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Suddenly a dark-haired little girl shows up as the rods fall. Muro has erected a plant shield above himself, but when the rods finish falling and the smoke clears, we see that they pierced his shield – but not the phase shield below that, which the girl is apparently maintaining with a wave of her hand. She dismisses his plants casually, and they shrivel away. Muro (who is in an Imago state) is angry with her. She tells him petulantly to come with her, and he says he doesn’t need her anymore. He attempts to grab her, but she paralyzes him with another wave and dismisses his Imago transformation with a snap of her fingers, leaving Muro looking withered and frightened. | Suddenly a dark-haired little girl shows up as the rods fall. Muro has erected a plant shield above himself, but when the rods finish falling and the smoke clears, we see that they pierced his shield – but not the phase shield below that, which the girl is apparently maintaining with a wave of her hand. She dismisses his plants casually, and they shrivel away. Muro (who is in an Imago state) is angry with her. She tells him petulantly to come with her, and he says he doesn’t need her anymore. He attempts to grab her, but she paralyzes him with another wave and dismisses his Imago transformation with a snap of her fingers, leaving Muro looking withered and frightened. | ||
Speaking with a scolding tone (“Bad Muro, bad!”), she uses phase shield-enhanced blows to beat him down with quick vicious strikes that break the ground under his body. As he lays still, the girl seems concerned that she went too far. She seems to be talking with someone, and says, “Oh no! | Speaking with a scolding tone (“Bad Muro, bad!”), she uses phase shield-enhanced blows to beat him down with quick vicious strikes that break the ground under his body. As he lays still, the girl seems concerned that she went too far. She seems to be talking with someone, and says, “Oh no! I think I killed him! ...Well, he wouldn’t listen to me! You saw! ...All right, here.” Suddenly a phase portal opens, and she has some plants lift Muro’s broken body and convey it into the portal. Mai calls out “Muro!”, and the girl looks at her and seems amused at her concern. As Muro’s body vanishes into another world, she says condescendingly, “Daddy doesn’t listen, he gets a spanking.” | ||
==Shinatama dreams== | |||
Mai imagines she is [[:Image:Ninemeaw - Shinatama's birthday.jpg|throwing Shinatama a birthday party]] at the TCTF HQ, with her colleagues in attendance. Shinatama looks older than she was built to look – she is an age that she physically could never appear as, but which represents the idea that if she were human she would eventually have been around this age. The rift between Mai and the TCTF never happened, and all is well; Mai is still Agent Konoko. Shinatama is delighted with her cake, and is cutting a slice for herself as general merry-making goes on. | |||
While this occurs, Mai is hugging her "sister" – at first smiling, but gradually tearing up, then beginning to cry, then bawling openly, though no one seems to take notice, including Shinatama. We see Mai lying on her side in bed, tears rolling down her cheeks as she continues dreaming. | |||
(Shinatama never got any birthday parties officially at the HQ since she was viewed as a tool of the state, but perhaps Mai snuck in a private birthday celebration here or there and that's the basis for this dream. Shinatama's birthday would probably be the day that she was first introduced to the young Mai.) | |||
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