"Don't—" Purple spiritual light suddenly erupted from all over his body and Ash was suddenly pushed away. "Look at others with this kind of eyes!"
Casually classifying others into three, six or nine grades is too much!
I originally thought that you and Phantom Empire were not of the same kind... but in the end, you just want to push others into a "bad" world as you please?!
"In this case!" The sound barrier when the legs wrapped in the boots were slightly bent and then suddenly straightened, sent the angry girl to the top of Rider's head. "Do you think I will forgive you?!"
The girl who stepped forward with a burst of energy assumed a standard posture. First, she followed the forward kick and the side kick while the energy was combined, and then the close-fitting knee thrust followed by the hand knife. The movement of each strike was as smooth and graceful as a dance, which is enough to see the hard work the girl put into it.
The rumored title of Light Hill's strongest purple is actually well-deserved, if Megumi is the kind of beast-like fighting instinct who can more sensitively detect crises and respond quickly under pressure.
The Angel of Fate in front of her was the "Bucket" player who had no shortcomings in experience, combat skills, or strength and speed. The girl who became more and more comfortable in the fight was on par with Ash.
"Karate? Here's another martial arts girl, I like it." Keeping the body moving to a minimum and adding two palms like door leaves, Ash received all these attacks in all directions. "It reminds me of a familiar person... Okay."
Let me compare the differences between the two.
With the engine humming, the man pulled out a new Rider Card from the card box on his waist.
"If I were to fight you, it would be better to use this Kirby."
Chapter 22 Rocket Playing with the Stars
The new Rider Card was reflected in the mirror on the belt. The huge and rapid air flow from the thruster nozzle that appeared above Ash's head forced the Iona in front of him to protect his body with his hands and had to be pushed far back.
I have seen it on TV... This Rider can use similar cards to transform into various different forms to cope with different battle situations than the different costumes of our Pretty Cure's "Light Card", so now!
"It's changed again!"
"[KamenRide (KamenRide)! Fourze (Fourze)!]"
"Universe-" Ash, who transformed into a pure white Rocket Head Rider, couldn't hold back the inexplicable impulse in his heart, raised his arms and shouted loudly towards the blue sky. "Coming-!"
Sure enough, it feels like something is missing if I don't shout something when I transform into this, so I still can't help but shout like this, right?
"Yu..." Seeing Ash's new form, Iona couldn't help but complain about the overly distinctive appearance. "Astronaut?"
I haven't seen any tokusatsu... Is this also Kamen Rider?
"That's right." The smooth Rocket Head helmet rubbed against the top of his head and made a "swishing" sound. "Your Cure Fortune (Angel of Fate) is Pretty Cure with a starry sky theme, right? In this case, it would be most appropriate to use Kamen Rider, which is specially designed to deal with Star Disciple, as your opponent."
"Is that what you said?" Ash knocked on his chest and pointed his fist at a certain Miss Precure opposite who had an ugly face. "Kamen Rider Fourze, let's have a fun one-on-one battle!"
"What are you talking about!" The angry girl followed her most commonly used and proud move and jumped on top of the man again, and launched a powerful attack from top to bottom.
It's said so lightly, but I'm... not happy at all!
"Peng——!" The dull sound was like a sudden explosion of gunpowder without gunpowder smoke, and the girl who triumphantly attacked flew back wherever she came from.
"Wha-wha!!!"
The man's hands drew a pure arc in front of him, and with the sharp war cry coming out of his mouth, the punch that the bullet came out of exploded unexpectedly on the girl's shoulder.
"Cough!" The girl, who was covering her shoulders in pain, watched the movements of Ash's hands in surprise. "This move, Jeet Kune Do...!"
"Originally, this guy shouldn't be able to do it." He raised his hands and toes in an extremely slow and graceful motion in the air, but this casualness would not make the opponent in front of him doubt his explosive power in the slightest. "But his friend is proficient in this method, and I can use it as well."
After all, I have learned too much and know only "a little" much.
"It seems now that the effect is pretty good."
The girl felt a little embarrassed. When I use karate, do you use Jeet Kune Do? Simply——
When the moves and momentum integrated into the girl's movements attack Ash at the same time, the opponent's fist that explodes like a bomb will always hit her unfinished movements one step ahead - the girl's current fighting skills are really not good for her.
But as the battle continued, the girl who became accustomed to the man's movements gradually noticed something.
"Is there something... wrong?"
When the two of them were wrestling with each other with their arms together, the keen girl noticed something wrong with her hands compared to before.
Why is it that even though he has changed his form, his strength is still so much lower?
