Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"Stop it, are you going to bully me again?!"

"Alas... why else would I call you an idiot?" With a tone of disapproval, Ash retracted his fingers and, under her slightly frightened gaze, gently rubbed the reddened area. "I hear you. Don't apologize for something that wasn't your fault."

You have no obligation to help me, right? Who else would blame you but yourself?

Looking at Ash's fingers rubbing her forehead, a strange feeling arose in her heart.

"As for this bento... never mind, it doesn't matter." In front of the rather surprised Miyuki, Ash didn't even use chopsticks, he opened his mouth and quickly swallowed the cold dinner.

Apart from coffee, Ash has never really cared about food, and this lunch box... isn't that bad.

The plump rice, the delicious fried fish, the perfectly seasoned tofu and vegetables, and even the fruit sandwiched in between, were all authentic flavors that Ash had not tasted for a long time.

Although it has become completely cold and has lost all its flavor, the wonderful taste still comes from the gradually recovering tongue, making people feel genuinely happy.

The taste is not strong enough, not my type... but I don't hate it either. Speaking of which, it has been a long time since I have had such home-cooked meals.

"thanks for treatment."

"oh oh!"

Looking at the empty lunch box in her hand, Miyuki's mood improved a little.

"Don't be so surprised. After all, you said it was out of kindness, right? Besides, wasting food... I won't allow it."

A smile bloomed on Miyuki's face again, and Ash finally understood. Perhaps for a fool, whether feeling lost or happy, it was a very simple and direct thing.

Maybe, this is how she sees her relationship with me.

"Okay, tell me, why did you come to bring me food and look for me?" After closing the lunch box, Ash waited for Miyuki's answer, but she just looked at Ash with innocent eyes.

"If there's no reason, can't you come see Mr. Ash?"

"?"

Miyuki spoke innocently, forgetting for a moment about the book in her pocket.

"I just want to see the usual Ash, the one we don't know, is that okay?"

The pair of pink diamond gems in Ash's black eyes blinked innocently.

Chapter 122: It's Just What I Can Do

"If there's no reason, then it's not possible?"

"you said I?"

"Yes."

Miyuki's answer made Ash's prepared answer stuck in his mouth, and even the smile on his face froze.

That's not right. After all, a girl went to find a man and ran such a long distance with her lunch box without even determining the exact location. I also saw that she was protecting the lunch box seriously enough. I originally thought that she wanted something from me, so I had to be mentally prepared to make some effort depending on the situation.

As a result, you tell me that there is no reason for this series of actions?

Just to see my normal self? This—

Ash couldn't find any suitable words to describe it for a moment, but instead a strange feeling began to stir in his heart.

"You... you're so naive and straightforward that it makes me hate you."

Honestly speaking, unless he could raise his intelligence to the same level as her, Ash didn't think he could understand what Miyuki meant.

"No!" Miyuki, upon hearing Ash's words, immediately started gesturing with her hands, trying to clear up Ash's "misunderstanding." "I didn't come here with the intention of deliberately embarrassing Ash—huh?"

Before she could finish, the madly angry girl was covered by the even more helpless man's hand. "No need to explain, I know what you mean - really, I didn't say I blame you."

“Mmmmm…”

As a student, Miyuki had a height difference with Ash, so she had to look up to see Ash's face, which made the girl feel a little uncomfortable.

Of course, the "disharmony" and "awkwardness" she felt from Ash's words made her even more unhappy.

Mr. Ash...why won't you be more straightforward and honest in front of us?

"There's nothing wrong with saying it. Well, do you see it now?" The man with a relaxed tone opened his arms to Miyuki generously. His flamboyant movements seemed as if he was going to tap dance with her. The water- and fire-proof uniform on his body shook off the dust that had stuck to it from the tree as he swayed.

"What do you mean I don't know? Ha, how can I not know that there is something different about me? I am who I am. I won't change or run away. So, there is no difference, right?"

"That's not right." The cold wind around her made the girl tighten her collar. Then she looked at the man's face seriously and shook her head. "The Ash before is very different from the Ash now."

