Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

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“Cure heart!!”

“No, stop it—stop it!!”

After being resurrected on the spot, the alien Longya used the same method as last time to lock all the Pretty Cures except Aida Ai into the mirror world.

Then, he walked to the mirror where the girl in the mirror kept calling out. He raised the transformed dragon's head and smashed it down with all his might.

Whether it was the roar with an open mouth or the sadness with countless tears, everything was shattered along with the countless fragments of the mirror.

He didn't even need to do anything, just wait, and the legendary warrior would disappear from the world in this unknown and most desperate way.

"..."

Ai Aida, who had been deliberately spared...or not spared at all, lay similarly in the shattered mirror, arms outstretched like a martyr, pierced from behind by countless sharp glass. Even the protection of her Precure suit was reaching its limit, and the blood that flowed through the pierced clothing gradually soaked the areas that no longer reflected light into the color of despair...

"Crash..."

One drop, two drops, the raindrops fell on the girl's face, bringing her back to this hell.

For some reason, the rain continued to fall, and it got heavier...

The icy chill took away the girl's body temperature, but also made the piercing pain in her back seem less painful. So, forcing a smile, she struggled and pulled her left hand free amidst the rush of blood.

"Ash..."

Facing the pouring rain, the golden threads behind her no longer shone but clung to her body with dampness. Feeling her life gradually fading away in the downpour, Ai Aida felt no fear. Instead, she calmly raised her hands to shield her head, letting the mixture of rain and blood drip from her fingers onto her face.

It's amazing... Even though I've run out of options, I don't feel hopeless or alone.

"Ash...can you hear me...?"

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"Thinking back carefully, it seems like the last time I saw everyone with such unwilling expressions was a long time ago."

"This bastard...!" When Dust's voice came through [S·B·A] again, the heroes, whether they had fallen or were still standing, prepared for a final fight.

"But don't worry."

But to everyone's surprise, the Mechanical Devil didn't unleash his terrifying, all-conquering move this time; instead, he loosened his arms and stopped. "I'm no longer interested in heroes, because I've already got something much more powerful."

To the perfect Dust, what does the part about Ash that almost drove him crazy mean?

Every time I gain new power, I keep looking for things to destroy, enemies to defeat... Only in this way can I fill the emptiness in my heart that devours everything like a black hole.

The real Ash filled this hole in another cunning way with a strange thing called love, but I, a fake who is destined to have no redemption... can only go the classic old way.

"It seems I'm nearing the end of my life." With a change of tone, [S.B.A.]'s hands, lowered to their sides, suddenly began to move. The eyeballs that had previously destroyed countless holy sites reopened, twisting with greater frenzy than ever before. "But with so many destinations still to come, the beating of my heart simply can't be stopped!"

The power that can kill even gods and demons, and even the world itself, is now gathered in S.B.A's hands on his chest with a reckless attitude. As all eyes turn to the pupil with burst blood vessels on the top of his head, infinite energy begins to gather, shrink, and collapse in an extremely crazy manner!

"Hey, New Hundred Worlds, what do you mean by this?" Even the villains who had been tricked into working here realized something was amiss. If things continued like this, not only would the new world they had promised themselves would be lost, but even they, who had finally won the resurrection match, would suffer!

“Stop him!!!”

At this moment, regardless of good or evil, friend or foe, there was no room for escape. As long as there was something they didn't want to lose, every living creature that could still move, ignoring the energy of collisions and the possibility of being blown away, once again fought with all their might to stop this completely insane demon!

“Great – this is so awesome hahahahaha!!!”

The crazy artillery fire completely covered the huge body, but still could not hide the crazy laughter.

"From ancient times to the present day, people's ideas have been the same. When people invented gunpowder, what did they do with it? When people had an artificial sun, what did they first create?"

"What on earth do you want to say?!"

"And then, being gathered together, for a better vision, and finally being remade into weapons, what will happen to them...isn't the answer right before our eyes?"

Dust, standing in front of Ash, raised his hands high, and [S·B·A] did the same.

