I can't let her be alone! We promised, you and I—
Meet again.
"[I understand.]"
"[Nono Hana, listen carefully.]"
"[I'll give you my heart that loves Ash.]"
"[In exchange, please give yourself to me.]"
Nono Hana had a dream. Then, with a sound like shattering glass, she woke up.
"What a strange dream."
The last day she saw Ash had already been a year ago.
No matter how much it hurt, she had moved on. No—she had no choice but to move on.
Over that year, she seemed to have returned to the Nono Hana she once was, back to the lonely Cure Yell. The story she told of tomorrow had taken a long detour, only to circle back to the past.
No, not everything had remained unchanged. There had still been changes.
For example, there was not a single day when she did not think of him.
"Waa—waaaah!"
And for example, there was now another life in her world that needed her love.
"It's okay. Mommy's here."
Now a mother herself, Nono Hana softly hummed a lullaby as she held her crying child in her arms, letting the hungry girl draw nourishment from her.
"I'm sorry, Homi. Mommy overslept today."
Apologizing under her breath, the mother whose eyes had long since settled into unwavering light quickly cast that strange dream from her mind.
A year later, she had a child. That was right—Ash's child.
It must have been the gift Ash left her from their first time together.
Though the road of raising a child as a single mother was filled with hardships, as a Pretty Cure who had saved the world, no one could possibly speak ill of her. Rather, countless people wanted to help her in every possible way.
But Hana had refused all of it.
She