Kamen Rider is a Villain in Pretty Cure Chapter 8

This was the result of v-rex's actions just now. He wasn't Hideki Go, and a one-on-two situation wasn't a stable choice. So, when v-rex and Ash split up, Ash was responsible for tying down the other Doomsday Monster, while v-rex lured this Doomsday Monster under a nearby building. Then, he used a giant missile to destroy the uninhabited building, crushing the Doomsday Monster beneath it.

After the critical support points of the crumbling reinforced concrete pile were blown apart, it collapsed completely amidst the wailing of bending and breaking steel.

"Doomsday Monster (It's over)!"

Then, amidst the rumbling roar of the collapsing building, the Doomsday Monster's roar sounded weak and desperate. Finally, as the tall building completely turned into ruins, the monster's last roar also vanished completely.

"Alright, everyone, the Doomsday Monster is dead. You can come out now."

Ash dramatically spread his arms and made a grand sweep of the surroundings.

"..."

There was no response. Ash continued to look around, but no curious little heads peeked out for him to pat. After all, not everyone had the courage to drive a gas truck straight at a monster. Besides, there was no TPC or anything in this world. Facing a Doomsday Monster that could nullify all conventional weaponry, there was nothing anyone could do but cheer for the Pretty Cure.

And now, if the Pretty Cure were replaced by him, Time Fire, there wasn't even anyone to cheer him on.

"Very good. It looks like you've mastered the correct way to evacuate and escape. Keep it up next time."

There was probably no one around, so Ash's words were likely spoken to no one in particular, perhaps just a compulsion to not leave things half-said.

"No one's here, so I'm leaving."

Ash turned around, but v-rex didn't lower its head for Ash to climb. Instead, it nudged its snout and pointed in a certain direction.

"Wait, you can't leave!"

A sharp cry from behind made Ash draw his gun from its holster, spinning it between his fingers, a small, delicate gun that could kill mosquitoes.

This was the voice of the Pretty Cure named Cure Yell, whom he had already memorized – petite but filled with unwavering resolve.

"It's you. You're late. I've already dealt with this Doomsday Monster for you." Ash grabbed a protrusion on v-rex's body and used his hands and feet together to "jump" onto v-rex's head.

"So, Miss, having just enjoyed the show, how many points are you willing to give my show time? If possible, I hope you'll thank me."

I actually helped a wounded and sick hero protect her city once. Oh, just thinking about it makes me want to cry. I've truly moved myself.

v-rex's tail swept across the ground. The "doll" left behind by the Doomsday Monster that had been hit by [Cryo Freeze] earlier was collected by the flexible grappling device attached to the tip of its tail. Then, raising its tail high to create a gentle slope, the "doll" slid down from the tail tip to the main body, where Ash picked it up and threw it into the capsule container in his hand.

"You, what have you done!"

"What have I done? It's obvious. I defeated the Doomsday Monster and restored peace to the world."

"Then what about this?!" Yell raised her hand and pointed at the ruins.

What was going on here? I saw with my own eyes that you destroyed this building!

"Oh, you mean this? v-rex trapped the Doomsday Monster with it earlier, so I just used it. That Doomsday Monster should be crushed to death by now, right?"

I scanned it before I fired, and everyone inside had indeed evacuated. I was so attentive, people should have given me a medal!

"You—" Hearing Ash's words, Hana became furious and pointed at the ruins beside her, shouting loudly. "That—even if there was no one inside, those were people's homes! You let it be destroyed like this, how are they supposed to get home!"

"That's none of my business, is it?" The DV Guardian tapped crisply on his shoulder, and Ash's voice sounded even more innocent. "Or are you one of those idiots who blames the Ultraman for destroying the city when the monster caused the trouble?"

"It was the monster that caused the disturbance, and I, as a righteous partner, defeated the monster. It's a compromise to pay some price to defeat the enemy. People should be thanking me, not blaming me. That would be strange, wouldn't it?"

"Besides, I don't want to do this, and nobody wants to do this~"

"You—cough cough cough!" The rising blood pressure made Nono Hana, who was increasingly furious, unable to stop coughing. The other party's unreasonable words ignited her anger, but upon closer thought, she felt that what he said actually made a lot of sense.

But even if he was right, was this really okay?

Nono Hana didn't know. She only knew that she always tried to avoid such incidents when she fought, and she had been injured several times because of it.

"Besides—"

"You have repair abilities anyway, so just fix it."

Otherwise, why do you think I fought in a way that infuriated Dragon and made Future angry?