Before, whether he was our enemy or he took the initiative to help everyone because the transformation device was sealed, we could see Mr. Ash's seriousness. It seemed that he saw something and was ready to work hard. At that time, we could see the target in Mr. Ash's eyes.

But when did the man standing before me change? After his wedding with Lihua? Before, when we were discussing the Royal Clock? It felt like he had nothing else to do, so he looked... lonely?

"I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm a powerful person with power, so I have the right to choose. I can do whatever I want with my life, right?"

Miyuki took a deep breath and became serious.

"Yes, I know that Ash is a very powerful person." Miyuki nodded without hesitation. "It is precisely because of such a powerful Ash that I want to help Mr. Ash even more."

......

A strange emotion, just like when Miyuki persuaded him with straightforward and inexplicable reasons, began to flow in Ash's chest, a feeling that made him feel uncomfortable but itchy.

"You said it yourself, I'm a powerful person." After getting a little closer, the man slowly leaned forward, crouching down to Miyuki's level, eliminating the need for her to look up to make their eyes meet. "I think you're talking about something other than combat—I can survive anywhere, but you clearly can't. In that case, why would I need your help? What can you do?"

"I can do what I'm supposed to do: help Mr. Ash."

Still without any confusion, her straightforward answers and gazes were all sincere words from the girl's heart.

"It is precisely because we are powerful that we need help even more."

"Because, outside of battle, Mr. Ash is only one person."

Ash closed his mouth, and this time the silence lasted for a few seconds before he slowly spoke.

"no need."

Do you want to say that I'm lonely? I don't think so. After all, I've always been very happy. Besides, as a Pretty Cure, don't you think you're being too nosy?

"Do you still care about what I do normally? Can I sue you for violating my privacy? When you were Pretty Cure, our friendship was harmonious. That's enough."

"But we don't exist just as Pretty Cure. Mr. Ash, do you hate me, or are you unwilling to face me?" There was power in the girl's voice, and this time she didn't retreat a single step in the face of Ash's implicit threat.

"I don't really hate it... but at the end of the day, these things don't matter, right?"

"Of course there is!"

The girl's eyes were blazing, and her spirit was so high that one could almost see the aura emanating from behind her.

"The initial hostility was to change the ending of the world, and the subsequent seal was to make us stronger under pressure. Then, after Mr. Ash agreed to join us, he no longer acted on his own, but wanted to see the light of hope that we could change the tragic ending! Then we became stronger, and Ash became stronger too." The tongue-tied girl said illogical words, but the girl's eyes became brighter and brighter, to the point that Ash could not look directly at her.

"Although his actions so far have always been difficult to understand, generally speaking, Mr. Ash really likes us from the bottom of his heart! That's why he has been helping us!" With her fists clenched on her chest, Miyuki felt her heartbeat, similar to the one during the "bride robbery" that day, getting stronger and stronger, urging her to say such shameful words that she would never say on ordinary days.

"Huh—?!" Ash dragged out the sound, completely unaware of how the girl came up with that answer. He didn't even realize his posture had changed. "I-Idiot! What are you talking about? Like or something? Don't treat me like someone who's in love like Lei—are you kidding me? What you said can't even be an answer, idiot!"

"I really like Mr. Ash who loves us like this!"

It seemed as if she had not heard a word of Ash's distorted explanation. Miyuki interlocked her fingers and bowed deeply to the man in front of her.

"So, Mr. Ash."

"Please come live at my house!"

Chapter 123 Cohabitation Invitation

Miyuki didn't have any complicated thoughts, and she didn't even think about the cause and effect before she said all these things to Ash in a confused manner.

This time I ran away probably because of this reason. Actually, I don’t understand what I was thinking, but the voice in my heart seemed to tell me, especially when my mother told me that he didn’t even have a place to live, I wanted to help him.

I don't want anyone else around him except myself.

"If you don't have a place to stay, Mr. Ash, why don't you stay at my house? We do have a spare guest room."

As the girl bowed, her hair was lifted up, and the pigtails on both sides gently brushed Ash's nose, and the scent of shampoo was captured and sent into his olfactory system.

