My girlfriend really was a Pretty Cure. I really did want to live the kind of life with Pretty Cure where every day was filled with endless joy. But you weren't "Pretty Cure"—you'd merely named yourself CureSupreme!
Your intentions had been bad; you just executed them well afterward. That couldn't become an excuse to cover up the past. That was right—on this point alone, I had plenty to say!
"Ash, are you really... this angry?"
Her words carried the confused helplessness of a child being scolded by her parents without knowing what she had done wrong.
"Yes."
Fighting was by no means the best option right now, but Ash still split the Jet Black Ten Tails buckle apart and mounted it on both sides of his belt.
"Black Out! REVOLVE ON!"
Henshin!
As for the other Pretty Cure you'd defeated before, I could coldly say that I'd only met them today. They weren't acquaintances, so I didn't care. But—
"I can't forgive what you did to Mana and the others!"
Unforgivable. I was truly furious!
So I had to do something for them, didn't I?!
"Do you... want to hear my answer?"
Back then, I only thought about eliminating those in my way and flaunting my strength. How could I have considered so much?
But now, things were different.
"What?"
"Because you are my one and only—the only one from the past, the present, and even the future."
"!?"
The sudden "confession" made Ash's hand stop above his belt.
"You made me feel this budding affection, something entirely unlike becoming stronger yet incomparably close to it."
"You made me feel this unprecedented happiness and excitement."
The feeling of liking someone so much... could actually feel this wonderful, so wonderful that I never wanted to leave it behind.
"You awakened love