'Get it, I want it! '
Ash, who was quarreling with the girls, was considering whether to play with it or sell it to them as a favor now, when Regina reached over and took away the gem.
"This is Royal Jewels." Holding the gem in his palm, Regina stared at the gem and kept chanting the name in a daze, not caring about the reaction of the outside world.
"Princess?"
Even when Ash called her, there was no response. It wasn't until she raised her head after a while that Ash discovered that Regina's eyes had changed from the clear blue to blood-red, which was exactly the same as the gem in her hand.
"Cereb—no!"
Instinctively shouting out the name of a former enemy, Ash quickly realized that it could not be because of that, but in any case, Regina, who had completely changed his temperament, was probably no longer the same as his original self.
In her bright red eyes, not only the girls who had just become friends, but also Ash, whom she originally trusted, were no longer noticed by her.
Ash has compiled a set of theorems based on past experience. Once a normally normal person suddenly becomes more beautiful, or changes into a deep dark style of dress, especially if his eyes start to turn red like a rabbit or become dim, then he will most likely have to choose one of the following: possession, brainwashing, blackening, or negative personality.
"Regina... Yeah!"
Ai Ai, who also sensed something was wrong, stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder, wanting to care about her and see if something had happened. As a result, Regina turned against Ai on the spot and slapped Ai's palm away with a bad expression.
When the aggrieved Ai covered the back of her red hands and wanted to say something, Ash held her shoulders on the side. Ash shook his head at her and signaled her not to speak now.
What a coincidence. It seems that because of the appearance of a new piece of Royal Jewels, the Royal Jewels that the girls had previously saved also began to glow in response. This immediately attracted Regina's attention. When she saw more Royal Jewels, her eyes widened. The expression of staring straight at it was really scary.
"Hey, give me those Royal Jewels!"
"Wait a minute, Regina, these are very important things!"
"I don't care, I just want it!"
Completely ignoring the girls' mood, Regina began to beg them directly.
The girls were surprised by the changes in Regina in a short period of time. In the past, they were friends who had crossed the barriers between good and bad factions to play together. Now just seeing these gems, she immediately turned against them, as if...
It's like she has turned back into the self-centered, arrogant and domineering daughter of King of Jikochu.
"If you are unwilling to hand it over, then I will use violence to snatch it from you!"
"Ash, go and get all the Royal Jewels from me!"
"Master Princess is such a bossy person."
Ash could clearly feel that at this time, Regina's tone completely changed to the one he was familiar with, the commanding tone of superiors ordering subordinates to die. There was no sense of intimacy that he used to show when they were fighting with him.
But Ash was not angry. On the contrary, he was very calm.
"Henshin!"
With his hands folded in front of his chest, Ash approached the girls step by step as if facing a formidable enemy.
"It seems I can only be the bad guy now."
Chapter 57: Things that villains also care about
Ash, who had not figured out the specific situation yet, had to first respond to Regina's instructions, take out the card box and transform into the dragon's tooth form.
Of course, Ash was not going to sit idly by no matter what the situation was. After all, the Regina he knew had turned into even more unreasonable than when they first met. Ash couldn't bear it no matter what.
One day in the past, in the Selfish Organization base late at night, Ash, who was returning from shopping after buying coffee ingredients, found that only Princess's room was still lit in the entire base. Out of curiosity, he quietly walked over and opened the doorman's door a crack, ready to take a peek at what Princess was going to do up late at night.
It wasn't that she was thinking about something serious. Ash, who knew that Regina was not in the habit of staying up late, originally thought that she didn't sleep because she was having fun, but in the end, she saw Princess competing with the darkness Sentai Gear under the desk lamp in the middle of the night.
At that time, those Sentai Gears in Regina's hands were given by Ash to Regina to help charge them, as imitations of Super Sentai Summoning props made by great power, filling Dark Sentai Gear requires a lot of dark power and tedious craftsmanship. When I first saw it, I could barely repair an adventurer's gear, but Regina was very tired.
From the beginning, he knew that the charging of the gears could not be completed so quickly. At that time, he was in the mood of being able to repair one by one, so he handed it over to Regina without paying much attention to it.
It can be said that from the beginning Ash did not think that Regina could help him complete everything.
What he never thought about was that he saw Regina secretly working hard in the middle of the night. His eyelids were hit several times and he lay on the table and fell asleep. Not long after, he wiped off his saliva and continued to compete with the gears.
That day, after Regina didn't get up after lying down and fell asleep completely, Ash opened the door and carefully moved her to the bed and covered her with a quilt.
