Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

I mistakenly thought that he was tired of being a villain and thought that this time he could be a partner of justice.

He originally thought so, until the bastard who followed him committed such an unforgivable thing through his hands...

"In the end, nothing is protected, right?"

I may be, indeed, changed.

But there is one thing that cannot be changed no matter what.

I am darkness.

The darkness that withers the flower of the heart.

Ash never knew that there would be a day when he would be so content and peaceful, and then it would lead to the result he least wanted to see.

"Why did I come to the world of Pretty Cure?"

[Because this is the most gentle world I can find]

This is the system that can give him the answer.

Because of the recent street and ship explosions, the hospitals in Seven-Colored Hill City are operating at an unprecedented high efficiency. Sitting on a bench in the corridor, Ash looked at the doctors and patients coming and going, and seemed to feel some empathy with them.

With a thought, the inventory opened in front of him, and Ash began to frantically search through the pile of useful and useless props, looking for props related to "Kamen Rider Kuuga".

It seemed like he was trying to find something, or maybe he was just venting his emotions. In any case, Ash was in urgent need of something that could help him refocus his attention.

The handlebars of the Tracker motorcycle, no, the PHS phone, no, the handmade pirated police badge, no, the GS-03 Destroyer that Kuuga had shattered, no...

"this."

Pulling out a pitch-black Colt Python revolver from the void, Ash's memories had become unclear, and his eyes became dazed for a moment.

Ah, this is the gun that was stolen from that criminal. I remember that this incident caused quite a big uproar. He almost resigned because of the lost gun.

Although I can't remember why I stole the gun, if I'm not mistaken, the gun should have contained...

"Kacha!"

When the revolver's magazine was thrown out, several bullets marked with golden numbers were still lying intact inside.

It was the batch of high-pressure neurotampering bombs specially made at the beginning.

I closed the magazine and my eyes. I could almost hear the sound of gunfire and smell the smell of gunpowder.

I understand.

At this moment, the outline of a plan was vaguely taking shape in Ash's mind.

Chapter 182 Ash's Meanness and Hope

“Ah…Ahhhhhhh——”

Putting the gun into his pocket, Ash followed the voice that still sounded familiar and saw a familiar figure kneeling in front of the intensive care unit door. It was Miyuki's mother, Hoshizora Ikuyo. This mature woman who had never shown any fear in front of Ash and whose gentle and courageous attitude had once impressed her was now kneeling on the ground with a look of despair on her face, crying.

"Miyuki... My Miyuki...!"

After hearing the news that her daughter had an accident, Yudai hurriedly took leave from the company and rushed over. She even broke one side of her high heels. After learning about her daughter's serious condition from the doctor, she suddenly knelt on the ground and cried as if the sky had fallen. She cried and called her daughter's name in a trembling voice.

Ash could understand, because it was because he had witnessed her gentleness that he knew how much this mother loved her daughter.

"Madam, this——"

"Let me do it."

After using simple words and excuses to send away the doctors and onlookers, Ash came to the distraught Yudai and gently helped her up.

"Mr. Ash...Miyuki, Miyuki!"

Tears streamed down Yudai's face, and her voice became sharp and hoarse. Ash listened to her sobbing gradually fading, waiting for her to calm down.

"God, please bless this kind girl since childhood. If anything happens to Miyuki, how will I explain it to the rest of my family?"

"Things haven't gotten to the worst point yet. She'll get through it. After all, Miyuki has always been like this... She's the daughter you're so proud of."

"Meixi, she—um, thank you, Mr. Ash." She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve. The sadness still lingered on this mother who almost lost her daughter.

"Ms. Ikuyo, I have something to tell you now."

Compared to Ikuyo's obvious reaction, Ash's voice now sounded calm and without hesitation.

"Yeah." With a heavy nasal tone, Ikuyo blinked her red and swollen eyes at the expressionless man in front of her. "Is there something wrong?"

So, as Ikuyo was immersed in sorrow with a confused and helpless expression, Ash took out his gun, manually loaded an ordinary bullet into the gun and turned it to the chamber, then turned the direction and handed the grip to Ikuyo.

"I was the one who hurt Miyuki and turned her into what she is now."

"!"

The black Colt Python fell to the ground, landing at the feet of Ikuyo, whose pupils began to tremble violently and whose face was filled with disbelief as if she had been betrayed.

"My mistakes and arrogance caused the consequences to fall on your daughter, leading to her current serious injury... No, if it weren't for good luck, she would have been killed by me, and died along with her heart that wished for everyone to smile."

"Why!" He picked up the gun and pointed it at Ash, tears streaming down his face. "Why would you do this to her? That girl, that girl clearly loves you!"

So, what qualifications do I have to respond to her feelings now?

Facing the violently shaking black muzzle of the gun, Ash closed his eyes calmly.

"I've tinkered with the hospital's system. No one will hear anything, and no one will find out about this."

I won't die like this, but if I get hit, I can completely abandon everything and take that bastard's life with me. From then on, there will be nothing extra left in this world.

"Angry, sad, the one who's wrong isn't you, but me who shouldn't have been there in the first place. Do what you want to do, you have the right to do it."

"Snapped!"

The heavy steel landed on Ash's chest with a dull thud.

"Snapped!"

There was another crisp sound, and Yudai, filled with grief and anger, slapped Ash hard in the face.

"Despicable! That's so ugly, Ash! Are you still the one my daughter admires?!"

"You actually want me to do this so that you can get relief! You're only making me, and everyone else, suffer!"

The gun that fell to the ground had its magazine knocked open, and the golden bullets rolled all over the ground between the two of them. The ordinary bullet that stopped at Yudai's feet was stained with drops of falling tears.

