"Phantom——." Phantom Queen, who instinctively screamed, remembered that there was another "enemy" in front of him. He immediately suppressed his worry and returned to his indifferent self and looked at the new Kamen Rider on the opposite side.
"Locust...?"
Compared with all the flashy looks I've seen before, this time it's really too simple?
"Yes." Ash, who was adjusting his breath and adjusting the reaction force of the heavy punch just now, nodded lightly. "Nature's warrior... Locusts transform humans, that's right."
"Haha, this doesn't look like the background of an upright hero."
At least she doesn't like it. It's better to say that very few girls like locusts, right?
Ash sighed as he clenched his palms and felt the power of "reformed human x transformed human", which was like combining a chemical equation. Fortunately, gaining this power did not require him to give up his identity as a human being.
"Kamen Rider didn't appear as a hero in the first place... Okay, can you talk about it now?"
The bright red scarf fluttered in the wind between the two of them.
"If I said weird things to offend you earlier, do you want to use actions to make me apologize? That's really intense."
"Heh."
Unmoved by Ash's wisecracks, the indifferent queen raised her lips and snorted with disdain.
"Then can you tell me the reason for your anger?"
"Sometimes, telling the truth will not be accepted by others."
After all, humans are stupid creatures who only believe what they want to believe exists.
Chapter 130 The sad and hateful confession of Phantom Queen
"What a monster, Kamen Rider."
"Thanks for the compliment."
I'm not complimenting you!
"You want to get an answer from me, right? First." Looking directly at Ash's pair of bright red locust compound eyes, Phantom Queen asked. "Tell me your purpose first?"
"Don't you know, I want-"
"I don't mean to ask you what you plan to do when you come to my Phantom Empire." The queen, who was no longer disrupted by the same thing twice and was no longer troubled by the emotion of "love", spoke with only a cold and rational tone.
"But, the purpose of your coming [here]..."
With a feeling that made Ash feel slightly uncomfortable, she emphasized the word.
"What is it?"
"You tell me first, and I'll tell you."
Why should I tell you unless you tell me?
"Ash, are you... how dare you." He continued to stare fiercely at the mask with the mouthparts of a locust, and Phantom Queen, who withdrew his cold gaze, could only take a step back. "I finally understand why those girls like you so much but hate you so much."
Ah, what do you mean? Am I being disliked?
But before Ash could ask, the queen agreed to the deal with him. "Okay, you bastard who likes to dig out other people's pain points... I guarantee that you will fall into the hands of a woman who likes you but is deceived by you."
"Hey——!" Ash, who was still talking normally, suddenly made a dissatisfied voice. "I don't care if you curse people. I'm used to being cursed to death."
But this highly targeted direction is a bit too much! What does it mean to fall into the hands of a woman? Am I that kind of person?
"Your intuition is correct. I used to be the same Pretty Cure (Precure) as them."
Ash did not respond to the dissatisfied complaint. After seeing that other people had already rushed to rescue Phantom, Phantom Queen continued to walk on the dusty open-air tower, telling the story of the past with a little sadness moved by memories.
"In the past, I was just like them... love, friendship, family, and happiness. At that time, I was ecstatic to receive the trust and strength given by God. I felt that I should fight to protect everyone's happiness."
"So, you betrayed your mission?"
After all, you are now the leader of the enemy.
"At that time, when I was the light, it was very difficult to fight against the enemy of darkness, but because there was someone to protect, because he was by my side... I felt happy and persevered."
"Until... As a god, he stayed until all his enemies were defeated, and then left."
An expression of sorrow and hatred was twisted on her face, which reminded Ash of the last look on Mana and Lei's faces at the last moment when she left the world.
"Yes, as you said, I am a being who likes others but is left behind, exactly like the super-ancient resentful woman you mentioned!" After also venting his anger through the battle with Ash, now Phantom Queen even made fun of himself when he was still a human in the past.
"As our supporter at that time, he was handsome, knowledgeable, healed our hearts with gentleness, and could always support us at critical moments." After saying this, the queen suddenly focused her attention on Ash, making him feel uncomfortable all over.
In my eyes at that time, "Blue God" was as great as the person in HappinessCharge Pretty Cure's eyes, who was admired for greatness.
Moreover, I was originally a "miko" belonging to the gods... At that time, my mind was filled with that kind of gentle happiness, how could I not like him?
"Then you..."
"Then, Pretty Cure, a warrior who was clearly fighting to protect the happiness of others, was simply dumped by the person he liked. His heart was suddenly filled with darkness and he fell into the existence that he had been fighting against." Phantom Queen did not follow Ash's words. Phantom Queen, who seemed to have said less, laughed with a sense of ridicule. It was not known who he was laughing at.
"Then, he was sealed in this century by his former companions and the person he admired, carrying this sin... Haha, how about betraying everything in his past just for this reason? You must feel stupid too, and you want to laugh, right?"
God would definitely want to laugh when he knew something like this happened, right?
Yes, speaking of which, I myself am obviously a human being created by that god. At that time, you should have thought clearly, how could a creator fall in love with something created by his own hands?
It would be great if I could think of this clearly at the beginning...
"No." Ash behind the mask shook his head expressionlessly. "The guardian of happiness has his happiness taken away from him."
"I just think this is very sad."
I finally know why I was able to sense the precise reaction from you who had already turned dark.
You tell your past as if it were a joke... Really, aren't you just like a child who doesn't know how to repent after doing something wrong, so he cries and shouts to others, "Can someone come and save me?"
By the way, Snow White said that she heard the cry for help coming from the box.
"I've told you all!" After hearing this, the queen immediately became furious again. "Don't act like you know everything!"
