Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

"That's right... I was so obsessed with the things in front of me that I accidentally forgot what I was really fascinated by." Ash raised his trembling fingers quietly to cover his face, and seemed to be really regretting it.

"Perhaps absolute victory isn't what a hero needs; it's the attitude and ideals revealed in battle that truly shine."

I guess even if I use dark means to create a so-called good ending, it will definitely become a farce that is not even a third-rate story that people are too lazy to even watch.

"Besides, in the face of your innocence, even my sword is incomprehensible."

"Well then, Pretty Cure!"

Supporting himself with the dark sword in his hand, Ash climbed up from the ground and stood up. When the man straightened his back from his hunched posture, the girls realized at such a close distance that this man was so much taller than themselves.

"My name is Ash!"

Ash?

"As long as you don't give up." He pulled the dark sword from the ground, turned his wrist and danced it in an elegant trajectory, then put it into the storage sheath at his waist.

"I am willing to wield my sword for you when tragedy strikes."

"What does this mean?"

"Ah." In front of the girl with stars in her eyes, Ash nodded solemnly.

"I'll join."

"Great!"

Putting aside other people's reactions, Hoshizora Miyuki was genuinely happy about this matter.

When the girl jumped up and cheered, her face was covered with mud but she was smiling unconcealedly, which even Ash couldn't help but smile.

What a nice view....

If it's just for a smile like that, all my future hard work will be worth it, right?

Chapter 31 Ash wants to be a partner of justice!

Ash, who believed in his own dictatorship, once again lost to the miracle caused by the simple-minded girls. Thinking about it later, this did not surprise him.

Originally, even if Ash recognized them after being defeated by the power of miracles, it was not enough for him to believe in them. In fact, his stubbornness was unexpectedly high.

But unexpectedly, the pink Pretty Cure: Hoshizora Miyuki's almost foolish sincerity moved his hopeless heart.

Admitting your mistakes and failures and using them as lessons for the future is also an important part of getting to a good ending.

So after being told, they were not treated as partners, but as comrades temporarily on the same front... Originally, Ash thought that this would make things very difficult for him, after all, he was used to taking the villain route to obtain Dark Echo, and had never tried joining a team so early. But then he unexpectedly discovered that being a good guy... seemed to be quite cool!

"Are they another new clown monster? They're such a hardworking bunch, I'm even thinking of giving them a flag on behalf of their boss."

In a deep purple "tragic ending" barrier space, Ash, who was not affected at all, walked nonchalantly through the people who collapsed beside him, like a dragon crawling in the shadows. After several leaps in the shadows between the buildings in a way that ordinary people could hardly imagine, he stood on the edge of a high place that was very suitable for a leap of faith.

Under his feet was the familiar werewolf who had died from overwork, and below him were the special effects of the two Pretty Cure girls transforming and the clown monster waiting for them to finish their transformation.

"Clown monster!"

The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, and the Tragedy Kingdom's plan to resurrect Emperor Piero was almost completed. However, because the Dark Emperor's tragic energy was stolen by some unscrupulous person, the cadres of the Tragedy Kingdom, who were almost done, now have to start all over again to summon clown monsters and fight with the Pretty Cure to collect energy.

Anyway, when they heard the news from the joker and realized that all their previous efforts were in vain, the three cadres of the Tragedy Kingdom all looked like Sima-faced, and naturally they had no motivation at all.

After observing for a while the battlefield below, which had turned from five against one to two against one because of his own reasons, Ash took his sharp gaze away from the werewolves below and nodded with his fingers on his chin.

"It seems that now is my turn to appear as Kamen Rider."

Wolflun felt that there was something dirty around him and all the hair on his body stood up.

"Miyuki!" Leaping back to avoid the clown monster's massive red fist, Lihua instructed her companions. "Next, we'll attack it from both sides!"

"I am coming!"

Having received the promise of support from the Ashes, Miyuki, full of confidence, deliberately made a move to show off the non-existent muscles on her thin arms, then swung her arms like windmills and rushed towards the monster at a lightning speed.

There's no need for Mr. Ash, both of us can defeat the clown monster now!

"Drink, drink, drink—ah!"

Just when Miyuki was about to hit the clown monster with all her strength, a "cannonball" spit out from the monster's mouth and hit the girl directly, whose forward route was too clear, and made her go back to where she came from.

"Miyuki——!"

Lihua, who was anxious about her companion's failure, looked in the direction where Miyuki flew away in shock. Unexpectedly, she was caught by the clown monster and was caught. Lihua, who had performed well and was not caught, was also knocked away because of this accident.

"Ouch..." Miyuki sat up and rubbed the back of her head, which had made a big dent in the road when she landed. "It hurts... but it doesn't hurt that much anymore."

We have to mention here that in order to defeat Ash, she had to defeat him despite the sharpness of the holy sword. Her body was cut like a blunt knife and she was almost tortured to death and bled out.

