Rascal didn’t know what had happened to him, the last he remembered that his master had decided to take his strength. “What a bore.” He muttered under his breath, his loyalty to Nogo was gone. All he cared about was himself and the Shadow Force, who he wanted to create again. He needed to make sure he had someone by his side. His attention wasn’t on the human world anymore.

Another spawn of Black Hole had showed up in Nanairogaoka! It had to fall on competitions week too, just as Akane, Nao and Reika had to represent their school in their respective sports.

And a huge coincidence wanted the soccer, volleyball and archery championships to be held at the exact same time. So when the monster had appeared, out of the five members of Smile Precure, only Miyuki and Yayoi were left for protecting the city!

Happy and Peace had ran right into the depths of the city while chasing after the creature. That was a shady and quite decrepit part of town, with a maze-like structure that probably played in the monster’s favor for it had gotten away.

Cure Happy could feel herself trembling as she looked around her, holding a barely conscious Cure Peace. Sunny, March and Beauty had still been up and fighting barely seconds ago, and now they were nowhere to be seen.

When the enemy had appeared, the girls had been taken by surprise. They didn’t expect one of Pierrot’s Titans of Despair to appear after they had won the war against the Bad End Kingdom. Candy wasn’t even here. They had been caught completely unprepared.

But what Happy felt they were mostly guilty of was underestimating the enemy just because they had already defeated it once. The five heroines had attacked using their signature move, hoping to get rid of the creature quickly and go on with their lives.

And upon being hit by the conjoined attacks, the creature’s body swelled up, and the next thing the girls of Smile Precure knew, a surge of energy had burst out of ithe monster, followed by a tidal wave of a familiar black liquid overwhelming them.

They had played right into the enemy’s trap.

And after the attack had passed, Happy had awakened with the terrible realization that Nanairogaoka had once more been turned into a barren wasteland covered in a thick layer of the mud-like substance formed by the ink. The same one from the “sea of despair” Pierrot had sent them in back then.

Happy managed to walk until she found Peace, her body slowly thinking into the black material. Sunny, March and Beauty were nowhere to be seen. The creature was still roaming in the distance, apparently oblivious to their presence.

Happy cradled Peace closer to her chest. She wasn’t sure if her heart had started beating faster or if it had stopped beating at all when she heard her friend asking her to abandon her here.

“H-Hey now, Peace... W-We need to gather everyone so we can fight back! We have to remain together. We have to!!“

She tried to lift Yayoi back on her feet. Her friends’ arms felt numb, like those of a ragdoll. Her body felt incredibly heavy, and the pink heroine somehow found herself unable to stop her friend’s sinking into the black paint despite her best efforts.

And she perfectly knew why. The power of a Precure comes from her emotions, and right now, Miyuki was terrified and she knew it. Her terror overshadowed her willpower, and as such her superhuman abilities had simply disappeared. Transformed or not, a Precure in despair wasn’t worth much as a warrior.

“I-If we give up, it’s over! So please, let me help you... Yayoi!“

askcurepeace

The entire city of Nanairogaoka Booka was ecstatic: after the ending of Sailor Moon Crystal, the show producers decided to hold an event to commemorate the success of the season. And the most important, Naoko Takeuchi will make an appearance too and will talk about her life and work.

This is a chance in a thousand for aspiring manga artists to meet one of the most popular manga artists of Japan.

A lot of people were talking about the event and a lot of fans were counting the days for the event...

... Of course, Yayoi was excited as well.

And precure will not purify them u-u

"What do you mean, I can't see the king?" a familiar-looking redhead donned in a midriff-bearing gold-trimmed white jacket with twin coattails behind it with a black half-shirt underneath and black pants with black-and-red shoes, sword sheathed at the back of his waist, demanded of the guard in front of the castle in Baticul. "He's my uncle!"

"My apologies, sir, but he is allowing none to see him at the current moment," the guard explained. "Your mother cannot even see him."

That made the redhead start. "What? What's wrong with Uncle?"

The guard shook his head. "We don't know. Nobody does, he just decided not too long ago he would shut the castle up and let no one in."

This had the man worried. "Can I at least talk to Natalia?" Natalia was the princess.

"I do not know, but I can see if I can relay a message to summon her. Luke fon Fabre, right?"

The redhead nodded. "Yes, that's me. Please hurry, I would like to know what is wrong with Uncle."

The guard nodded. "I will pass the message along."