But Shaback, who was originally preparing to kill Ash, became visibly confused after Ash said the word "truth".
"Ash...Timons..." I couldn't help but use my other hand to hold my head, which was beginning to hurt again. The red light flashing in the eye sockets of Shaback's mask flickered on and off. "Did you make the strange pollen before? Are you planning to completely betray Lord Du En? And who is this kid..."
Damn it, the memory that appeared in my mind before clearly stated that I swore everything including loyalty to Lord Dun. Dr. Sabaku——But why, what happened to the picture of the girl and that woman that appeared in my mind that made me feel pain!?
In the picture, he, who is not yet white-haired, is holding a purple-haired girl with a happy face affectionately, and happily waving hello to the woman.
However, he is clearly Desert Apostles, how is this possible?!
have no idea! I obviously don't know, but why do I get such a headache when I think about it!
"Sorry, I never swore allegiance from the beginning, so it can't be considered a betrayal."
"You two-faced bastard, your only fate will be death!"
Ash simply closed his eyes and took the initiative to turn his head away before others were ready to help. Shaback's attack grazed some of the hair on his ear and blasted through the unmanned construction site behind him, but did not cause any damage to himself.
However, rather than saying that Ash dodged, it is better to say that the man with trembling palms missed the target.
"Yes, yes, I'm concerned about you, but death will probably only come when I'm ready."
Ash maintained a nonchalant attitude towards the threat of Shaback, but while they were bickering, Yuri, who had quietly completed his transformation, was staring at Shaback, who was in something wrong at this time.
Of course Yuri had a reason for doing this. After all, this Shaback was the one who defeated him with Dark Precure at that time, and was also the murderer who sent the final blow to directly kill Kolon!
What's more, he still wants to kill Ash. Although Ash has done a series of betrayal and bastard things, it's not your turn to judge him, so do you have any reason to let him go?
Yuri has been thinking about him for a long time in various ways, but he never comes out of the base, and Pretty Cure can't find a chance to contact and defeat him.
And the way Shaback is covering his head now seems to be influenced by Gijera, which means... this is a rare opportunity!
At this time, Shaback, caught between Shaback and Ash, was completely panicked and didn't know what to do. Dark Precure happened to see Yuri gathering power on his fist.
No, Dr. Sabaku!
"Kelong's revenge——!"
Let me settle all the old and new grudges here!
Facing Yuri's attack, Dark Precure, whose whole body tensed up and her eyes widened, tried to stop her but was too late, but someone was closer than her and naturally moved faster!
He quickly pulled out and assembled "Revice Saw Blade" from the fourth-dimensional chrysanthemum (inventory). Ash raised his hand to block the sword in front of Shaback.
"Dang————"
The long sword made a clear and trembling sound, and the special alloy sword bent irreparably on the spot. There was a steaming fist mark in the center. Revice Saw Blade, which carried huge kinetic energy, spun and flew away and was inserted into the wall.
Yuri's unyielding fist was caught by Ash, and stopped right in front of Dr. Sabaku, who seemed to have not yet reacted.
"Ash!" Seeing Ash lending a helping hand, the happy voice was naturally Dark Precure.
"Ash?!" The surprised voices came from other girls who saw Ash go back on their word again.
"A-Xiu...?"
Doubtful, shocked, and puzzled, Yuri, whose teeth were itching, cast an extremely resentful look at Ash.
Why, why do you want to stop me!? The murderer of Kelong is clearly right in front of me, Ash, what are you planning to do this time?
Just like what that guy said, are you so complacent that you are unwilling to give up on anyone? Do you think you can freely play between black and white?!
However, Ash, who saw the meaning conveyed by Yuri's eyes, did not speak. He just shook his head, twisted Yuri's fist to one side and put it down.
Really, if it weren't for the hidden secret, who would care about the life and death of the guy who wanted to kill me before? Looking at it this way, I'm really worried about you. It's really to the extent that Hayata and Hongo and Gang just smile after seeing it, right?
"Yuri, you said before that you wanted 100% of my trust. This is wrong. In fact, I believe in you more than you yourself. Don't say 100%, I can give it to you even if it is 1000%."
"But now I want to ask you to believe, believe me, even if it is one percent of the truth."
As he spoke, Ash quietly put a ball of paper-like stuff into the girl's hand.
Chapter 177: Clang, shocking facts
"Ash, are you going to play tricks on us again!"
If you want me to believe you, then show even one percent sincerity! You bastard, you can't even tell the truth with a twist!
Yuri naturally doesn't believe it, but rather how can she believe it in this situation? How to appreciate it?
After all, the story of Cried Wolf is enough to be played once.
Looking away from the smoking sword, Yuri, whose expression had deteriorated to the naked eye, questioned Ash. However, Ash did not choose to prevaricate this time, but the words she answered were beyond her expectations.
"If you don't want to have the characteristics of multiple parricide beasts in your head, I advise you not to do this."
"What... what do you mean?"
