Setsuna checked again, and noticed that the image didn't change. Minako Aino, who had always been a bit overenthusiastic to the point of getting into trouble, was actually riding in a car that cost more than some people's salaries, and she owned it. That pointed to something being up, and that meant checking into the blonde's past. When she did that, Setsuna discovered something rather surprising.
During the time when the series of gynoids based on the Senshi were being created, each of the girls had sold their image rights off. As a result, they'd gone through an occasionally embarrassing series of scans so that the mechanical versions of them would be as close as possible to them, in mind and body, with the payoff being that the money that they'd made off of it had left every single one of them independently wealthy.
The only problem with that seemed to be the fact that they were being mistaken for their duplicates, as the copies were that close to the originals. But those situations were dealt with by the girls as best they could, with each reacting in ways matching their personalities somewhat. Ami and Hotaru tended to blush and put themselves out a bit to be nice to those who met them, though both did tend to stay out of the limelight. On the other hand, Haruka alternated between angry snaps and cracking jokes whenever she was asked how it felt to know that there were guys and girls who were 'enjoying' their versions of her. A bemused elegance was Michiru's shield, and Makoto seemed to find it amazing that people were that happy to see her.
It was Minako's fault that they were found out though, as she didn't hide or just take it in stride. She seemed to seek out the attention, if only to show how pleased she was that people were enjoying their copies of her. Through her willingness to talk openly about her situation, she gained a certain popularity of her own. Though there was the odd situation that some people brought their own Minako gynoids so that they could have a version of the girl that they saw on television.
So, with Usagi having trouble going to the mall, since some people began to wonder if she was on sale, and Rei discovering that her connection to the gynoids was having the effect of bringing in visitors to the shrine, things were much different than they had originally been. The Senshi were all wealthy, and as a result, she was discovering that their lives were not going in anything close to the directions that she remembered. Given the fact that with the girls so spread out in locations and interests, getting the team together to fight even a single yoma would be a bit of work, which would make things rather difficult to deal with.
Shaking her head, she considered what she was being shown, and:
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