"SBA! Dust Drive! And Dark Echo! Consume my rage—!"

King, god, emperor! The power of reality, the power of miracles, the power of imagination! When all that could stand in the way of this demon god—all were annihilated in the clutches of Dust and S.B.A.!

"Let's put an end to everything!"

"—"

It wasn't such a magnificent time of destruction.

First, light, sound, feeling, smell, everything that makes a living person feel something disappears.

Then, as the power in [S·B·A]'s hands spread out in front of everyone's unwillingness, anger, confusion, persistence, and despair, they saw that everything except the ground beneath their feet... was instantly reduced to nothingness.

Everything disappeared, no longer existing, as if being erased from a piece of white paper by an eraser.

Including now, the light on Ash's body that was used to break the dark echo naturally no longer existed.

"When heroes have nothing left to shine, it's time for them to face reality."

Ashes and dust, two forces that were originally equally powerful, finally broke apart due to the contrast in their minds.

And Duster, who has already gotten what he wanted, will definitely not let go of such a gap!

The evil explosive punch was barely blocked by his hand!

"Infinite power created by will?"

The evil explosive elbow strike was barely blocked by raising the knee!

“Even idealism that mind is superior to matter!”

The evil explosive whip kick was barely blocked by raising the leg!

"But after all, the mind is just a substance in the human body! How can it possibly change the world?!"

The armor barely blocked the impact of the evil explosion!

"Remember? Every time you were about to end your journey in a world, you would always choose to sacrifice your life for your friends, achieving the climax of the heroic story, and serving as the villain's epilogue to bring the story to a perfect conclusion..."

All the hatred and malice gathered in the explosion and directed here to attack the snake bite. It is impossible to stop it!

"So the final fate of our battle has been decided from the very beginning!!"

Darkness replaced the light, and in the world completely occupied by evil, the evil forces including Dust's will and all the malice in the world shattered Ash's defenses. Even the solid protection on the armor that was born from will and was invulnerable to all things began to turn into fragments and peel off layer by layer like soda crackers, along with the Kamen Rider Ashes armor.

"What's wrong with partners? They're just a bunch of weaklings who can't do anything unless they're together!"

The girls' dazzling smiles were gradually covered by bright red blood...

"Someone who can't even survive."

If the one who ultimately succeeds in the story is the hero, and the one who ultimately fails is the villain—

"Destroy, villain!!!"

The infinity you speak of is but a finite thing!

"I--"

But in despair, the man under the Kamen Rider is still unwilling to accept this despair!

Sparks flew all over his body and he looked shattered. The knight flew backwards in the air and time seemed to have stopped flowing. He still stubbornly raised the half-broken mask, revealing his blood-stained eyes. With the last bit of determination and madness, he raised his trembling clenched hands high.

Snake bites and echoes began to bring the world down, but the knight emitted the only light as he rose!

"besides--"

The wishes of the Pretty Cure, the hopes of the heroes, and the radiance of his own courage—all gathered here! He once again caused the nearly stopped Ash Driver to flicker, striking a blow towards the darkness—

The next moment, the earth-shattering dark echoes completely drowned out the last bit of light, swallowing it up and tearing it apart.

"cough!"

The bright red color blurred the man's vision and hearing. What flowed from his facial features eventually turned into bright red life that was swallowed out from his throat that could no longer roar.

"Will and strength, courage and life..."

They have all burned out like snow-white ash...

only...

only.

Only when he was lying on the ground, the ring on the man's left ring finger was exposed from behind the broken gauntlet.

Still flickering in the darkness.

ps: Episode 49, End

Chapter 306: Proposal (5K5 chapters)

Ash thought he must be dead.

"Ash..."

Because he even heard the sound of love... He was not mistaken, it was indeed the sound of her whispering his name.

"What's wrong...?"

"Everything is fine on my end." Her voice was so relaxed that it seemed as if she had truly spoken. "Ash...how about you?"

"...I'm fine. I'll come find you as soon as I'm done."

