Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

You said you wanted to create the future with me, but it’s obvious that without you, there would be no future for us.

"But I realized that I was also wrong about one thing, Father. I found that I was really wrong at the time."

I was created by that system and came into this world without inheriting any cause and effect. Apart from the core that it gave me, I truly have nothing.

"But after meeting you all, whether it's Dad, Miss Puka, Aunt Ayumi, or everyone in this warm family, the friendship and love you've shown me has gradually filled my empty heart."

"As someone like me, I certainly can't be considered to have nothing."

Also, I'm sorry, I lied once too. In order not to worry you, there's one thing I never told you.

I was pulled from the non-existent future to the present timeline by his power. Once this power disappears, I will of course disappear as if I had never existed, right?

However, it is better to leave without leaving a trace and watch the people you love suffer.

"Rather than doing this, why not let me, your daughter, do something for you and show my filial piety?"

Since you can give up such a beautiful future for me, then I can also give up a non-existent future for you, right?

"After all, you said that meaning is something that people have to give themselves, right?"

This is the meaning that you need to find by yourself, and I seem to have found it.

Just like the sun rising in front of everyone after setting, a "sun" that was too dazzling for this empty world was taken out from Baomei's chest in front of everyone, as her figure gradually became illusory.

"Homi...?"

Ayumi, exhausted and disarmed, looked at her. Although she could sense the immense energy within her, she still had no idea what she was up to...

"Beauty."

Yashu, who had moved Puka onto her thigh, opened her eyes wide, and as if realizing something, she opened her mouth and subconsciously raised her hand, but finally slowly put her hand away under the girl's determined gaze.

"So, Dad, I'll have to leave this future to you alone to carve it out. Baomei, I'm going back for now... I'll catch up with you later."

The girl looked at the people on the other side who were fighting with their lives to protect the people behind them.

As if to etch each of their faces into her mind, the girl gazed at the people around her for a long time, until finally, her gaze fell on the man whose half-closed, empty eyes seemed to have a gleam in them. The girl once known as Baomei smiled with genuine joy for the first time.

I remember He said that this "thing" was originally created by Ash and Him, and it was because of Him that something that shouldn't have appeared appeared.

"Since you exist for Ash, then go and save Ash!"

"————" The newly born "sun" was held high in the girl's hands, and then slammed into the core of Ash's broken belt!

"..."

Ash opened his eyes, and everything he saw seemed incredibly familiar.

After countless experiences on the line between life and death, he had opened his eyes countless times to see the same scene. Usually, the first person to speak to him here was the system. But today, for the first time, Ash heard a voice from another person.

"Do you need strength?"

"Yeah, without strength, I wouldn't be able to be as strong as you guys."

"Give you strength."

The setting sun slowly sank into the ashes that had long since burned out, allowing each and every speck of dust to shine with enough light to burn again.

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Kale tried to step over the Pretty Cure who had fallen unconscious from the battle and head towards Ash, but was blocked by the last person.

"Someone is desperately trying to save us, so of course we have to respect him--!!"

She used up her last bit of strength and exhausted her last bit of spirit, until the pink battle suit had reached its limit and stopped transforming. Still shouting, Ai Aida staggered over her fallen comrades and punched Kaler in the face.

"Desperate?"

In the end, her own strength had ruptured the back of her hand. Kaler watched her coldly as her hand, blood dripping, created a bloody streak on his helmet. Finally, she stood there unconscious, still in that same punching position.

As a clone who inherited Ash's memories, even if it was only the negative part of the memories, Kaler knew who this nosy red-haired girl in front of him was. After all, the bad memories he had for her were only slightly less than those for the girl with a ponytail on the other side.

This person is still as overly tolerant and nosy as before, but what's the point?

"In the end...what else can it do besides wasting a few seconds of our time?"

She put away her weapon without even thinking of finishing off the enemy. When the Caesars of the world looked around again, they realized that there was no Pretty Cure left standing except her.

"Hahaha...is it over?"

"Has the miracle finally died down after so many flashes? This is truly a tragic ending that would cause even those who believe in miracles the most pain."

"wrong."

Thinking that he had misheard the sound, Kaler, who was self-deprecating to the extreme, froze in place with his crazy movements.

