The words from Ash's mouth were too huge a blow to Yuri. Isn't this equivalent to saying that the encounter with him, the help he received, and his throbbing heart were all calculated scams from beginning to end?!
"That's right, it's just what you thought. I was waiting for you specially~ Yeah, it really took me a lot of effort."
"..."
The sound of rain came from above the head, and it kept falling, getting louder and louder. The sound of crackling on the two umbrellas continued to sound between the two people who were silent for a while.
"If you still can't understand." The finger that was constantly drilling on his temple was removed, and finally pointed at the Phantom mirror in Yuri's hand. "Just use that to take a look at my Heart Flower."
"!" Unexpectedly, he would be reminded of this. Yuri stiffly turned the dial adjustment function on the Phantom mirror table, and the flower in the man's heart was gradually reflected on the mirror facing Ash.
"...!"
It was a completely black flower, and each stamen was dry as if lacking moisture. However, it was different from the common feeling that Heart Flower would wither when they were depressed. This lifeless flower seemed to be "natural" like people breathing and blinking when their eyeballs are dry. It had this look of death from the beginning.
"Black Manzhu Shahua, that is...Black Lily." The look that Lei once showed was completely reproduced on Yuri's face this time, and the woman continued to talk mechanically. "The language of flowers is unpredictable darkness, death, and..."
The wandering... love.
"Do you understand? Although we bleed the same color of blood and breathe the same breath of air, we are human beings." The smile on Ash's face remained unchanged, but there was no real smile under his skin. "This is also the decisive difference between you and me."
The falling silver strands don't look like raindrops, but like stinging silver hairs falling from the sky, as light as boneless and continuous.
"I really miss you. I met you here six months ago. I never would have done this in the past. Thinking about it now, it was a fulfilling six months."
Today's weather seemed to contain the meaning of taking away the heat of the recent summer vacation. It looked very cold. The wind with a desolate meaning carried water droplets. After the umbrella slipped from the girl's hand at some point, it blew towards her from all directions, blowing towards Tsukikage Yuri, whose pupils were blank.
"Are all the things you did and said for me, Lei, Erika, Itsuki, everyone, all lies?"
The shoulders of her school uniform quickly became wet, and her dark purple hair also showed traces of being wetted by raindrops. There were some dewdrops dripping between her hair, and even her glasses were covered by water mist, making it look unsightly.
"Was all the time we spent together a false illusion?!"
"It's not all fake."
Gradually approaching Yuri, Ash held the umbrella over, just like he did when he protected her from the rain that day.
What exactly is the identity of Nasta store manager and the time spent with them?
At the beginning, I approached them with impure intentions, hoping to make them shine with more light and miracles through constant stimulation.
But since when? Gradually, as I got along with them, I became fascinated when watching them laugh. Sometimes I couldn't help but feel anxious as the person around them. It was really a feeling that was difficult to understand in the past.
If I say that I have changed them, they have also changed me, right?
"It's not all like this. If I think about it occasionally, no matter how moved I feel and want to cry, I can't lie. And the so-called guilt... I guess there is still a little bit of it."
I may really be just like the character in a gal game I played when I was a kid, a pleasure offender, but instead of feeling pleasure when watching others suffer, I prefer to watch the shining moments of extremely upright heroes, the way they beat up unreasonable evil in a correct and just way, and the way they cry with joy after working hard to overcome countless darkness and usher in the happy ending they deserve.
So even I can easily fall into it accidentally?
But that doesn't matter anymore.
"So you understand?"
"I'm no longer your friend."
Back into the rain, Yuri's long hair was soaked by the rain and stuck together in front of his forehead. The veins on the back of his hand were stretched, and the fingers that were holding the lid of the transformer creaked with too much force.
"My heart... is unforgivable. How long will I continue to lie to others... What a joke!!!"
Seeing Yuri holding up the transformer, Ash let go of the umbrella with a pleased smile, letting it roll down into the rain between the two of them.
