The Bright Wedding
Cast:
Cure Bloom / Cure Bright, Hyuuga Saki - age 20
Hyuuga Kazuya - Saki's husband / Mai's brother - age 23
Hyuuga Minori - Saki's sister - age 15
Cure Egret / Cure Windy, Mishou Mai - age 20
Cobraja, Kuchinawa Masaru - age 24
Cure Black, Misumi Nagisa - age 22
Misumi Tsutomu - Nagisa's husband - age 24
Misumi Ryouta - Nagisa's brother - age 15
Misumi Tomoe - Nagisa's sister - age 5
Cure Muse, Shirabe Ako - age 10
Aphrodite, Shirabe Ami - Ako's mother - age 37
Mephisto - Ako's father - age 37
December, 2011
Saki attended the Black Wedding, and was even a bridesmaid, but her wedding is not a lavish affair akin to Cure Black or Cure Mint's. Her romance with Kazuya has blossomed, but their wedding has no elaborate costumes. The decorations have been arranged with "the Power of the Moon" as a unifying theme, but Saki and Kazuya will not be attempting any wild theatrics.
Minori is the first of two bridesmaids. Minori was not Ryouta's girlfriend when his sister got married, and she is not dating Ryouta now. What their relationship is and whether they are in one is a subject that the two of them have difficulty agreeing on even when one of them is not a wedding guest, and Minori even uninvited him at the last minute. A nervous apology to Cure Black was met with casual understanding, and Minori secretly suspects that her not-boyfriend is soon to be on the receiving end of Cure Black's Cobra Twist. She is instead escorted by a man who is old enough to be her father, who happens to be a friend of the groom. His wife is sitting in the section with the rest of the groom's friends, and is very obviously amused. Also sitting there is his daughter, the youngest PreCure so far, who is glaring daggers at Minori and has somehow managed to change outfits since learning of the arrangement. Ako wears the mantle, platform boots, and hooded cowl that she adopted as Cure Muse solely so that others can see just how displeased she is. Minori is careful not to look in her direction as they pass.
Masaru, Mai's fiance, is a fashion designer and a businessman. Anyone who sets foot in his shop, Cobraja Fashion Designs, can see at a glance that his creative designs are the higher priority. While Mai has always been more interested in painting and drawing, over the last couple of months, she has begun expanding her wardrobe. That she is wearing an ordinary dress at this event is mainly at her own insistence, because Saki didn't want an avant-garde wedding dress and as the maid of honor, Mai has no intention of stealing the spotlight from her best friend.
Saki did not take any the entrance exams for college, choosing instead to work full time at Pan Paka Pan. Unlike Minori, she actually wants to carry on the business. Kazuya, her new husband, is a college student. He has several years of education still ahead of him, and intends to become an astronomer. Kazuya's ambitions seem all the more likely because his best friend is similarly ambitious. Misumi Tsutomu is a straight-laced young employee in the lower echelons of the prefectural government, whose main eccentricity seems to be a fastidiously maintained Fu Manchu mustache.
Following an ordinary-ish wedding, the ordinary rituals. Several young girls are quick to gather, but Minori ends up with the bouquet. This time, she cannot escape Ako's withering gaze. A similar gathering is orchestrated for the garter, which ends up in Masaru's hands largely on account of his enthusiasm to receive it.
Chairs are cleared aside, providing a space for dancing, as a young lady in a blue and white idol outfit takes the stage along with a fluffy white cat. She is carrying an electric guitar and begins her first song with a shout:
"The beating of hearts cannot be stopped!"
The first dance is only for the newlywed couple, who dance close together as everyone watches.
As the next dance begins, Ako appears and grabs Mephisto. Minori had not planned to dance with him anyway, nor particularly wanted to, while Aphrodite is still wearing the same amused smile she has had all along. Ako is wearing her cowl again, and scowls at her father as the two of them dance.
"You should smile, Ako. This is a happy occasion."
"It doesn't make me happy when you make eyes at some girl I don't know! Mama may forgive you, but I won't!"
"Honestly, it's not like that. I was just thinking that if you had an older brother, I wouldn't mind welcoming her as a daughter-in-law."
Ako very intentionally grinds her heel into his foot.
"Ouch! It's just a thought! Ako... well, you're still too young to date, but someday there'll be a boy that you'll become interested in-"
Ako blushes. Even with her cowl on, her change of expression is obvious.
"Ako, why are you blushing? Don't tell me you already-"
Ako has pulled her cellphone from somewhere inside her outfit. Her favored text-to-speech app is open. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Left to sit out the wedding at home, Ryouta bemoans the latest of his relationship problems. Tomoe, his little sister, walks in and pats him on the head.
"Don't worry, Big Bro. I can fix this."