2679/That Guy Has Issues

That Guy Has Issues
Date of Scene:	08 July 2025
Location:	Juuban Ward
Synopsis:	Sailor Venus is getting snacks on patrol. Kunzite, Tuxedo Kamen, and Sailor Chibimoon are getting ice cream on patrol, Sailor Uranus missed the universe's snack command, and Prince Demande? ...well, all the conbini snacks in the world can't stop a guy from being a creep. But with the power of mahou (and a punch to the face), we can give him more issues!
Cast of Characters:	298, Minako Aino, Mamoru Chiba, Chibiusa Tsukino, Kazuo Saitou, Haruka Tenoh
Tinyplot:	Black Moon Clan
Tinyplot2:	BMC: Wicked Ride

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Demande (298) has posed:
Evening in Juuban, and though there are still those shops open, they are increasingly fewer in number, with the majority of people having made their way home. Conbinis and late night restaurants are the majority of those places still open, and anyone doing a night time patrol has found it a relatively peaceful night.

In that night also exists Prince Demande, exiting a Lawson conbini with an egg salad sando and a container of fried shrimp-mayo nuggets. The experience of shopping had been almost as novel as the experience of draining the random passersby, and the prince strolls down the street with his misbegotten meal, uncaring of the consequences to others.

What's the point? Eventually, he will find Sailor Moon, her silver crystal, and destroy the world.
For now, he supposes he will sample the delicacies of this Lawson that Berthier had been quite invested in, once upon a time.

Minako Aino has posed:
Lawsons a was a fine konbini, but of course it was natural rivals with 7-11. Such rivalry demanded that there be one of those not far away from the Lawsons so that competition was fierce! With their great rotation of seasonal and limited-time treats, it was sure to lure in several people.

Including one twin-tailed odango wearing Sailor Senshi that had been out on patrol. With a edamame rice ball in one hand, a paper wrapped steaming Nanachiki (with 11 spices!) in the other, and a bottle of peach tea tucked in the crook of her elbow she emerges already happily nomming on the chicken.

It wasn't super fancy, but it was delicious and she needed a pick-her-up snack! Turning away from where Demande is, long blonde twin-tails with a slight curl swish in the air as she starts off down the street in her easily recognizable blue and white fuku.

In a cheerful voice she sing-songs with a little skip in her step.

"I've got yummy yumyums~ for my tummytumtums~"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
It's not festival season yet, but it's certainly hot enough that Mamoru's basically wearing a yukata every day. Today's no different; it's the blue and gold one, brighter than men usually wear, and he's eating ice cream from a carton (chocolate with white chocolate chunks and macadamia nuts) as he walks along with Kazuo and Chibiusa. "I can't believe they let me take the last one for free! We should definitely go back to that place," he says, licking a drip of ice cream off the back of his hand.

Whatever place gave Mamoru a carton of ice cream for free at closing time probably did it to nicely kick them out.
'Thank you come again but go...'

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon also has a carton of strawberry ice cream because 'it's pink' and 'I want it'.

    She may in fact be the reason why they wanted them all to go.

    Well... part of the reason.

    She's holding the carton of ice cream under her arm, and using the opposite hand to eat out of it with a tablespoon that's probably a little bit too big for her mouth. She does not care about that, and the Luna-P hovering behind her is not passing any judgement. The catball is as happy as can be, cheerfully smiling behind her.

    In between bites of ice cream, Chibiusa looks up to the two tall boys nearby and asks, "Wow, it's a really quiet evening, huh?"

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kazuo has sleeves rolled up, sunglasses tucked in his pocket now that it's darker out, and his hair pulled back in a casual ponytail. That is the entirety of his concession to the temperature. He does not have a carton of ice cream. Or of anything else. At least one of the three of them will have hands free just in case, thank you. "I can believe it, for some reason," he says deadpan, and manages not to do anything that involves reaching to try to ruffle Chibiusa's hair. She is, after all, no longer five. There are limits!

