As the week rolled by, the Senshi managed to make it through school without any trouble, save for Usagi struggling to study. At the end of the week, they walked towards a bookstore for supplies and for Usagi and Chibi-Usa to buy the latest manga.
"I hope it's here!" Usagi said excitedly. "I can't wait to find out what happens next!"
"Let's hurry so we can get the limited edition!" Chibi-Usa added enthusiactically.
When they got to the manga section, they noticed some of the limited edition manga are sold out.
"SOLD OUT?!" Usagi and Chibi-Usa shouted.
Their shouting caused everyone to look at them angrily. The mother-daughter duo slowly backed away and bowed their heads. Rei dragged the two to a quiet part of the bookstore.
"Do you realize where you are, odango heads?!" Rei grumbled silently. "People are trying to read here!"
"Sorry, we didn't know," Usagi blushed.
"Besides, the titles are still there in the store!" Rei pointed out.
"Yeah, but that's standard edition," Usagi calmly explained. "We almost always get the limited edition manga."
"But who could've bought them before us?" Chibi-Usa wondered.
The answer just rolled by the three Senshi with a shopping cart full of manga. Pushing the cart is a girl wearing a Sailor V costume complete with eyemask. She had long blue hair and her eyes were closed in oblivious bliss. Her smile is a bit awkward. The other Senshi notice her, especially Minako who recognizes the costume well.
"I almost forgot about this thing," Minako said looking over it.
"You noticed, huh?" the girl looked back at Minako. "It's a limited edition Sailor V costume. Very rare indeed."
The girl also notice Usagi and Chibi-Usa sifting through some of the manga collection, however she didn't feel upset about it.
"I see you two are avid readers," the girl said to the Moon girls.
Usagi and Chibi-Usa just froze each holding the manga they wanted to read. The girl simply nodded in approval.
"I guess it's OK," she responded. "Besides, I might have enough for a new game coming out next month."
"Can you please tell me who you are?" Chibi-Usa asked.
The girl chimed in and said, "I'm Mizuki Saitou of the Zodiac Belt."
The news hit the Senshi like a ton of bricks. In this bookstore is one of their mortal enemies in plain sight! However, she doesn't feel like an enemy.
"Are you sure that you're a member of the Zodiac Belt?" Ami asked politely.
"Yeah, I am!" Mizuki blushed. "I also notice some of you are the fabled Sailor Senshi."
Usagi and Chibi-Usa heard everything and had to scream, knowing that Mizuki Saitou discovered their identities, but had to apologize to the bookstore patrons afterwards. The Senshi and Mizuki head towards the quiet side of the bookstore to interrogate the Zodiac Belt member.
"If you know who we are, why aren't you destroying us?" Makoto questioned.
"Not my assignment," Mizuki shrugged. "Besides, this place is so awesome! I can get loads of manga here!"
"How did you discover our true identities?" Minako asked Mizuki.
"Everyone has a secret identity," Mizuki replied. "I remember seeing the latest anime based on the myth of Sailor Moon. I simply recognized their faces and when I saw you, I instantly knew who you are."
"You watch too much anime," Rei grumbled.
"Always the tsundere, are you, Mars?" Mizuki chimed.
"Will you cut that out?!" Rei shouted back. Forgetting that she was still in a bookstore, she bowed her head just in case there were anyone reading.
After everyone bought their books, the Senshi and their new enemy Mizuki Saitou were walking along as if they were friends. Mizuki was playing with a sapphire pendant shaped like a gourd while wheeling her shopping cart as they were heading for the Crown Parlor. Once inside, Mizuki and the Senshi sit down to continue their interrogation.
"Are there any other people as weird as you?" Rei growled.
"I don't think so," Mizuki thought, "unless you can count Shishi Kobayashi. I don't do well with animals. Zoology is not my best subject."
"So what's to stop us from putting you out of your misery?" Makoto sneered looking straight into Mizuki's eyes.
"I see two stoppers," Mizuki giggled, "and they're right on your chest."
Makoto covered herself quickly as Mizuki laughed like a hyena.
"WILL YOU STOP THAT?!" Rei shouted at Mizuki. "You're starting to sound like my grandpa! Sheesh!"
Usagi and Chibi-Usa don't know what is worse: having the enemy know exactly who the Senshi are or that Mizuki is a bigger otaku than they ever could be.
"Well, I gotta get going," Mizuki said as she left front row tickets to a pro wrestling arena.
"Tickets to tonight's wrestling match?" Minako wondered. "Where'd you get those?"
"Oh, those aren't mine," Mizuki pointed out. "You've been personally invited to see tonight's match live."
"So why aren't you going?" Ami asked.
"I'm not much a wrestling fan, but I am a big Tiger Mask fan," Mizuki added.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Rei mumbled, knowing there's a bigger geek than Usagi and Chibi-Usa.
"Who knows? You might be part of the show," Mizuki said as she wheeled her cart out of the Crown Parlor. "Oh, and if you can, Miss Minako, try not to wear anything that accents your shapely butt too much. The fans don't want to nosebleed to death."
Minako covered the back of her skirt and looked at Mizuki angrily as she left the Crown Parlor with her manga in tow.
"I think I'm beginning to HATE that Zodiac brat!" Minako growled.
"What bothers me is why she wants us to go to the wrestling match?" Ami wondered.
"It's gotta be a trap!" Makoto deduced. "The Zodiac Belt might have brainwashed some of the wrestlers to try and attack us!"
"We might as well see what this is all about," Usagi said unsuringly. "I mean, what harm can be done anyway?"
Mizuki continued to roll her cart until a big foot held up her cart from rolling. Mizuki noticed it was Yamato Ushiyama blocking the way. Her face was covered with a brown luchador-style bull mask with black horns. Ushiyama was also wearing a sport bra with a cow print, brown tight short shorts and black boots. She also had black elbow pads on as if she was ready for a wrestling match.
"Hey, Beefy-Yama," Mizuki chimed.
"Don't call me that, nerd!" Ushiyama ordered.
"Relax, you'll do great tonight," Mizuki said. "The Senshi will be there front row center."
"Finally…I get to lay the smackdown on ALL their candy-asses!" Ushiyama declared.
"I'd start with Sailor Venus' first," Mizuki pointed out. "Hers sticks out more than any other Senshi."
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO I START WITH!" Ushiyama yells at the oblivious Mizuki. "Now go do what nerds do best!"
"Break a leg!" Mizuki waves to Ushiyama as she headed into the Zodiac Belt headquarters.
"I'll do more than break their legs," Ushiyama grinned with glee. "I'll break them all into pieces!"
Mizuki watches as Ushiyama headed down the street heading for the arena for the wrestling match, twirling her gourd pendant as she watches.
"Too bad there's no Tiger Mask at that arena," Mizuki cried. "It would've been an honor to meet him. Oh well, time to read my manga."
Mizuki heads inside the headquarters as Ushiyama prepars to battle the Senshi at the wrestling show, which will truly be a show for the ages.