With such convenient abilities, wouldn't it be a shame not to use them?

"Someone like you—!"

The response to Time Fire was the sharp sword in Yell's hand.

A pure white light flashed, and a sharp sword energy swung down. Combat instinct made Ash dodge it with a backward bend before the sword energy could cut him down.

After him, the sword energy cut through three consecutive buildings.

"Ah, look, you're still angry with me. Although the people around here had already fled, aren't you making things worse?" Ash straightened up, holding his waist. This sudden bending was still not good for his body.

"Ah!"

Realizing what she had done, Yell immediately turned the hilt of the Melody Holy Sword and inserted it into the ground beneath her feet, channeling the Tomorrow Energy within her. The surrounding buildings, previously damaged by Time Fire's battle and by Yell herself, were restored to their original state under the flowing light.

"Doomsday Monster!" Also restored was someone Ash had previously thought was crushed to death.

"Precure! Sacred Sword!"

Drawing her sword, turning, and swinging it, the light shone again. The Doomsday Monster, which had narrowly escaped death, made an untimely reappearance and was eliminated in a timely manner. With a scream in the light, the Doomsday Monster was completely vaporized by the light.

"Hey!! You! — Eh?"

Yell turned her head, only to find that Time Fire and the giant mechanical dinosaur had disappeared from her sight.

After a moment of stunned silence, she realized that the other party had fled while she was busy restoring the city and eliminating the Doomsday Monster.

"Waaaah! Just you wait!"

The only thing echoing in the empty building was Cure Yell's frustrated shout.

[Extra] Case File 12: Searching for Nono Hana

The red combat suit dissolved from his body like flowing water, finally surging into the V-Commander on his wrist in a flash of light. Ash, feeling refreshed after the fight, twisted his neck from side to side, making satisfying "crack" sounds.

Even though I'm the type of person who won't stand if I can sit, and won't lie down if I can be sprawled out, a bit of "exercise" is still quite necessary.

"As expected, that exhilarating feeling of passion when fighting heroes and strong opponents really gets me going!"

After all, there's no other reason for me to stay.

"Suggestion: Due to the tight material of the Time Fire suit, the probability of you being seen with a noticeable bulge during combat with Cure Yell is—"

"No need to calculate that!"

The Super AI was great at everything, but perhaps too intelligent, making it a bit too direct. After all, the hearts of artificial intelligence and human hearts are quite different.

"I can't believe she forgot about me after a little trickery. While that sword seemed powerful, the user herself was too much of a simpleton... like that other guy, what was his name again?"

Ash, despite his selective memory loss, could recall his friends fighting, but easily forgot names. Who was that Ultraman who always turned red and got beaten up, and his human host who looked like he was easily fooled?

"Based on your description, I surmise it would be Zeta Ultraman and his human host, Haruki Natsukawa."

"Ah, Ossu." Ash clenched his left fist and smacked it into his right palm, a look of sudden realization on his face.

Although he couldn't remember the name, the catchphrase, more memorable than the name itself, left a deeper impression.

"Correction, it's Haruki," v-rex interjected, correcting Ash's habit of casually nicknaming others.

"Whatever, whether he's Ossu or Ozu, you should change back first. This size makes you too easy to spot." Ash patted the head of the v-rex beneath him, the sound of metal hitting metal, signaling it to revert.

"Roger." After Ash jumped off its head, the v-rex's size began to shrink rapidly. Without any mechanical structural changes, the mass conversion device built into the mechanical dinosaur forcefully imposed itself upon the physical laws of reality! The entire unit continuously scaled down proportionally until the v-rex reached the size of a DX toy that could stand on Ash's shoulder.

"Roar—"

No longer speaking human language after shrinking, V-rex roared at Ash and then hopped towards the clinic.

"Alright, it's noon already. Where should I go to eat?"

Feeling a bit hungry. I wonder if there's McDonald's or curry rice... Hmm?

After transforming back from Time Fire, a powerful piece of music erupted from Ash's lab coat pocket.

"Dududududududu???—!"

Amidst a powerful dance track, his body reacted instinctively to the music, moving before his brain could process it. His legs began to dance uncontrollably, crossing, jumping, and spinning, with his upper body movements forming a standard, enthusiastic samba.

By the time Ash realized what was happening, he was holding his phone like a gun pointed at the sky, just missing the command to "fire."

"Ah, geez, this thing still hasn't changed after all this time. Why is Earth's music still effective in this world?"