... then he drops the subject before pointing out anything involving the words 'locking up for the night', because Chibiusa spoke, and some words trigger conditioned reflexes. On the other hand, Kazuo glances around and up warily before checking actual street level. This might be a minor mistake.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Haruka Tenoh is not specifically out with the group just yet, though as usual, she's just felt wanderlust and pulled to a place. Sometimes, it's because trouble is going to break out there. Sometimes, it's just her natural urge to get up, move around, be places. As natrual as it was for Michiru to paint quietly in her studio, Haruka liked being out in the open, to see crowds, to be in the busy world with the movement; to both move herself and be part of all of it.

    The young woman is dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt. Depending on the angle your eyes catch her at, she can look like a representative of either gender.

    It's Chibi-usa's pink hair that catches her eye, and it's not too long before the casual-clothes wearing girl is moving over towards Kazuo, Chibi, and Mamoru. Perhaps the shorter-haired blonde senshi is the universe's rebellion against the idea of a 'really quiet evening' since she's rather unsubtle about announcing her presence, waving her arm in the air.

    "Hey! What are you all doing out - oh now I want ice cream, great!"

Demande (298) has posed:
The fried shrimp-and-mayo nuggets are surprisingly delicious. Heavily seasoned, salty, and flavorful, the way most food of this era seems to be, while the egg salad sando is creamy and palette cleansing, saturating his tongue before freeing it for the fatty, oily bite of another nugget. He should have taken one of those teas, as well, then it would be perfect...

He might have disappeared into the night with his junk food and drained victims, except that there's the swish of curling twin-tails, and his attention snaps towards it, a hunting dog scenting prey.

Could it be this easy? A simple visit to a convini and he's finally found her?

There are multiple ways to check, but Demande falls back on the natural option: forming a ball of dark energy in his hands and hurling it at Sailor Moon, intent on making her muscles seize as he closes in.

"Sailor Moon... what a delight it is to make your acquaintance."

Minako Aino has posed:
Venus-as-Moon wasn't planning on just walking around town like this. The konbini was just a stop before she would leap back up toward the rooftops to continue her patrol. This was merely a dinner break to give her some energy so she can continue without issue. To this end she tucks the bite of chicken into her mouth to hold as she juggles the bottle of peach tea to one hand. Another step, and her head tips upward intending to leap--

Instead Demande proves he has no honor by not only attacking her from behind, but attacking her DURING SNACK TIME.

The food falls from her grasp to the ground as she shrieks, high pitched and shocked. The near empty street mixed with the higher sides of the building create some near perfect acoustics to amplify her cry with a bit of reverb much like an old attack not used in oh-so-long by the be-bunned one.

Dark energy causes her to back to arch even as she tries to snap her head around toward her attacker with a look of shock, of panic, of ANGER in her gaze. "Who--?"

She'd never seen Demande. Never knew what this 'Prince' looked like. The attire was similar to Saphir's, and he bore the dark crescent on his brow. This was a meeting she'd been dreading and yet anticipating happening at some point. A low gasped answer to her own question is breathed out.

"Y-you!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Kazuo gets a grin and a lean-thump against his arm, brief and cotton-covered. And then Chibiusa speaks up and Kazuo checks up and Mamoru checks to the side, saying to Haruka, "Well, we were going to be on a date, but since dates for me end up in magical battles, we nixed the date and took Chibiusa out to dinner, and--"

And after brainfreeze nearly killed him the day after the wedding, Mamoru is NOT going to try to scarf the whole thing. He'd leave it closed on top of something but it's like a million degrees out and he doesn't want ice cream soup, so with a considerable pang he chucks it in the trash and reaches in his sleeve. "Earth Crystal Power, Make Up!" he cries out, holding up his pocket watch; the lights are, like his henshin, darker than the girls', jewel tones instead of bright colors. Before black and red are quite resolved, there are dress shoes ta-tapping on the pavement as Mamoru darts between people and parkours over cars to get there.

And then he sees Demande towering over Sailor Moon and snacks.

Instantly, all thought of a justice speech leaves his mind and he whips out a rose and then another in quick succession, silently and specifically going for the hands.

"Enjoying your false martyrdom, Demande? Hey, guess what we did a couple weeks ago while you were like... staring at a hologram of my alt future wife... by yourself? Getting married on the MOON!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    It is no longer a quiet evening.

