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Anonymous File :-(, x)
The final part of its plan was the most clever... something that, had there been any real measure, would have elevated it from "genius" status among the youma to "Einstein". It took a long time to prepare, before it let out hints of its location. Sailor Mars was simply the first to take the bait...
When Mars and Mercury were rescued, the Senshi wrote off odd behavior as simply an aftereffect of the youma's energy drain and... well, they mentally labeled it as 'torture'. Really, the best one to connect the dots would have been Mercury herself...
Splintering itself so badly, sacrificing such a large part of itself had injured the youma's spiritual presence grievously... but in such a strong, spiritually-powerful body, it would recover quickly. And its mind was sharper than ever before - not as much as the being it was replacing, but it had an excuse. For now, anyway. If it couldn't manage better - that was what the plane tickets and disguise tools were hidden away for.
It? No, no, that wouldn't work anymore... 'She'. She could even learn to like this. The glorious feeling of such a sensual body... and the little cries of objection and despair from the few fragments of its original mind only made things better.
The monster had been defeated and Mercury saved, the other Senshi thought. Right?
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