Yuri opened his mouth subconsciously, looking confused. At the same time, others who heard it also looked completely confused.
"Yuri, Little Dark, Shaback." Ash's call focused all the three people's attention on him. "Now is the time to reveal the secret. I think you will want to see what the truth is like."
What... mean?
Of course, no one successfully paid attention to what Ash said. However, Ash didn't mean to explain. He directly pulled out the "Stamp Breaker" that was still intact on one side of the saw blade from the wall. The muzzle with the front seal rotated twice in the man's hand and then pointed it at Shaback. Under everyone's shocked eyes, he pointed it at his face and pulled the trigger.
"Peng——"
The loud sound of gunshots could be heard for a long time.
"You, Ya——Xiu——!" Little Dark, who was just happy that Ash rescued Shaback, was so anxious that he almost went crazy. The girl with eyes wide open pulled Ash's collar, and judging from the stretched veins around her eyes, she was about to shed tears of blood.
"What on earth are you doing!?"
"Open your eyes and watch!"
Ash did not take away Little Dark's hand, but continued to point the top of the seal to Shaback, who was half-kneeling on the ground, covering his face with one hand and trembling all over.
For Desert Apostles, Ash's shot was not enough to kill him, but the mask that had been on the man's face and never been taken off was badly damaged and fell to the ground with a "click".
"Ah... I... what am I...?"
Although it was the same person, the voice Shaback made at this time was completely different from the mechanized coldness in the past. He was confused, confused, and at a loss. The eyes of the white-haired middle-aged man were full of emptiness. At this moment, the memory in his brain seemed to be in conflict. It was so chaotic that it seemed like there was a juicer stirring inside. He raised his head and scanned everything around him blankly.
It was this glance that allowed Yuri to clearly see the true face of this enemy that had been hidden all this time. The girl whose expression was originally inexplicably gloomy opened her eyes wide in an instant, and couldn't help but cover her open mouth with trembling palms.
The moment he recognized that strange but familiar face, a huge shock rushed from the soles of his feet to his forehead like an electric current. The uncontrollable emotion made his legs weak and he sat on the ground like a duck.
It was a face that had been missing for several years and could only be seen in dreams and in photos in the living room at home. At that time, his face was still full of a warm smile.
"Dad... dad?"
Tears of joy or sadness fell down her cheeks, and she instinctively called out the name of the relationship between this person and herself.
When everyone heard Yuri murmuring, the entire chaotic scene became quiet. Everyone except Ash showed expressions of disbelief because of Yuri's words.
Hearing Yuri's call, Shaback's brain was still trembling... No, the middle-aged man who should be named Tsukikage Eimei now cast a confused look at Yuri in front of him, and immediately showed an expression of sudden realization.
"Yuri... is it Yuri? You... have grown so big...?"
He failed to immediately associate the crying girl in front of him with his cute and well-behaved girl, because his mind was probably still stuck in the same situation a few years ago.
"Sha, Shaback of Desert Apostles——is Yuri-nee——"
"Father——Father?"
Lei and the others saw Yuri's performance at this moment. After being stunned for a long time, they finally realized what was happening in front of them.
"S-Dr. Sabaku...?"
Dark Precure, who also saw the true face of Shaback for the first time, looked at all this happening with a blank look on his face, not knowing where to put his hands hanging in the air.
What they mean is that Dr. Sabaku is the father of Cure Moonlight... But, I was also created by him, so I should be his daughter!
"Dr. Sabaku! Dr. Sabaku, what on earth is going on!"
Thinking of hearing a negative answer from the person involved, Dark Precure called out that name loudly. However, the man who was once "Shaback" focused all his attention on Yuri and did not respond to her at all.
Could it be that this is what the truth is?
But in this case, Tsukikage Yuri is the daughter of Shaback, then who am I?
Feeling the foreign object on her hand that Ash had handed over earlier, Yuri quickly took it in front of her and opened it for inspection. Only then did she realize that it was a photo that Ash had prepared previously. This was evidence that Shaback and her father Tsukikage Eimei were the same person.
"Yes, I once searched for the internal information records of Desert Apostles." Ash's voice as a narrator came from all the stunned people. "This Dr. Sabaku suddenly appeared in Desert Apostles a few years ago, and as soon as he appeared, he became Dun's agent on Earth and the second-in-command of Desert Apostles. The time coincided with the time when your father disappeared."
"In other words, your father did not disappear, but was brainwashed by that mask and became a member of Duen's lackeys."
Dark Precure on the side opened her eyes because of the shocking fact. She seemed to realize something, and she was trembling so much that she couldn't help herself. But even so, Ash still didn't mean it euphemistically and spoke directly.
"Then... then I am?"
Even though he vaguely guessed the development of the facts, Little Dark still cast a hopeful look at Ash.
"In fact, Little Dark, you were created by Tsukikage Eimei who had become Shaback after he was brainwashed, in order to defeat the enemy's daughter!"
