Futari wa PreCure
Cast:
Cure Black, Misumi Nagisa – age 14
Cure White, Yukishiro Honoka – age 14
2004
Fusion Group has registered Cure Black and Cure White as Pretty Cure.
The placard on the door reads [Tatsunojou Ayumi, Director].
As they are led into the director's office to meet with her, the two girls immediately notice the luxurious size of the space. An entire classroom could fit in the space that one woman is using to contain a desk and... a love-seat?
Nagisa blinks. Honoka blinks. No matter how hard they look, it seems that the only seating not behind the director's desk is a couch just large enough for the two of them to sit almost touching each other. Despite being in the same class at school, they have barely interacted until now. Such an intimate seating arrangement is a little uncomfortable. Behind the desk, a woman with brown hair and golden eyes encourages them to sit, which they do.
"I'm sure this must seem strange to both of you, but you have my promise that it will work out for the best."
"But what is Pretty Cure?" Honoka asks.
"For now? It's a title and an annuity. There are no responsibilities, and you need not do anything to retain either the title or the money. With some luck, I hope that the name of Pretty Cure will become well known. I dream of a world where every girl will want to be Pretty Cure."
"But why us? We're just ordinary girls," Nagisa asks.
"Ordinary girls are the most appropriate people to become Pretty Cure," the director replies. "It would help us considerably if the two of you become close friends, however."
"Friends?" "Close friends?" Even reacting at the same time, the pair are not quite on the same wavelength.
"Indeed. Pretty Cure is about friendship first. Everything else that I hope to make of it rests on that."
"I don't understand," Honoka says. "I don't either," Nagisa adds.
The director shakes her head. "Unfortunately, I cannot offer a better explanation at this time. Perhaps sometime in the future, I will be able to meet with you again and answer your questions in more satisfactory detail. For now, however, the two of you are Pretty Cure. It's not either of you alone, and it can't be anybody else."
The conversation continues like this for a few more minutes. By the time they are led out of the room, Nagisa and Honoka are possibly less sure about the whole affair than they were going in. What has been made clear is... the two of them are Pretty Cure.