Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Just when she was getting emotional, Zhi's head was suddenly knocked by Ash who walked in. The man seemed to shake his head helplessly, but he was clearly smiling at her on his face.

"Really? You're clearly a righteous hero fighting against evil, yet you still think the world is so simple. Your clear thoughts, which can be seen through at a glance, are really too straightforward."

It's so straightforward that it makes people like me hate myself.

"People who are too straightforward will suffer and be taken advantage of."

For example....

There was something else behind Ash's words, but Zhi couldn't hear it.

"What? You're suddenly talking about something as vast as the world? Go on!" Covering his head, he stared at Ash stubbornly. "I don't understand what's going on with an adult like you who seems to understand everything, but it's just that you keep thinking too complicatedly. That's why you see the world as complicated, right?"

"Heh, it seems our little Miss Green is actually a bit of a philosopher." Ash raised an eyebrow at Zhi's words and posed another question. "Then let me ask you, do you think the world is black and white, or a delicate gray?"

"Of course the world is like a rainbow, made up of everyone's various colors!"

He asked the question without hesitation, and then she realized that the other party actually used "Little Green" to refer to her question. Just as the girl was about to ask him to correct her, the man suddenly laughed and kept patting her shoulder with his hands.

"Well said! Hahaha, perhaps simplicity and straightforwardness are precisely the strengths of you Pretty Cure girls."

Being straightforward is our strength...?

"Mr. Ash, do you think I'm superfluous in Pretty Cure?"

Faced with Zhi's sudden question, Ash answered without hesitation.

"Of course not. Have you ever seen any extra team members? What makes you think such a thing?"

He took a deep breath, seemed to have made some decision, turned to the front, and bowed deeply to Ash seriously.

"I'm sorry, I saw you and Miyuki and the others getting along so well, but I was jealous of you even though I didn't have the courage to stand up to you!"

I thought that since you could replace the fifth person, it wouldn't matter whether I was a Pretty Cure or not. But you are definitely not... No, how could you, who are so proud, be a substitute for someone else?

"In my heart, I subconsciously put you——"

As she was speaking, Ash decisively denied her words.

"No, you're not jealous of me. I know what jealousy looks like."

For some reason, the image of a blue-haired girl wearing glasses floated through Ash's mind.

"What you're really unwilling to accept is yourself. You're afraid that you'll be left behind by everyone."

"But, as their friends, you're the most familiar with them, right?" Ash's eyes drifted to the side and then stopped there. "Do you think they'll stop recognizing you as their friend just because of something like this?"

Ash's words silenced Nao.

"Look, here they come."

As he was speaking, Ash pointed to the side. When he looked in the direction he was heading, he was surprised to see Miyuki and the others who seemed to have been sitting there waiting.

Someone patted her on the shoulder and gave her an encouraging look.

"How about checking with them yourself?"

"Nao~! Ash!"

Miyuki, who always had a cheerful look on her face all day, put her palm to her lips like a megaphone, waving her hands and happily shouting their names.

"Reika, Miyuki, Yayoi, Akane, the clown—the clown monster!"

Just when Zhi was feeling moved, a presence suddenly appeared in his way, making Zhi's eyes widen immediately. His attention was completely drawn to the funny arrow-shaped monster behind Miyuki and the others.

Why is the clown here? And those giant scissors are coming this way too!

"careful!"

The sudden appearance of the monster startled everyone except Ash. The girls who were a step slow to react had just taken out their transformation devices from their pockets when the monster shouted "Little~Ugly~Monster" and rotated the arrow in the opposite direction towards them. Invisible light waves rushed through their bodies, knocking the four people who were close to them to their feet with screams.

"Miyuki! Phew, that's great."

She was extremely nervous and rushed over to check. She was relieved when she found that her friend was just sitting on the ground in pain and had no wounds on her body. Then she reached out her hand.

"Come on, I'll pull you—"

"Snapped!"

The hand that was stretched out was ruthlessly slapped away.

"What, don't touch me?"

