Chapter 317

Chapter 48 Found a Person!

“Shop Manager, what is he doing now?”

Lei and Erika held their partner sprites disguised as dolls in their arms, aimlessly strolling down the street.

Due to Officer checking the store, Ash gave them a day off today. Leaving Lily alone to guard the house, he rode off on his motorcycle by himself.

“Lei knows too, that the Shop Manager’s heart isn’t really in running the shop! Otherwise, with his inconsistent attitude of working sporadically, if it weren’t for Lily coming every day, the shop would be covered in spider webs!”

“It’s not as bad as Erika says…”

Lei awkwardly pushed up her glasses. While Erika’s words were excessive, there was some truth to it; after this period of getting to know each other, everyone could see that for Ash, being the Shop Manager was more of an interest than a job.

Yet, because of the Shop Manager’s “interest-driven” approach, under his quirky and warm style of interaction, they gradually began to like being part of Nasta.

“That guy only shows interest when it comes to coffee; other times, he’s either reading manga and watching shows, or riding his bike and causing trouble!”

Erika still couldn’t understand. There are three beautiful women in the shop. Compared to a motorcycle, why would anyone choose that? If I had to choose, I’d rather have a pretty dress!

Ah, that guy must not be satisfied and has gone to charm other girls!

“Hmm…motorcycle?” Ashe stroked Cifrey in his arms, thinking about the manager’s neat posture while riding the motorcycle. It was equally cool in his mind.

“A motorcycle sounds good too…actually, I want to sit at the back of the Shop Manager’s motorcycle!”

Hugging the manager’s waist, resting against a strong back, feeling the gentle wind breeze past her ears, being taken for a ride…it seemed so exciting!

“Hehe, Lei is really bold!” Upon seeing friend once again daydreaming, Erika mercilessly mocked her behind her.

“But, despite all you’ve said, Lei didn’t even take the first step, right?”

“Mm—Erika!!! Stop it!”

“Don’t put it that way, I’m just worried about you.”

While the girls frolicked joyfully, Caffrey in Erika’s arms suddenly became excited, the leaf-like ears standing up straight, pointing toward a certain direction.

“I sense it, there is a dark presence over there!”

Being the embodiment of purity and light, these sprites always have the ability to detect evil, no matter which world they’re in.

“Could it be, the Desert Apostle?”

Swiftly transitioning from playfulness to their Pretty Cure battle mode, the girls ran through alleys until they reached an abandoned, isolated lane.

Arriving, the two did not find the expected Desert Apostle. Instead, they discovered someone lying motionless on the ground with toys scattered around them.

“Do you, okay?” Kind-hearted Lei rushed over in three strides, grabbing the person on the ground and shaking them.

In Lei’s shaking, the blanket over him fell, revealing what appeared to be nothing covering him underneath.

“Yah—”

“!!!”

Just as Lei was about to scream, sharp-eyed Erika quickly pulled down a corner of the blanket, hiding the nearly exposed part.

“What, is this guy doing? This behavior is indecent!”

The young girl’s face turned as red as Zhang Fei’s due to rage. Erika, who didn’t expect such an encounter, felt her heart almost jumping out of her throat.

But, wait a minute, where are their clothes? Should we call the police?

Wait, the police?

At the same time, Lei and Erika exchanged a glance. Carefully turning the man’s face toward themselves.

“It’s that exhibitionist!”

Seeing that Eddie’s appearance matched the only uncovered part of the wanted poster perfectly, Lei sat down in shock and began to retreat.

Unlike the mortified Lei, Erika remained relatively calm at the moment.

“If this person is an exhibitionist… how can this be? Could it be, the Desert Apostle is trying to maintain social order?”

Considering this possibility, the naturally lively Erika couldn’t help but chuckle a little.

“Oh well, regardless, it doesn’t matter.”

“Um, Erika…” timidly looking at the silent Eddie, Lei raised her hand cautiously.

“What is it, Lei?”

Erika, amused by her own thoughts, looked quite happy.

“Although he is an exhibitionist, it’s not suitable to leave him here, right?”

————Dividing Line: Desert Apostle—————

Just by stepping out for a bit, he found a King Beast, an enemy he once resented, and accomplished a dream to a degree. Excitement filled Ashe.

“Woo-hoo!”

Standing atop the giant shark transformed into a surfboard, Ashe faced the intolerable G-force with a smile, racing across the sea of sand!

This speed, this exhilaration!

I love this; surfing ignoring all terrain is incredibly thrilling!

“What is he doing?”

Putting down the binoculars, Scorpion Lena, who was about to go out and look for Pretty Cures again, looked bewildered.

“Who knows, probably making a fool of himself again.”

Cobra Saga didn’t seem particularly interested in Ashe bringing back a King Beast. To him, only things affecting his beauty mattered. Staying here to watch some masked idiot performing surfing stunts seemed less appealing than going back to sleep.

“Ugh…”

Throwing her binoculars to Snaikies, Spider Gaki made a decision.

Decided, she would buy herself a surfboard, the current training would be done at sea!

“Let’s go.”

After testing the speed and strength, Ashe wasn’t greedy and put the only magic bullet into his pocket. He had something else to do.

Ashe didn’t take away this person’s magic key. Considering his style, taking everything away at once wasn’t his thing. He preferred sustainable, long-term actions.

But apparently, destiny didn’t want him to stay joyful. Joy to sorrow—Ashe discovered his frequently successful closed gear gun was broken.

“I recall throwing it out casually like Daichoran before…it must have been damaged.”

If it was because of such a humorous reason, it couldn’t be worse.

This gun was a custom-made piece by him, and there was no warranty service by the Closed Dynasty either. Ashe had to use tools to disassemble the gun, hoping to fix it.

“Energy amplifier normal, conversion mechanism normal, mass converter normal… why is this broke?”

Ashe stared at the core crystal, split in half, with complete despair on his face.

If other components were broken, he might try to repair them. But with the crucial device responsible for manifesting the darkness into the great power of the super combat team broken, true repair was impossible. A replacement was necessary, but wasn’t there an idiom saying, “A capable housewife can’t cook without rice”?

No wonder he hadn’t used this thing during critical moments in the previous world—it was broken.

Slumped in his chair, Ashe started missing Taimons and Zikanryu.

“Taimons.”

The man in white with a mask called out, stopping Taimons, as Dr. Shabak observed the man facing him.

“Taimons, what did you do to Dark Cure—”

“Oh, it’s doctor, you came just in time!”

With a blink of an eye, Shabak was pulled by Ashe to sit where Ashe was previously, staring dumbfounded at the parts scattered on the table.

“This gun is broken, I need you to please fix it, please, this is very important to me!”

“You—”

By the time Shabak turned his head, the person behind him had vanished.

“…”

After a moment of pause, Shabak finally picked up the shattered crystal on the table. Yet, unnoticed by him, among the scattered parts lay a tiny gadget, flickering with red lights.