Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"No!" Snow White wanted to protest loudly after hearing Ash's teasing, but her voice, lying on her lap, was too soft. "That's not the case..."

As a "little princess" who was spoiled by her parents from childhood, even if she had any fantasies about the opposite sex, they were limited to the Prince Charming and other stage plays she had heard of. As for being suddenly treated so tenderly by Ash, the "big devil" who was both good and evil, and even cradled in his lap...

Judging from the blush on the princess's fair, beautiful and delicate face, it can well express her inner thoughts at the moment.

"I was the one talking all along." Before the girl could say anything else, Ash suddenly changed the subject. "Can you tell me what you're thinking?"

After all, we have agreed to help you become stronger, so I will listen to your opinions so that I can improve and teach you according to your aptitude.

"me..."

Lying on the man's lap, resting and recovering her strength, the girl immersed herself in thought. Feeling the hardness at the back of her head, her chest heaving, her eyes once again blurred with the inexplicable grievance she felt. But now, rather than letting out a tantrum like she had in the past when she failed, she desperately wanted to hold back her tears in front of Ash.

Why? It's obvious that the changes in Snow White, who has to become stronger and almost unrecognizable to myself, are all because of him... And it's obvious that after becoming a Pretty Cure, you are not allowed to fall in love to avoid complications.

He's obviously someone that someone with my personality would dislike, but why can't I hate him at all... Instead, I want to throw myself into his arms and cry loudly?

Why... Is it because I finally saw that my previously weak self was a little closer to the person in front of me, the goal I longed for?

"Um...Mr. Ash? I..."

Feeling the gaze cast at her from above, the girl, who was about to retreat, finally spoke to Ash.

"I know I've always been weak and shaky... If I hadn't opened Axia, the seal that sealed the Phantom Empire, I would have continued to be my ignorant and willful princess in the Blue Sky Kingdom, completely unconcerned with the emotions needed to face difficulties."

I tried to force a smile, imitating Ash's behavior, but the smile that came out was uglier than crying.

As Snow White spoke, Yuko and Iona, who had originally had some opinions about the two of them maintaining this appearance, also quieted down and listened to Snow White's heartfelt words to everyone.

"But, this is what has happened. I opened the box, and that led to everything that is happening in the world now..."

"Even with this, I still became a Pretty Cure, but even so... even if I strive to catch up, even if I muster up the courage, can I still..."

"Shh-"

Hearing the unconfident voice of Snow White lying on his lap, Ash pressed his fingers on her lips to make her shudder before she could release more negative energy. In front of the girl whose nose and cheeks were slightly flushed, he started talking about "another thing".

"I know, I know what you're worried about. It's a very normal thought."

"I know you're curious about why I care so much about you and know you so well. So, let me tell you a story."

With some obsessive-compulsive disorder, Ash straightened the seemingly weak Xiaoji on his knees, then stretched out his index finger and slowly turned it towards the distant sky.

"Once upon a time, there was a prince. He was a martial arts master, but he could only watch helplessly as his country was destroyed by its enemies. After wandering endlessly, he finally found a second home that accepted him. Unfortunately, even his enemies followed him. To protect the world from repeating the mistakes of the past, he decided to fight with all his might."

As Ash drew the trajectory of Leo in the sky with his finger, the girls who listened to the story quietly seemed to see the scene of a lion-like indomitable warrior fighting with a powerful enemy in the waves with his back to the city lights.

"The prince fought on and on, being defeated countless times and thwarted countless times. He even felt discouraged, but he always managed to pick himself up again in the end. In the end, he finally defeated the enemy, but unfortunately, he was unable to protect everyone. Even though he protected his second home, he failed to protect the people he wanted to protect."

Seeing that the girls felt sad for the prince in the story and seemed a little unsatisfied, Ash then told the second story.

"Once upon a time, there was a princess. Like you, Snow White, she was the apple of her parents' eyes, raised in pampered care. Unfortunately, the invaders finally destroyed her country. She was once a princess, but now she was left with nothing. In the end, to survive, she boarded a pirate ship and became a pirate who didn't even look like a pirate at all."

"She was a princess who, like you, lacked any talent for combat. However, she relied on her strengths to help everyone within her reach. In the end, she met her enemy and, with the help of her friends (and me), she exacted revenge on him. It's a shame that she couldn't bring back her lost country and family."

"But you are different, little princess."

Ash's words, like honey attracting bees, pierced the girl's heart.

"You have trustworthy friends who are fighting alongside you! Even though your country has been occupied by the enemy, it hasn't completely vanished."

"Unlike the prince and princess whose past is truly lost and whose revenge is impossible to undo, you still have a chance to correct your mistakes!"

Hearing Ash's description at this moment, Snow White felt that her chest seemed to be beating violently with some kind of excitement.

I still have a chance to change... to atone for this, right?!

