Everything looked mostly normal as the pre-dawn became the dawn.
She amused herself by finding a few items she needed, and checked a newspaper as soon as the vending machine had its new supply.
The headline didn't tell her anything different, though a sidebar teased her with
"Sailor Merc
To Accept A
At Central "
Unfortunately a paper crease kept her from getting the whole thing.
Finally Setsuna checked the dumpster behind the bookstore and found a cover-ripped copy of the book in question.
Ranma - Last King Of The Silver Millenium
Two hours later she put the book aside and let out a long deep breath. Now she knew where Ranma Saotome had gone.
Back in time to the Silver Millenium. The destruction, for whatever reason, had not been as complete. Ranma, consort of Queen Serenity, had stubbornly refused to let the Silver Millenium die and had forged a Monarchy to replace the Matriarchy that had failed.
He had gotten together with artisans and craftsmen and the very mages who had helped to build the transformation pens and other power focuses. They hadn't been able to reclaim quite that level of power - but they had rebuilt something.
Twenty years later he and his knights had reclaimed the parts of the ginzuishou.
Setsuna shook her head. Ranma's Kingdom, the Earth Kingdom, had survived long enough that it had survived in histories passed down by the Greeks, the Chinese, and in ancient monasteries and libraries. It had faded to myth and a few cryptic passages - but knowledge of it had survived until the 20th Century.
There were actual physical ruins on the Moon still visible through Earth based telescopes and when astronauts had gone there in the 1960s, they'd found more details as a result of Ranma having gone there at the end of his days, with his histories, to die among the ruins of the Kingdom and the Queen he'd come to love.
The translation of those histories was another book. This particular hardback was the detailing of those findings, explanations on how the myths of an Amazon Kingdom had come to become so garbled, and details apparently not covered in the last book that dealt with the findings and possible inaccuracies in those histories.
Setsuna rubbed her forehead idly. Ranma's throne room had been exposed to vaccuum after his death as the air pressure had slowly bled off. The ginzuishou had vanished and was considered a myth by modern folk. The "Sailor Senshi" were the modern incarnations of these ancient warriors mentioned in passing in those ancient writings, but that was speculation.
Without air, the ceremonial garb, the writings, the body - all had lasted the ages without much decay at all.
Setsuna flipped back and scanned the book again. Ranma had apparently had a good life. He'd found a life of epic adventure and had founded a kingdom of martial artists and a Code of knightly conduct (that didn't sound quite like him - but it sounded like he had help from other survivors at several points) Ranma's tale was Conan of Cimmeria, Charlemagne's Peers, and Camelot all rolled into one. The love of a Queen had made Ranma into a hero.
Setsuna considered this further, having just scanned through the book, when:
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