After all, although it is a dream that cannot be explained in words, it has indeed been a long time since I saw Ash.
However, I still miss him so deeply... No, no! The original Ash obviously left without regrets. If I still behave so ugly now, he will definitely laugh at me somewhere.
He woke up from his dream. I have had enough of this kind of dream.
"Go to sleep, Regina."
"Go to sleep..."
What Aida Mana, who lay down again, didn't know was that in this city where many more buildings and schools had appeared overnight, there were several girls who had the same experience as her, who also woke up from their dreams, and whose faces were covered with tears of longing.
"Ash...?"
When a person dies and becomes a symbol in the hearts of others, his past shortcomings will be erased, and his advantages will be Mugen magnified to the point of being admired by others. The closer you are to such a person, the more the melancholy and regret in your heart will increase exponentially.
This is especially true in the hearts of Pretty Cures who are full of "love".
"Dad, Mom, I'm going out!"
The long night passed quickly, and the light of tomorrow covered the darkness of yesterday. Ai, with no trace of gloom on his face, stretched out in the sun to "praise the sun" and vowed that he would work hard to help others today.
"But starting today is the school holiday. Although it is not good to be too relaxed during the holiday, Makoto said that she is looking forward to the first holiday here."
There are a lot of people on the street today. Speaking of which, were there so many people in Oogai City before?
While thinking to himself about the arrangements for his friends, Ai didn't notice the purple-haired girl with glasses who passed her anxiously, nor did she notice the gloomy and complicated eyes that quietly approached from behind.
"Sharuru, if they are over there with Rikka, um! Let's just call everyone together and go to the exhibition that MakotoP has always wanted to visit - huh?" Ai had to stop in front of the wall at the end of the alley. She clearly didn't remember that this was a dead end, but she was still blocked.
However, Ai has always been indifferent. He used his perfect Student Council President athletic ability to roll over and landed perfectly on the other side. After standing up, Ai saw a man wrapped in a cloak standing at the entrance of the alley, staggering towards him.
"Are you a resident here? Haha, I'm sorry, I just saw that there is no road, so I borrowed it!"
"..." The man did not answer, but continued to move closer to Ai unsteadily.
"That." Sensing something was wrong with the other party, Ai still took the initiative to ask, feeling something bad in his heart. "Do you need any help?"
"Of course."
A dark shadow flashed under the cloak, and the girl who suddenly shrank her pupils had only time to protect her chest with her hands to avoid being slapped in the abdomen and then flying backwards.
The girl who was hit by the rubbish pile behind her held her belly like a shrimp and gasped in pain. She still raised her eyes with difficulty to see that the other party was still slowly approaching her.
"Who are you...?"
It hurts so much - consciousness is blurring...
"Boom——"
A huge black shadow suddenly rushed out from the glass fragments at Ai's feet. After knocking away the cloaked man, it surrounded and protected Ai. However, for some reason, Dark Musou Dragon only protected Ai and kept yelling at the opponent, never taking the initiative to attack.
However, when he saw the other party picking up the golden wings card from the ground, Ai's eyes, narrowed in pain, immediately widened, and he fell forward and lay on Dark Musou Dragon's body, shouting.
"That's - mine!" The girl's usually enthusiastic and energetic voice now had a slightly anxious, even angry look. "This belongs to Ash, give it back to me!"
"I need to take this back..."
Take it back? What did you say——
Just as Ai was getting more and more angry, the girl's confused gaze was fixed on a corner of the other party's open cloak.
The cracked golden seal and the dark purple broken sword hung on his belt. He squeezed the Survival Card that he took from Ai, pulled out the broken sword with his other hand, and then drew a cross in front of him with great effort, causing the space to split in front of him.
"I don't have much time-cough!"
The violent coughing took away the lack of breath in the voice of the lingering man. The man who stepped into the void with one foot turned his head towards love for the last time, which also allowed her to see the pure white flowing in the impressive black eyes.
"Thank you, Mana..."
"Wait-"
I still remember those eyes and that voice, no matter how faint it is...
"It should be over here..."
"Ah, there is another person here and——a dragon, is it a dragon...!"
