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Six months after The End of the Beginning

A Mauvian senshi was looking up at the sky. He saw it differently now that he had been up there. The stars somehow seemed alive in a way they hadn’t before.

Erytheia had given him all the time he needed, but it hadn’t been enough — Tama would not purify. He could not take the young man up on his offer. Even if he had known him in the past… Tama did not know him now.

Yuki had said it best: “I want you to be happy.”

But what if that was with the Negaverse?

How was he supposed to go back now?

What would everyone think with him being away so long?

“I’m going to have to just walk in there and tell them…” Tama mused the idea out loud in the park. “… or just sneak back into Mauvian HQ and hide out for a bit. Yeah. That.”


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A youma’s aura.

Tama’s cat-like ears perked up. He tended to have the absolute worst luck with youma. For whatever reason, his previous few encounters with them had been… less than good.

But he did have the advantage now that he had the strength of a super senshi. And, while youma and senshi were far from friends, it was not the same as when he was in cat form.

With the nail polish bottle, his claws were more than capable now of dusting one.

Yet this particular youma showed no interest in a fight. It wanted to talk.

“Ah! Just a youma. And a talkative one.” Tama purred. He was still not used to youma not wanting to eat him. “Well, I’m in a talkative mood tonight.”

He looked the youma over. It was impeccably dressed. He had never seen a youma like this before. And, yet, it felt familiar for some reason that he couldn’t yet put a clawed finger on.

“Have you ever had a team or, you know — an officer you were bonded to, in your case — you know you have done them wrong, but you don’t know what to do about it? Say, you went missing in the Rift and ignored all their calls for months.”


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