Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

When faced with the sudden situation of Hui's brazen attack, Ash didn't waste even a second thinking or hesitating before moving his body first, relying entirely on instinct to use his body as a shield.

I remember what the system had told me before... what was it? But it didn't matter. After all, if I died now, I'd have accomplished the original goal.

"what..."

So when he opened his eyes again, they were full of confusion.

This time's scenes of the afterlife...seem different from the previous ones?

He subconsciously touched the spot on his chest where his heart had literally been "pierced," and the empty space there had been filled up without him noticing, as if nothing had happened.

Am I not dead?

No, it would be better to say that I can feel a kind of power derived from vitality all over my body now. This feeling of vitality almost overflowing from my body is something I have never experienced before.

"wrong!"

Now isn't the time to worry about that! Now, now is——!

The last frame of the memory scene was frozen on the destructive love light wave in Hui's hand and the cracked system.

"what...."

How does Ash feel now?

When someone who has been with you since the beginning, always by your side, wherever and whenever you are, and who has witnessed your growth and your changes in attitude, disappears from your life as you naturally take it for granted...

That feeling of loss is more intense and stronger than any other time before!

"system?"

After calling out as usual, the panel that was more familiar than his parents' faces did not appear in front of him as usual.

Angry... No, the feeling of loss that he had never imagined before has made Ash feel so angry that it is beyond description.

"benefit!"

Even though he knew that this was definitely not her original intention, Ash was completely overwhelmed by his emotions at the moment and glared at the trembling "culprit".

Compared to things like giving in to emotions, it is a luxury for humans to remain rational at all times.

"What the hell did you do!!!"

Facing Ash, who had transformed into a demon... no, whose terror was even greater than that of a demon, Hui, with a face full of panic, could not control her hands and feet and fell off the bed to the ground.

"A-Ash? Ahem—"

I have never seen Ash lose his composure like this, and I have never seen him so terrifying.

If Ash, who hit me when they first met due to a disagreement, was the embodiment of unreasonable violence, then as a Pretty Cure, it was natural for me to resist this violence.

"Why did you suddenly attack?!"

So at this moment, facing her own extremely angry and disappointed expression, the extremely frightened girl was so scared that she couldn't even muster up a trace of resistance.

"S-sorry..."

Not only was she afraid of his wrath, but more importantly, she was afraid of other, more profound possibilities...

"Are you going to kill me? If you are, I wouldn't mind. It would be more like a big welcome!"

"No, no!" Hui hurriedly explained, but even if she had eight mouths, she couldn't overcome the rage pouring down on Ash at that moment. "I don't want Ash to die. I don't want to kill Ash!"

"If there's anything, just come to me!"

This kind of Ash doesn't look like——

"Didn't I tell you to stay out of this?"

"But, Ash clearly needed help!" The angry girl desperately tried to defend herself. "So when I saw this situation, I wanted to defeat everyone who was mean to Ash!"

Yes, maybe I didn’t quite understand what that thing represented, what Ash was thinking, and what it meant to him, but—

No matter how important that thing is, it is still the culprit of everything!

"Ash obviously doesn't want to die, just stay with us!"

"I'm doing this for Ash's own good—"

Thinking for Ash, this should be the right thing to do——

"Snapped!"

The intense impact and pain knocked the girl, who had just stood up, back to the ground, clutching her flushed cheeks. Unable to believe what Ash had just done, the girl still blinked, her confused eyes meeting those bloodshot, murderous eyes.

Ash...what are you talking about?

She could only watch in confusion as Ash's mouth opened and closed with increasing rage. All the girl could hear was the loud tinnitus lingering on her cheeks echoing in her head.

"Ahem—!"

The tears she had shed earlier were carelessly brushed aside. The pitiful girl was about to say something more when she felt a wave of sadness rising from deep within her chest, causing her to tremble and cough continuously. This feeling of weakness was exactly like her mother's when she was ill.

"this is..."

Even when his eyes were bloodshot from the anger that almost shattered his sanity, Ash still noticed something and picked up the fallen "perfect" from the girl. After recognizing her, Ash's eyes widened and he immediately realized what she had done to save his life.

"you..."

The more you love them, the more pain they will feel...the closer you are to them, the more unfortunate they will be.

This was relayed to him by Dust, and the bullshit law of the conservation of happiness and abuse for its own sake resurfaced in his mind.

The facts at this moment have confirmed this statement to a certain extent. The lives of the two were linked together under Hui's manipulation, but Ash would rather die there than suck her life like a parasite to survive.

If so, will the darkness in me also be connected to her life...

Also, why should I share my suffering with others?

"Why..."

