Pretty Cure All Stars - Dynasty Project G

by Opt281

Vignettes set in a world where there are neither monsters nor magic, yet all of the girls who would be Pretty Cure exist and are called Pretty Cure anyway. Each year, there are new Pretty Cure, and each year, everyone grows one year older. Who knows what the passage of time may hold?

133. Beyond Despair

Beyond Despair

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Cast: Desperaia, Furuzaki Nozomi - age 34
Furuzaki Basara - age 45

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May, 2013

Big Nozomi, Nozomi the Elder, Desperaia, has all her life made despair puns based on her name. At times driving others to despair, at times despairing herself, in recent years it has become something of an ironic name.

Now it is no longer her name. Having married Furuzaki Basara without ceremony, she has traded her birth surname for his and can no longer pun herself with despair.

As they gather for what is technically not a wedding reception, Basara's handful of close friends and coworkers have brought along children who are close in age to Big Nozomi's small circle of friends, the Pretty Cure 5.

Her husband raises his glass for silence.

"I know what this looks like, marrying a younger woman. All the more so because she looks so much younger than her actual age. Have I lost my mind, people ask me. They wonder to my face if I have given up on propriety and decorum, and then if she married me for my money.

"I can see some of you smiling, and no, it's not the other way around either. The fact is, I am not so old as people seem to think, and certainly not as old as some of my friends like to joke. It is no sin to find love, even in middle age, or even with a younger woman. I can only hope that my Nozomi is as happy to be with me as I am to be with her."

There is some applause, then Big Nozomi speaks.

"It's true, my husband is a cradle robber. He took me from my parents thirty-four years ago and raised me to fall in love with him and also to be much wealthier than he could ever dream. I think he must have used a time machine, because the way I remember it, none of that actually happened. We can't stop people from thinking what they are going to think. That has never bothered me before, and it does not bother me now. If nobody else sees how fortunate I am to have Basara in my life, that is just as well, because I don't intend to share. Now, let us all enjoy the feast!"

It might be her imagination, but she believes she receives a louder applause.