Mamoru Lives and Dies Twice
Mamoru was having a vacation away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, he decided to have a walk to the cliffs for some peace and quiet. Peace and quiet knowing that somehow Usagi and her friends have also decided to go on vacation at the same place on Golden Week thanks to a slip off the tongue from Motoki. It was what he needed to reflect his thoughts and to compose himself.
Looking up towards the edge of the cliff was a shadowy character emerging among view, the view was getting clearer and clearer. It was a man with a green jacket having black hair and trousers.
In confusion Mamoru asked, "Lupin, what are you doing here?"
"I'm not Lupin", smirked the green jacket man as he looked down towards the other person, "We are looking at a mirror here..."
With a quick gasp, Mamoru had figured out who it was. Himself! There was no question about it as looking again at the devious curved grinned gentleman that the difference between Lupin and himself are just two details. Lupin wears a green jacket with a yellow tie, Mamoru doesn't and the hair styled is slightly styled rather than the flatness that the fictional master thief has.
Like before, he was confused and wanted clarification, "Why are you here?"
"I noticed that you are dating an underaged teenager, I wanted you to split up before your crimes are reported", articulated the other Mamoru.
"Usagi and I aren't dating, we haven't talked into a relationship yet and it was her idea."
"Indeed, you see Endymion, she is an alien from the moon and I don't think it's right that a guy like you want something so ugly in your life."
Very quickly Mamoru shook his head in a panic, he didn't know what to do however the other green jacket man was stoic yet calculated as he stared into Mamoru's eyes in cold and in a sinister way.
"You have no other choice."
Endymion got out from his coat pocket his Walther P38 and aimed directly at his doppelganger, bang and the bullet fired out of the gun. It was speeding towards Mamoru's chest and hit him as he flew back with a bit to the left hand side towards the end of the cliff. He was falling rapidly into the sea and suddenly the waves made a big splash as the body dropped into the water.
By the beach resort, Minako was busy having her sun tan so she would look good for her next date when two men in brought a casket heading towards the hotel. Both Ami and Makoto who were also at the beach resort were looking at the two men, they found it unusual that a coffin was heading towards this location rather than a religious place or a cemetery. They both nodded as it was unusual for someone to die in the hotel. A maroon suited gentleman got out of a silver Mazda Eunos Roadster from the passenger side, twitched his neck and walked straight into the hotel. Knowing that it was unusual considering what just happened, Ami and Makoto decided to follow him.
Due to both Usagi and Minako were bragging about Mamoru's apartment number as Motoki texted them before hand, the two walked straight into the hotel and got onto an elevator heading towards Floor 4. An unlucky number even if it was Makoto's favourite however the button was labelled "go" in Japanese only leaving it in English. They had arrived at the floor and walked towards room number 505 as the two men from earlier left to reach the other elevator as they got in. It was unusual, the door was left open and they both know Mamoru would not do a thing like that...
Ami and Makoto went into the room and saw the suited man who stood in the middle of the hallway with his hands side by side looking at the floor.
"My name is Masamichi Marumoto and I am the coroner of this cold case, there is something that I want to show you."
He decided to shake both Ami's and Makoto's hands, he felt the soft gentle compact hand of Ami while Makoto was stronger and rugged yet still softer than expected. Mr Marumoto nodded as he took Ami and Makoto towards the bedroom of the apartment that honestly wasn't far as it was just a small walk away from the hallway. They looked at the bed and saw a coffin with a body being inside, it would have been on a table however the table was too small and the bed was just right in length.
"This is the deceased body of Mamoru Chiba", explained Mr Marumoto in a stern stoic tone without any body movements, "From my records, you are friends of Mr Chiba. Ami Mizuno and Makoto Kino."
Straight away both Ami and Makoto sulked as Mamoru was lied there cold and stiff, his eyes were closed and had a deep frown on his mouth. While Ami has accepted that Mamoru was gone as she was depressed unable to say anymore, Makoto however couldn't believe that he was dead and perhaps fell into a deep sleep.
Makoto leaned over and shouted, "Mamoru! Wake up! Say something!"
There was no response from the deceased, not even a twitch.
"Oh no... Usagi's not going to like this one bit... Neither do I... I had feelings for him... I loved that he gave roses..."
With a quick sniff, Makoto closed her eyes upset that Mamoru had died and honestly didn't know whether to cry or get angry on what happened. Mr Marumoto then pulled the green jacket to show both Ami and Makoto the bullet hole on his black shirt, he deduced that someone had tried to kill him. Ami just blinked but for Makoto, she was annoyed that someone shot him and wasn't there to protect him. Anger was bubbling up inside of her and was ready to unleash.
Makoto shook her fist and yelled, "I'll avenge you and stop whoever did this!"
Being really annoyed, Makoto stormed out of the apartment while breaking the door and went towards the corridor. She had then smashed the pictures that were on the wall, broke the vases but made sure that there were no real flowers in them. Then she brushed her fingers with a quick rub and touched the light switch that caused all of the lights to go out. The cleaner gasped and went straight down the stairs to report what was going off.