Ash did not mean to hide anything, but told the truth.
In an instant, Dark Precure felt that at least half of the scenes in his short life had been shattered into pieces.
It was after learning about the existence of this matter that Ash began to despise Shaback openly and secretly. Even compared to his confusing behavior, it was Shaback who thought he had everything under control but knew nothing, right?
"That's right." Faced with the increasingly bad looks on their faces, Ash chose to continue telling the truth. "Little Dark, you are Yuri's biological sister!"
The so-called shocking fact is probably exactly this.
"This kind of thing——"
"This isn't true... This can't be true..."
The shocking facts hit both Yuri and Little Dark at the same time. At this moment, they hoped that this was just a nightmare. However, in the face of the truth and facts, it was useless even if they muttered words to deceive themselves.
Yuri witnessed the truth today and learned that his father did not disappear while inspecting plants, but was brainwashed into becoming an enemy cadre who wanted to kill him.
It was like the spice jar in her heart was knocked over. Salty, bitter, sour, spicy, all kinds of indescribable feelings hit Yuri's heart, making her want to say something but not being able to say a word.
Also feeling desperate is Dark Precure. At this moment, she is as desperate as Luke who was told by Darth Vader that he is his father, but at this moment the positions of good and evil are reversed.
The existence that he believed in most, the person who gave him orders and the meaning of existence, his creator was deceived to become what he is now... In other words, if he was deceived from the beginning, did the fact that he was born also arise from this deception?
Was my existence... born from error from the beginning?
"What is this-what ahhhhh-!!"
"I'm sorry, although it's very sad." Looking at the hell that he had stirred up in front of him, Ash pressed his index finger on his eyebrows, which were also in pain. "But this is reality."
Rather than leaving it until later to become a possible development of unknowingly killing one's own blood relatives, it would be better for him to expose it himself now as the unintentional wind that sweeps away all the haze, at least that's what Ash thinks.
If he had been in the past, he might have been happy to see the outcome from the fish watching platform, but now... he felt that neither Little Dark nor Yuri should have to bear such a fate.
Chapter 178: Reunion in the present and sins in the past
Faced with the situation where everyone on the court was "so shocked that their jaws fell to the ground and couldn't close their heads", Ash, the only one who didn't wear a mask of pain, couldn't help but fall into contemplation of déjà vu.
Speaking of which, have you experienced this kind of thing too much...
Last time, the interfering father was kidnapped because his skills were too good and he was put in an armor and turned into "Destruction Kaiser" to fight with his son. Last time, the magic red father was too powerful and was controlled and painted black and purple and beat his five sons and daughters violently.
The rest are like the Milky Way Crown Prince beating his own father with a stick and beating his loving father and son with a filial piety... Needless to say, Rider has a more serious problem, Signal Axe makes his son laugh when his father dies, the Moon Fist is trivial, the Showa era would even kidnap your whole family and transform them into monsters to fight you to the death. The villain organization is capable of murder and heart-wrenching per capita. It's really too much.
Even Ash can't help but think about the bad influence that such a "parent-horse-friendly" drama filmed by Zi Gongxiang would have on teenagers... Ash doesn't care about the bad influence. Anyway, before he traveled back in time, he watched this kind of plot with relish!
After all, from the perspective of Ash (previously), my biological father was so ordinary that even though he often got angry at me in a condescending way due to work and other reasons, I didn't feel anything at all. I just felt boring and ordinary.
So for him, the special scenes of newcomers challenging the authority of the elderly, the collision between different ideas from the spirit to the body, this kind of thing that cannot be seen in reality really makes him hooked when watching it! As a mere spectator, he would only transform into a bloodthirsty Autobot and felt that the smell of blood was not enough.
But...
I have never seen similar developments outside of the three situations. Let's not talk about the little guy who was completely dumbfounded. Shaback, who was shot in the head by himself, was completely confused. The faces of Yuri and Little Dark, the parties involved, looked worse than the other... Well, if you are from the perspective of a viewer outside of animation or novels, you will definitely laugh out loud watching this.
However, now that I have gotten to know them and have a complicated relationship in every sense of the word, even I can't feel happy... Ha, I won't admit that I am actually a little happy, because that would be too embarrassing, so I definitely won't!
"Pretty Cure...Yuri, Yuri, have you become Pretty Cure?"
"Hmm... um... it's me, it's Yuri!"
The crescent moon in front of her forehead was shaking constantly. The trembling Yuri nodded slightly and released the transformation in front of her father, revealing that to the man, the little girl in his memory became more like a tall and graceful girl like a beauty.
"I was recognized by the great tree of the heart, and with the help of my partner, I became the legendary warrior, Cure Moonlight." On the palm of the girl's hand, the remaining half of Heart Seed reflected the light above her head. "Now I protect my mother, and I have always protected everyone and the world. I worked hard, so... I did it."
She once had the naive idea that as long as she worked hard, her missing father would come back, but this idea was picked up again today after being abandoned by herself for a long time.