Faced with the sudden situation where Hui took action brazenly, Ash didn't even waste a second thinking or hesitating on this matter before letting his body move first, relying entirely on instinct to act as a shield.
Remember the requirements the system told me before... what are they? But it doesn't matter. Anyway, if I die now, I will have accomplished the original goal.
"Ah..."
So when he opened his eyes again, his eyes were full of confusion.
The picture of the afterlife this time... seems different from the previous one?
He subconsciously touched the place where his heart was literally "pierced" on his chest. The original vacancy there had been filled without knowing when, as if nothing had happened.
Am I not dead?
No, it would be better to say that now I can feel some kind of power derived from life force all over my body. This feeling of vitality almost overflowing from my body is really unprecedented.
"No!"
Now is not the time to worry about such things! Now, now is——!
The last frame of the memory screen is fixed on the Destruction Heart Beam in Hui's hand and the cracked system.
"Ah..."
How does Ash feel now?
When the person who has been with me from the very beginning, who will be by my side no matter where and when, who has witnessed my growth and the change of his attitude, I feel that the existence beside me will disappear as a matter of course...
That feeling of loss is more intense and intense than ever before!
"System?"
After the habitual calling, the panel that was more familiar than his parents' faces did not appear in front of him as before.
Anger... no, the feeling of loss that I had never thought of, Ash cannot be described as anger.
"Mei!"
Even though he knew that her original intention was definitely not like this, Ash's glare, which was completely wrapped up in his emotions at this moment, made the trembling "culprit" look out.
Compared with complying with emotions, it is a luxury to hope that humans can remain rational all the time.
"What stupid things have you done!!!"
Faced with Ash, who was transformed into an evil spirit at this moment... no, it was Ash who had surpassed the horror level of an evil spirit. Hui, who was full of panic, couldn't control his hands and feet and sat down from the bed on the ground.
"Ash? Ahem——"
I have never seen Ash act so rude, and I have never seen him look so terrifying.
If Ash, who called her over a disagreement when they first met, was the embodiment of unreasonable violence, then as Pretty Cure, it was natural for me to resist this violence.
"Why take action suddenly!"
So at this moment, facing her roaring, extremely angry and extremely disappointed expression, the girl who was extremely panicked in her heart was so scared that she couldn't even raise a trace of resistance.
"Yes... I'm sorry..."
Not only are you afraid of his anger, but more importantly, you are afraid of another, more profound possibility...
"Are you going to kill me? I won't care if you want to kill me. It's better to say it's a big welcome!"
"No, no!" Hui explained hurriedly, but even if she had eight mouths, she couldn't overcome all the slanting anger in front of Ash at this moment. "I don't want Ash to die, I don't want to kill Ash!"
"If you really want something, just come to me alone!"
This Ash looks nothing like——
"Didn't I tell you to stay away and not get involved?"
"But, Ash clearly needed help at that time!" The angry girl tried desperately to defend herself. "So when I see this situation, I want to defeat all the beings who are bad to Ash!"
Yes, maybe I wasn't quite sure what that thing represented at the time, what Ash thought, and what it meant to Ash, but——
No matter how important that thing is, it is still the culprit of everything!
"Ash obviously doesn't want to die, just stay with us!"
"I'm doing this for Ash's own good——"
Thinking for Ash, this kind of thing should be correct——
"Crack!"
The severe impact and pain knocked the girl who had just stood up completely to the ground, covering her red cheeks. The girl who couldn't believe what Ash had just done was still blinking. She raised her puzzled eyes blankly and looked at each other with the fierce light that was almost bleeding.
Ash... What are you talking about?
She could only stare blankly at the way Ash's mouth opened and closed as he became more and more angry. All the girl could hear was the loud tinnitus left on her cheeks echoing in her head.
"Ahem—!"
The tears she had shed earlier were casually thrown aside. When the poor and delicate girl wanted to say something more, she felt a desolate pain rising from deep in her chest, causing her whole body to tremble and cough continuously. This feeling of weakness all over her body was just like when her mother was sick.
"This is..."
When his eyes were scarlet from the anger that almost shattered his sanity, Ash still noticed something and picked up the fallen piece of "perfect" from the girl's side. When he recognized the girl behind him, his eyes widened and he immediately realized what she had done to save his life.
"You..."
The more someone loves them, the more pain they will feel... the closer someone is, the more unfortunate they will be.
This was relayed to him by Dast, and the bullshit law of the conservation of happiness appeared in his mind again.
The fact at this moment supports this statement to a certain extent. The two lives were connected under Hui's operation, but Ash would rather die there than suck her life like a parasite to survive.
In this case, will the darkness in my body also be connected with her life...
Also, why should I share my suffering with others?