"Miracle, there's another one here."

"What's going on?" His head snapped around like a gear, and he looked at the man standing behind him, his white coat stained red with blood from his chest. His tone was an incredibly complex mixture of despair and hope. "Why are you still here?"

The TV lying on the ground, with the crack across the screen as the boundary, reflected the two Ash's faces with the same expression at the moment.

"How, how could this happen?" On the other side of the TV, Kamen Rider Enki, the ultimate villain, looked at Ash, who had stood up despite having his chest completely pierced, his tone filled with disbelief. "How did you manage to stand up after your cyborg body was destroyed? How on earth is it possible that you're still alive?"

"[It's everyone's thoughts... No!]" Even with his heart, the very thing that holds him back, shattered, leaving him with no chance of survival, Ash stood before his enemies with blazing eyes. Countless figures who had helped him and been helped by him in past episodes stood behind him as if they had come alive! "[It's the experiences I've had with everyone along the way, the experiences that have changed me, that have sustained me to this point!]"

"And then..." Ash said.

"[As long as there are people in this world who call for justice, Kamen Rider can come back to life no matter how many times!]" This is what the man named Ash said.

"[The Kamen Rider who is hindering our hegemony——!]"

Standing still, letting the flames released from the opponent's hands burn him, until the belt was transformed into a new shape, "Ash" stretched out his arms to press it and shouted loudly.

"[Transform!]"

"The crickets can't burn out, leaving behind ashes—!"

Standing still, he allowed the stream of light emitted from the opponent's weapon to devour him, until Ash, who had transformed his belt into a completely new form, stretched out his arms to press it and shouted loudly.

“Hen——”

As his arms swung overhead with mechanical sounds, a crimson turbine swirled in the center of his belt, unleashing a sudden storm of particles. His right leg retreated, causing cracks in the ground. Within the swirling emerald storm, a leather glove clenched and cracked. A knife blade pierced through the storm, slicing through it, leaving a scorching arc in the air.

"This is—" Through the slightly opened window, Kaler was able to clearly see the changes. Burning biometal gushed out from the clavicle crack, and black armor instantly covered the entire body. From the back of the head, the vertical pupils of the demon dragon opened, and the sharp horns transformed into sharp teeth, biting down at the man whose face was covered with tear-like lines. "Is it because you chose to accept the dark echo last time and awakened the demon dragon monster state?"

But now is different. After the last battle, I already know how to deal with this form that is only too powerful. Just as he was thinking this, a human fist wrapped in black gauntlet blasted out from the lava armor on the dragon's chest. Before he could react, the monster's outer shell was completely shattered by the fist pressure that spread from the inside.

The hideous lava lines turned into cracks, and the dragon's vertical pupils exploded into pieces. Amid the continuous crisp sounds of the crustaceans shedding their shells below, bluish-white flames gushed out from the cracks and poured into the storm, bursting out the flickering truth behind it along with the exploding flames.

“Shin——!”

The flames blasted through, the goggles of the compound eye taking shape in the heat. Amidst the drifting embers, the emerald green breastplate absorbed the final flames like a tornado. The black gauntlets clenched tightly, their metallic gleam gleaming in the scorching air.

A charming scarf was blown high behind her.

Those are insect-like antennae and masks.

That was, a emerald green breastplate and jet-black gauntlets.

That was the first and last gift the system prepared for Ash. It was his last, strongest, and final Kamen Rider, named—

"KAMEN RIDER Ash!"

Is this the new power you've gained? Looking at this figure who looked so similar to the original Kamen Rider, without feeling a completely different world, the Caesars couldn't help but applaud him.

"What a hero! He's truly a hero—he's gathered the hopes of everyone who loves him, and now he's going to settle things with one of the culprits..."

Then, without hesitation, the Earth Cannon, Flame Bazooka, Roaring Cannon, Super Power Cannon - countless special weapons used by the team to annihilate evil in the past were aimed at Kamen Rider and the triggers were pulled.

"But, you yourself cut off the happy ending that was given to you! All that reality left for you was a cruel and merciless ending without any miracles!

Explosion! All that was left before him was a dazzling array of explosions. Then, through the raging flames and smoke, a single figure leaped across the sky with a signature roar.

