"I do whatever I want, what's wrong with that?!"
Another tentacle was twisted hard on Ayumi. The girl felt the heart-wrenching pain surrounding her and refused to let go even though tears were flying from her eyes.
"Ash——The real Ash in your mouth, the Ash in the past, has always pretended to be a great boss who has everything under control, but isn't he actually the biggest idiot in the world?"
"Just for some stupid agreement, I really collected life-threatening things like Dark Echo for that "system", and I kept dying for it thousands of times over and over again!"
What kind of bonds are formed through constant encounters with heroes? If you want to gain the emotion of witnessing their shining, you will sacrifice your life for it! If you want, wouldn't it be nice to just take the body and mind of the hero?! Why go through such stupid twists and turns!
"Let me die like a flame spreading ashes, but all this is to satisfy the wish of the system! To change the unfair fate suffered by the heroes!? So that they (them) can be happy?!"
What does this have to do with me?!
"I've been enduring this... As the desire part, I don't want to endure it anymore, so what! I want to seize this world and Pretty Cures right now, and enjoy it as my dream!"
"So - you are not his! It can only be regarded as part of it!" He pulled Ayumi back quickly, and the tentacles that kept pricking down penetrated the ground that was receding in front of them.
"You will never understand that I have gained important things from my journey that will not disappear even if my memory is erased!"
"Not only the knowledge that can change the world and the accumulated combat experience, but also——"
Rider couldn't help squeezing Ayumi's arm tighter.
"And, the biggest difference is."
"I volunteered."
The raised Medal Slash Saber moved from pointing at the demon-like Shocker OOO to the girls on the cross behind him. That was exactly the sin committed by his desire.
"They just try to make the world a better place for their kids, you bastard!"
"Yeah... didn't you just say that I'm really a brat on the inside?"
The tentacles suddenly coming from the ground forced the two men to loosen their hands and retreat to both sides.
The sickle on the left hand, the bone spur on the right arm, and the weapons on both arms began to emit scarlet light, aiming at the two of them.
"Newborn children are always cruel by nature, but they just forget it as they grow older."
"Ayumi——!"
"A——!"
Sensing something was wrong, the two of them seemed to run towards each other in a world where time slowed down, desperately trying to reach out to him/her.
"Sir, after I came into contact with those Rider and Ultraman, I began to think that I had grown up and felt that I knew right from wrong. This is wrong. The so-called principles cannot violate the agreement——"
"No, let me tell you, Ash has actually never changed. He is still the 12-year-old kid who went his own way and abandoned his family casually."
There is no conspiracy or reason behind it, violence is just pure violence!
"I told you, children are always cruel."
The stream of light of destruction blasted out from Shocker OOO's arms struck the two of them with the power that swept through everything around them. The moment before they were absorbed by this light, the two finally hugged each other.
"And I still have a childlike innocence!!!"
Chapter 77 Don't give up!
"Boom!"
The Pretty Cures who were climbing the tower and continuing upwards suddenly heard an explosion from the direction above their heads. When they slowly lowered their hands that had been subconsciously blocking their heads, through the huge hole in the ceiling, everyone was shocked to see a scene that they would never forget.
In the pure light of destruction that eclipsed the world, Kamen Rider ooo, whose whole body was burning, hugged the girl who was screaming with her eyes closed tightly in his arms, trying to bury her little head deeper into his chest, and was blown all the way out of the tower by the huge thrust.
"Ash!"
Realizing something, some people screamed, and some immediately took action to help.
Arisu unfolded the four-leaf clover shield in his hand and threw it away. Itsuki wanted to release Sunflower Shield directly in front of them. Akane even wanted to jump over and catch them regardless of the danger.
However, everyone finally took a step slower. They could only watch helplessly as the light cannon pushed them all the way until it caused a mushroom-shaped explosion flame cloud in the distance outside the tower.
"No-don't!"
No, not again!
"H-ha!"
The trembling arm was still protecting Ayumi's forehead and he didn't dare to let go. The other hand gently lifted up his chin which was so hot after rubbing it. The two of them helped each other get up from the ground.
To be honest, A can't understand why he is still alive... No, compared to this kind of thing!
"Ayumi, are you okay?"
She reluctantly climbed up from A's arms and looked around at the destroyed park surrounded by stone pillars. She vaguely felt a power flowing through her body.
"Still... alive, though!"
