"I'm off to school! Bye-!"
"I can't believe you would cancel like that!"
Hiromi jumped in alarm, standing by the front door. That sudden shout had been Kiyomi, most definitely. But what did she have to be mad about so early in the day?
A quick glance at Emi, who stood in the kitchen over a pot of curry, told her that her sister didn't know either. Emi glanced at Hiromi, placed a finger over her lips, and edged towards the hallway where the phone sat. As both she and Hiromi, quickly joined by the two other sisters, peered around the corner, they all saw Kiyomi speaking angrily on the phone to someone.
"I've been looking forward to this movie for a week! And you pick the day before the premiere to cancel?!" There was a pause as the other person spoke. "No, I don't want to hear any excuses! You don't even have an emergency or a schedule-change, you just don't wanna date me anymore!" Pause. "Well, fine, if that's how you feel!" Kiyomi slammed the phone down, muttering "Jerk!" under her breath.
The others ducked away as she approached, trying to act casual. Kiyomi sighed, then grasped Hiromi by the shoulders. "Little sis!" she said.
"Ah, y-yes?"
"Never ever date men! They're rude and pushy and they won't listen to you, and you'll just fight all the time!"
"Kiyomi, you had one fight..." muttered Harumi, tapping her fingernails against the wall.
"Once you fight, that's it!"
Hiromi chuckled sheepishly as she edged out of her sister's grip. "Ahaha...you don't have to worry about that, Kiyomi." Aki's way nicer than a guy...and there's nothing to fight about!
Her smile faltered a bit, however, as she remembered a few instances from earlier. Aki suddenly announcing what she wanted to do, without asking Hiromi; suggesting they watch a different movie instead of the one they'd agreed on earlier... But it was still okay!
Right?
OP: "Love and Joy PreCure" - Entwined Hearts Duo
"Okay! Hiromi!"
Hiromi looked up as Aki approached her desk, a broad smile on her face. "Aki?"
"So, Hiromi! Let's get hamburgers!"
"Eh?" Hiromi frowned. "But-"
"I really feel like a hamburger today, ahaha~" laughed Aki, touching her lips with a fingertip and smiling. "So hey, let's go get some, huh?"
Hiromi...frowned. This...
"I was thinking we can get the bacon hamburgers, and the chili-cheese fries, those are super-good, and we'll get two huge strawberry shakes-"
Aki..! "Why's it gotta be what you want?" snapped Hiromi.
The few remaining students looked over to where Hiromi and Aki were, confused by the sudden increase in noise. Neither girl seemed to notice, staring at each other; Aki with confusion and Hiromi with irritation.
"I don't want to get a hamburger! I didn't want to a few days ago and I don't want to today!" Hiromi huffed.
Aki stared...then shrugged. "Okay, so let's go get ice-cream-"
"I don't want that either!"
"Argh, then what do you want?" snapped Aki, hands going to her hips. She wasn't smiling anymore. "What do you wanna eat?"
"I don't! I don't wanna eat somewhere with you, Aki, not today and not right now! You're always doing what you want!"
"Hey, that is so not true! And what's with this hostile attitude all of a sudden, huh? Geez, normally you're way quieter and more polite than this."
"So now you don't like how I act? You just want me to be a pushover?!"
"That's not what I meant and you know it!"
"Yes it is!"
"You know, if you're gonna act like this, then I don't wanna eat with you today!" Aki yelled, face red.
"Good, because I didn't want to in the first place! And maybe if you listened to me more, you would have heard me when I said it the first time!" Hiromi yelled, then grabbed her bag and ran from the room. "You never listen to me, Aki!" she yelled over her shoulder.
"Yes I do! You're just being a brat right now!" Aki shouted back, the redness in her face having reached her ears. Furiously, she stormed back to her desk, snatched up her bag, and marched out of the room.
Everyone remaining glanced at each other in confusion. What had that been about?
TODAY'S EPISODE: Are We Breaking Up? Our Love Story Can't End This Fast!
The next day at school, Aki approached Hiromi's desk – at least, she made it halfway there. Abruptly, she stopped, blinked, and then walked back to her own desk with an uncomfortable look on her face. Silently, she made her way to her own desk, set down her school bag, and sat with her chin in one hand.
Hiromi bit her lower lip and turned to look out the window instead of at Aki, still silent.
Mirai frowned and leaned over, tapping Hiromi's shoulder. "Hey...hey, Hiromi?" she whispered. "Are things okay? Usually Aki comes over to talk to you before class..."
