Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

Ash took a deep breath.

"This has already happened once."

Then he let out a deep sigh.

"What did I choose to do last time?"

"Ah~!" Seeing the gift box in Ash's hand, the girl smiled. "Are you ready? Great, let's go give Mom a surprise!"

"No, it's not true. Whether it's my wife of fifteen years or my mother who's waiting for a surprise outside the door, all of this is fake."

When the gift box fell from Ash's loosened hands and hit the ground, Baomei's blooming smile froze on her face.

"Then."

Before the girl could scream or try to stop him, the heavy foot was raised and the beautifully decorated gift box was crushed under the heavy foot.

"This is fake too!"

Chapter 259: Your Fantasy...I'll Break It

"Wow!"

When a carefully wrapped gift box is stepped on, it instantly dents, revealing the gift inside.

"Crack!"

When one of the gifts fell heavily to the ground, exploding under the man's feet, Baomei's face, which had always maintained an expectant smile, finally showed a more humane change, from surprise to astonishment, and then to a wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression of despair.

That was something that Dad and I had carefully chosen and ordered in advance to please Mom...

"ah-----!!?"

It was as if a terrifying scream of destruction slapped his face, but Ash continued to step forward without being moved.

"You! You? W-What are you doing? Why are you doing something so outrageous, Dad!??!"

While the girl screamed, Ash was also staring at the broken things on the ground. From the corner of the box, he could see what seemed to be a very beautiful lamp. If you love this, you will definitely like it very much.

"I'm sorry, Baomei."

But now, it was smashed to pieces by his own hands.

Last time, I was in great pain because I destroyed my own treasure.

This time, destroying other people's treasures was also not a pleasant experience for him.

Compassion changed him from the indifferent person he used to be. Maybe it was true that he had become "weak" to some extent.

But that's not really weakness, right?

"Ai, Lei, Miyuki, Kei, Haruka, each of them who insisted on saving me from my heart, had experienced the same painful moment."

Then, I must do this too.

"The one knocking on the door is simply someone you unilaterally believe is most similar to your mother, but her name is Ai Aida, Cure Heart." You chose her based solely on our compatibility, without confirming any scientific facts. "No matter what the real future holds, she hasn't done anything like that yet."

"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? Isn't she your wife? Then of course she is your mother, and she has all the tenderness of a mother!"

At this point, the girl's expression was so broken that she was almost unable to maintain it, but she still stubbornly tried to deny his statement.

"In fact, she's so gentle with everyone."

Because he's a nosy, kind-hearted fool who's overly enthusiastic towards everyone.

"That's not the case. I don't want to hear what you have to say. We had an agreement, an agreement!"

Ash chose to stand by and watch the girl's unreasonable behavior.

That is not an agreement, including this world. Even if it is upgraded from a dream to a real world by human power, when the existence in it is not a result of historical and natural exercises, but is set out of thin air.

"Then it's fake!"

The plates that were originally neatly placed on the dining table fell to the ground with a loud clatter, and there was another crackling sound. It was a pity that the delicious food that was made in the kitchen with great difficulty had lost the container that could hold it.

"Ash, Baomei? Are you home?" Just then, Ai Aida's voice came from outside the door again. "I forgot to bring my keys. Is something going on inside? I heard some strange noises..."

"No, no, no—!" Although it was a self-prepared reaction, Baomei's eyes and face turned red with anger when she heard her "mother's" voice outside the door and saw her father's "violent" behavior. "Who would be happy about what you did?"

But Ash didn't do this for fun.

"I admit it—there is no such thing as the Guangmei Killer!"

"Yashu", who inherited all of Guangmei's power, has been on your side from the beginning to the end. How could New Baijie produce a series of killers targeting Guangmei?

So what I inherited from the beginning was another representative ability bestowed upon me by Him! "I'm not some Light Beauty Killer. I've always corresponded to the Knight Killer. That's why others don't have hostility towards me, and that's why I can unleash my abilities at close range when they're defenseless and drag them into their dreams!"

"Everything is because of me. Are you satisfied now?"

It was the encouragement you said to me in Poker Kingdom that made me determined to do it for the happiness and future of my family!

