Wonderful✧Detective Precure

Chapter 1: So This Is Precure? From the Sky Comes Promise

She wanted to die.

"I know you're upset, but try to see it from my perspective. You've spent the entire last year with your father, and the year before that, it's only fair for you to spend at least this year with me."

She grunted in response. Her mother's rough driving made her sick, each bump and sudden brake twisted her stomach.

The view outside wasn't any better, for the last couple of hours she'd been staring at nothing but grass, and trying not to puke.

"Besides," her mother made a quick turn, the girl's cheek slamming into the cold hard glass. "You'll get to meet new people, isn't better than playing your mobile games with your father?" The way she held onto the word new, made her passenger furrow her brows.

No. No it's not.

Another rough turn and this time the girl's dark pink glasses fell off her nose. She blinked, squinting her eyes, that happened to be two different colors: honey brown and cheery pink.

Seriously, who gave this woman her license? She scrambled to find her glasses, not like her blurry vision was going to make the ride any better.

Her mother seemed not to notice, she was still smiling, a little too much, it reached her ears but not her eyes. "We'll do lots of fun things together Mayumi! We could explore—"

Mayumi tuned her out, the subject would be far too boring for her tastes. Besides she knew the truth, all because of a lousy divorce.

Always yelling at each other with no end in sight, both seemingly forgetting she lived in the same roof as them, listening in. If only they could've given her a sibling before they split, then she wouldn't be so lonely in the years up until now.

But wasn't that condoning another defenseless child to the same fate as her?

Well luckily nothing happened, but Mayumi noticed the piled up boxes, with complicated words she hadn't learned in school written in marker, her father's long black coat, the smile of her mother, his big long hug—--How Mayumi clung to his coat for dear life, realizing that she couldn't go with him. Wherever he was going, Mayumi would not be granted access...

"I'll see you, little cutie," he whispered, he always had a very deep and soothing voice.

"Where are you going?" she asked, looking back and forth between the boxes and his coat.

"Somewhere far away." his voice grew louder, more pronounced. "But don't worry—"

"Can I come?" Mayumi's small hand pulled at the edge of his coat, staring at him with her big, round eyes. She tilted her head to the side, before setting her stuffed bear down and using her now free hand to tug harder at his coat.

Why was he leaving? Was he going somewhere fun? The idea circulated and formed in her child-like mind. And Mayumi started smiling while jumping up and down. Fun! Finally something was going to happen! Maybe a trip! Or a playdate?

In the blink of an eye he was kneeling down, rubbing her back, explaining that he couldn't take her with her, he was going alone and for a long time.

Mayumi frowned, that didn't make sense. "But why? What's the reason?"

Her father gave her a tender smile,"You see, mom and I aren't going to stay together anymore, but that doesn't mean we'll love you any less. You'll get to visit me when you're a bit older, all right? Cheer up, I'll be sure to take you on a nice trip someday!"

Frowning, Mayumi noticed his voice sounded odd when he said those words, what did he mean by "aren't going to stay together"? She pulled tighter, putting two and two together. Those arguments she heard late at night, the yelling that hurt her ears, those times where she couldn't even talk to them. The few moments Mayumi remembered of genuine happiness, were they going to disappear?