"Y-yeah, usually..." Hiromi mumbled into her hand. "We, uhm...didn't even meet before class today."
"You do that?" asked Mirai, blinking. Hiromi blushed in embarrassment, but Mirai didn't seem to notice, and prodded on. "What happened? Aki's our friend, she always comes over to talk to us! What happened?"
"We uhm, we had an argument..."
"Okay?"
"And uhm...yeah, we just had a fight. Okay?" Hiromi's words had a slight edge to them, and it made Mirai draw her hand back and stare. But before she could say anything further, Mrs Matoko entered the room with a loud sigh.
"Okay, everyone, back to your seat- oh." She stopped, blinking when she realized the people she normally had to say that to were already in their seats. "Ah, well then. Very good. Okay, today for Literature, I want us to talk about the story of Orpheus and Eurydice..."
Shylock wandered through Heartbreak Manor, his footsteps echoing around the empty corridor. He passed by a large picture window that provided an excellent view of the River Despair – as all the windows did. But he didn't look out at it.
He had more pressing things on his mind.
The girl with the long hair – Otome – turned around when she heard him coming, her expression breaking into a huge smile. "Shylock! I'm so glad to see you!" she cried, running towards him.
Shylock's grip tightened on his scarf as he slowed to a stop.
"...it's not here," he whispered to himself. "I've checked everywhere, and it's not-"
He saw something gleaming from the corner of his eye. Turning towards the end of the hall, he saw a large mirror, one that went from ceiling to floor, and an ornate black frame: swirls and curlicues and waves. As he stared, the light seemed to catch on the glass again, a brief glimmer going across its surface.
"What if..." he began to say, reaching for the mirror's surface.
"Shylock."
The young man turned away from the mirror in slight surprise – the cloaked figure hadn't appeared in the mirror's surface. "Break," he said simply, dropping to one knee and bowing his head. "I didn't expect to see you out."
"I'm not confined to one room, dear boy..." Break intoned, stepping forward so fluidly they may as well have been gliding. They were tall, head nearly brushing the ceiling, and their hooded cloak was so dark, even when they passed in front of the window, none of their features could be seen. None but the glowing red eyes, like two coals from a sea of blackness. They stopped directly before Shylock, staring as if sizing him up.
Or perhaps, attempting to read his mind.
"I have been worried about you still," they said after a long silence.
Shylock looked up.
"You don't travel outside the Manor very often. I have to send you away myself. And when you do leave..." Break paused thoughtfully, letting the words sink in. "When you do leave, you do not create Usotsuki. I have only seen you create one. Furthermore, you were seen speaking to a friend of Pretty Cure, as if...as if she were a friend of yours as well." Break's head lowered somewhat, those red eyes staring down into Shylock's green. "I dearly hope that is not the case."
"It is not."
"Because contrary to what Lady might have told you, you are not entirely off the hook." Break's voice became low, and hissing. They stooped down even lower, staring directly into Shylock's eyes. "I doubted your loyalty from the beginning, but you were able to only slightly allay my worries. I thought, 'perhaps he just needed a chance to prove himself,' and I agreed to your little request, provided you did your duty. But you did not. You do not go to the human world, you do not create Usotsuki nor do you create despair. You skitter about, in the shadows, like a cockroach and when you do appear, you hover by Ariel's door.
Perhaps I should go back on my word..."
"No!" Shylock's voice came out louder than he intended. Hastily, he bowed his head again in a display of humility, and spoke in a lower tone that he hoped didn't betray his nerves. "No, please. You promised me you would spare her – I am grateful for this, I truly am, just give me another-"
"Today."
"N-No, not today," Shylock spoke thickly. "I need – allow me to formulate a plan. Then I will-"
Break straightened up, but continued to stare down at Shylock. "Very well," they said. "But that will be your last chance. Do not disappoint me. Riche!"
Riche stepped from around the corner, tugging on his collar awkwardly. He hadn't thought Break had noticed him, hiding around the corner, but...well. "Yes, My Lord."
"You shall go."
Riche bowed, sending Shylock a warning look from behind Break's back. "Yes."
As the final bell rang, three students glanced at each other before looking to either Hiromi or Aki. Mirai bit at her lower lip as Hiromi simply gathered her things and left...without waiting for Aki. Yuki and Antoinette, meanwhile, echanged worried glances as Aki didn't seem to notice.
