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Six full days.

[Six days since their powers left. Six days since Rei has felt aura. Six days since Rei has lost the powerful inner senshi within her. Six days since she let that stupid candle burn her.

Six days since Rei has wanted to go to the Inner City and take her abilities back.

Only one more day until Rei knows whether or not this is a normal event or whether or not it is, truly, a punishment.

You can call her on it if you want. Whether or not she'll be extraordinarily talkative is entirely up to you. But she isn't quite done yet.]

[Filtered to Lucifer // Private // Unhackable]

This event is still going. You're still mortal. You should keep in mind that I've been a normal human for a lot longer than you have.

Touch anyone in this city again and I'll take advantage of it.

[Filtered to Gabriel // Private // Unhackable]

I'm thinking I should open a half-way house called 'Victims of Lucifer' and register it as a non-profit charity so I can get paid for the amount of stress I go through.

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I know it's hard to lose them. Especially the fire.

But we're more than our powers, too. We can do this. You're still Mars. You're still Rei-chan. You're still strong, and loyal, and smart and brave.

It just feels wrong.

Would it help if we had a bonfire in the courtyard tonight?

[It'd be a way to be close to the fire. But would it help, or make it even worse?]

We'd have to light it by hand.

[So annoying. 8|]

That's why I think we should do it. To show we won't give up over this.

Sure. Later tonight.

We can burn some of the wood from the branches that fell in the floods.

There's still wood from when Toushirou cleaned out our yard, too.

It'll be the biggest bonfire in Adstringendum! :)

Cas and the others will appreciate it.

[Well, probably not. 8| But he'll pretend.]

We need tiny firecrackers just for him.

For Cas? He'd light his hand on fire.

We just won't let him use any strong ones...

He can't make toast, Usagi.

[When you are more kitchenly-challenged than Tsukino Usagi, there is a big problem.]

We'd better show him how. Did you already?

We destroyed an hour's worth of work in calligraphy by the end of it, but yeah, he knows how to make toast.

Oh no! Was the calligraphy for your class?