The 139th Chapter Makoto P, you miserable guy!
The first one to snap out of the past illusion was Makoto Kanzaki.
Before her was her beloved princess, sitting in the audience seats were the people of the Spade Kingdom whom she should protect. Closing her eyes, she could feel the expectations of the princess and the people’s reverence for the legendary warrior.
Upon careful reflection, this indeed was the most profound and beautiful thing in her life.
But she already knew what would happen afterward; she had made up her mind to face the future bravely and naturally didn’t want to continue avoiding it.
Furthermore, Dabi was even “sent” by someone to directly tell her the truth.
“What’s wrong, Makoto? You seem listless.”
For the first time, Makoto contradicted her “princess.”
“Princess, stop this. Isn’t all of this fake?”
Silence—————
At the moment the illusion was exposed, the entire world paused, including her princess, everyone stopped. They discarded their disguises derived from their memories and returned to their original forms, human puppets pretending to be humans.
“It’s all fake!”
“What a pity. If only we pretended not to know anything, we could have been happy. But since we’ve woken up, there’s no choice but to deal with you!”
With an announcement of war from the enemy, all the puppets moved again, turning their limbs into weapons and charging towards the center where Cure Sword (Makoto) had transformed.
The puppet disguised as the princess in front of Makoto also instantly took action, lifting her指尖刺 at Makoto.
“I’m very sorry, but I can’t afford to be weak any longer, nor do I need such false happiness anymore!”
The princess had “vanished” for the sake of this world, and her resolve to protect the princess has been lifted. Now, I must fight! For the sake of facing the future together with my companions!
A purple glow flashed, and Makoto caught the wrist of the princess puppet’s incoming hand. With clenched fists, she unleashed a furious punch, sending the “princess”’s head, which lacked any features, flying.
“And don’t pretend to be her, you’re nothing like her!”
A neat leg sweep cleanly split apart the puppet that had approached, her thigh in purple boots smashing it like an axe.
“That person changed me completely!”
Clenching her fist, determination burned in Makoto’s heart.
I will never lose now!
“Guhaaa————!”
The massive puppet’s arm spun like a drill, sweeping down. Unable to dodge while in mid-air, Makoto lifted her arms to defend herself and got struck by an unstoppable force, crashing into the rubble.
“Sword——Ah!”
Upon seeing her companion’s fate, ACE called out in shock, and for a moment’s distraction, she too was severely injured and sent flying.
“Damn it, never ending!”
Struggling under the massive stone slab weighing hundreds of tons on top of her and ACE, Sword gritted her teeth and faced the situation with a pained expression.
Despite having disorganized rag dolls as enemies easily defeated, the humanoid monster, who was the enemy commander modeled like a mannequin, could mimic her battle tactics and abilities, causing her no small amount of trouble.
Although they finally defeated the model’s physical body along with unknown CureACE, the broken model surprisingly entered phase two, absorbing all the nearby puppets before transforming into a super giant puppet, overpowering them both with unmatched size and strength.
“Are you okay, ACE?” Quickly helping up the fallen ACE beside her, Makoto asked worriedly.
Knowing that Akuri was also part of the princess, Makoto had been extremely considerate toward her ever since.
“I’m fine, I’m the ace—the ACE!” Smiling brightly with her crimson lips, ACE gave Makoto a thumbs-up.
Now fully integrated into the team, Akuri’s relationship with the other four Pretty Cures also improved.
“Would the transformation timing pose a problem?”
“No issues, the Golden Crown provides power, so there’s no concern about transformation timing.”
Supporting each other, the two stood against the massive puppet-like creature, taking combat poses.
“How about surrendering? It might be smarter.”
“The Pretty Cures don’t know how to surrender!”
However, then, how to defeat her? Calm down, Makoto, think back to the tactics you learned while training with him—
“Boom boom boom—!”
“Ash!”
Familiar gunshots rang out, the puppet’s face exploded, and Makoto instinctively called out his name before realizing this was her memory world where he couldn’t possibly exist.
“That’s right, it’s me.”
Wow—
Makoto’s expression stiffened in an instant. What is happening? Is he really here? What does this mean? Does it mean I care so much about him that even here I would think of him? No, I don’t want these feelings!
“Makoto, this isn’t a memory, it’s real, he’s here.”
“Ah?”
ACE patted her shoulder, bringing her back to reality.
Above, Ash stood on one leg in a Santa suit, looking down at her, with smoke still rising from his sealed gear gun.
“Why are you here? Matthew should have captured you!”
The puppet clearly seemed equally surprised at Ash’s appearance.
“Sorry, if I don’t want to be caught, no one can catch me. Now, Makoto!”
Ash suddenly called out to her, Makoto turned in astonishment to look at him, waiting for him to speak.
“Makoto, get up for the poor guy, kick the enemies’ butts!”
“Haaaaah!??”
The color drained from Makoto’s face instantly, and then she was enraged, her face flushing red.
“Why—!?”
“Don’t get so heated up, after all, you agreed yourself—oh, don’t throw a spade sword over here.”
Seeing the crossroad appearing on her forehead, Makoto growled in frustration.
This isn’t over, is it?
“I can handle it without your help, let’s go, ACE!”
“Ha ha.”
Akuri, not getting the reference, could only awkwardly chuckle and follow.
“Stop saying that. Even though it’s not Christmas today.”
Looking at the battered Makoto being beaten around by the powerful enemy, Ash inserted a gear into something.
“But I’ve brought you a Christmas gift early. Dark Summon!”
A new hero statue was summoned, its surface cracked open, revealing silver armor underneath.
“[Bla↘de↗!]”
“Ugh—!”
Sitting on the ground, Makoto quickly crossed her hands to defend, preparing to counter the next attack. However, no expected attack came. Opening her eyes, she saw a silver knight with a sword blocking the enemy’s assault.
Swords and the giant puppet’s arms collided, sparks flying, shining brilliantly like the armor of a Western knight. The patterns on her slightly yellow rhinoceros beetle helmet looked like making a cute face at Makoto.
“You’re…..”
“Makoto, this is Masked Rider Blade!” Akuri shouted excitedly, recognizing the knight. “He’s Masked Rider Blade, Kenji Iwasaki!”
What—? He’s also named Iwasaki?!
Seeing the black spade emblem on his body, Blade (Blade) and Sword (Sword) as battle names, and the same surname, Makoto understood why Ash used to ask strangely if she was Iwasaki Kenji’s sister.
This is indeed quite a coincidence.
Though not knowing what Ash is plotting now, Makoto temporarily accepted his kindness, lifting her sharp saber, standing side by side with BLADE, and smiling.
“Let’s work together, seniors with the name of cards and blades.”
Hearing Makoto’s words, Blade, supposedly a puppet, froze minutely.
Watching the friendly interaction below, before heading towards the others’ worlds, Ash called out.
“Iwasaki, as a fellow namesake, I’ll temporarily entrust this idol-type rider to you. Get serious about it! ”
“…..”
Together with ACE, Blade grappled with the enemy’s strength, took out several cards, and inserted them into the awakening fusion device on his wrist.
“[AbsorbQueen]”
“[EvolutionKing]”
Several awakening cards automatically flew and integrated into the armor, coloring it with imperial gold. The heavy punch sent the enemy flying, and the golden rider—[Masked Rider Blade Emperor Form]—made its entry!
