Kamen Rider Is a Villain in Pretty Cure

What had happened back then?

How much time had passed?

Haruno Haruka did not know the answer. The only thing she knew was that when she opened her eyes again... everything had changed.

"Ash!"

Standing on some unknown patch of land, the girl had just awakened and instinctively called the name of the person in her heart, anxiously looking around.

There was no sign of Minami or the others, nor could she find Puff.

Could it be that I got separated from everyone?

"I'm not your dad. Why was my name the first thing you called when you woke up?"

"Ash—ow!" Haruka looked up toward the voice and immediately bumped into something, whimpering. As she carefully covered her head, she finally saw that Ash was right above her, standing upside down on the ceiling?

"If you were here, why didn't you wake me?" Haruka blushed furiously, especially when Ash spoke so nonchalantly.

"Because you looked like you were sleeping so peacefully, so I couldn't bear to wake you... Oh, and by the way, we're currently at the center of the Fortress of Despair." After his usual teasing, Ash casually dropped another bombshell that left her jaw hanging. "The structure of this world is rather strange, so it seems ordinary laws of physics don't really apply here."

"The Fortress of Despair? Isn't this Dyspear's lair?!" Realizing that, Haruka grew even more worried. "What about the others? Have you found everyone, Ash?"

"No idea." Ash helplessly shook his head, hiding the exhausted, sleeping Kivat beneath his cloak. "At a time like this, we don't have the luxury of worrying about others. Rather than worrying pointlessly, we should trust them a little more."

"That's true... Wait!"

Sensing that something was wrong, Haruka looked down and discovered that the princess dress battle outfit she