Ash made a long sound of doubt, and at the same time a feeling of irritability came over him. What disgusted him was that there were other guys coming to disrupt the situation?!
Let's not mention that shameful thing Eddie, but it's something like Imagin... NMDWSM!
I felt inexplicably unhappy that my things were being stared at by others... No, I was very unhappy! Ash snapped his fingers in a depressed mood and slammed the table, which frightened all the noisy Imagins to a halt.
In an instant, an idea took shape in Ash's mind.
"Heart catch precure team! Den-O team, urgent gathering!"
The two girls who were covering their heads and whining and Imagin all gathered in front of them after listening to the order. They threw off their deacon uniforms and instantly changed into a handsome black jacket that they didn't know where they came from. Ash took out the hairy cane and started spinning it in his hand.
"Okay, remember, gentlemen, our goal is to find the lost member Tsukikage Yuri, and to defeat Imagin who casually breaks into this world, let him see our power, and regain the peace of Hope Flower City!"
"Eh... what are you doing?" Erika, who was complaining, looked up and saw the cane waving towards him. He closed his eyes in fear and opened it again, but what came over was not the cane but a big open hand.
"Store, manager..."
"Actually, it's not a fault that you have such random thoughts... How about I treat you to barbecue when I get back?"
"Eh, really!?"
Hearing Ash's words, the Precure team, who were still depressed at first, immediately burst out with more motivation from their bodies. After all, it is not common to have barbecues invited by the store manager!
"Now, all personnel are dispatched urgently!"
The cane continued to wave and hit Imagin, who was moving around. Now everyone stood up and saluted Ash.
"Sir, yes sir! (Yes, sir!)"
"Call me Commander."
"Sir, yes sir!"
Ash waved his hand and pointed the short staff into the distance.
Gee, I've wanted to do this for a long time.
Chapter 111 Yuri, crisis!
I picked up the spare clothes in the store and put them on the three Imagin to avoid causing panic among passers-by. The mixed team composed of Pretty Cure and Kamen Rider (partners) set off one after another.
The three elves took advantage of their small size and flew up to launch a carpet-like search. The other people were asking people one by one on the street with magnifying glasses, telescopes and other gadgets.
"Are you talking about the iceberg beauty Tsukikage Yuri in the next class?" The hip-hop dressed passerby thought for a while and then looked in one direction. "I saw that she seemed quite sad and left with a gloomy look on her face. She must have left the area by now."
Because we received Imagins for a while, the traces left by Tsukikage Yuri have long since disappeared.
"Okay, I heard that Hope Flower City has a hip-hop master, so I rushed to challenge him. That's it, goodbye!"
"No..." Saying goodbye to the passers-by who were excited about the challenge, Itsuki shook his head helplessly after asking for a long time with no results. "I have asked many people to no avail. Yuri-nee is probably no longer nearby."
"In that case... Taozi, I will appoint you as a police dog, so that you can use your nose to search and use your sense of smell to search!" Ash, who had an active thinking mind, immediately started to hand over this important task to Momotaros.
"Okay, leave it to me - no, what do you think I am, a dog?!"
Seeing Ash, who was naturally fighting with the Imagin trio, Rei, who was gently rubbing her head, smiled uncontrollably.
"Pfft, I feel like the store manager seems to be very motivated this time, right?"
Although it is a bit strange that the store manager is inexplicably familiar with these Imagin, but considering that he is the hero-controlled store manager, it seems understandable that he would be like this.
"It's not like you don't know that the store manager just sits in the store watching cartoons and tokusatsu dramas every day. He says he wants to be our supporter because he likes heroes the most?"
"Is that true...?"
While joking, Lei seemed to suddenly sense something while listening to Erika's words, and couldn't help but cast her lowered eyes in the direction of Ash.
Indeed, we all know that the Ash store manager likes heroes and Pretty Cure. When we were not so familiar with each other before, the store manager was already quite obsessed with seeing Pretty Cure's active appearance. He is usually indifferent and only gets excited at that time.
It's just that now, compared to when he was Pretty Cure, the store manager seems to smile more when he is with us. Although it is always said that Ash broke into our lives and brought different changes, but from the performance point of view, in other words, we have unknowingly become the people Ash cares about, right?
As someone who longs for change, Lei will become Pretty Cure as the starting point for her own change, and is especially concerned about this kind of thing.
In other words, has the store manager and Ash-sensei also changed?
"Speaking of which, why did Yuri-nee suddenly leave the store?"
While Ash continued to wait and see, hoping to find some clues, Itsuki behind him suddenly asked this question.
"What? It's not all because of this ring."