The next moment, a knight descended from the sky, looking furious and ferocious.

"!"

Caesar, who was at the outermost edge of the pink world and felt something was wrong, quickly raised his arms and blocked the fist that was wrapped in the lingering flames - easily?

"Punch force... one ton?" Even Kale couldn't help but laugh at the knight before him, his eyes ablaze with fire, watching the ups and downs of his expression. "Is this the power you gain when you're on the verge of losing everything? Hey, hey, hey, Ash! Aren't you making any progress at all?!"

If this is the "pain" that one has to endure in the end, even he, the container that has accepted all the malice, feels sorry for Ash!

"Kacha——"

Ok?

If that's the case, then why was it his arm armor that shattered before his fist?

Oh, so the power in his hands is still growing? Is this the final form of that growth? Okay, I want to see where your limit is... 10, 100, 10,000, 100 million? —!

"Oh!"

While continuously pouring in strength, Ash restricted the spread of all the excess power to this ordinary punch in his hand. With a not-too-loud muffled sound, he knocked the pink world Caesar in front of him away.

In the end, World Caesar, who had endured the punch, seemed to have lost all his former majesty. He was like a kite with a broken string. He was blown into the air, roaring out the number in extreme embarrassment with both arms broken in pain.

"Infinite numbers——?!"

As the instigator of all this, Ash seemed to have little sense of reality, and repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fist.

What happened? I just wanted to have enough strength to defeat the enemy in front of me, and then this strength responded to me, as if everyone I knew had thrown the same punch at the same time... How can I describe this feeling?

As his gaze drifted past the Pretty Cures who fought for him until the last moment, Ash thought of that word.

"Miracle."

Just like the miracles they had brought to him, no reason could describe them.

“It feels like I can do anything now.”

Of course, I won't lose to anyone.

Instead of anger, instead of malice, instead of those impure things that were not necessary to defeat the enemy, Ash, with fire burning in his eyes, looked at the pink world Caesar who had finally fallen among them with both arms broken, and sneered like them.

"I remember you originally only had one arm, right? I don't know how you fixed it, but I think this look suits you better."

"asshole!"

In response to their malicious anger, Ash raised his clenched fist. The fist was not decorated with any special effects, it was ordinary but no enemy could ignore it. He raised his index finger and pointed it at the Caesar of the world opposite.

"The Biography of Ash, Chapter 3, Verse 16 says—"

"I'm going to defeat you completely!"

[Kamen Rider Ash]

Punch force: 1t~infinite

Kick force: 2t~infinite

Jumping power: 15.30m~unlimited height

Running speed: 100m/5.2s~infinitely fast

Ability: Create power with will, create will with power

Chapter 269 System: Ash, I am now doing something greedy

"What's going on? What's going on? What the hell is that?!"

From pure disbelief, to distortion, and finally, to a complete breakdown of defenses. Kaler's roars multiplied in the void, and the black wave that exploded and spread from them was instantly evaporated into pale smoke when it touched the flames surrounding the knight.

He calls himself... "Masked Rider Ash"?

This sudden, unclear transformation... If I'm also "Ash," why have I never heard of it? It's even more incomprehensible! This name doesn't even exist in my memory bank!

The man who claimed to be the negative "container" of Ash was now having his heart burned by the power of his own origin - every crack on the mask seemed to be mocking his existence.

"What the hell is wrong with you, one after another!?"

The cubic whale cannon smashed into his palm and he aimed at the knight and pulled the trigger. After the song "The End of the Beast King~" resounded through the void, the energy cube that should have been strong enough to penetrate the moon became as docile as a returning baby bird the moment it hit his arm armor. It rose into the sky along the trajectory of the knight's raised hand and turned into a distant meteor.

"Ash..."

The golden meteor shower illuminated the girl's tearful smile. Miyuki, who was lying with her companions, had eyes filled with emotion and was finally able to close her eyes temporarily with peace of mind.

"Why, since you say you are me, then you don't recognize this belt?"

Putting aside Kaler's shattered mentality, when Ash saw this windmill belt that had not been modernized and only the central tornado device was still rotating, he recognized it at first sight.

Isn’t this the first Kamen Rider transformation belt that he and the system created together, his debut work “Ashes Driver”?