She looks like an inconspicuous country girl compared to her companions, but in fact, she is more beautiful than everyone else... No, what am I thinking now!

“Hah—hahaha?!”

Ash felt like he was completely overwhelmed, like Hiroshi when he saw the chicken. He was completely bewildered. The conversation, which had been going on smoothly, was shattered by the girl's reckless behavior.

Let's not even talk about whether this girl understands what she's saying... Let me sleep in the same room with a little girl or something? Ha, then wouldn't I really be the nanny the system mentioned?!

Thinking this way, Ash completely forgot about the fact that he almost lived with someone in real life.

"Hoshizora Miyuki, are you awake?"

Do you know what you are talking about?

"Hey... that." Hearing Ash's roar, the girl slowly raised her head, her cheeks slightly red, and began to squirm a little embarrassedly. "Maybe... you know?"

"That's what you said, you stupid woman!"

"Stop calling me an idiot. If you keep saying that, I'm going to become an idiot..."

"That's because you are indeed a big idiot!"

"I'm not an idiot! Ash, who always calls others idiots, is the idiot!"

After the two of them screamed and took a deep breath in sync, they tacitly stopped this confrontation like elementary school students quarreling. In the end, Ash couldn't bear it any longer and covered his face with his hands.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"That's what it means literally."

"It's precisely because the literal meaning is so outrageous that I came to ask you."

The feeling of cold fingers rubbing his temples did not make Ash feel any better.

"What's the reason? Anyway - I do live outside now, but that doesn't mean I have nowhere to live. You have to have a reason for wanting me to live with you, right?"

Ah... It's too late, there's no hope. Please, Battle Rabbit-kun, please lend me the ability to communicate properly with this idiot.

Isn't this the beginning of the conversation? I'm so tired...

"Ah!" Thinking of the time not long ago when Miyuki rushed into the wedding scene in her wedding dress because of a mistake in drawing lots, Ash suddenly felt that he had found his blind spot.

"Is it because you like me that you want to live with me?" Having determined the reason, Ash finally lowered his hand from covering his face, revealing a grin. "Even that sudden and inexplicable marriage robbery that day?"

This is a reasonable explanation, but what makes Ash feel uncertain is that he did not find the kind of affectionate look in her eyes that she had for him... It was different from the look he had seen before, but more like a greater intimacy?

Not sure, check again.

"As for the thing about liking someone - I really don't hate Mr. Ash, but if I like him, I don't know whether I do or not." After Ash mentioned it, Miyuki blushed again when she thought about it, but she still answered very straightforwardly.

"At the time, I just thought that Ash had used shady tactics to replace me with Lihua, and I did it unwillingly."

Sister, how come you don't know anything? And that accident really wasn't a shady thing!

"But, if there really is a reason."

The redness on her face remained unchanged, but a serious look was revealed in the girl's eyes.

"That's because I don't want Ash to continue to be alone."

Sleeping outside is so bad for your health! Thinking of this, Miyuki became even more worried.

The girl walked step by step to the squatting Ash. No longer feeling ashamed, she looked into Ash's dark but no longer empty eyes with her bright pink pupils.

"It's okay for me to be alone, and it's not something you need to worry about." He was about to say this, but couldn't bring himself to say it. He turned his head away subconsciously when he met those eyes, which held nothing but a positive smile. But he quickly looked back at Miyuki, feeling unhappy about the unintentional avoidance.

Unconsciously, looking into those eyes and recalling the time she spent with Ash, the girl made up her mind.

When we are with Ash, we always see him fighting. But if fighting is the only way for him to feel happy, then a smile like this - like that would be a little too monotonous!

"Mom... Mom also agreed, so it's okay!"

Ash has done so much for us, even if it's just a simple way of repaying him.

I want Ash to be able to put on a natural smile for me and us, even for things other than fighting.

In the gradually darkening woods, only the heartbeats and breathing sounds of the two people looking at each other continued to sound. No one spoke until Miyuki opened her cherry lips and shyly avoided Ash's sight.

"If, if Ash is someone you want to like."

Um, is this what you mean by Ash deliberately bringing forward the marriage that I had previously ruined? Am I understanding correctly?