Meixing, who always greeted people with a smile, slapped Zhi's hand away without hesitation, and her face was full of visible impatience.

"Eh?"

Without figuring out what was going on, Zhi quickly turned to the side and wanted to say something to his childhood sweetheart Lihua, but when he turned around, he saw her looking at him with obvious disgust in her eyes.

"Stop."

The good friend who used to talk about everything quickly dusted himself off and stood up, taking a step back without mercy. His originally cold face was filled with a look of disgust that would make a masochist go from ecstasy to despair.

"Please don't come near me. I don't have anything to say to you, right?"

"Eh?"

His eyes were blank and his mouth was wide open, his outstretched hands were frozen in place with nowhere to put them.

I....

what happened?

why?

Chapter 76: Who is not needed?

Lowering his arms that were blocking his face, Ash narrowed his eyes slightly.

I felt like I was hit... but I didn't feel hurt. So, was it some other kind of "attack"?

This is really bad.

Ash's heart couldn't help but feel anxious. After all, according to past experience, this kind of invisible and intangible influence is more troublesome than actual damage! Especially in this situation that seems to be related to the rule system, if things go wrong, even he might be in trouble--!

"Good afternoon, Mr. Wang Jian and everyone from Pretty Cure~"

As he was speaking, a voice that was always too sweet appeared again, but this time his voice had a hoarseness to it.

"You're resurrected?"

Ash looked at the clown who had emerged from behind the clown monster, and he didn't have a good look on his face. "You're really too strong, aren't you? Rather than being a constant enemy and getting defeated time and again by the heroes of justice, since you've lost, why don't you just die peacefully?"

"Please allow me to respectfully decline this offer until I can repay your warm hospitality." Pulling back a corner of his mask, Joker showed Ash the horrified marks left by the flames on his face. "I can't just leave so easily~"

Ash crossed his arms across his chest, waiting for a few tusks to come out of his dog's mouth.

The Joker glanced at the girls with undisguised malicious eyes and stepped back slightly, as if actively inviting Ash to come closer.

"Mr. Wang Jian, you rejected my invitation at first, but I never thought you'd actually become friends with Pretty Cure. Now you're being a... well, a babysitter. Don't you think it's too cheap for you?"

Without fear, Ash drew the dark sword Yue'an from his waist as he approached the challenge.

"Are you provoking me in the same way I used to?"

"No, no, no, I'm just stating some facts, right?" Joker seemed genuinely frightened by Ash's threats and waved his hands exaggeratedly at him. "Compared to the way you're always restrained with them now, I still prefer the more evil you who threatened me back then~"

ha?

Ash, who originally just took Joker's words as a joke, brought up some hidden emotions when he heard the last sentence.

Is that true? Yeah... When did I start to take the initiative to restrain myself?

"Mr. Wang Jian, do you really like Pretty Cure?" Joker, who was extremely sensitive to dark forces like tragic energy, wouldn't miss a chance to sway Ash, and he continued his attack. "Is playing with Pretty Cure really that much fun? Or is it..."

The corners of Ash's mouth, which was approaching him, twisted to an almost exaggerated degree. "Do you really think a born villain like you can stay friends with them forever?"

"Whether it's a shed snake or a dragon, even if they knock out their teeth, shed their scales, and live in a sheep pen, they can't happily play with kittens, lambs, and puppies and become friends~!"

"rub--!"

The sharp sword cut through the place where the joker's neck was originally. The clown bent back to an exaggerated angle and shot several magic bullets at the man through his crotch with his hands. He was well prepared and drew the dark sword downward in a crescent-shaped arc. The torn space crack swallowed up the attack of tragic energy, and then the impact of the explosion blew the two apart.

"It seems that we are already familiar with each other's routines."

The opponent seemed to have figured out the range of his attack and the trajectory of his sword, and he also mastered the opponent's tricks.

Ash narrowed his eyes and looked at the joker's smiling face that made him very unhappy.

If for no other reason, it was because that smiling face that seemed to be always mocking everyone for fun reminded him of his past self, which made him even more unhappy.

