Prologue

[tranquilgreenearth]

Good evening, everyone! Or maybe it's morning where you're at?

I'm wondering if anyone here's met my friends before; I've been closest to Karen and known her the longest, but maybe you'd be more familiar with Nozomi-san! She does have a knack for coming across spectacular events like this and different worlds if the opportunity presented itself.

I'm Akimoto Komachi; you can call me Komachi, or Akimoto. It's nice to meet you!

Comments

[aquaticrush]

[Blink blink. If it weren't for the fact that the Precure haven't aged for years and Retasu's grown like a normal person, she'd probably be even more confused.]

Um... hello, Akimoto-san. Ah, that's right! She's the one who--

[tranquilgreenearth]

Oh, hello! So you know Nozomi-san, or maybe Karen? Hmm?

[aquaticrush]

Ah, yes! I think I've met Yumehara-san once or twice, but Karen-san is very popular here! --Um, I know it sounds strange for someone my age to be calling a middle school girl "Karen-san", but actually, when we met, she was older than I am, not younger. ...I know that sounds even stranger and I should really stop talking.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Oh, she was...? That's wonderful! Does that mean time's not a relevant factor here?

[aquaticrush]

[blinkblink] Wonderful? I'm not sure... ah, your world seems to have an issue. Some of them do! But a few people with something in common and those close to them just stopped aging and started to repeat the same year.

[tranquilgreenearth]

...They stopped aging?! That doesn't sound so good.

[aquaticrush]

And nobody's noticed it unless they're connected to here. I'm not sure what's going on or how to fix it. I'm very sorry, Akimoto-san. [She's going to address you like you're 22, even if you're visibly 14, just because that is what you do with an old-guard Precure at this stage in the game. At least if your name is Midorikawa Retasu.]

[tranquilgreenearth]

That's okay...! Was this recent or did this happen some time ago? (She's a little confused as to why she's being addressed like she's older, but she'll roll with it.)

[aquaticrush]

Um... I'm 19 years old, but I came here when I was 13. Karen-san was already 14. And then she'd been 14 for a while before.

[a_complicated_shine]

More people? It seems like there's been an increase lately. But what do I know.

I'm Dusk Shine.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Dusk...-san? Would that be appropriate?

(Dusk Shine-san sounds too long in her opinion.)

[a_complicated_shine]

Dusk is fine. I'm not really big on formality.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Well then, it's very nice to meet you Dusk-san. How long have you been here, or allowed to be here?

[a_complicated_shine]

A few weeks, give or take. I haven't really done much on the community other than tutoring.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Tutoring's a fine task to partake if you want to. I have a dream to someday become an author, so being helped out by others relates to that same job.

[a_complicated_shine]

Well, it's not my first job at least. But I can't let untrained magic users go without some foundation in magic.

[tranquilgreenearth]

That's very nice of you, Dusk-san! What was your first job?

[oceanicbutterfly]

Hi, there.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Karen...! You are here! I heard Nozomi-san was here at some point?

[oceanicbutterfly]

A few years ago, and not for long. Urara-chan, too.

[tranquilgreenearth]

Oh, I see. Just the 4 of us, then?

[oceanicbutterfly]

And only the two of us right now. At least, from our group.

[tranquilgreenearth]

From our group? There's more than one Pretty Cure team?

[oceanicbutterfly]

There are a lot. It's actually concerning when you realize every one of them was formed in response to some threat. It's a miracle Earth survived long enough for us to be born.

[tranquilgreenearth]

It is...! It makes you wonder if we might've seen footage of some of those groups when we were younger and just didn't piece it together back then.