Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Why, why did it turn out like this?

"Uh huh..."

Walking alone in the corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant, without her smart friend and Ash, Miyuki, standing at the crossroads of life, seemed completely helpless in the face of the invisible future that the Pretty Cure was facing.

What should I do? After hearing such words, should I just go home and wait for good news from Ash in a week?

But... do we really want Ash to fight alone? No! Just the wounds that were exposed yesterday were scary! What if he gets hurt again, or even has an accident? No, no, even if we can win, if it means sacrificing Ash, I don't want it!

"Hahahaha... I don't understand. I don't understand what Ash is saying!"

I want to help Ash, but if I keep pestering him, he'll get disliked and even dump me. But I can't just pretend nothing happened.

What should I do?...

"Mmmmm--no!"

"Akane-chan!?"

A familiar voice calling from the ward next to her interrupted her thoughts, making Miyuki startled. She rushed in and as expected, she saw Akane, who was sweating profusely with pillows wrapped on both sides of her forehead and looked extremely tired.

"Akane, Akane!" Miyuki trotted over and held Akane's shoulders as she rolled back and forth. "What on earth happened last night?!"

She was clearly not injured, so why did the passionate and strong Qian show such a devastated expression?

"Miyuki... It's Miyuki! So good!" After seeing who was in front of her, Miyuki was caught off guard and was hugged tightly. "How terrifying! The future... The future is completely destroyed, leaving only despair and darkness. How terrifying!"

"The future?" Miyuki, who didn't understand the meaning but understood her train of thought, followed up on her question, "Akane, do you mean you saw the future?"

"Hmm..." A trembling tremor echoed through the embrace, a hold she refused to let go. Akane's eyes, filled with fear and despair, allowed Miyuki to wipe the tears from her eyes. "In the end, what I saw was that Piero and that guy named 'Gago' won. The future I envisioned was completely dark, with everyone and the world trapped in the worst possible tragedy."

"This is what Ash has been seeing. Why..."

Did Akane say this was what Ash had been seeing all along? As Akane revealed bits and pieces of information, Miyuki recalled Ash's words about a bad ending after their victory, and gradually, she felt as if she had pieced together the truth.

Akane's reaction was that she saw a hopeless and dark future. Could it be that... since then, he's always been so extreme because he's always seen tragic endings? If that's the case—

"If this is the outcome, then what are we fighting for?"

As Akane spoke negatively, a dark "tragic energy" seemed to surge out from behind her.

Her words reminded Miyuki of the previous quarrel between Ash and them. A trace of confusion appeared in Miyuki's eyes, but when she heard her friend's weak crying voice coming from her arms, the last bit of confusion in the girl disappeared.

Miyuki just took a deep breath.

"I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good at speaking. But..."

"Akane, do you remember?" He gently lifted Akane, who was holding him, from his arms and brought her to him. With a gentle tone, he began to recall the past with Akane. "When Ash first became our enemy, he must have seen the same thing as Akane."

"Ash is much smarter than me. When doing homework, no matter how difficult the English or math equations are, he can give the answer at a glance. Although it's annoying that he always calls me an idiot in the end." When Miyuki said this, she couldn't help laughing. As Miyuki recalled, the emptiness in Akane's eyes flickered and gradually began to clear up.

"Even someone as smart as Ash sometimes gets stuck in a rut. Even someone as smart as him who still loves to dwell on things, didn't he ultimately choose to believe that we can change the future?"

"So, Akane, no matter how dark the so-called future may be, it can't be determined arbitrarily by Piero and the others. Wherever there is, there will definitely be you and me, Yayoi, Reika, Nao, and Ash!"

"This ending must be decided by everyone together! So!"

As she spoke, gradually, the question that had previously troubled Miyuki seemed to have an answer in her mind.

"No matter how despair you see, let us create a world where everyone, including that guy, can smile from the bottom of their hearts!"

As she spoke, the girl stretched out two fingers and curled the corners of her mouth into a gentle arc.

"If you only see darkness, it's hard to find happiness. Come, Akane, come with me. Smile~ Smile~ If you smile, both you and others will feel better!"

Tears kept rolling down from Akane's face as she regained her fiery orange glow. Chunlai held the hand of her companion, who always had a smiling face, and nodded heavily, crying and laughing.

"Ok!"

"Miyuki, I probably can't do this right now, so please!"

In the future she saw, there was an existence that Qian was extremely concerned about, and for this reason she was almost begging her best friend.

"No matter which future it is, for some reason... Ash will disappear or die in the end."

"So, please, save him!"

Chapter 176: Jiagu, cunning and brutal

Yaxiu was now wandering around the street, looking like Jiang Taigong, who said, "Come and kill this fat and ruthless person!" Of course, Jiagu saw him, but he was not going to fight him before the agreed Friday.

Although he had shamelessly taken full ownership of the right to interpret "Kiruru" in this world, he had, after all, proactively arranged the date, and he didn't want to slap himself in the face so soon. A few days wouldn't make a difference, right? It would be better to wait and see if there were any other developments.

