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?

214. A Victorian Setting

A Victorian Setting

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Cast:

Cure Mint, Akimoto Komachi - age 24
Akimoto Almond - Komachi's son - age 2
Akimoto Youka - Komachi's daughter - age 10 months
Akimoto Mihoshi - Komachi's daughter - newborn
Shirogane Hisako - Komachi's friend - age 23

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September, 2015

"Our story takes place in 1836. The place, a small cottage on the English moors. A young and brilliant woman, at once blessed and cursed with several wonderful children, for whose care and feeding she is solely responsible. Her husband being concerned with affairs of business, she cannot leave the house. She is left without an outlet for her other great passion, equal to her love for her family: that of solving mysteries."

Komachi has been soliloquizing while feeding her newborn daughter, Mihoshi. She scrunches her brow.

"Oh... this could be really good. Hisako, I need a pen!"

"No!" "No!"

Her friend refuses firmly, and is echoed by Almond, who lately has made that his favorite word.

"It's a really good idea, though! I promise, I'll only write a few pages-" Komachi sees that Hisako is giving her the stink-eye. "Okay, one page! No, a paragraph! I can remember this if you just let me jot it down!"

"If it's such a good idea, commit it to memory!"

"You're too strict! I just want to write a little bit!"

"You brought this on yourself, Komachi! The doctor said you have to rest!"

Hisako's response is harsh, but Komachi has indeed brought this on herself. First, by working through actually being in labor when she gave birth to Youka, and then by working so hard while pregnant with Mihoshi that she actually collapsed.

Fortunately, Mihoshi is just as healthy as her siblings. And Komachi actually is recovering well. It seems likely that she will be allowed to work again in just a few more months. In the meantime, she has the company of her children, and one or more of her friends visiting her every day, to help out and to make sure that she doesn't work herself sick again.

Komachi turns her attention to the infant.

"You're not going to be like that, are you, Mihoshi? You're not going to grow up to be a big old party pooper, are you?"

"I heard that!" Hisako calls out from the other side of the room. "I am the best at parties, and you know it!"

The baby babbles happily, understanding nothing.