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The Novel Smile Pretty Cure! (小説 スマイルプリキュア! ?) is a novel for Smile Pretty Cure!. It serves as a direct sequel to the TV series of the same name.

Synopsis[]

After the return of harmony to both Märchenland and Earth, the five girls have grown up. Miyuki is a bookstore clerk, Akane runs her family business, Yayoi debuts as a manga artist, Nao coaches a soccer team and Reika is a middle school teacher. Eventually, all five each struggle with their own issues. When they meet again they notice that "something about this world is off". Is this "world of despair" where precious friends are forgotten about real? The only way to regain the future and smile is to transform into Pretty Cure as an adult!?

Summary[]

Chapter 1 - Hoshizora Miyuki[]

Following the return of harmony to both Märchenland and Earth, Miyuki is working a part-time job at the Nanairogaoka Station-Front Bookstore, organizing the bookshelves and reading picture books to children. One such book is personally hand-made by Miyuki herself: "The Greatest Smile", a picture book about her time as a Cure. Among the children willing to lend an ear to Miyuki's storytelling, a young kindergartner named Yoshimi often comes to eagerly listen to her. Over and over the young girl hears the story without getting tired of it. Eventually, Miyuki finishes her storytelling, with the Smile Pretty Cure having walked their separate paths towards a twinkling, shining future. She says the story ends there, in spite of Yoshimi's anticipation to hear more. Miyuki reveals her name-tag; the name is the same as the protagonist of the "The Greatest Smile", a secret Yoshimi promises to keep. Miyuki treasures the book and hopes that Yoshimi will, too. However, she has no memory of her times as a Pretty Cure, or why she made the book. Later, Miyuki endures a meeting with the "vice principal" store manager, whose nickname is based after a manga character of similar qualities. She says Miyuki's work has been sloppy despite having joined several months prior and ends their discussion with a reminder to take pride in her work at the historic bookstore. Feeling disheartened after being scolded again for the umpteenth time, Miyuki goes back to continue her work with the manager's words still ringing in her ear. She reflects on her mistakes, eventually thinking about how "The Greatest Smile" defined her existence and the strength to overcome all kinds of difficulties, even through the pain and the sadness.

Walking home at night along with her parents, Miyuki reminisces on her past. With a dream of becoming an author for children, she became a member of the book committee in middle school and later entered into a vocational college for a novel-writing course. Over time, Miyuki wrote various picture books, with "The Secret of Smile-chan" being selected as an honorable mention for the Tōdō Izumi Fairytale Grand Prize. Friends and family celebrated the occasion, seemingly a dream come true. But the path to being a children's writer was still a long and unreachable dream, and Miyuki's life became swamped with busy work. The only thing she could do for now was to work at the Nanairogaoka Station-Front Bookstore, an easy job where she could occasionally read "The Greatest Smile" to children.

On the next workday, smiling in anticipation for a positive day, Miyuki meets up with the staff members along with the Store Manager, who immediately gives Miyuki an earful for being late yet again. The staff then has a meeting, which Miyuki notices is ominously silent. She is later informed of a tragedy: the Nanairogaoka Station-Front Bookstore will close in less than a month. Disheartened, Miyuki, along with her co-workers, struggle to put any positive energy into their work. They simply go through the motions. She laments over the changes happening to Nanairogaoka, about how some shops such as an overly popular retro café were recently forced to close down, and how major bookstores and movie theaters, restaurants and even a giant shopping mall were taking their place, gradually building over the old with the new.

Yoshimi comes into the store with Miyuki eagerly waiting, and she asks for another storytelling of "The Greatest Smile". Upon finishing and wrapping their pleasant chat, Yoshimi's mother returns. Miyuki lies to Yoshimi by promising that she'll always be waiting at the bookstore to read to her. With a radiant smile, Yoshimi says that she loves the bookstore as well as Miyuki herself, a confession that briefly leaves Miyuki at a loss for words.

Yoshimi later finds out from her mother that this was a lie and gets mad at Miyuki, so Miyuki heads to her house to apologize. On the way there, she meets a girl who looks strangely familiar. It takes her a while to remember that it's her old friend, Akane, and she wonders how she forgot her so easily. Akane is happy-go-lucky as usual, and her restaurant is doing very well. Her sunny disposition cheers Miyuki up, and she goes to Yoshimi's house in high spirits. Miyuki apologizes to Yoshimi and tells her that she should write the sequel to "The Greatest Smile".

