Seeking Sailor Senshi

From space, an alien comes to Earth to capture the most powerful warriors of the Milky Way, the Sailor Senshis living on Earth in their nefarious plans to use them to conquer the universe. Will Sailor Senshis after winning the battle against Sailor Galaixa may get do against this new enemy or will this alien will achieve what the villains that the heroines in the past faced were never able to do with any success that is to bring humiliating defeat for our friends and have them under your control?

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Second Chapter - Cunning Sewers. The Brilliant Strategy to Bring Down Ami.

Any casual observer on the Invincible would have thought that the dark haired beauty kneeling before Enyx was completely helpless. They would have been right. Her arms and her bare legs were tightly bound, after all, and the slim young woman looked nowhere near strong enough to be able to break her bonds. Any observer would have indeed thought her helpless - but they would have been wrong about why. The girl was Rei Hino: Sailor Mars the Senshi of Fire. Though the ropes wrapped around Rei had been specially designed to render her powerless to escape from them, she had already proven more than capable of destroying them. Physically, there was nothing stopping her from evaporating her bonds, and destroying Enyx, the alien who had captured her.

Psychologically, however, Sailor Mars was exactly as helpless as she appeared. It was not that she couldn't escape, but that she would not even try, not without her captor's leave. Enyx had not only abducted Rei, tied her up with the assistance of her mechanical servants, and drugged the hapless Senshi to make her weak, she had used the advanced technology of her species to take control of Rei's mind.

"Now, Rei...bring me the other Senshi," Enyx commanded.

"Yes, Mistress," Rei replied at once. The raven-haired girl could remember all of what Enyx had subjected her to. She remembered her abduction, her brief glimpse of victory that was dashed by Enyx's paralysing gas. She remembered herself being tied up by the robotic insects that Enyx commanded. She remembered being strapped down, drugged, and made to be fully aware of her free will being circumvented, whimpering pitifully as she felt herself begin to obey. She remembered all that, but not for an instant did it make her question her new loyalty to Enyx. The only thing that appeared strange to Rei was that she had ever resisted Enyx at all.

"Oh, this is WAY too fun!" Enyx cackled, her metallic laughter ringing in Rei's ears. "My very own hot little slave-girl!" The alien's levity was lost on Rei's more serious character. The brainwashing process had taken away her will, but not her stoic personality.

"Is she...going to untie me?" Rei wondered, confused as to how Enyx expected her to obey her orders with her arms and legs bound. She would do so unquestioningly if Enyx commanded it, of course, but she could still tell that her chances of success would be somewhat slim.

"I guess I should free you," Enyx said offhandedly. "You're not going to stand much of a chance against the other Senshi if you're all tied up." The alien opened a small pouch at her hip, withdrawing a small blade. A touch of a button on the side made the blade hum quietly. With her free hand, Enyx grabbed Rei by one of the bonds around her chest, and hoisted the captive maiden to her feet. "Hold still," Enyx ordered, before raising her arm above her head, and slashing downwards. Few humans would have been confident enough to do as Enyx had done without harming Rei, but Enyx was no human. The ropes were neatly cut away from Sailor Mars' body, leaving her physically free.

"It's a shame I had to do that," Enyx sighed. "You look great when you're all trussed up." She grinned wickedly. "Business before pleasure, though."

"Yes, Mistress," Rei replied humbly. Even unbound, she was still obedient. Enyx had feared that the mental conditioning would fail to work on a human, but her fears had seemingly been unfounded. It was time to move on to the next step of her plan - the capture of the remaining Senshi. Enyx had targeted Sailor Mars because her heat based powers could be defended against technologically. The other Senshi's powers were more mystical in nature, and Enyx could not risk attacking them directly. She had plans, of course, but she realised that having control of Rei gave her an intelligence advantage as well, one too lucrative not to exploit.

"I was about to give you an order, Rei," Enyx said. "But instead I think I'm going to ask you a question. How would you capture your pretty little buddies?" Rei thought for a moment. She had expected merely to be given orders. But if Enyx required her to strategise, then that was what she would do.

"I would reintegrate myself into their ranks," Rei replied. "If I had the advantage of surprise, I think I could subdue any of them, but I would need their trust to be able to surprise them. My strategy would be to capture them one by one, making them think that some outside entity was responsible for the disappearance of the other Senshi. By the time they even began to suspect me, it would be too late." Even in her brainwashed state, Rei was surprised at how easily she took to the prospect of capturing her fellow Senshi.

"That sounds like something we could work with," Enyx said, delighted with her servant. She had been about to outline the next step of her plan, when a thought suddenly occurred to her. "There's just one thing. I need you to capture them while they're already transformed."

"Yes, Mistress." Rei did not ask why Enyx had made this request, and Enyx was not about to tell her. In the event that Rei's conditioning was somehow broken, Enyx did not want any information Rei had to be used against her.

