Chapter 23 The Ordinary and the Weak and the Coin (4K)
No surprise, it was indeed a trap.
Even though Ayumi had rare fighting talent as a warrior, she might be able to fight against one or two cadre-level enemies through this skirt suit modeled after the Pretty Cure suit. But when four powerful monsters suddenly appeared in front of her, a look of horror appeared on her face again.
"Ayumi——!"
"Wow!" The girl who screamed was hit in the stomach by the joint attack, and was knocked out like a top. She rolled on the ground several times in embarrassment before she managed to get up from the ground.
When A hurriedly helped the girl up, he also noticed that her protective clothing was damaged. The seemingly still pure white ribbon had been damaged, and even the electronic circuit buried behind her back was crackling and sparking.
The four powerful enemies who jointly knocked down Ayumi also walked out of the darkness in front of them. Slowly brushing past Megid, whose beloved sword is as ferocious as a fanged skeleton, "Golden Phoenix Thunder", a bright red phoenix-shaped mirror monster covered with diamond feather thorns, wears a hood and has greasy tentacles wrapped around its body. The giant squid type Giff Messengers pi or should be said to be "Olteca", and finally the gorgeous red bird "Ankh" who used Ayumi's inflated mentality and eagerness to attract her into the trap. Greeed".
"This is really an old acquaintance..."
A scanned the few people who appeared. These were indeed cadres who had interacted with, or at least had a fight with, Ash.
Even if it cannot match the will and experience of the original owner, it is almost the same in terms of the power it was created. It would be strange if Ayumi, the fake Pretty Cure, was not beaten violently after falling into the trap.
"Woo..."
The girl, whose protection period for newbies was short, was about to catch up with a certain muscular idiot. She screamed from her throat and made a very forced sound. "Sorry A, I didn't expect that I was surrounded by their traps and plotted..."
Obviously, I just want to listen to your words more, but I am too complacent.
"It's useless to talk about it now. The important thing is to assess the situation and Feng Linshanhuo's escape."
But as soon as A finished speaking, the four weirdos on the opposite side seemed to have guessed what they were planning to do, and began to surround them from four directions, further compressing their space for movement.
"We are really at our wits' end now..." A, who was protecting Ayumi behind his back, could not find a way to escape together with their current capabilities. It seemed that the only option was despair. "I'm actually quite happy to be able to cooperate with you Ayumi, but it looks like we are going to overturn and die here together today."
I have no choice but to give up... But this is the end of my story with her. I still don't understand anything about "Ash" yet. I'm really unwilling to accept it.
"Well..."
A, who was about to continue comforting the girl, suddenly felt a light touch on his back, and saw that the girl actually took the initiative to meet him with a life-threatening momentum in the eyes of the other girl who was also surprised.
"A——ah!" The girl who was struck on the shoulder by a sword screamed, but she still insisted on using her own strength and ignored the counterattack. She opened her arms to block all the weirdos in front of her, and turned around and shouted at the boy.
"I'm sorry! It's my fault for being too aggressive this time, so... no matter what, A, you have to escape!"
A is a good friend I just met today. Even if I am so rash as Pretty Cure, it is not enough, but even as Sakagami Ayumi, I will never let you hurt my friend!
"Run, A, run!"
So A ran away.
An adult will compromise, so he gave up easily before and chose to escape now.
In the dark passage, there were only the sounds of running footsteps and the man's violent breathing. A, who had changed from running to walking, was hunched over his belt, panting and holding on to his knees, and was breathing in the turbid air.
After all, the part assigned by A represents the useless adult who has forgotten his dream, and there is nothing he can do about it.
"I said it from the beginning, I will take advantage of anything I can."
Since there is no value anymore, I can only give up. Anyway, there is still a chance, and then try to find other Pretty Cure fools to continue to help me. Is that okay?
The reason why his first reaction was to take advantage of her was actually because when he was still Ash, he saw the girl who was hanging out with Miyuki for the first time, and he felt right in his heart.
In fact, I quite dislike her.
In the eyes of Ash, there is any difference between Ayumi, the fake Pretty Cure, and other Precures. Not to mention the fighting talent that I don't know if Precure's entries all have, compared to the girls with independent and distinctive characteristics that Ash has come into contact with, the existence of Sakagami Ayumi is really a bit too ordinary.
To use an analogy, it is a small transparency that cannot be found if you throw it into a sea of people.