The three of them seemed to have a short, mental conversation. Mirai glanced at the two of them and subtly jerked her head at Aki. Yuki's lip curled and he shook his head, then tilted it at Antoinette. Antoinette gaped at him, then at Mirai, then looked back at Yuki. The boy shook his head, first at her and then at Mirai. Mirai frowned and jerked her head again; Yuki held his hands out palm-up. He turned to Antoinette again, shaking his head a second time as she gave him a pointed look and raised an eyebrow. Finally he sighed quietly, and looked over at Aki. "So, uh...you're still mad at Hiromi, eh?"
Aki blinked. "It's-!" she began, then stopped, and sighed. "It's not...that I'm mad,, it's that..."
"That?" Antoinette prompted, cycling her hand.
"Well...we fought. We're not supposed to do thing like, like go home together anymore, right?"
The other three stared.
"Or eat together, alone – that's kinda intimate, right? I mean...I mean we fought and we never fought before and that means-" Aki suddenly halted, face turning red. "Ah...ah, never mind! I'll see you all tomorrow!" She hastily bowed, and fled the room.
Yuki clicked her tongue before glancing at the other two girls. "Okay, she's totally dating Hiromi," he deadpanned.
"Wait, what?!" Antoinette screeched.
"I was beginning to think so too..." Mirai admitted softly, nodding.
"What?!"
"But I don't get what the big deal is. So they had a little argument, that's no reason to just shut each other out altogether. That's not how relationships work, is it?"
"I didn't think so...I mean, my mom and dad have little fights all the time and they're fine."
"Seriously, you two, what?"
Yuki sighed and folded his arms. "Maybe Aki's not used to this. I mean, I can't even remember the last time I argued with her."
"You think they'll be okay?"
"If they're still being stupid tomorrow, we'll talk to them."
Antoinette slammed her hands on her desk. "Am I the only one who didn't notice this?!" she screeched.
Miho was out front, tossing a ball to Pochi when Hiromi walked past. She smiled brightly, and began to wave at her. "Heeey, Hiromi, you wanna- eh?" Miho stopped suddenly, and frowned. Something wasn't right... Hiromi was walking with her schoolbag dangling from limp fingers, her head down and her eyes unfocused. She wasn't even walking so much as she was shuffling, dragging her feet along the sidewalk.
Even Pochi seemed concerned, tilting his head and whimpering.
"Hiromi?"
"A-Ah, Miho!" Hiromi looked up, forcing a smile. "S-Sorry, I didn't notice you."
"Yeah...hey, it something up? What's th' matter?"
"Eh?"
Miho narrowed her eyes slightly and put her hands on her hips. "Oh c'mon, don't play dumb. Hiromi, you're an open book, and right now your story is miserable."
Hiromi blinked and looked away. "W-Well, you see-"
"Something came up."
The other girls looked up to see Aki standing there, her own expression as downcast as Hiromi's. Soon, however, she smiled, tilting her head cutely. "S-So ah...w-we're rethinking our relationship."
Hiromi's hands tightened on the handle of her schoolbag. "That's- ...yeah," she mumbled.
"Wait. You broke up?!" Miho gasped, and even Pochi started whining again. "But – but you guys looked so cute! And wh-what's this mean for Pretty Cure?!"
"Oh, we're still a team!" said Hiromi hastily. "Just...I mean, I don't think we should be dating anymore...is all."
"Y-Yeah..." mumbled Aki. "Hey, ah, look, I gotta get home soon-"
"I thought you wanted burgers!" Hiromi said before she could stop herself.
Aki bit her lip for a moment, then forced another smile and laughed. "Ah, I'm not hungry anymore... Anyhoo, gotta get home! See ya!" And with that she took off down the street.
"M-me too!" Hiromi said, taking off as well.
"Wait! You two, heeey!" Miho yelled after them, but neither of them seemed to hear her. She sighed in exasperation, and looked down at Pochi. "You know, Pochi, romance is weird. That's why I avoid it altogether."
Pochi barked his agreement.
Emma was wiping down the table for dinner when she heard the door open and close. "Ah, young miss! Welcome-"
Fast footfalls ran down the hall, up the stairs, and then there was the sound of a door slamming.
"...home?" Emma blinked in worry.
Upstairs, Aki lay on her back atop her bed, one arm over her eyes. She remained in that pose for a while before rolling onto her side, catching a glimpse of a photo pinned to her bulletin board. It was another one she and Hiromi had taken at a photo booth – Hiromi was smiling awkwardly and making double-peace signs, and Aki herself hovered in the background, gently lifting up Hiromi's twintails.
