Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"Phantom--." The Phantom Queen screamed instinctively, but then she remembered that there was another "enemy" in front of her. She immediately suppressed her worries and turned back into her indifferent self, looking at the new Kamen Rider opposite her.

"locust...?"

Compared to the various fancy looks I've seen before, this time it's really too simple.

"Right." Ash nodded calmly, managing the recoil from his previous punch. "Nature's warriors... Locust Cyborgs, that's right."

"Heh, this doesn't look like the background of an upright hero."

At least she doesn't like it. It's better to say that very few girls like locusts, right?

Ash clenched his palms and felt the power of "Cyborg x Cyborg" like a chemical equation. Fortunately, he didn't have to give up his human identity to obtain this power.

"Kamen Rider didn't originally appear as a hero...Okay, can we talk now?"

The bright red scarf fluttered in the wind between the two of them.

"If I said something weird that pissed you off earlier, are you trying to make me apologize with your actions? That's pretty intense."

"Ah."

Unmoved by Ash's witty remarks, the cold queen curled her lips and snorted with disdain.

"Can you tell me the reason for your anger?"

“Sometimes, telling the truth is not accepted by others.”

After all, humans are stupid creatures who only believe what they want to believe.

Chapter 130: The Tragic and Hateful Confession of the Phantom Queen

"You really look like a monster, Kamen Rider."

"Thank you for the compliment."

I'm not complimenting you!

"You want an answer from me, right? First of all," the Phantom Queen asked, looking directly into Ash's bright red locust eyes. "Tell me your purpose first?"

"You already know, I want—"

"I'm not asking what your purpose is in coming to my Phantom Empire." The queen, who had not been thrown off balance by the same incident twice and was no longer troubled by the emotion of "love", spoke with a cold and rational tone.

"But the purpose of your coming here..."

With a feeling that made Ash feel slightly uneasy, she emphasized the word.

"What is it?"

"If you tell me first, I'll tell you."

Why should I tell you unless you tell me?

"Ash, really... How dare you?" Continuing to stare fiercely at the locust-like proboscis, the Phantom Queen, with a chilling gaze, could only take a step back. "I finally understand why those girls like you so much, yet also hate you so much."

Ah, what do you mean? Am I disliked?

But before Ash could even ask, the Queen agreed to the deal. "Alright, you idiot who loves to exploit others... I promise you'll end up at the hands of the woman who loves you but whom you've deceived."

"Hey!" Ash, who had been trying to maintain a calm demeanor during the conversation, suddenly let out a disgruntled sound. "I don't mind your insults, but I'm also used to being cursed to death."

But this highly targeted approach is a bit too much! What do you mean by falling into a woman's hands? Am I that kind of person?

"Your intuition is correct. I was once a Precure like them."

Without responding to Ash's dissatisfied complaints, after seeing that others had already rushed to rescue Phantom, the Phantom Queen continued to walk on the dusty open-air tower, telling stories of the past with a little sadness moved by memories.

"In the past, I was just like them... love, friendship, family, happiness. I was overjoyed to receive the trust and power bestowed by the gods, and I felt that I should fight to protect their happiness."

"So, you betrayed your mission?"

After all, you are now the enemy's leader.

"Back then, as the light, I fought against the dark enemy. It was very difficult, but because I had someone to protect, because he was by my side... I felt happy and kept persevering."

"Until... as a god, he stayed until all his enemies were defeated, and then he left."

An expression of sorrow and hatred twisted on her face, which reminded Ash of the expressions on Mana and Lei's faces when he last saw them at the last moment before he left this world.

"That's right, just like you said, I am a person who likes others but has been abandoned, exactly like the ancient resentful woman you mentioned!" After venting her anger through the battle with Ash, the Phantom Queen now even made fun of her past human self.

"As our supporter back then, he was handsome, knowledgeable, and healed our hearts with his gentleness. He was always there to support us at critical moments." After saying this, the Queen suddenly fixed her gaze on Ash, making him feel uncomfortable.

In my eyes, the "Blue God" at that time was just as great and admired as this person in the eyes of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure.

Moreover, I was originally a "shrine maiden" belonging to God...At that time, my mind was filled with such gentle happiness, how could I not like him?

"then you...."

"And so, the warrior Pretty Cure who fought to protect the happiness of others was dumped by the person she liked. Her heart was suddenly filled with darkness, and she fell into the very existence she had been fighting against." The Phantom Queen did not continue with Ash's words, as if she had said something less, and laughed sarcastically, not knowing who she was laughing at.

"Then, my former companions and the one I admired joined forces to seal me away for a hundred years with this sin... Haha, betraying everything I had in the past just for this reason, what do you think? I'm sure you think it's foolish, and you want to laugh, right?"

If God knew this was happening, he would definitely want to laugh, right?

Yeah, come to think of it, I was also a human created by that god. I should have thought it through back then. How could a creator fall in love with something he created?

If only I had thought this through earlier...

"No." Ash shook his head expressionlessly under his mask. "The guardian of happiness was robbed of his own happiness."

"I just think this is very sad."

I finally understand how I was able to sense the precure reaction from you even though you had already turned evil.

You talk about your past as if it were a joke... Really, aren't you just like a child who did something wrong and doesn't know how to repent, so he cries and shouts to others, "Can someone come and save me?"

By the way, Snow White said that she heard the cry for help coming from the box.

"I've already told you!" The Queen was immediately furious upon hearing this. "Don't talk like you know everything!"