Ordinary reactions, ordinary people, ordinary fears, ordinary awareness, ordinary ecstasy... Apart from picking up the transformer and meeting A, Ayumi himself is really too ordinary.
He hates this ordinary thing, he prefers something gorgeous, exciting and sparkling.
But it was such an ordinary person who, just now with fear in his eyes, still stood in front of me and told me to leave quickly. If I really want to say why this is, it can only be the reason of "heart", right?
Because of this, as the elves said, as long as they have that kind of heart, is it possible for anyone, ordinary or not, to become Pretty Cure?
"Cough cough cough——"
The smell of blood in his throat made A fall to the ground coughing crazily. The strength of this body was too weak.
It's annoying and infuriating that he would be coerced and chased like a weakling, or even run away on his own...
"Ahem..."
From the slightly distorted perspective that Ash has gradually grown up, the hero is always strong, and he has never been so weak and humble. Even when the system first went to other worlds and started from scratch, I could come in handy——
"No, there was indeed a time when I was very weak and could only lie on the ground and cry like a weakling..."
As I gradually get closer to this weak person, inexplicably, even if it is just a fleeting boring memory, A and Ash still come back to me.
That was, before I had any contact with the system... No, it was a story even earlier than that.
"Ahem!"
When this forgotten and sealed memory that was not pleasant was reopened at an inappropriate time, the feeling of heavy burden on the body increased again.
When I was a second-grade primary school student... not even the second-grade student, until I was six years old, I lived in a warm family like Ailei and Miyuki. At that time, I was still a child who understood what happiness is.
Then, what broke all this was my mother's intention to leave. I can't remember the reason. Anyway, it was because it was linked to ordinary things such as money, rice, oil, and salt. As a result, my father began to hit people at will. Soon after, my beautiful mother insisted on leaving, and my home disappeared.
When I was a child, I tried all kinds of childish ways to try to recover, but it was not until the look in my mother's eyes when she finally left that I understood that the so-called "prodigy" whose talents were called "prodigy" by the neighbors could sometimes be no match for the ordinary.
So I hate becoming boring and ordinary people, I hate my mother, and I hate my father who has become even more "strange" after my mother left. He is looking for a dazzling role in a world that I thought didn't exist. That's why when [the system] showed up and wanted to be with me, I agreed to it without hesitation.
"Why do you have to remind me of this now..." Falling down in the puddle in front of him, A looked at the two bloodshot eyeballs reflected in the face of the boy who was a few years older than the boy in his memory. "Is it because now I have become a boring person as punishment..."
Not only am I boring and ordinary, I am now a weakling without any power.
"Tap, step -"
The touching finger seemed to have knocked something down. The figure of a girl wearing high-heeled boots stood in front of her, blocking the faint light. The illusory outline made A, who was now confused, unable to see the other person's face clearly, but there was an inexplicable feeling that made him feel familiar.
"Ah..."
"I'm not your mother." It sounded like a mocking tone, but halfway through, he sighed inexplicably frustrated. "This is not what you and I expected when we first met... We originally planned to come here to see what the fuss would be like... Really, it would be meaningless if you bullied one-sidedly and didn't respond..."
"I'm... dying."
As if he hadn't heard anything, A was still mumbling to himself in a daze.
"From the moment it was born, this body, which is nothing more than debris, will collapse within a week, no, it may not even last until tomorrow."
"But before I came into contact with Ash, I could never die like this... For this reason, I took advantage of a child who trusted me. I have obviously done it before, but now I feel regretful, regretting that I abandoned 'my' first friend..."
Is it because I changed from hating her to a new liking for her?
"I have become something that I originally hated and couldn't understand... It was stupid to start regretting it after I lost it, right?"
What am I talking about...
Am I acting coquettishly to her?
Why do I say these words to her? It's clear that the only friend I have been with until now is Sakagami Ayumi. I don't even recognize the name of the woman in front of me.
But why, she feels so similar to Mana and the others...
"I'm not your mother."
The girl repeated this sentence again, but there was some unexplained tenderness in her voice.
"I'm not anyone you've ever known and I don't want to be anyone else. If you want a mother, go find it yourself."
A soft hand caught A who was about to fall forward, then supported him and gently leaned him against the wall behind him.
"You like to watch those old special photography or hero cartoons. In addition to the shining heroes that can satisfy your empty heart, you also long for the simple and warm feelings in them, whether it is family, love, or comradeship. It would be great if you could join them, right?"