"A-Aki, don't keep that one, I look horrible!" "No way~! You're super adorable, Hiromi, no matter what the circumstances. I'm keeping this!" "Akiiii, you're so mean!"
Aki repeated those words, back then meant in jest but now she wasn't so sure, to herself a few times. "Yeah...I'm really mean, aren't I? I even called her a brat..." she whispered against her pillow. Her lips quivered a bit, then she pressed her face into the pillow and softly cried.
Eyecatch 1: Hiromi and Aki pose back to back, forming a heart with their arms while Miho feverishly sketches them. Finally she smiles, and turns her sketchpad around – to reveal she's been drawing Coffee and Ti the whole time. Hiromi and Aki gape at her for a second before all three start laughing, and the Entwined Hearts logo appears in the corner.
Eyecatch 2: Miho, Hiromi, and Aki hold a large heart-shaped cookie between them; Hiromi taking the left, Aki taking the right, and Miho holding the bottom corner. They pull, and as the cookie comes apart there is a bright pink flash of light. When it fades, the trio are in their Cure forms, happily eating their cookie pieces. The Entwined Hearts logo appears in the corner.
Late in the evening, Emma had just finished cleaning the dishes when Sebastian entered the kitchen. "I've finished preparing tomorrow's breakfast menu," he said simply. Then he caught a glimpse of the one remaining plate on the counter. It was loaded up with that evening's dinner – hamburger steak with carrots and potatoes, and a small biscuit with honey-butter congealed on top. His stoic expression softened into one of sympathy as he looked at the ceiling. "She still hasn't come out of her room, then?" he asked.
Emma shook her head sadly. "I summoned her for dinner, but she said she wasn't hungry. So I left it out for her, thinking she'd be down later but..." She glanced at the clock; it read ten o'clock.
Sebastian sighed and tore the plastic wrap off the plate before setting it in the microwave. "I'll take it to her right now," he said, and began to pour a cup of milk while the food reheated. "Even if she's fallen asleep, I'll wake her up. I don't like the thought of her sleeping on an empty stomach."
"She's never like this," Emma murmured, biting her thumbnail anxiously. "What do you suppose is wrong?"
"I'm not sure." The microwave beeped, as if on cue, and Sebastian carefully removed the plate and set it on a serving tray. He quickly fetched some silverware, and placed the drink on the tray as well. "But I'll speak with her."
Aki wasn't asleep. She was just lying there, curled up in a ball, staring at nothing. Ugh, what was wrong with her? Why'd she have to call Hiromi a brat? Hiromi hadn't done anything wrong...
She replayed the conversation back in her mind. If anything...yeah, if anything, she was the one t fault, right? Just flat-out going "hey, let's get hamburger" without asking Hiromi if it was okay... For all she knew, Hiromi had homework that night, or wanted to do something else, or wanted to eat with family.
And now she'd just broken off things with her girlfriend, the cutest and nicest girl around, over hamburger.
A faint knock on the door snapped her back to the real world. "It's open," she mumbled listlessly as she sat up.
Sebastian entered the room and set her dinner on her nightstand. "You need to eat, Aki," he said simply.
"I do? What time is it?" Aki looked at the clock, blinking in surprise. "Oh."
"You didn't know?" Sebastian's expression softened again and he sat down on the edge of the bed. As Aki scooted closer to him, he spoke again. "What's wrong? You're never like this."
"I...I had a fight with someone close to me, Sebastian..." Aki mumbled. After being so tired, drained, all day, she didn't want to lie. "And now I just...I don't think we should be friends anymore."
"Why not? Did they say that?"
"Well – well, no," Aki admitted. "But I mean...we had an argument. That means we weren't as close as we thought, right? So...so I should back off, we shouldn't-"
"Did you never fight with any others before?"
"Well, maybe a few times-"
"And what happened?"
"Well, normally we apologized and things were okay but- but this person is different! They're very special and-"
Sebastian smiled. "So if they're that special and important to you...then isn't that all the more reason to apologize?"
Aki blinked. "Eh?"
Hiromi shuffled out of her room, leaving Coffee and Ti behind to watch some TV. They hadn't said anything about her argument with Aki, and she didn't want to bring it up if they weren't. She was making her way down to the kitchen for a snack when she passed Kiyomi, all dressed up and wearing make-up. "Eh? Kiyomi, what are you-?"
