Ash took a deep breath.
"Such a thing has happened once."
Then he sighed heavily.
"What did I choose to do last time?"
"Ah~!" Seeing the gift box in Ash's hand, the girl's smile also broke out. "Are you ready? Great, let's go give mom a surprise!"
"No, whether it's my wife of fifteen years or my mother waiting for a surprise outside the door, all of this is fake."
When the gift box fell from Ash's loosened hand and fell to the ground, Homi's blooming smile froze on his face for an instant.
"Then."
The raised heavy foot pressed the beautifully decorated gift box under the heavy foot before the girl screamed and tried to stop it.
"This is also fake!"
Chapter 259: Your fantasy... let me break it
"Wow!"
When the carefully wrapped gift box dents under a heavy foot, the gift wrapped inside is revealed.
"Crack!"
When the gift inside also fell to the ground hard, it made a crisp explosion under the man's feet. Homi, who had always maintained a look of anticipation and smile, finally showed a more humane change on his face, from surprise to astonishment, to a look of despair with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.
That was carefully selected by myself and my father and specially booked in advance in order to make my mother happy...
"Ah————!!?"
It was as if some destructive and terrifying scream was slapped on his face, but Ash kept stepping down unmoved.
"You! You? You - what are you doing? Why do you do such an outrageous thing, Dad!??!"
While the girl was screaming, Ash was also staring at the broken thing on the ground. From the corner of the box, you can see what seems to be a very beautiful lamp. If you love this, you will definitely like it very much.
"Sorry, Homi."
But now, it was smashed to pieces by his own hands.
Last time, it was painful because it was my own treasure that was destroyed.
Destroying other people's treasures this time was also not easy for him.
Compassion changed the person he used to not care about. To a certain extent, it may be true that he has become "weak".
But that's not really weakness, right?
'Ai, Rei, Miyuki, Megumi, and Haruka, each of them who insisted on saving me spiritually, have all experienced the same painful moments. '
Then, I must do this too.
"The person who is knocking on the door is only unilaterally thought by you to be the most similar to your mother, but her name is Aida Mana, and she is Cure heart." You did not confirm based on scientific facts, but simply chose her based on her compatibility with me. "No matter what happened in the real Mirai, she has never done that kind of thing now."
"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? Isn't she your wife? Of course she is your mother, and she has her mother's tenderness!"
The girl, whose expression was so broken that she could hardly hold it together, still insisted on denying his statement.
"In fact, she was so gentle with everyone."
Because he is a nosy, kind-hearted fool who is overzealous towards everyone.
"That's not the case. There are also things I don't want to hear from you. We made an agreement, an agreement!"
Ash chose to stand by and watch the girl's unreasonable behavior.
That is not a promise, including this world. Even if it is upgraded from an original dream to a real world by man-made power, when the existence inside is not a historical and natural exercise, but is set out of thin air.
"Then it's false!"
The neatly arranged plates on the dining table fell to the ground with another crackling sound. Unfortunately, the delicious food that was finally made in the kitchen lost its container enough to carry itself.
"Ash, Homi? Are you at home?" At this moment, the set voice of Aida Mana came again from outside the door. "I forgot to bring my keys when I went out. Did something happen inside? I heard some strange noises..."
"Don't, don't, don't—!" Although it was his own response, when he heard the voice of "mother" outside the door and saw his father's "violence" in front of him, Homi's eyes and face really turned red. "Who would be happy if you did something like this!"
But Ash didn't do this just for fun.
"I admit it - there is no such thing as Pretty Cure Killer!"
"Ashu", which originally inherited the power of all Precure, has been with you from beginning to end. How could New Baijie create a killer series against Precure.
So what I inherit from beginning to end is another representative ability given to me by Him! "I am not Pretty Cure Killer, I have always been the killer Rider. That's why other people are not hostile to me, so I can drag them into their dreams by releasing my power at close range when they are defenseless!"
"Everything is because of me, so you are satisfied!"
Obviously what you encouraged me to say when I was Poker Kingdom made me determined to do it with Mirai for the happiness of my family!
