Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"The doll really spoke—? Don't come over here, don't come over here!"

Momotaros was now sweating profusely. When he saw the doll, he remembered the "Child's Play" series that Ash had shown at a horror movie appreciation conference held on the train. Ryotaro was so scared that he fainted. Of course, he was not afraid at all!

“You, you, you…what are you!?”

What frightened Momotaros even more was that the doll on his shoulder not only spoke, but also moved and even waved at him.

This time, it was as if someone's tail was stepped on, and Momotaros screamed even louder.

(In fact, the wings behind the body are not shown)

Chapter 124: The Big Tree of Heart

"Senior, no matter how you put it, this is too ugly." Faced with the complaints of other demon gods, Tao Taros no longer cared about his face, but just kept shaking his shoulders and tried to throw the doll away.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here!"

Seeing that Taotalus was frightened by him and became like Bu Jingyun for some reason, Kain was at a loss.

"Even if you say so, I am now a part of Den-O's apex form, just like everyone else."

"What?"

Hey, hey, hey, putting a doll on the shoulder, isn't that the setting for playing with coins? How did it get put on Den-O's head?

"I didn't expect to be able to appear as part of Den-O's peak form. This is so cool! I told the boss, but he just didn't believe it. Good things really do happen when you're alive!"

Kain seems quite happy with the current situation, but it is a completely different story for Momotaros, who has a shadow over the doll.

No, I have never heard of stacking people to create something like this!

And this kind of doll... I remember now, it's exactly the same as the one that girl is holding. Shouldn't you have gone into that big tree with that girl?

"A lot of things happened in the meantime, that's it." As if seeing through Momotaros's thoughts, Kain sat on the shoulders of the Electric King and rubbed his hands excitedly. The conversation between him and the Demon God made him look full of joy.

Although I have never actually seen it before, Den-O’s words are indeed very interesting!

Kain, who was overwhelmed with excitement, slapped Den-O's face hard, ignoring Momotaros's voice of "It hurts!", and excitedly waved his fist at the Bat Demon who was slowly crawling up on the other side.

"Go ahead, use your fists, use your kicks, and use your special moves to knock the enemy down! Den-O!"

This is what he wants to see, and of course this is what I want to see too!

"Hmm, it seems like it's Ash's inner being, so it was included when we transformed," Kintalos said. "Okay, Brother Tao, come up with a new name for our new companion!"

"Alright, how about calling it 'Kamen Rider Den-O Devil Apex Form' now?"

"Stop making so much noise. It's fine that the roast chicken didn't come this time, but what's going on with this demon?" Taotalos swung his arms even more excitedly, trying to shake Kain off. However, as it said, Kain was completely stuck on it. It seemed that he was really considered a part of the apex form.

"Not only is he talking to himself, he's going crazy with a split personality." Clutching his waist where the smoke was billowing, the Bat Demon God rose up and flew into the sky again, swooping down on the Electric King below. "A man playing with dolls, for an Electric King, that's disgusting!"

"Nonsense, it's not just you who feels disgusted, I feel disgusted too!"

This time, facing the diving attack, Den-O learned his lesson. He turned his body towards the enemy and used the Electric Mask in the form of the Holy Axe to meet the opponent, letting it hit the axe blade of the Electric Mask, thus inflicting another wound on the enemy.

"It's clearly a random hodgepodge of designs, and it looks disgusting, but it's surprisingly powerful!"

"Well, actually, compared to the hodgepodge of some knights later, I think the apex form is still pretty good-looking." Kain, who was sitting on his shoulder, said something fair.

"Cry for my strength... Although that's what I said, it hurts to use me to block the knife, Brother Tao!"

"Hey, it's not me who's hurting." He chuckled and slapped the protesting left hand away. In the midst of the fight, the electric king, already holding the victory trophy, walked towards the enemy with a ruthless pace.

"Don't be so rough, Ash is feeling a little...unwell right now, so please be careful with this body."

"I know, I know—" After hearing what Kain said, Den-O took out the knight ticket box from behind, pressed the logo button in the center of the belt, swiped the ticket box and threw it aside. The knight slowly squatted down, and huge amounts of energy began to gather in his legs.

[Charge and Up]

The electric masks attached to the knight's body moved to the right leg along the track structure spread across the body. As he squatted down to prepare to jump, the spiritual power of four alien demons and one devil was all channeled into the leg.

"Hey, do I have a share?"

In fact, there were more than three electric masks. Kain, who was sitting on the shoulder, also moved along the track under his buttocks, and finally lay on the electric mask on the calf.

