[Scene: The Midori kitchen. Mamoru and Chief Midori are sitting at the kitchen table when Zoi and Kunzite teleport in. Chief Midori rises from his chair when he sees Zoi is crying. ]
Chief Midori: [stern] Mamoru filled me in on everything that has been happening with the Death Phantom.
Zoi: Good. For once, I'm glad.
Kunzite: [to Chief Midori] This matter has been taken care of. The Death Phantom is no longer a threat to your son or anyone he cares about.
Chief Midori: If it's been taken care of, why is he crying?
Zoi: I can't talk about this right now, I want to go to my room.
[Starts up the stairs]
Chief Midori: Zoisite O. Midori, get back here!
[Zoi keeps walking to the stairs]
Chief Midori: That's it, Zoi! I'm sending you home!
Zoi: [stops and turns around] I am home!
Chief Midori: I'm sending you back to live with your mother in Italy.
Zoi: [aghast] What did I do!
Chief Midori: What haven't you done? Your life has been in never-ending peril since the moment you arrived here! This place is not good for you!
Zoi: I'm not leaving.
Chief Midori: Why not? I thought you hated living here in Hen Tie.
Zoi: I don't want to crowd Mom and Giancarlo.
Chief Midori: They live in a CASTLE!
Zoi: Italy's too hot.
Chief Midori: [brings his fist down on the table] Dammit, none of this would be happening if you'd stayed with your mother!
Zoi: So you're going to get rid of me! Just like that! What is that going to solve!
Chief Midori: It will keep any more of these monsters from coming after you!
Zoi: You don't know that! Only if I'm in Italy it'll just be me and Mom and Giancarlo, and they don't even know I'm a Shitennou yet! No...as long as this Wiseman is after me, it's best I stay close to you as possible, and as far away from Mom and the bun in her oven as I can get!
[Kunzite crosses his arms and raises his voice just enough to be heard over Zoi and his father's bickering.]
Kunzite: The Death Phantom is not coming after you. Or anyone you care about. Mother already took care of that. She forbad the Death Phantom from coming after your son, or any human his acquaintance.
Mamoru: Why?
[They all stop and stare at Mamoru, still seated at the kitchen table with a thousand yard stare on his face]
Mamoru: Why? Why would Metallia do that? What could she possibly have to gain?
Zoi: [blinking] Gain?
Kunzite: She did it because I asked her to.
Mamoru: [sneers] Right. Metallia has never cared about what you want. Any more than you Shitennou have ever cared about what I want. She sees you as her servant and nothing else. To care about your wants and dreams would give you power of over her, and that is the last thing she wants.
Zoi: [toys with a lock of hair] I think she might have done it just to be spiteful.
Mamoru: No. I've lived with her for longer than I've been alive. Metallia doesn't dabble in anything as petty as spite. She is the literal personification of evil! If she does anything that remotely resembles a kind act, we should be very afraid, since it means she is going to do something far more terrible.
Kunzite: Not necessarily. Endymion. You should just be grateful that she's spared you this time.
Mamoru: Spared me for what, exactly?
[for a moment the room is silent]
Chief Midori: Mamoru, maybe she's not quite as bad as you remember.
Mamoru: Yes. I've heard talk like that before. From a princess. She urged me to give Metallia the benefit of the doubt as well. Right before 'your mother' had her murdered, and turned her entire planet into a sea of barren rock and dust.
Kunzite: That was different.
Mamoru: [bitter] Oh? Was it?
Kunzite: The people of this planet are beneath her notice, Endymion. And for that, you should be grateful. Mother had to act, because her life was in danger. The White Queen of the Moon threatened to seal Mother away with the Silver Crystal. Because we took care of it, there is nothing and nobody on planet that poses the same level of threat to her.
[Mamoru sinks into his seat, but his eyes are still wary.]
Kunzite: And as long as there is nothing that can pose a threat to her, there is no reason for her to impose a death sentence upon the inhabitants of this planet.
[Meanwhile, at the Hen Tie post office]
[Kate, a young postal worker is having a rather nice day, solely because she's had her eye on the most beautiful young man she's ever seen, waiting in line with a pickup slip in his hand.]
[Tall, with chin length chestnut brown hair and the most stunning almond-shaped blue eyes...And a fantastic boyfriend, if the redhead clinging to him is any indication. (sigh)]
[From what Kate can see of her she's got the tall, slim, curvaceous build of model. (of course) She seems to be having a bad day. She's buried her face against the beautiful boy's shirt while he holds her close and occasional kisses the top of her head to give her comfort.]
[Kate is delighted when she is the next available worker at the counter when they come to the front of the line.]
Kate: [cheery] Next.
[They break apart, and Kate is pleased to see the girl is even more beautiful than the boy to her. With sparkling almond-shaped brown eyes and the same elven features.]
Kate: [grinning] You two must be brother and sister.
Dev: [dazzling Kate with a smile] Why, yes. Twins as a matter of fact.
El: Can we have our package. We don't have a lot of time.
[Dev hands her the slip with a wink and her heart flutters. She goes to the back and returns with the package]
Kate: It's heavy. What's in here.
Dev: Just some mirrors.
Kate: I don't blame you. If I was as beautiful as the two of you are, I'd hang mirrors all over my house as well.
Dev: [Beams] Why, thank you. You're not so bad yourself.
[Kate's heart flutters again as Dev gives her another wink]
El: Can we have our package.
[Kate places it on the counter, and El grabs it, but Dev takes it from her in a chivalrous manner.]
Dev: There it is, my love. The last piece of the puzzle.
[He walks away with the package under one arm and El under the other]
Dev: Now let's go home and build ourselves a God Gun.
Kate: [Calling after them] My shift ends at four o'clock!
El: [Calling back] Don't care.