Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

After hearing Ash's assurance, Lily, who had been hesitant until now, finally felt relieved and followed her heart, hugging her long-lost friend tightly.

He's right, this kind of thing is not something you can always encounter...

"Thank you...."

Looking down at Kolon who was stuffed into his arms, countless words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat and could not be uttered. In the end, they turned into a silent hug, and he hugged his "future" and past partner tightly.

"My name is Koron. Although this is our first meeting... have we met before? You seem very sad."

"No... nothing." Her trembling fingers stroking the elf's soft fur betrayed her inner thoughts, but she simply shook her head. "My name is, my name is Lily... I'm glad to meet you..."

Looking at this touching reunion scene, Ash's originally unhappy face finally showed a smile again.

Well, let's just be happy for a while now.

"Why, now you should forgive me, right?" The originally warmed up opinion of Ash in my heart fell back because of the words of such a straight man.

"I misunderstood without authorization. It's not your fault... But I am indeed a little angry..." Lily lowered her head and skillfully scratched the ahoge on Koron's head with her fingers. Looking at Koron who was becoming comfortable in her arms as always, she did not notice that a blue light penetrated into his body while Ash was focusing his attention on her.

"Manager, you're already a grown-up, so don't make excuses like you don't know the ring's meaning. So you actually thought of using the ring to scare people? Maybe Rei and Erika were also scared by you, right?"

"After all, this is a very important and beautiful life event. If the store manager jokes about it, even if there's no misunderstanding, I'd be angry. It's a bit mean..."

"I'm really sorry, Sayuri. After all, I do care about your attitude towards me~" When Lily was lecturing Ash as usual, the other party replied to her with a magnetic accent, which immediately gave her goosebumps.

Chapter 120 Presenting the Ring

"What are you talking about? Even if you say something flattering like that, you can't..."

Seeing Lily hiding her panic but still trying to keep a tough face, Ash smiled sweetly as he gently lifted up her blue highlights with his fingers.

"However, seeing that Sayuri cares so much about me, although I feel very sorry for deceiving you, I am really happy."

At some point, Ash, wearing a pair of plain black-framed glasses with a tuft of blue highlights on his forehead, and his skillful tone of voice when dealing with Yueying Lily, like a top gigolo, made Lily, who had never been stared at by Ash's frivolous and gentle eyes before, unconsciously develop two unhealthy blushes on her face.

What, what's going on? Could these happy words really come from the mouth of that eccentric store manager?

Could it be that traveling through time and space can improve one’s emotional intelligence? I’ve never heard of that!

"I... because I cared about his reaction, and actually said I was happy or something..." Lily didn't even have time to preach. She was so angry about Ash's few words that she was upset.

"Could it be that my words..."

"Don't be surprised. My words are meant to catch something beautiful. As long as it's your wish, I'm willing to listen to it no matter what it is. You can pour out your heart to me."

If a time traveler with something like "CWM Heroine Strategy System V 2.0" happened to pass by, he would probably hear the sound effect of Lily, who seemed a little dull, and her favorability towards Ash rising rapidly.

"However, even without words, Sayuri is expressing her feelings to me, since you, my beautiful self, care so much about this ring."

Next, in front of Lily's increasingly sincere face, Ash actually took off the ring on his finger, and then gently lifted Lily's fingertips with his right hand.

Just when Lily was completely stunned, a ball of blue light was forced out from behind by Ash. Ash, who was stuck on Lily's fingertips, cast an angry glance at Potalas behind him from the corner of his eye.

"To make life more enjoyable, telling a thousand truths is better than telling one lie." Potalos nodded at Ash in the light ball. "I'm just repaying a favor I did you before, no need to thank me."

I thank you, you idiot! Really, why didn’t I consider their feelings?!

Fortunately, Lily's attention was now focused on Ash's actions, and she didn't notice the appearance of Portalos at all.

“Just do unnecessary things…”

The man muttered something in a voice that only he could hear, and shook his head. At this time, Ash, who was holding the ring, was ready to shoot. In line with the spirit of a man who would go all out, he put the ring on Lily's middle finger without hesitation.

Really, I really like this ring. After all, it has the pattern I like and it feels comfortable when I wear it. I really can't bear to part with it... Forget it, I don't know where I picked it up and it's not something I bought with my own money. If you can't wear it on the ring finger, then the middle finger is okay, right?

"!"