Homi originally thought that when he revealed all the truth, Ash would immediately become furious because of the betrayal and start "domestic violence" against him. But the fact is that after he only glanced at himself, he stepped over the broken pieces at his feet and walked towards the next place in front of the trembling Homi.
"Homi?"
There was a worried voice from "Mom" outside the door, but as long as no one took the initiative to open the door, she would keep waiting.
"Crash-"
The father in front of him ignored all his obstacles and tore into pieces all the decorations he had carefully decorated for this non-existent wedding anniversary with his hands.
"Stop, stop destroying our world!"
"This is not our world, it's just your dream."
Good dreams and bad dreams, no matter who you are, there will be dreams that you want to have as a way of rest and peace of mind in difficult times, but you cannot sleep forever.
Because dreams must eventually wake up.
Finally, Ash walked over to the huge photo frame hanging in the center of the living room. Even if he knew it was all fake, he had to admit that this wedding anniversary photo, which included the smiles of himself and his loved ones, as well as the blessings from his friends, was indeed very beautiful. At first glance, it was not a photo that could be taken by someone with the signature Kadoya Tsukasa in the lower right corner.
"What a happy face."
In the photo, she is holding her love in her arms and kissing her, which makes this composition show a sense of happiness that almost spills out of the frame.
"That's why it's so disgusting."
Burning Driver with the center Tatsumaki Device spinning appeared on the waist. Ash, already covered by the flame-like mask, stretched out his fingers towards the happy scene in front of him as a fire knight.
System, I seem to know why you gave me this belt that does not exist, and why it is a pyro that uses the power of fire.
Because fire exists precisely to distinguish all truth and falsehood through burning.
"Wow——!"
The blazing flames rolled up from the edge, burning himself and Mana on the screen, as if to deny the possibility of this "happy end" in front of him, burning and devouring the smiles of everyone in the screen!
"No! That belongs to mom and dad!"
Homi was running desperately to keep the photo, but when she was about to touch it, Ash tied her arms through her armpits from behind. No matter how she was punched and kicked, she would never let go!
"No, no, no, no! Uh-ohhhhhhhhh!!"
From the desperate struggle with splitting eyes at the beginning to the gradual silence with the sound of burning, from the crazy roar at the beginning to the hoarse voice. The girl who was forced by Ash to watch this scene being completely burned finally collapsed in Rider's hands as if she had lost all her strength and soul.
"Why... why..."
In the end, all that was left were the dripping tears and prayer-like questions.
Kamen Rider, who also looked at all this but remained indifferent, just raised his head slightly.
Chapter 260: A daughter is not a daughter
"You bastard! Let me go - I hate you, I hate you! How could... how could there be such a father!"
No matter how much the girl in his arms struggled, begged and scolded, Ash always held her firm and motionless, not even allowing her to look away.
"I know Homi, I'm sorry."
But Homi she had to witness the cruel scene where all her fantasies and all her dreams were completely burned in front of her to make sense.
"It's too much, you're too much, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!"
While the girl was gradually sobbing, Ash, who remained as firm and as stone-hearted, could only say that there was anything different from usual, and that was that the burning eyepieces that blocked his eyes were tilted up at a higher angle than usual.
This is one of the meanings of Mask's existence.
"Haaah——!"
Due to the special spiritual connection effect in this space, Ash can hear some sounds from other places at the same time.
That was Kahler's voice. Sentai Rangers, whose body was flashing with rainbow lights, was not at a disadvantage even when he was one against three. Even his expression was more excited and joyful than before when he was decadent.
After gathering the strength of the entire team, he had been hiding his clumsiness before, but now as the intensity of the battle increased, he gradually showed his true abilities.
"What kind of ecstasy did you pour into Homi to make her willing to believe in someone like you!"
And through Ashu's eyes and Ashu's ears, he could also hear the messages that Kaller kept spitting out when he was unusually happy.
"That's too much to say." Gear Machine Gun, who avoided several punches from the first person and raised his backhand from his armpit like magic, fired continuously, directly knocking Echoing Angel behind him down with a whimper. "Her true position is the Rider killer. Although she did not have the ability to attack the Rider series when she came out due to Dust's separation, she has always been on our side."