"If you spill a glass of water, you can't take it back." Speaking of actual fouls, Ash winked at her with a bright, innocent look. "Then how about trying to wipe it dry?"

Finally, after these words came out, the girl jumped up and threw herself on Ash in one breath, with a momentum that surprised Ash. She wrapped her arms around the man's back, opened her mouth, and tears instantly flowed down her aggrieved expression.

“Wuwaa ...

The girl no longer cared about her image. Tears were pouring down her face, covering it all up. Her nose was almost dripping with snot. All the emotions in her heart burst out at this moment, and she had no time to care about anything else. She just cried loudly on Ash's chest.

"If only I had told Yuko and Kei what I was hiding from them right from the start... If only I hadn't opened Axia, wow wow—why did I do this! I'm such an idiot! Such a waste!"

The excited girl cried and even slapped herself in the face and scolded herself to vent her distress. She thought that the disaster of the world was caused by herself. Based on the moral foundation of Paradox players, who could bear such great psychological pressure as Snow White?

"Back then, I—Ugh! I really didn't mean to open that box!"

Like a child who has made a mistake, crying and explaining to their parents, hoping for even a little comfort, the sobbing girl confessed to him the deepest secrets in her heart. "At that time, I really just wanted to take a look, I had no intention of opening the box!"

"Yeah, I believe it."

"But at that time, I heard someone in the box was very sad and in pain... asking me for help, begging me to save her..."

"I just..." The girl, bursting into tears, buried her face in the man's arms. "I just wanted to help this painful voice..."

"I didn't expect this. I didn't mean to cause all this and hurt others. I didn't want a world like this, wah wah wah wah—!"

"Hime-chan..." Next to Yuko, who couldn't help crying just by listening, Iona, who was also trembling slightly behind her, turned her head away, as if she didn't want others to see her expression at the moment.

"I understand." Ash didn't even bother to see the snot staining his clothes from the sobbing girl's nose. He simply looked at the tear-stained expression on her face as she "entrusted" everything to him, and awkwardly forced out an imagined "gentle" expression. He gently wiped away the unsightly tear marks with a handkerchief. "You may not have done well, and you may have made many mistakes."

"But in this case, it was the Phantom Empire that actually invaded the world, not you who was deceived by them and caused the accident."

"So, you don't have to feel the pain alone anymore."

"It's not your fault."

"."

After hearing the "answer" Ash gave her at the end, the girl suddenly felt like something exploded in her heart. Her hands, no longer shy, hugged the man tightly and began to hug him even harder from behind.

Although it is said that Pretty Cure can't fall in love...

Who is Mr. Ash to me now?

What should I say now?

"Thank you for giving me the chance."

The girl, whose tears had already soaked Ash's chest, buried herself deeper into him, rubbing her cheek against him like a spoiled child, breathing in the bitter taste that could not be found in others.

"Thank you for guiding me to become stronger."

"Thank you for still giving me the qualification to transform."

I will work hard to become stronger and more resilient, so Ash—please!

Please look at me like this, and watch me become a Pretty Cure...!

Ash, who was still a little uncomfortable, felt the warmth in his chest and back. Seeing Yuko's smiling face, he smiled and sighed softly, then stretched out his hand and patted the girl's back softly as gently as possible.

At this moment, in this picturesque scene, no one would want to interrupt and break this tenderness, right?

"Xiao...Ji...?"

"Ash...Mr.?"

Ainoe read out the two names blankly.

I don't know why, but I can't take a step forward to greet them openly.

I don't know why, but I instinctively hid by the open door of the dojo, unwilling to leave. I just stared at the romantic picture of the crying girl hugging the man tightly, unable to move my eyes away even a little.

Ash and Yuko were laughing, Iona looked at them although she was feeling awkward, and although Hime was crying loudly, her expression was completely relaxed.

I wasn't there, but everyone still seemed happy.

"Why..."

Obviously, Xiaoji is my friend, and Ash is someone I want to get close to and become friends with... Why do I feel so uncomfortable in my heart when I see them together now?

The girl unconsciously asked someone unknown.

The girl felt as if a bottle of seasoning had been overturned in her heart, and she could only feel a sour taste surging in her heart, causing her ring-wearing hand to leave several distinct fingerprints on the door frame.

Am I jealous now?

Are you jealous of Ash?

Or are you jealous of Xiaoji?

Chapter 84: Don’t run, rush towards the jeep!

Since he had said that he would help Snow White become stronger, especially after she showed herself so "affectionately" and asked him to do so, Ash would naturally choose to fulfill his promise!

Like now.

"Don't run!" Ash, sprawled on the jeep's leather seat, his foot frozen on the accelerator, one-handedly steering the car as he shouted at Snow White, who was screaming and running for her life in front of the car. "Don't run, Cure Princess! Get to the jeep!"

