[video - canon update - episode 23 2/2]

[symbolofhappiness]

About a day has passed since the previous video involving Setsuna, but it looks like no time has passed at all in the world itself. It resumes right where the previous one left of, with Cure Peach shaking Eas' body.

But this time the video continues. The plushie looking thing that only appeared in the background of the last video, takes the center stage this time. The crest on her forehead has started to glow. She floats up into the air, calls out and the crest glows even brighter.

A red light swiftly flies into the forest, straight into Eas. The light grows even brighter, to the point of engulfing the whole video.

The light stays like that for a little while. Eventually, though, it does fade. At the same time, the sun is finally breaking through the clouds.

Eas has vanished. Where her body lay before, there now stands a girl dressed in red. She stares at herself, both confused and amazed.

"I'm... a Pretty Cure?" She looks up. "Cure Passion!"

"Setsuna is the fourth...?"

"The fourth Precure!"

Cure Peach smiles widely. "Cure Passion!"

The video cuts off again, this time finished for real.

[OOC note: Red is Setsuna, pink is Love/Cure Peach, blue is Miki and yellow is Inori.

Setsuna will be responding this time, although it will icly be several hours later.]

Comments

[hearts_beat]

Setsuna is... Cure Passion...

...kinda the same thing I went through

[symbolofhappiness]

[Guess who replies hours later because the community wouldn't leave her alone? Yep. Setsuna is looking a little tired and maybe even sad. But on the plus side, she's very much alive.]

Is it?

[hearts_beat]

Yes, it is. Though for Hibiki and Kanade, it won't be for another few days.

...do you mind if we talk? I do know what you might be going through.

[former_endboss]

So. Are you on the side of puppies and kittens and vauge pointless happiness now? Or are you going to keep fighting these precures who have given you so much trouble for so long?

[symbolofhappiness]

[Setsuna really doesn't want to reply at all, but the community won't stop bugging her if she won't, so...]

Neither.

[former_endboss]

It's disappointing. You've gone and ruined the idea I had, the tragi-comic story I was going to write in your memory. It won't be the same if I write that now.

Video

[juicy_egotist]

Welcome back. [Yeah, this scared J more than he wanted to admit, due to the amount of cans around him.]

[symbolofhappiness]

[Setsuna immediately notices. She knows J drinks a lot of enetron, but this is ridiculous even for him.]

...I'm sorry. [It's all she can think of to say.]

[juicy_egotist]

You found your peace. And your smile too I'd reckon. But the latter might take a little longer to find.

[And as he's saying that, he's knocking back another enetron as he lets out a belch. Wow he must be TANKED now.]

[goddesstune]

After everything you went through...

I'm happy for you, Setsuna-san. I also know someone who got through the same thing. Gotta beat some sense to her, though. [pun unintended]

[symbolofhappiness]

...Thank you... I guess. [She wishes she could feel happy about this. She's not really sure what she should be feeling.]

Are you a new member of the community?

[goddesstune]

Yes. I can't tell you everything now, but I will, eventually. You might be confused now, but I hope one day you can understand why all this is happening to you.

[yes_im_kawaii]

Wait a minute. You came back to life?

[symbolofhappiness]

Hm, that's right, I did. I'm... not really sure how.

[yes_im_kawaii]

Awesome! I thought J was gonna just sit there and drink enetron and do nothing for a month.

*...forgive her*

[icantbelievethis]

Setsuna...!

[symbolofhappiness]

[She really doesn't want to talk to anyone right now, let alone other Precure. But the community isn't giving her much of a choice.]

I'm...

...

I'm sorry.

[icantbelievethis]

You're okay!

*Inelegant sniffling here.*

[boostup4beetbuster]

You are setting yourself up for a tackle-hug, you know that?

[symbolofhappiness]

Eh? [She's still a little depressed and out of it, but that response just leaves her more confused than anything. How does she friendship.]

[boostup4beetbuster]

You had a few people worried here. Good to see you're fine.

[iwontforgivethis]

[ Honoka's not really sure what to say to this, considering everything that she's seen. Everything that Setsuna... no, Eas was. Seeing her die had been horrible enough, re-opening wounds that she first didn't realize were still there. Kendrix also dying hadn't helped with that.

But then there was now this. She wasn't sure what to think about Setsuna becoming a Precure... but it meant that she had been more right about would've happened than even she could've guessed.

There was really only one thing she could say in this situation, wasn't there?]

Welcome back, Higashi-san.

[symbolofhappiness]

[Replying to the other Precure is a lot harder than everyone else. She had been trying to destroy them until just a little bit ago, after all. It's still easier than talking to Love or the others, but not by a whole lot.

So Setsuna is a little hesitant when she speaks.]

Ah... Thank you... I guess.

...I wasn't really expecting to get back from that.

[tranquilrhythm]

[She'd felt sick even looking at the last one, so this was nothing short of a miracle, and it made her so, so happy to see it... she was pretty sure she was crying, but that didn't really matter.]

Setsuna! You're okay! I was so worried...!

[symbolofhappiness]

You... were?