Really? Well, this might be my last chance, so I want to get it all out now.

"Ash, I love you."

"What's wrong, so sudden?"

"No...nothing..."

"Yeah, that's good."

The drooping arm lay quietly on the debris mixed with blood and rain, and only the broken mirror still reflected a faint gleam.

"Really? When I want to comfort you, you act stupid again..."

Listening to the gradually distorted laughter, time and memory together pushed Ash back to an earlier time.

The day before the final battle, Ash reunited with his Pretty Cures, and he gathered the other Pretty Cures and several other researchers to assist. Gathering in the castle with a host of questions, they couldn't reach a consensus, but Ash finally suggested the idea of ​​an open-air barbecue.

Leaning his arm against the balcony railing, Ash, despite being the host, quietly slipped away mid-sentence, watching the atmosphere below, still thriving and growing increasingly lively. The man, unable to drink, occasionally shook his goblet of the Devil's Spicy Special, sniffing the fragrant barbecue below.

"Really~ Tomorrow might be the last time, and it's still so lively down there."

However, Ash, who was standing on a high place and felt lonely, was not alone. He happily came closer and leaned on the same railing. Ai Aida playfully bumped into him with her shoulder, and accidentally spilled the juice on her hand all over the floor, pouting.

"You said it's almost the end, so even if you make a little noise, I'm sure the gods will forgive you."

She didn't know whether Ai agreed to this, and she couldn't help but move towards him while leaning on a railing.

"By the way, the moon is so beautiful tonight. I wonder if there are rabbits digging holes in it?"

"The moon?" Ash's gaze drifted upwards. Even the moon, facing imminent destruction, understood the situation, still hanging its round, almost dripping, spherical shape in the night sky. "There shouldn't be rabbits on the moon, at least not anything that looks like a rabbit."

"What a clueless fellow! Wouldn't it be nice if he had a little imagination?"

"Then I'll just imagine there's a hot bunny girl tap dancing on it!"

"Ah! That won't work. We already have them, so that's not possible! If you want to see it, I'll wear it for you—"

A strand of wine-red hair drifted down from Ai's awkward body, caught in the cold wind and landed squarely on the man's nose. While she continued to complain, Ash closed his eyes with a sense of inner happiness.

He couldn't help but want to feel this moment a little longer.

"You're right, the moonlight is really beautiful."

"Alright~" Ai Aida, her earlobes flushed, tried to refuse impatiently. "Did you call me here specifically because you're feeling lonely and want Mana to accompany you to enjoy the breeze?"

Hehe~ So that's how it is, isn't it? Don't even think about leaving us alone this time! You were the one who initiated this connection with Pretty Cure, and as long as I'm here, I won't let you go back to your old loneliness! Don't even think about getting away so easily this time~!

"I don't have any objections. I've been feeling a bit lonely lately, too. I just wonder if Ash, the legend of loneliness, has any good ideas to fill this loneliness—hiss!" Goosebumps spread all over his body, and even the physically fit Ai couldn't help but rub his shoulders. "Damn, it's really cold... Let Mana lean on me—ah."

Ash casually placed the devilish spicy drink in his hand on the gradually warming railing.

What the hell... She was originally thinking of acting like a spoiled child, but he grabbed her arm and pulled her away from him, yelling. Feeling a little disappointed and aggrieved, Ai Aida was about to pout again when she saw him suddenly bend down towards her and half-kneel on one knee.

Huh? Wait, I'm a little upset, but I don't need to apologize to this extent, right?

Hey! You said not to do this in front of me, this must be some awful plan to scare people! You're holding this position and carefully reaching into your pocket. I saw it all—and if you're offering it so solemnly, I can't refuse, right?

A bit afraid of another Ash prank, yet unable to resist curiosity, the tangled love in her heart finally twisted and turned. Listening to the debate about "which is better, fillet or sirloin," she took a deep breath and cast a cautious glance towards Ash...

A ring lay in the palm of the man's hand that was given to her.