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'''Scout Sareta Otousan! Ohanayasan wo Yamechaimasu!?' is the ninth episode for the season Heartcatch Pretty Cure!, the seventh season in the Pretty Cure'' franchise. The episode focuses on Hanasaki Tsubomi's past when both her parents had separate jobs and were often gone for work.

Synopsis
Obata, Hanasaki Youichi's fromer student, comes to visit him and ask him to quit his job at the flower shop and work for the company he works for. Tsubomi, hearing this, thinks back to the days when she often was left with Hanasaki Kaoruko while her parents were out, and is afraid that he will leave again, closing the flower shop.

It is revealed, however, that Obata is not happy with his job, either, and wants to be a flower scientist instead. Knowing that his Heart Flower is wiltering, Kobraj steals it and makes a Desertrian out of his cell-phone. Pretty Cure fight and defeat it, and the next day, Obata tells Youichi that he quit his job at his company to seek out his dream of flower science. As he leaves, a little girls asks for sunflowers, and Tsubomi explains to her how sunflowers grow in summer times, and tells her to come back then. To encourage him, Youichi compares Obata to a sunflower.

Major Events

 * The ninth Heart Seed is collected into the Heart Pod.
 * Hanasaki Tsubomi's lonely past is revealed.

Characters

 * Hanasaki Tsubomi/Cure Blossom
 * Kurumi Erika/Cure Marine
 * Chypre
 * Coffret
 * Kobraj
 * Snackey
 * Desertrian
 * Hanasaki Youichi
 * Hanasaki Mizuki
 * Hanasaki Kaoruko
 * Obata

Trivia

 * It is speculated that Tsubomi's explanation about sunflowers growing in summer time is a foreshadowing for Cure Sunshine's appearance, as it is believed that the third Cure's flower theme is sunflowers.