Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"It's a deal!"

"Well, it's a deal!"

Chapter 205: The day when destinies intersect.

"Ash, do you want this?"

"mom!"

Noticing his mother approaching, Ash quickly pretended not to care and looked away, but Catherine, who was looking at him from behind, noticed the toy he had been staring at.

"Ash really likes Tiga. He always liked to drag his mother to watch these special effects movies."

Even in 2049, Ultraman Tiga is still at the forefront of the popularity of the Ultraman series.

"Mom, do you also think these are fake things?"

Dad always said that.

"Mom doesn't understand like Ash does."

The mother squatted down and gently stroked her son's black hair with gentle movements.

"But if Ash likes it, then Mom will like it too."

That’s great! Ash was truly happy to hear his mother say that.

"I'm sorry, Mom didn't bring so much money today."

He glanced at the Ultraman doll on the stall again, and the gentle Catherine gently stroked the black hair on his forehead.

"I can't buy it for you today."

"never mind!"

Ash didn't show any regretful expression, but instead comforted his mother.

"As long as I can be with my mom, I'm happy even without toys!"

"Besides, I'm already six years old. I really don't need to play with children's toys like this anymore."

"What a sensible and good child."

Ash didn't understand at that time, but for some reason his mother seemed very reluctant to let him go and hugged him tighter and tighter.

"Mom, I'm so relieved."

"How about this, Mom will come buy it for you tomorrow."

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"Ash, do you remember what happened after that?"

"what……"

Back in the real world, Ash answered softly while holding his increasingly aching head.

"My mom might have been busy with other things, or maybe the toy had been bought by someone else. That's what I believed at the time."

After all, my mother is an adult, and that is just a toy. If I were a child, I would be considerate of my relatives. I wouldn't keep thinking about such a thing.

Until my father remarried a new woman, that day was the last time I saw my mother.

but……

Noticing that something seemed to be flickering in Catherine's hand, Ash looked at it more and more familiarly.

"that is……"

"Yes."

Handing the doll in her hand to Ash, Catherine continued.

"I bought it the next day, just as we agreed."

If that's the case, I didn't get it because...

"That's right."

Catherine told her son the possibility he least wanted to hear.

"This way I can see my son's expression when he realizes that some things can never be recovered once they are lost, so I did it on purpose."

Ultraman Tiga slowly slipped down from the released hands, and Ash quickly reached out to catch him, but a sudden headache caused his hand to miss the target by a hair's breadth.

"Snap."

Along with the crisp sound of the head falling to the ground, the broken head rolled to his feet.

"..."

To me, it was as if my mother suddenly came back that day and gave me hope, and then suddenly disappeared, taking away the last bit of fantasy.

I wasn’t actually too sad about such things. Or rather, after my desire for “miracles” gradually faded away, I lost interest in almost everything and I didn’t care about anything.

Until I met “Him” on the day when I was 12 years old. He invited me to embark on the journey together, and I gladly agreed.

I lost the city that once held my memories, but I gained an infinitely vast world. I am determined to survive tenaciously with Him, and to bear witness in this infinite world, leaving behind enough wonderful stories.

After that, I encountered countless enemies and stories that were uglier than my own world.

But I have also met countless companions and legends that have exceeded my imagination and made me admire them.

Time passes like water, I keep understanding and forgetting, but deep in my heart I am still growing.

Gradually, as I kept moving forward, I found that I possessed the strength and wisdom that I once longed for so much.

I became friends with heroes I had only seen on TV, and even fought alongside them or against them, creating countless great legends.

My mission was to collect "Dark Echoes" with Him, but I obtained a treasure that could not be called dark.

I met good partners who cared about me as much as I did, I gained good comrades who were both enemies and friends, and I had people whom I loved and who loved me.

Just like that, when I called myself the King of the Night and walked all the way to Haruka and the others, when I remembered everything again and looked back at the past.

Unknowingly.

I then became me.

"Why……"

The suffocating feeling coming from his chest had made it almost impossible for Ash to make any sound from deeper in his throat.

It was clearly the gentle yet strong mother who told me seriously that I should become as great as a hero and guided me in making my first vow!

That's why I told everyone that my dream is to let the people who are important to me know that Ash has grown into an amazing figure in the story!

If we talk about heroes, you are the original hero in the heart of the child named "Ash"!

"Why, you became such a person!"

No matter how hard I think about it, I just can’t understand! Mom—Mother!!!

"Are you asking me why? I lost the love of my life and felt despair towards the world, and it's all humankind's fault!"

Catherine, who was reciting an opera, suddenly changed the subject and spoke playfully.

