"No... ow wow!"
As soon as he opened his eyes, Eddie screamed in surprise as he was stared at by four other pairs of eyes of different colors.
"I'm not dead? Well, you are... what is this!"
Eddie, who was just about to stand up, was pulled down by something behind him. He looked down and saw that the shining silver chains were tightly binding him to the pillar behind him.
Chapter 50 Introduction to the background of Eddie
'Are you sure he won't see through me? If his secret is revealed because of something like this, I would rather leave him where he is. '
[When you are not wearing a mask, I will neutralize all reactions from you. Please do not underestimate my ability. ]
'Ha, I knew I could always trust you, aibo~'
[Someone will flush the most trusted aibo into the sewer... Just be happy. ]
After an inner conversation that no one could hear, and after confirming that the guy in front of him would not expose him on the spot, Ash snapped his fingers a few times in front of him to wake Eddie up.
Seeing that Mr. Exhibitionist had woken up, Lei, who was nervous and anxious, instinctively wanted to hide behind someone. However, she mustered up the courage after seeing everyone waiting for her. She held the jar containing Gijera and was encouraged by Kotori showing off and punching in it. She mustered up the courage to stand with everyone.
"Store manager, don't we need to call the police?"
Yuri, who had an indifferent expression, had no favorable impression of Eddie, who was wearing nothing when he was carried over by Ash. This was because Ash had put an extra pair of flowery trousers on him when he came in, otherwise the girl's face would only be uglier.
"Don't say that Yuri, we should trust the judgment of these children."
Ash pouted, he would move this guy to his cafe in another identity, naturally because of Erika and their request.
Of course, he also had his own considerations. After all, this guy seemed reckless and stupid. Because of this, he could get some information about the so-called "SCSO" from him.
Speaking of Erika, her own expression is not very good now. At least from this point, it can be confirmed that she did not send him here purely for subjective reasons.
"Hmph, if Shiffre and the others hadn't said that there was some different energy in those toys of yours, we would have sent you to the police a long time ago!"
Holding his hands on his chest, Erika seemed to be still having trouble.
"No!"
Eddie tried to stand up again and was pulled back by the chains again. Now he was wearing nothing but a pair of flower pants kindly presented by Ash, and he was even more helpless in the face of this situation.
"Why are you tying me up!"
"You are now Hope Flower City's famous wanted criminal." Eddie was dumbfounded when he saw the wanted poster in Ash's hand, especially the fact that it was completely covered with mosaic except for his face. "Who told this town that except for the occasional battle between Pretty Cure and Desert Apostles, such bad things never happened?"
"You really scared the simple citizens."
"I'm not an exhibitionist!" Eddie desperately wanted to say something for himself, but looking at the mosaic posted on the wanted poster, he couldn't say anything. "It's just that this time it was just an accident! My clothes were missing or something, I didn't do it just because I wanted to!"
"So you see, you admitted it yourself." Ash elegantly picked up the coffee that others avoided and took a sip. "In order to prevent your bestiality from attacking my lovely shop assistant, this level of restriction is necessary."
"Who would be so animalistic?" Hearing Ash's slander against him, Eddie kicked his legs in anger and protested. "Who would attack a girl casually? I have a girlfriend, don't slander me!"
And if you take a closer look, aren't there only girls in this store except you? The intention is completely exposed. Hey, are you embarrassed to talk to me?
"Anyway, I'm really not an exhibitionist or anything like that - I'm a good person, please believe me!"
"All bad guys say they are good guys until they are exposed." Ash nodded with a knowing look. "So I don't believe it, Yuri, do you believe it?"
"I don't trust suspicious people wearing only tattered quilts outside in broad daylight."
"You shouldn't say that... Maybe there's really a misunderstanding here?"
"Oh, Lei, you are so kind, so you are the easiest to be deceived by such a bad guy pretending to be a good guy!"
While hearing Erika's words, Ash touched his nose without leaving a trace.
"If you don't tell the truth, others won't believe you."
After hearing Ash's words, Eddie seemed to have made a lot of determination before raising his lowered head again.
"You... can you tell them that there seems to be a hero called [Precure] in this world? You must tell them about this!"
The corners of the girls' mouths began to twitch uncontrollably. Where was the Pretty Cure in his mouth? Now they all happen to be in this cafe neatly.
"Of course I guarantee you, they will know this information verbatim."
Ash made a guarantee, because they are here, and they are not correct.
"Okay, since you said so!" It was time to confirm how credible Ash's words were, and Eddie's delicate face became serious.
"My name is Eddie, and the earth is being targeted!"
"..."x4
Everyone blinked and looked at each other.
"Well, what I said was not clear enough?"
While someone was still confused, several people who were angered by Eddie Riddler's attitude almost spit on their faces.
"Who knows what you are talking about!"
For reasons that a certain guy didn't quite understand, the two sides talked about each other for a while before they finally made things clear.
"I am a subsidiary of a huge organization that is responsible for coordinating and handling relations between the worlds: [Special Interdimensional Investigation Organization] is a member of [SCSO] for short. To be specific, I am a member of SCSO's first team [Interdimensional Traveler]!"
No other Interdimensional Traveler has any scruples about his most secret identity, and he can be called aboveboard in this regard.
"Uh--!" Erika, who put his hands on his temples and was dizzy with a large list of professional words in his mind, asked as he checked out the key words.
"I don't understand... In short, you are like those people who have traveled through parallel worlds in science fiction movies? Are you the kind of time and space policeman?"
Erika nodded at his speculation. After all, this could explain where the props he held came from.