After the battle was over and she discovered her miserable condition, Miyuki cried loudly and almost fainted from the pain. Although she received treatment from Ash afterwards, when she returned home, her mother saw her miserable condition of being wrapped like a mummy, which almost scared her mother into fainting and sending her to the hospital.

Since the battle with Ash, the girl has made great progress in her pain tolerance, if not in other aspects.

"Miyuki, can you still fight?"

"It's useless. What's the point of continuing? There are only two of you!" Seeing that he had regained the upper hand, Wolfren cast his irritating instincts aside and instantly entered a state of smugness. "That's three less than the usual five. Do you think you can defeat my clown monster with this level of fighting power?!"

"Don't be so arrogant, even if it's just Beauty and I!" As someone who could completely overwhelm Ash with her innocence, the naive Miyuki seemed completely unfazed by Wolfren's taunts. She brushed off her skirt, leaped from the ground, and pointed a finger at him. "With the others, we will continue to fight against your Tragedy Kingdom!"

As the saying goes, never give up easily is the basic quality of the pink Precure, the red Sentai Ranger, and the protagonist's Kamen Rider. With only the power of the two, the girl once again fights against a clown monster the size of a small building.

"After all, it's a state of idealism. It's impossible to maintain it normally, isn't it?" Thinking of the glimpse he'd once caught of that goddess-like figure with wings on her back, Ash shook his head helplessly. "Well, after all, this kind of development isn't uncommon. I just have to get used to it. Next..."

"Well--"

The clown monster's strength was overwhelmingly stronger than theirs, and Lihua, who couldn't find the enemy's weakness, had to take the heavy blow for Miyuki. Although her arms trembled with the power confrontation and withstood the funny red boxing gloves that were hitting like a steamroller, in the face of the huge force, Lihua's two slender thighs were inserted into the ground.

Is it really too much of a stretch to just two people? That Mr. Ash... said he joined us and would fight alongside us, but now the enemy's here, where are you? You weren't even on the battlefield. Where were you?!

"Ah—Mr. Ash!"

Miyuki's exclamation not only brought Lihua back to her senses from her deep thought, but also interrupted the rhythm of the battlefield. At this time, both of them and the clown monster looked in the direction of the girl's exclamation, and then saw an extremely embarrassing scene.

I saw that the transformed Wang Jian had touched Wolfren's back at some point, and the dark sword Yue'an was placed on the neck of the werewolf, whose hair stood up and he was making a French military salute.

"Listen up, you clown monsters down there!"

"Give me a straight answer, surrender or not!"

Chapter 32: Can This Be Considered a Partner of Justice?!

Ash suddenly realized something.

That's right, the set he got from the "lottery ticket" this time was the "Dark Sword Moon Dark" and "Evil Flying Dragon" fantasy driving book set, which allowed him to transform into a powerful knight who wields the power of an evil dragon, Kamen Rider Calibur!

Although no matter how you look at it, the role he needs to play this time is another villain knight who takes it as his mission to do evil and stand on the opposite side of the righteous protagonist, but after some careful consultation, Ash finds that this is not the case.

Although there are not many memories left about the Saber World, according to the "Invincible Greatsword Man" who only needs light, the "Dark Sword Moon Dark" as one of the two holy swords originally forged is a sword that truly saves the world, and Kamen Rider King Sword is undoubtedly the hero who saves the world.

The reason why he becomes the villain Riddler who has fallen into the dark side of swordsmanship is that the swordsmen chosen by the King Sword throughout the ages are all real men with a sense of responsibility. So after seeing the bad end of the future, generation after generation of swordsmen have chosen the Dark Templar... I mean, the Riddler's path to save the world.

In this case, it means that I am not positioned as a villain this time, but a hidden character in the righteous series who is burdened with heavy past experiences from the beginning!

Not to mention, even the hero of this world, Pretty Cure, recognized me and even invited me to join!

Somehow, Ash came to this conclusion and made up his mind.

"From today on, I, Ash, will be a partner of justice."

As for Ash, who has been a villain for who knows how long, how can he become a righteous partner...

"You you you—you despicable—"

Facing Wolfren's wide-eyed and trembling accusations, Ash silently raised the sword a little higher, and the extremely sharp blade of the holy sword shaved off the hair on the werewolf's neck with a light touch.

"Wait, let's talk it over... Let's talk it over!"

Wolfren, who was giving the French military salute, never dreamed that he would have a rare opportunity to suppress the weak Pretty Cure. He was playing with Q-Doll and singing a song, and was about to reap the fruits of victory, but he was robbed halfway!

The problem is that he is the leader of the Tragedy Kingdom and the bad guy! Normally, he is the one who robs others!

"Little, little clown monster?"

As a monster, its intelligence was not enough to understand what was happening in front of it. Seeing its master being held hostage and Ash speaking in a gangster-like tone, the clown monster fell into a vortex of confusion.