There was a tremor in the voice of disbelief, and the will that was originally full of anger was now filled with deep helplessness.

"I just want Ash to be happy!"

.....

Just looking at the girl's extremely humble appearance towards him, Ash suddenly felt a strong disgust rising from the bottom of his heart.

Megumi...is this how you, is this how a Pretty Cure should behave?

After hesitating and thinking, looking at the girl sitting on the ground who was forcing a smile at him, Ash made a decision with a grim expression and buried everything in his heart.

"My happiness."

He grabbed the girl's arm and dragged her out the door without saying a word.

"The farther away from me the better!"

"No, Ash! Don't chase me away!"

The girl struggled and begged, but all her pleas hit the expressionless face like an iceberg.

The girl seemed to feel that something that had been conveyed in the song seemed to be shattered in her heart.

"don't want--!"

The girl desperately reached out for the man's hand, but was ruthlessly blocked by a wooden door that slammed shut.

Chapter 214: The Last Words and the Disappearing Girl

"Damn it, why did it become like this?"

Being able to explode the warrior's gold coins and experience Decade's super-powerful power should be like a fish in water in this world.

I'm capable of teasing the villains, playing with the good guys, and now I have enough strength to sustain this kind of power. After all, I've experienced the high-difficulty Shura Field dungeon many times in previous worlds, so why not just play it easy this time? This is how he imagined the world should unfold.

Ultimately, why has the world become like this? I'm increasingly confused. Is it the butterfly effect of my own messing around? Or is it the fault of other time travelers?

"But it seems like those who traveled through time also wanted to follow me... Damn it!"

Now it’s all my fault!

"Ah, it's done!"

Just when Ash was becoming increasingly distressed, the success of his task finally brought him a good turn.

After some means, Ash was able to summon out of his body the system panel which was full of bugs but could still run inexplicably, and even the text had turned into garbled characters.

What was surprising was that most of the main functions were not affected much, including the inventory, which seemed to be specially protected... But the "system" that always responded to him, and which he couldn't say many words to even when he wanted to talk to it, could no longer respond to Ash as usual this time.

"Why..."

Thinking about what Duxter said, and the hints he had given him, Ash, with both hands on his head, scratched his head, unable to figure out what he was thinking. "Why would you go to such lengths?"

If I don’t want it, will I die?

why?

Why are you the same as Hui...I just can't understand this part!

“[.....]”

Not missing the occasional blurry words that flashed through the garbled code, the man picked up the shining fragments in his hands with surprise.

"You're still alive! You're still here!"

I knew it! The "system" that travels with me can't be that fragile, right?

At this moment, Ash's eyes were filled with hope and light.

"I knew you wouldn't be killed so easily!"

He believed in Him. Even when Dust covered his face with a bunch of evidence, Ash still chose to believe in Him.

Rather, if there had not been this level of faith, He and He would not have been able to travel such a long distance together.

"As long as we're still alive, there's always a way. If you want to repair it...hiss, I can't remember how I made this system shell for you before."

"[Ash...]"

The blurred vision reflected Ash's distressed expression. He knew that Ash must have a lot of questions to ask, but at this moment he didn't say a word in front of him.

"[My thing...my thing about you...I want to try my best.]"

I did this secretly from you because you would definitely not agree with me if you knew.

“[But…it failed. It all failed…I’m sorry.]”

As expected, I am nothing like the all-powerful systems in the novels you've read.

"Don't say anything unnecessary. I'm still trying to figure it out."

Now Ash seemed to have forgotten that the system was not speaking at all. Calming his mind, he put all his energy into searching for a remedy in his knowledge base.

"That's not right... That system panel that looks like a time traveler's cheat is just a shell I made for you. The problem is your core unit. Ugh! The situation before was too bad with all the fighting and external attacks!"

"[Ash...]"

"What kind of attack did Hui use? That's definitely not the damage that Pretty Cure's power can do."

"[Ash...]"

"What's wrong."

Ash witnessed the fragments that seemed to be about to dissipate in the next second reintegrating into his body.

"[What are you going to do now?]"

doing what?

Just close your eyes, and the enemies in front of you will be clearly visible, whether it is the Red God of this world, Torrekia, or the "Dust" of the same origin.

“I don’t want to think too complicated.”

"First, knock down the obstacles in front of you. After all, if they are enemies, we will eventually face them."

Ash knew that some problems would not have good answers if they were thought about too complicatedly. In that case, it was enough to just do the things at hand well.

Besides, I don't have any more time to waste now.

"[Ash, I'll find a way to tell you everything about your problem later... But now I need to take a break...]"

"[Sorry, I can't join you for the time being.]"