Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Ash fought hard and seemed to want to drop the sword from his hand, but he couldn't let go.

Originally, in order to defeat Gagu, Ash had lifted the restrictions of the Holy Sword's prophecy, fighting by repeatedly seeing his own death and adapting to the best response. But now, the Holy Sword, with even greater intensity than before, completely disregarding the situation and emotions, brutally crammed Ash's mind with predictions of everyone in front of him potentially killing him, as well as predictions of his own death.

Damn, what's wrong with this sword? It's so strong! How did it become so much more powerful?!

The worst thing is that after the battle, Ash's physical and mental strength have reached the limit, and he is almost unable to resist.

The power of the holy sword was still stimulating his physical condition. To everyone's disbelief, Ash's twisted legs, accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of painful twisting of bones, actually forced him to return to a standing position.

The limit, the limit of what humans can endure——

At this moment, in Ash's central nervous system, electrical signals that expanded to an unimaginable level rushed to the core part of the brain.

"Ash, answer me!"

With an extremely embarrassed expression, Lihua took the initiative to approach Ash. As expected, she could only use the ice sword in her hand to block Ash's extremely tricky and unavoidable attack.

"Have you returned to your original self, the one who only believed in yourself?!"

The look in Ash's eyes now is exactly the same as it was then!

The critical point of the limit—it’s here!

Ash's sword-holding hand suddenly loosened, and began to swing as gravity dropped it.

"My enemy...my enemy, where is he...?"

"Brother?"

Yayoi quietly walked around behind Ash and swallowed her saliva. She thought of the scene in "Kamen Rider OOO" last year where the protagonist Naruto Eiji went berserk because of the dinosaur coin. If it was caused by the transformation prop, then throwing that thing away from the user should be helpful now!

"Brother, I will help you now-"

Yayoi, who was extremely nervous, approached the unresponsive Ash, and was about to take the holy sword from his hand with a sigh of relief.

Ash, moved.

"My enemy——" Ash, with bloodshot eyes, could only see Pretty Cure!

Only Pretty Cure fought against him! Only they would use every possible means to kill him, squatting before him, their beautiful and gorgeous battle suits stained with his blood and flesh!

I can’t recognize it, I really can’t recognize it!!!

“Guwawawa——”

Yayoi screamed, blood and smoke spurting out of her shoulders. She fell and rolled all the way to hit the tree behind her.

"Yayoi?! Ash! Reika!"

I was completely confused and could only feel helpless, shouting the names of everyone present in despair.

But the fact is, no one would answer her question.

"Everyone who appears before me is my enemy!"

Lihua, who was also in a miserable state and rolled on the ground, with her face and hair covered in mud and water, no longer elegant and beautiful, looked at Ash, who was drooping in front of her, like an unresponsive robot, but exuding danger all the time.

Now that Ash has reached his limit as a human, he is completely dominated by his beastly instincts and will attack anyone who approaches him. However, if he continues to fight, he will probably end up dying of insanity or exhaustion.

Similarly, Lihua seemed to have finally made up her mind and raised the ice sword and rushed towards him again.

I understand Ash... I understand who Ash is, so I understand that there are times when you can't trust Ash!

So at this time, the right thing for me to do is!!!

"boom!"

But this time, a red-orange figure fell from the sky and landed between him and her. Hino Akane, whose mere appearance had evaporated all the moisture from her body, stood in front of the stunned Aoki Reika, and with the same expression of great determination, she opened her arms and blocked her way.

"Lihua, we won't let you hurt Ash in the past! Absolutely!"

"Get out of the way, Akane!" Lihua was so anxious that she couldn't even move Akane away with her rude push bladder, which she had never used on her friends before. "You have no idea what's going on. Ash is very dangerous right now, not only to us, but to everyone else as well!"

His current condition, no matter what the reason, will only passively cause greater damage. Our city can't afford to be hurt again!