    Chibiusa waves her chilly spoon at Haruka when she approaches, but waits until she's done with her bite of ice cream before saying, "Hii, Haruka! Ice cream shop just closed, but there's a konbini nearby--"

    Oh, that's a voice crying out, and it sounds real familiar. Mom, possibly, or one of her body doubles. Which means that no matter what it's someone she cares about personally.

    Her own ice cream gets tossed into the trash right after Mamoru's, because he's the example that she follows and also like... what else is she going to do with it? She doesn't have a device anymore.

    "Moon Prism Power Make Up"

    Chibiusa's tiny form is replaced with an ethereal pink sparkly silhouette. Ribbons form out of thin air and wrap around her, turning into bits and pieces of her henshin armor. The leotard, the gloves, the boots, and the skirt. Nails, makeup and earrings. The tiara forms at her brow.

    Sailor Chibimoon is here.

    Not to be left out, Luna-P poofs into a cloud of pink smoke and becomes the Pink Moon Rod, which Chibimoon pulls out of the air before leaping onto the nearest rooftop.

    Following after Tuxedo Mask, she glances down and sees...

    "Oh it's that guy. Seriously? Hey, you lost, so give it up! My mommy doesn't like you!"

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"It's quiet, she says. Magical battles, he says. Earth Power, Make Up!"

Kazuo does not have to wait to toss out ice cream before transforming, but pausing to mutter his mock-complaint at Haruka and roll his eyes cheerfully doesn't speed anything up. It doesn't help that he pauses a moment longer -

"Radiant Dark Embrace!"

- and it's *after* the dark shield rises around (ahem) Sailor Moon that he's moving to catch up with tol mad and smol pink.

Demande (298) has posed:
Sailor Moon screams, the sound echoing through the area, and Demande advances in time to catch a rose to the hand, the stem sinking into his flesh - the second rose, however, is dodged, and Demande yanks the rose free from his flesh with a faint sputter of blood and a burn of dark energy, sealing the wound over with purple light.

"Ah, I should have known *you* would be at her -" he cuts himself off, staring at 'Sailor Moon', and a snarl of frustration crosses his face.

"*You're not even her!*"

What a waste of his time! What a waste -

"Why would I care if you've married her?" He snaps at Tuxedo Kamen, hurtling a ball of dark energy at him - and should a barrier of radiance go up to stop that, shrimp-and-mayo nuggets will splatter the surface, for he'd hurled the snack too. "When has that literally ever stopped me?!"

Minako Aino has posed:
It's with complete relief that the others show up so quickly. That familiar thrown rose, the sheer anger at the audacity of that prince, and the follow up of the familiar darkness that sweeps around her protectively cutting off that dark energy all allows her to regain her footing. Whirling around toward Demande she's meeting his gaze unwavering as he realizes his 'mistake'.

"Of course it's not her! Did you really think we wouldn't protect our Princess from a creeper who can't understand the concept of consent?!"

"Seriously, I've had stalkers before, but you top the 'Creeper' chart by far."

The disguise henshin vanishes away leaving Sailor Venus there. She *points* dramatically at Demande in a way Sailor Moon would. If nothing else she seems to have her movements down quite well!

"How dare you sully the sanctity of True Love! We would have forgiven you for a lot... Even helped you if you asked! But there's no redemption for a Beta Chad like you!"

"In the name of Friendship and Love, we'll take you out, Trash!"

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Haruka's appearance is a bit later than the others; what was a regular fine day out and a moment where she thought she'd get to spend some time with Kazuo, Mamoru, and Chibiusa- all of whom are people she'd like to spend more relaxed downtime with - instead turns into well... an increasingly NORMAL day in Tokyo. Somone screaming, people hiding in the quickest of ways from onlookers, bright colors and sudden costume changes.

    On the other end of her henshin, standing atop a rooftop, Sailor Uranus watches with crossed arms as everyone declares and follows up. The wind whips her skirt and bow as she feels it coursing through her, drawing the power into herself, and then one big leap from the side of the building, coming down at a flanking angle away from where Tuxedo Kamen is hurling roses. A diagonal kick, blue boot jutting forward as she comes down from a great height.

