Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

From beginning to end, he didn't say a word to her.

"Ding--"

This is the place behind them, at the top of the iconic high-rise building in Conservation City, where a bell rings to remind citizens that a certain hour has arrived.

However, when the bell sound reached his and her ears, it took on a different meaning.

"clang--"

The soul-calming bells continue to ring.

It's the bell of regret...

It's the sound of sad bells...

Perhaps this bell sound is real, foreshadowing the future.

【Bonus】Case File 65 Two injured people, two injured hearts

He sprayed the blood-clotting spray with the symbol of a certain organization on his chest. With the severe pain that made Ash's mouth twitch, the man finally stopped walking and bleeding.

He could no longer hear Nonoka's voice behind him, nor could he hear the frightening ringing of the bell. Even the ambulance and the screams of onlookers were left behind.

He finally got the peace he wanted.

"Let's go." He patted V REX, his voice unusually soft. "Let me go back and relax. I've had too much to do today."

The system did not come out this time, probably busy with something else. The only response he got was the low growl of V rex sitting down.

"Don't you need to rescue Ms. Nonoka?" V rex seemed to ask, his heart as gentle as the person who provided this super AI template.

“No, she is now…she…she…”

She told them countless times, but in the end, Ash didn't tell her what happened to her.

Finally, he closed his mouth and lay back on the special metal that made people feel cold from the heels to the neck. Only the sun shining from above, acting as a proxy for God, warmed everyone equally, including Ash of course.

Now, I just want to sleep.

The accident happened that day at a movie press conference, a place where there is no shortage of reporters who are more interested in news than their lives.

A fierce terminator that is far more powerful than ever before, a completely subversive gentle and insane Precure, the ultimate perverted Time Fire, and the unknown ending after the pink and red swords fight that attracted global attention.

Each of them, taken individually, would be an explosive headline that would make the internet boil for months, but they are all arranged to unfold in the same event with climaxes one after another. In comparison, the family dispute of the Yakushiji family is just a trivial matter like gossip.

Some worry about or question precure, some attack or yearn for time fire. At the same time, a large number of "cure yell x time fire" cult CP parties have appeared on some websites that are neither for boys nor for young girls, and a large number of unspeakable secondary and even tertiary fan fictions have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Of course, these are all irrelevant to Ash.

After turning the sign at the door over and performing several operations on himself, Ash, with his chest wrapped in thick bandages, fell asleep in his office chair.

When Ash got up again, it was already dusk the next day.

The man opened his eyes, clarity and chaos split in half. The sunset light through the window shone on the man's exposed upper body, the muscular body of an American superhero as if chopped by a knife and an axe, paired with the pure white bandage on his chest stained with crimson, revealing an inexplicable sense of decadence under his mature and domineering appearance.

After breaking up the two energy blocks and putting them into his mouth, Ash stretched his crackling joints. His body, which he never missed exercising, had recovered well, which was good news.

As for the other one, V-Rex held his transformed mobile phone in his mouth and showed him the red record of 99+. There was only one source of these missed calls: Nonoka's sister, Nono Kotori.

This is something Ash needs to solve on his own.

Ash gestured to V-Rex to help him connect the phone. His own hand was still tied in plaster and he didn't want to move.

"Hey—Ash! You bastard, where are you now?!"

The suppressed roar of anger from the female college student exploded like firecrackers in the quiet clinic.

After scratching her ears, Ash could understand. After all, if she saw her sister's appearance... she didn't directly use the Zaun people's ultimate attack mode on her. This was indeed the reason why the per capita morality of this world was close to the level of the Kingdom of Light.

"I'm in the hospital... It's not convenient right now. What happened to you?"

"My sister was just brought back by the doctor, covered in injuries. My parents were terrified! What on earth happened to you that you ended up like this?!"

"Why, my sister is by her side...why is she the only one around her?"

The anger dissipated a little, and the bird's original bell-like voice was mixed with a dull cry.

"Go watch the news." Without answering her second question, Ash replied weakly. The other side remained silent for five minutes, and then more relaxed voices came over.

"Um... I'm sorry, Mr. Ash, my sister is now..."

"Not in good condition?"

Ash pricked up his ears.

"She locked herself away..."

"what?"

"In her own room, not only the door but even the window is blocked - my father, mother and I have called her many times, but my sister just won't open the door."

"My sister hasn't eaten anything all day, so... please, please!"

"I understand...let me go over and persuade them, okay?"

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Ash waved to V-Rex to end the call, and then instructed V-Rex to dig out a pile of strange metal materials from the clinic's warehouse. After some tinkering, an electric wheelchair appeared under Ash's butt.

Instead of driving a motorcycle or a sports car, he dressed up as OTTO to meet women... If my old friends knew about this, they would die of laughter on the spot.

About fifteen minutes later, Ash, who had struggled all the way here, rang the doorbell of Nono's house with a plaster. The person who came to open the door was Hana's sister whom he had met before, the woman who almost raped him on the phone, Nono Kotori.

"Let me in, so I can see her."

The remaining members of the Nono family seemed overwhelmed by Ash's arrival, mostly because of the visually striking plaster and dark red bandages all over Ash's body, which gave Ash some treatment that he didn't usually get.