Including the posture after transformation, it is actually just a specious imitation of Pretty Cure.
"What -" seemed to be surprised by such information. Even Ashu, the other eye of Ash, was punched several times in a daze.
"Her true origin is the result of Him using my ability to interfere in the Mugen parallel world to separate her from the possibility of a certain Mirai world line and bring her to the present."
That's it. No wonder she said she came from Mirai... that's what she meant.
At this point, Kaler, who seemed to have thought of something very funny, didn't even bother to pursue the victory against Ashu and others. His tone was almost like bursting into laughter on the spot. "The result, hahaha - it happened so unexpectedly!"
"Bringing the children from Mirai to the modern age to compete with their parents, similar plots are not uncommon in the team or Rider." In fact, there will be no additional problems with any other Rider or Sentai Rangers.
"It turns out that when used on Ash as a 'singularity', it can produce unexpected chemical reactions." Kale, who seemed to see through Ash himself looking at him through his pink eyes, also raised his finger at him. "There is no unique characteristic of individuals in parallel worlds... which means that through my ability, I can pull her, a person who has not existed before, here through search."
It's like knowing who you are but having no corresponding memory at all.
"But the setting of her parents is in a Schrödinger state! The evidence is that she doesn't know who her mother is because she hasn't seen it herself!"
Ash originally thought this was a plot similar to that of Kotaro and Tomari Eiji who traveled through the past to change the bad Mirai, but the result was even worse than I thought.
To use an analogy, this is equivalent to Kahler using his ability to "print" the core monsters in a certain deck of cards that "Coke Girl" was originally going to release in Mirai out of thin air in advance, but there are no upper and lower level monsters that can correspond to her, because the others haven't even been designed yet, and she is really the only one alone.
"Pu... so!" Puka, who was panting next to him, trembled and said the possibility that no one wanted to look at directly. "As long as there is a chance to make yourself happy, just like a drowning person, no matter what he catches... Pukaka... it's better to take advantage of other people's weaknesses, Pukaka!"
Puka heard about the conservation theory of happiness from a certain Kamen Rider, which means that if one person is more happy, other people will be less happy. Although she thought it was ridiculous and didn't want to believe it at all, she couldn't stand that sometimes and in some situations, some people might not even have the right to choose.
"So no matter how much she loves her parents, she still has to help us plot against them - don't you think it's very contradictory? This is a real masterpiece that is rare in a thousand years! It's really rare. Finally, someone can understand how I feel..."
Looking at the girl who had stopped struggling in his arms and seemed to be accumulating something, Ash understood.
It was not as she thought she had lost her parents that she wanted to get them back, but as she had said - she had not even actually had them.
So... I haven't actually become a father yet.
"[But that doesn't mean she doesn't need you, right?]"
"Let me go!"
Homi, who instantly transformed and broke free from the restraints of Rider, stood opposite the man, his bright red eyes filled with tears filled with anger and hatred towards the man who he had intimately called his father not long ago. "Don't be so close to me, you can't even be considered my father!"
"I know, Homi."
"I'm not Homi. I didn't even have a name when I was brought here! Both this image and the name were borrowed from other Pretty Cure——" After completely breaking out, the girl who simply gave up on herself seemed to vent everything she had accumulated so far to the person in front of her. "Didn't you say that I was deceived? I am the one who really deceived all of you!"
If you say that things that have never actually existed are false, then everything about me has no trace of ever existing! Am I fake too?
"I know."
"I just wanted to build a real family based on my memories - but you ruined it all. Whether it was my mother or everything in this family -"
The girl who was scolding and roaring almost lost her voice trembled and knelt on the ground, but her hands did not stop groping on the ground. Whether it was a broken gift or ashes burning on the ground, she desperately pulled it in front of her.
"I will fix it, I will fix everything, I can do it again! Even if I have to prepare a thousand more gifts, celebrate ten thousand wedding anniversaries, or even if it goes on like this forever——"
Chapter 261 The boy has grown into a father.
Am I wrong? Did I make a mistake somewhere? I just want a happy home!