Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Chapter 44: Desire without Desire

"A, are you still worried?"

The boy's hands, which still seemed cold after taking a hot bath, were held by the girl, and the warmth was transmitted to him without any barriers between them.

"Yeah...I am indeed, worried."

Looking directly into Ayumi's eyes, this time he did not lie but admitted it generously.

Because there seems to be one more person who is worried.

"Is it about what happened today? That knight like you? Hmm... Indeed, that person is truly terrifying..."

When Ayumi thought about the battle in which she was no match at all, she felt a chill down her spine.

It's exactly the same as A, why is there such a difference? Or is it my illusion?

"But it's okay, at worst..." Observing A's expression, Ayumi finally said it seriously. "At worst, if we can't beat them, we can just run away! We can even run away to somewhere else!"

Huh? A was stunned when he heard this, as if he didn't expect Ayumi to say such a thing.

Escape? Where to escape to? If the opponent is him, there is no place to escape.

"A I think it's really great that you want to stop those monsters, but just like protecting others, A your life is just as important!"

"Anyway, if things really don't work out, there are still the genuine Pretty Cure girls who can deal with him! Isn't that right?"

I don't want A to lose something more important than himself because of this...

Ayumi noticed the extremely conflicted look on the boy's face and raised her hand slightly, not wanting to see him like this again.

Something soft and delicate pressed gently against the boy's temple. It felt warm when it touched his face, and the faint scent of mimosa quietly penetrated his nose.

The brown-haired girl hugged the head of A, who was about to speak but hesitated, from both sides with great tenderness and gently buried it in her chest.

"It's late, go to bed now."

Don't be so gloomy... Anyway, if it's A's wish, even if it's not enough for a Pretty Cure, as a friend, I will try my best to help you realize it!

"There are probably a lot of things that worry you, but even if you're thinking of a solution, you should do it after you've recovered your energy."

Now, please go and have a rest, as you are already very tired.

"Whatever your troubles are, they will disappear when you fall asleep."

A remembers that at the very end, he seemed to be "lulled" to sleep like this.

"Good night."

Different places.

Same people.

In the past, it was because the people I met were all heroes.

So even if they were enemies in the past or are now allies, those people will definitely use their own methods to heal Ash who is in trouble.

Now I am also treated so gently.

"I see."

A in the dream looked at the back of Ash who was also in the dream, with a look of understanding in his eyes.

I understand.

"This is the biggest difference between me and that person."

He lowered his head and looked at his cold and pale palms, wondering what he was about to hold.

"He gained Ash's power and almost all of the assassin's abilities, but his desire for more made him continue to attack Pretty Cure."

"And the result of doing so is that it is impossible for anyone to identify with him."

"Similarly, even Ash sometimes falls into desperate confusion, but he is always saved by the Pretty Cure with whom he has a bond in the past."

"So he embraced and loved Mana, Lei, Miyuki and the others."

"A's words are different from Ash like this."

Slowly clench your open palm here.

"The only person A has, the one who saved her, is Ayumi Sakagami."

A only has Ayumi, and Ayumi only has A.

I wanted to, grab her hand.

If you think about it carefully, it's obvious that he has very complicated feelings towards Pretty Cure, but now he wants to hurt them. This is too sad.

So, I want to eliminate this mistake.

"I finally understand."

It is true that the "growth" part of me was voluntarily abandoned during the separation, but it is precisely this longing for heroes, the emotion of learning and correcting, that is the essence of Ash's pursuit of the shining heroes in different worlds in the first place.

My other self gave up my desireless self to become stronger for the sake of desire... It's really stupid. If I were a truly strong person, I would face the battle instead of fighting to avoid it!

Ayumi, do you think it would be okay to just run away?

"I won't hide or run away. I will look directly at that desire, even if it's ugly."

Even if I may fail miserably, I will not be afraid anymore.

"I will fight to protect your world!"

The absence of desire may also be a symbol of the infinite power of desire.

“Now I have something I want to do (desire)!”

and so.

"Ash, please give me strength!"

As if he heard "his own" voice, Ash smiled and turned to look at the serious-faced boy.

"I want to become stronger!"

"what are you saying?"

Ash was amused and said with a smirk as he looked at the boy in front of him who looked somewhat like him.

"You are originally me, how can you ask for things from yourself?"

Three coins shining with glowing light flew out from Ash's hand, flying across an infinitely far and yet infinitely close distance and finally arrived in A's hand where he caught them.

"If you want it, come and get it yourself."