"Don't you understand very well?"
"[DESTREAM DRIVER]! (Destream Driver)"
Facing Yuri, whose expression could not be seen clearly in the rain, Ash also held the new drive he had made after dismantling Hazard Trigger.
"Precure Open My Heart!"
"Henshin."
In the hazy rain and fog, two completely different groups of light enveloped the two people, transforming them into two completely different types of inhuman warriors.
Chapter 146 Evolution
"Boom————"
The merciless silver moonlight struck Rider's chest, knocking him and his belt through two walls before continuing to fall backwards.
"As expected of you, Yuri, that power is constantly rising!" After catching Yuri's direct punch and feeling the rising power in his hand, Ash just sighed that his idea was indeed correct.
"Shut up!" More power was aroused along Yuri's mind, but she would rather not have power at this moment. The girl's hands pinched the wrist armor with a clicking sound. She had always fought elegantly and agilely, but this time she abandoned all styles, and furiously vented her fists and kicks towards the man.
Although she was willing to accept the move, the gap was too big, not to mention that this time Yuri was sincerely fighting with all her strength, and even her strength continued to increase. Even Ash couldn't reverse such a huge gap.
"Qi, the power of the belt has increased, but if it transforms into a prop————!"
So he could only fight and retreat, knocking open the industrial warehouse on the side, and Ash continued to retreat in a certain direction.
"Drink uh!"
A punch burning with silver-purple spiritual light exploded the spider web armor on his chest. Seeing the scarlet flying fragments mixed in front of his eyes, tears couldn't stop flowing from the corners of his eyes.
'Although I can't do anything more, I can still call you when you are sad and share half of your energy with you. '
Scenes of his past, sad times and happy times, all passed before my eyes.
'Well, that ring looks good on you. '
When the other party said he would help me, when he was almost killed again, when the store manager hugged me and said he could share half of his energy with me, I felt so happy, happy, touched and reassured that I hadn't seen in a long time.
'Welcome back. '
The last scene was frozen in the moment when he spoke reassuring words for the last time.
It's obviously thanks to that person that I can smile from the bottom of my heart. Because of this, all those emotions are... Why, why can't I stop crying now?
"Yuri, you lost your father, so you are eager to fill the vacancy in your heart with other emotions."
Slowly turning over and sitting up from the ground, Ash narrated calmly and coldly, as if he was not the one being beaten.
"But I am destined not to be a part of your life. I am who I am and cannot replace anything."
"Anyway, you are the big liar who is deceiving our hearts!!!"
Ash, who was sitting up, was knocked down again with one punch. Pretty Cure, with two tears on his face, pulled Rider up from the gap in the floor.
"There is nothing dissatisfying about power." Ash, who was pulled up by his collar, said in a terrifyingly calm tone, but still did not mean to show weakness, as if he was the winner.
"But your heart is too weak - in this case you will not be able to defeat the real enemy."
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" Six months of memory was like being completely ignited by a lighter in front of him, and the heart-rending cruel pain took away the last trace of intellectual expression on Yuri's face.
"You've said so much, don't act like you know everything!"
With another punch, Ash felt an explosion from his back and was thrown out of the warehouse.
"It's raining so hard, why did the store manager ask me to come out to deliver this?"
Holding the umbrella in her hand, Lei looked at the Sin Stamp in her hand with some confusion.
"Although it's a rare request from Ash."
Smiling awkwardly, Lei, whose fingers were still tingling, couldn't help but rub it on the embossed spider, but her own blood was stained on it, which made the spider look even more coquettish.
"Click——"
While they were talking, a figure rolled out of the wall that exploded in front of them.
"Timons!"
"Hey, it's you." Ash, who was being hit by the rain, waved to the extremely nervous pink-haired boy when a pillow was delivered to him while he was dozing off.
"Lei, it's been a long time since we saw you. Please return that thing to me."
"No..."
She subconsciously hugged the blood-stained seal, but there was another thing that Ling Lei didn't react to for a moment.
