The Tarot Reader
Cast:
Cure Heart, Aida Mana - age 17
Cure Diamond, Hishikawa Rikka - age 17
Amami Hakuya - age 18
March, 2016
Another year is ending. Already, the third year students have graduated and are departing from Zenith Academy, never to return. The student council office overlooks the gates. It is from this vantage that first year students Mana and Rikka watch the graduates leave. The student council president, a tall, pale youth with long silver hair, stands next to the two girls.
"To think that it will be my turn next year. After everything I worked so hard for, already I am no longer student council president. Already, there is a whole new student council."
"That's not true," Rikka corrects him. "Mana doesn't officially replace you until the day after the third year students graduate. That would be tomorrow."
The boy laughs. "You know, if someone's going to be quoting rules to me, it really should be the incoming president. Isn't that right, Aida Mana?"
"Oh, I don't think so at all," Mana replies. "A leader has to know when to delegate authority, and Rikka is simply better at quoting rules than I am."
"Oh, what kind of person am I handing my school over to? You'd better stay sharp, both of you. I'll be a third year student; I won't be gone."
Mana smiles. "I promise that you will leave here with no regrets."
"That reminds me- I have a gift for you."
The boy walks to his desk - which will soon be Mana's desk - and produces a small box from inside one of the drawers.
"This is nothing significant, but I'd like you to have it."
Rikka peers at the box. "Tarot cards? Those rumors about you-"
"That I decided the club budgets with tarot readings? Completely untrue... but acting like I did made it easier for certain people to accept the results."