Nature Shift! Precure

Chapter 10

It had been a week since the infamous three Heartache in one day incident. 

Luckily, Regalia's goons (as Tupper had been calling them) hadn't tried a stunt like that again.

However, there was a bit of a different problem now.

In the classroom of Kise Junior High, a bunch of students happened to be talking about a certain group of heroines.

"Hey guys, have you heard about the Pure Cure?" 

"Duh! Who doesn't at this point?"

"Also they're called the Precure, you idiot."

"Eh, close enough! Who's your guys' favorite?"

"Probably Vernal!"

"No way, Fall's way better!"

'Poor Kaori.. she has no stake in this conversation.'  Ayame had thought, listening to the chatter of her classmates. 

"You know I'm pretty sure they're aliens!" 

Etsu sweatdropped at that. "..A-Aliens..? Really, guys..?"

"Either that or robots created by the government to spy on us!"

Both the pinkette and the blonde sighed. The theories were definitely something, to say the least.

"Maybe I can get them to promote Natsumi♡Pastry..~" Kaori mused, winking.. or attempting to. It had come off as more of a blink. 

Etsu put her hand on the strawberry blonde's shoulder. "Maybe one day, Kaori.. For the low price of 1 million yen." She had whispered the last part.

Suzuki-sensei slammed her hands on her desk, getting the students' attention. 

"Alright, everyone! Settle down and head back to your seats! Today, we’re going to learn how to graph inequalities.”

The class let out a collective groan.

Precure was definitely more interesting than Algebra class.

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It was now after school, and Etsu was at tennis practice. It was a nice place to get away from the constant precure talk and instead swing around a tennis racket.

The blonde happened to be practicing with her senior Konan Igarashi. 

Etsu served first, with Igarashi receiving.

"Hey, Akino. Have you heard about the Precure? They appeared recently in the town square!" 

Well, she had thought too soon because the talk had not stopped.

"I mean, with all due respect, Igarashi-senpai, that's all everyone was talking about during homeroom,” Also we live in a small town. Everybody knows already,” the blonde responded.

A mischievous smile appeared onto Igarashi's face. "But I know what they don't! The Precure's real identities!"

Etsu was speechless, and ended up completely missing the ball with her swing.

A drop of sweat rolled down the blonde's face. She ran back for the ball and hit it back to Igarashi.

"Are you sure they're not aliens?-"

"That's just what the conspiracy theorists say! In fact, I'd argue they're way closer than that.."

"..How exactly..?" Etsu questioned.

"In that they're students at this exact school!.. In fact.. I think you're one of them, Akino."

"..Well this was a nice practice. But I have to go now,”