"Oh! Oh, I called Taki to apologize for what I said, and he told me that what he was trying to say was that he wanted to catch a later showtime. Not cancel altogether. Ahaha!" She blushed as she laughed, covering her mouth with a hand. "How embarrassing..."
Hiromi frowned. "But...but you sounded really mad on the phone earlier."
"Well, I was mad at the time, yeah. But hey, it's not the first time we argued."
Hiromi blinked. "It's...not?"
Kiyomi gave her little sister an odd look, raising one eyebrow. "Well...well, no. I mean, we've never had big fights before, just little ones, but yeah. We have all sorts of little arguments. Whose turn it was to pick the restaurant, he got mad that I scratched his car once, I got mad when he forgot his wallet...But like I said, they were all little things. At the end of the day we still love each other and we move on. A fight isn't the end of the world."
Hiromi's eyes widened a bit.
"If you truly feel sorry for something you said or did, you apologize. You don't want to lose someone so precious to you over one argument, do you?"
Aki sat there, staring at her hands, clenched into fists on her lap. Finally, she nodded, looking up at her butler with a tearful smile of gratitude. "Thanks, Sebastian," she said, hopping up.
"Where are you going?"
"I gotta find Hiromi!"
"Ah, Hiromi, it's late!" Kiyomi yelled as Hiromi ran out the door. She grabbed her sister by the arm, sighing heavily as she pulled out her cell phone. "Wait one second..." she mumbled.
Aki ran down the streets, making her way to Hiromi's house. She was breathing heavily, her arms pumping madly as she ran, but there was still a broad smile on her face. Of course... of course, she didn't need to break things off! This was one fight! There was no need to have any sort of break-up, she just had to say sorry, and if Hiromi wanted to be broken up then she'd respect it but-
But this was just one argument! This could be fixed!
She skidded to a stop as headlights approached and a car pulled up in front of her. The passenger door opened, and Hiromi burst out, nearly falling back in because she'd forgotten to unbuckle her seatbelt. After fumbling with it for a bit, she flung herself out at her girlfriend, arms open. "Aki!"
"H-Hiromi!" Aki yelled, hugging her tight.
Kiyomi stepped out of the car, smiling at the two of them. "...okay, that's cute," she muttered to herself.
"Aki, I'm sorry about what I said!"
"No, I'm sorry about what I said!"
"And I'm sorry I have to cut this short." That wasn't any of the three.
Everyone looked up to see Riche standing atop a streetlight, Heartbreak Marker in hand. He sighed, actually looking somewhat upset. "Much as you do remind me of my darling wife and I right now... Well, no hard feelings, of course? Fall into heartbreaking despair!" And before anyone could stop him, he uncapped the marker and drew a slashed heart in the air, shooting the symbol towards Kiyomi. As Kiyomi let out a loud wail and fell to her knees, crying as if her world were falling apart, Riche flung his arms out and spoke. "Your heartbreak will fill the River Despair and flood the world!"
"Kiyomi!" screamed her sister.
At Heartbreak Manor, the water over the falls suddenly turned black, frothing and churning harder than ever before it continued over the edge of the cliffside, black lightning dancing over the water's surface.
"And as for you – Fall into heartbreaking despair! Come on, Usotsuki!"
Another symbol was drawn, shot towards the car. Or, to be more precise, it shot for what was in the car. Kiyomi's door was still open, and a box of chocolate was sitting on her arm rest – apparently it had been meant for her boyfriend. The symbol attached itself to the box, and both it and the car flashed purple. When the light faded, the car had grown double its size, the headlights had become angry glowing red eyes, and – perhaps most gruesomely – the heart-shaped box of chocolate now sat against the windshield, beating and pulsing like a real heart. "USOOOO!" it roared, with a sound like an engine revving.
Aki looked frantically at Hiromi, as the latter covered her mouth in horror. "Hiromi!"
"R-Right!"
"Pretty Cure, Love's Song!"
"The innocent love in a maiden's heart, Cure Capulet!"
"The sincere love in a maiden's heart, Cure Montague!"
"Our hearts connected! Pretty Cure Entwined Hearts!"
"Get it away from my sister!" Capulet screamed, tugging Montague's wrist and prompting her to run down the street.
"USO-VROOOOOM!" The Usotsuki revved its engine again, and took off after them down the street, leaving black skidmarks in its wake.
Kiyomi was relatively safe as long as the monster was away from her, and it'd keep pursuing them, right? So the logical thing to do was run.
