"Um..." Youyi, who was still a little concerned about the length of her skirt, said carefully while tugging at the hem of her skirt. "Nan-san is probably very afraid of ghosts."
"Ghost?"
After hearing Wei's answer, Ash put down the handheld device that accidentally selected the be screen in the galgame. He was a little curious and wanted to confirm with her. "So what Minami is afraid of is actually ghosts?"
Ghosts, ghosts, undead, whatever you call them, they are obviously things that only appear after death.
"Is this what she's afraid of?"
"Yes... yes."
By the way, does this count as selling Ash my friend's weakness? Is it considered as swindling the enemy? Although she felt a little uneasy in her heart, at this moment, when Wei faced Ash's proactive questioning, she had no choice but to tell the truth.
"Ash... king, if King, you're not going to use this to embarrass her, are you?"
"Ha, who do you think I am?" He looked at the black-haired girl who pushed up her glasses to hide her embarrassment with some displeasure. Ash felt resentful in her heart. "Do you think I'm someone who knows other people's weaknesses and then deliberately uses them to play with them?"
It's not that I haven't thought about it this way... mainly because it does sound a lot like what Ash would do.
"Hmph, if I really plan to knock down someone, then I will only defeat them head-on until they are convinced!" The flame that inexplicably ignited in the palm of his hand was extinguished by the clenched palm. "Yui, your worries about your friend are unnecessary. As for Nan, not only will I not harm her, but on the contrary, I will help her correct this weakness!"
You are the incomparably shining Pretty Cure. People who will become my Black Night Kingdom's Queen in the future, how can they be afraid of mere ghosts after death?
As a king, as Queen! You need to have the awareness to move forward despite the expectations and lives of countless people. How can you be afraid just because of physical fear?
"Um, can I ask?" Ash, who still had one hand covering her shy skirt in front of her and raised her hand to ask questions with the other hand, timidly said, "If you want to help Nan-san, what exactly do you plan to do?"
"Nonsense, of course, fight fire with fire!" Ash said with a look of nostalgia in his eyes. "Just like the cartoons on Earth that I watched recently, Musashi, the protagonist of Getter Robo, is afraid of reptilian enemies, so he locked himself in a room full of lizards for training in fighting fire with fire. Isn't this very exciting?!"
"I knew it..." The girl who was silently mourning for Nan suddenly felt the strong gaze directed towards her again. When she raised her head, she saw Ash's eyes looking directly at her... or rather, looking directly at her skirt.
"Yeah!" Wei, who was holding her skirt, stepped back a little more, which made Ash even more unhappy. "Hey, hey, what do you mean by this? You are obviously just a maid. Are you dissatisfied with the king's costume design?"
"But... Your Majesty!" The girl who finally couldn't help but covered her skirt with blushing face, mustered up the courage to fight. "The maid outfit is indeed very cute, but this skirt... is too short?"
If it can barely cover the top of your thighs, doesn't it mean that it will be exposed easily when you clean it?
"It seems that you are the only one who understands it very well~ Yes, I just want to see that kind of scenery!"
Bad! What's even worse is that he admitted it!
"It's just what you mentioned, Wei! Can you let me take a look at the scenery under the skirt now?"
"Of course it's impossible!" Even if you have to force it, I will! I also... I can't seem to do anything.
"Really, forget it."
Giving up so quickly!
Seeing that Nanase Yui turned around immediately and looked like he was planning to plot against Nan, Nanase Yui, who was originally scared and ashamed, didn't know what to say to him.
It was the same at the beginning, he wanted Precure to become Queen, his wife.
I was obviously with Haruka and the others at that time, but I was actually excluded.
"Huh..."
Looking at the man's delicate profile, the girl suddenly felt the desire to sigh for some reason.
Chapter 44 Nan's psychological shadow
"Am I thinking too much?"
Yes, Ash is the terrible and powerful King from another world, and Haruka and the others are the chosen Pretty Cure. If I think too much, it will be bad for myself.
Besides, I was obviously kidnapped to become Black Night Kingdom's trainee maid, why do I still want to be treated worse? Isn't this making yourself uncomfortable?
"However, the heroines in TV dramas usually progress from the bottom to the high-ranking male protagonists..."
