[scene: The Midori household. Zoi is chopping vegetables for dinner when his father comes home from work.]

Chief Midori: [smiling] There's someone here to see you.

Zoi: Is it Kunzite?

Mamoru: [following behind Chief Midori] Not quite.

Zoi: Oh. [He doesn't bother hiding his disappointment, and goes back to chopping vegetables]

Chief Midori: [Hangs up his jacket and shoulder holster] I'll go upstairs so you two can talk in private.

Zoi: You needn't bother. I'm sure he won't stay long.

[Chief Midori chuckles as he goes up the stairs. Zoi give Mamoru a cold look]

Zoi: Forgive me if I don't offer you something to drink.

Mamoru: Don't worry, your father told me to help myself. [gets a can of lemonade from the fridge] Want any help with dinner?

Zoi: I think I can manage without you.

[Mamoru takes a seat at the kitchen table]

Zoi: [snide] Does Minako know you're here?

Mamoru: Who do you think sent me?

[Zoi sneers]

Mamoru: She told me how you got attacked at the O'Sama mansion. She feels really badly that she didn't try to help you.

Zoi: But not badly enough to apologize in person.

Mamoru: Actually, she told me not to tell you that, but I felt it was something you should know.

Zoi: [shrugs] Yeah, I'd feel a vague sense of guilt, too, if one of my friends was almost torn to shreds by a bunch of monsters while I just stood there and ordered people not to help.

Mamoru: [frowns] The thing you have to remember is that all four of those girls were brutally murdered by the Shitennou. Three of them by your boyfriend. It happened a thousand years ago, but they have just gotten their memories back, so each murder, and the events leading up to it, are all fresh in their minds...this is been particularly hard on Minako because Kunzite tricked her into thinking he loved her, and she remembers that too.

Zoi: And you feel the same way?

Mamoru: [stares at his lemonade morosely] I was murdered by Beryl, not the Shitennou, so I'm a little more tolerating of Kunzite. Also I was her slave, not her friend, so I never had a reason to feel betrayed...but still, I... [stare at Zoi] let me just say that if you were dating Beryl instead of Kunzite, someone else would be sitting here talking to you right now.

Zoi: Fair enough. So what did Minako want us to talk about, if she doesn't want to say she's sorry?

Mamoru: She wants to know why those monsters attacked you.

Zoi: Oh! So we're blaming the victim now!

Mamoru: We're not blaming anybody. All we know is that about 50 people came to Hen Tie and were never heard from again. Some of those people were turned into monsters. Some of those people were eaten by those monsters. One of the monsters was killed by Rei-

Zoi: Oh?

Mamoru: [blushes as he realizes he said too much] It was an accident. She hit him with a fireball while he was flying overhead and it pierced his wing, sending him plummeting to the ground. They called me, but I didn't even have to get close to the body to tell there was nothing I could do... [Mamoru tapers off into a stammer and looks downcast. Zoi is starting to feel bad for him]

Zoi: Hey. Don't worry. I'm not judging, I think I killed his girlfriend...this is the pervy teacher who was found in a clearing with burns all over his body, right?

Mamoru: [nods] So what can you tell me?

Zoi: Nothing. You've just told me a lot more than I knew five minutes ago.

Mamoru: So you don't know anything about these monsters?

Zoi: I think I know less about these monsters than anyone.

Mamoru: What about the god who is creating them and sending them to kill the Shitennou?

Zoi: [stops chopping and faces Mamoru] WHAT?

Mamoru: It's just a guess. Artemis said a minor god of chaos is creating is creating these things and sending them out to hunt four boys. Four boys. Four shitennou. And these things attacked you and Kunzite and nobody else. It can't be a coincidence. The question is...why?

Zoi: I don't know! I don't even know who Artemis is! And why me? I've only been a Shitennou for five months, and haven't done anything remotely Shitennou-like in that entire time.

[For a moment, there is a strained silence, that is interrupted by the crackling of a radio in Chief Midori pocket.]

Radio: Chief Midori, this is dispatch, we have reports of 10-45 at 10-20 Black Moon Cove. I repeat 10-45 at 10-20 Black Moon Cove. Do you copy?

[Zoi stares wide-eyed at the radio.]

[Mamoru looks at Zoi. For a moment they are still and silent. Then Zoi starts walking over the radio.]

Mamoru: What is a 10-45 at 10-20?

Zoi: That's police code for human remains.