And that was what the Cures did, using their speed to their advantage to keep just out of the Usotsuki's reach as it chased them down with killer intent.
"Montague!" Capulet yelled again, skidding a bit as she turned a corner. "I'm sorry for snapping at you in class! I shouldn't have just yelled like that, you didn't deserve that!"
Montague grabbed Capulet's hand to help pull her along when her steps faltered a bit. "Well, you know, I'm sorry for just assuming you'd want to do what I did! I've been doing that a lot – making plans without consulting you or asking what you want first, and it's not right! We're a couple, that means we both have to be happy and your opinion matters just as mine does!
"I shouldn't have called you a brat either!" she added as they rounded yet another corner. "You're never being a brat – you were mad, and that's understandable! Your feelings and emotions are totally valid no matter what they are!"
"I'm sorry I accused you of never listening to me! You do listen to me, you really do and I know that, but I was just really angry and – and I guess I was just worried because Kiyomi had an argument with her boyfriend just before I left and-"
"That's okay! But I should listen more! I should have just asked what you would like to do instead of yelling back at you!"
"I yelled first though!" The two of them put on an extra burst of speed as they rounded one more corner and recognized where this had all started. Riche stood where he always had, looking bewildered as the girls rapidly approached him.
"But you were mad! I deserved it!"
"You never deserve to be yelled at, Montague! No one does!"
"So we're both in the wrong? But I was more wrong!"
"Montague that's not-"
"Hiromi, it was not your fault, I was the one to blame more!" Montague shouted. "And I don't want to break up, I want us to stay together!"
She and Capulet ran towards the streetlight, much to Riche's shock.
"H-Hey, what do the two of you think you're doing?!" he cried.
"And I don't wanna break up either!" sobbed Capulet. "Let's both apologize then-"
"And put this whole thing behind us!"
Montague and Capulet suddenly clasped their hands together, and leaped up. They easily cleared the streetlight, time seeming to slow down as they performed a front-flip above Riche's head, the man gaping in disbelief. "I'm sorry!" they both shouted at the same time.
"USOO-?!"
The Usotsuki had been so preoccupied with mowing the girls down that it didn't see where it was going til too late. It crashed right into the streetlight, badly damaging its front and shattering the windshield. Riche wobbled where he stood for a moment, briefly pinwheeling his arms to regain his balance. "Wh-what in the world-?" he gasped. "Usotsuki!"
"U-Uso..." the monster sounded sheepish, engine sound dying down.
Capulet and Montague, meanwhile, had landed beyond the streetlight, and were currently hugging each other tightly, hiding their faces in each other's shoulders.
"I'm sorry for just assuming you'd want to do what I did, and never asking."
"I'm sorry for yelling at you, and never speaking up when something bothered me."
"Let's do better from now on."
"Yes."
And with that, the two girls drew apart and stared at the Usotsuki.
"Entwine! Our hearts are one! Pretty Cure...Dual Heart Strike!"
The attack shot through the broken windshield and struck the chocolate-box heart. The Usotsuki gave a gurgling sound as it glowed and disintegrated from the inside-out.
Riche just stared before coughing into his hand. "Well...that could have been handled better." And then he teleported away.
Kiyomi looked over her shoulder as she began backing the car up. "I still dunno how it got all the way to the light," she muttered to herself.
Aki and Hiromi, sitting in the backseat, laughed sheepishly. The car had gone back to normal and repaired itself after Riche left, but it didn't go back to where Kiyomi had parked it. But Kiyomi didn't seem to dwell on it too much, instead offering to drop the girls off at Hiromi's house before continuing on to see her boyfriend. "We'll only miss the previews, it's no big deal," she'd said.
Coffee and Ti looked up from the television a few minutes later to see Hiromi and Aki enter the room, whispering to each other and giggling as if nothing had happened. Ti sighed before looking over at his caretaker. "Love is weird, datchu," he whispered.
Coffee nodded. "Beautiful...but weird."
ED: "Hummingbird" - Mana Ogawa
ON THE NEXT EPISODE:
Hiromi: "The Culture Festival is heeeere~!"
Aki: "And look at all these stuffed animals! I wanna take them all home!"
Miho: "Uwaaaah, they're so adorable!"
Tamora: "I want them all!"
Aki: "T-Tamora?! Next time on Pretty Cure Entwined Hearts: 'Culture Fest Mayhem! A Boutique of Love!' Let love heal your heart!"