"I'm clearly a sinner who has abandoned everything in the past, and so I want to take away the happiness of others. I'm the black-hearted queen who has always been the strongest and most evil Pretty Cure, dragging everything in the world into the abyss of "worst" - I am such an evil villain who hates beauty without blood or tears!"

Why don’t you believe it!

"I understand. I believe it, I believe it, isn't that enough?" Ash, who raised his hands to express surrender, now understood the meaning of what she said before: sometimes the truth may make people dislike it.

Faced with the Phantom Queen's sudden change of temperament, even the specially strengthened muscles of the cyborg on her body could not bring him any happiness.

If you don't plan to use force directly and plan to defeat the boss with your mouth, how can it be so difficult!

"Since you all know that the reason I joined you was to target those Pretty Cure... Of course, that includes yours."

I'm not the protagonist, and I'm not very good at talking.

"I do not need."

As Ash expected, the Phantom Queen, who was now like a hedgehog emitting indiscriminate hostility towards those around her, no longer looked at him with the longing she had when she watched the live broadcast, but with cold sharpness.

"You don't need to coax those children and then find extra kindness to share with me!"

"Is this the reason?!"

Chapter 131 Decade, get out of this world!

Surrounding the embers that were once the center of the room, the Queen and Ash performed a duet while talking.

"I don't mean that, really! Why is it so hard for me to do something good this time?" Ash, also overwhelmed by a strange feeling, burst out with dissatisfaction from the bottom of his heart. "No wonder they say it's hard to be a good person... Tsk! You said that since you knew from the beginning that I couldn't be sincere in surrendering?"

I thought you knew what I was thinking?

"Hmph." The queen, spinning on her feet, looked at the man in front of her who had thrown the question at her, and threw the question back at him. "How would I know if you don't tell me?"

The credibility of what you said is really too low.

"You want to know so much... I want to raise a hero who is worthy of this beautiful and happy world—an incomparably shining and strong hero!"

"So, you chose the Pretty Cure from Hikari-no-Oka?"

The Phantom Queen asked coldly, and Ash, who was excitedly describing his plan, nodded.

"That's right. After all, they're the first Pretty Cure I've met in this world full of heroes. And, others might not believe it, but even a runaway princess like them actually has great potential."

"So, everything you did before was also for them?"

Are there really such shameless people in this world?

"It's not just that. After all, I've been away from fighting for a while, and I'm itching to fight myself." Ash confirmed, tapping the tentacles on his helmet with his red gloves. "But—it's true that I've put a lot of effort into strengthening them both physically and mentally, whether they're enemies or friends."

After all, unlike the previous two worlds where they had to face powerful enemies that they could not defeat by common sense, now that I have the powerful force of Kamen Rider Decade, of course I don’t need to be so anxious anymore. This level of "trial" is already a reduction among the reductions.

"As for me—I want them to grow up to be at least as good as me!"

"In that case, why don't you join them as their partner and defeat us together?"

The single blow you just struck knocked down the phantom that was only second to me. If your strength is not fake, what else can stop you?

"That won't do. After all, I want heroes... I want them to be the heroes I envision them to be."

The Phantom Queen smiled, a smile that was somewhat painful and cruel.

It sounds so nice, but you still use the whole world as a sandbox to play with as you please...

correct.

"Play...."

The Phantom Queen understood, even earlier than the Pretty Cures who were closer to Ash.

Including the anger I felt when I heard him say "I understand very well", and including the words that seemed like a "confession" to myself before, I could still feel that "sense of incongruity" from him despite my shame.

He hides his true feelings behind all his actions. Now that I can't read his mind to know if he's lying, his behavior...

Just playing!

"So, who's your favorite Pretty Cure?"

The Queen's sudden question made Ash answer subconsciously: "If I'm optimistic about her, of course it's Cure Lovely! After all, Kei is the strongest and has the most potential among them, and her cheerful attitude towards her friends makes me very happy-"

"Heh." The Phantom Queen stopped and no longer tried to hide the slightly disgusted expression on her face.

"You said something so nice, but in the end you were so cold to Ainoe!"

"What?"

Ash was a little dumbfounded. He didn't know what the connection was between these two things. She and I weren't even familiar with each other—hmm...

Unfamiliar?

"Now I'm finally certain." The scepter that had fallen to the ground during the previous battle then levitated and landed on the Phantom Queen, whose body was surging with dark energy. The surging dark power continued to surge through her body. "You are the same as that Blue God... No!"

"You are a worse fellow than him!"

Now I am convinced, Ash.

"Destroyer of Worlds!"

The instinctive disgust at that time was definitely not groundless.

"demon!"

"Wait!" Even Ash was confused by being suddenly accused of something like this. "I didn't mean to do this. I won't make the same mistake again—because I've met Pretty Cure before!"

So even if it's just to repay a favor, when I meet new people who are similar to them, I certainly want to do my best to help them.

“This is the mistake itself!”

Completely ignoring Ash's intentions, the Phantom Queen pressed her angry finger against the man's nose.

"What's that? Are you treating them like replacements for someone from before?" The Phantom Queen's aggressive verbal attack was enough to force Ash back even before the fight even began. "You said I was... an idiot, reading your stories all this time. Do you think I've been reading all this for nothing?!"

"I always want to get close to them, but I keep a distance from them as if I'm worried about something!"

Isn't this the worst?!

Are you someone who is about to die, so you miss the past so much?

"You can only see the past... Perhaps you can foresee the future, but the only thing you cannot see is what is right before your eyes!"