
However this changed when an unknown champion defeated the Shokan Prince Goro in a Mortal Kombat tournament and Shang Tsung decided to eliminate a potential threat to his plans. Years have passed and Hikari Kujou has grown up into an adult, inheriting her cousin's takoyaki stand and continuing on her friendship with Nagisa and Honoka while also defending Earthrealm from threats from the Dusk Zone. After the Dark King was defeated for now, Hikari was initially thought to be absorbed by Ashrah only for a chance encounter to reveal that she was permanently separated from Ashrah as her own person. She then met up with Nagisa Misumi/Cure Black and Honoka Yukishiro/ Cure White and they started to collect Heartiels to resurrect Ashrah while also battling the Dusk Zone who also seek to bring back their ruler.

During a encounter with a Zakeena, she awakened her powers as Shiny Luminous when the fairy prince Pollun rushed up to her. Appearing at a riverside, she was taken in by her self declared cousin, Fujita Akane and helped her run her takoyaki cafe. The life of the Queen of the Garden of Light Ashrah, Hikari Kujou was created when Ashrah was broken up into the twelve Heartiels representing the virtues that Ashrah gained from her life journey from a mere demonic servant of the Netherrealm into the ruler of the Garden of Light and the wielder of the Power of Creation, the Queen Chairect representing the heart of Ashrah and Hikari Kujou herself who represents the life of Ashrah during the first defeat of the Dusk Zone.

She also carries around a wooden voodoo doll based on Ashrah's voodoo doll on the ribbon wraps around her waist that are also used to hold her Touch Commune. Her facial model in Mortal Kombat 11 would be based on her Japanese voice actress, Rie Tanaka.
