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It had been some time since Deneb had accepted Chrysacolla's offer of becoming her superior office, an offer that Deneb had accepted possibly for a multitude of reasons in private, though the only one she would ever confess out loud was 'well, if you're offering', or, 'put your money where your mouth is', so to speak. She'd done well enough to keep out of trouble just by going around on her own and collecting energy, save for that one time, but it did help to have someone to officially report to, simply for the sake of keeping unwanted attention away from her. As long as she was otherwise left alone if she wasn't explicitly needed, then Deneb was fine with maintaining the status quo.

What she hadn't particularly counted on was this meant that Chrys could call upon her by teleporting her to the eternal corrupt, something that proved to be a massive inconvenience, as Roberia had been on her way to a local fan meetup when she received the summons. That the summons wasn't one that she could opt-out of made it all the more annoying, and the young woman found herself with only minutes to spare to find somewhere where she could slip away to unnoticed, so no one would see her simply straight up vanish. Whatever the occasion, she didn't know, but Roberia had hoped that Chrys had a good reason for pulling her away like this.

When she appeared in Chrys' office, Deneb was about to question the reason for the summons when her 'General' beat her to it. Annoyance quickly faded away into pleasentry, as she realized what was happening, eyeing the Mauvian nearby and putting the pieces together. More power, Chrysacolla said, and while Deneb couldn't remember her life pre-corruption, there was something about those words that felt like they had been a long time coming, and further cemented the idea that whatever her reasons for joining the Negaverse were, it was surely to provide her with what the White Moon could not.

"A promotion," Deneb repeated, doing her best to mask the eagerness in her voice.

Sometimes she had to wonder over how it really was this simple. The Negaverse had seemed so big and frightening and impenetrable, once. It was still pretty mysterious in a lot of places - but it was this simple, to get Richel a promotion, and to take credit for it. It made her want to get more senshi under her wing. But that, Chrysocolla assumed, was how you ended up with people who had teams so big they couldn't personally overview them anymore. So messy! She would never.

Mmh, as a Super there'd be more attention on the girl, though. Any poor behavior on her part would look like Chrysocolla was a bad General. There would be some time for that later, after; now that you have this mark of experience, if you embarrass me, you will suffer for it, and if you can't hold your own in a fight, that's just another way of embarrassing me; I'm not going to let you be like other Senshi and never learn how to fight with your fists. It wouldn't be good if she came on too strong all at once. She just needed to weaponize this promotion, first off.

You earned this under me and because of me. Insinuations were so frustrating to layer into her demeanor. They were so subtle.

"I don't think I need to say it a second time," she remarked mildly, "or if I did I'd start doubting you. But yes. You've done your job well, and you've proved you're responsible enough to handle more power; your starseed is strong enough to handle it now."

It'd been a stray thought at the back of her mind since they'd met. Hadn't she known Deneb before? Just once, probably. But Chrysocolla's memory was very good, especially when it came to uniforms and faces and names. It must have been some time ago, and even back then she'd still been weak. If it was some intrinsic issue with Richel herself... maybe it'd been fixed by recruitment. It was beyond Chrysocolla's purview.

"Your magic will get stronger, and you'll be able to teleport. And if you impress me enough, if I find some other recruit, maybe I'll have you teach them the lay of the land. Can you give Bellalunae your transformation pen, please?" It was not a request. Like everything else, it was an order, even if she was nice about it.

Bellalunae grabbed the pen from Deneb's hand and took a breath. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small Chaos crystal. Luckily she had been handed the crystal before the meetup. This made it easier for her to begin the upgrade. In one hand she now held the crystal and the other the pen.

"I shall begin," she said politely as she began to siphon more Chaos into the Senshi’s starseed with the crystal. While at the same time she also upgraded Deneb's Henshin Pen. She watched as the power from the crystal faded to nothing. As soon as the glowing stopped she knew she had finished siphoning all the chaos she could into the starseed and with that the upgrade was complete. She carefully put the crystal away and then held out Deneb her Henshin Pen to grab.

"Congratulations on your new power. I hope you enjoy it," she said with a smile as she waited to see if she was needed any longer. Since she didn't want to leave the room too early after all. But overall she had completed her objective as she was told to. And thankfully it went off without a hitch or at least she thought it had.