"Why are you still doing this? Is it because—because of Pretty Cure?!"
Her peripheral vision swept over the girls who had been defeated and cruelly sealed away. Megumi was filled with indignation as she recalled him saying that "Precure is what I love most." Just as she was about to harshly question him with that, she suddenly froze. Like a flash of inspiration shooting through her mind, she realized something.
"Ugh..." Using her swinging fists as makeshift shields against the holy swords' attacks, Megumi gritted her teeth and held on, as if she had understood something else.
Could it be that everything he had done until now... was actually, actually for the sake of these Pretty Cure?
Could it be that the ones who had misunderstood... were us?
Megumi: Don't Flirt with Your Eyes in Front of Me!
With an unusual glint of intelligence in her eyes, Megumi fought while retreating, trying to find even the slightest trace of an answer from Ash.
However, Ash was not in a good position to explain anything to Megumi right now, so he could only keep smiling.
"Hahaha... Looks like my greeting was a little too intense."
Though it was still the laugh of a villain, hearing Ash laugh like that was honestly rather awkward.
Going too easy on them would be an insult to both sides. Even if it was an act, Ash could not bring himself to perform that badly.
So the difficult part of this battle was not how to "win."
It was how to "lose"!
With a finger directing several holy swords as they flew through the air and slashed about, even his absentminded attitude was enough to send the girls, who had never seen anything like this before, scurrying around in panic.
Though he had already tried his