Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"From what this gentleman said, it seems you are a friend of Ash?"

"I'm not that brat's friend... Humph, that brat still needed our care when he was still wet behind the ears!"

"Really?" Unconcerned with Kaito's possible compliments, Yuko magically produced a sweet seaweed rice ball from behind her back. "As Ash's friend, and for the help he received from you earlier, please accept this gift of gratitude."

"Thank...thank you?"

Haidong, who had never been thanked like this before, responded in a daze. Then, the hand holding the gun instinctively reached for the rice ball...

"boom--!"

A standard high kick that went over his head landed directly on the man's right hand holding the gun. The aqua-blue pistol with an exaggerated caliber spun on the ceiling and finally landed in the hands of Snow White who jumped up quickly.

"Caught it!"

"Great!" The Mingtangyuan style self-defense technique taught by Ash himself is really useful!

"cut--!"

What's with the Pretty Cure? It's so despicable that she even deceived a thief!

He didn't expect that as a veteran, he would fall into the trap in such a place. Without bothering to take back the transformation device, Haidong could only take the rice ball from Yuko's hand and dodge Iona's attack. While chewing the sweet rice to replenish his strength, he fled for his life holding the treasure chest.

At worst, I can ask Ash to get it back for me later. Right now, the treasure is more important!

"Wait—thief!"

Looking at the figure that disappeared in a flash, Iona stomped her feet in anger. When she was about to chase after him, a hand blocked her way.

"I'll go after him. You two transform into Pretty Cure first, just in case! We can't let Axia fall into the hands of unknown individuals!"

As the God of the Earth, Lan Shen could naturally use various means to track the other party's position if he wanted to. At the same time, after activating the instant movement through mirror transmission, the serious god came to Haidong Dashu who was putting the last bit of rice into his mouth.

"You! Are you a time traveler from another world like Ash and that person?"

"So, you're the god of this world?" Haidong suddenly felt like laughing, observing the serious expression on the man's face. "I thought gods were all terrifying, but there's actually a simpler version."

"Why do you outsiders always have to get involved? You've changed everything!" Ignoring the other party's sarcasm, Lan Shen just questioned him.

"The moment we appear in this world and are included, the original trajectory of the world shifts. Every world is real, so why mess with it?" Haidong, a seasoned traveler, quietly gave the other side a sense of time traveler's shock. "And then, no matter who you are, you want to leave your own mark along the way!"

Of course, I'm only interested in treasures.

"Please give it back to me anyway."

Even if the old thief had lost his livelihood, he would not surrender just because of a word. He took a step back and was about to do something else when an aurora curtain suddenly appeared in front of him, bringing with it a figure that made even the gods break out in a cold sweat.

"phantom..."

The tall figure who walked out with an arrogant air, accompanied by an uncle, was none other than the Phantom Queen that he had been thinking about not long ago!

"Humph!"

The queen didn't even give him too much chance and directly used her power. The pitch-black chains bound his hands and feet tightly in mid-air.

So! Including this time when they stole Axia to lure me away from safety, and that person who used the veil's power to bring the Phantom Queen directly here—was all this a trap to lure me in?! His eyes swept over everyone in front of him, and a conspiracy instantly formed in his mind.

"Well done this time, Diend! You helped us lure the god out!"

Unconcerned with the darkening expression on Haidong's face as he realized he'd been used as bait, Minglong laughed heartily and put the blame on him. "Want to abandon the light and join us?"

"You're really quick to switch sides. As for me, just stick to my side." Haidong glanced at Minglong and the Phantom Queen beside him, suppressing his inner uneasiness and pouting. "I only want the treasure. I have no interest in your affairs... Then this thing is mine now."

"..." The Phantom Queen glanced at Axia from Haidong's hand, and besides fear and hatred, there was also a hint of sad nostalgia in her eyes... but she quickly suppressed this feeling. "Let's go, and never show up again with something like this!"

He even used this to deal with me. It turns out that Blue God hates me to the core... just like I hate him.

"Finally." After the thieves and the civilian collaborators had left, the Phantom Queen finally had some time alone with the Blue God. "The great god of the Azure Planet—Blue."

"We haven't seen each other for many years. How do you feel when you see me now?"

"phantom..."

A hundred years had passed since then, and when the love had changed to the hatred, even the positions of the prisoners had been reversed when they met again.

Although Lan Shen had made up his mind to change his mind, his mood at this moment was extremely complicated.

Chapter 142: The clown is actually me?

"phantom..."

He was once a god walking among men, but when he decided to abandon his weak character to fulfill his greater duty, he became a prisoner.