"Um, let me help—"

"Need not."

Nono Kotori wanted to help him lift the wheelchair, but was stopped by Ash. She and her parents looked at Ash limping up the stairs alone, wanting to say something but hesitant.

Looking back, I could see three people coming from the corner with pleading expressions on their faces, and they didn't leave until Ash made a reassuring gesture.

To be honest, Ash was envious.

When I came to my senses, I realized that there were only two people on the entire second floor.

"Flower, it's me, Ash."

"..."

"I know you don't want others to know, so now it's just the two of us here."

Ash knocked, or rather poked the door of Nonoka's bedroom.

"..."

As expected, there was no response.

"Why, don't you want to talk to your dear doctor?"

"..."

"In no mood......"

【Bonus】Case File 66 Back to Back, No Hug

Under the crimson flames, the man jokingly pulled the trigger. The blazing fire was purely for his own pleasure. Half a month ago, the warrior who piloted the V-REX mechanical dinosaur, the man known as "Time Fire."

With a relaxed smile, the man extended a helping hand to me that he longed for. In the small clinic where there was only him, me and the sunlight shining in, he made my stagnant heart feel happy. The doctor who appeared in the conservation city half a month ago and saved me was a man called "Ash".

Indeed, how could Ash and Time Fire be the same person? It's like how Cure Yell could be related to Nonoka. It's really...unfunny.

A day later, Nonoka still hasn't figured it out and hasn't gotten over it.

After being carried home by the doctor, Nonoka locked the door and pulled the curtains tightly to block the sunlight from entering. With the lights off, there was nothing but darkness in the room.

The flower that was originally afraid of the dark now hides in the depths of darkness, as if this is the only way to make her feel at ease and unwilling to show up.

The stomach, if it could still be called a stomach, rumbled in vain for a long time, was empty for a long time, ached and ached, and then turned into a stone in the stomach and became motionless.

No eating, no drinking, no sleeping.

How much time has passed, in this room.

Nonoka couldn't remember.

During this half month, what I gained was hope or regret.

I don’t know cure yell either.

She didn't want to see anything, didn't want to think about anything, and her body was suppressed to the minimum activity. Her breathing was slow, her heartbeat was weak, and even her body temperature seemed to be dropping. The necessary physiological activities of humans had been forgotten, and only breathing still persisted tenaciously. Every time Nonoka was about to suffocate, the stubborn instinct for survival would forcibly take back control.

So Nonoka is still alive, living meaninglessly in this darkness.

The clock used for timing had no battery as Nonoka had removed it, and the hands were invisible in the darkness.

Time has no meaning, the future has no meaning, and dreams have no meaning either.

Why did she torture herself like this? It was just a rejection of her confession, was there any need to make such a big deal out of it?

If a person's existence is completely meaningless, then death is something that must be done for the sake of others.

As Nonoka, I am a useless thing in this world, a complete loser. As a friend, I am not worthy of their brilliance at all. As a family member, I can only hold my parents and Kotori back.

Although I had some success as Cure Yell and was regarded as a savior and a beautiful big sister, that was in the past.

Cure Yell is no longer qualified. He almost went berserk and destroyed the city without paying attention to the damage. He no longer helped others but was wholeheartedly devoted to destruction. He almost killed his daughter, Saya, who was also his best friend, in front of her mother. And, and... Time Fire.

In the darkness, beside her, hugging her knees, the "Heart of Light" transformer and the "Future Crystal" half-stained black lay on the ground. As the last straw that broke the camel's back, they no longer responded to the flower and became nothing more than children's toys.

The hero everyone expected, Cure Yell, is no longer a person. I can no longer transform, and I can no longer shine, nor can I cheer for anyone.

They say they are inspiring and thinking about the future...but in the end, they are just deceiving themselves.

Maybe this is the world's "punishment" for what I did that day... But it doesn't matter anymore.

So be it.

I stayed like this until I lost consciousness, until I stopped breathing, until I was completely dead. Although I felt sorry for my parents and the little bird, and had to trouble them to carry my stinking body out, but...

Dr. Ash, you will be very disappointed in me, right?

boom!

Ah, is the little bird here to persuade me to go out again?

I'm sorry, sister. I'm such a useless person. If I go out, I will only continue to cause trouble for you, right?

"Flower, it's me, Ash."

"..."

"I know you don't want others to know, so now it's just the two of us here."

Bang bang bang!

There was another knock on the door, and Hua closed her eyes and covered her ears with her hands.

"Why, don't you want to talk to your dear doctor?"

"In no mood......"

"It's not Time Fire, it's Doctor Ash."

“Just go…”

What else can we talk about?

Taking two steps back, Ash was about to pull out the fire axe with one hand and break the door, when he suddenly had an idea and gently pressed his palm on the door. Sure enough, he felt the weight of Nonoka, who was too thin, pressing on it.

Leaning against the door... Don't you want me to come in?

"alright."

If that's what you insist on.

The noise outside the door quieted down. Just when Hua thought that Ash was going to give up on her, she suddenly felt a shock behind her and felt a familiar breath approaching from behind.

"If you really don't want to see me, then let's just say this."