"Have you ever experienced that feeling?" Ash, who was gradually being overpowered in terms of strength, pressed his big bright eyes and said to her. "When the game has been played through various levels and even the highest difficulty level cannot satisfy you, wouldn't you set some obstacles for yourself to create a different challenge?"
"Give me less - you're looking down on me!" The calmer Ash's voice became, the more the anger in the girl's heart burned. A pair of fists were burning with purple aura and she swung towards Ash a little faster.
Does this arbitrary way of fighting come from confidence in one's own strength...!
"Is it so amazing that you have this ability to transform at will?!" With the anger in her heart, her explosive power also increased. After blocking Ash's hands, the girl hit Rider's chest with straight stabs from both fists like raindrops. "Do you think you are a special person? That's why you always look down on others and do whatever you want to the world!"
What they say about destroying this world is basically using this earth and the people on it as props to realize their own desires... huh?
After a burst of high-speed punches and verbal blows to vent his dissatisfaction, Iona stopped and discovered the problem. Countless punches had just made muffled sounds on his body, but now after the fight, the opponent's entire protective suit was still brand new. Only the opponent's random actions of patting the dust on his chest were proof of what she had done.
How come... my fist didn't cause any effective damage to him at all?
"No, I can't break his rules. Everything is within his expectations..." The clenched fists and back molars creaked from the excessive exertion, and the girl's arrogant and stern face was filled with anxiety for a moment.
"I'm sorry, after all, there may be some kind of disaster in the universe, so preserving life is the first priority, and then--" Another card was caught between the fingers. "Do you know another characteristic of Fourze?"
"I... how do I know!" Oops, I should have watched what the Kamen Rider special program on TV said in advance!
"Of course this is it~"
"[AttackRide(AttackRide) AstroSwitch(Astro Switch)!]"
After pressing the switch that appeared on his hand, an orange-yellow rocket appeared on Ash's arm, and the arrow that spurted out propulsion flames swung towards Iona.
"Rocket!?"
Why is there such a strange thing!
The girl who was suddenly faced with a huge impact screamed in surprise and was pushed away by the irresistible force. After hurriedly landing to heal the discomfort in her body, she saw Ash on the opposite side waving to her with various switches between her fingers.
"This is needed to cope with various unknown situations. Human beings evolved from apes to humans because they were able to make and use tools. I think this is the embodiment of evolution."
How relaxed and freehand Ash was, how heavy and huge the pressure Iona felt now.
What he said about looking down on others... is it because he has the luxury to be able to do this?
Although there is a certain sense of disobedience in his battle, facing such an unfathomable opponent, sister... can I really do it?
Chapter 23 Ash is very worried about you
"[Pen (Brush) On!]"
The sudden itching on her face made the girl come back from her deep reverie. When she took a closer look, she saw the man in front of her who was writing and drawing on her face with the brush on her foot.
"Look at you, you're disrespecting me by being distracted while you're fighting."
"Wow!" She didn't realize that a moment's distraction had allowed the other party to do this. The blushing and shy girl jumped back in surprise, and when she was trying to wipe off the paint on her face with her hands, she saw the OO and XX painted on her eye sockets jumped down and ran away.
"If you want to—if you want to fight or something, just come over here!"
If you want to fight, just knock me down like everyone else on TV. Why... why do you keep teasing me like this? Isn't it fun!
"Pretty Cure!" She rotated the "Light of Love Bracelet" in her hand to gather the power of purification. The embarrassed girl gathered a large number of purple light bullets with her hands and shot them at Ash. "Star Stream!"
"[Shield on!]"
Pushing away the pitted and overlapping shields in his hands and blowing away the smoke and dust caused by the light bomb explosion, Ash casually pulled on the collar and spoke calmly.
"Who told you to wrap your true self in a thick shell and refuse to see me?"
As soon as these words came out, the girl who was still maintaining the firing action froze in place as if being told what she was saying.
"If I can't relax you a little, I probably won't be able to see the true appearance of Light Hill's strongest Precure."
Look at me, I've started to work as a psychological counselor. Sigh~ Compared with the boring new Rider who are becoming more and more heretical nowadays, where else can I find a kind-hearted Rider like me?
"Shut up—" The girl transformed into a swift stream of light as she shouted angrily, and punched Ash straight in front of her with a punch stronger than any before. "Don't say it, you seem to understand very well."
"No." Ash took two steps back and scattered the shield on his arm, which shattered into pieces and clattered to the ground. "I just understand it very well."
Of course you will understand after you have seen many similar things, or even experienced them yourself many times.
Also, you are now showing yourself to be more and more powerful - this is also what I want to see.