"Blue."

Once a legendary warrior, Pretty Cure, she was the one who saved the world with her own hands, but was taken advantage of when she was betrayed. Now she is about to destroy everything she once protected with her own hands.

The thief, who had nothing to do with him, had already escaped with the treasure, and the passing traveler who served as a guide also left as instructed. Another darkness lurking in the dark was still waiting for an opportunity to move. At this moment, there were indeed only the two of them in the open.

The two opened their mouths and wanted to say something, whether it was cursing or questioning the past, but they felt that they had betrayed each other and the excuses that came to their lips were speechless.

"Phantom, if you continue to bring misfortune to the world like this, you will eventually be consumed by your own misfortune!" The first to speak was the Blue God, persuasive as always. "Have you forgotten the world you once protected, and the spirit of love and peace that belonged to Pretty Cure? It's not too late now. If you could undo everything you've done..."

"The spirit of love and peace? That kind of thing was lost centuries ago!"

Is this all you want to say to me now, a condescending lecture?! The tip of the scepter held by the enraged queen reflected her master's state of mind, now gathering even more terrifying energy as her rage intensified.

"Blue, now you're looking for some new little girls to replace our offspring." But she eventually swallowed her anger and taunted him playfully. "And no matter how many you find, I'll keep them sealed away... Hmph, if you treat them like expendable items like I used to, then your actions are indeed slowing down my offensive."

But that's it.

"No, each of them is a unique Pretty Cure, not—" Although he wanted to refute it, he knew that it was hard to be convincing considering his actions. "Even if you kill me here and now, Pretty Cure will definitely stop you!"

"You trust her so much... You trust them so much because that Kamen Rider is on their side right now!?"

It sounds so nice, but in the end, everything is still calculated by numbers. As long as the mission of protecting the world can be accomplished, justice or evil doesn't matter!

"No, I—"

"Listen to me, Blue!" The Queen reached out and clamped her hand over the man's mouth, silencing him. "I won't kill you, because the winner will be mine. I will make you watch helplessly as everything you love most burns in defeat, and endure endless pain!"

More importantly, I want you to regret what you did in the past - regret abandoning me!

"Love, tenderness, kindness—these are the beliefs I once believed in, but you have proven through your actions that they are nothing but illusions!"

I risked everything and tried my best. I finally got through it and defeated the final evil... But after I confessed to you because I fell in love with your gentleness, you didn't give me any answer, either yes or no. You just left without saying a word because you needed me somewhere else.

Things like this...what's the point of this bullshit Pretty Cure? We're just gloves that you pick up when you need them and throw aside when you don't!

"You are so indecisive, so fond of the old and so fickle, and so treacherous! You are an unfit god who is completely useless at the critical moment!"

Harsh words and all kinds of insults were hurled at the Phantom Queen one after another. Compared to the Blue God who silently endured the insults, it was the Phantom Queen who kept telling stories of the past who got anxious first. At this moment, she was furious and gritted her teeth as she looked at the other person's face which was full of speechlessness and pity, and she wished she could tear his face apart.

"Why..."

Why, you didn't react at all! You weren't the same person who used to laugh with me...and now you're showing me a look of regret for feeling guilty about betraying me!!!

I am the winner now, doesn’t this just mean that you were the one who was wrong in the beginning!

So please confess to me...

Confess to me!

“I didn’t intend to…”

"If you're leaving, why don't you take me with you?"

In stark contrast to the tenderness the "god" had shown her centuries ago, the Phantom Queen, on the verge of tears, failed to see the reaction she was hoping for, reacting to this "indifference" unique to the gods. She subconsciously shouted out the core question deep within her heart. The man who received this question paused for a moment before slowly speaking.

"Because I can't abandon the entire earth just for the happiness between you and me."

The result of my indecision in the past was that I failed to protect both small love and big love...but now I have made the decision to change.

"Who is more important, the Earth or me?!"

"..."

When the hysterical Phantom Queen roared at him and asked the most crucial question to her, the Blue God, whose whole body was bound, did not answer, but his unchanging eyes allowed people to see the answer.

"It's a lie..." The Queen, upon hearing this answer, acted like an ordinary person whose defenses had been breached. She kept denying the same thing over and over again, without any of the aura of a sinister boss. "It's a lie—it's a lie!"

Just as she was hysterically venting everything in her heart, the Phantom Queen suddenly froze in place, and the biggest question that had troubled her for years suddenly got an answer.

I always thought that the other party was resentful of "himself" betrayal just like I was, but in fact, he didn't care at all and never cared about it!