After getting up the next day, Regina pretended to be relaxed and returned all the gears to him, saying that if there were any more, he could give them to her. After hearing this, Ash silently stuffed the other gears piled as high as a hill into the inventory.
Ash also asked Regina why he helped him so wholeheartedly, and the exact answer he got was, "Since you are my Rider, as your Princess, of course I will take good care of you!"
Since then, Ash no longer regards this Princess as an easy-to-deceive ATM machine.
I'm not a good person, but that doesn't mean there aren't people I care about.
"Regina, even though you are the so-called daughter of King of Jikochu, I know that you are not a completely selfish person."
So, if he finds out who might be behind the scenes...
I have to kill both of his waists!
"Ash-sensei..."
Facing the girl who still wanted to say something to him, Ash made a prohibitive gesture with his hands crossed.
"This is not a situation that can be solved with words, right?"
Girls, you looked at me and I looked at you, and finally decided to transform first.
"Precure Love Link!"
Time was running out, so the four Pretty Cure who skipped the roll-call stage carefully placed Ai-chan outside the battlefield and confronted Ash in the art gallery.
"Sorry, let me abide by the previous agreement next time. Now I hope you can cooperate with me a little bit."
Although someone told me that I must abide by such an agreement, they only said that I must abide by it, but did not say that I must abide by it immediately, so I don't think I broke the agreement.
"Hey, can this kind of agreement be put aside next time? Wow——!"
Before he could finish the question, Ai was frightened by the attack of Ash and screamed, and quickly crossed his hands to defend himself.
Fortunately, after this period of fighting, the girls are no longer what they used to be. Arisu and Rikka launched attacks from the left and right, forcing Ash to give up and continue the pursuit. Makoto used every opportunity to find opportunities, and Sword Angel cut off the dragon's teeth with a sharp hand knife burning with purple aura.
He raised his hand and grabbed the wrist of the knife and threw Makoto behind him. Ash, who wanted to continue chasing, was stopped by Arisu this time. Rikka took advantage of the situation and stepped forward to hug the thrown Makoto to prevent it from hitting the surrounding sculptures and suffering further damage.
Looking back at Regina, he noticed that her eyes were still on him, so Ash had no choice but to work harder.
Just like the last time they fought, Ash grabbed Arisu's wrist and was about to throw her away, but the girl jumped up on her toes, her strong and powerful thighs wrapped around Ash's arms, like a death roll of a crocodile in the water preying on its prey, spinning at high speed with Ash as the fulcrum, causing it to hit the ground.
"You actually used my tricks against me?"
"Ash-sensei, this is also the result of your training."
Roll away from here and distance yourself from the girl. Ash, who felt that his whole hand was starting to feel numb, laughed instead. Facing Rikka and Ai who jumped up and kicked at the same time, Ash did not choose to fight them. Instead, he used his other backhand to grab the palm of Makoto who was trying to attack behind him, and clasped his whole body behind his back and held him in front of him.
"Defense is coming!"
"Way!?"
Makoto, who did not expect to be easily restrained by Ash, made a surprised sound. When the other two saw their teammates being blocked in front of them, they quickly turned around and the uncontrollable speed caused them to fall to the ground and roll in a ball.
Makoto tried to break away but was caught by iron-like hands and kept pushing in the opposite direction. The girl had no choice but to give up as cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
"You actually use me as a shield, how despicable!"
"Who told you to be so flat? Even Ultraman's are bigger than you." The prostitute glanced at the Manny-san stone sculpture with her signature breasted pose. It was indeed bigger than hers. "Block me without losing a piece of meat."
Unexpectedly, Ash would actually say that. Makoto's face turned red and purple, and he was even more ashamed and angry. He stamped his feet angrily. "You pervert who only stares at girls' breasts!"
"If there's nothing there, do I need to see it?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a pain in my feet. I lowered my head and could see Makoto stepping hard on the instep of my feet with high heels.
"Ha, step on your toes, a child's trick——"
Ash was kicked out from behind by three other equally angry girls.
The battle is still going on. When Ash prepares to attack either side, he will immediately be met with a strong counterattack by the other three. As the situation changes, the advantage gradually shifts to Pretty Cure.
"Hmph, it seems like they are cooperating with each other."
Heroes who encounter obstacles will not stand still but continue to grow. In this way, Ash will feel that his efforts are not in vain.
After all, it's more interesting this way... Ah, no, I almost got high again. I almost forgot that the focus of today is not fighting.
"Don't underestimate Pretty Cure. Although Ash-sensei is indeed very powerful, we are also working hard to become stronger!"
