On a rooftop, Dark Mercury aims her sword at a mysterious Senshi. "Who are you?" she demands.

The Senshi, clad in cat ears, a cat tail, and a purple and yellow sailor suit, holds up a moonlight stick. "Sailor Mercury—can you defeat me?" she challenges. She raises her moonlight stick, preparing to attack.

Dark Mercury smirks. "I don't know who you are—but as you wish." Grinning widely, she prepares to attack as well—when something suddenly flashes in her memory. Dark Mercury gasps.

The Senshi smiles and lowers her moonlight stick. "It’s as I thought," she announces smugly.

"What are you talking about?" Dark Mercury snaps.

"When Sailor Moon awakened as the Princess, you were showered by the light of the Mysterious Silver Crystal, right?"  

Dark Mercury recalls herself shielding her eyes from the light of the Silver Crystal.  

The Senshi continues, "When that happened, the spell that was cast upon you got weaker." With one quick movement, she sends a beam of light from her moonlight stick in Dark Mercury's direction. Dark Mercury whimpers, raising an arm to block the light's effect. 

The Senshi disappears. Finding herself alone, Dark Mercury looks around the rooftop. 

"Mercury—" echoes the Senshi's voice. "You will surely return."

The Senshi's purple boots clap against the tiles of a sidewalk. She stops and grins, focusing her attention on her ears and her tail. "This is unreal!" she cries. Giggling, she skips down the sidewalk and turns into Luna the toy cat.

In the Dark Kingdom, Jadeite kneels before Queen Beryl. "So the Mysterious Silver Crystal is inside the body of the princess…" she says. "How are we to get our hands on it?"

"In order to investigate that, we have to get near the Princess," he responds. "You can entrust that mission to me completely."

Beryl pauses. "How is Nephrite?" she asks finally.

"I don't know," he reports. "Perhaps because he attacked the princess without telling anyone and yet failed—I haven’t seen him."

"What a fool," she mutters. "Sometime, we’ll have to find a grave that fits him."

Jadeite represses a smirk.

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Within the caves, Nephrite continues to sit dejectedly in his corner and watches water drip into a small puddle. 

Zoisite approaches him. "Nephrite," he says soothingly. "You're troubled."

"Don't mind me," Nephrite responds, his voice weary. "It won't do you any good."

"Remember who you were long ago," Zoisite urges. "Know your true se—"

Nephrite jerks around. "This is the real me!" he roars. Turning back to his puddle, he continues, "Dumped by Beryl-sama…In this pitiful state!"

Zoisite begins to walk past him and pauses. "If you ever feel like it," he says quietly. "Come." He leaves.

Nephrite clutches his cape and recalls the moment when Dark Mercury gave him the cape. "You being alone like that—" she says. "I don't like it. " 

In frustration, he slams the cape against the cave walls and then buries his head in it.