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Episode 37

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Summertime Render OP/Opening 2 Full『Natsuyume Noisy (夏夢ノイジー)』by Asaka

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Venari Strigas · Yuki Kajiura

"...I saw you die."

"Ah?!"

Hana Nono widened her eyes. She was still holding George's face with her delicate hands, and her hands, the moment she heard the words, brought a feeling of shock that graced her magenta eyes and deeply troubled face. Her hands now turn to one of great caress that tried to give comfort to the young man who had been crying. She was troubled for George and for the shocking news that would send every one of the PreCure and their mascots in shock, with some making serious expressions to accompany their shock, with some that are so shaken that they cannot even imagine that kind of thing happening, with some having their hearts stop that they do not even know how to express what they are feeling by now except feeling a terrible chill down their spine.

Shintarou Nono, who was the closest to him, was shocked by this sudden news. So was his wife, Sumire Nono, and his daughter, Kotori Nono, and his mother-in-law, Tanpopo Anno. They were looking back and forth between George and Hana, and they were drawing near to them. The HUGtto! PreCure Team were all in shock as they drew near as well. Similar to many others, they just could not fathom what they had heard from George's mouth just now.

Hagumi Kurai, who was very near to George, held on to him, was in shock as well, wondering what he could have meant when he said that she saw her die. Hariham Harry was also in shock as well.

No one was speaking anything for the past few moments. And then, Shintarou, while shaken by this information as he felt his heart almost stopping, would ask gently but was interlaced in worry. "...Wha...What do you mean by that, George?"

"That's right, what do you mean by that? What do you mean you saw Hana-chan..." Homare Kagayaki asked in worry.

George looked at them, feeling contrite as if blaming himself for what had happened.

"...I think..." Kiriya Irizawa, being near George, would ask with a grimaced expression. "...I think you need to show them, not just tell them, so that they can understand. Tell them about...what happened. We'll share our own memories on the matter too."

"Besides, we were there too when it happened, aibou, so this one is on all of us, and that means we stick together on this one," Tatsuya Kaname would say, also near George and Kiriya, would also show a grimacing expression, recalling that terrible moment, that terrible battle.

"...Then," Kaoruko Hanasaki would speak as her face was shown to be very serious, and was walking near to her grandson, touching his right shoulder in order to comfort him. "...the PreCure would have to know the Doom of All PreCure as well as a result."

Ichika Orimura and Keima Katsuragi, fellow Kamen Riders, would twitch and grimace. The Kaizoku Sentai Gokaigers would twitch and grimace as well. Everyone in the know throughout the control room would twitch and grimace upon hearing of it. Some of the PreCure like Honoka Yukishiro, Yukari Kotozume, Yuri Tsukikage, Setsuna Higashi, and others noticed these expressions and they can already tell that they too knew of something relating to this topic.

"The Doom...of All PreCure..." Ichika Usami muttered, a chill running down her spine while she was carrying Pekorin who was also worried and had a cold shiver ran down her spine.

"You mentioned that once before, obaa-chan," Tsubomi Hanasaki spoke with a soft, concerned tone. "The Doom of All PreCure, but you seem to imply then that there were others that could be included in this title."

"Yes, you would be correct in the general sense, Tsubomi, but..." Kaoruko nodded, confirming what her granddaughter said. But she would need to add something else. "...When I would say it in this specific context, I would say this as a particular title belonging to one individual in particular..."

"...You mean...you are referring to someone that you have in mind, someone that we need to pay attention to right now," Yuri Tsukikage spoke with a tone of care.

"She's right," Ichika Orimura brought the PreCure's and mascot's attention. His expression, while showing a serious expression, also showed that he was remembering a very darker period in his life. And in fact, it was. The darker period that every Main Heisei Kamen Rider Successor had fought, one way or another. When they fought something very terrible. "She's referring to an enemy that we—the Kamen Riders and other heroes—had fought...years ago, depending on you ask."

George Kurai breathed heavily before slowly raising his hands and touching Hana's hands.

"...Hana...otou-san...okaa-san...everyone...I have to warn you all though...that what you would all see would not be so very kind," he said.

"That's rather understating it," Tatsuya muttered grimly.

He takes a moment to look at Hana before closing his eyes. And then, there was a blank. And then, he would open his eyes. And then, they heard the clasping of thunder from above. Rain fell down in droves from the red-torn skies that no longer appeared in their natural blue color and they were accompanied by an ominous wind that was blowing from the eastern direction. And for the PreCure and the mascots, and for the Nono Family, they would see an entire city in ruins.

"...!"

They all widened their eyes as they bore witness to the terrible destruction. In fact, there were entire landmasses simply floating in the air and dark miasmic energies that lurk behind every corner.

"...Grrk."

"...!"

Everyone, especially the Nono Family, especially Hana and Hagumi, would watch as they see a very wounded and bruised George Kurai whose bleeding face was seen by them all, making their faces pale because they notice how brutally injured he was even to the point of seeing black eyes marks and a little blood coming from his mouth, with his shirt and pants appeared to have holes in them, indicating that he had been through a great ordeal. He was seen merely limping around and was walking through the ruins with a grimaced expression, and was holding a special kind of Ridewatch in his right hand. He was lightly biting his bloodied lips as he walks, looking from left to right and seeing...

