Some, But Not All, Stars
Cast:
Milky Rose, Mimino Kurumi - age 22
Cure Sword, Kenzaki Makoto - age 15
Cure Honey, Ohmori Yuuko - age 15
Cure Sunset, Ohana Lulani - age 14
Cure Wave, Olina Lulani - age 14
August, 2014
The concert hall is spacious, grandiose, and full of people. As Ohana and Olina arrive with their older chaperone, the twins can't help looking around. Olina's eyes are drawn particularly to the marble columns and the hanging chandelier.
"This place is amazing! I can't believe we're actually going to watch a show here!"
"You didn't even want to come," her sister says. "Aren't you glad I made you?"
"I always wanted to come! Just because you rushed into it without a care in the world doesn't mean you changed my mind. For all we knew, Miss Mimino could have been a weirdo like Madame Momere!"
"There's no way someone so pretty and cool would be like that!"
Kurumi chuckles. "I'm glad you think so, Ohana, but you really shouldn't judge people by their appearances. If someone shows up out of the blue and offers to take you to a concert, it's not a bad idea to check that she is who she says she is... Though as it happens, I am."
Olina puffs out her chest. "See? You shouldn't be so reckless!"
"You should stop getting in my way!"
"Girls, if you keep on fighting, these backstage passes are going to go to waste."
"Backstage passes?!" "Backstage passes?!"
"I have to admit, I wasn't expecting steamed rice," Kurumi says as Yuuko serves her a hot bowl of exactly that.
"Why not?" Yuuko asks, serving more rice to the others. "Rice warms the body and the spirit. It goes with everything and it's delicious all by itself."
Makoto shakes her head. "Your rice is. Two months on tour together, and I still don't know how you season it."
Yuuko grins. "That's because it's doesn't need seasoning. It's just ordinary delicious rice."
"You see what I have to put up with?"
"And you keep taking seconds, too!"
"She's a witch, I tell you. She's fattening me up to season her rice."
Makoto's deadpan delivery is perfect, as is her timing. Kurumi chokes on her rice. Yuuko pulls a couple of bills from her pocket and hands them to Makoto.
"Wha-" Kurumi sputters, then swallows. "What was that? I thought that this was going to be a friendly All Stars meetup!"
"It is," Makoto insists. "Cure Mint asked us to prank you."
"Cure Mint?" Olina echoes.
Kurumi rubs her temples. "She's a friend of mine and a year older. She has a nasty habit of playing pranks, then writing novels based on them."
Ohana turns to Kurumi. "How many Pretty Cures are there, anyway?"
Kurumi considers the question for a moment. "Thirty or forty? That's only counting the ones from Japan. There probably aren't too many more than that. I think this is the first year there have been new PreCures named overseas."