    "SAILOR U KICK!" This is absolutely some kind of copyright infringement.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"No, pretty much everything else consistently stops you. Including my daughter. There's one thing I want to know," Tuxedo Kamen calls back almost cheerfully angry; in the back of his head that little analytical part of him that's always trying to drive is like 'yesssss feel the physiological sensations of excitement and fury and amusement, yes ok wallow why don't you'. He honestly just-- he dodges unnecessarily theatrically, doing an aerial flip and twist overhead without getting tangled in his cape, then making a perfect landing on top of a light post. He doesn't say what the one thing is.

"Tuxedo la Smoking Bomber!"

He hurls an attack instead.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon's tiny pink eyes look at 'Sailor Moon', and then Demande, and then 'Sailor Moon', and then Demande.

    She points dramatically down with the Pink Moon Rod at the white-clad prince from her high spot and shouts, "Yeah well... it should! You're weird and I don't like you."

    Darkness and snacks are being thrown. So much precious snack food being wasted over Demande's creepiness. Sailor Venus reveals herself and calls Demande a name.

    "Yeah that's right. You're a betta fish!"

    Why is that insulting? Chibimoon has no idea, but she's still smirking wide because she's pretty sure she got him with that one. Attacks are coming out, and Chibimoon isn't getting left behind on her debut, so she holds her pink heart-headed weapon in front of her and shouts, "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"

    A blast of pinkness and hearts and pink hearts launches itself from the Pink Moon Rod at Demande. Yes it has the fanfare sound effects. Yes it's still a real attack.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"The one thing I want to know is," Kunzite remarks, keeping close by Chibimoon in case she needs cover (while, yes, keeping the shield over Venus for the moment), "why you're still starting by spitting out attacks. There's someone who deserves that treatment from you - but it's not Sailor Moon."

Is 'you're wrong' a more effective taunt against Demande than 'you're a betta fish'? Let's find out!

Demande (298) has posed:
Sailor Venus reveals herself, going on a tirade about what a creep she finds Demande to be, which - well, Demande isn't about to declare himself a Consent King, he's very aware that his desires and interests are... incompatible with the morals of the millennium, and the planet. Being admonished for this... doesn't matter to him.

"...What's a Chad?" He asks Venus through the wall of darkness, before blasting it with his own power - largely out of curiosity more than anything. It's an enormous rush of dark power, but not as strong as the attacks of Wicked Lady.

Perhaps it's because of his idle distraction that he's struck by a copyright breaking kick, knocked back into a pair of brightly colored blasts - one from the Young King and one from the Future Queen, hearts blasting Demande from the front and golden like pummeling his back - which ironically helps him stay on his feet.

Demande's violet eyes fix on Sailor Chibimoon, and he snarls at the sight of her.

"Ah, Rabbit. So that's the shape you settled on for yourself... too bad you couldn't do it before we thrashed your family. Maybe then they wouldn't have been crushed."

A betta fish?! A betta fish?! How dare she compare him to an animal he'll have to order Saphir to research!

This time, the blast of dark energy is a wave of force, spreading out from his body in a circle.

Minako Aino has posed:
"A handsome guy too stupid for his own good!" Comes Venus' response as she then dodges to the side. He was known to throw attacks rather abruptly. For as lackadaisal as she could be at times, this was a fight. Giving the wrong impression of her location was far more advantagous than staying put.

It's only for this reason that she manages to not get blasted with the dark energy sphere that he throws--Though perhaps Kunzite could have easily swallowed it up regardless.

Even while leaping to the side she throws her own hand out with a cry of:

"Crescent Beam Shower!"

In contrast to the darkness, light springs forth from her hand as spinning crescent moons fly out toward Demande.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
He can't teleport fast enough, but he can certainly jump again -- up in the air, super-henshining mid-jump into something with a lot less glove and more armor. Yeah: Prince Endymion goes over the expanding ring of dark energy blast and grabs hold of Prince Demande's jacket, spinning him around to both use him as a shield from the Crescent Beam Shower and haul back and punch Demande in the nose, hard. "I want to know how long it took you to find out she was New Moon, right under your stupid incel nose!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    'What is a Chad?'

    "A miserable pile of 'not touching my mommy!'"

    She had to do it. She had to the SotN meme. It's one thing she'd get that she's pretty sure everyone else would, too. Or at least most others.