Nodding confusedly, Ayumi looked down at the pure white light flickering vaguely on his hand. At the critical moment when A hugged him, Ayumi finally closed his eyes and saw it. It was the protective shield that unfolded from his hand that saved the lives of the two of them.
Is this, is this also the function included in this suit? Or should I say...
"Ayumi... Listen up!" When Rider's head was raised again when his forehead was close to Ayumi's, A, who was holding the girl's arms and seemed to have made a lot of determination, said seriously. "Now my desire part has expanded to the point where even I don't recognize him... Although it's embarrassing, I must admit that I was the loser from the beginning when compared with him."
"A——What are you talking about!" Looking at the cracked green compound eyes, the girl who already understood what he was going to say immediately refused. "I understand how dangerous it is! But it's already this time, how is it possible for you to ask me to give up on what you're watching helplessly!"
Suddenly, A, what happened to you?
"No - you don't understand at all!" A shook her shoulders vigorously, coughing twice with a hoarse voice, and his voice was like a candle in the wind. "I am Ash! I am destined to die... a possibility that is destined to disappear!"
"But you are different, you are still young! You have a lot of life and time to enjoy! There is no need to accompany me -"
"Crack."
Using the space transfer ability derived from Wang Jian, Shocker OOO came to the two people who were still in shock.
Everything he originally planned was interrupted, and he complained from the bottom of his heart that he couldn't enjoy fighting Mana and the others.
But fortunately, isn't the opportunity to make amends right in front of us now?
"Don't worry, I won't destroy my precious collection just to fight you."
In order to protect and repair the five coins with the core of Bad End Precure, Shocker OOO's contribution was not so outrageous at first, and A thought he could find an opportunity and complete the comeback.
But time is actually on the other side, and as the state recovers, the hope left for A and Ayumi is getting smaller and smaller.
"So what kind of intention do you have to disobey me... Huh, that doesn't matter anymore, you are probably going to die."
He casually tossed his arms, which were blurry in appearance due to the high temperature, and the flying high-heat jets melted the land at his feet into a pool of red liquid.
"I haven't decided whether to kill you in front of them, but it's a definite fact that you will be meaninglessly erased from this world!"
As a scumbag, you are so annoying.
There were already several gaps in the original sharpness of the tiger claw that was opened from A's wrist. After several collisions with the right arm bone spurs swung by the opponent, it was no surprise that it broke and flew out, cutting off a stone pillar.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!"
A, whose arms and claws were broken, was forced to take a few steps back and quickly adjusted and reacted. He used his feet as an axis to spin his waist like a top and kicked his calves towards the opponent's abdomen that was exposed during the attack.
Unfortunately, the other party is also "Ash", and both parties have exactly the same idea.
"Guwa!"
The collision of the two rotating Rider Kick caused the green locust armor on A's leg to explode. After the whole person was knocked over with a huge muffled sound, he rolled on the ground with a momentum comparable to several second riders and deflated before releasing the transformation.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Without looking back, he thrust his clawed hand backwards, grabbed the wrist of Ayumi who was shouting and trying to sneak attack from behind, and twisted her around while screaming in pain and strangled her neck with the other hand.
"Hmph, and you, a passerby! If you don't come with me, nothing will happen."
Therefore, if I want to blame you, it's your fault for believing his words; if you want to blame me, it's your fault for not recognizing your own status!
Now Ash didn't even use the skills he had used to deal with Pretty Cure before. At this moment, he was just incarnating the purest form of violence, as if to prove his "childlike innocence", he used violence to crush the guy A who was talking about it.
"I'M F▇KING INVINCIBLE!"
With extremely arrogant words and nonsense, without paying any attention to the increasingly difficult breathing expression on the girl's face, Shocker OOO, who pinched Ayumi's neck, continued to slowly lift it up as if it were his own victory trophy, letting his little feet that escaped gravity swing feebly in the air.
"Stop—cough!" With bloodstains all over his face, A tried to get up but fell to the ground again due to the loss of strength in his body. "This is between us and has nothing to do with her!"
"That may have been the case at the beginning, but since she came with you to attack me and got involved in this matter, it doesn't matter anymore!"
"You are Ash - If you were Ash, you would not do such a thing!" He clenched his fists and beat them weakly on the ground with reluctance. "No matter what I say! Please—her!"
"Ahem... it's okay, A..." Ayumi, who had difficulty breathing and thinking, still squeezed out a smile to A on the ground. "This is my choice..."
