smiling tiger" with a very evil smile was now staring at her. "I'm not a good person~"

Ash's deliberately gentle but hidden cold tone was like a seed that took root and sprouted in Yayoi's heart.

"No, don't eat me...!"

A handsome but dark-looking man with a squinting smile approached the cute and clueless girl... The scene was so déjà vu that she wouldn't be surprised even if the man suddenly used his power to turn himself into a monster the next second. At this moment, her heart was clearly calling out to her to run away quickly, but the girl couldn't even move her legs.

"No, no, no, I'm not some giant ant monster, and I'm not Amazons. How can you slander me and accuse me of cannibalism? Besides, a green little thing like you is not even enough for me to eat."

"Please, forgive me...!" Yayoi, who was crying and speaking incoherently, was frightened by the merciless teasing of the man in front of her. She was so soft and tender that she just wanted to vent her inner grievances alone, why did she have to suffer such a thing!