There was no one around. Seeing how completely defenseless she was right now, all it would take was the slightest move...
Swallowing the saliva beneath his tongue, Ash focused on the loose knot wrapped around his back with thin cords. While silently reciting the Ice Heart Mantra, he seriously began struggling with the knot.
He did nothing.
"Ash, you want us Princesses to become your Queens, don't you?"
You wanted both our shining hearts and our beautiful bodies as Precure. In your usual words, that was how it was.
"If that's the case."
There had clearly been plenty of opportunities before.
"Why didn't you just force us to submit?" After all, even Pretty Cure were merely ordinary girls when untransformed. With your abilities, you could have as many chances as you wanted, and we probably wouldn't have been able to stop you.
If so, why? Wouldn't it have been enough for you to choose the most direct approach?
"Because I'm both a King and Ash, so I'm greedy." Carefully tying a bow in the string at the back of her swimsuit, the man gave the girl's back a pat without any other intention behind it. "So I don't just want you yourselves. I also want your true love and hearts."
"..."
It was unreasonable. Impossible.
Yet when he said it in such a matter-of-fact tone, backed up by actual actions, it somehow made it feel as though he truly intended to accomplish it.
"And besides."
"If a married couple doesn't get along, the children they have won't be happy either."
"Y-You idiot!"
It was far too early to be talking about that!
The blush she had finally managed to shed immediately returned. But compared to the helpless resentment from before, this time it was genuine embarrassment born from a pounding