With a sigh, Ash described the ins and outs between himself and the other party in detail. After hearing the contents of Ash's conversation with Yuri, everyone from the elf to Imagin fell silent.
"Anyway, that's it. You said I just dressed up a little. Who did I offend?"
He shook his head helplessly, but Ash's complaints caused everyone to remain silent, only staring at him with increasingly weird eyes.
"What's wrong? Everyone seems to have heard someone's joke?"
"Ara, what's going on?" After a while, Urataros put down his hand first and gently touched his forehead, shaking his head helplessly. "I obviously see you elsewhere... What's going on? Could it be that this is Ash's love fortune?"
Imagin, who often wanders in different timelines, also knows a lot about Ash. As far as they know, in addition to developing into a hostile state, Ash is really attractive to the opposite sex with his face that should be admitted to be handsome, and occasionally he is also liked by the same sex.
But it's not that kind of liking at all. For example, Ryotaro's sister Nogami Airi and the Origin Daughter see him as their other younger brother. Now they may be waiting to see when their younger brother will come back...
Well, it really is because of age. People of the same age have more topics to talk about, right? Although this level of the same age is a bit too "difficult" for these Pretty Cure.
Following Urataros's speech, other people also reacted one after another and started pointing at Ash.
"Yuri-nee She... you have the nerve to ask!?"
Although they won't say it out loud, they can sense Tsukikage Yuri's feelings just from their daily interactions. They also know it well.
"If you do this, no wonder Yuri-nee will cry. Of course she will feel sad!"
"So, it's because you care too much." Ash expressed confusion. He didn't think he had done anything wrong.
"It's so noisy. As a man, you should pay more attention to the impact of your words and deeds on the people around you! Think about the mood of other people around you..."
"Ha, what kind of discriminatory statement is this? Just because I am a man, I have to be like this? I don't want it~"
"What time is it? Stop arguing!" A pink figure suddenly fell from the sky, and Shiffre, who hit Ash's face like a facehugger, told everyone the good news. "We found Yuri! It's in the park on the left corner, but it looks very bad. Everyone, please go and take a look!"
"Then what else is there to say?" Pulling the elf off his face and throwing it back into Lei's arms, Ash strode forward. "Go, lead the way!"
Ash took the lead and arrived at the park that Shiffre mentioned. Passing by the stream, he swept away the willow leaves in front of him and came to the middle of the unknown and sparsely visited park. As expected, he saw Tsukikage Yuri sitting on the bench with his head lowered and seemed to be still sad.
"Really, isn't it just a ring that worries me so much?"
Ash stretched out his hand to Yuri's arm to pull her up, but when he saw that Yuri still didn't respond after getting closer, he finally lowered his face and said after a fierce ideological struggle in his heart.
"Okay, okay, I am a person who is less able to detect other people's moods when I am proud, but can this be my fault? Well, forget it, just treat it as my fault. I will explain it clearly to you, and if I apologize... in short, don't-"
Paying attention to the other people gradually approaching from behind, Ash continued, and patted Yuri's shoulder with his hand. However, it was precisely because of this move that the moment Ash took away his hand, Yuri's upper body lost its support and fell forward into the arms that Ash subconsciously caught.
"Yuri?"
"Sha——————"
Along with the soft sound, the gray gravel of time fell from the gaps in Tsukikage Yuri's clothes, whose eyes had lost focus.
"Yuri!"
Chapter 112 What the store manager can do
"Yuri-nee!"
"Yuri!"
Yuri lost all the strength to support his body, and was held tightly in Ash's arms. Tsukikage Yuri, whose own consciousness seemed to have disappeared, just followed the movements and was tossed around by Ash's call, shaking out more gray dust from places like his sleeves.
"Crack."
As Ash shook, the glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose also fell to the ground, and a snake-like crack spread from the edge.
"How could this happen..."
Ash's face was ugly, very ugly. When he saw this situation, he also remembered why it was like this.
Because the clothes on their bodies were really too difficult to put on, the Imagins, who didn't even care about the troubles they were wearing, just tore off their clothes and rushed over after seeing this scene.
"Um, could it be that this young lady signed a contract with Imagin?"
"Eh?!" After hearing Kintaros's words, Erika was so panicked that he subconsciously wanted to refute. "But why would Yuri-nee want to sign a contract or something? It's impossible, she is obviously such a strong person!"
After the last battle between Tsukikage Yuri and Dark Precure, Lei and Erika also learned about the tragic experience of Yuri losing his father and then losing his partner elf after being defeated. However, even after suffering such a major blow, after crying once, they never saw Yuri showing sadness again.
