Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

King Gokai leaped up, opened his metal mouth wide, twisted his flexible body like a volleyball player, raised his hands high and slammed the fireball towards the monster Clown Monster below. At the same time, he turned around following the downward force, raised his right foot that was burning with fierce and different-colored fire, followed the ball of light fire containing vitality, and kicked towards the monster Clown Monster under his feet!

“Gokai Rainbow Burst!”

King Gokai's feet gradually transformed into the image of a heroic dragon head. As the flames rose from the back of the entire machine, the entire appearance of the machine seemed to be shrouded by a red dragon. The huge fire dragon's mouth opened and bit the "sun" as it rushed towards the darkness!

"—"

The warm sun illuminates the entire dark world only at this moment.

"Wow--"

Originally, there was a starless night sky today, but now an orange Mars streaked across the sky, and then one Mars after another broke the silence. The "meteors" dragged long, bright red tails of fire and flew across the sky like arrows.

Millions of meteors flew by like fairies scattering flowers, dazzling the Pretty Cures whose eyes were already filled with starlight.

With her arms folded across her chest, Yayoi's eyes sparkled, and her longing look made her mouth open wide.

"So beautiful! It's like a shower of light!"

“How could it be—what on earth is this power, how could it be so—Ahhhh!”

The roars and screams of the Joker gradually became distorted and twisted as the tragic energy dissipated. Looking at the most blooming "flower" in the universe, the man threw the key into the empty treasure chest in the captain's room according to pirate tradition, turned around and gave a thumbs up to the exploding fireworks, then turned his wrist and pointed downwards.

"Got You!"

"These are really us....Wow!"

Before Akane could finish her words, she was startled by Ash approaching. She hadn't noticed during the initial panic, but now that she finally had time to take a closer look, she saw Ash's body riddled with holes from Joker's rapiers. Dark, muddy blood dripped onto the floor through the cracks in his armor. He was afraid that even if he drank water, it would spill from his body, which had become a watering can.

"Ash, you, your body!" I have never seen Akane so miserable. Even though they had just fought off a monster that only appeared in the shed, her legs couldn't help but tremble.

The excited girl didn't care about the distance and quickly stepped forward to grab Ash's arm, fearing that he would collapse on the spot.

"What's wrong? I'm not that fragile anymore."

"You still have the energy to talk nonsense?! Hurry up, go back to the hospital on Earth now!"

"The hospital's words are useless. By the time I'm done, I'll have bled out." Seeing Qian's anxious expression, almost crying, Ash explained a few more words. "It's not too serious, actually. I tried my best to avoid any vital injuries."

"How is that possible? I saw with my own eyes that Joker pierced your chest with his sword!"

After undoing his transformation, Ash proudly pulled out the "Spiky Hedgehog" fantasy driving book with a disfigured cover from under the vest of his suit, leaving Akane dumbfounded by his actions.

"I've been watching JOJO recently, so I made some preparations in advance on a whim."

Besides, it's just a little more bleeding. As long as the injury is not to the point where the person cannot move, all we need to do is stop the bleeding.

"By the way, Qian, lend me a light. I don't have the energy to suture myself right now."

"Fire? Do you want to smoke..." Qian, who was a little surprised, snapped her fingers and a small flame ignited on her fingertips. Just when she was feeling extremely strange, Ash suddenly grabbed her wrist and pressed the fire onto the bloody hole on his body.

"W-what are you doing!?"

"Don't move. It will hurt if the burn spreads elsewhere."

Upon hearing this, Akane stopped struggling and stared at the green smoke coming out of Ash with her ruby ​​eyes wide open.

Feeling the distinct burning sensation coming from her fingertips, the Pretty Cure's enhanced senses even allowed her to smell a very pungent aroma of barbecue. Unable to bear it any longer, Akane began to tremble all over. If it weren't for Ash's hand that was always supporting her, she would have almost fallen to her knees and vomited on the spot.

"Stab~"

A man holding a woman's hand was clearly an ambiguous gesture, but neither of them was in the mood to care. Ash, who remained calm throughout, used the girl's fingers to scratch the still-bleeding scar on his chest with a sharp, burning sound.

Phew~ It's worthy of being the flame of Pretty Cure. The warm burning won't even cause more serious burns or anything. Apart from being a little painful, it's more effective than hemostatic drugs... What?

As Ash let go, the girl in front of him knelt on the ground in a daze, and at the same time, louder and louder crying began to come from the ground.

“Ugh—wuuuuuuu, wuuuuuuuu, wahhhhhh!!”

