An Extensive Guest List
Cast:
Shiny Luminous, Kujou Hikari - age 23
Dorodoron, Kujou Domon - age 29
Kujou Hikaru - Hikari's brother - age 15
Cure Black, Misumi Nagisa - age 25
Misumi Tsutomu - Nagisa's husband - age 28
Misumi Arisa - Nagisa's and Tsutomu's daughter - age 3
Misumi Ririka - Nagisa's and Tsutomu's daughter - age 1
Cure White, Yukishiro Honoka - age 26
Yukishiro Kouya - Honoka's husband - age 26
Yukishiro Houtarou - Honoka's and Kouya's son - age 4
Yukishiro Enishi - Honoka's and Kouya's son - age 10 months
Cure Bloom / Cure Bright, Hyuuga Saki - age 24
Hyuuga Kazuya - Saki's husband / Mai's brother - age 27
Hyuuga Kana - Saki's and Kazuya's daughter - age 2
Cure Egret / Cure Windy, Mishou Mai - age 23
Cobraja, Mishou Masaru - age 28
Cure Echo, Sakagami Ayumi - age 18
Cure Fortune, Hikawa Iona - age 15
Hyuuga Minori - Saki's sister - age 19
Misumi Ryouta - Nagisa's brother - age 18
Misumi Tomoe - Nagisa's sister - age 9
Yukishiro Jirou - Honoka's brother - age 8
Hamura Akane - Hikari's cousin - age 34
Hamura Kaneda - Akane's husband - age 34
Hamura Midori - Akane's and Kaneda's daughter - age 4
Hamura Youji - Akane's and Kaneda's son - age 2
Kintolesky, Sugimoto Kaneda - Atsuko's husband - age 33
Ms. Shitataare, Sugimoto Atsuko - Kaneda's wife - age 33
Sugimoto Hino - age 5
Sugimoto Kasumi - age 4
Girinma, Kamaki Rintarou - Poiko's husband / Kaneda's cousin - age 34
Poisony, Kamaki Poiko - Rintarou's wife / Kiriya's sister - age 30
Kamaki Meiko - Rintarou's and Poiko's daughter - age 5
Kiriya, Irizawa Kiriya - Kaoru's husband / Poiko's brother - age 25
Irizawa Kaoru - Kiriya's wife / Michiru's sister - age 23
Momoi Michiru - Kyousuke's wife / Kaoru's sister - age 23
Mucardia, Momoi Kyousuke - Michiru's husband - age 27
Momoi Sayaka - Kyousuke's and Michiru's daughter, age 1
August, 2015
Shiny Luminous is getting married. To Dorodoron. Some of their acquaintances still cannot believe they have matured so: She, a beautiful woman rather than a thirteen year old waif, and he, once an inveterate NEET and now a responsible adult with a day job. In truth, sometimes they have trouble believing it themselves.
The ceremony is low on pageantry. Hikari's brother was slow to accept the groom, but today he sticks to the script. He and Akane, Akane's husband, Kaneda, and their two children, are the only blood relatives of the bride who were even invited, and that suits all of them just fine. In the case of two year old Youji, it is questionable whether he even understands what is going on. His sister, Midori, is only two years older, but seems at least to understand what a wedding is. For a girl so young, she is remarkably well-behaved.
Domon's relatives are also thin on the ground, but in their case it is because there were never that many of them. When it comes to friends and friends of friends, however...
Those guests are plentiful.
As the cousin of her cousin's husband, Kamaki Rintarou's relationship to Hikari is... absolutely nothing. They have met a few times, and are not on bad terms, but nor do they know each other well. Like Akane, he is a restaurateur, having saved up enough over the last eight years to buy into the same fast food franchise where he was once desperately worked part time. His wife, Poiko, appears to be a tall woman with pale lavender hair done in ringlet curls, but this is certainly not her true appearance. Hikari has never known her to look the same twice, and in fact there are others present whom Poiko has antagonized in the past, who have not even noticed she is here. Their daughter, Meiko, is smaller than her second cousin, Midori, despite being the elder by a year and a half. Meiko is also completely unbothered by her small stature, and seems determined to talk to absolutely anyone who comes within two meters of her.
Poiko's brother, Kiriya, is married to Kaoru, one of Domon's oldest friends. Kaoru's fraternal twin sister, Michiru is another such friend. Michiru's husband, Kyousuke, and their one year old daughter, Sayaka, are also in attendance. Domon is vaguely certain that Kyousuke's vermilion suit would not be proper formal wear even if his outfit didn't also include a top hat and domino mask.
Domon is not one to talk, and he knows it. He is wearing spider-themed tights underneath his tuxedo.
Another pair of Domon's friends, Sugimoto Kaneda and his wife, Atsuko. None of them talk about "Dark Fall" anymore, but at the same time it is not as if they parted on bad terms. It is more than Domon can say about most of the people he met during that time in his life. Kaneda is wearing a white shirt that might as well be painted on, which most other guests choose politely to not notice. This weirdo and his cinematographer wife have two daughters, Hino and Kasumi, who seem to be hatching a plan to get more than their fair share of cake. Since both are under six years old, there is probably nothing to worry about.
The connection that Domon has with Hyuuga Saki and Mishou Mai is not exactly friendship, but any beef they had with him is by now water under the bridge. Hikari has become acquainted with them over several years of attending PreCure All Stars events. Mai's husband, Masaru, specializes in outre fashions, but of late has also become the leader of a neighborhood beautification campaign. Visibly pregnant, Saki is married to Mai's brother, Kazuya, who is currently pursuing a Master's degree. Their two year old daughter, Kana, vociferously dislikes the dress she has been made to wear, and has already tried to ditch it twice before the cake is served.
Saki's little sister, Minori, is herself engaged to be married before the end of the year. Her fiance, Ryouta, is younger brother to Nagisa, one of Hikari's oldest friends. Nagisa's younger sister, Tomoe, is the youngest of several bridesmaids. Nine years old and a self-styled love guru, the boy who escorted her during the ceremony proper has since made himself scarce.
Tsutomu, Nagisa's husband, happens to be a long-time friend of Domon's. It is a history that involves some schooling and considerably more drinking, yet now to the occasional wonderment of both men, they are both somehow married men. Nagisa and Tsutomu have two daughters: three year old Arisa and one year old Ririka, the latter of which is performing a life-affirming act by screaming her lungs out.
The other of Hikari's two oldest friends, Yukishiro Honoka, is even more obviously pregnant than Saki is... not because her pregnancy is much more advanced, but because there is more than one bun in the oven. For this reason, she has spent most of the wedding and reception seated, with her ten month old, Enishi, in her arms. Her husband, Kouya, has the entire task of keeping tabs on their older son, Houtarou. Meanwhile, Houtarou is mainly concerned with staying away from Arisa. Even the prospect of cake is not enough to dull the little boy's vigilance.
By all accounts, Honoka's brother, Jirou, ought to still be in the building somewhere. At eight years old, he is too young to have escaped the venue completely, but nobody seems to know where he has disappeared to.
In the midst of all of this, the ritual of the bouquet. The bridesmaids are mainly drawn from other Pretty Cure cliques, younger girls whom Hikari or one of her friends have befriended over the years. Some of them are more enthusiastic than others, though at least this time nobody seems to be radiating any dangerous auras. On the contrary, Cure Echo seems to be afraid that the prize will somehow fall into her hands. However, it does not. Cure Fortune makes the catch.