When you said you wanted me to help you and stay with you for a while, I agreed.
We are partners, right? And——
"Ahem... don't give up. As long as you don't give up - you still have a chance!"
"You also have inner wishes that you want to realize, right..."
Chapter 78 Revealing the Answer
"Yes, don't give up!"
Just when Shocker OOO, who was feeling upset, was about to start exerting force with his hands, a heart-shaped light arrow shot from a distance pierced his hand. Ayumi fell to the ground and was held in his arms by A who acted quickly. He grabbed his neck and breathed heavily as if he was being forgiven.
"As long as you don't give up and are willing to work hard, you will be successful even if it may not be 100% possible."
Breaking off the bow and arrow in his hand, Rider saw the cure heart that was raising Heart Arrow and pointing it at him and a group of Pretty Cures who were following behind him.
"But the opportunity must be contained in it!"
Hum, it's finally here~ Although I don't want them to see what happens next~
Finally, it's here... Obviously I don't want them to see what happens next...
Two identical yet completely different ideas appeared in the minds of two Ash at the same time.
"Is this person the current Ash...?" Zhi and Yayoi, who looked a little confused, had accidentally grasped the situation at the scene. "Is it the older one or the younger one? Are they both?"
"No matter how you look at it, it's the taller one. The age is different, and..." The expressions of Reika and Akane, who had been with him for a long time, became a little ugly. "No matter which one he is, he seems to have changed or changed back to something we don't recognize..."
"Ash..." Now Miyuki's eyes showed no joy at being reunited with the one he longed for, only deep concern for the two of them.
Similarly, just seeing the atrocities "Ash" did to "himself" for the first time, the anger in the hearts of Lei and others was already unbearable, to the point where they could not rest assured unless they taught him a lesson.
To be honest, this method may be the way they are more familiar with Ash than others.
"What a warm greeting when we first met~" He shook the half arrow in his hand, and then crushed it into particles of light. "However, I don't hate this kind of enthusiasm. I might as well say that I like it very much!"
"This is not the first time! The thief Ash-sensei who secretly stole my love from my dream!" His eyes kept turning from A who was supporting Ayumi to the exaggerated Shocker OOO in front of him, and visible anger rose from Aida Mana's face.
Before he could say anything else, the girl's fist collided with his arm.
"Taking advantage of our relationship with you without permission, making everyone worry about you and deceiving us all at the same time! Attack the seniors and innocent people!" Mana, who missed the hit, immediately turned around and swept towards Rider with a series of dance-like kicks. "You--have fallen, Ash!"
He caught the kick and pushed it back hard. The wave released by his left hand petrified the diamonds that were shot. He swung his hand knife to sweep away countless spades swords. He took a step forward and knocked Arisu to the ground with a few rounds of karate. The electric shock flashed from his forehead and knocked down the Cure ace kicked from the air.
"Ash!"
Just when he was proud, two extremely powerful impacts hit him from both sides. Lei and Yuri, who restrained his arms respectively, pushed him backwards and ejected. "I can't stand what you've done to everyone!"
"If you go bad again, the only thing we can do is do it again!"
This is what you taught us!
Erika and Itsuki, who were stepping on their shoulders, jumped up, turned over and swept down their high heels that broke the sound barrier. Just before they were about to reach the ferocious bone mask, six tentacles stabbed out from behind and swept away the four Precures.
"You are right, I did do this."
Snapping his fingers in front of them, Miyuki and others, who were about to follow the attack, glanced at the crosses that were teleported here and the seniors bound to them with shock on their faces.
"Everyone... this!"
Everyone seems not to believe it completely, but until now when all the truth has been revealed by him personally, the Precures can't even maintain their angry mood, and can only uncontrollably tremble all over their bodies.
"It's too bad..." Thinking of the childhood shadow he had seen with his father before, Yayoi, who couldn't help but laugh, couldn't help but look at Aguri, who was also feeling uncomfortable next to him. "If this is the case, wouldn't we all be doomed!?"
"No, it can't be like this..." Yuri shook his head violently and looked at him with ferocious eyes. "If it's Ash, although the store manager has been lying to us, he is doing it for our own good!"
"Absolutely not right, no matter how evil he is, he will never do such a thing! So you are a fake!"
The pyroxene in front of the drawn moonlight magic wand reflected a different brilliance under the scorching sun, but judging from the constant trembling, its owner was not as strong as she showed.