"[Ste alth On!]"
Ash suddenly disappeared in front of her, causing Iona to lose her target for a moment. When she looked around, eager to find the enemy's target, a faint light swaying left and right in mid-air immediately attracted her attention.
"Where is it - wow!"
"[Flash On!]" The girl who followed Ash was hit by a super-close "Sun Punch" without any surprise. When the girl, whose vision was blank for a moment, waved her hands in mid-air blankly, two more sound effects suddenly sounded that made her heart-warming.
"[Water Freeze On!]"
The sudden feeling of dampness and coldness on her body made the girl scream again. After Ash kicked open the faucet of the water pipe on her feet, the spurting water poured all over the girl.
"Disgusting!" The wet hair and clothes fit perfectly on the girl's body, highlighting her figure, making Iona feel ashamed and uncomfortable. When the girl, who was soaked all over and turned into a drowned rat, objected again, she saw Ash aiming at her and opening the refrigerator assembly on the other leg.
"——!" The super cold air swept towards the girl from the refrigerator, and her only reaction was one word.
cold! It's so damn cold!
Before the girl, who was so cold that her teeth began to chatter, could react, the water droplets soaked all over her body were quickly cooled and condensed into ice crystals under the cold wind.
"Let me go!" Although Pretty Cure's physique allowed her to shiver under the cold without catching a cold, she couldn't break away from the ice crystals that were too thick close to her body. "Aren't you going to fight me?!"
There is no fighting here, they are just playing tricks on me!
"That's not all, girl." Ash shook his head and seemed a little disappointed with the girl in front of him. From her angry and sad eyes, Ash thought of the same look he had seen before... Yes, Tsukikage Yuri had shown him the exact same expression.
Lovely Angel, Cure Princess, Angel of Fate——the strength to become more courageous as we fight, the heart to be embarrassed but not completely embarrassed, and the eyes that are burdened with something... they look like, they really do!
I just said that I can't let go of this thing, and I can't help but cast more attention on this small place Light Hill. What is this sense of sight? I am obviously still so young, but I have reached the age of nostalgia?
"You are now fighting against Pretty Cure, but you are also hostile to the Phantom Empire!" This development of events that was completely unreasonable in her eyes allowed the girl to draw her own conclusion. "Could it be that you want to rule the world by defeating both parties?!"
"I can definitely do it if I want to."
Slowly pressing his fingers one by one as if remembering, Ash's relaxed voice sounded as if he could really do it if he just did it. "But I've been the king of the world for similar things several times. Besides, I'm not good at ruling, so I'll forget it this time."
"Grrrrrrrr..." Staring at the pure white Rider in front of him, Iona, who was frozen in the ice, also noticed at this time that he deliberately did not aim at his vital parts during the battle.
Ash, including this form, uses non-lethal props to deal with himself. Obviously he has no reason to do this...
In this case, isn't it the same as when Cure Princess's transformer was taken away and Lovely Angel was let go?
By the way, I finally understand what that feeling of dissonance is.
Unlike Phantom Empire, although his actions are vicious, there is no murderous intention... Is he the kind of person who cares about his opponent?!
Why on earth does this person do what he does? I... can't understand him at all!
"No matter what you want to do - in conclusion, these are just your self-satisfaction!"
"That's right." I didn't expect that what Ash blurted out would definitely make Iona's next angry rebuke return to his chest. "Of course you call this self-satisfaction, because now I can do it."
Self-satisfaction... well, this word really fits my idea. It is precisely because of this "self-satisfaction" that.
"I'm worried about you."
Ash stated the facts that shocked the girl in a neither warm nor romantic way.
Chapter 24 Girl Analysis
Hikawa Iona felt a sense of absurdity from the bottom of his heart.
First he knocked me down and then "humiliated" me wantonly, and now he said it was actually because he was worried about me. What does worrying mean? Do you really want to tease me that much?!
The girl who was frozen in the ice with only her head exposed could not move a single bit of herself. With a vigilant yet helpless look of shame, the girl could only watch helplessly as the other person stretched out his hand in front of her.
"Gu..."
The slight fear leaking out of her heart made the girl instinctively close her eyes, but after a moment of darkness, she did not feel the bad situation she expected, so the girl finally chose to reopen her eyes cautiously.
What is this person... doing?
What the girl didn't understand was that Ash just used his fingers to pick up a strand of purple silk on the corner of his forehead, and gently twisted it on his fingers as if he was nostalgic.
But I actually know the reason for this feeling... Is he missing someone? But, I am Pretty Cure, who is the person he will miss?