Amid subtle cries of pain, the girl gave herself two small knocks on the head. You should wake up quickly, Yui! This is not the set of urban romance novels, and I am not the heroine. You have read too many fairy tales that you copy from picture books every day!
Besides, Ash, as King, obviously doesn't look like the male protagonist. Instead, he gives people the feeling of the evil devil who is the ultimate villain.
"..."
"Lord Ash?" When he realized it, he was staring at him again. The girl who was careful to use the honorific was wondering "what happened this time" in her heart, but saw Ash take out a familiar thing and send it to him.
"Do you know this?"
"This is-!"
Nanase Yui was immediately excited when she saw the small Princess skirt accessory in Ash's hand. How could she not recognize this? It was the "Dress Up Key" that Puff and Aroma asked Haruka to collect! It is necessary to collect all the necessary items to allow Pretty Cure to evolve into a "Grand Princess" capable of saving the world!
But why is it in the hands of Ash?!
"Well, I guess I know you by the look of it."
Before Wei tried to reach out, Ash took the hand holding Dress Up Key back first. "I think this thing is very similar to the key they used for transformation. Now it seems that there is indeed a connection, right?"
This time, there is even bait.
"You want to ask why this thing is in my hand? Well... Originally, it did belong to other elves, but then I became their King, so it naturally became mine!"
After all, I did take them in as my citizens, and in return they wanted to give me this "ancestral" thing. At first, I thought it was just a small toy, but now I realized it was really not simple.
"Could it be that the world of elves is not just Hope Kingdom, but there are many other countries?"
"Who knows, maybe Pretty Cure is not just the three of them." Ash, who said he was not taking it seriously, but felt inexplicably palpitating, quickly brought the topic back to Wei. "As for Nan's matter, Wei~ I have to ask you to cooperate with me from now on."
"Me? How can I persecute Nan-san together!"
"Oh, what kind of persecution is this?"
Although the girl kept shaking her head to express her rejection, she didn't know why Ash's persuasive "magic voice" still lingered in her ears.
"If you think so, we are helping her overcome her inner difficulties!"
Don't take me too seriously.
"I'm helping her!"
I'm serious this time!
"Why are you always chasing me?
The former Kaito Minami didn't have this "Academy Princess" style when he was still young, probably in preschool. At that time, she was just a little girl who liked to play with dolls with her friends, discuss cartoons enthusiastically, and watch magical girl cartoons on time every Sunday.
It was precisely because of this that her innocent and pure heart could not forget the scene she saw on TV that day. When she saw her favorite blue magical girl being swallowed by a ghost, and in turn being possessed and used, saying the famous line "I'm such an idiot", and then fighting with her companions, the girl's heart had already shed a real psychological shadow with tears.
So if it's clearly a son-in-law... why do you want to show such a scary thing to children?
Another portal quietly appeared at the girl's feet. After she accidentally stepped in and fell out, she hurriedly turned around and found that the few will-o'-the-wisps that had been chasing her had also disappeared.
"Finally..." She patted her heart that was about to pop out of her throat, and the girl blushed when she thought of the extremely embarrassing scene she had been in after being frightened.
"This is the forest near the Noble Academy? "As Student Council President, she also recognized the changed environment around her at a glance. "So, I came back from the Black Night Kingdom?"
Originally I was a little worried about how I would leave if I went in too impulsively, but now I'm back. But it was so fast, and I didn't even see his face... It always felt so regretful.
However, this trip to the Black Night Kingdom was a worthwhile trip. She already understood the fact that the elves as citizens still loved their King even in private. The respect she saw that day was by no means false.
And thinking about the outcome of another incident, she turned pale. It was obviously called "Black Night Kingdom". Even if the literal meaning of the kingdom was relatively dark, it turned out that even the citizens inside were ghosts! This is Black Night Kingdom, this is simply the kingdom of the dead!
"So, Ash is a tyrant who is clearly respected and loved by the people, but still continues to control their souls after death...?"
No, no! The atmosphere I felt from them before was obviously not like this, so why did it get worse!
Although it was very obvious about that person, the girl still felt like she had only seen the tip of his iceberg.
