This meant he had won over another Pretty Cure.
"Wasn't this something that had been destined long ago?"
Sorry, but the conquest had actually been completed ages ago. Calling it rekindling an old flame would be more accurate now.
And Yayoi, with how rebellious you were acting, had you secretly been replaced by Bad Yayoi?
"Hold it! Unauthorized persons are forbidden beyond this point!"
"I'm Kamen Rider."
"Wonderful, Kamen Rider! Then please deal with this vile criminal!"
In short, after a series of rather absurd exchanges—though perfectly normal for a children's show—Ash successfully entered Reika's cell under the banner of disciplining her as the righteous champion who could not tolerate evil: "Kamen Rider." It had been quite some time since he had seen the bearer of the Yamato Nadeshiko title.
"I didn't—" Aoki Reika had not been mistreated, but with handcuffs on her wrists, she instinctively tried to resist. Yet when she saw who had arrived, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief. Once she confirmed she had not mistaken him for someone else, she cried out at once.
"Ash?!"
Realizing that her voice had been too shrill, she instinctively wanted to cover her mouth. Ash, however, gestured for her to relax. After all, Akane and Yayoi had already worked together to fool the guards away from their posts. In this world without surveillance, no outsider would know what they did.
Looking at the girl kneeling on the floor now, her blue bangs, cut in a Princess style, cascaded down romantically like a waterfall. Her Japanese outfit, adorned with cherry-blossom-pink patterns, and her bright red long skirt gave her a beautiful, heroic air. Even Ash could not help feeling pleasantly surprised.
"Did you come to save me?!"
The moment she thought of it, tears of emotion nearly spilled from the corners