Well, of course, Ash's look of staring at the girl's waist and about to hit her is also a way to make her stronger!

At least that's what Ash, who had seen actual cases and was ready to recite them, believed!

"Stand up! We're going to continue this until you've had enough and beg for mercy with tears in your eyes!"

"Ada-ada! Oyster-o-oyster!" Although she had become a Pretty Cure at Ash's request, the sight of Ash mercilessly throttled towards her made her follow her instincts and run for her life. "That's unreasonable, da-meh, no way!"

Feeling the whirring sound of the speeding jeep after the modified sub-model, the girl screamed "No!" several times in succession, covering her head, and her butt was hit by the bumper as she jumped up, and she fell directly to the sand.

Although the girl now looks as weak as before the transformation, Snow White, who pulled her head out of the sand and quickly shook it off, felt that it was not her fault... After all, this man really wanted to use the other world teleporter to hurt her kidneys without any explanation!

Although the previous unrestrained combat in order to stimulate the girl's potential made her very uncomfortable, it can be said that the girl can now understand his intentions...but this now.

"What's the point of that?!"

Are you trying to settle a personal grudge?

"Of course I did. I allowed you to transform instead of charging at me naked." Patting the hot hood of the car, Ash couldn't help but sigh and shake his head, lamenting that each generation of Pretty Cure was getting worse. "So I told you the whole point was to get you to charge at me. Don't you understand? Are you kidding me?"

"Baka... I might as well just be Baka!" She didn't even protest like before. Snow White was lying on the ground with her head in her arms and her butt sticking out, keeping a pose as if she was "violated" by Ash. The tangled and contracted expression on her face was almost like that of "Hirohiko Araki".

"Right, right, right! I'm not as smart as Ash, so I'm a bastard! So, does the smart Ash have any scientific basis to believe that this method of pure abuse can have any special training effect?!"

"Has Ash ever seen a scene like this that could work?!"

"I've seen it." Ash, leaning over the steering wheel, letting the horn blare, continued his eloquent speech, a wealth of information. "That's how the prince trained, and it worked! He killed a monster he hadn't been able to defeat in the second attempt."

Really...really?

"Don't act like I'm kidding. I was the one who 'helped' secretly remove the brakes on the jeep," Ash continued smugly, proud of himself instead of ashamed. "If other kids can do it, why can't you? Don't blame the rough roads for your own failures!"

"Guwuwuwuwu—I am me, not someone else! I don't want to be compared to others like this!" Snow White, who simply disregarded her image, lay on the sand, blowing bubbles from her mouth and lying flat on her back, protested to Ash. "What are you going to do next?"

"Hmm~" Ash, full of malice, snapped his fingers, recounting everything he'd seen in the past to give the girl a little "Ultra Shock." "Next, of course, there's the boomerang counterattack test. After that, you'll have to withstand falling wood from the waterfall until you can finally cut through it!"

Although it sounds nonsense...Okay, it is indeed nonsense, but even Ultraman was not killed by it, how can you, a Pretty Cure, be killed by it?

Ash knew very well that what Snow White needed most to become stronger was courage. So, even though the trials involved crashing into a jeep sounded absurd, Ash didn't expect her to actually complete them. Instead, he hoped to use them to strengthen her courage.

In other words, if one can pass these trials calmly without batting an eyelid, then there is no need to worry about not achieving great things.

"No, no, no! I don't want to be Ash's toy!" Despite Ash's earnest advice, the girl continued to listen, rolling around on the ground, acting helpless. "I don't want this kind of insane training... Wow! Ash, you actually ran over me with the car? It's so heavy!"

"You devil! Devil!"

"Devil?" Ash exclaimed as he continued to press the accelerator and watched the girl rolling on the ground under the wheels in front of him. Hearing her comments on his parenting attitude, he burst into laughter on the spot. "No, I'm a devil!"

"Quack! No, Yuuko! Kei! Save my teeth!"

"No one will come to save you even if you scream at the top of your lungs! Hahahaha——"

"Oh my god~" Yuko, sitting in the spectator's booth, watched Snow White, who was playing like Mario Kart, and Ash, who was already enjoying himself. The brunette girl, who was a little shocked and screaming, also laughed happily. "Those two are having such a good time."

"Mr. Ash..."

Ainoe, who was originally worried about Snow White's special training, sat next to Yuko and watched her friend rolling on the ground. She also lowered her head with a complicated mood as she saw Ash's smile that was truly "devilish".

Really, Mr. Ash, Yuko, and Shirayuki are already so close, and if I just barge in now, I'll be seen as someone who doesn't understand romance, right?

As for me, I am actually a person who can feel happy as long as I can help others to smile happily!

I am like this...

Well, I don’t feel happy now.

The original worry was covered by the boredom that came from nowhere. He supported his cheeks with his hands and looked at the two people who seemed to be having fun. He spoke softly without realizing it.