"If you're still a man, don't let me, that child, regret the decision we made in the past!!!"

Without even looking at him again, Ikuyo pushed Ash away, leaving him with only his back, and walked into the intensive care unit where his daughter was.

The door closed again, and Ash, who was alone again, picked up the bullets and gun and loaded them one by one.

I don’t know how long it took, maybe a few minutes, maybe a few hours, Ikudai came out from behind the door with a much better look on his face, walked in front of him, and spoke in a calm voice.

"Come in, the child is awake and wants to see you."

"......Thanks."

As she stood up from her seat and passed by Yudai, hope seemed to reappear in the eyes of the exhausted mother.

"Ming Xing, she doesn't mean to blame you."

“…”

The door closed quietly behind him. Ash, who was standing at the door, looked into those pink eyes and didn't know what to say for a moment, until the girl lying on the bed raised her still weak hand and beckoned him over.

"Miyuki?"

"Ash."

Miyuki took off the oxygen mask from her mouth, chuckled twice, stretched out two fingers, pressed on the stiff corners of Ash's mouth as he approached, and gently lifted them up.

"You're so listless, why don't you smile a little?"

Looking at Ash who was "made to laugh" by her manual manipulation, Miyuki also laughed in a soft and weak voice.

“Smile~Smile~”

How could I possibly laugh at this moment?

Ash gently held Miyuki's soft, boneless little hands in his hands. His tall body, like a child who had done something wrong, confided in the girl who was in pain but still smiling at him.

"I...it's because of my presence that he followed me and attacked you. This is all my fault."

"That's not right. All of this was caused by that person. It shouldn't be Ash who has to bear the consequences of his actions, right?" Miyuki's gentle voice held an unwavering determination. "Ash has done nothing wrong."

"Miyuki, I promise you that I will definitely avenge you—" Perhaps because he was shaken by Miyuki's words, after a pause, the man raised his eyes again, and a dark flame ignited in his eyes.

"As long as I become 'me' again, there will be no enemy that 'I' cannot defeat!"

"No, you can't do that."

Meixing shook her head and decisively rejected Ash's determination.

"Ash, you want to die together with that person, right? This is not the ending we want to see."

"Really? Ahem... I've already told Ash about this before, right? You want me to repeat it again? Ash is the idiot, right?"

Miyuki deliberately scolded Ash in a playful tone that was unlike her own, teasing him whose face was becoming increasingly darker.

Chapter 183: Sincerely for You

Ash never thought that there would be a day when Miyuki would point out his mistake. After Ash fell silent, Miyuki placed her other hand on the back of his hand.

"The problem isn't about revenge... Ash has finally gotten rid of his loneliness and can live a more relaxed life."

"If you become 'strong' again here, you'll become the 'weak' you were before. In that case, wouldn't all the efforts of us, those people I don't know yet, and Ash be in vain?"

"Then—just tell me what to do!"

The man's face was filled with grief and indignation. His eyes flashed with anger, and his teeth clenched between his tightly pursed lips, gnashing as if he wanted to crush anything that stood in his way.

Seeing Ash looking so "helpless", Miyuki played a little joke on him.

"I actually lied and said I lost my glass slipper. Will the big bad wolf eat me like that?"

The girl lying on the bed told him a story, a story that was completely different from the legends Ash had experienced, a story that was too trivial.

"When I was little, I was actually very shy. I wanted to play with other children, but I didn't even have the courage to talk to them. I could only hide at home and read fairy tale picture books."

"Seeing me like this, my worried grandmother gave me a small mirror amulet. She also told me that smiling more would bring happiness. From that day on, I started practicing smiling in front of the mirror. One day, when I smiled at the mirror under a tree, a little child actually appeared in the tree and was willing to play with me."

To be honest, Miyuki's storytelling skills are quite bad, especially her weakness of not being able to drag out a sentence for too long, which further exposes this weakness. But now, Ash, who is sitting next to her, is willing to listen to her tell such stories.

"The time I spent with her was truly sparkling and joyful. As we got along, I learned to smile at others and became friends with people I didn't know. I never saw that little girl again. Maybe she was actually a spirit in the mirror?"

Miyuki's tone was filled with nostalgia.

"Pick up your courage, take the first step with a smile on your face. That's when I realized that if you keep thinking the worst and become listless, the happiness around you will slip away from you."

I like happy things the most, and I believe that as long as I can keep smiling every day, the future will be bright.

"When I first met someone as different as you, Ash, I felt the same way. I believed that a smile could be the bridge that connects our hearts and minds and that we could become friends. I wanted you, who always had a sad face, to smile and seize the super happiness that belongs to you."

"I like everyone the most, and I like Ash the most."

I like everyone because they all became Pretty Cure to protect something. I also like Ash the most because even though he always says he's only doing it for himself and likes to act recklessly, in the end, isn't everything he does for us?

"As long as I am with everyone like this and Ash, I will feel very happy."

I hope to be an important person to you. I hope my care can always inspire you and give you the motivation to move forward. I hope my smile can be your ultra happy!

The girl loosened her palm and gently placed it on Ash's face, whose expression was completely stunned.

"My mother named me [Miyuki] because she hoped that no matter how desperate or painful I am, I can find happiness that leads to a smile."

Ash, you've always been a strong person, so I can't help but worry about you...

"Ash, I want to share this blessed love with you."

Miyuki actively pressed the palms of their hands together.

"Even if it's only a tiny bit, if it can help you find a little bit of your own supreme happiness, then absorb my heart, Ash."

In front of the girl, the man lowered his head deeply, and his shoulders on both sides shook visibly.

"Miyuki, I made a promise to you."