"Oh... why are you so popular with those Pretty Cure girls? Really, you are simply a cure trap tailor-made for them. Which girl who can become Pretty Cure wouldn't want to save you when she sees it?"
Then, what seemed to be a very warm existence came close to him and hugged him. Through the extremely soft thing, A, whose eyes gradually became clear, could hear the heartbeat that was very consistent with his own.
As a result, in terms of awkwardness, it is the same on both sides. If you don't want to regret it, it is obviously very simple.
"If the water you spilled can't be recovered, why don't you just dry it?"
"Okay, okay~" The cold air with the girl's flowery laughter blew past A, as if the previous hug was just an illusion of the young man. "How is it? Do you feel better? Do you feel like you have been saved?"
It's not like Xia Ya. If you want to act like a spoiled brat, go find girls who are older than you.
"You can think about the rest by yourself."
He suddenly opened his eyes and woke up from a moment of fainting. He stood up holding on to [Medal Slash Saber] who didn't know who dropped it next to him, and turned his face to the direction he came from.
"Ayumi..."
If you run away now, you will die as light as a feather with peace of mind. If you return, you will struggle in pain all the way to destruction.
To be honest, no matter what kind, it is a miserable ending for the weak, but...
"The more handsome you are, the more in line with my style!"
Sakagami Ayumi, who was huddled in the corner, was trembling with fear as he looked at the four weirdos surrounding him.
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Although she didn't know why she never delivered the final blow after defeating herself, it seemed that she had reached her limit. Seeing the red-feathered birdman walking toward her step by step and reaching out her hand, the girl instinctively closed her eyes in fear.
Obviously I want to break up to protect my friends, but it turns out that this kind of thing is still so scary... Please, Pretty Cure, Kamen Rider, whoever can come...
A... Help me!
"Puch—!"
The protruding puncture sound scared Ayumi, who was filled with tears. He suddenly opened his eyes. He was slapped repeatedly on his body, but there were no wounds as expected. It was not until he looked up that he saw an astonishing scene!
Medal Slash Saber pierced Ankh Greeed from the back to the chest. It was also behind it. A, who was stirring the hilt of the sword with both hands, was inserting his hand along the gap to stir something.
"I'm sorry... No, there's nothing to apologize for."
"After all, you are not my friend."
"A!!!"
The tearful girl shouted his name and almost jumped up to give A a big hug, but the boy stopped her before she could say anything.
"Let's not talk about anything else!" The young man blocked the falling magic sword in embarrassment and rolled several times on the ground, reaching out to Ayumi.
"Coin, give me the coin!"
Swipe-!
With a wave of his hand, he took all the two coins into his palm, and together with the red coin he took out before, he stuffed them into the three slots of the drive on his waist.
"Sorry."
Turning the angle of the driver, A, who was blocking Ayumi, lifted the activated O Scanner Ring at his waist in front of him, and slowly pointed at the remaining three enemies in front of him.
"As expected, I don't want to be a boring adult!"
The left hand clenches a fist and raises it to the chest, and the O Scanner Ring in the right hand sweeps across the red, yellow and green rings of the drive with the crisp sound of coins.
"Henshin!"
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There is actually a part of me that has been missing my mother... If it were Ash, I would never admit such a thing.
But actually occasionally, I do have fantasies, if I am not left behind. Whether I can grow up with a happy life...
But other than that, I am actually a little happy now.
Anyway, it's understandable even for adults to miss their mother, right?
For some reason, A, who was on the verge of heart failure not long ago due to the inner shock, now feels his fatigue has been swept away as if he has been cured. He can only feel the surging fighting spirit surging throughout his body, signaling his return to the enemies outside!
A, whose pupils seemed to have pure white cracks, brushed three Core Medal with a fierce expression.
"Henshin!"
No matter how embarrassing it is, I am still a warrior, and now I am ready to fight!
When A swiped the coins on the drive with O Scanner Ring, the flow of time slowed down at this moment. Facing the attack of three cadre-level weirdos, countless flying coins of various colors surrounded A to block the attack for him. The power of the eagle-tiger-locust-shaped heraldry formed by the huge circular arrangement of red, yellow, and green was integrated into A's body.
"[Taka (Eagle)! Tora (Tiger)! Batta (Locust)!]"