Baomei had thought that when she told him the whole truth, Ash would immediately become furious at the betrayal and start to "domestic violence" against her. But the truth was, he just glanced at her, stepped over the broken pieces under his feet, and walked straight to the next place in front of the trembling Baomei.

"Homi?"

Outside the door was the worried voice of "Mom", but as long as no one opened the door, she would keep waiting.

"Crash-"

The father in front of him ignored all his attempts to stop him and tore into pieces all the decorations that he had carefully decorated for this non-existent wedding anniversary with his bare hands.

"Stop it! Stop destroying our world!"

"This is not our world, it's just your dream."

Good dreams and bad dreams, everyone wants to have dreams as a rest and peace of mind in difficult times, but you can't sleep forever.

Because dreams must eventually end.

Finally, Ash made his way to the giant picture frame hanging in the center of the living room. Even though he knew it was fake, he had to admit that this wedding anniversary photo, featuring the smiles of himself and his loved one, along with the blessings of his friends, was indeed a beautiful one. It was clearly not something that the idiot Kadoya Kazuya, whose name was signed in the lower right corner, could have taken.

"What a happy face."

In the photo, I am holding my love in my arms and kissing her, which makes the composition show a sense of happiness that almost overflows from the frame.

"That's why it's so disgusting."

A fire driver with a rotating tornado device in the center appeared at his waist. Ash, already covered in a flame-shaped mask, as the Flame Knight, extended his finger towards the scene in front of him that was overflowing with happiness.

System, I seem to know why you gave me this non-existent belt, and why it is the Flame Knight who uses the power of fire.

Because fire exists to distinguish all truth and falsehood through burning.

"Wow——!"

Burning flames rose from the edge, burning and devouring himself and Mana in the picture, as if to deny the possibility of this "happy ending" in front of him, and burning and devouring the smiles of everyone in the picture!

"No! That belongs to Mom and Dad!"

Baomei ran over desperately and said she would protect the photo at all costs, but when she was about to touch it, Ash tied her arms under her armpits from behind and refused to let go no matter how she punched and kicked!

“No no no no————! Ugh, ahhhhhhhhh!!”

From the initial desperate struggle with bloodshot eyes to the gradual cessation of movement amidst the roar of burning, from the initial frantic roar to the hoarseness of the voice, the girl, forced by Ash to watch this scene of complete combustion, finally collapsed in the knight's hands as if she had lost all her strength and soul.

"Why...why..."

In the end, all that was left were the dripping tears and prayer-like questions.

And the Kamen Rider who was also watching all this but remained indifferent, just raising his head slightly.

PS: Dear readers, Happy New Year’s Eve!

Chapter 260: A Daughter Is Not a Daughter

"You bastard! Let me go—I hate you, I hate you! How could... How could there be such a father! "

No matter how the girl in his arms struggled, begged, or cursed, Ash always held her firmly, not even allowing her to look away.

"I know Baomei, I'm sorry."

But Baomei had to witness with her own eyes the cruel scene of all her fantasies and dreams being completely burned before her eyes, only then would it make sense.

“That’s too much, you’ve gone too far, wuwu—wuaaaaaah!”

Amidst the girl's gradually quelling sobs, Ash, who remained as still as a stone, had the only thing to say that was different from usual was that the burning eyepieces covering his eyes were tilted at a higher angle than usual.

This is one of the meanings of the mask's existence.

"Aha--!"

Due to the special mind connection effect in this space, Ash can also hear some sounds coming from other places.

That was Kale's voice. The Sentai Ranger, his body aglow with rainbow light, was not at a disadvantage even when fighting one against three. Even his expression was more excited and happy than his usual depressed state.

It was obvious that he had been hiding his abilities before, as he had gathered the strength of the entire team. Now, as the intensity of the battle increased, he gradually showed his true abilities.

"What kind of magic potion did you give Baomei to make her willing to believe in someone like you?"

And through Yaxiu's eyes and ears, he could also hear the news that Kale kept spouting when he was not as happy as before.

