Taking a sip of tea, Setsuna sat back in her chair and regarded her other self. "It hasn't been easy, but it has had side benefits. This tea set for example - it survived the French Revolution and serves as a counterpart to the simplicity of the tea itself."
"Exactly how much did you make off of those sales?" asked Sailor Pluto.
"Oh, it wasn't the image rights in my case," said Setsuna. "Though I did make a nice little nest egg off of that. No, in my case it was working my way up through the company. Unfortunately, the good Doctor Goldfoot passed away two years ago and I've been controlling the company since then."
"You what?" asked Sailor Pluto.
"He wasn't a very nice person in some respects, but since he had obtained his life's ambition of attaining obscene amounts of wealth - he mellowed considerably. Especially in his last years." Setsuna sipped at her tea again, giving a contented sigh afterwards. "He quietly passed away without any intervention on my part, by the way. Cerebral aneurysm during his naptime - a late side effect of the intellect enhancement process he performed on himself before the development of the first Bikini Machine."
"Nobody knows he's dead?" asked Sailor Pluto.
"A few do," said Setsuna. "However those who know are quite content with me handling the CEO duties. As long as I keep everything profitable, my hobbies are indulged without so much as a whisper. One of those hobbies being superpowered supernatural-villain-busting gynoid soldiers, by the way."
"Ah," said Sailor Pluto, not sure about how to take this development. "So these 'gynoids' can fight the Dark Kingdom. What kind of magical powers do they have?"
"You're catching on," said Setsuna, cocking her head as she regarded her counterpart. "As for their powers:"
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