And this waiting seemed to have caused Piero's dissatisfaction with him.

"Why didn't you just kill him?"

"Why? Because everything is going according to plan..." The dark core, now coiled to a gleaming black, was thrown into the air and caught by the tattooed man, who grasped it tightly. "Also, when did you, a man whose body was destroyed, get to tell me what to do? Remember, what you ask of me is far greater than what I ask of you!"

Let me kill him now, then you can give me the "dark power" I lack or something? Although it is not impossible, but if I can have it both ways, why should I exhaust the resources now?

The alliance oaths they once made to each other are now worthless in his hands. Gagu had already made up his mind that after he seized the dark side of Ash, he would turn against him and get rid of this thin-skinned but powerful guy who allowed himself to be manipulated. If he didn't do so, it would be a betrayal of his evil personality.

"If it weren't for me, even if you really were some damn Dark Emperor, you would have become part of the space junk by now."

The brutality of Gagu was exposed at this moment. His fingers slowly increased the pressure, squeezing the constantly beating core inward. The core, which was squeezed and deformed, seemed to be about to be crushed in his hands. Under the pressure, Piero had to spit out more things to appease the other party.

"That's about it."

Feeling the incomparably pure dark power being absorbed by the spirit stone at his waist, Jiagu groaned in comfort and nodded in satisfaction before releasing the threatening power.

Apart from anything else, this level of darkness was the first time he had encountered it in the world he had "plundered". This was the power he had always been pursuing!

Although he seems to have a comfortable life as he possesses the ultimate power, due to the devastating consequences of his early reckless behavior in different worlds with Catherine, he has long been on the wanted list of the "Space-Time Administration" and is often hunted down by more powerful beings. Even Catherine can only steal his identity and carefully stay in hiding to act as his accomplice.

Therefore, in order to live a free and easy life with Catherine, he would rather take the risk to seize what belongs to Ash. If it is for the person who saved him, he is willing to do anything!

So I am increasingly looking forward to seeing how delicious the "darkness" in Ash will be.

"Then..." Perhaps because of the other party's shamelessness, which was exposed before even completing the task, Piero's previously inorganic voice was a little stuck. "Why don't you attack the Pretty Cure?"

"They won't let you go either. They are your enemies."

"Having said that, I kind of don't want to fight them."

Of course he understood what Piero meant, but he also had his own considerations.

The superb fighting skills and inspiration displayed by Ash were a fact that even Gagu, who had plundered and killed in many worlds, had to admit. However, the gap in absolute strength could be bridged, and this was the confidence that gave him the courage to become Ash's enemy.

In comparison, he truly didn't care for those Pretty Cures who had transformed from little girls. Even without using his "supernatural rage" ability, which he wasn't used to, Gagu was confident he could deal with them before they could fully unleash their power. But he was afraid that in a desperate situation, they would suddenly become unreasonable and outrageous, killing him instantly. How could he then seek justice?

After all, if it weren't for a certain "kindhearted person" who came to his aid when he first arrived in this universe, he would have likely been struck down by the mighty "Queen of Light" who protected this universe with a single blow filled with love and peace. This experience had truly left a psychological scar on him, along with the legendary warrior, the "Pretty Cure."

Furthermore, according to the information Piero had revealed, there seemed to be a figure behind these Pretty Cure called the "Fairy Queen." What if he defeated the younger ones and the older ones came? Would he throw Piero, the only one left, out to attract attention?

To sum up, Gagu would rather continue to fight with Ash than fight with the five Pretty Cure, even if they hold a grudge against him.

"Anyway, I have my own considerations, so don't worry about it."

He brushed it off with a few casual words. Anyway, his only target was the "Dark Echo" on Ash. He wanted him to fight Pretty Cure head-on for nothing? Ha, he wasn't a fool like Daguba who would become paralyzed at the sight of a strong person. He was the only one who could rob others, so why would he do it for nothing?

"But what you said reminded me."

Although he didn't want to confront them, he would be very happy if he could torture those who had come into contact with Ash and put some pressure on him to bring out more of his "dark side".

With the help of Piero, Gagu retrieved the images near the girls' home and prepared to take action when the opportunity arose, but the result disappointed him greatly. For some reason, those Pretty Cures had all turned into otakus and were "hiding" at home. He could even see from the screen that they all had expressions of dissatisfaction and grievance on their faces.

"It's already been calculated in advance? Tsk, there's nothing we can do about it."

Just as he was trying to change his approach, a girl with a different expression from the others in the picture caught his attention. The pink-haired girl with a bright smile on her face was holding an iron box wrapped in a warm towel, then took out a small book from her pocket and was about to open it.

This immediately attracted Gagu's attention. He was familiar with the "Gate of Books". It was one of the most commonly used things in the Time Management Bureau besides the "Time Demon". After all, it was so convenient to be able to teleport anytime and anywhere with just the coordinates.

But it is precisely because of this efficiency that there are flaws. For example, if the coordinate reaction during this transmission can be recorded and the same location can be opened...

He had once used Catherine's ability to open a portal to kill several members of the Time Management Bureau before they could even react.