"I am obviously a sinner who has abandoned everything in the past, so I want to take away the happiness of others. I am the black-hearted queen who has always been the strongest and most evil Pretty Cure and will pull everything in the world into the abyss of "the most evil" - I am such an evil and bad woman who hates beauty without blood or tears!"
Why don't you believe it!
"I understand, I believe it, I believe it, isn't it okay?" Ash, who raised her hands to express surrender, now understands the meaning of what she said before, sometimes the truth makes people dislike her.
Faced with Phantom Queen's abrupt change of temperament, even the specially strengthened muscles for human transformation could not bring him any happiness.
If you don't plan to use strength directly and plan to defeat the boss with words, how can it be so difficult!
"Since you all know that the reason why I joined you is because of those Pretty Cure ideas... Of course, including yours."
I'm not the protagonist, my mouth is very stupid.
"I don't need it."
As Ash said, Phantom Queen, who was now acting like a hedgehog and exuding hostility to the surroundings without any distinction, even looked at him now with a look that was no longer the eagerness he had when watching the live broadcast, but with a cold and sharp look.
"There is no need for you to find extra kindness to share with me after coaxing those children!"
"Is this the reason?!"
Chapter 131: Decade, get out of this world!
Surrounding the ember that was once the center of the room, the queen, who was talking to Ash, staged a duet scene with Ash.
"I don't mean it in such a redundant way, really! Why is it so difficult for me to do something good this time!" Ash, who was also wrapped in an inexplicable feeling, also burst out with dissatisfaction from the bottom of his heart. "No wonder they say it's hard to be a good person... Tsk! Are you saying that since you knew early on that I couldn't surrender sincerely?"
Then I thought you already knew what I was thinking?
"Hmph." The queen, who was spinning in circles, looked at the man in front of her who threw the question, and threw the question back to him again. "How would I know if you didn't tell me?"
The credibility of what you said is really too low.
"You want to know so much... I want to cultivate heroes who are incomparably shining and strong, worthy of this beautiful and happy world!"
"So, you selected Pretty Cure from Light Hill?"
Phantom Queen asked coldly, and Ash, who was excitedly describing his plan, also nodded.
"That's right. After all, they are also the first group of Pretty Cure I met in this world with many heroes. Moreover, others may not believe it, but in fact, including the escaped Princess, they all have great potential."
"So, what you did before were all for them?"
Are there really such "shameless" people in this world?
"It's not just that, after all, my hands will get itchy even if I haven't interacted with people for a while." Ash affirmed as he tapped the feelers on the helmet on his red gloves. "But - indeed, in order to quickly strengthen them both physically and mentally, I have made a lot of efforts, whether they are enemies or friends."
After all, it's not like in the previous two worlds where they had to face powerful enemies that they couldn't defeat with common sense. Now that I have such a powerful power as Kamen Rider Decade, I certainly don't have to be so anxious anymore. Now this level of "trial" can be regarded as a reduction in allocation.
"As for me - I want them to grow up to at least match me!"
"In that case, how about you join in as their partner and defeat us together?"
The one blow just now knocked down Phantom, who is only below me. If such power is not false, what else can we do to stop you?
"That won't work. After all, I want heroes... I want them to be the heroes I think they are."
Phantom Queen smiled, a bit painful and cruel.
It sounds so nice to say it, but don't you still want to play with the whole world as a sandbox...
Right.
"Play..."
Phantom Queen understood it, and understood it earlier than Pretty Cure who was closer to Ash.
Including the anger I felt when I heard him say "I understand very well", including the previous "confession" to myself, I could still feel the "sense of disobedience" from him in my shame.
He hides his sincerity in all his actions. Now that I can't read my mind to know if he is lying, his approach...
Just playing!
"In that case, who is your favorite Pretty Cure?"
The Queen's sudden question made Ash subconsciously answer, "The most promising one is of course Cure Lovely (Lovely Angel)! After all, Hui is the strongest and has the most potential among them, and her cheerfulness towards her friends also makes me very happy——"
"Ha." Phantom Queen stopped, and the slightly disgusted expression on his face was no longer concealed.
"You say it nicely, but in the end you are very indifferent to Aino Megumi!"
"What?"
Ash is a little dumbfounded. I don't know what the relationship between these two things is. She and I are not familiar with each other at all - well...
Not familiar?
"Now I am finally sure." The scepter that fell to the ground in the previous battle then floated up on its own, and fell back to Phantom Queen, whose body was filled with dark energy. The surging dark power continued to churn on her body surface. "You are the same as that Blue God... No!"
"You are a worse guy than him!"
Now I am convinced, Ash.
"Destroyer of worlds!"
The instinctive disgust at that time was by no means groundless.
"Devil!"
"Wait!" Even Ash would be confused if he was suddenly put in such a big pot. "I didn't plan to do this. I won't make the same mistake anymore - because I also encountered Pretty Cure in the past!"
So even if I am repaying my kindness, of course I want to try my best to help the new people I meet who are similar to them.
"This is the mistake itself!"
Phantom Queen, who completely ignored Ash's meaning, put an angry finger on the man's nose.
"What the hell is this? Do you think of them as someone else's replacement?" Phantom Queen spoke aggressively, almost forcing Ash back even if he didn't start fighting yet. "You said I kept reading your stories like a... idiot. Do you think I read all this in vain?!"
"You obviously always want to get close to them, but you still keep a distant distance as if you don't care about anything!"
Isn't this the worst?!
Are you someone who is about to die, so why do you miss the past so much?
"You can only see the past... Maybe you can also foresee Mirai, but you only turn a blind eye to the things that are right in front of you!"