"Is this the answer you wanted to hear?"

"No reason, just what I want."

"what?"

“It was all because I wanted to do it.”

Catherine said the fact that made Ash's pupils shrink as if nothing had happened, but there was still no change on her face.

“I thought it was fun, so I did it.”

Something is broken.

When he heard these words, it was as if a thunder exploded in his soul. His ears were buzzing and he could not hear anything. With a distorted expression, Ash drew his sword and rushed towards Catherine.

"Shut up, don't talk! Don't use the same voice and face as my mother!"

"Ahh, are you running away at a time like this?"

Catherine easily avoided the sword that was stabbed at her randomly, raised her hand to grab Ash's face, and pressed him to the ground with all her strength.

She was absorbing the "energy of despair" from the entire world to fill herself with even greater efficiency than that of Despiah, while Ash was resisting. As a result, she had easily surpassed Ash at this moment.

"I know all my son's stories. It's not just because I can read your mind, but also because your memories are also my memories."

"Shut up, I don't want to listen!"

Ash struggled and screamed, shaking his head wildly until the other's warm body pressed him under him. His soft hands held his terrified head and he leaned his forehead against his affectionately, forcing him to look directly into his eyes.

"In that case, let me tell you some stories that my son doesn't know."

Chapter 206: Soul-Broken Dreams

"Your mother was already a time traveler before you were born."

"I was just an ordinary person, but I inexplicably awakened the power to travel through worlds and read minds. At the time, this was something so new to me that I was ecstatic."

"Isn't it fascinating to actually have a cheat code like the protagonist of an online novel?"

Catherine, who had no talent for storytelling, just boringly narrated the settings from the past, but it was these boring words that made Ash's head ache.

"So I immediately used this power to act recklessly. I would breathe the air of another world and seize things that originally belonged to others. There was no reason for it, everything was just to make myself stronger and more satisfied!"

After all, isn't that what all time travelers say? Why does he look frightened? Isn't that strange?

"Gradually, I gained power far beyond what I once had. I could kill gods and Buddhas who stood in my way! Until I realized that no matter how reckless I was, no one could stop me."

"I'm tired of it."

The enthusiastic speech suddenly lost its momentum when it reached its climax. Catherine, with a cute pout, pressed him down and began to pull the soft flesh on Ash's cheeks.

"When you have everything you want, things that used to be fun will become boring. Ash, you know this best, right?"

No, you and I are different!

"So after always enjoying the excitement of other worlds, I want to try a more ordinary life, like... getting married and having children."

"So I married your father. Don't get me wrong, your father is indeed an ordinary man. He is someone who would be happy because of me and sad because of me. Whether in terms of ability or appearance, he is ordinary to the point of being ordinary."

After all, this time I want to live an ordinary life after experiencing excitement. Of course, I have to find an ordinary person. I pay great attention to the role-playing experience and don’t want OOC.

"It turns out being a wife, taking care of the family, and all these things I've never experienced before are surprisingly fun." Catherine gave up on kneading and began to poke Ash's chest with her slender fingers. "I was originally thinking about living with you as ordinary people first, then finding new joys in other worlds."

If nothing unexpected happened, this family would probably have lived a dull life like this.

"If that's the case, why did you leave anyway!"

Ash roared angrily at his mother.

"Of course it's because of my son, you."

"I?"

"I knew it the moment I saw you start talking and reveal your thirst for knowledge about the world." Catherine's previously calm face instantly leaned closer to Ash, becoming incredibly ferocious. "You're just like me, cut off from the ordinary!"

"So I became interested. Something more interesting than taking care of my husband and children has emerged!"

I can see through the minds of intelligent beings. All minds are like flowers to me. The changes when they bloom or wither make me extremely fascinated.

I've already mentioned it, right? I love the expression on someone's face when they make something that was once "light" suffer for the sake of "darkness."

So, when I see through your small body and see the flower inside, which I have never heard of or seen before, how can I not be excited? I can't help but imagine that this flower will turn into a shape I have never seen before!

"Only those under pressure can see their true selves, so I did the same to you."

"Your father didn't tell you, did he? I was the one who initiated the divorce. It seems he doesn't want my image to be shattered in your mind. I'm just a human being."

"!"

The already blurred image of his father suddenly became even more "strange" in Ash's heart.

"I can see that if you keep going like this, you'll use your indelible talent to change the world for good or ill. I've been waiting for that and I'm really looking forward to that scene! And the result..."

Katherine sighed.

"You were kidnapped by that thing first, and when I finally found you again, you had grown into the amazing person you are now, far beyond your mother's imagination!"