"CLimax's on!"

As the crowd shouted slogans, the knight jumped up and thrust the electric masked horn in the form of a holy pole on his leg forward. The flying kick with rainbow energy light hit the chest of the bat demon god after it was severely injured. The powerful destructive force was introduced into it along with the horn that pierced into it.

[Voice Dozn Kick]

"There's me too!"

Compared to the previous peak form, this time there is an additional demon lying on his legs. Kain manipulates this body borrowed from the spirit of the deceased partner of Pretty Cure and swings his fists with a momentum that is no less than that of a knight.

“Ah ...

Following Kain's strange cry and a series of breathless punches, the Demon God's entire chest instantly caved in several pieces in front of his marshmallow-like hands and feet. In the end, he didn't even utter a single curse word, and was scattered in front of the Knight's Kick, which was more than ten times more powerful than before.

"Yeah! It's the victory of the five of us plus one demon!"

As victory came, the four consciousnesses controlling Ash's body suddenly became like huskies returning home, each controlling the body to jump around and do whatever it wanted.

"Hey, you kid." Unexpectedly, Kain finally showed off such a skill. Tao Taros's initial bad impression of him changed a lot. "I didn't expect him to be so powerful!"

"Of course. Look whose devil I am—" Just as Kain was standing with his hands on his hips and looking proud, his expression suddenly changed, and his whole body began to become illusory.

"Oh no, the boss—"

"What, what happened?!"

Before Kain could finish his words, he was sucked back into the body, and the Den-O belt was automatically removed from Ash's waist. The four demon gods who were with him didn't even have time to ask a word before they were forcibly kicked back onto the Den-O train as their transformation was canceled.

“Cough cough cough—cough cough cough—!”

Like an elderly person who is still forcing himself to exercise, Ash covered his chest and coughed violently afterwards.

"Even if we share the burden, it still won't work..." Ash, kneeling on the ground with one hand covering his mouth, used the other hand to press on various important parts of his body and instantly understood.

I see. It wasn't the physical exertion that caused my body's functions to deteriorate, but rather my immune system weakened after my body's functions dropped to a certain level, causing me to become ill... Did I catch this at the Desert Apostle Base? It was a normal infection, so I didn't notice it.

And now, has the condition been aggravated by strenuous exercise?

"Duan...is this also part of your plan? But...I can't fall down yet...!"

I can't fall here...at least not now...before then, before I see that completed...

What...what is that thing that I wanted to see even if I died? Why can’t I remember it...Why does it seem like it doesn’t matter now...?

Ash wanted to do something, but the opposite happened. His body had lost its strength and he couldn't even lift a finger. He just fell straight back and fell into a warm embrace.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Such a gentle voice, very similar to Lei's voice, but compared to Lei's softness, it has a motherly and tolerant feeling...

"bud...?"

Ash opened his eyes, and what he saw was a Pretty Cure who looked very similar to Cure Blossom. "She" with mature body lines was hugging him gently, and her eyes were full of kind "love".

"No, this body is modeled after the previous generation Precure, Cure Flower (Flower Angel)."

“And I am the tree of my heart.”

The gentle "Cure Flower", or the tree of heart itself, looked at the weak Ash in her arms, and her soft fingers gently brushed across the man's wrinkled face. There was nothing in her eyes except concern, kindness and heartache.

"Thank you for what you did."

Chapter 125: A World That Wants to Help Him

"The Great Tree of Heart... Hmph, has the deity come out?"

As for the matter of the Tree of Heart, Ash naturally compiled and integrated the intelligence leaked from both the Light and Dark sides. In general, it is the collection of life on Earth itself, plus the collection of consciousness of all human minds, which is approximately equal to the collection of "Gaia" and "Alaya".

In other worlds, Ash has seen similar crystallizations of world consciousness, such as the Certificate of King in the Beast King world, and the Ultraman world that simply gives power and selects messengers to fight on behalf of the Earth.

Among them, the Earth consciousness in the Super Sentai world is particularly active. Humans and the teams on them are simply the sons of the Earth. Not to mention how many teams' power sources are given by the Earth itself, there are even more things that Ash can't count, such as the positioning of planet guardians or the deus ex machina that helps humans at critical moments of Mother Earth... Ahem, I digress.

In short, the things similar to world consciousness in different worlds behave differently, but their attitudes towards the "outsiders" stowaways from outside the world are surprisingly consistent. They don't say "Get out of this world!" At least they will definitely not give you a good look as a stowaway. Ash has seen a lot of this with his own eyes...嚃...So, it's really strange that the Tree of Heart would actually welcome him, isn't it?