"So, now let me—"

"We know!"

Qian's voice interrupted Lihua's righteousness. Looking back at Ash who lowered his head as if he had lost himself, Qian's face showed a very bitter expression.

You're still holding on to your own... idiot.

"He will wake up, and someone will save him. Even if you don't understand, Lihua, this guy can't get hurt again!"

"Sunny-Akane! Hino Akane, are you serious? At a time like this!"

"That's right!"

Pegasus, please grant me strength!

A pure white Pegasus candle emerged from Akane's hand, and the red-orange candle flame lit on the top illuminated Akane's determination and Reika's pain. At this moment, Akane, wearing a reinforced battle suit like a white wedding dress, stood opposite Aoki Reika, who kept shaking her head, and in front of Ash.

Although it was difficult for Ash to actively respond to the outside world, he raised his head slightly. It seemed that a touch of color attracted his attention. Fluttering in front of him with the wind and rain were strands of orange hair that were brighter than flames.

More than anyone...more than anything....what I want to do now.

"I once vowed to be the fire that warms his heart. Even if I didn't make any promises, that promise will not change."

"So, now I'm [Princess Sunny]! Even if my opponent is you, Cure Beauty!"

"We must also protect his heart!"

Chapter 188: What is the agreement that should be observed?

"Akane...are you being unreasonable? Even if it means fighting me? You're going to protect him?"

If you ask me, if Ash is acting strangely now, just knock him down and take him back. Why are you being so stubborn in a place like this?

Lihua lowered her head and spoke in a voice that was terribly cold. It was not the voice she used when talking to her companions.

"Ah, even if it means fighting you!"

Holding the Pegasus candle in her hand, Akane was determined not to retreat.

The bad ending I saw included a scene where Lihua collapsed after accidentally killing Ash... I can't let you make a mistake like that.

"Akane, are you—are you serious? Don't do this!" Naomei, who had just helped Yayoi up, saw that his friends were about to fight and hurried forward to stop her. "Akane, think about it seriously, isn't Reika your friend?!"

"Ash is also an important friend of mine!" As soon as Zhi said this, Akane became even more excited. "To Zhi, isn't Ash also one of his friends?"

"this?!"

She took several steps back, looked at Lihua who clenched her fists, and then looked at Qian who was standing opposite her holding the Pegasus candle. The wind and rain that kept hitting her body even made her feel like a blade of grass swaying in the wind and rain.

What exactly is going on?

"So Lihua, we-Wow!!!"

When Qian was about to persuade Lihua again, she was suddenly hit hard from behind and fell to her knees with a scream, her beautiful white dress stained with mud.

Perhaps because he was too close and triggered a stress reaction, Ash once again swung the dark sword Yue'an, which was as powerful as a ghost. If it weren't for the princess mode that increased her defense significantly, that blow would have made her unable to recover.

"That's so strange. You're obviously in so much pain right now, why are you still doing things that make you unhappy?"

Behind him, Ash, with empty eyes and a strange smile on his lips, once again raised the holy sword emitting golden light and aimed it at the self in Akane's eyes who was breathing softly.

Who is this person? I can't remember, but he has nice eyes. But does he look scared? If so, he deserves to be killed.

"Are you scared? If so, just die without fighting!"

"Stop it, Ash!"

Lihua's scream from the side seemed extremely sharp. As Qian was facing the sword stabbing down, she did not retreat but instead looked directly into those eyes.

Why am I doing this? Because you're here, of course.

"To change the ending you saw...!"

As Qian groaned in pain, the sword in the man's hand stopped above the girl's bangs.

It was what Miyuki said to me before that made me, who was scared and timid about the terrible future, make up my mind... Yes, maybe you thought it was just a lie uttered by me when I was sad and sentimental, but for me, what I have to do will not change!

"Ash, we must protect you! Let that heart no longer be lonely!"

So, if someone like me can come out of it, you will definitely be able to wake up too!

