Ranma Half Moon chapter 79 "The First Mysterious Transfer Student Part four".

Author's note: This episode happens during the Sailor Moon episode 36 "Usagi is Confused! Is Tuxedo Kamen Evil?".

Author's note: In Japanese, boys use different words when they introduce themselves than girls. A boy would use "boku" and a girl would use "atachi".

Minako leads Usagi into the salon. Usagi seems to be improving. She was even able to halfway hold a conversation.

"My goodness, what a pair of pretty girls! Welcome to the Kariko Tokoyama Salon. I'm Kariko Tokoyama. Both coming for makeovers?"

"Just my friend. I'm only here for moral support."

"But of course. Miss, you have such beautiful hair! Come this way."

Minako laughs nervously to herself. I have been to numerous auditions and worked with many older hair designers and many of them had been very forward and flirtatious with me. This Kariko person seems to fit that mold. She's making me very uncomfortable.

Minako sees Kariko wash Usagi's hair. Well, Usagi is also a cute blond so I'm sure she's had to deal with problems like that before.

"Please miss, won't you please try our steamer?"

"I'm just here with my friend."

"But, it uses a special steam that fixes even damaged hair. Won't you please try it?"

Well, my hair did take a beating during the last battle, especially taking those energy blasts from Kunzite. I thought they were going to blow the hair off of my head! "Um, okay, it is free, right?"

The attendant leads Minako over to the steamer and places it over her head.

The "steam machine" analyzes the hair on Minako's head and compares it to the hair found by Kunzite at the last battle.

Kariko looks up from washing Usagi's hair. It's a match! I have found you, Sailor Moon!

Kariko leaves Usagi and knocks the machine off of Minako's head. "I have found you Sailor Moon!"

"What?"

"Your hair matches the hair of Sailor Moon."

Oh my god. They must have found a strand of my hair at the last battle and thought it was Sailor Moon's because we're both blond. We're not the same shade, but it would be easy to make the mistake if you only had one hair to work with. "Let me go."

The attendants spray the area with sleeping gas. All the other customers fall asleep. The sleeping gas knocks Minako out, but Usagi escapes by crawling on the ground to a back room.

"Moron! Don't fall asleep on me. You haven't told me where the Silver Crystal is." Kariko shakes Minako until she wakes.

Minako looks around and doesn't see Usagi. Has something horrible happened to Usagi?

"Let me give you a reason to hand over the Silver Crystal." The attendants circle around Kariko, then fly around her at high speed. Kariko and the attendants transform into a Yoma Monster.

Oh no, this Yoma Monster looks more powerful than that monster I saw in that vision.

The monster points a pair of scissors at Minako's face. "Now tell me where the Silver Crystal is."

"Stop! That girl isn't Sailor Moon! A monster like you who offers free hair styles to girls who are low on allowance as a ruse to attack them, I, Sailor Moon, will not forgive such a disgraceful monster!"

"What luck! Even though the machine didn't work, the real Sailor Moon showed up like a slug coming to salt."

Usagi's Sailor Moon makes a face at the non-cute image.

"I am Yoma Monster Mitsuami and I will cook you like escargot." Mitsuami's arm swaps out from a scissor to a hair drier.

"I don't like ... AAAAHHHHH." Sailor Moon dives for cover as the hair drier shoots a stream of fire. Moving from her cover Sailor Moon then has to dodge a rapid fire barrage of scissors. Sailor Moon crashes into a tray of hair products.

"Now I have you."

Sailor Moon throws a bottle of powder at Mitsuami, which explodes into a thick cloud.

Sailor Moon brings out her Silver Crystal enhanced Magic Wand. "Moon Healing Escalation ... Ouch!" Something knocks the wand out of Sailor Moon's hand before she can apply the spell.

Sailor Moon grabs the wand back, but is shocked to see that the object that had knocked the wand from her hand was a red rose.

"What?" Sailor Moon slowly looks around to the back of the Salon.

...

Ranma-kun and Akane walk back from Ukyo's restaurant. For once, the two of them have a light, carefree mood.

"I'm surprised that you had met Haruka before."

"Just my female side. She was pretty surprised when she found out."

"Well, I'm very impressed. Usually when somebody new transfers to this high school they start fights and have some sort of weird fighting technique. Haruka seems really good at taking care of herself without fighting."

"I won't say that. She did beat up Kuno. Maybe she uses a special form of martial arts where she removes resistance in her opponents with her celebrity smile?"

Akane laughs. "Bishounen Style martial arts?"

"That's kind of catchy."

"I really loved the expression on everyone's face when she said her name."

Ranma-kun nods. "Yeah, after acting all bishounen for thirty minutes, she introduces herself in a pure girly way."

"My jaw dropped."

"It's an impressive gimmick, that's for sure."

Both Akane and Ranma-kun laugh.

Suddenly Ranma-kun doubles over in pain.

"Ranma, are you all right? You look like you're having a heart attack!"

Ranma-kun breaths deeply for about thirty seconds, then gets back up. "Just too much hot sauce on my okonomiyaki. I'm fine."

Akane hits Ranma in the back of the head. "Hey, you're supposed to take over my father's business. Stop being so frivolous."

Ranma-kun nods. Akane's nagging does not matter. What matters is that Mamoru is still alive, and I just felt his presence.

...

Mio Kuroki sits up in bed and sneezes. Why did her body still have to be so frail? First a heart attack, then a cold?

Suddenly Mio goes into a trance. She sees the Salon with Sailor Moon battling a Yoma Monster.

...

Usagi turns around to see the back of the Salon. In the last chair is a man in a tuxedo and a top hat. He swings the chair around to reveal that he is wearing a mask.

"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Oh my god, Mamoru is okay. Surely he hit me in the hand with that rose for a good reason. Or maybe he's not one hundred percent and missed?

The man stands. "I am not the person you think I am." He points to the rose.

Usagi sees that the rose has turned from red to black.

"I am the commander of the Dark Kingdom army. My name is Endymion. You will give that Silver Crystal to me."

To Be Continued!