When Lily raised her hand in front of her in a trance, the sunlight from behind her was projected onto the ring through a certain angle. The sunlight reflected on the pattern of the ring actually shone with a special dark color, which was very beautiful.

"Well, it's not bad if you wear it."

Lily finally reacted when she heard Ash's weird voice again. She found it hard to adapt and rubbed the feeling of her middle finger carefully. She thought it would make her more embarrassed, but the shy expression was no longer on Lily's face. It was a beautiful smile that only girls can show when they feel truly happy.

How do I feel now?

I don’t know, but I can feel the warmth in my heart, just like the feeling of a flower blooming again.

"Well, it's just something I don't know where it came from, so do with it as you please."

"Thank you for this gift. I will definitely cherish it."

Ash couldn't help but turn his head towards Lily's smile. Really, if he was looked at like that, wouldn't he be able to refuse at all?

Not only Lily was attracted by the ring on her hand, but Kelon in her arms also twitched his nose and kept sniffing at the ring.

I always feel...it's a familiar feeling?

“This seems to be…”

Curious, Kolon decided to give it a try. It turned out to be a great success. At the moment of contact, a pulse of energy containing some information visible to the naked eye was directly introduced into Kolon's body through the elf's soft little hands. It fell down softly as if it had touched an electric switch.

"Kolon—Kolon!"

Lily never expected such a development to happen suddenly. She was very anxious and called out its name anxiously without having time to investigate the problem with the ring. Fortunately, before she could get too anxious, Kelon sat up in shock from his dying illness and stood up again.

"Kolon, are you okay? What happened?"

Before he could respond to Lily's question, Kolon suddenly looked up at the clouds above with a worried look. "Oh no, Moonlight... No, Lily. The Heart Tree is in danger now."

As the elf spoke, his gaze drifted over the two people before him. "The Great Tree of Heart is under attack. To save the tree that represents the future of Earth and humanity, I hope you can lend a hand!"

Lily was surprised that Kelon actually uttered a term that would never appear now, but now was not the time to worry about these things. After all, if something happened to the Tree of Heart, she would have to be anxious.

"But how do we get up there?"

Although I have no doubts, Lily doesn't have the power to transform now, so it's naturally impossible for her to fly to the Heart Tree in the sky. The store manager is just an ordinary person, so it's even more impossible... and so on.

"Manager, do you have a solution?" Lily suddenly asked this question even though she had no basis for it.

"Well, after all, you didn't believe me when I said I hitchhiked here, so I'll show you what it's like. If you can even travel through time, then to this degree..." Ash, somewhat surprised by Lily's acumen, stopped hiding it. "Don't blink at your manager's impressive abilities!"

Then, Ash suddenly became extremely serious, raised his head, raised his hand and snapped his fingers crisply.

"Come on! DenLiner!"

A rainbow tunnel suddenly appeared out of thin air on the signal tower that Ash was facing away from. With the sound of a whistle, a red and white time train passed by the two of them along the railway that appeared out of thin air in the time it took Ash to snap his fingers.

Chapter 121: Is it okay to defeat it?

"Manager, this is..."

Holding Koron in her arms, Lily, who had become a member of the train, regained her composure and officially activated her ability to observe. The demon gods playing around, the attendant who greeted her enthusiastically, and the conductor who was not surprised by her arrival, her eyes kept wandering around this train that seemed too suspicious.

Although I had no basis for belief at the time, when such facts were placed before me, everyone would be surprised.

"This place... I seem to have seen it somewhere." But what surprised Lily even more was that she actually had a sense of déjà vu about this kind of place.

After a period of brain-racking calculations, Lily successfully locked the clue to the special effects dramas that Ash often watched in the store. It seemed that one of them was about the story of electric bikes?

"I remember it was called Den... Den-O, right? It's just a special effects show on TV, but it seems to be Kamen Rider too?"

Ignoring Dragon Taros who was shouting "Wow, she actually knows about Den-O!", Ash sat up from his sideways position in the seat.

"That's a surprise. I thought girls weren't interested in special effects films."

"After all, it's something the store manager likes, so it's not surprising that I understand it, right?"

Looking at Ash who was making a serious face towards her, Lily felt that his opinion of her had changed a little despite his unsmiling smile.

"But generally speaking, characters from TV shows don't appear in real life, right?"