This strong girl who had always held back her tears when she was bullied by herself and only sobbed quietly when facing the enemy, now had a collapsed expression and retched twice, then quickly covered her mouth. She seemed to have realized something and immediately let go of her hands. She knelt on all fours and began to cry sadly and even hysterically.

“Why…why are you doing this!!”

Qian was not scared to tears by the man's horrifying behavior. On the contrary, she could tell from Ash's face, which only had the corners of his mouth twitching, that he was used to this kind of thing and didn't care.

No matter how enthusiastic and open-minded she was, her instinct as a girl still made her feel resistance and shock that was hard to accept, as well as genuine anger and grievance rising from the bottom of her heart.

But now that anger was burning in her heart, the confused girl didn't even know who to vent this nameless fire on.

Was it the Joker? He had vanished. Should we blame Ash for this, saying it was his fault, his lack of common sense? But he simply—

"Why do you want to do this? But if the bleeding doesn't stop, I'm going to go into shock and pass out."

"Wow - no, that's not the question!" Yashi's matter-of-fact tone only made Qian's heart heavier, so she interrupted him loudly, and the vortex of sadness in her heart became deeper and deeper.

"If you want this, if you want this!" The trembling voice caused the back of her hands to turn pale because she pinched the hem of her skirt too hard. The girl couldn't suppress her sad face and her words were unclear for a while. Maybe she couldn't even tell what she wanted to say.

But even so, how could she turn a blind eye to the suffering of others?

"You're being too harsh on yourself if you do that!"

I...did I scare her?

Faced with the girl's sad sobbing, even Ash felt a little overwhelmed for a moment. The man pinched his fingers and racked his brains to try to comfort her in a slightly clumsy way.

In the end, he chose to "tell the truth" to the girl in front of him with whom he had fought side by side.

"If you're asking... I've tried to emulate them, but I'm still not a righteous ally. I have no interest in things like protecting the world or innocent people."

I'm just helping you guys as agreed with Miyuki, and I'm unhappy about the so-called bad end, that's all.

"So, my battle will be more lonely. If I am lonely, I must learn to make friends with the darkness, and at the same time, I must turn all the pain into strength to continue fighting. Only in this way can I keep going."

I've been through this myself, too. It might sound like I'm playing the victim, but I don't think it's all doom and gloom. I've been able to passionately battle powerful enemies I've only seen on TV before! Plus, I've occasionally run into lovable heroes like you. I think it's been quite rewarding!

Ash, who was squatting in front of the girl, heard the sobbing sound gradually subsiding. Just when he thought that his persuasion had worked, the girl raised her tearful face and looked up at him. She pursed her lips slightly and asked him a question.

"But does it hurt?"

Does it hurt...?

"My training hasn't reached the nerves yet, so of course it still hurts, but at this level—hmm?"

As he was speaking, Ash suddenly felt something warmer wrapped around his neck, followed by the heat from the intimate contact on his chest. He could hear the girl's faint breathing sounds close to him, and the warm orange hair that occasionally brushed across his nose made him feel a little itchy.

"sorry..."

Pressing her cheek against the sweat-soaked dark blue hair beside the man's ear, Akane took the initiative to embrace Ash in her arms and gently brushed her tear-stained eyelashes across his back.

"I don't know how to help you... yet."

I have no idea....

I only know that what he did was wrong, but I have no idea how he should do it correctly. I can't think of any reason... and I have no idea how to convince him.

But even so....

I also think that if he were to suffer this pain all the time, it would be too sad, wouldn't it? So, even if it's just a little bit, I want...

"When I was little, every time I got hurt while playing outside, my mother would hug me like this. At that time..."

At that time, even if I got bumped and bruised outside, and my body was in so much pain that I wanted to cry, as long as I could be held in such a warm embrace and listen to gentle words, I could smile again from behind my tears.

So, I don't know if this is the right thing to do, but if it makes you feel even a little better...

The battle suit on Akane's body began to slowly disintegrate as her mind wished. The orange sparks floating around her body ignited flames, wrapping the two people like a cosmic cocoon. It was obviously a scorching radiation that was hot enough to hurt people, but Ash only felt as if it was licking his wounds. As the flames dissipated, the scars left on the men's bodies by the burns were taken away by the miraculous light that transformed again.

Qian, who had turned back into herself, loosened her arms unskillfully and tightened the hug that was so heavy that it made her ribs ache, just to try her best to convey the little warmth in her heart to him.

"Are you...feeling any better?"

Akane's voice, now lowered to a lower pitch, became even sweeter, becoming softer and gentler than usual. However, Ash was stunned when he heard her hesitant question.