"I also know a towering tree similar to yours... A warrior of the power of light traveling with a warrior of the power of darkness, tsk." Unable to recover from his physical condition, Ash simply lay in the soft embrace of the "Cure Flower" and began to count his fingers. "It's actually hard for me not to associate similar situations with each other."

However, if the Tree of Life could be one-tenth as sensible as this tree, it would not have ended up being cut in half and burned by itself.

Jokes aside, Ash will naturally not let his guard down against this boss of the righteous side.

"But before that, why is it like this?"

I remember that the Flower Angel is the Pretty Cure that Duen has always been thinking about, and she is also Lei's grandmother, right?

Although her face is already full of wrinkles, she still looks youthful and pretty after the transformation. Ha, the transformation of Pretty Cure has a natural age-free effect, right? I think many people will envy her.

"You really like Pretty Cure, right?"

Lifting Ash from behind and helping him sit down slowly, the "Tree of Heart" spread out her hands with a motherly smile on her face. Her slender jade fingers, like solidified fat, massaged Ash's swollen temples and neck with just the right amount of force to relieve his fatigue, while letting his body weight completely lean on this soft chest that imitated her.

"Whatever you want..."

Grabbing the other person's wrist that was stretched out in front of him, Ash sniffed carefully with his nose. It was a delicate fragrance of flowers and plants, full of vitality. Even with his low sensitivity of the five senses now, he could still clearly perceive it. It was this comfortable power that made him feel familiar.

"This feeling...is the same as the ring."

After comparing it in his mind with the ring he had given to Lily not long ago and successfully reaching the "best match", the answer to the unknown origin of the ring became clear.

"I see. No wonder the ring is made of wood."

"The Heart Tree of the Future, when you were rummaging through your personal space, dropped this ring from the sky, landing right in there as you were retrieving something." The Heart Tree's movements stopped, and she let Ash hold her fragrant palm. "Then the spirit Kolon came into contact with the ring made from a part of my body, forming a circuit that transmitted all the information from the future to the present."

Ash instantly thought of the past when he first met the Heart Tree. The tree showed kindness to him. So, it turned out that she had seen him long before he met her.

Time became a loop at this moment, because the big tree in the past time obtained the information provided by the big tree in the future, so she was able to make arrangements earlier and knew when to drop the ring so that it would fall into her inventory.

It's not that I changed time, but the part I changed happened to be a part of time... The corrective power of time is so wonderful.

"I'm sorry. I did this without your permission and caused a misunderstanding between you and Lily. I'm really sorry."

"No, I don't mean to blame you." Ash's aura was obviously not as calm as he said. He was angry, but the object of his anger was not the "Tree of Heart" that was holding on to him, but himself.

"I didn't even notice this. Even if I use old age as an excuse, I shouldn't... If that wasn't a beautiful ring but a weapon, I would be dead now."

"No... there's no need to be so extreme..." Seeing Ash say this with a serious face, even though I knew what kind of person Ash was, I still felt a little worried for him.

"So I don't blame you for being cunning. It's just my negligent, amateurish attitude that caused this." With a thought, Ash summoned the system's virtual screen and tapped it vigorously. "But it's not entirely my fault. The inventory is your function, and you didn't even notice it. Are you still a system?!"

[......] The screen, which was a little cracked, showed a series of ellipsis marks.

[I don't pay attention to that place all the time, so don't put all the problems on me.]

"But you're a system. As a system of a time traveler, how could you be so negligent?"

The virtual screen simply pressed up and down, and turned into a beam of light and disappeared.

"Tsk, let's talk about this later." After regaining some strength, Ash turned to look at the ever-gentle face of the Heart Tree. "Then you must have known about me for a long time, right?"

"Joining the Desert Apostles, arbitrarily becoming enemies with your Pretty Cure, and acting recklessly... Needless to say, I act recklessly, but I also know how annoying I am in the eyes of others."

No matter how you look at it, the best option is for the Heart Tree, who holds the initiative in intelligence, to choose to eliminate himself in advance rather than adopt such an intimate posture.

What I don't understand is why she keeps showing kindness to me.

"Why don't you knock me down?"

"Because I want to help you."

"Why, would you even want to thank me?"

"Because you helped me."

Chapter 126: Unprovoked Kindness

"I am very grateful that you gave me that light at that time. It helped me recover a lot of my vitality."

After hearing what Dashu said, Ash looked as if he had been seen by a ghost. He had no idea what nonsense she was talking about.