Miyuki then returns home, only to find a mysterious voice calling to her for help. She realizes that it's Candy speaking to her. Unsure of whether or not "The Greatest Smile" actually happened, she tries to help anyway and opens the book portal into the Magical Library.

Chapter 2 - Hino Akane[]

Akane still works at Okonomiyaki Akane alongside her family and continues to serve her customers with her easy-going personality. She recaps the last four years of her life, times she considers to be worth treasuring: On her way to London, she got stopped at the airport which caused her to miss her flight, and not only did she get lost, but her passport and wallet got stolen. Akane was on the verge of throwing her hands into the air and giving up, but believing this would only cause her dad to laugh at her, Akane psyches herself up to put on a show. Bringing out her griddle onto the streets of London, Akane cooks up some okonomiyaki to garner attention, but the London folks only watched at a distance, confused and unwilling to buy. Perplexed, Akane desperately cooked up special large okonomiyaki based on the Eiffel Tower of Paris, briefly forgetting that she was in London. With the sun already setting and the people losing interest, Akane broke down into tears for real. However, she heard someone asking for okonomiyaki in broken Japanese, and Akane realized that it was none other than Brian Taylor. With a smile, Brian complimented her cooking, and Akane happily thanked him in return.

Throughout the month of summer break, Akane and Brian worked together to capture the hearts of the people of London with her okonomiyaki. When the time came to fly back to Japan, Akane was given a send-off by Brian at the airport, mirroring their farewell a few years back. With a final heartfelt embrace, Akane flies back to Japan to tell her dad all about what happened before proceeding to break his back.

Returning to the present, Akane now lives together with Brian under the same roof as a lovey-dovey couple. For the past four years, Brian has been studying at a Japanese university to learn more about the country and its cuisines. Akane, having lived with him for so long, wants to marry him. She wants a happy family that never stops laughing and plans to confess her love to him. Later that night, Akane goes into Brian's room upstairs that she had lent to him, but he was seemingly nowhere to be seen. Scanning the room, she finally spots him sleeping in bed, in his clothes. Today was the final day for his university exams, so he was completely worn out from studying so much. Worried that he might catch a cold, Akane places the bedsheet over him before staring at him and kissing him on the cheek. Satisfied, she begins to leave until she accidentally catches a glimpse of Brian's notebook computer. On it, Akane discovers that her boyfriend is planning to leave her alone again in Japan as he returns to London to become a lecturer at a Japanese language school. At the same time, Brian awakes. Despite their time together for four years, Akane realizes that she never understood him as a person. Akane confesses her love to Brian, but it did little to persuade him.

A few days later Yayoi visit Akane Okonomiyaki restaurant and after a while, the two recognize each other. Yayoi is still drawing manga, though she doesn’t want to talk about it with Akane. Akane is so excited to see her long-lost friend that she cooks up some special okonomiyaki just for her. This gets her to remember the discovery she made in middle school: the secret ingredient to a great okonomiyaki is wanting others to enjoy it.

Yayoi absolutely loves the food, and as the two bids a farewell, Akane is in a good enough mood to talk calmly with Brian. She apologizes for yelling at him, and he apologizes for not telling her. Brian explains that after having discovered so much about Japan, he wants to return to his home country to teach other British people about it. Akane says that even if it means that they’ll separate forever, she’ll support him in his dream.

However the mysterious voice calling out to Akane for help. Akane doesn’t remember the mysterious voice, but she goes through the book portal anyway.

Chapter 3 - Kise Yayoi[]

Yayoi now working as a manga illustrator on the 41st story of a high-rise building , Yayoi has finally achieved success as Miracle Peace is an extremely successful comic. In fact, she even dropped out of high school to work on it after it became popular. Unfortunately, The success of Miracle Peace is begun to take a toll on her, who feels overworked due to working on the Miracle Peace for several years. She doesn’t have time to speak with her family or friends, and her only source of socialization is with the fictional characters she writes. Because of this, after seven long years of success, Yayoi has decided to bring Miracle Peace to an end.