Oh, under the passionate and impulsive shell, there is such a gentle heart? This is really a kingly setting that never gets boring. No matter how many times you see it, you can feel the beauty under the seemingly carefree appearance.

"You really are so gentle..."

Ash suddenly realized that his previous irrelevant answer was not because he could not understand her concern, but because he was unwilling to admit it.

You were yelling about hating me yesterday... Although I don't hate me, after all, this contrast is quite beautiful, isn't it?

Thinking of this, Ash couldn't help but reveal a gentle smile that was unlike his own.

"Akane."

"Ok?"

"Let's keep this a secret between the two of us."

"......Um."

"Xia, there's one more thing."

"Well?"

"My wounds were split open by being hugged."

"Wow—W-where?! I'm sorry! I really—"

"Hahaha, I'm just kidding~"

"Really—you, you get carried away when you get too proud. You really are still such a nuisance!"

Just as she said, a new smile would be born from the tears.

Chapter 71 Midorikawa Naoki's Little Worries

At this time, in a world that was very far away and yet extremely close to where Ash was, as he disconnected the summoning link, a huge red pirate ship appeared out of thin air in front of the six people who had been waiting for a long time.

"Everyone, come and look at this!"

Having anticipated this, they excitedly gathered in front of the originally empty pirate treasure chest. The six members of the pirate team looked at the six Ranger Keys lying alone inside, especially the lifelike girl dolls carved on them. Although they felt hesitant, they still took them out one by one in a hurry.

"Well..." The trendy man, with a slightly exaggerated expression, looked at the key in the white girl's hand. It was hard to tell whether he was crying or laughing. "Could it be that the new generation team... is an all-female team?!"

"A super team made up entirely of girls is awesome—no! This is so unconventional! How can there be a team like this? And this skirt is so long, how are we supposed to change it—poof!"

"No, this looks like it was created by Ash again, a warrior from another world?" A sudden burst of thought knocked the silly man to the ground, and the woman in yellow, who was full of heroic temperament, picked up the yellow key, her eyes full of uncontrollable love.

"Although it looks soft and light, this costume is quite beautiful! This kid Ash is actually considerate of his big sister this time. He has good taste!"

"Wow~ So cute! Are these Ash's new friends? I really want to get to know them." The noble woman wrapped in soft clothes seemed to also like the pink girl on the key.

"But why are all the warriors in other worlds female?" After putting away the saber he had just trained, the man with pigtails stared at the blue girl's key in his hand.

Gokaizer's system has the ability to automatically switch the gender of the suit according to the user's gender, so these grown men don't have to be shy about wearing women's clothes.

But faced with these beautiful and cute battle suits with a very girly flavor... he really couldn't imagine himself using the transformation.

"Don't take it too seriously. It's a little strange being all girls... but Ash took the initiative to give us gifts this time, and it's just perfect!" The curly-haired man swung the green key around while speaking in Ash's favor. "The power of the Super Sentai alone is completely ineffective against our current enemies. If we could use warriors from other worlds, maybe we could find a way to defeat them!"

"Indeed, but if it can be acknowledged, what is the relationship between Ash and these female warriors?"

The red pirate captain wearing an eye patch was playing with the orange Ranger Key in his hand. After a while, he suddenly realized something and excitedly slapped the armrest of the chair.

"I see, I understand!"

The captain's sudden action startled everyone, but immediately attracted everyone's attention, making the others look at him expectantly.

"I see, these little girls are all his girlfriends, right? After all, they're just people his own age, so they can have some interesting conversations!" Not finding anything wrong at all, the man laughed heartily and even crossed his legs at a different angle. "Huh, this guy always says he's unattractive to women, but now he's really impressive!"

"..."

After a long silence, five people plus a mechanical bird rushed to the front with jaw-dropping expressions after listening to the ridiculous speech of their pirate captain.

"Eh--?!"

How did you come to this conclusion?

———The dividing line of the Pretty Cure set———

"The wind is so noisy today..."

Midorikawa Nao, who was once the green member of Pretty Cure but is now just an ordinary student, leaned his arms on the window, looking at Akane who was doing her daily volleyball training below. He felt the cool breeze and looked a little melancholy.

It's not that they encountered any troubles. In fact, since the Earth crisis, the frequency of invasions by the Kingdom of Tragedy has greatly decreased. They no longer have to go out on duty once a week on average like before, and are enjoying a rather leisurely daily life.

Even when Ash came over occasionally, he didn't tease them as much as before. In fact, from what I've observed, except for Lihua, whose personality was completely opposite to his and therefore they didn't get along, the relationship between the others and Ash... seemed to be pretty good?