"Buli, buli~"
The sudden flash of light Dress Up Key in her arms woke Nan up from her doubts. Following the special induction corresponding to the flash, the girl who was following her opened her eyes wide when she saw the small key floating in the air not far away.
"Dress Up Key Why did you suddenly appear here... Ah, wait!"
Seeing the trajectory of another Dress Up Key starting to fly away, he quickly followed the girl on it and trotted all the way. Naturally, he fell into the "trap" prepared by Ash.
"..."
Looking up at the giant blue dragon in front of her that had grabbed the key, the girl nervously swallowed the saliva on her tongue.
"[Chosen by the hope of the world, Pretty Cure! ]"
"[You have to prove your [shine] to me! Prove that you are worthy of this key! ]"
"Shine?"
For some reason, the girl suddenly thought of another guy who always said this.
The girl frowned, realizing that things were not simple.
Chapter 45 Her truly powerful heart
"[Kaito Minami...Pretty Cure, if you want to prove that you are worthy of having this Dress Up Key, the chosen one. ]"
While remotely controlling the projection of Blue-Eyes White Dragon to hold the key in his hand, Ash lowered his voice as a voice actor to match the dragon's posture.
"[Then prove it to me, prove your [shine] existence!" ]"
What's the proof? I can't understand this dragon's nonsense.
Although she had no idea what was going on and why there was such a huge dragon hovering near her school, the girl was convinced that the key was indeed real, so she could only continue to ask questions about the key.
"I don't know what the qualifications are, and I don't know what being a chosen one means, but I am indeed Pretty Cure!"
In order to help Haruka who desperately wanted to be my friend, and also to protect the students whose dreams were taken away by Fortress of Despair, I was indeed selected by the key to become Precure with such a feeling in mind.
"So, what kind of proof do you want from me?"
"[You have to prove that you have a strong heart that won't lose to others! ]"
So the question is how do I prove it——
"Whaaaaaah——!!"
The sudden scream pulled Nan out of her thoughts. When she followed the direction of the sound and saw the actual scene, her face turned pale.
"Why, why are there ghosts on earth?"
In the open space on the lawn not far away, several will-o'-the-wisp ghosts with evil smiles grinned from the corners of their mouths to the roots of their non-existent ears, making eerie laughter while circling around the center. For Nan, who is most afraid of ghosts, such psychological shadow scenes are only more terrifying to her than ten or hundreds of Fortress of Despair!
It's not just Black Night Kingdom. As expected, ghosts also exist on the earth... No, it's broad daylight now. Why would ghosts wander around openly in the broad daylight sun? This is not in line with the setting at all!
But what happened to that scream just now?.
"Yeah yeah yeah-!!"
As if to remind Nan of her confusion, the scream emerged from the circle of "ghosts" again, and the girl who caught a glimpse of them while they were turning around opened her eyes wide when she saw the truth!
"Yui classmate?!"
Yes, Nan was very sure that she saw it right. The girl with glasses who looked a little disheveled in her clothes was the victim who fell to the ground surrounded by ghosts. Her face had an expression of being frightened and stiffened. It looked like she was extremely scared.
"Why is Yui here?"
I accidentally recalled the magical girl who was eaten and possessed by a ghost that I saw in the cartoon when I was a child. When I thought of such a psychologically shadowy scene, the girl, who looked even paler, was immediately ready to shake people. She was so afraid of ghosts that her hands would tremble just by seeing them, but Haruka and Kirara could help!
"Oops, I forgot my phone!"
What should I do? What should I do?! She is the only one who is so scared... but, can I only watch?!
"Yui, what do you think we can spin in the sky at this speed?"
"I'm sorry, Wei, but we need you to cooperate with us. But this time is the king's mission after all, so let's work together to complete it!"
"Should we make some more scary noises?"
At this time, Nanase Yui, who was sitting sideways on the ground, playing the role of "victim", looked at the several "ghosts" in the sky who were talking to him, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
Generally speaking, as a ghost, you won't talk to the victim, right?
But just like me, they were also recruited by Ash to play the role of "bad guy" to stimulate Nan-san, but unlike me, they never tired of it.
"After all, why did I agree..."
What a willful King.
"Yui, you have to be more intense and scared at this time, right?"