Kamen Rider is playing the villain in Pretty Cure

I had actually figured it out before, and what is happening now confirms my thoughts!

"However, I don't have that much extra time to find the best solution."

Without wasting even a second, when his eyes, which were closed under the eyepiece, opened again, the man had already made a very "difficult" decision.

I already know what to do.

I have found a feasible goal. If it can help you, I will do it without hesitation!

"so."

Now, the more powerful I feel, the more worried I become.

The longer I am here, the stronger these violent energies will become!

Of course, I can choose to accept everything as a matter of course, actively embrace the violent energy and turn myself into the ultimate madman who "destroys the entire world with his own power". If it were the old me, I might indeed choose to do so for fun.

But now it’s different...

What the hell are these bullshit world rules? What nonsense "violent energy"! If you want me, then come, but this time is different!

I don’t need victory now, and I don’t have the idea of ​​becoming the strong one who wins in the end.

"I want to be the loser."

Now let me be a weakling who fails!

"Flower—your future!"

Desperately, with Hua screaming behind him, the man, not even caring about his life, rushed headfirst into the area where the enemy was gathered.

He even actively opened his mind, and suddenly a vortex of continuous pulling and absorbing was generated centered on Ash's heart, tearing the "terminator monsters" that had been formed with great difficulty into basic "violent energy" and then pouring it directly into his body.

Ash's eyes were red under the eyepiece, but he didn't see the expected energy expansion. Instead, he kept suppressing it! He mixed all the energy together and pressed it deep into his body!

"Let me open it up for you!"

Hana was stunned by Ash's sudden crazy behavior and reached out her hand behind him, but only the touch of the combat suit slipped through her fingertips.

"Ash!"

No, don't do such a stupid thing!

Just as Ash thought, the violent energy that seized the opportunity rushed towards Ash's body, which was specially used to bear the existence of darkness. However, when he discovered the man's true intention, he wanted to escape desperately, but was squeezed out by the newcomer outside.

It can be said that people outside want to come in, and people inside want to go out.

"My goal in fighting is different now than it was before. It's no longer about winning... It doesn't matter if I lose! Or rather, I will definitely lose to her!"

So - violent energy!

"Let me be the loser!"

Let you and I become losers at this moment!

[Bonus] Case File 102: Ash's End (4K)

“Uh ...

This was a sound coming from Ash, but it wasn't Ash's own voice.

He could hear it, of course he could hear it, those beings who had brought countless sorrow and despair to others in the past were now emitting miserable cries.

This is like a trap filled with honey. The "violent energies" attracted by the "Dark Echo" and resurrected and strengthened at an extraordinary speed naturally want Ash to join their ranks. I believe that this will definitely contribute to the strengthening of the dark side of this world.

However, they never expected that Ash, whom they regarded as their "kindred spirit", was completely different. He even wanted to explode them along with his own gold coins to his biggest enemy, Precure... However, these violent energies themselves had no self-awareness and could not possibly think of this.

"Ash—!"

Absorbing the world's "violent energy" while simultaneously forcing it to stop further transformation, countless chaotic energy shocks collided with Ash's body like tennis balls hitting a wall. Waves of shock radiated from Ash, leaving the ground covered with ever-widening cracks like a fishing net. The force was so great that even Cure Yell, who screamed in shock and tried to stop this "suicidal" act, was sent flying.

"Ah..."

The crimson combat suit, whose internal program kept reporting errors, had long since dissipated on Ash's body along with the red light due to energy overload. The man, exposed to the air, was now sweating profusely and panting heavily.

However, no matter how painful it looked, the man still insisted on not crying out.

Perhaps it was out of his self-esteem... or perhaps he simply didn't want to admit defeat, but even though he was in extreme pain, the corners of Ash's mouth turned up as if smiling.

Of course I know what I'm doing....so far, everything is developing just as I expected!

Countless dark shadows flowed in Ash's eyes. Precure's "tomorrow energy" was looking forward to the future and could even change the direction of time. The corresponding "violent energy" must have similar abilities.

So Ash saw it.

It's like a man who has gained futuristic vision and can see the pain Nonoka will suffer after he disappears in the near future...she may even be in more pain than before she met him.

Ash saw from the passing of time that the flower's strength allowed her to not commit suicide even when she was in despair at one point, but that pain caused hope to breed a despair far beyond the ordinary, allowing the enemy's Terminator to revive and gain the upper hand again.

After all, as the saying goes, "If I have never seen the light, then I can endure the darkness." Even more painful than simple despair is the despair of giving her hope and then taking it away.

"really..."

The flowers of the future will repeat the path I am taking now.

Then when Hua's child was born, when she followed in her mother's footsteps and noticed the outbreak of problems, she began to regret why she had not discovered her mother's problems earlier. She even tried to go back to the past to change everything, but was destined to fall into a cycle of failure.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again..."

This is exactly what I mentioned as a vicious circle.

"What are you doing, ahh ...

She struggled to move forward against the dark storm. Even though her battle suit was constantly corroded and was sending out crackling sparks, she still reached out her hand firmly and grabbed the arm of Ash who was kneeling on the ground.

"I got you Ash—you!"

