Chapter 453

The hundred and eighty-eighth: Please grant the crucifix to the black girl who has lost her heart.

“Father….Ash….Finally, finally….”

It’s so cold….My body is so cold, please, I beg you….

If possible, please hold me tightly in the end, don’t let me die alone in this freezing world with CureMoonlight.

Even if I am someone without a heart, even if I am a battle weapon created by the Desert Apostle for the destruction of the world, at least….at least, I hope I could close my eyes warm in a person’s embrace….

Ha, as expected….it’s just my delusion, right?

“Little Dark.”

It seems like I felt something.

It seems like I felt some familiar warmth approaching, solid arms wrapping around me….

“Are you okay?….Hey, Little Dark, are you still alive? Answer me!”

How strange….Even though I am on the verge of death, those blurry voices are gradually starting to gain awareness, is it a sign before death?

With昏迷不醒的月影百合 on his back, he uses his hands to go through Xiao An’s armpits and legs, also picking her up.

At this moment, the girl he holds in his arms is disappearing in a way he doesn’t want to see, starting from the edges of the Dark Girl’s body, the dark corners of her clothes and fingertips start to crumble like overly roasted cookies, turning into black dust that scatter with the wind.

“I’m sorry….I am after all just….a replica….I really disappointed you….”

But, being able to see such an anxious expression on your face feels like I didn’t regret it….

Ash….Because of you, it’s really because of you….

“For me, she is her, and you are you! You two are distinctly different existences!”

Hearing the words of the Dark Pretty Cure that sounded like a farewell, Ash also got flustered, thinking that he should cheer her up instead of giving up her life so easily, thus showing her the true feelings he had never expressed.

“Hehe…I didn’t expect you to say something so tender….”

What he received was an absolutely beautiful smile from Xiao An towards him.

Ash was truly flustered. In fact, throughout watching the whole scene, he didn’t expect that the Dark Pretty Cure would completely exhaust herself to deal the final blow to Lily, not even giving him a chance to intervene.

Planning can’t account for everything that happens.

“When I told you I needed you back then, it still applies now too! I need you to help me, what would happen if you collapsed before me?”

“Hey, don’t give me those last words like you accept dying without regrets!”

“Hey——”

Ash’s calling seemed to have no effect. The girl in his arms seemed to become more fragile, just as if a certain purple sweet potato snapped its fingers.

Maintaining a smile on her face while losing her breath, the Dark Pretty Cure couldn’t control her countless particles of ash even if she tried to hold them with her hands, and they drifted away.

This kind of thing… feels like it’s not happening for the first time…

Seems like there was another instance, where someone similar to her vanished without a trace, becoming nothing but sand, dead without a trace.

But, this does not mean he would just watch as this keeps repeating!

“Dark Pretty Cure! Xiao An! I forbade you to just be content to fall asleep alone, did you hear me?!”

“You can’t die, didn’t you said you found the meaning of existence? I forbade you to just die like that, do you understand?!”

Doctors maintain their connection to dying patients by repeatedly calling their names. Although Ash realized that words alone couldn’t cause miracles, things were what Pretty Cure excelled in, not him.

What he excelled in was making sure that under situations without miracles, the result wouldn’t end up being complete tragedy— in other words, giving it a try—

“System!”

[Are you sure? It will make part of your efforts in vain here. Isn’t this something you hate the most?]

“What I hate even more is seeing regrets happening again!”

“Grr…”

At the brink of death, the Dark Pretty Cure suddenly felt a wetness at her lips, something hot, fresh, and sweet flowed in through the corner of her mouth, filling her limbs with its presence.

There seemed to be a voice asking her something.

“Do you regret it?”

“The only thing I won’t regret is meeting you…”

With the unconscious Tsubakikage Lily on her back, and the dark pretty cure in her chest, she stepped onto the beast king V-Rider “Water Shark” which had been summoned early, and followed her inner guidance, surfing towards a certain direction using the waves under her feet.

Ash couldn’t help but sigh deeply.

What genius am I talking about….Even though I am with you, I feel myself getting dumber. Yet…

“I am proud to be able to change your fate, to meet you all.”

At that moment, slightly far from them, a “farce” was unfolding in the central hospital of Hope Flower City.

“Robbery! Robbery!”

Clad in an American West Coast style, an outfit that didn’t exist in this world, Kayin covered in bandages from Wuki and kicked the panicked medical staff near the empty operating table out with fist-sized kicks that felt like loaves of bread.

“Hey—Police! Help, there’s someone here—” “Uwa!”

Before the person could finish warning someone via mobile phone, there was a crisp gunshot, a hole appeared in the device, turning it into a brick, with a frightening black barrel pointing in the distance.

“If you don’t want trouble, don’t go spouting nonsense that will get you into trouble!”

Holding an Emission Rifle larger than himself, the little one pulled the trigger, blowing air into the muzzle afterwards, and shot at the window a few times more. Watching as terrified doctors and patients screamed and fled at the sight of this, Kayin yelled out with a gangster-like voice.

“Since your hospital doesn’t have any surgeries scheduled today, these devices will temporarily be reclaimed by the demons, so get out of here!”

Cells produced by Guvief produce evil seals that create parts of the body into demonic forms. But are these beings that we call “demons” truly evil?

The demon derived from Ash’s body, Kayin, inherited the traits of its original owner, and never pondered pointless things. It simply acted methodically to help its master avoid regrets.

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