Kamen Rider Is Playing the Villain in Pretty Cure

I've had enough!

This was practically blatant showing off!

"Smack!"

Mana looked on in surprise as Kirara, who seemed to have been holding something back all along, slammed both hands onto the table with all her strength, looking as if she were declaring, "Objection!"

"Miss Aida Ai, I challenge you!"

She was showing off her blissful affection right in front of her? And the person was someone she liked too? What kind of joke was this? She couldn't take it anymore!

"A challenge?"

Mana had instinctively assumed it was the usual sort of joke and was about to reply with one of her own.

But the stern, earnest gaze meeting hers made her swallow back everything she had been about to say.

She was serious.

"I know that you were Ash's first love. Even after being apart for so long, you still hold an irreplaceable place in his heart."

Kirara stared intently into those clear, watery eyes across from her.

"Miss Mana... whether it was the crucial help you gave him by pulling him out of darkness, or that moving story of salvation, you truly are the No. 1 in Ash's heart."

"Th-thank you for the compliment~?"

Mana, nearly flattered into floating away, was about to thank her when she met those serious eyes again.

"But everyone has the right to love!"

Liking someone, falling in love with someone—those were never things that could be decided just by moving one's lips!

Ash might have said he wanted to build a huge crystal palace and that all they had to do was trust him, making it sound like a childish joke, but the vows that would carry their lives, and everything he had taken upon himself for them... no matter how heavy it was, he was serious about it!

He had