Before she had time to be happy, when she took a closer look at Ash at this moment, her heart was suddenly filled with horror that completely emptied her mind.

Two tears of blood turned into two streams and slowly flowed down from Ash's pupils which were completely filled with pure black.

“Your, your eyes, ahhhhh—”

"Are you asking what I'm doing?"

The man who didn't care about his own situation looked at Nonoka who was screaming in front of him. In his eyes, the shocked and sad face of Nonoka in front of him was gradually overlapping with the empty and desperate look in Nonoka's eyes in the future.

This is the result I want to prevent.

"I am now severing this chain of tragedy from myself."

There is always such a theory of balance circulating in the world, that the balance between good and evil cannot be broken. When the devil that dominates the world is defeated, another stronger one will be born.

For example, after I defeated the monster that shrouded the world, the world gave me a new monster, which was myself.

If I had noticed the secret earlier, I might have come up with a more appropriate solution, but now...

"So the first step is to make myself this existence!"

Driving his heart and summoning all his mind, Ash, who was already bleeding from all five orifices and had turned into a "faded face", actually wanted to absorb all the "violent energy" into his body and then completely wrap it up with the indigenous people's "Dark Echo" to avoid letting it escape at the last moment.

And then the final way to break this rule is to take advantage of the fact that my soul will be recycled by the system after my death and take it away with me!

Haha, this is the privilege of a time traveler like me.

"how come?!"

After almost understanding what Ash wanted to do, Hua, who was so anxious that tears were streaming down her face, hugged Ash, whose face was covered in blood, and buried her throat in the man's chest, she could only whimper unwillingly.

"Why is this happening..."

"If you're a traveler from another world, why would you go to such lengths for this world?"

"That's not like you at all!"

"Yeah...?"

No longer fighting like a hound chasing a shining victory, but actively standing on the losing side, making himself the weakling he hated the most——

No matter how you look at it, this kind of existence doesn't look like Ash at all...

"Ha...as expected."

Under Hua's horrified gaze, Ash desperately tried to stifle the violent energy surging in his body, and a hint of relief appeared in his painful expression.

"I'm almost becoming something different from Ash..."

But why is it, even though things are so bad and painful that I have lost my original self, I am... somewhat happy?

Is it because of love?

Is it because of the flowers?

Haha...what a weak man who is easily satisfied.

"I won't let you die, Ash!"

Hana, who witnessed the entire amazing act of Ash, reacted quickly and decided to save Ash no matter what!

Driving the mind and the crystal of the future, Nonoka squeezed out the little "tomorrow's ability" from her already severely depleted body and passed it on to Ash.

Don't be afraid, Ash, I'm here to heal you right away!

"W-why!" Although the bloodstains on his face were erased by the Tomorrow Energy, as the light approached, parts of Ash's body began to dissipate like shadows touched by the light. "The Tomorrow Energy is supposed to be the light that can heal humans!"

I've only been able to hold on until now because of the passive healing of Tomorrow's energy, so why doesn't it work for Ash?

"Because I am not you."

Gently pulling open his clothes, revealing the surging "Dark Echoes", Ash smiled at the girl and said, "This is my true nature."

Of course darkness will be burned by light when it encounters it, right?

But he would always be like a moth chasing after a flame, unable to resist throwing himself into her arms.

"I'm not for the world."

Ash replied softly, holding the flower in his arms for fear of hurting it.

"I did this for you, Hua."

"I know..." The girl, holding Ash in her arms, stuttered, her voice filled with tears, almost choking with sobs. "I know everything!"

That's why I feel even more pain.

"If you have to do this for me... then I-then I!"

The flower, whose heart was about to burst out but stopped abruptly at the last moment, lowered its head in sadness.

I can’t say the words “I wish I had never met you”.

"Flower...I will tell you everything about me."

Then, Ash told her without reservation the truth about the mutual attraction between his "violent energy" and "dark echoes", the identity of a time traveler, and the mission process of constantly collecting dark echoes and leaving in the end.

"So, Hua, do you understand?" Ash said with a somewhat apologetic look. "Why was I so evasive when you said you wanted to marry me?"

"After I have finally mastered the needs of this world, I will definitely leave. Even now, today is probably the day I will be buried."

"I just wanted to give you a hand one last time."

“How could…?”

Hua kept shaking her head. Faced with all the new settings that Ash kept throwing out, how could the girl choose to accept them as a matter of course?

Looking at Ash, who seemed to have finally calmed down from the pain but was in a sense sentencing himself to death, tears kept dripping from Hua's chin, drop by drop, and soon wet the man's shirt chest.

"I don't understand."

Nonoka is kind and innocent by nature. Even though she was bullied by cold violence in junior high school and encountered various difficulties while fighting as a Precure, she has never truly hated anyone in her life.

But now, she really hated the "system" that Ash mentioned that asked him to help collect dark echoes. She wanted to pull it out and tear it apart to ask it why it did such an excessive thing to Ash!

According to Ash, haven't you always been his best friend?!

"Ash..."

But now, seeing the relieved expression on Ash's face, Hua said nothing, but just held her arms against him even tighter.

"My Ash..."

The girl wanted to use more force but was afraid of crushing him, so she hugged Ash's chest gently.