Kamen Rider Is Playing the Villain in Pretty Cure

"Mm..."

Though she was deep in a hazy dream, Nono Hana could clearly feel someone smacking her cheeks. It hurt! Couldn't he be a little gentler with a girl?

"Wake up, young lady. If you don't wake up soon, the sun will be shining on your butt."

No! My prince charming was just riding toward me on his white horse!

"Mm, let me sleep... just five more minutes~"

"Not even five seconds. If you don't open your eyes, I'm going to kiss you."

"Waaah—!"

The abrupt words startled the drooling girl so badly that she scrambled away on all fours, putting distance between herself and Ash.

"M-Me! My first kiss is still—!"

I'm a girl too! Even if I'm not as pretty as Homare and Lulu, I still dream of a sweet romance with a handsome guy. Being suddenly kissed would be way too fast... Wait.

Uncertain, Hana rubbed her eyes and looked again. Sure enough, a fox-masked man was sitting there with one leg crossed over the other, waving at her. Through the swirling glow of his visor lenses, she could almost see how happily he was smiling.

"Eh...?"

Kamen Rider?

Had I watched too many tokusatsu shows?

"Mmm~ What's wrong?"

"Ah! Why am I sleeping on the ground?!"

As Ash exerted the Creation Power, the healed girls began waking up one after another and climbing to their feet. The Pretty Cure gradually remembered what had happened before.

They had run into the "Supreme Angel" on a movie set. She had secretly altered her stats and mechanics, making her monstrously powerful. They had given it everything they had and still couldn't win... They only remembered that, at the end, she had thrown a finishing move containing countless starlights at them when they could no longer fight. After that, everything