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There was a small sliver of time where Lina considered turning around, punching the super senshi in the face and continuing to steam away like the Titanic of pissed-offedness. However Aster had been the one whose point of view she agreed with so instead of punching her the Knight of Mercury turned abruptly. "Yes. General Linarite, that's me. Everyone's like 'Oh no that was you!' but I'm still her. She's still me. Then again from what we just saw, everyone's pretty much ******** ignorant. I'm Lina now though, just Lina Knight." Just. Thank God. Princess Lina had been just a bit too much for her to handle and thankfully very few knew about her incidental husband.

"I'm a bit tired of talk though so before I have a stroke or something, what is it you wanted? I'm about to go Sephiroth on the whole place if I have to listen or participate in any more arguments." Normally Lina was a bit more patient, a bit more tolerant, but some things just went a bit too far. Realizing that she was probably going to die without achieving her goals and yet again failing to save anything that mattered could do that to a person.

God her heart hurt.

Trying to release the tension in her body, unable to, Lina waved a hand through the smoke blown in her direction before waving the joint back towards the senshi of sunflowers with a bit of a snarl. "Nope, don't touch it. Have a friend who hotboxes the s**t out of their room and that's bad enough for me thanks. Rather have all my edges and be tense than mellow out and get stabbed. Again." The bluenette was not at all familiar with what happened to Aster, indeed she'd really never even seen Aster before this day to realize that anything that had happened to the girl. No, as always Lina was wrapped up in her own thoughts, her own memories, without realizing much else.

Old habits didn't only die hard, they almost never died at all.

"What worries me more than them getting killed, because I still don't regret the loss of an idiot, is that they might be corrupted themselves." Fingers reached up to brush her ear, the scouter sliding itself out in front of her eye with a small flash to flick through the personal database of power readings. "In that room you had at least a dozen Eternal senshi, one obvious princess, one moon princess of huge potential power, and how many other super senshi? Don't even brush off the power of a first-rank senshi because their possibilities are strong. Chaos does a lot for a senshi. But nobody thinks." Pacing again angrily, she was all but ready to wear a hole in the street with her stalking back and forth.

So Aster wanted to know about purification? "Purification sucks. It burns, it's painful, and you lose memories of people that you cared about. Everyone that cared about you can never see you again except as a traitor. You lose your family, your friends, your comrades but you also lose the corruption." Oh go ahead Lina, make it sound totally appealing why don't you? Frustrated with herself and her bitterness as well the young woman stopped pacing with a long sigh.

"But for the first time in years I felt free. What people don't understand is that the senshi can choose not to power up, the knights can turn their back on what they are and never power up again. They have that option if they can live with the guilt of it. Officers don't have that choice. They do what they are told or they are punished, maybe even killed. Purification saves them from that because then they can choose if they want to walk away or if they want to continue the fight." That's what was important to her, the choice she wanted to offer to everyone that she'd fought with. Everyone she loved.

Two things had Lina's brain pinging off of her skull in surprise and interest. The first was 'purple-haired c**t' which made her think immediately of Tanzanite though usually the Youma Queen didn't leave survivors to talk about meeting her in dark alleyways. Lina was generally the lucky one whom Tanzanite refused to kill instead taking joy from the pain they inflicted on each other in so many ways. Probably not best to talk about her in the end, so that ping was brushed off and tossed away into the darkness so that it might silence itself.

The other was that Aster felt sorry for her. Not because she'd lost something or because she was pathetic but because she agreed it sounded like it sucked. Not that Lina should be so grateful for her fortune to have been luckily purified but that she'd lost something in the transfer, something far more important than power. It killed some of the fury so that while still angry, decidedly piqued, Lina wasn't ready to rip out the nearest senshi's throat for mentioning the subject of what to do.

"Yeah well, things are okay. The problem with the whole thing is that you have corruption telling people that they don't want to be purified. Nothing is wrong with them so they won't come willingly. You'll have to fight them, knock them unconscious or hold them down long enough to get the process started. It's pretty precarious from my understanding of it and we'll probably lose people just trying to force it on them. I get that nobody wants that but...that's reality. You don't always get what you ******** want." Eyes rolled, a fist thumped lightly against a nearby building.

"They're people too. Just like us. Some of them were kinda creepy dysfunctional but that doesn't mean they deserve to die. Nobody deserves to die...except maybe Beryl. I could stand to lose her."

Rolling her shoulders, feeling the need to move around Lina sighed and looked down the street. "Hey, do you mind if we just walk around? I need to keep my muscles moving or I'm going to seize up. It sucks when that happens." Without really waiting for much of an answer the knight sorta walked a few paces before starting to answer Aster's question.

"Purification takes someone with a good punch of power. Prince or princess from what I gathered from Cosmos, because they're the only ones who not only have enough power but can control it so that they don't just destroy your starseed. Kinda like how I could corrupt people as a general but it was damn tricky but the General-King? It was like breathing for him." Thinking about it some more, remembering her own experience, it was just all a little fuzzy because Castor was involved as well as Cosmos. Hers was also pretty voluntary.

"I think what generally happens is almost the same as corruption only it's like...overwhelming the bad with good instead. Cleaning it out. Like if you have soda in a cup and start filling it with water the soda dilutes and eventually is displaced?" It was the best metaphor she had, hands spreading a bit helplessly. "So you need to buddy up to a prince or princess if you want to start doing this."

Lina started walking around the perimeter of the building where the meeting was taking place, staying away from anyplace that she might be able to overhear what was going on inside. The knight had zero interest in the collective at this point but nearly tripped over her own feet when Aster mentioned Castor and Pollux. The bluenette couldn't help but mentally agree that his brother was the Lord of all Pricks but Castor? He wasn't...well okay he could be ********. Why was she doing this now? Her shitty relationship status was not really something that was going to be spotlighted tonight, no siree.

"Prince p***k and his brother are out of town anyway. Honestly I'd say your best bet is Chronos, Cosmos, though that Princess Polaris looked like she knew what she was doing? Dunno, you'd have to talk to them about it." Hands near her waist it was another one of those random times she wondered why none of their outfits had pockets. Pockets were amazing and when you were feeling self-conscious you could shove your hands in them to look sorta cute! Plus, you know, they held things. There was that.

Talking about the Negaverse structure was easy. "Yeah generals can corrupt anyone but the only one that can corrupt an awakened senshi or anything like that are the top-tier General Kings and Queens. You get a youma any other way if you try to corrupt at a lower rank or take on something too big and it could possibly kill you too if you're too weak." Chaos was all kinds of backfiring fun that way! "I'm working on trying to convince several of them that they should just join me but..." Shoulders shrugged.

"I almost guarantee it'll have to be forced. They just can't make the decision themselves, they're being controlled and were brainwashed."