Mana, who vaguely heard other people's voices coming from his ears, finally passed out after reaching the limit of his body.
Chapter 2 The Creation of Ash
"Uh...!"
On the roof of the Finonai Academy building in the center of the city, the lingering "Ash" finally fell to his knees weakly. The cloak slipped open to reveal the cracked body underneath. Several silver-gray coins slipped out from behind the cracks, making a clanging sound.
"This body has reached its limit..."
The hard-to-taken "Dark Sword Tsukuyomi (battle damage)", "Sin Stamp (damaged)", and "Survival Card" were placed in front of them. They were clearly useless products that had lost their power, but "Ash" still focused on them with breathless concentration.
The current state of Ash is very strange. It all starts with the reason why he appears here and his "birth" here.
After receiving Ashu's instructions, Assassin Matter, who instantly understood, gathered the special power of several dimensions. Through Mana, Lei and the others' longing for the individual "Ash", or in other words, desire... The power born of this desire summoned Ash, who was still dead in the system.
Feeling the power contained in this desire, Assassin Matter impatiently wanted to devour Ash, but in the end, he lost to Ash on a spiritual level. This person, seeing that our account was about to be hacked by Ash, with the intention that you would not be able to live well even if I died, forcefully self-destructed from the inside, causing Ash to become what it is now.
So now Ash maintains a very subtle state. He is the unfulfilled "desire" generated by several girls' longing for Ash. He was also called over as a part of Ash. To be honest, he doesn't even know whether he is the real "Ash"
If I have to say it, it might be similar to Greeed (Greeed) in Kamen Rider ooo... But that doesn't matter.
"Everyone, no matter who they are, strongly wants something and wants to be satisfied. They all have this idea."
He spread his palm and gently brushed the surface of the prop, feeling that the girl's strong yearning for him was contained in it. The man who had exhausted all his energy also showed a smile.
Yes, if I can swallow the desire above, I should be able to be resurrected again!
"What, are you still holding on?" A melodious and ethereal voice sounded from behind. Ashu walked out of the shadow of the lightning rod on the roof, hugging Pretty Cure's unmatched size, and sat next to him naturally. "Need me to help you?"
The man turned his head and glanced at her without replying. Instead, he focused his whole body on the prop in front of him.
"No, you just need to abide by our previous deal, that's enough."
"Yes, yes, I know~" He yawned boredly, swinging his slender legs wrapped in white stockings, and Ashu jumped out of his seat and took one last look at this guy. "I really don't know how you managed to win the hearts of so many precures. Are your evil and handsome enemies so popular?"
I don't understand, really, I am such a cute and super invincible Pretty Cure, I really want to be loved by someone~
"Man~"
Holding the three "relics" that belonged to him tightly in his arms, Ash used his last strength to "eat" them. The depleted power in his body suddenly began to surge. The light of sublimation lit up from behind his eyes, and the coins even rushed to squeeze out from the cracks that were about to heal.
"Throwing tiles——!"
Let's realize my and their desires!!!
The darkness on the roof of the school twisted into a strange shadow for a while. As the black and white lightning suddenly struck in broad daylight, it quickly distorted and forcibly changed. Inside "Ash", something was discarded and thrown away.
was separated.
"I didn't expect it to be like this. Really - thank you very much for sending Mana to the hospital!"
Facing the blue-haired woman Rikka's sincere bow of thanks, Hanasaki Rei, who had never been thanked so much, hurriedly waved her hands in response.
"Don't be like this, Ms. Hisikawa - we just did what we should do."
"But, I'm still very grateful to you! Alas... isn't there already peace? Mana Who is this...?"
When the girl who was extremely excited when talking about her friends finally let go, Lei, who was not used to it, got a chance to breathe. After cleaning the misted glasses, she looked at the purple-haired girl next to her who also wore glasses.
"Yuri-nee, did you find anything?"
"Yes." Tsukikage Yuri nodded, her attention now focused on the coins in her hand. "That child and her friends don't feel like ordinary people."
"Is it because of that dragon? It obviously disappeared immediately, but I thought I saw it wrong."
