Ranma Half Moon chapter 70 "The Death of Tuxedo Kamen" Part 2
Author's note: This episode also happens during the Sailor Moon episode 34, "The Sparkling Silver Crystal! The Moon Princess Appears"
Author's note: Baka means dumb (they use that word a lot, don't they?)
Cheap animation alert: When the Rainbow Crystals are together at first the animators only bother to draw six of them.
Ranma-ko waits for a train. This stinks. I have so many questions running through my head, but no one to discuss them with.
However, there is one place that might have someone that I could relate these shocking events with, a certain tea shop in Ikebukuro, the B:Lily Rose.
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The red ball of energy deposits Chiba Mamoru and Tsukino Usagi near the top of the now nearly empty Starlight Building.
Great, Usagi has fainted and Zoisite is looking at me confidently from across the room. This is the worse case scenario, trying to fight Zoisite while trying to protect an innocent hostage. If only I hadn't picked on Usagi so much. Then she probably would not have followed me.
Zoisite takes the five Rainbow Crystals that he had won and places them on the ground halfway between his original position and Mamoru's position, then walks back across the room. "My, my, Mamoru. We're finally here for a fair fight."
"Fair fight? Nonsense. This won't be a fair fight unless you send this girl back. She has nothing to do with us."
Zoisite smiles a sinister smile. "You're right, it wouldn't be fair at all. I will send her back. But, only if you put your two crystals with my five. Then I will send this insignificant human back. But, if you don't put them out there, I will burn her to a crisp."
Mamoru nods. As expected from a soulless killer like Zoisite, someone so depraved that he murdered one of his own. I know that what I am doing is wrong, but Zoisite has me over a barrel now. Mamoru puts his two Rainbow Crystals together with Zoisite's five and walks balk to Usagi.
"I've done what you requested, now let her go."
Zoisite does an evil anime girl laugh. "Baka. Did you really think that we were going to have a fair fight?"
Kunzite materializes next to the Rainbow Crystals and uses his powers of telekinesis to cause the Rainbow Crystals to rise to his hands. "These crystals belong to me now." Kunzite uses his powers of telekinesis to teleport the crystals to the safe room.
"How cowardly."
Kunzite looks back at Zoisite. "Please dispose of the trash here."
"Of course, Master Kunzite."
While Kunzite looks back at Zoisite, Mamoru materializes a rose from inside of his jacket. Mamoru throws the rose like a dagger, aiming for the area in between Kunzite's eyes.
Not very sporting of me, but Zoisite has already said that this wasn't a fair fight and if getting down to their level of depravity was what it takes to win, I will do so.
Kunzite teleports to the safe room without even noticing the rose coming at him.
Unfortunately, this gives Zoisite no clue that he is being attacked until it is too late to evade the incoming rose. Instinctively, Zoisite turns his head, and the rose cuts him on his cheek, drawing blood and splitting the skin.
Zoisite feels the blood on his cheek and realizes what has happened. Unforgivable! Even though I know that my orders from Queen Beryl are to capture Mamoru alive, I will never forgive Mamoru. Mamoru must die. "Scum! You dare scar my face?" I know what to do. "Meet me in the penthouse if you want to see your Rainbow Crystals again. Oh, and have some terror on me, for free."
Zoisite disappears.
Mamoru notices Usagi is awake.
"What's going on?"
Oh no! The ceiling is turning into deadly ice shards. "We have to get to the elevator now! Move!"
The ice shards fall, causing the floor to cave in from the center. Mamoru has to drag a terrified and stiff Usagi from this unexpected situation. One ice shard glances off of Mamoru's shoulder, causing him to wince in pain.
Mamoru drags Usagi into the elevator just as the floor completely collapses.
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Ranma-ko feels a stabbing pain in her shoulder. She looks around and sees that no one on the train was close enough to try to mug her.
I am hurting in the same place where Mamoru has his injury. Could Mamoru be in trouble?
But Mamoru has warned me to stay away, and I don't even know where Mamoru is going to be fighting Zoisite.
Ranma-ko sighs, feeling absolutely helpless against fate.
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The Sailor Warriors arrive at the Starlight Building.
Sailor Mars points upwards. "That elevator! Usagi and Mamoru are there!"
Sailor Mercury analyzes the situation with her goggles and minicomputer. "All the doors are locked. There's no way to get in."
Sailor Jupiter has a remembrance of her training with her beloved senpai Akane.
"Makoto, fighting isn't very ladylike and often involves doing things that would normally be wrong. To win a fight, sometimes property winds up getting damaged. Sometimes innocent people wind up getting hurt. But, losing a fight is far worse. So, you need to convince yourself ahead of time that you will do whatever it takes to win. That way you won't lose because you hesitated."
Remembering her mentor's wise words, Makoto smiles. "Supreme Thunder!"
Sailor Jupiter's elemental electrical attack blows the doors to the Starlight Building off their hinges in a large explosion.
The other Sailor Warriors look on in shocked disbelief at Makoto's lack of respect for other people's property.
"The door is open now. Let's go!"
The other Sailor Warriors nod numbly and rush ahead into the building.
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Haruka approaches her boss at work.
"What is it Tenou-kun?"
"I'm sorry, sir, but I won't be able to continue working here. I am relocating."
"That's too bad Tenou-kun. You have a big following of girls here."
"The other guys do all right."
"Don't be so modest. It's going to be tough to replace you. Are you sure you have to move?"
"Yes, sir. You could say that it's a matter of life and death."
To Be Continued