Why is the voice of Ash coming out of Timons?!
Just as Rider was approaching Lei, who was constantly retreating, a silver-purple figure bumped towards him through the rain and dew.
"Your opponent is - me!"
"It's so annoying, Yuri!"
"[Spider! Stamping Strike]!" Not long ago, Eddie was killed, and Stamp Breaker, who was back at work, shot a spider light bullet from the stamp port towards the girl, but Yuri used his backhand to lift two balls of silver energy to withstand the energy and threw it towards Ash.
"Moonlight Reflection! (Moonlight Reflection)"
Ash, whose chest was exploded by his own attack, was wrapped in electric current. He rolled twice in a burst of illusory light particles and then revealed his embarrassed true body, landing right in front of Lei.
"!"
Lei's eyes widened for a moment, and the twin ponytails on her back exploded and stood up in response to her master's thoughts.
When the disbelief in her eyes reached her thinking circuit, her originally active brain even stopped functioning for a moment.
Just because she couldn't reconcile what she saw in front of her with her own memories.
"Ti, Timons? Ash? Store manager?"
Why, why is the store manager in Timons? No, why is the store manager wearing that belt? Why does the store manager transform into Kamen Rider to fight with Yuri-nee?!
Ten thousand questions but not even one answer.
"Ash!?"
The increasingly heavy rain falling from the sky stuck the man's hair to his face, making it difficult to see his eyes clearly.
Lei's footsteps subconsciously moved towards the man.
"Hurry up, give me that, give me that Sin Stamp!"
"B-but?!"
I couldn't understand it at all. Even though she had the courage to fight Desert Apostles as Pretty Cure, Lei was now filled with panic and unknown fear after being shouted down by the man. She was like an ant on a hot pot looking at the increasingly hot seal in her hand at a loss.
"Hanasaki Rei!"
The moment her full name was called out, Mugen, who was struggling, followed the throbbing in her heart. Finally, her eyes closed and her heart skipped a beat. She didn't even have time to listen to what Yuri said, so she just obeyed her own heart——
Throw Sin Stamp in your hand towards Ash.
"Crack."
Seeing Sin Stamp fall into his hands, the internal energy circuits have been synchronized into a "perfect match". Ash, with trembling hands, raised the seal high in ecstasy.
"Finally, finally back in hand!"
In front of the two people who were still standing dumbfounded by the heavy rain, Ash pressed the seal on his hand readily.
"[Scarlet Spider]! (Scarlet Spider)"
In an instant, a scarlet bloody sandstorm swept over him, and the fanatical energy even instantly evaporated the soaked parts of his body and the rainwater within half a circle around him into the purest water vapor as quickly as possible.
After letting go of his hand, the seal automatically flew to the top of the belt under a burst of scarlet dust, and completely covered the injector by itself.
"[Control]!"
"Henshin."
He grabbed the flying seal with both hands and placed it on the scanning panel in the center.
"[Soul Up! Splash! Spark! Sacrilege! Sacrifice! Kamen Rider Scarlet Demons!]"
The sci-fi virtual panel swept over Ash's body. The pure light and the deep darkness turned into a sandstorm at the same time, wrapping Ash's body. Finally, a sand shell like some kind of spider monster was formed on his shell.
A fist covered with crimson armor punched through the shell from the inside. Then, the bloody sandstorm transformed the spider monster's sand into a spider web shawl, which condensed and pressed on Rider's left shoulder.
The whole body is covered by a large area of crimson armor. The two pairs of compound eyes on the chest open in sequence, and the plasma cannon in the center slowly lights up with running light. The Helmet Heads on the top of the helmet is bent into the shape of a crown, but only the goggles on the right eye show the only dark blue color in the body, which seems a bit inconsistent.
Ash raised his index finger and quietly passed it across the extended blue eyepiece,
"This is, Kamen Rider (Kamen Rider) Scarlet Timons (Scarlet Demons)."
"Done."