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Seiji nearly melted into the strong, yet gentle hands of his girlfriend as she massaged his shoulders, what felt like a year’s worth of accumulated stress melting away as she did so. He’d heard from Maria that her sister was an expert at giving massage, but he had to admit, he’d underestimated just how skilled she was at this.

A look of pure bliss on his face was broken as Iona spoke up, mentioning that she had an even more elaborate present in store for him- and he couldn’t help but give her a soft smile. “Then, I’ll look forward to it, Hikawa. This would be our first trip together as a couple, won’t it?”

Miyuki had been waiting for Nao for a while, now. She had entered the girls’ locker room directly after the match had finished, and while she had been the first one to enter, all of her teammates had already left before she did.

Miyuki was starting to get concerned. She knocked at the door, wondering if her friend was truly alright.

“Nao? Are you okay in there?”

She placed her hear on the door, trying to stay alert for any noises Nao could be making. She wasn’t crying because they had lost the match, was she? It had been a nice game, Nao wasn’t the kind of person to be depressed because of a defeat, that much was certain.

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The Desert Apostles were back in town... And it would have been totally fine by Yuri if it had just been their weekly encounter with one of Sabaku’s generals. But this week, instead of Sasorina’s smug grin, the members of Heartcatch Precure were confronted to the pristine inexpressive face of Dark Precure.

And to add to how disastrous the situation was, a Desert Devil had appeared in the middle of the city, destroying everything that stood in its way. Blossom’s plan to take on Dark Precure with all four of their powers was foiled. Knowing only Moonlight matched the evil heroine in terms of strength, she left with Marine and Sunshine to take care of the big monster.

The battle had begun without any unnecessary babbling. Yuri still didn’t know why this enemy was so obsessed by her, but she knew she would find out eventually. For now, she wasn’t confronting someone who owed her long overdue explanations.

She was fighting one of the enemies who killed her precious partner.

Punch. Block. Dodge. Punch. Strike. Block. Dodge. Even with her magically enhanced physical abilities, it was exhausting for her to fight this enemy. But thinking about Cologne, his body crumbling to dust as he had saved her life, seemed to give Moonlight enough determination to go on. And she eventually managed to briefly overpower Dark Precure.

A swift blow of her elbow into her opponent’s guts was enough to send the guardian of darkness fly in the opposite direction. Dark Precure was flung like a bullet through several walls.

Moonlight took a second to catch her breath and summoned her Tact. That attack had been quite impressive, even by her standards, but she knew full well that wasn’t going to be enough.

“Grace, return to the heavens!” With those words, Cure Swan purified the Zetsuborg. For once, it had been a relatively easy battle. She had no idea why this new threat appeared, but she couldn’t do much about it. Well, now wasn’t a good time to dwell on it! She couldn’t forget to free the victim from that cage.

Just as she was about to do that, she heard someone approaching. Who was that? Swan looked around with a frown. It couldn’t be one of the new enemies at least. They tended to flee after their monster was defeated. So, who could it be?

Soon enough, she saw a familiar purple haired girl. The Cure’s frown turned into a smile as she recognized her. Sure, she didn’t know too much about Iona, but the other girl seemed to be friendly enough!

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“I heard you’ve got a tournament coming up, Chou.” The soft expression on Phantom’s face was something that people outside of his children and Mirage rarely got to see- as well as the fond smile he wore. “If you let me know what day it’s on, I can make you a special bento.”

16- punch in the face

He had this coming. He already understood this much.

Still, he had definitely underestimated how much force Cure Fortune’s punch would contain, especially now that she was not in the form of her legendary warrior self, but was simply the normal girl, Hikawa Iona. Even if she was a karate black belt, she was still only fourteen years old, so the sheer force of her punch was surprising.

Perhaps it was powered by two years of pent up frustration.

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Perhaps it was some kind of fate that drew him to the Hikawa dojo that afternoon.

“I want to get stronger!”

It was the first thing the brown haired boy blurted out upon entering the dojo, a determined look in his eyes, uncharacteristic perhaps for a young boy of his age. It hadn’t been easy convincing his mother to let him join a dojo in the first place, especially since he hadn’t completely recovered from his accident four months prior- but he felt, to his core, that this was something that he had to do. That he wanted to do.

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╟☿↮    AMI LACED HER fingers, a subtle sign that few would note meaning she was slightly nervous. Her expression was friendly and open but slightly shy as she lead the other off the bus, standing in a central area of Tokyo. She didn’t know Princess Kakyuu ( Ami had to constantly stop herself from using the ‘-sama’ honorific ) well, and was happy to have a chance to change that when the girls -- the five inner senshi -- had decided to each give her a tour of a specific aspect of earthly life.

Still, the senshi couldn’t help but be nervous. It was up to her to teach the other about the scholarly aspects of earth, like the library system, the difference in science behind earth, the beautiful gardens and so on. Ami was going to avoid making it BORING at all costs.