"I thought you had something grand to say, but this is all you get." Ash scoffed disdainfully, heaving the holy sword over his shoulder. "Sorry, that topic has passed."

"Whether this will work or not, Mr. Wang Jian knows better than I do, right?" The unflinching Joker wore a confident expression, as confident as Ash. "But right now, you're more worried about her than me, pretending to be friends with them, right?"

Looking at the Arrow Clown Monster who ran away without fighting with the Pretty Cure, Ash's suspicion about the bad fact was confirmed.

"Hehe, as the arrows begin to rotate, the Joker's emotions will also reverse~" Like any good villain, Joker thoughtfully explained the details of his plan. "Heaven will become hell, love will turn to hate. Isn't that wonderful?"

After all, she is the only Pretty Cure who cannot transform yet. How can we in Tragedy Kingdom not take advantage of this breakthrough and turn her into a true "tragedy"?

"What happens next is going to be interesting. For you, who pretended to be their 'partner', it would be even more painful to watch such a tragedy happen to her, right?!"

Without even giving Ash a chance to yell "Wait!", Joker and the Joker moved away from the spot.

"You're kidding." Ash felt even more upset when he saw Joker showing off in front of him than when he was humiliated. "Do you think you can defeat me like this?"

The man's hand on the hilt of the sword tightened more and more.

Her former good friends did not hesitate to move away from Zhi, who was still frozen in place due to the huge shock. By the time she reacted, they had already formed a vacuum circle around Zhi.

I just can't figure it out and don't know what happened.

"Everyone, what's going on?"

She didn't even care about the threat from the clown monster. She just felt more and more anxious and kept calling their names one by one, but no one responded to her.

"Akane-Akane?!"

"Huh? We're not on a first-name basis yet, are we?"

Qian, who is usually very warm and welcoming, turned her head away and even seemed to not want to make eye contact with Zhi.

"Wait, Akane, we—we've always been competing to be the best, right? How can you say that?"

"You've been losing to me all along, including recently. How can you be considered my opponent?" Akane, arms folded across her chest, glanced disdainfully at the flustered green girl. "I have no intention of making peace with a defeated opponent."

"Ya... Yayoi?"

In extreme panic, he hurriedly looked at the most gentle Yayoi, hoping to get her gentle response, but he saw the girl trembling and holding the picture book in front of him.

"Ugh, no, don't look over here!"

"Why, what's wrong, Yayoi? Haven't we always been friends?"

"No! Don't come near me ahhhh!"

Eager to get an answer, he stared at the yellow-haired girl crying and shouting in front of him, and a very bad feeling rose in his chest.

Is it because of the clown? But what happened to everyone? Aren’t we... friends? Or are we?

Am I really... no longer needed by everyone?

Chapter 77: Pretty Cure is also bullied

There was a story in ancient Greek mythology that Sisyphus offended the gods, so in order to punish him, the gods made him push a huge rock to the top of the mountain. However, the rock was too heavy and would eventually roll down before the bottom, and all his efforts would be wasted.

The punishment would make him repeat this pain endlessly. Now Midorikawa Naoki knew what it felt like to suffer over and over again. She called out her friends' names over and over again, but all she got were extremely cold and even disgusted responses.

How could this happen! Qian, Lihua! What happened to everyone?

Panic, fear, sadness, sorrow, entanglement - it is hard to imagine that so many negative emotions can appear on the face of the straightforward Midorikawa Naoki.

A bad idea came to her mind, but she didn't want to believe it.

Some people are born with a solitary personality, which makes it difficult for them to have friends. Some people use sweet words to make others become their friends. Others always cherish and treasure everything they have.

Midorikawa Nao is the latter. As someone who values ​​friendship and family around her immensely, the disgust on Miyuki and the others' faces, which is completely different from their past, makes her feel even more uncomfortable than if she were killed.

The Smiling Pretty Cures ignored him and turned away. They were still smiling together, but this time there was one girl missing.