Apart from Wells, all the remaining Dekas have gathered in the conference room later that night, though strictly speaking: the next morning. Nearly everybody was shocked to have seen Jasmine the way they did. Doggy had asked the group to report to him what they saw. Apart from Hoji, they all talked through each other, explaining that they saw Jasmine using powers she couldn't possibly possess. Somehow, Hoji's voice had reached above the others, when he told Doggy what he knew:
"What we feared has finally happened, Boss!"
None of the other four understood what he meant by that, and became more than surprised when Swan and Doggy seemed to know exactly what he was talking about.
"She has finally discovered her full potential?" Doggy asked.
"Yes!" Hoji replied, "And whatever that doctor predcted is finally happening!"
"I still can't believe it!" Swan nearly cried, "I mean... it's not at all like Jasmine!"
"Power can change people into the worst creatures." Hoji tried to sound as if it's a comforting thought.
"And the safe-word?" Swan asked.
Hoji shook his head.
"Hold it there, partner!" Ban started, "What's all that about!?"
"How many times do I ..." Hoji didn't get a chance to finish his sentence, since all the other Dekas had all their unanswered questions to ask.
"Hoji!" Doggy talked over the other people's voices, "Tell them what all this is about!"
Doggy had pressed a few buttons on his desk before Hoji started telling everyone what he knew:
"When Jasmine first came here, she was a nervous wreck. She had no idea what was happening to her, or why. Lot's of tests were run to figure out what's making her hear people's thoughts."
"And once you figured it out," Ban thought he knew the end to this story, "you knew she had to wear gloves."
"It wasn't that simple!" Hoji corrected him, "We thought that at first, but soon she figured a way to read people's thoughts while still wearing the gloves. And even figured other uses for her power!"
When Umeko heard that, she remembered just what her friend looked like earlier. Now she understood what what Hoji meant, but she still doesn't understand one thing: "But why did she turn that... that evil?"
"According to her psychiatrist," Hoji explained, "she tried to figure different uses. Sending her own thoughts to other people, reading people's thoughts without at all even touching them,... so she could use them against people one day. Particulary the ones that made her life bad because she could hear people's thoughts!"
"That's when the doctor decided to..." Doggy felt he was supposed to be the one to tell everyone, but clearly it wasn't as easy for him as it was for Hoji.
"He would print something into her mind." Hoji finished it for his supervisor, "She would think that her powers are limited to the level that we all know it. However it was possible that when highly emotional, she would find those powers again, so he taught me a safe-word, which would cause her to fall asleep when mentionned out loud, and when she wakes up, she won't remember anything."
"Is that what happened back on the moon?" Sen asked.
The rest of the team hadn't forgotten it themselves. When Wells was trapped somewhere beneath the surface of the moon, Jasmine suddenly claimed she could feel where Wells was, and tried to look for him. Of all people, Hoji was the one to follow her, and insisted that only the people of the Fire Squad would come with him. And when they returned, Jasmine was asleep.
Hoji hesitated to answer, but knew that there was no point hiding it anymore: "Yes."
An angry Ban suddenly attacked Hoji. Sen and Tetsu tried to stop them, though a part of them didn't think that Hoji diserved much better, so they hardly even tried to stop him. The comotion caused the gang to miss their supervisor to look at his screen, and looking depressed.
"Why..." Ban screamed at his partner, "Why did you never tell us this?!"
"We tried everything to stop her from... becoming whoever we feared she'd become!" Hoji replied, "We were afraid that if you knew..."
"If I knew," Ban started, "I'd... I'd..."
Hoji knew it when Ban couldn't finish his sentence: "You'd do what? You really think things would be a lot better if you knew?"
Tetsu only just noticed Doggy's face: "Something wrong, Boss?"
Doggy couldn't answer, so Swan tried, after she had looked at his screen: "He just recieved a message from the highest court."
Everyone looked up, with an expression on their faces that could not be identified. They had an idea about what the message could be about, but could not believe the idea alone.
"I really think you should tell them, Doggy!" Swan said to him.
Doggy sighed deeply, more out of grieve than anything else: "I've just been informed... that they have approved for Jasmine's... deletion."