"What's reality, and what's TV fiction?" Ash's grin widened, his fingers tapping dully on the steel uppers. "Or is it that Lily, having traveled to the past, still thinks she's in the realm of normalcy?"

He had no intention of explaining from the beginning, he just let Lily doubt herself.

"I want to know more about the store manager."

Although it is not a good thing to pry into other people's secrets, Lily still hopes that Ash can answer.

Ash is a free man who is clearly a store manager, but he never cares about the turnover and is too lazy to try to make the business prosperous. What's more, compared to the business in the store, he prefers to run out whenever he has time, and when asked, he says he is working.

Thanks to this, I get a super high salary but don't have any decent job. No wonder Taoxiang said that she was basically kept by him... Ahem, I'm off topic.

So the three store employees and their elves have all speculated about what secrets the store manager has. Lei guessed that the store manager is a playboy who keeps in touch with several beauties, Erika said that the store manager is actually a cloaked hero who puts on a mask when night falls, and the most outrageous Itsuki even made an outrageous speculation that the store manager is actually Timmons' secret identity...but the result is still unknown.

"Want some coffee? I'm pretty confident in my blends."

After thanking him, Lily took the coffee from Hemei, took a quick taste, frowned slightly, and drank the rest of the overly sweet part.

It's nothing compared to the store manager's spontaneous, spark-like explosion.

"But, could you please stop using excuses like, 'Because I like to watch special effects, the characters in special effects movies will help me?'"

"That's right. After all, I really like watching special effects movies."

After saying this, Ash coughed twice and stopped looking at Lily. He lowered himself and lay back on the hard leather seat.

"Manager, please be more serious."

"What, isn't this a reason?"

After taking back the pudding that was stolen from Kintalos, Momotaros, who had left the battlefield, heard the conversation between the two and couldn't help but laugh.

"You little girl might not know this, but this guy has always been like this. He's never bothered to think about complicated things, and he doesn't know how to read the atmosphere. He's really a guy that even I find troublesome."

"No, I know."

I understand that Ash never pays attention to the atmosphere.

but......

Looking at Ash standing aside, he was resting his hands on the back of his head, staring at the ceiling of the train with his black eyes that were the same color as the universe. No one except the system knew what he was thinking.

His own affairs, Erika's affairs, Rei's affairs, and even Itsuki's affairs, facing so many things, his performance can't be said to be handy, but at least it can be said to be a mess... But, there are also times when he performs outstandingly.

As such, he either can't read the atmosphere, doesn't understand... or he simply doesn't care about such things and is completely too lazy to think about them.

How did he grow up to be such a person?

The current Yueying Lily is still unknown; the current her is unknown...

[Train is arriving, train is arriving—Current stop: Heart Tree!]

Following the instructions of Koron in his arms, the electric train went all the way into the sky and successfully found the floating island where the Heart Tree was hidden.

As soon as they got off the train, Ash pulled Lily's clothes to hide her exposed figure under the shadow of the train.

“Sway, swing, swing—!”

As the train shook slightly, Lily saw countless light bullets hitting the train's armor and exploding around the barrier opened by the Heart Tree.

"Could this be an attack by the Desert Apostles?! But that's impossible. There's no way they could find this place now!"

"Look carefully, that guy." Ash looked out with the train as a cover, and Lily also cast her eyes on the target and her pupils shrank suddenly. The hideous bat monster was none other than the demon god with whom she had a contract!

"The Desert Apostle's desert monsters are much cuter than this thing... Heh, have you set your sights on the Heart Tree? You don't even have a single precure at this hour, do you?"

Are you planning to not only explore the past of the Knight World, but also the past of other worlds? If Gai saw this, he would definitely be proud of you.

"Yes, so what?"

The man's eyes swept across the lily, then looked at the heart tree on the side.

"You go to the Heart Tree first. I'll draw its attention."

"How could you say such a thing!" Lily clutched the man's sleeve tightly, fearing he would run away the moment he finished speaking. "It will definitely kill you too. How can I leave you here alone? If you want to go, let's go together..."

"It's fine."

Ash grinned wickedly and pointed his thumb at the other four demon gods who got out of the car in a panic behind him.

"Now I am with Kamen Rider."

Having said that, Lily understood Ash's decision. With such a decision, she could only show her own awareness.

"I understand. After I...Precure will definitely be here soon."

"Ah, you must let me see it clearly when the time comes...but."

Ash stood up confidently and completely attracted the attention of the Sky Bat Demon God.