"Hey, Master Piero." He lifted Piero's hands up in a frivolous tone, with an extremely hypocritical "pleading" look on his face. "Don't you have a solution?"

As soon as Jiagu finished speaking, a book-like special effect with a dark aura opened in front of him.

Chapter 177: The Beginning of the Story of Despair

"Huh huh huh~"

In the light pink room filled with girlishness, the cheerful singing of a girl echoed. Miyuki tightened the towel used for keeping warm outside the iron box. She had already decided what she was going to do.

"Last time, they said it was left out for too long and got cold, so I guess it's fine this time~"

When Ash faced the unknown powerful enemy, he would rather fight alone than ask them for help. Instead, he forced the girls to stay at home. This was something that Miyuki found quite strange.

When he was dueling with them, he looked like he would not complain even if he was killed, and he did not despair even when he was nailed to the cross by Piero. Moreover, he was not the kind of pedantic person who insisted on a one-on-one duel. Various signs indicated that there might be something about the enemy that made him anxious, so he was so determined not to listen to advice.

Well, if someone as smart as Lihua, maybe she could find clues from the traces, but I can’t figure it out, so I can only use my own method~!

Now Miyuki was not preparing a sermon, but lines of encouragement and comfort.

The things in the lunch box in her hand were also prepared to cheer up Ash. After all, Ash said last time that he wanted to eat the food he cooked, and Miyuki still remembered it clearly. Although the process of learning from her mother was difficult, if it was to cheer up Ash, then there was no problem~!

Gently rubbing the band-aids on her fingers, the girl smiled a little embarrassedly.

Call it meddling, or calling it that we can no longer fight side by side. But let him know that we will always stand by him! This way, even he won't be able to say anything. After all, Ash is not someone who would refuse kindness.

But Ash also said we can't leave the house casually. Is he worried that we might be attacked or robbed outside? Coincidentally, the "Book Door" he gave me came in handy now.

"Hey~"

Miyuki, whose expression couldn't contain her excitement, looked left and right to make sure her mother was not there, then enthusiastically jumped into the portal in the book that opened in front of her. She was very excited by the feeling of jumping into the story.

"Ah--" Miyuki was about to call out Ash's name after stepping out of the book when a pressure came from behind. Before she could even look back, she was suddenly grabbed by the neck by a huge force. Her whole body was pulled out of gravity and was caught in the air.

"Crack!"

Her throat felt like something was stuck and she couldn't breathe. The sudden pressure on the arteries on both sides of her neck almost made the girl faint.

"Miyuki?"

Standing on the street at the end of the alley, Ash turned around suddenly. An inexplicable feeling made him stare as sharp as a sword to scan every corner behind him, but except for a passing patrolman who was paralyzed by his gaze and sat on the ground, there was only an empty scene in front of him because of the previous accident.

No, nothing.

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In the dazed shock caused by the continuous leaps forward, Miyuki, who was being swung around in her hands like an object, finally felt herself stop. She realized that the surrounding scene had turned into the suburbs. Miyuki finally had the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the true appearance of the intruding enemy.

If Ash had been a lone wolf, then the man before him, a subspecies of Miyuki, was a hyena with a mouth full of blood. With wild, grayish-white hair and lips that looked almost black and purple, and a face covered in terrifying tattoos, the man in military uniform surveyed his prey with a look of delight.

"This is such an unexpected bonus~ I didn't expect it would be so easy to catch you, Pretty Cure!"

Originally, Gagu was planning to attack their families, and then deliberately direct the spearhead towards Ash to make him alienated from his friends and relatives to increase the pressure on him to "turn evil", but he never thought that he would get the chance to catch him alive in one go. Now it's going to be fun!

"Did I overestimate it? It really doesn't live up to its reputation!"

The lingering, thick, bloody smell emanating from his aura was enough to make even the most ordinary person tremble. Even Miyuki had nearly fainted from the sudden attack, but now, facing him, she gradually calmed down.

She is not afraid of her, that's right, she is not afraid of her!

"cough!"

As if dissatisfied with the stubborn expression on the girl's face, Jia Gu restrained his arrogant smile, and gradually exerted force on the hand clasped around her neck, and Miyuki's expression began to become more painful.

Miyuki's wild little feet kept kicking at Gagu's motionless chest. She wanted to take out the makeup box from her pocket to transform, but her vision began to blur and her arms began to become uncontrollable.

Looking at Miyuki who was lifted into the air and couldn't even struggle because of the difficulty in breathing, he, who already had a lover, was not interested in this little girl with no breasts and no butt, but was very interested in what kind of "surprises" she could bring to Ash.

"So, if you want to blame someone, blame him."

The girl relaxed her grip a little and breathed heavily as if she had been reborn.

“Huh! Why…”

The girl's voice was very weak, but the look in her pink eyes showed little sign of retreat.

"...Why would you do this? To target Ash!"

"I'm not targeting him, he just happens to have something I need. You should have sensed that he is essentially a dark being completely different from you."

So it turns out that the weird one isn't him, but you heroes who don't do your best to defeat "evil"?