I suppose that was the idea!
"So... does that mean it's a tradition?"
Blinking her pure, clear eyes, Little Dark felt as though she had learned something new again. Becoming human really was profound and mysterious.
"Still, a fight should have a proper beginning and end. Let's continue."
"Mm!"
The two smiled at each other and once again threw themselves wholeheartedly into the battle at hand. Yet amid the fierce sounds of their clash, only the shrill, drawn-out screams of birdlike creatures carried outward.
"Heave-ho!"
The shadowy figures that had tried to blend into the darkness and launch sneak attacks, only to be caught up in the aftermath of the two's duel before they could even resist, were now all lying on the ground. Kain had even deliberately gathered them into a small mountain.
"They're all here now!"
"Let me see~"
While pressing the stamp in his hand to produce a flash of light, Ash flipped over one of the figures in a black suit. Its oval compound eyes and sharp, birdlike beak came into view.
"Are these monsters that escaped from some modification organization... no!"
After examining it carefully and tugging at its wrinkled, lizard-like skin, Ash felt that this did not seem to be something from either the Rider or Pretty Cure worlds.
"Could it be..."
"Isn't this an abductor alien, a Lebic Alien?"
What? Were there not enough slaves on their own planet again, so they had come to the Pretty Cure universe to snatch people this time?
"Wasn't last time's beating harsh enough for them?"
"Mm."
Little Dark, who had closed her right eye again, nodded and explained.
"I sensed that there had recently been some unusual disappearances in Hope Flower City. I followed the trail until I found them."
"No wonder."
So that was how