Ash deliberately shook the holy sword that was scraping Wolfren's neck. The poor werewolf was so sad that he wanted to cry as he looked at his neck that was about to be shaved clean.

"Don't you care what this werewolf becomes?!"

“Wait, wait!”

The situation was completely disrupted by Ash. Not only Wolfren and the clown couldn't hold back their expressions, but also Miyuki, whose eyes were almost popping out of their heads with the same confusion. She rushed over waving her hands.

"What's going on, Mr. Ash? What are you doing?"

"What am I doing? Trying to be a nice guy, as you can see?"

"Good guy... who is the bad guy?!"

"What are you talking about, Cure Happy?" The contemptuous look from behind the mask made Miyuki feel like a fool. "Of course the bad guys are from the Kingdom of Tragedy. I am now a righteous partner."

"But—" Miyuki might be a fool, but she's not a fool after all. Ash's words and the tone he's using don't make him seem like a good person. "To threaten someone's life like this, isn't that the way a completely bad person would act? Is that a kidnapper?!"

Even if it's to defeat the enemy, how can Pretty Cure accept this method!

I hope you can join us and try to be a good person, but can this really be considered a good person?!

"Ha, what are you talking about?" Ash, feeling like the child was beyond teaching, shook his head. He simply felt that Miyuki was incredibly clueless. "First, he's not a human, but a cadre of the Tragedy Kingdom. Second, he's able to use despicable means for justice without caring about the infamy he'll face. That's what a true partner of justice is, right?"

At this point, Ash himself was moved.

All of this is for justice. I believe that even the first generation would nod in agreement when they see this!

"Although this sentence sounds reasonable and cool." Now that she stopped, Lian Lihua held her forehead and couldn't bear to look at Ash's performance. "But I'm sure it's not appropriate to use it here."

"Blue think tanks are sometimes too obsessed with fixed forms. Don't be so rigid, Reika-chan~!" As someone who has seen many characters like hers, Ash reminded Reika in the tone of an experienced person.

"Your personal labeling is too much. Also, don't call me chan!"

Now even Lihua, who was always calm and reserved, had to get angry.

"Alright, enough with the antics!" Ash threatened the Wolfron in front. "You guys down there, either get purified or watch him get purified!"

“No, help—!”

The two Pretty Cure members achieved the strangest victory in their battle so far.

"You guys!" With tears in his eyes, Wolflun looked like a schoolboy being bullied by a school bully. He glanced at the guilt-ridden girl and the man with his head held high, his eyes tearing up and aggrieved. Then, with his tail between his legs and a shrill voice, he fled. "I'll be back!"

"Hmm, that line really suits a werewolf~" Before he even had a chance to engage in real combat, he'd already dispatched the enemy. Pulling out the Control Book to release his transformation, Ash then swiped his holy sword to pick up the healing accessory that had fallen to the ground after purification. "Here, what's up? Isn't my extra-story warrior amazing? The best, right? A genius, right?"

After no longer having to maintain the atmosphere of the Dark Riddler, Ash felt relaxed all over, especially when he was seriously using "justice" to bully evil, he felt very comfortable all over. It turns out that being a partner of justice is such a pleasant thing.

Miyuki took the healing trinket with a subtle look. Although, in reality, it was Ash who had helped them win the battle, why... did it feel so off-putting? Even the trinket in her hand felt heavier.

"Mr. Ash, please!" Miyuki, feeling extremely uncomfortable, "tears streaming down her face," grabbed Ash's hand, her words almost pleading. "Please don't fight like this anymore."

Otherwise...even the originally glorious identity of Pretty Cure has become strange!

"Why? You didn't say you couldn't do that, did you?"

"You wouldn't normally do that, would you?!"

Chapter 33: The Unresolved Conflict

This is different from the girls' simple black-and-white view of kindness and the world.

Ash didn't feel from the bottom of his heart that he had done anything wrong. In fact, because he had been playing the role of a "villain" for a long time in the past, he had not yet fully adapted to the change of identity. He was completely using the means of an evil person to do justice, which led to such a situation of doing good things with bad intentions.

"Everyone!" After the barrier disappeared, the other three people who had lost their ability to transform came out from their hiding places, shaking their hands as they reunited with Miyuki and the others.

"How is it? Are you hurt?"

After all, in the past, the five of them had always fought together against the enemy, but now there are only two people who can fight the clown monster, and they can't help but worry about the decrease in combat power.

As for the extra one, Ash who said he would wield the sword for them... We can only say that Miyuki trusted him, but it does not mean that others who still remember the despair of the past will abandon their past prejudices and trust him wholeheartedly.

"No problem, with a hidden UR-level character like me, who possesses a truly exceptional hidden route, joining you, what's the problem?" Ash boasted, feeling refreshed after bullying others. "In fact, just me alone is enough. I could take on an entire team, a whole group of Pretty Cure!"

Thinking of the cadre from the Tragedy Kingdom who had been fooled by him once again and had fled with a look of despair on his face, Ash just felt amused.