He works hard at work and serves as a mentor for his seniors in school. Even if he loses his ability to transform, he will still cheer us on with the store manager. How could Yuri-nee, who is so gentle and strong, sign a contract with a strange monster at will?
"What you said is wrong, miss." Urataros walked around Ash and observed the traces of dust falling from Yuri's body. Urataros said slowly, " The shell of the walnut is to wrap the crunchy and delicious fruit inside, so the reason for being strong is to hide something. The more strong a person is, the more fragile the thing he wants to hide is, so when the bait is tempting enough, it is easier to take the bait."
"How could..."
"Really, this is really messed up!" After rummaging around for a while, he took out Rider Ticket, and Momotaros brought it closer to Yuri. "Obviously the train conductor said not to let Imagin, who escaped to other worlds, make a contract with anyone, lest something terrible happen, but why did this happen?"
The ticket placed on Yuri's forehead began to float unsteadily, and finally a line of numbers representing time and an image of the culprit Imagin were engraved on the ticket.
"This time is..." Coffret on the side also flew over, and when he saw it clearly, he suddenly remembered something. "This! This time is the time for Miss Yuri to become Cure Moonlight!"
"What?"
After listening to Coffret's words, Ash, who pointed his chin with his finger, vaguely seemed to have guessed the reason for the request.
"Speaking of which, Xiaolong seems to have gone out to play by himself..."
"Really, Mr. Turtle, you also have moments of tangle? Go and kill that Imagin first, and then it won't be too late to pick up that guy from Dragon Talos."
Putting the tickets into Pass Case, several Imagin took out their mobile phones and called for their own time trains. The top priority now is to quickly go to the past and solve that Imagin, lest it cause any irreparable damage to the timeline of this world.
"Oh, it seems like something happened."
Just when everyone was feeling anxious, the sound Pretty Cure least wanted to hear came from behind.
It looks like there are some weird things... Huh, let's knock them down together.
The open bat wings on his right shoulder slowly folded up behind his back, and the iconic one-eye under the raised green short hair swept across several familiar girls and several unfamiliar monsters, and the identity of the visitor was ready to be revealed.
"Dark Precure!"
Squeezing down the half of the Heart Seed that shone brightly due to the proximity in his hand, Dark Precure stared at the absent-minded Tsukikage Yuri in the man's arms, raising a disdainful smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Hmph, I thought something was going to happen... What's wrong, is this the end of Cure Moonlight?"
"Originally, I have surpassed you, but now I still feel uncomfortable seeing you like this..."
In front of everyone with ugly faces, Anmei raised her unusually pale arm covered in gauze gloves and pointed at Yuri with her index finger.
"If you don't want to die, go away. I'll send Cure Moonlight away... No, I'll send Tsukikage Yuri away for the last time."
"Ha, what are you talking about, you bitch!" Momotaros, who had a bad temper to begin with, got angry. He didn't care who the other party was, as long as he was blocking him, he didn't mind teaching the other party, whether male or female, a lesson. "If you dare to stop me, then I will -"
"Kuo Cao!"
With a wave of his hand that seemed to lack strength, Momotaros, who was approaching, was slapped on the face, spinning and flying out like a piece of paper, and finally inserted into the ground with his head on his feet.
"If you don't want to be like it, just——" Anmei's contemptuous eyes happened to glance at the man, that is, when she met the eyes of Ash who was supporting Yuri, the girl's pupils trembled suddenly.
What's going on... These eyes, this person... I, where have I seen it before? Where have I seen it!
"Little Dark..."
He said in a low voice that only he could hear, "This is probably the first time I have met her as Ash."
Looking at Little Dark, and then at Yuri who was lying on him casually after losing consciousness in his arms, Ash made a decision in an instant.
With her right hand, she pulled open Yuri's shirt and stuck it in. Before the blush appeared on the other people's faces and they didn't have time to shout out, Ash pulled off the other half of Heart Seed from her arms and took it to her own hand.
"Everyone, can I please give you this time?"
"Of course!" Although they did not understand what Ash meant, the girls did not hesitate at all regarding this question. "Whether it is the safety of Yuri-nee or the store manager now, we will protect it!"
"Okay, this is like a clerk that my family can be proud of." After complimenting him without saltiness, he picked up Yuri's glasses that had fallen on the ground and put them in his arms. Ash walked over to Momotaros, who was kicking his legs randomly, and pulled him out with one force.
"————"
As the iconic whistle-like sound sounded, Den-O Train emerged from the cracks in time and appeared next to Ash.
The dizzy Momotaros got the Rider pass in his hand. After approaching the car door and opening it, Ash stepped half-body into it and left a final message to the girls.
"Then, leave the past time to me."