Kamen Rider Is Playing the Villain in Pretty Cure

So don't always look so gloomy. Let's go shopping together and cheer up!

"Anyway..."

Kirara pulled a card from her chest and smiled somewhat strangely.

This was Ash's salary card, which she had persuaded him to hand over using Kirara's exclusive "way with words"~ In other words, he would be paying for everything today!

Elsewhere, bare-chested and showing off his toned muscles, Ash stood amid blazing heat and brought down the forging hammer raised in his hand together with his streaming sweat.

Clang!

Strike after strike, he hammered the metal clamped by tongs in his other hand. Each round of forging added another distinct gleam to the elven metal within the flames.

Click.

An incomparably precise semi-finished mechanical structure lay on the workbench beside Ash. He removed one of the metal pieces from the fire and carefully fitted it into the missing section of the device—perfect!

Clang!

Next, Ash continued the forging process, both retro and futuristic, in order to complete it.

On a whim today, Ash had decided to manually forge a high-tech product for which he had a blueprint in his mind, though he himself did not know why. Watching this high-tech device, made from a combination of his own technical prowess and sacred materials specially supplied by the elves of the Black Night Kingdom, gradually take shape, Ash felt immensely satisfied.

"Come to think of it, my combat strength really has been getting stronger and stronger lately." Sweating profusely as he swung the hammer in his hand, Ash spoke with Kivat, who stood steadily on his shoulder. "My strength is beyond doubt, but my opponents are either kids, LGBT people, or Old Bi and the like, who put all their skill points into behind-the-scenes schemes. Actually fighting them is getting more and more boring."

Even the strongest