Kamen Rider Is Being a Villain in Pretty Cure

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Chapter 120: Caught O in Bed.

After fleeing into her room and immediately locking the door, Hishikawa Rikka let gravity take her, turning into a lonely blue streak as she buried her face in the soft bed.

She suddenly felt so useless.

And she suddenly understood.

After leaving her hometown, her parents, and Arisu and the others behind to help someone she had long lost, aside from Mana, who had always been there, wasn't Ash the only one her heart could rely on?

"This qualification was originally given to me by Arisu because she pitied me..."

Rikka laughed at herself.

Mana said she understood my feelings. She couldn't bear to watch anymore, so she wanted to take my share from Ash as well.

"Why... Even as a friend, I really like Mana."

"I want to tell him too... I also like Ash the most!"

The reasons had long been spoken and needed no repeating. Yet precisely because he was the one she liked most, she had been content simply being near him.

But her inferiority complex and fear made her afraid to take another step, afraid that if something went wrong, they could not even remain friends—

Mana's words appeared before her like a shadow: 'Can you really bear the pain of letting the seed of love rot away without ever being watered?'

"That's right. I like Ash the most too."

Why did she insist on making herself suffer?

Climbing out of bed, Rikka's blazing gaze shifted toward the wardrobe beside it.

"I remember, Ash's favorite is..."

"Yabai."

Licking her lips, now sweet with blood, Ash finally realized that even there had been bitten open.

"Women are really scary when they get angry."

After a great deal of coaxing, Ash had barely managed to calm Mana down. Only then