Scene: The Hallways of Hen Tie High. Mamoru is walking to his locker. Usagi goes running up to him]
Usagi: Mamoru! You're back.
Mamoru: [makes a hardhearted face at her] Is there something you want, bunhead?
Usagi: Of course there is. I want to get back together.
[Mamoru spots Rei walking past]
Mamoru: That's too bad, I'm with Rei now.
[He puts his arm around Rei but she squirms away with her hands up]
Rei: Hey, don't drag me into this.
Mamoru: What? I thought you wanted to go out?
Rei: That was a long time ago. I've learned a lot about myself in the meantime.
[Rei hurries away and Mamoru composes his face to look a lot less embarrassed before turning to Usagi]
Mamoru: Was there anything else you wanted?
Usagi: As a matter of fact. [rummages her in backpack] I wanted to show you something. [She pulls a quiz out of her folder and shoves it in his face] 100% Read it and weep, loser.
[Mamoru looks at the quiz and his face softens.]
Usagi: I'm doing so well in Math I'm no longer grounded...And I didn't cheat, so don't even start.
[Mamoru hands back the quiz]
Mamoru: Congratulations. I'm proud of you.
Usagi: ...wait...huh?
Mamoru: I always knew you could do it. You just had to believe in yourself.
[He starts to walk away but Usagi blocks him]
Usagi: Wait. This isn't fair. Why are you being a better boyfriend to me now that we've broken up?
Mamoru: I told you. It's not you...It's me. I can't be anyone's boyfriend. Not ever...I have too many issues.
Usagi: [starting to cry] No, don't say that. I want to be with you. No matter what. When you love someone you don't just turn you back on them because they have issues. Whatever it is that is bothering you. We'll get through this. Both of us.
Mamoru: No. Don't waste your time on someone who doesn't deserve you. If I ever said anything that hurt you or made you feel less than perfect, I'm sorry...But you have to understand, I can't be your boyfriend...Find someone else. Someone who will make you happy. Someone who will make you feel as cherished and special as you deserve.
Usagi: No, I can't. I...
[Usagi flees in tears and Mamoru walks away to reveal Dev, grinning like a Chershire Cat]
[Later, at lunch. Usagi is sitting at her usual table with Zoi, Naru, and Umino, too upset to eat.]
Usagi: I don't know what to do...I can't eat...I can't sleep...Not until I know what's bothering Mamoru...Zoi, you're in a relationship. What should I do?
Zoi: [raises his hands] I told you, don't ask me. I don't know anything about this stuff. I'm still with my first boyfriend. I've never had to break up with anyone before.
Naru: What are you talking about? Kunzite broke up with you last spring.
Usagi: [smiles wickedly] That's right. How could you have forgotten about that? Motoki told me how you two were fighting in biology class.
Naru: It got so ugly, Kunzite left town altogether.
Usagi: You were so upset you couldn't eat and you lost at least ten pounds. And you didn't even have ten pounds to lose.
Zoi: Uhh...That was different.
Usagi: How is that different?
[He can't very well explain that their breakup was mostly just a ruse to keep Zoi from being targeted for murder by the Blackmoon Clan, as a means of revenge against Kunzite. A ruse that would ultimately prove unsuccessful.]
Zoi: Kunzite and I were going through some dark times...he told me we just needed a break for a while... I didn't believe him. I didn't think he would ever come back...
Umino: Then you were nearly killed in a fire and it put everything in perspective.
Zoi: Yeah.
Usagi: [giggles] Oh, I see! Mamoru's just taking a break! He'll come back to me. I just know it... [groans and sinks her head on the table] Oh who am I kidding? He's gone...gone forever...I knew it couldn't last...he's so great and I'm nothing... nothing but a crybaby...I don't blame you if you guys don't want to hang out with me at Oktobterfest this weekend...
Naru: Of course we want to hang out at Oktoberfest this weekend. Right, guys?
[The others nod]
[The bell rings and they rise to clear their table.]
[Usagi has cleared her tray and is walking to her locker. She's stopped by a single red rose, held to block her path. She looks, hoping it is Mamoru, and sees Dev hold out a bouquet with the remaining eleven roses]
Dev: There is a lady, sweet and kind/There was never a face that so pleased my mind/I did but see her passing by/Yet, I'll love her 'til the day I die. [Hands her the roses]
Usagi: [giggles and hands back the roses] I'm sorry...you seem like a really nice guy... but I... just got out of a relationship-
Dev: So? That sounds like perfect timing to me.
Usagi: Yeah... but the trouble is...[giggles] You look exactly like my exboyfriend's exboyfriend, so this is just a little too weird for me.
Dev: [his smile vanishes] You're kidding, right?
Usagi: Ah, no. You have the same face, the same voice, you even dress the same..Say, England is pretty close to Dutchland isn't it?
Dev: You mean Deutschland?
Usagi: Uh...Sure. Maybe you're related. You wouldn't happen to have a cousin named Fiore, would you?
Dev: [shakes his head] No. I know who all my relatives are. And I'm pretty sure that guy's not one of them.
Usagi: I guess it's true what they say, then? Everyone has a double.
Dev: I guess it must be.
Usagi: Bye, now. [waves] And thanks. You've made me feel a lot better.
[Usagi leaves, reveling a grinning Matoko leaning against the locket with a smirk on her face]
Matoko: It's her loss. You're a lot cuter than Fiore. [turns and walks away] And you're waaaay cuter than Mamoru Chiba.
[Dev watches her go]
Dev: [grinning] Damn, that's a lot of woman.
[Meanwhile, Zoi and Umino are walking to class quizzing each other in physics]
Zoi: Oh my god! What is the hell is that?
[He looks in the direction Zoi was looking in]
Umino: What? Where?
Zoi: ...nothing...but for a moment I could have sworn I saw the Grim Reaper, staring right at me.
Umino: hm, that's weird.
[Late: A cloaked figure reflects on the exchange from elsewhere]
[The Shitennou couldn't have seen him. It was impossible. He must have been a premonition of his own death at Oktoborfest. Where he would mercilessly torn to shreds in front of dozens of innocent bystanders.]
[And if his brothers came to save him?]
[All the better]
[And if a few of those bystanders should happen to be killed by the Shitennou in the resulting melee?]
[That would be ideal]