The revelation that Venus had official government contacts had had a definite impact on the Senshi. As did her discussion of vampires and FREAKs.
Then, of course, there was her comment of how she would have been facing nightmares for the rest of her life if she had joined Hellsing.
Setsuna knew a bit more than what Minako was saying. Minako had already had to live through killing someone she had fallen in love with once. The warriors at Hellsing always had to be prepared for that possibility, and Minako wanted nothing like a repeat of Danburite.
The meeting was breaking up now, however, it was getting late and there were no specific monster situations in Juuban yet, and they had already come to some decisions, both individual and public.
As a group, they decided to intervene only if the threat came directly at them, not wanting to risk a three way battle because they couldn't tell the difference between Hellsing and the FREAKs. Others, however were already thinking.
Michiru would be getting her mirror out soon enough, and Haruka would be gearing up to use her sword.
Hotaru wasn't really sure what to think and was just following her friend's leads. She wouldn't get involved in Haruka's actions yet, though, since Neptune and Uranus had asked if someone could look after Hotaru for them so they could have some privacy (one of the reasons that Setsuna knew they were up to something, those two didn't usually need much privacy to excuse themselves). Rei had taken up the offer right away, obviously eager to make up for her blunder of speech earlier.
Setsuna, though she couldn't see into the Time Gates from here and lacked Minako's empathic talents, guessed that Makoto would be doing some extra patrols tonight. She seemed to be cracking her fist every few seconds.
Ami appeared to just be interested in heading home, though Setsuna assumed that she'd be studying and hacking a bit tonight.
Moon looked serious and thoughtful, and Setsuna wished she could predict what that would entail. Her princess was very unpredictable at times, though in moods like this, she tended to come up with very wise thoughts.
In any case, Setsuna had her own errands to attend to, and she didn't need the others to know just yet.
As soon as she could, she faded from view back to the Time Gates and slowly reviewed the events of the night. In particular she viewed the sequence of events that had led to Kodachi's awakening and what followed.
Then it was a simple matter to appear quietly where Kodachi slept and teleport the both of them to her house. As the exhuasted shapeshifter slept, seeming more like a corpse than a confused girl, Setsuna whispered soothingly into her ear about changing back.
Soon, the blood and wounds faded away and Kodachi remained behind, though her clothes had shifted into those of her rose-themed pajamas.
Setsuna frowned slightly. She wanted Kodachi to wake up human so that she wouldn't have as heavy a renewed trauma, but she'd also wanted to leave the bloody clothes hanging up to warn her that it was no dream.
Standing up from the more or less peacefully sleeping girl, she looked relieved as she noticed the blood stain underneath Kodachi. It would be enough to make the girl think, but not so obvious that she would shut down the instant she woke up.
At least Setsuna hoped so.
She nodded and let Kodachi lie upon the floor in the blood stain before teleporting away.
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