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“Get up quickly…”

Someone opened the window, allowing the sun to shine in blinding his eyes. A, who was half asleep and half awake, squinted his eyes to resist the sunlight and could vaguely see two blurry figures, one tall and one short, standing by his window.

"Hey, Ash——hurry up~"

"It turns out that your face is quite cute when you sleep..."

"If you don't get up quickly, the sun will hit your butt!"

"Hmm..." Hearing the girl's playful call, A, who seemed to have some symptoms of hypoglycemia, exhaled an incomprehensible sound from his throat. He felt something smelly as if it was stepping on his face. For a moment, the first thing he thought of was...

"Miyuki...don't step on my face a second time...it stinks--Puh--!"

Following the familiar scream of a girl, A was suddenly awakened from his dream by a sudden blow on the chin.

"Smelly—no way! How could my feet smell? I wash them every day!"

"Hmm!" A cold voice, different from the other sharp voice, echoed from the side. "Who is this Miyuki you're talking about?"

"She stepped on your face?"

"Ahem! What the hell is going on?"

A, holding his jaw which nearly dropped, pulled back the quilt, scratched his messy white hair, and finally saw who the two familiar figures in front of him were.

It's indeed an acquaintance.

"Regina?"

"Hi!"

"Dark Pretty Cure?"

"Ah."

Chapter 45: Unexpected reinforcements from the darkness!

To be honest.

A really didn't expect this at all, so he was completely stunned.

A young girl with tassel-like blonde hair draped down to her waist was holding her little feet, looking at him with some shyness. Her light black princess dress dotted with bright red was blown by the wind blowing in from the open window, allowing him to vaguely see a wonderful angle.

The visitor was none other than Princess Regina, the daughter of the former king of the Selfish Kingdom, who was tricked by him and Mana into joining his own camp to whitewash himself.

"Ash! I haven't even seen Mana yet, so I immediately followed her and found you!"

The princess, with her hands on her hips and an expression of "I'm so great, praise me!", had her nose almost turned up to the sky, and the bright red bow on her head was jumping up and down with her owner's mood.

"Oh, oh."

"Oh what is it! Ash, hurry up and say something."

As for the girl standing on the other side, who was wearing a completely black dress, with something hidden behind her back and her hands folded in front of her chest and a blindfold hanging from her head, she was the former ace of the Desert Apostles, the child who had been PUA'd by Ash once and longed for the love of her family - the Dark Pretty Girl (Drak Precure).

as well as--

"Hey!" The purple head of the mochi dumpling, hidden from the bat wings behind the Dark Pretty Cure, greeted him. "It's been a while since we last met, bro."

"Humph."

The tall girl, looking down at them with an evil green eye, was targeting A and Regina with great displeasure.

"This guy followed me after he found out about Ash's situation... even though I could handle it on my own."

"What? It's obviously because you need my sensing ability that you shamelessly followed me, you cold-hearted girl!"

Faced with the provocation of the Dark Pretty Cure, the princess, whose eyes turned purple for a moment, retorted without hesitation.

"What are you talking about... Do you want to be eliminated by me before any other obstacles come your way, Princess Shide?"

"Who is immoral? If you want to cause trouble, this princess is not afraid of you!"

"Okay, then here—"

“ST——OP!!!”

Seeing that the two men in front of him had taken out guns and sticks, with dark will burning in their eyes and ready to start fighting on the spot, A immediately jumped up from the bed and stood in the middle, even his voice breaking for a moment.

I said it was hard for me to face acquaintances of Pretty Cure, but this time the one who came back was Pretty Cure... What the hell is going on?

Damn it, you’re kidding me!

"So... what are you doing?"

"Of course I came to see you!" Regina said matter-of-factly. "I originally heard from that blue woman that Mana seemed to be sick with a cold, so I was planning to go see her, but then I sensed your presence, Ash, on the way, so I came over!"

"I came to see you," the Dark Pretty said matter-of-factly, one eye half-closed. "Hanasaki called and told me Ash had reappeared, so I flew over... luckily I wasn't too late."

"This time, I will never let you be alone..."

“Dark….”

"Really? Why didn't you tell me?" Before A could finish expressing his feelings, Regina, finally unable to contain herself, let her expression turn rather pitiful, and hugged him tightly, her ribs aching. "You said you'd be my knight, but you actually dared to abandon me, the princess, all by yourself. You're totally unworthy of being a knight!"

"And Mana has always been sad for you... But no matter what, it's really great that Ash can be resurrected, wow wow wow——"

Regina's eyes were red and she was crying more and more hazily, letting the tears fly out one by one. Before she could cry out loud, she was twisted backwards by another person who grabbed her collar and shouted.