"Why..."
There was a tremor in the unbelievable voice, and the will that was originally completely angry was now filled with deep helplessness.
"I just want Ash's happiness!"
Just looking at the extremely humble look of the girl facing him, Ash suddenly felt a strong sense of disgust rising in his heart.
Megumi... is this how you, is this how Pretty Cure should behave?
Hesitating and thinking, Ash, who looked at the girl sitting on the ground and barely smiled at him, with a cold expression burying everything deep in his heart, made a decision.
"My happiness."
He grabbed the girl's arm and pulled her out of the door without any explanation.
"The further you stay away from me, the better!"
"No, Ash! Don't drive me away!"
The girl struggled to plead, but her pleas were all met by an iceberg-like expressionless face.
The girl seemed to feel that something that had been conveyed in the song seemed to be broken in her heart.
"Don't-!"
The girl desperately reached for the man's hand, but was ruthlessly blocked by a wooden door that slammed shut.
Chapter 214 The Last Words and the Disappearing Girl
"Damn it, why did it become like this?"
Someone who was able to expend gold coins of a warrior and experience the power of a supermodel like Decade should be as at home in this world as a duck to water.
I tease and tease the villain's nerve cells and usually play with the good guys. Now I can support such power. Anyway, I have experienced the difficult Asura dungeon many times in the previous world. Wouldn't it be better to just go through it easily this time? This is the way the world should be in his mind.
In the final analysis, why has the world become like this? I can't understand it more and more. Is it the butterfly effect caused by me? Or is it the fault of other Interdimensional Traveler?
"But it seems that those who came through time are also following me... Damn it!"
Now it's all my fault!
"Ah, it's done!"
When Ash was getting more and more distressed, the success of his job finally made him find a good thing.
After some tricks, Ash summoned the system panel from the body that was full of bugs but could still run inexplicably. Even the text turned into garbled system panel.
What is surprising is that most of the main functions are not affected much, including the inventory, as if it has been specially protected... But the "system" that always responds to itself, and even if it usually wants to talk to it, can't hold back many words, this time it can no longer respond to Ash as usual.
"Why..."
Thinking of what Dast said and the vague hints he had given him, Ash, who put his hands on his head and scratched his head, couldn't figure out what he was thinking. "Why do you have to do this?"
Don't want me to die?
Why?
Why are you the same as Megumi... I just can't figure it out in this part!
"[...]"
Not missing the blurry words that occasionally flashed in the garbled code, the man picked up the shiny fragments from his hands in surprise.
"You're alive! You're still here!"
I knew it! The "system" traveling with me can't be that fragile, right?
At this moment, Ash's eyes were full of hope and light.
"I knew you wouldn't be killed so easily!"
He believed in Him. Even though Dast was fooled by a bunch of evidence, Ash still chose to believe in Him.
Rather, without this level of belief, it would not have been possible for Him and him to go this far.
"As long as you are alive, there will always be a way. If you want to repair it... hiss, I can't remember how to get the system shell I made for you before."
"[Ya... Xiu...]"
The blurry perspective reflected Ash's troubled expression for himself. He knew that Ash must have a lot of questions that he wanted to ask, but at this time, he never mentioned a word in front of him.
"[My thing... my thing with you... I want to try hard.]"
I did it secretly from you, because once you knew it, you would definitely not agree with me.
"[But... it failed, everything failed... I'm sorry.]"
Sure enough, it's nothing like the magical system in the novels you've read.
"Don't say unnecessary words, I'm still thinking of a solution."
Now Ash seemed to have forgotten that the system was not talking at all. He calmed down and put all his energy into searching for a remedy in Yuanyou's knowledge reserve.
"That's not right... That system panel that looks like a Interdimensional Traveler plug-in is just a shell I made for you. The problem is your core unit, tsk! The previous situation of fighting and external attacks was too bad!"
"[Ash...]"
"What kind of attack did Kei use? It was definitely not the damage that Pretty Cure's power could do."
"[Ash...]"
"What's wrong?"
Ash witnessed the fragments that seemed to be dissipating in the next second reintegrating into his body.
"[What are you going to do now?]"
What to do?
Just by closing your eyes, the enemy standing in front of you will be clearly visible, whether it is Red God or Toregier in this world, or the "Dast" from the same origin.
"I don't want to think too complicated."
"First knock down the obstacles in front of you. Anyway, as long as you are an enemy, you will eventually face them."
Ash knows that some problems are too complicated to think about and there will be no good answers. In this case, it is enough to do the things in front of you first.
Besides, I don't have any more time to waste now.
"[Ash, about your problem, I will find a way to tell you everything later... But now I have to take a rest for the time being...]"
"[I'm sorry, I can't be with you for the time being.]"