This should have made Ash happy, but now Ash's attention is not focused on them.
He continued to look back at Regina, who was in an abnormal state. She still had that frightened look, staring at Royal Jewels without letting go.
If I had known, I would have thrown away this harmful thing. Is there any way to arouse her consciousness... I have it!
Chapter 58: The Stroke of Darkness
Ash slowed down her all-out attack, only to be bullied immediately by Ai, who launched a series of mid-air leg kicks that almost knocked her helmet off if Ash hadn't dodged it in time.
"Wait a minute, Mana!" Rikka quickly moved to the excited Ai and whispered, "Ash-sensei is obviously fighting us, you are really trying too hard!"
Hearing Rikka's words, the love that was ignited with passion through fighting finally came to his senses. Today's Ash was obviously not that active in fighting.
"Oh, it seems like I can beat Ash-sensei for the first time. I accidentally went all out."
The girl scratched the back of her head in embarrassment, but Rider on the other side scoffed at her idea.
"You are now a two-thirds bastard who is slightly better than a one-third bastard. If you want to beat me, you are still farther away than 20,000 years."
"No way, as long as I get serious!"
"Okay, okay, are you three-year-olds?"
Rikka quickly stopped the two people who were about to argue again. After all, the top priority now is to solve Regina's problem.
Ai turned his gaze to Regina. At this moment, the tenderness in the girl's eyes was gone, and there was only malicious desire in the bright red burning eyes.
"Regina, what happened to you?"
"I was really happy today when you said you wanted to be friends with everyone, not just me, but why... now?"
Love called Regina's name, but Regina, who was in an abnormal state at this time, was obviously unable to hear her voice at all.
"What are you talking about? I just want that Royal Jewels now. Since you said we are friends, then just give me all the gems!"
"But-!"
When Pretty Cure heard this, their hearts suddenly became heavy, and a terrible thought began to arise from the bottom of their hearts.
Could it be that the previous expression of wanting to be friends was just a lie? Is this all a lie to us to get Royal Jewels?
No, no, Regina is definitely not such a bad boy!
Aida Mana quickly shook his head to get rid of this terrible idea.
In fact, when Ai saw Regina for the first time, she noticed the kindness hidden under the surface of Princess. She was moved by this and wanted to become friends with her even more.
Ai, who takes the initiative to contact her, intends to impress her with his sincerity. At present, except for Ash, no one can avoid being captured by her unremitting efforts.
The same is true for Regina. She overcame difficulties and worked hard to stick to her own heart, and finally corrected her point of view of not caring about others. She was about to become everyone's friend, but now this happened.
Even if this possibility is very high, love does not want it to be true at all.
The love that was entangled alone in my heart forgot one thing, temporarily forgot one person, and moved a step slower with the other four people at the same time, and a huge flaw appeared in front of Ash.
Ash, who could not let go of the flaw, raised his fists. The muscles of his arms were tightened like hemp ropes and then released instantly. The fists that spun and blasted out like projectiles knocked back Rikka and Arisu. His left foot, which danced with dark electric light, struck with two moves, one left and one right. Makoto kicked his hands away, raised his right leg high and hit his head from top to bottom like a heavy axe, and his back was hit by a big truck reincarnated in another world. Makoto screamed and fell into the floor, adding an additional humanoid enlargement from Sword Angel to the art gallery.
Rider, who seized the flaw and used a set of combos to instantly defeat the three of them, didn't stop. Denshe's outstretched right hand reached into Ai's collar and pulled the girl towards him.
The cold feeling on her neck revived the girl's spirit, but it was too late.
The perspective in front of her instantly changed, and Cure Heart was held by Ryuga's arms and hugged her. In such an ambiguous posture, Ash put his chin on the girl's shoulder. (Please refer to Gagula.)
"It's not a good habit to forget about fighting on the battlefield."
Before the girl could exclaim shyly, the distance between the two quickly opened and closed, and the sharp silver sword blade was placed across the front of Ai's neck.
"Don't move casually."
Seeing the frightening sharp edge aimed at her, Ai's heart felt like falling into an ice cave, and her heart was beating like it was being grasped by fear. The other girls did not dare to act rashly when they saw Ai being captured. They seemed extremely nervous, for fear that Ash would do something.
"Why, Ash-sensei?"
Didn't it say it would release water? Why is this happening??
"Okay, as expected of Ash!" Regina laughed proudly when he saw this scene, and this time he was more confident to ask for it from them.
"If you want Mana, just exchange it for gems."