[Special 005: Voice] Drafted Again
[She makes this post as Sailor Mercury, because she'll be fighting in that form and it's best to be upfront with the people who'll be her allies.]I've been drafted. I think I went once before, didn't I? I hope that I aquitted myself well. I also hope to be able to fight alongside everyone else this time
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So when he hears her voice over the journals, his attention is instantly piqued. He opens it and takes a look...
... What? That is most certainly not the Doctor Mizuno he knows. Vibrant blue hair, outfit in equally bright tones of blue and white, a golden, jewelled headband...]
... D-Doctor Mizuno? Is... Is that you? [Everything was so topsy-turvy lately that Robert had started doubting his sanity, so this isn't exactly helping matters.] What... what happened to you? [... Is this some sort of strange pre-war ritual she's doing?]
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... There are others? Are they here as well?
[He isn't sure he wants to know, but... he asks anyway.]
Sailor Mercury... I...
[What does he say?] ... Good luck, I suppose. H-However one... has good luck for this sort of thing.
I... I will await your safe return. [Where Robert will need to talk with her, to truly understand this... this mindset. This... aberration.]
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[She purposely avoids directly answering the question of whether they're here; it isn't her place to reveal Minako's identity. Besides, it's technically true: Minako here is not the Minako of Ami's world.]
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You... have experience with this, then. [It's saddening all over again, but in a way a little reassuring. At least she won't be defenseless - ugh. Even thinking like that makes Robert sick. He almost would rather she WOULD be defenseless... yet, he doesn't want her to get hurt.
He doesn't want anybody to get hurt.]
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And it touches that part of her that wonders for herself: Can she truly be a doctor, a healer, if she starts fighting again? There had been peace for four years in her world before the battles with Mio.]
I have experience from our past life. In this life, too, our enemy returned to Earth.
[She knows very little of this may make sense; but there's no other way to say it than bluntly, and let him ask questions.]
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Do you perhaps mean in your youth? [That thought is somehow even worse. Child soldiers were a whole new level of barbarism to Robert.]
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No. A lifetime ago. I wasn't born to my mother until this lifetime.
[The words are awkward, but she hopes they convey the point: a birth, a death.]
Reincarnation.
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... How does that make any sense? Being born twice - that's impossible. [Literally impossible. Not the "impossible" magic and souls and gods and demons were - those were "impossibles" that had long since ceased to be impossible here.]
... are you some sort of genetic subsidiary of an original genome? [Because this is the only way he can even begin to approach the concept of being born twice.]
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Mercury gives a slight, introspective smile that can't be seen.
"We're getting away from the subject we were talking about. I know this all probably sounds unbelievable, but I know that all of it is true."
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And Ami was somehow beyond that? It boggles Robert's mind.
He's supposed to just take this at face value?]
... How can I even begin to believe this, Doctor Mizuno? ... [He shakes his head; she might hear the rustling of his hair and lapels against his glasses.] ... I have heard so many strange things here. It's getting to be to where I wonder if I am the one who is insane.
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[She says this absolutely firmly, yet calmly, confidently. She is certain. Yet it's true the senshi go far, far beyond normal humans in many ways. In that long past life, humans had even called them goddesses because of their powers and those vast lifespans. Yet this time, she is Mizuno Ami, the daughter of her mother, a human girl from Tokyo, Japan.]
I'm sorry for showing you more strange things. I hadn't wanted to say it, because I knew it would be difficult, and that you might not be able to believe me.
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Ami hid this from him because she knew he wouldn't be able to accept it.
Why does that hurt so much? Robert knows it's true. His mind is railing against every aspect of this. Of course he couldn't accept it - he was a Terran. This simply didn't happen.
... Except it had happened, apparently.]
Ah... [He really doesn't know what to say to that.]
Doctor Mizuno, I may not be able to... to believe this easily, but... [He sighs a little, wringing his fingers.] ... I-I...
Perhaps we, we can speak more of this later. When it is a better time. [Because Ami had to... prepare. Whatever you did to prepare for war, if it indeed could even be prepared for.]
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I... understand, Doctor Mizuno. ... Sailor Mercury. [Both titles seem foreign now.]
Please. Let us speak when you return. I'll... need it.
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