As a high and mighty god, his sights are naturally always on even higher goals.

"I...."

Originally, she thought she would enjoy the feeling of revenge and venting, but until she received the sincere "rejection" from the other party, the Phantom Queen felt like a little girl who mustered up the courage to fall in love for the first time but was severely rejected by the other party. She was filled with endless panic and confusion.

Friends, relatives... I once gave up everything to fight against darkness, and only wanted my own happiness at the very end. In the end, even this thought was taken away, so I gave up everything and fell into the abyss of darkness to take revenge on him.

To avenge him, to make the gods regret it, and to make him realize the mistake of rebelling against this "love"!

As a result, in the eyes of God, there is only the vast "world" and the greatest "love".

In this case, I once gave up all the battles...

Now, the revenge that dyed itself into black...

Three hundred years have passed, from the former "Cure Mirage" to the current "Phantom Queen".

What’s the point then?

"Tregear." The woman turned around dazedly, not wanting anyone to see her expression, and walked back, her voice trembling as she casually commanded. "If you want to find him, then he's yours."

The Phantom Queen now has no mood to invade the world or drag everything into the abyss of misfortune.

Now she feels that everything she cares about is like a clown.

"Thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty."

The young man walked out of the darkness, pushed up his glasses, and applauded her from behind like an audience who had enjoyed the best scene of a play, and even bowed to pay his deep respects.

"You are—Seiji-kun!"

The appearance of another familiar figure made Lan Shen exclaim in surprise. This time it was truly unexpected.

He was not unfamiliar with "Seiji Sagara", who was Hui's childhood sweetheart. As a brave young man who chose to join in and become another supporter after knowing Prcure's true identity, Lan Shen felt that he was also impressed by him.

"Why are you here with the Phantom Queen....Wait, Seiji-kun?"

Is this boy really the Sagara Seiji that Ainoe knows?

Chapter 143 Ainoe: I love you! Ash: No, you don’t.

"you..."

No matter how you look at it, it's definitely him, but there's also a strange sense of incongruity.

"You haven't been around for a while, but everyone's been talking about you lately." He carefully observed the black and white boy, who was eating snacks while looking at him, trying to find the reason for the constant sense of dissonance. "Keiko said you gave her a lot of valuable advice and wanted to thank you, but when she asked you to play together, you always refused."

"Iona said that your science grades improved dramatically, reaching the top of the school, but you quit the karate club and stopped training..."

Although these are unusual developments, if you want to explain it, it is understandable that he wanted to change his direction from sports to studying seriously.

"He really has a group of good friends, to be honest." The boy seemed to be concentrating on licking the ice cream in his hand, but in fact he kept glancing at the joints of the god's body. "What else did they say?"

"Wait, you—" The blue god, who was staring at the round-frame glasses on the boy's nose, finally felt it. "You, you are not Seiji-kun!"

After all, he is a god. Even the bound Blue God, after extending his sensing power, sensed that there was a chaotic entanglement of good and evil light in the boy's body, contained in the body of Seiji Sagara!

"Who the hell are you? You've taken over Seiji-kun's body and used his identity to deceive others!" Even the gods, unable to imagine such evil, closed their eyes. "He's such a courageous young man! How, how shameless!"

"Hey, hey, don't say that." The aggrieved "boy" helplessly spread his hands and said in defense. "Now I am sharing the same life with this boy. If it weren't for me, he would have died, right?"

Although I did it.

After all, it was incredible that I could still survive with the residual breath of the evil god. As a result, when I came to this world, I didn't grasp the direction well and accidentally caused a "car accident" to kill this ordinary passerby boy... Oh, didn't I use Ultraman's traditional skills to lend him life? It's not that excessive, right?

"I really should thank Miss Catherine here." The being who appears to be "Sagaku Seiji" but is actually "Ultraman Tregear" smiled and pointed the broken mask in his hand at the Blue God. "To think that they could point me to a world like this, with not only my acquaintance Ash but also similar Pretty Cure, is truly amazing!"

Now that everything is getting better, I can better realize my ideals!

"What do you want to do—"

"Of course I did!" He took out the "Energy Converter" of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Kingdom of Light, which was just a unilateral transmission version after the underlying restrictions were removed and aimed it at the Blue God. Looking at the pure energy extracted from the screaming god into his body, and the "Eye of Torrekia" gradually repairing in his hand, the boy couldn't help laughing.

"Is this the power of the Earth? It's quite interesting to possess such a powerful force! Now, God of the Earth—"