He used his complaints to alleviate the embarrassment of dancing wildly in public, while his eyes darted around frantically, searching for any potential witnesses with a dead stare.

If necessary, he'd have to perform some "Class A memory erasure."

Confirming that he was the only living thing weighing more than ten pounds around, Ash took out his phone.

"Hello, yes, is this Doctor Ash?"

A crisp female voice came from the other end of the line. Ash remembered; it was Nono Hana's sister, Nono Kotori, a university student he'd met yesterday.

"It's me. What's up, Miss Kotori? Does Hana not want to take her medicine?" Ash asked, considering the only reason she might contact him.

"Doctor Ash..." Nono Kotori's voice on the other end sounded weak and hoarse, as if she had just narrowly escaped death.

"What happened?" Ash pondered the possible scenarios: Nono Hana resisting her medicine and clashing with Nono Kotori, the latter coming to him tearfully for comfort, or perhaps she had a cold?

"I just tasted the medicine you gave my sister, and my tongue is still numb and bitter. It feels awful... What should I do?" The voice on the other end gradually took on a crying tone, showing just how much Ash's special concoction had affected Nono Kotori.

Saliva dripped onto the table as her tongue, lolling out, swung around. At this moment, Nono Kotori felt like crying but had no tears, her tongue only registering the terrifying taste that felt like it was trying to kill her.

"What about the sugar? Didn't I give your sister sugar earlier?"

"I've already eaten almost half a bag of white sugar, and it didn't help at all."

"That was my specially refined fructose. If you can't handle it, just go get your sister's bag of sugar."

Hearing the sound of footsteps from the other end of the phone, Ash couldn't help but sigh, Kids these days, they have no tolerance for hardship (physical).

As he mused this, after a moment, Kotori's tearful voice came through again.

"Um, Doctor Ash... After my sister drank the medicine, for some reason, she ran out immediately. And, she forgot that the sugar packet was always hanging on her... So, Mr. Ash, do you have any more of that sugar?"

"I don't."

That was several pounds of sugar water I painstakingly stirred by hand! How could I possibly mass-produce it so easily?

"Eh?! Then—then I'm doomed?"

No! I don't want to die from my sister's bitter medicine, that's such a humiliating "way to die"! How did my sister endure it?!

"There's nothing that can be done. Anyway, drinking this Kusunoha Juice is only good for your body, no harm done. Just bear with the bitterness yourself, and it'll pass."

"No! Doctor Ash, save me—!"

"Honestly, they really are sisters. This clumsiness trait is passed down so consistently," Ash muttered to himself after hanging up, then tapped the head of the v-rex, which had returned at some point.

"v-rex, help me search for Nono Hana's current location?"

However, Ash was still a little bothered by Nono Hana suddenly running off. After all, he had explicitly told her to rest well at home and to report to him regularly. "Children" who didn't listen to the doctor would get spanked.

"A coffee shop at 43 Yanagi District, Nursery City. She seems to be meeting with someone."

"She's already going to parties right after recovering? Is she feeling too safe?" Ash found it somewhat unbelievable. She had only just escaped a life-threatening situation a few days ago and was already out having fun. Was she tired of being healthy?

If that was the case, then he really needed to learn from his medical teacher and educate her properly.

"No, it's not the kind of party you're imagining. According to the information this unit has obtained and intercepted call records within Nursery City, it's more like a girls' tea party or a class reunion."

V-rex, who had flipped through the entire Earth's database in half a second to enrich its computer chip, surprisingly possessed common sense that surpassed its master's.

"Class reunion, girls' tea party? She's really living the life." In Ash's world, he had no classmates whose names he remembered, nor did he have anything like girlfriends. Unlike his peers who were constantly troubled by mortal wisdom and obsessed with meaningless things, his world was filled with the technology, idealism, passion, and darkness of the heroes he admired, and it was quite distant from that.

Although people in other worlds had invited him to similar events under various pretenses, Ash had dismissed them after attending one. He found these activities, which he couldn't find any enjoyment in, to be less interesting than fiddling with his phone or closing his eyes to simulate a battle in his mind.

"In any case, Master, if you go there, you'll definitely find her."

"That's all I need to know. I'll go take a look."

Ash walked in the opposite direction of his clinic, but after a short while, he returned to V-REX. Seeing his master staring at him, even the super AI V-REX tilted its metallic dragon head, unable to discern his intention.

"What is your intention?"

"I didn't remember the address you just mentioned. Tell me again."

[Extra] Case File 13 What a Happy Gathering

In fact, Nono Hana's memory had been deteriorating.