Somewhere in Japan...

"What do you want from me?" asked a girl with short hair and she has fear on her face.

Her name is Hikaru Sorano, and she is Minako Aino's best friend. Trouble has come to her for the night as she is given a letter to go to the school so that she will know the secret that the latter is going to tell the former.

The twist?

Her assailant is the one who wrote the letter, not Minako, and that she is being led into a trap. His face is in shadow so she won't recognize who that is.

"I want you to know who is Sailor V, that's who," he said as he went closer to her ear. "Your best friend, Minako Aino, is Sailor V."

Just as she is found out the secret, she is shot three times in the chest by the assailant carrying a revolver. With his business concluded, he writes down on her wrist '15/21' before leaving her to die in the school gym.

"15 down, 6 more to go, and the people I'm going to kill will be in Japan."