"This is our agreement with you!"

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"Well, I'm leaving now. Go to bed early."

"Well, have a good trip. I'll wait for you to come back."

Hoshizora Miyuki watched the man's back for the last time, until he merged into the darkness that was exactly the same as the thunderstorm night. Shortly after she said goodbye to Ash, someone knocked on the door of Miyuki's ward again. Akane, wearing a battle suit, sat beside Miyuki's single bed, chatting about recent events, mixed with her own nagging.

"It's raining."

Noticing the water stains on the bow on the girl's chest, the girl tilted her head a little from the pillow. The reflection of raindrops kept washing over her pink eyes, and even Qian didn't know what her friend was thinking in her eyes that were covered by a little grayness.

Now, Ash must be going to his appointment.

It’s raining so heavily... I wonder if he brought an umbrella. It would be bad if he caught a cold in the rain.

I was a little worried, so I couldn't sleep.

"Miyuki, wouldn't it be better if you went to bed early?"

"I can't sleep... Didn't Akane sleep either? She even has dark circles under her eyes."

"Really?" Rubbing her sore eyes, Akane noticed the clock had already passed midnight. "After what happened, it's really hard to sleep properly... But it's okay, we're Pretty Cure."

In order to prevent similar tragedies from happening again, the remaining four decided to split two people to protect their families and the seriously injured Miyuki respectively, while the others took the initiative to search for the hateful enemy!

"We've been wearing our battle uniforms even during our breaks these past few days. We've searched almost every corner of Seven-Colored Hill City, but we still can't find that guy!"

"The person that guy is actually targeting is Ash. He won't give us a chance. The only one who can defeat him is Ash."

"What a cunning bastard!"

Qian gritted her teeth as she vented her anger, and the pain hidden behind her expression became more and more obvious.

The orange-haired friend who used to be full of energy and vitality, now exudes a gloomy and uncomfortable aura. Even the alopecia sticking out from under the crooked hairpin is a little wilted. Thinking of the words that Akane said when she comforted her, the perceptive Miyuki felt a sense of enlightenment.

"That was the same thing back then. She kept looking at Ash with that worried look. Didn't Akane see the future with that sword?"

"So, Miyuki, you too?!"

Her expression was filled with astonishment for a moment and then quickly returned to calm. After Qian sighed reluctantly, the expression on her face became extremely unwilling.

"I'm always worried about this and that, which isn't like me. But, as soon as I think about him, I can't control my heart anymore - damn it, why?!"

The girl, filled with resentment, squeezed her palms until they made crackling sounds. Thinking of Ash's distraught back when he was alone with Miyuki for the last time, Akane felt extremely suffocated in her chest and felt like she was about to cry secretly like she did before.

"Miyuki, you see the same future, don't you? No matter what, no matter how hard we try, even if we survive, Ash will die in the final battle!"

I want to do something for him, even if there is no thanks, as long as I can help... However, the despairing thing is that I don't even know how to do it!

Why?! Who on earth was determined to take his life?

"I just want to keep living with everyone, including Ash. I don't care how hard or tiring it is. I absolutely don't want an ending where Ash must die!"

There are times when I hate his arrogance, and times when I like his unintentional gentleness. At the same time, there is also the agreement I made with him. The unforgettable time for me is because of him being there. Only then can we, and I, feel unprecedented happiness!

"?"

Qian, feeling increasingly grief-stricken, was about to burst into tears when she felt Miyuki loosen her grip on her hand, and the small notebook was now in her hand.

"Miyuki?"

"I can't write it right now, so Qian...you can do my job first and write your story with him. After all, it's Qian's precious gift."

"Since you also hate this kind of ending," Miyuki said from the hospital bed, forcing a pale but powerful smile at her companion. "Then, write it down."

As for Akane, she probably also made a pact with Ash.

"The ending of the story is decided by us."

Oh, right, the agreement.