...Dead bodies. Dead bodies were everywhere. Flames were everywhere. There were the charred bodies of men and women scattered in different directions. One dead body was a man of about his thirties simply hanging on a street light. Another dead body was a young woman in her twenties who was lying down from the shattered glass window of a shop. Another dead body was a high school student, a boy of about seventeen years of age, who was lying down with an expression of pain and horror on his face. And two other dead bodies appeared to be that of a young boy and girl, about the age of seven or eight, both lying down on the cold marble floor with their joined hands covered in blood that spilled on the floor, making a striking stain that is very visible for all to see.

All of the PreCure Teams were shaken to the core by what they were seeing. The sheer brutality that is present from the bodies that they see. It made many of them feel like they were about to puke due to the state of the bodies that they find. Some were even flinching.

Kotori Nono was terrified by what she was seeing. embracing George.

"...Wha...What is this, na nodesu?" Emiru Aisaki was horrified as she embraced Ruru Amour who was also horrified by what she was seeing.

"...This is terrible," Ribbon was horrified, along with her fellow PreCure mascots.

"What...What is this?!" Akira Kenjou muttered in silent horror and outrage as she sees every dead body in sight.

"...This is," Ichika Orimura muttered softly, narrowing his eyes.

"Ah," Keima Katsuragi nodded, narrowing his eyes. "It was that battle."

"That battle?" Hibiki Hojo asked, her face showing an expression of dread.

"...Hana, my other self never told you much about what had happened in the future, right?" George asked. Hana did not say anything, only looking at him and listening. Every PreCure Team was listening. "You were all told that something happened that had led to this future happening. You were told that it was not my other self that stopped time for the future, it's the people from that time that did that, and that toge power spread throughout the world because of them, that even when civilization evolved, humanity as a whole of course did not, and the asu power, the hope for tomorrow, would drift further and further away, and thus time came to a halt. But..."

George muttered, his eyes darkening. "That is not the whole story. First things first, you should all ask yourselves this one question. Whatever happened to all of the PreCure in the future? Surely there would have been PreCure that would have been fighting for this future, that is aside from Hagumi and her team of course." As George mentioned her name, Hagumi Kurai paid closer attention. "The answer is simple. There were none."

"Eh?!" All of the PreCure Teams responded in shock.

"What do you mean, George-kun?!" Erika Kurumi asked.

George, in response, looked at her with a pained expression, before looking at Hagumi who felt troubled. "Hagumi, what exactly do you know about all of the times when your mother had fought as a PreCure?"

"...Only just in stories, papa, and that was when I was only little," Hagumi muttered seriously.

"Eh? Papa?" Shintarou asks as he, his wife, his youngest daughter, and his mother-in-law, with surprised and confused expressions, were looking back and forth between George and Hagumi. A right hand on the shoulder was felt by Shintarou, making him turn around to find Doctor Traum smiling empathetically.

"It's a long complicated story," Doctor Traum said.

"All I could remember from papa, the other one back in my time, was that he told me that she had died just when I was about two years old. Years later, I did some investigation and figured out that my mother, along with her team, had tried her best to contain whatever had happened throughout the world. A resurgence of Oshimaida had spread throughout various places around the globe, and she and her team were stretched thin to respond to all of them. People would call this time which lasted for about thirty years give or take as the Oshimaida Crisis, at least starting around sometime before the year 2020 before it escalated into a full blown problem."

"And no other PreCure Team was seemingly responding to it?" George asked again.

"...No," Hagumi became troubled. "Not since...another calamity in the past had happened at least before my mother became a PreCure."

"A calamity, mepo?!" Mepple asked in worry.

"What kind of calamity, mipo?!" Mipple asked in worry.

"No one knows what it was exactly, not even in my time, if only because of the scarcity of the information surrounding it," Hagumi explained. "What is known is that when it does happen, no one would foresee it coming. It was like the beginning of a typhoon that would sweep around the globe. Major cities throughout the world like Tokyo, Beijing, New York, and others were swept by this calamity. Vehicles and aircraft were found scattered throughout land and sea. Dead bodies were littered everywhere. Neither the many governments nor the militaries throughout the world could have seen it coming. The only thing left behind was death and destruction of a massive scale that had millions of people perishing all around the world."

"Wait, no one?" Nozomi Yumehara asked with a troubled tone. "As in, nobody knew what the actual threat was, no one being able to shoot it in a camera, no one talking about it in the news, nothing?"

"And what about the PreCure? How did they respond to this calamity?" Coco asked.

"I'm not sure what happened," Hagumi responded. "But there is only one common story that the people of the future like myself had known regarding the world's known superheroines. That the PreCure had disappeared during the calamity and they died fighting it."

"...Eh," every one of the PreCure was in shock.

"Has your father told you anything specific about...how your mother died?" George asked, continuing the conversation.