"It's more than that." Yuri, who is said to have the most experience with Pretty Cure in the heart-grabbing group, shook his head and gave another answer. "Just think of it as intuition. She has similar feelings to Lei, you and Itsuki."
"Really?" Lei also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. "Fortunately, the doctor said there is nothing serious about the child. In this case, maybe we can become friends with her when she wakes up."
Well, it would be nice if we could become friends.
At this time, Lei's attention also came to the coin in Yuri's hand. The silver-gray coin rolled from the index finger to the back of the little finger with the movement of the slender fingers. Then it was caught by the thumb and tossed high. The falling coin was caught by the back of the other hand, and was tossed left and right between the hands.
"This is..." As the coin moved, Lei's eyes also showed a look of memories.
With the arrival of the holidays, under the excited call of Erika, a group of people from the heart-grabbing team made an appointment to visit the "Fashion Clothing Show" mobile exhibition recently reported by Hope Flower City.
Unexpectedly, after Lei was bumped into by a strange man in a cloak on the way, she found that the "Sin Stamp" she was carrying with her had disappeared. The two people who were immediately furious followed her all the way, but saw the man breaking through the space and leaving in shock.
"It fell off the man when he was attacked."
Obviously, you should be happy to have obtained the evidence that you can follow the clues, but looking at the coin in front of him, Yuri felt very complicated in his heart.
Why, that figure gives me a familiar feeling, why... makes people miss it and feel sad? What happened to me? Is it because of the previous dream?
"Lei, do you recognize this kind of coin?"
"Indeed, I saw it in the boys' comic weekly at school..." Yuri found the same mood as his own from Lei's well-hidden profile. "It seems..."
"Kamen Rider's... props look like..."
Ash!?
But, how is it possible? Why!
Tsukikage Yuri's wrist holding the coin trembled suddenly
"Ding——"
The silver-gray Cell Medal slid all the way down the arm, landed on the ground, bounced a few times, and was about to roll toward the stairs when a fallen leather shoe blocked the coin, causing its owner to lean over and pick up the coin.
"That..."
Hoshizora Miyuki walked up to the two of them and handed over his hand.
"Is this what you dropped?"
Miyuki, who was lucky enough to find money, is also a good boy today... By the way, I just want to ask them!
"By the way, have you seen it?" Miyuki, whose eyes were red, asked them very seriously.
"Have you ever seen a broken sword?"
Chapter 3 The first encounter with people from another world
"It turns out it's okay, that's fine."
After their own Clover Foundation professional doctors repeatedly confirmed that there were no other hidden injuries on Mana's body, and it seemed that it was really just a temporary syncope caused by an excessive impact, Yotsuba Arisu and Hishikawa Rikka finally breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
"Okay, Rikka, don't keep this ugly expression." After confirming that there was no problem, Arisu, who had emerged from the previous panic, regained his composure at all times, and at the same time comforted Rikka with a smile, who was a little emotionally broken. "Mana has always been a strong child. Didn't neither Selfish Organization nor Ash defeat her? She will definitely be fine."
"I know too, but!" The hands on his knees were shaking slightly, and his downcast face was about to let tears drip from the shadows. "Mana She is obviously such a considerate and kind-hearted person! She will not ignore other people's feelings occasionally like before... She is obviously a hero who saves the world, right? Who did such an outrageous thing!"
Not long ago, when I was notified by a pink-haired "passerby" on the phone. "Your friend has been attacked, the hospital is coming quickly!" Rikka, who was still playing with the elves, almost fainted on the spot.
Nothing else, just because she thought of a tragedy that she never wanted to recall again.
Seeing an important person lose something in front of you, just once... is really enough...
"Sebastian."
After snapping his fingers, under the surprised gazes of several people communicating outside the ward, Clover Foundation's loyal old housekeeper came in holding a tablet. The picture connected to the city surveillance network was playing the scene of Mana being in danger in an alley, being attacked by a mysterious man in a cloak, and being protected by Dark Musou Dragon.
"We have arranged manpower to search for the person in the picture, but for some reason there are suddenly many strange buildings and structures in the city, so I'm sorry, Miss, there has been no progress..."