    More threats against her family. Chibimoon gives the prince a wide-eyed look. Demande knows where to hurt her and he goes for the same wound every time. She's angry enough to cry and terrified enough to draw blood, but she puts on a strong face because she's a Sailor Senshi now.

    Before she can come up with a retort, a wave of darkness is racing towards her, and she crosses her arms in front of her in order to take the hit. She spins as her tiny body gets knocked to the floor, but she grits her teeth and stands back up.

    Rod in hand, she turns back towards the prince and opens her mouth for a moment. Then, she looks at him with sad, pitying eyes as she says, "I'm sorry we couldn't save you."

    "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"

    Then Endymion asks his question and Chibimoon blinks, and then snorts. She doesn't remember every detail of Wicked Lady, but she still remembers the game.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite could not have easily swallowed up the dark energy sphere Demande threw. He does not, in fact, absorb it all - he takes a neat section out of it, a slice from the side toward Venus, so that her dodge is easier and safer than it would otherwise have been.

... but Demande telegraphed that attack. Interesting. Get him angry enough -

Think about it later. Sailor Chibimoon crosses her arms, and that makes her a neat package for Kunzite to step behind, lunge and catch in one motion, pushing himself off the ground in one of those movements. Deriving power from the Earth means that one's relationship to its gravity is sometimes a little bit optional; the two of them sail over the wave of force, Kunzite keeping a sharp eye out for an aerial followup, and he sets Chibimoon down smoothly.

Rod in hand.

And he lifts his own hands, and brings them together at right angles. Taking the dark energy that he took and channeling it through his own energies, burning it clean, striking out with it again toward Demande in a blast of cool-pink light that does not quite, somehow, clash with Chibiusa's own pinkness and hearts and pink hearts.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Sailor "U"ranus braces for the impact; it's just her usual way of fighting, at least when it looks like the attack is more "this local city block" than one fist or attack - arms crossed in front of her, it shoves her back a good distance, but she stays on her feet, despite the trails in the ground that some of her boots left.

    "Tch. I've had worse." she says, even as smoke curls off her fuku and she sucks in air through her teeth. She has, but that was a hell of a strike for something so casual. Just means she needs to pick up the pace, though. She rolls her neck a bit and thrusts out her hand. "But you know, the energy of this world - of this solar system - it listens to me, not you. Just like, it seems like, everything else with any level of good sense... women, especially but not just them." she adds, before she starts to collect a glowing orange gem of energy in her hand, raising it above her head at it expands into an orange-yellow planetoid with a ring. Then slamming it into the concrete where it drives forward towards Demande ripping its way through the street on the way.

    "WORLD... SHAKING!"

Demande (298) has posed:
"...and yet you still think I'm handsome."

Demande isn't smug or proud at this one - instead he's genuinely baffled, and sounds it.

Crescent Shower rains down, World Shaking tears through the earth, Pink Sugar Heart Attack and a rush of pink purifying power all strike at once, burning through Demande's pristine white clothing, his cape in cinders, bruising spreading along the visible skin, burns where the purification struck, singing and staining his flesh.

This many attacks connecting at once has hurt him, though not in a fully debilitating way -

And then Prince Endymion decks him full in the face. He rocks back, and it's clear, at once, that he has been punched in the face, before, because he doesn't waste time flinching or grabbing at his nose (which is an absolute gusher at this point), but instead hauls back and decks Endymion in return -

In the lower chest, just above the hip armor -

With a fistful of dark energy, that explodes upon contact, with force enough to at rattle through armor into flesh.

Blood gushing down his face, damaged by so many attacks, Demande's eyes flash with a flare of dark energy at Sailor Chibimoon's pitying, damming words. "There was never anything that could be done to save us."

New Moon, New Moon, New Moon. He hadn't realized, hadn't put it together. Perhaps he hadn't wanted to. Perhaps those eyes, blue and bright and slavish in their joy when directed at the girl were simply -

"That puppet was as much her as the Rabbit was truly Wiseman's preening snake. What was in that thing to desire? But then you did find something to want to hold close in her..."

