Set in a spacious room with high ceilings and sparse furnishings, a comfortable couch contains a girl with dark hair like Mizuno Ami, but dressed in the signature blue gown of Mercury's princess. She has a drink of some sort of chilled fruit juice in her hand, and is viewing a screen that takes up an entire wall. It shows some apparently random
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She walks slowly forward, clutching her henshin pen in her jacket pocket. She isn't sure if she's been taken to a place before or after the Silver Millenium at first. The fact that no one's around, though, suggests the latter.
And of course, it's just her luck that she gets transported here while still carrying her school stuff.
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Venus. Mercury's lips quirk upward. "A sailor senshi shouldn't be able to enter here, so you must have come through the nexus," she remarks.
"Welcome to Mariner Castle, Sailorvenus." Or Aino Minako, apparently, as her eyes take in the school supplies.
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"What are you trying to pull?" Mercury asks with some amusement. It's safe to say she hadn't expected a compliment.
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"I see. You don't remember the past." They're still standing, Mercury still watching the other girl carefully as she shifts the subject.
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"It was nothing," she says.
Mercury gives a glance to the water and ice forms instead, and nods slightly towards Minako. They come forward, holding out the trays. Several varities of chilled juice are held by the water, while the ice has anmitsu as well as various sandwiches.
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"Someone who clearly remembered the past would already be familiar with some of these things."
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"I'm told the past varies most of all. Hypothetically, any conceivable scenario is possible with the potential for infinite worlds connected to the nexus. Similarities and contrasts can't be taken for granted, but general trends do emerge."
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From this cheerful girl who can easily be viewed as a good counterpart to Usagi, to the serious and over-strict leader of... approximately the other half of the worlds Mercury has encountered. The differences between Minakos had been quite startling, at the first.
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Pause. In this world, she knew plenty. With Usagi dead, and Mercury still in the Dark Kingdom, Mars and Jupiter had quit. It had been Venus who had fought to the end, alone from that moment. And the strange sense of connection makes Mercury forget for half a second about the early days of Sailor V.
"By yourself?" she asks skeptically. Then, as it occurs to her, "Sailor V?"
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