Hagumi shook her head in the negative. "He never told me specifics. The only things that I found out were that she and her team were facing a kind of calamity that was threatening the entire world. And it was the same kind of calamity that had visited the world several years ago. Why papa? What's wrong?" Hagumi did not like where these questions were leading. It seemed like her papa was trying to tell her something, warn her about something.

"There's something about this entire conversation that's related to whatever we're about to see," Hariham Harry said with a serious expression, walking towards George. "You know, don't you? You know what the calamity is."

"...Not just what, but who," George muttered darkly.

The Nono Family, especially for Shinatoru and Sumire Nono, and for Hana Nono and Hagumi Kurai, noticed the dark subtle tone that was spoken by George, seeing him coldly narrowing his eyes while watching his younger self limping as his body would slowly but surely heal from all of his injuries, with the only thing left from him was the dried up blood from his skin and clothes. They and the Precure Teams would also look at Tatsuya Kaname and Kiriya Irizawa, with dark expressions on their face, as if being reminded of this time was something they rather not want to experience ever again.

The young eleven to twelve-year-old George Kurai was seen just walking down the steps and would see a worn-out eleven to twelve-year-old Tatsuya Kaname who was lying on the floor, detransformed, with his clothing being of a similar state to George. If there were wounds and bleeding, it had probably already healed by now.

Past George would be seen running towards Past Tatsuya and putting a left hand under his right shoulder in order to support Tatsuya standing up. Tatsuya looked at him. Both were silent and never spoke a word. They only had to use their eyes and the expressions on their faces are more than enough to make them understand each other, showing the strong bond that they have even in this terrible darkness that they are now facing.

Both of them were carrying their own special kind of Ridewatch. They nodded. Then they would begin to walk towards a clock-like portal that George conjured. They would walk towards the portal and steeling their nerves, prepare themselves to meet the other side.

And thus, the scene changes. Now, the PreCure Teams and the Nono Family would bear witness to a chilling confrontation.

"...!"

They noticed that someone was there. And there were...dead bodies of six to seven-year-old children that were seen lying on the ground along with a few female adults. They were probably elementary school students and teachers judging by their casual clothing and professional attire. And the flowers on the ground and the nearby trees had already withered its petals and leaves, as if a very unholy presence had managed to suck the life out of them. There were countless flames and smoke rising throughout the red cracked atmosphere. Overall, it made for a haunting scene that would make a deep impression on all of the PreCure and the Nono Family.

But this someone was not human...

It was a tall humanoid, about eight feet tall, having insectoid features, including his horns, beak-length mouth, five-toed feet, five-fingered hands, and segmented armor, all with black and silver color linings. But as the humanoid creature turned around, it was his eyes that struck every one of the PreCure, the slitted yellow pupils with no visible irises and silver sclera that would only look at the two Kamen Riders as if he were expecting them.

"...Who.."

"...Is that...?"

Both Hikaru Hoshina and Nodoka Hanadera muttered, feeling a very real sense of terror just by looking into his cold, calculating eyes that they could not discern the intentions of. She did not know why, but she feels that what she is seeing is someone very dangerous. A chill ran down their spines. The rest of their fellow Star Twinkle and Healin' Good Teams were also shivering in fear, with some like Madoka Kaguya and Chiyu Sawaizumi even having the urge to step back. And the haunting scene of dead bodies and flames was not helping and only serve to emphasize the grim darkness of what they were bearing witness to.

"Hey, isn't that..." Tarte, while horrified about the scene that he was seeing, noticed something that was in the creature's right hand. He pointed it out to his fellow Precure mascots. It was a pink glow stick that had a star in its center.

"...a Miracle Light," EnEn, one of the fairy partners of Ayumi Sakagami - Cure Echo, said in shock.

And finally...

"That...is the one behind the calamity..." George would speak as his eyes narrowed with a subtle kind of darkness, and the entire Nono Family and those nearby would notice it. His fists were clenching. His body was trembling silently. "...No, he is the calamity, the one behind the disappearance of the PreCure, and the death of millions, and so much more."

As he explained, the monster, the one behind the calamity, would speak with an analytical tone.

"Do you see this object, Kamen Riders?" He said. "I know that you both can recognize it. A Miracle Light. Once, it was being mass produced by the inhabitants of Planet Miracle in their sophisticated factories. They were designed, in every origin, shape, and form, to come to the aid of the PreCure when they are most in need of it, and depending on what they need, they could be given a little boost, or something of a more unorthodox approach like perhaps taking care of something that could threaten the entire universe. And yet..."

As the monster continued. He would slowly crush the Miracle Light with his bare hand, and it would spurt off sparkles and light energy that would turn into a terrible pitch black, making all of the PreCure and the Nono Family shocked to see such a gesture. One that was capable of simply destroying a Miracle Light. Not just anyone can do that kind of gesture.

"...It did not help them much when they all fought against me."

And as he said that, he would casually throw the crumbs of the deceased Miracle Light that now scatters like dust that would be blown by the wind.

For the monster's name is Nullus Nihilum.

The Doom of All PreCure.

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Kamen Rider 4 [Time - Mitsuru Matsuoka]