During a flashback to a month ago, when Yayoi first told her editor-in-chief that she wanted to end the series. Not only is the scene sweet, as the editor-in-chief reminds Yayoi of her deceased father the editor-in-chief was understanding of Yayoi’s fatigue, but he still wanted to find a way to reignite Yayoi’s passion for Miracle Peace, as he didn’t want the manga to end.

Yayoi recounts the precise moment that she realized that she no longer wanted to work on Miracle Peace. That day, her mother had visited her, but Yayoi was too busy with the comic to interact with her much. It was only after her mother had left that Yayoi had realized why her mother had visited: that day was the anniversary of her father’s death. Every year since his death, Yayoi and her mother had visited his grave to pay respects to him. That anniversary had been the first one that Yayoi had forgot. Yayoi now feels that she’s been so focused on making money with her manga that she’s been hurting both her mother and her deceased father. After Yayoi told the editor-and-chief about this, he finally let Yayoi ending the Miracle Peace. He told her that she could visit her father’s grave after she finished the manuscript for the final issue and told Yayoi to be proud of creating a comic that will go down in history.

Chapter 4 - Midorikawa Nao[]

Chapter 5 - Aoki Reika[]

Following the return of harmony to both Märchenland and Earth, Aoki Reika has become a teacher of Nanairogaoka Middle School, where she teaches Class 2-1. She tries her best to be the perfect teacher in front of her students, but when she receives a letter that threatens her position as a teacher and an unknown student daring to drop out of school, Reika sets out to personally uncover the culprit. On a certain day, Reika devises a plan to have her students write down whatever it is that is on their minds. As slim as her chance may be, the plan comes to fruition in the form of a an unsigned paper that is written with the exact same threat as the letter. Through her quick-thinking and skills, Reika almost manages to identify the writer until she is interrupted by a student. It is Irie, younger brother to the former Student Council President Irie. When their discussion comes to an end and Irie leaves the classroom, Reika realises too late that the handwriting on the paper belongs to none other than the boy who just left...but she disregards it, concluding that she is simply too tired and needs rest.

Opening her eyes, Reika realises that she has overslept on her desk in school. The sun has already set and darkness blankets the sky, with everyone no doubt having gone home. Checking her watch for the time, Reika is taken aback by the watch ticking at absurd speeds, the same happening to the classroom clock just above the blackboard. On said board, the same threatening message is written on it, but something far more sinister catches her attention as she turns around to spot someone sitting in the very centre of the dark room. Reika takes notice of whom that seat belongs to, calling out Irie's name, but she is met with a cackle. The moonlight shines in from the window, illuminating the mysterious figure until he comes into full view. It is Joker, a character Reika recognizes from The Greatest Smile picture book. Given her lost memories of her time as a Pretty Cure, she fails to perceive him as a dangerous adversary until he begins his attack. Joker uses his sharp playing cards to assault Reika, destroying the classroom as she tries her best to escape, but the door does not open, she is trapped. Joker, relentless as always, makes Reika suffer, even going as far as grabbing her by the neck after throwing her against the blackboard. He taunts and chokes her, proclaiming that being a teacher doesn't suit her, before she finally awakens - Reika has been having an awful nightmare all this time, her body sweating profusely from how vivid and realistic the experience felt. Chalking it up to being a by-product of exhaustion still, Reika packs up and leaves for home for today.

The next day, Aoki Soutarou's health worsens in the hospital. Given his fragile age and failing condition, the doctor surmises that he doesn't have long to live. Wrapping up her work, Reika heads to the hospital to pay her elderly grandfather one last visit. Reika at this point speaks of resigning her position as teacher, having failed to see into the heart of a student. Soutarou, however, asks his granddaughter where her heart may be. If she can allow it to reveal itself, Reika's path will naturally open. Reika etches his words into her heart.

On that late evening, Aoki Soutarou expires in his sleep.

Embracing the path she so seeks, Reika walks tall, her life as a teacher having only just begun. When she meets with Irie again in class, the two engage in a heated discussion where Irie wants to leave class and get on with his club activities, but Reika would have none of it and raises her voice, demanding him to sit down. Stunned, Irie obeys.

Final Chapter - The Greatest Smile[]

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