Walking down the slope holding her ice cream, Usagi was happy. Happy that not only that she was having a tasty treat but Mamoru was going to the hotel like he promised her after pressure from Motoki to have a vacation away from Tokyo. She started licking her ice cream as it was starting to melt, she was so delighted that she nearly finished the cone. She had reached the resort when Rei stood at the entrance, firm with her arms crossed.
Usagi with her slanted eyes chuckled, "You just missed out on this yummy ice cream, I would have got you one but I would have ate it!"
"Usagi, this is not the time to be joking", aggressively warned Rei. "Mamoru is dead..."
The cone was dropped to the ground and broke the wafer up. It was the worst news that Usagi has ever heard not just for that day but for the whole year. Worse than the time that her parents kicked her out of the house and also with Minako getting kicked out of her home. Worse than the time that she had a bad hair day and everyone laughed at her. Yet she didn't believe Rei as she thought that he was just sleeping in the apartment and done it so she can sleep with him later. She quickly grabbed onto Rei's neck annoyed that she would do that.
The blonde exaggeratedly screamed while shaking Rei's neck, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You're lying Rei, you're lying!"
"See for yourself", sighed Rei as Usagi let go of her neck.
With a quick dash yet careful enough not to trip, Usagi ran towards the apartment where Mamoru was staying and opened the door that was closed by Mr Marumoto after Ami and Makoto had left. There he was in his coffin, in a colder condition than when Ami and Makoto had seen him with his face turning blue.
She bent down and cried, "Ohh... Mamo-chan... Why did you had to die? You're my one true love... We could have been lovers for life and I would have made you better... Millions of people and me will cry that we weren't together... You always loved me even if you do call me an odango... You always loved my trumpeting tummy saying that it was like the moon itself..."
Being really upset, Usagi went towards Mamoru's hand and wanted to kiss it but then quickly moved towards his mouth. She grabbed his hand and was within touching distance between their lips when Mr Marumoto had noticed that she was going to kiss him and that would affect the evidence gathering.
Mr Marumoto instructed, "Please Miss, let go of the body."
"I won't!", shouted Usagi as she looked at him.
Before Usagi even had the chance of transforming into Sailor Moon so she could heal him, two police officers grabbed hold of her from behind trying to restrain her as she struggled her way out moving her arms in an animated fashion but was unable to do so.
Usagi whined and begged, "You gotta do something!"
"We will use all of our resources and to find out his cause of death", informed the police officer on the left who was on Usagi's right.
Minako looked at the police van as she saw Usagi being carried away, she quickly knocked one of them but just as quickly before she ran away, the other officer hand cuffed her and took her away as the officer who was knocked down had opened the back doors of the van.
She thought, "I wonder why they are arresting Usagi... Maybe she mooned herself at the American guests... or maybe she broke into an apartment..."
In the police van, one of the officers threw Usagi inside the back where Ami and Makoto were also there with handcuffs on their arms. While Ami looked at the metallic bottom of the van depressed, Makoto was casually looking at what was going off as she knew that it was her fault on what happened and would not just pay for the damages but work there for a week to resolve what happened with an explanation that she was upset on that day.
Makoto waved at the new arrival, "Hey!"
As the police van drove away, from the distance Endymion smirked that he managed to split up Usagi and Mamoru up from their relationship. Relationship put at the loosest possible term as they weren't even a friendship, more like a crush that Usagi has that won't go away. Being really relaxing with his hands in his pockets, Endymion had walked casually towards the direction of the hotel, then towards the car park to get away. He was thinking what to do for that evening. Watching an episode of Lupin III? Trying to stop underworld gangs? Off to Shibuya with Miken for that lovely curry with rice?
With a smirk he was walking when he bumped into a dark haired woman wearing a red bikini unaware that they saw each other, yet the bump wasn't either of them on the ground but more like an annoyance causing her to be off balance.
Turning away from him, Rei growled, "Watch where you're going!"
"Oh why isn't that Rei Hino? The descendant of the Shogun consort?", crookedly smiled Endymion.
Rei just shook her head having no clue what he was on about, she was unaware that her ancestor after Princess Mars was the first consort to the Shoguns. At least according to Endymion and his history knowledge, plus previous experiences with people who want to give birth to a woman like her with her dark long hair and attractive complexion. Yet she had a closer look, it looked a lot like the deceased man in the hotel yet she wondered how he managed to get up so quickly. Unlike the others, she wasn't distracted that the police van took Ami, Makoto and Usagi away and would have seen him come out of the resort.
Rei grumbled, "You look a lot like Mamoru..."
"I am him but I prefer to be called Endymion", smiled the green jacketed man. "Since you're a Hino, I have no trouble to kill you and your corrupt family."
Just as Endymion was about to get his gun out, Rei was snarling at herself and threw a fireball directly towards him that set him on fire. She blew her finger to extinguish the flame. His last thoughts before dying was that he wished that he had a bottle of water on him knowing that it was a similar encounter to when he watched the episode where Goemon got introduced.