Kamen Rider Is Playing the Villain in Pretty Cure

And the final result it brought about... was an unfortunate tragedy.

"Everyoneeeeeee!!!"

The good friends who had been laughing and having fun in the previous episode had now been reduced to nothing but pale ashes after burning away in his trembling hands.

"It was me, I was too weak!!!"

After fighting so steadfastly all this time, he had ultimately lost everything. "Ash" no longer possessed the blazing courage he had as "Flame Rider," only a grief-stricken, miserable howl.

It had taken forty episodes to build up that happiness, but only one episode to lose it all. Could that "Ash" on the other side of the television, who had lost all hope of victory, still rise again and keep fighting the enemy?

"Of course he can. A live-action hero show can't possibly end with all the good guys losing and the bad guys celebrating a bad ending, right?"

If they really wanted to pull that kind of garbage, Ash would have to follow a certain Demon King senior's example and cause some indescribable incidents for "O-Pictures."

"No, no."

After making that jab, Ash shook his head again and hurriedly corrected himself.

"Putting it that way makes it sound like everything's just stage effects. That's way too disrespectful to them."

After all, he liked both Ultraman and Super Sentai. He was a loyal viewer of live-action hero shows! How could he say something as arrogant as, "Cartoons are childish stuff made for kids"?

Still, Flame Rider, who happened to share his name, had finished airing for today. The next episode seemed to be... Damn it! Why was it being preempted for some golf tournament? Could those big shots' programs get lost? This was everyone's hero time!

Stretching lazily on the sofa, Ash wondered how he should waste the rest of the day.