"That's too much." He dodged several first-person punches and, as if by magic, raised the gear machine gun from under his armpit and fired continuously, sending Echo Angel whimpering and falling. "Her true role is Knight Slayer. Although she lacked the ability to special attack against Knights when she emerged due to Dust's separation, she was always on our side."

Including the transformed posture, it is actually just an imitation of Pretty Cure.

"What—" As if surprised by such information, even Ash, who was Ash's other eye, was hit by several more punches in a trance.

"Her true origin is the result of Him using my ability to interfere with infinite parallel worlds to extract her from the possibility of a future worldline and bring her to the present."

I see. No wonder she said she came from the future... That's what she meant.

At this point, Kaler, seemingly struck by something truly amusing, didn't even bother to chase after Yaxiu and the others. His tone was practically bursting with laughter. "In the end, hahahaha—something so unexpected happened!"

"Bringing offspring from the future to the present to play opposite their parents is a common plot in both the Sentai and the Knights." In fact, there would be no additional problems if this were applied to any other knight or Sentai Ranger.

"But when applied to Ash, the 'singularity,' it creates an unexpected chemical reaction." As if seeing through Ash himself, looking at him through those pink eyes, Kale raised a finger. "The unique characteristic of no parallel world exists...which means that through my ability, I can pull her, someone who never existed, here through retrieval."

It’s like knowing who you are but having no corresponding memory at all.

"But the setting of her parents is in a Schrödinger's state! The evidence is that she has no idea who her mother is because she has never seen her!"

Ash originally thought that this was a plot similar to that of Kotaro and Tomi Eiji, who traveled through the past to change the bad future, but the result was even worse than he thought.

To put it in another way, this is equivalent to Kaler using his ability to "print" out of thin air the core monster of a deck that "Cola Girl" was originally planning to release in the future, but there were no corresponding superior or inferior monsters because the others had not even been designed yet, and there was really only her alone.

"Puka... So!" A panting Puka beside him trembled as he spoke, voicing the possibility no one wanted to face. "If there's a chance to make yourself happy, just like a drowning person grabbing whatever they can... Pukaka... Exploiting someone's weakness is such a stretch, Puka!"

Puka had heard from a Kamen Rider about a theory of the conservation of happiness, which said that if one person was happier, others would be happier. She thought it was ridiculous and didn't intend to believe it, but sometimes, in some situations, some people simply didn't have the power to choose.

"So no matter how much she loves her parents, she has to help us scheme against them—isn't that contradictory? This is a practical masterpiece that only comes once in a thousand years! It's so rare, finally someone understands how I feel..."

Looking at the girl who stopped struggling in his arms and seemed to be accumulating something, Ash understood.

She didn't want to bring her parents back because she had lost them, as she thought, but as she said herself - she never even had them.

So…I haven’t actually become a father yet.

"[But that doesn't mean she doesn't need you, right?]"

"let me go!"

Baomei, having instantly transformed and freed herself from the knight's restraints, stood facing the man. Her tearful, crimson eyes were filled with anger and hatred for the man who had so fondly called her father not long ago. "Don't talk to me so affectionately. You're not even my father!"

"I know, Baomei."

"I'm not Baomei. I didn't even have a name when I was brought here! Both my image and name were borrowed from other Pretty Cure—" After completely exploding, the girl, who had completely given up on herself, seemed to vent everything she had accumulated until now on the person in front of her. "Didn't you say I was deceived? I'm the one who truly deceived all of you!"

If you say that things that have never actually existed are false, then everything about me doesn't even have a trace of ever existing! Am I also false?

"I know."

"I just wanted to build a real family based on my memories - but you destroyed it all. Whether it was my mother or everything in this family, you gave it to me -"

The girl, who was almost voiceless, scolded and roared as she knelt on the ground trembling, but her hands did not stop groping on the ground. She desperately picked up the broken gifts and the burning ashes in front of her.

"I will fix it, I will fix everything, I can do it again! Even if I have to prepare a thousand more gifts, celebrate ten thousand more wedding anniversaries, or even go on like this forever—"

Chapter 261 The boy has grown into a father.

Am I wrong? Is there something wrong with me? I just want a happy family!