"Just treat it like this..." Eddie closed her mouth, not bothering to help her clarify the differences between parallel worlds and other multiverses.
[Ash, do you understand? ]
'I know. '
In addition to his own living example, this is not the first time Ash has encountered Interdimensional Traveler, such as a certain magenta photographer or a cosmic street kid, but they are more like traveling through a series of universes, and the crossing itself is part of that universe.
And if what this guy said is true, he comes from a more distant and larger world.
It seems that I have been involved in some big event...
When he thought of this, Ash couldn't help but tremble with excitement.
He is never afraid of things coming, he is only afraid that the things coming are not big enough.
Chapter 51 Ash: I can fish by the river all day
"Um, Mr. Eddie?"
Lei, who had gradually lost her fear of him, began to talk to the man who called himself Interdimensional Traveler.
"You said that there was some kind of dark reaction in other worlds at the same time?"
The corner of the girl's eyes unconsciously drifted to the dolls placed on the sofa. Because of a certain Tokusatsu store manager, he bought a lot of Q-version dolls of heroes and placed them there. Girls also like to play games with the dolls when they have nothing to do.
Because of this, the girl was still surprised to believe that the masked heroes on TV actually existed, and that extraordinary things were even happening in their world.
And these events that should only be seen on TV seem to be inextricably related to the "world" where Hanasaki Rei lives.
"Yes, we also found this reaction in your world!"
Eddie and others cannot reach a consensus on this point, because other people are still observing, no matter what the world becomes as a result, it seems to them that it is just the original destiny of this world.
And I will not sit idly by, I will definitely defeat the darkness to save the world and prove it to everyone!
"It must be that guy, that Kamen Rider Timons!"
Hearing the familiar name, the three people from Pretty Cure perked up.
"He has this dark reaction that is incompatible with this world. He must also be Interdimensional Traveler, and he must be the culprit who brought all this to this world!"
He was so firmly convinced, and the culprit whom he was angrily scolding was now shrugging his shoulders indifferently to express his indifference.
After all, Ash is more convinced that he knows what he is doing than the charges that others have falsely accused him of.
"Hey, hey, it's really fake."
Ash's expression began to turn disdainful, and he used his actions to deliberately pretend to be disbelieving.
"Pretty Cure are experts in eliminating evil after all. Is it really as serious as you say?"
"What do you mean, don't you believe me?!"
OK, taken the bait.
"This is Infinite Commander's judgment. Commander, he is the greatest hero of SCSO! His intuition is absolutely not wrong!"
Oh, the person who was eyeing me turned out to be named Mugen? He still sounds like a high-ranking official.
Ash searched it in his memories, and vaguely seemed to remember that there seemed to be such a person.
Probably a long, long time ago, who knows how long, I did seem to have had a fight with a person with this name... But I remember that I was not just fighting with him at that time.
While thinking about it, Ash continued to try to get more information from him.
"You are so sure, then why are you the only one here? Police patrols are conducted in pairs, so don't just make it up."
"This is... this is..."
Hearing Ash's question, Eddie hesitated, and his voice became uncomfortable.
"Because everyone didn't believe me, nor did they believe the commander who hadn't found any evidence... I couldn't just watch, so I stole high-level identity authentication and came here alone."
Ash seemed to understand what was going on. The system had completely hidden his existence early, otherwise he would have been approached by characters who could travel through the world.
And according to what Eddie said, didn't that commander just come here without any evidence? Although it is intuitively terrifying, no wonder no one believes them.
Of course, knowing what he knows, this does not prevent him from using it to diss the "newcomer" in front of him who seems to have no experience at first sight.
"So, you said that you were treated as an exhibitionist and then defeated by Timons and Dark Precure, all because of your arbitrary actions? Ha, you are just like the protagonist of a hot-blooded and brainless boy's comic."
Eddie was speechless for a moment. Even he knew the question and couldn't answer it for a while.
[Ash, did you hear that? What he said was that the SCSO's high-level authority was stolen by him. Since it could be stolen, it meant it was not bound. ]
Ash looked at the screen in front of him that only he could see, and tilted his head in confusion.
[This means we can, you can try to take it away, so you can try to use the power of their SCSO. ]
Ash didn't understand the meaning of the system for a while. So what if he took away the authority? Could it be that he sneaked in and stole their home?
[In this way, you can use their system access to return to the world you have been to before. ]
Ash Take a deep breath.
"Store manager?" Yuri, who noticed something strange about Ash, came to him and wanted to see what was wrong with him.
"No, Yuri I'm fine. I'm going to get him some clothes. It's too unsightly to just wear a pair of underpants."
"..."
Is it really okay?
Ash quickly walked away from everyone, took a deep breath, and breathed out continuously to calm down his turbulent mood.
If this is true, I can go back! So I can...
No, Ash, not everyone has decided to let go of the past and Mirai, all they need is now!? This kind of thinking of yours will only make you weak——
"Okay!" Ash let out a sigh of relief after dismissing the "little devil" and "Xiao Tian Messenger" that were swirling around his head.
"We'll discuss this later."
Oh, the guy who put pressure on himself is finally gone.
Eddie's eyes were rolling. He had already seen his GekiRyu Ken casually placed on the counter aside.
The chains behind my back have been loosened a bit after being secretly moved...
"If what you said is true, we should..." When thinking about how to advise Ash on how to deal with this suspicious person with dual identities of "exhibitionist" and "travel police", Erika opened his eyes wide and saw Eddie actually broke free from the chains and stood up.
"You, what are you going to do!"
"That person is still outside now. Why would I waste my time on such a chore? Get out of the way!"