His words are poisonous, but his voice is nasally from the gush of blood, and he teleports out in a crackling circle of dark energy that bursts as he departs, a tantrum more than anything - it does more damage to the surrounding property than any of them.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Sailor Uranus crosses her arms again, shaking her head. "That dude's got issues." she says astutely. There's a lot more to it than that, she knows, but she also feels like that covers it. "At least we know having a decoy is still a good idea since random upside-down moon groupies... you okay, Kamen-san?" she asks, moving over to him. She has to figure she won't be the only one checking on him, though.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    'That puppet was as much her as...'

    "Then who are you?" asks Chibimoon, to a dude who is probably too busy flinging dark energy and leaving to really answer her.

    She's happy that his punchable face got punched, but much less enthused about the fact that Endymion got punched back. Running up to the prince she doesn't hate, Chibimoon looks up at him with concerned eyes. "Are you okay?"

    She's not too concerned, because she knows he can heal, but she's not going to not ask either.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru folds in toward the punch and then flies back from the explosion, and he'd be cackling but the wind has been knocked so far out of him you can't see it with a radio telescope. There's a smoking, ragged hole in his chest armor now, and Endymion's fallen, grimacing, still trying to get his wind back as Demande teleports away--

--by the time Uranus and Chibimoon are moving over towards him, Mamoru's like, holding his cape over his chest. "Don't look," he croaks, "I'm fine." He literally gives them a thumbs up, then drops down a henshin to Tuxedo Kamen so that Kunzite can't see the injury! :D

Minako Aino has posed:
Attack aside, Venus had heard his confusion. It was one of those situations where if they weren't tossing attacks she might actuall sit and chat--Perhaps this is how Zoisite felt when dealing with Sapphir. There were points to discuss if only the man wasn't violent, and completely without any chance for redemption.

"Of course you're handsome! That has nothing to do with your personality!" Honestly. Such weirdos.

With Endymion as close as he was she doesn't risk throwing another attack. Instead she shifts instinctively toward Kazuo to stand guard intending to help defend the pinkest Senshi if necessary.

He's gone though, and the others are rushing forward leaving her sighing softly. "We should go," she calls out, "In case he tries to come back with reinforcements while we're distracted." A glance is shot toward Tuxedo Kamen with a single eyebrow knowingly raised.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite ... eyes Endymion at 'i'm fine.'

When he drops down to Tuxedo Mask, a slight shadow covers Tux's area for a few seconds. And then Kunzite exhales. "Whatever you say, Tuxedo Bandage," he replies. "But if we're leaving now, I'm floating you. Sailor Chibimoon, that last question of yours was clever, and a good one."

Sailor Uranus? She gets a firm nod. That dude does, in fact, have issues.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon frowns. Mamoru is hiding his wound. She's known this person for centuries, and she knows what that means.

    Small Lady crosses her arms and frowns at Mamoru and cocks her head to the side. "Venus is right. We should go home." It's not a demand or a request. It's a suggestion, but one said with a hint of firmness. They are not going to roam the streets looking for ice cream while Mamo is hiding a wound. Not without Small Lady making a big fuss.

    Kunzite compliments her, and she looks aaallll the way up at him and smiles. "Thanks! ... but I'm not sure asking it makes a difference."

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Sailor Uranus nods. "Yeah, let's leave. And, together, so nobody gets jumped solo by Long Hair Bad Life Decisions and whatever weird friends he can dig up - maybe literally." she suggests. And it's more than a suggestion; she'll stick around at least until everyone is safely home.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite crouches down there in the street, so that he can put a hand lightly on Small Lady's shoulder. "It makes a difference," he says quietly. "Every question like that one chips away at the lies that make up his world. Every one of them gives him a chance to start making other choices. He may not take it. Or the lies may be reinforced faster than we can work on them. We can't help either of those. All we can do is keep trying to make cracks in the lies, and when we see a sign of one, use whatever leverage we can. It might not help to save him - it might not be possible to save him. But it might help to slow him down. Or to do something for his brother. And if it does none of those - the fact that you thought of it and asked it does something for you, and for the people listening to you. So it was well done. And thank you."

And then he straightens up, and nods to Venus, and steps away from Chibiusa, leaving the extra eye on the pink to her. So that he can encase Tuxedo Kamen in a more solid bubble of shadow, lifting him off the ground without the need for him to do things like 'stand up' and 'walk'. Get injured punching the explody antiprince in the face? FLOATIES FOR YOU.