Next up is Ami-chan and Nephrite! I totally thought they deserved more screen time together!

Ami curled up in her favorite spot on the couch in their room at Motoki-kun's karaoke lounge

Ami curled up in her favorite spot on the couch in their room at Motoki-kun's karaoke lounge. Though the senshi still congregated here from time to time, it was becoming rare for all of them to gather at once. Ami had taken to bringing her textbooks here. She planned to study abroad in America within the year, and she felt the extra study time could only help her.

As she mouthed the English words and phrases to herself, she fiddled with a small necklace. The pendant was a simple tear of blue glass, the kind sold at any street stall or drug store. Still, she cherished it.

She'd found it hanging from the doorknob of their room the first time the senshi had returned after the defeat of Metallia. None of the other girls had known where it had come from, and Ami had finally asked Motoki-kun if he knew. She'd been rather taken aback at the sorrow in his face.

"Nephilim-he... it was a gift as thanks for the cookies." She hadn't pressed him beyond that. It was obvious that Motoki-kun knew only that his testy assistant had disappeared for some reason. Nephrite's true identity was not something that Ami felt she had the right to reveal. And besides, it wasn't as if the sure knowledge of his death would ease the older man's pain. Ami sighed. She could only assume the generals were dead: neither Usagi-chan nor Mamoru had wanted to talk about it.

So, she'd simply nodded to Motoki-kun and slipped the necklace over her head. She hadn't taken it off since. Ami paused her recitation again and closed her eyes, clutching the pendant tightly.

Minako seemed to suspect that there might be something more to Ami's desire to leave Japan, but the other senshi hadn't noticed anything. Ami-chan, after all, would do anything, go anywhere to learn. It was just to be expected. Ami never said differently, especially not to herself.