"Now, with that in mind, here's where I want you to start…"

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An hour or so later, Rei was no longer on the Invincible, having been transported back to the shrine from which she had been abducted. She had her orders. In a way, being under Enyx's control did not feel all that dissimilar from being a miko. There was the same feeling of simplicity in being utterly subject to her Mistress' will that Rei felt in attending to the shrine. If anything, this had made Rei even easier for Enyx to subdue and enslave. Transforming back into her civilian attire, Rei began to head home. She would pursue her first target on the following day.

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"Sparkling Wide Pressure!" Sailor Jupiter roared, sending a cascade of lightning into the maw of the foul beast she opposed.

"UUUUAAAGGGGHHHHHH!" the gelatinous youma cried, as the mighty attack tore it asunder, annihilating the hideous creature.

"Alright!" Sailor Moon chimed in perkily. "The Senshi have triumphed against the odds once again! Another blow for justice against the terrors of evil that would seek to -"

"Um, Usagi?" Sailor Mercury interrupted. "That wasn't very difficult. It went down in one attack."

"It was just a blob, really," Sailor Venus said. "Makoto, don't you think that was maybe overkill?"

"It was effective!" Sailor Jupiter protested. "Besides, how long did you really want to spend down here?"

Makoto had a point. Rumours about a terrifying monster that had invaded Tokyo's sewers were what had brought the five Inner Senshi to the dingy, slimy environ in which they now found themselves.

"Maybe it was too weak," Rei chimed in. "It might be serving the real threat that lurks here." Rei had indeed accompanied her comrades in their mission, already transformed, like the others, into her Senshi attire. As far as the others knew, everything about her was completely normal.

"That seems a distinct possibility," Ami admitted.

"Ugh, you're kidding me!" Makoto objected. "This place is gross! If that thing had friends, why wouldn't they be helping it? Let's just get out of here before I barf."

"We can't," Usagi said firmly. "Rei's right. If there's even a small chance there are more of those things, or maybe a stronger one, we have to find it. We can't let someone get hurt."

"...fine," Makoto relented. Usagi was right, after all. "But if this turns out to be a wild goose chase, I'm going to be in a reallybad mood."

"We should probably split up," Rei suggested casually. "There's no way of knowing where this creature might be. It could take us forever to find otherwise."

"I second that!" Makoto said, before dashing off down a dank passageway.

"Makoto, wait!" Minako shouted.

"Meet you guys back here in one hour!" Makoto shouted back. With that, she had disappeared down the tunnel.

"Ugh, she can really get on my nerves sometimes!" Minako huffed.

"Don't worry, Minako," Ami said, putting her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Makoto can take care of herself."

"Ami's right," Usagi said, "but shouldn't the rest of us stick in pairs?"

"Good idea," Minako replied. "Rei, you want to team up?"

"No," Rei said, more bluntly than she'd intended to. She and Minako were close friends, and it would have been natural for the two to pair up. The others looked at her suspiciously. "I just - uh - thought I should go with Ami. We might run into something immune to fire or water, but probably not both."

"Sounds great!" Usagi said with a smile. "Come on, Mina-chan. The catch-up-class gang together again!"

"Sure," Minako said distractedly. Rei's reasoning was fair, but there was something off about the way she'd reacted. "Probably nothing," Minako thought, before following Usagi down a second tunnel.

That left Rei and Ami alone to explore the rest of the sewer alone. This was, of course, the opportunity Rei had been waiting for, to get one of the other Senshi alone. Sailor Mercury was, in Rei's estimation, the weakest of all of them. She would be relatively easy picking. Still, Rei had to make sure the others wouldn't interrupt.

"Come on, let's get moving Ami."

"Sure thing," the petite, blue-haired girl replied.

They walked for a while without saying much, Ami keeping an eye out for anything suspicious, Rei waiting for the opportunity to strike. After some time had passed, they entered a kind of large, featureless concrete alcove, that didn't seem to belong in a sewer at all.

"Where are we?" Rei asked, genuinely curious.

"If I had to guess," Ami said, "I'd say it was a subway station that got abandoned during construction. This part of the sewer system is newer than the rest, so maybe they connected it up by mistake. At any rate, it'd make a pretty good lair for a monster. We should be careful."

"Yeah, we should," Rei said, pressing a concealed switch on her tiara - or rather, the replacement that she had been given by Enyx.

Part of the structure appeared to have collapsed, leaving a maze of rubble which the two Senshi began to explore.

"Either whatever's lurking here is really good at hiding itself," Ami said, "or there's nothing to find." She was about to suggest that they leave, when she heard something scuttle past her. "Whoa!" she cried out. "Rei, I think we might have been right to come here!"

"Oh yeah?" Rei moved as if searching around, while actually keeping a close eye on Ami.

"Yeah! There's definitely something - aaahhh!" Ami yelped, as what looked like a large, grey spider launched itself towards her. She ducked out of its way, and it landed a couple of feet away from her. "Rei, get over here quick! It's some kind of...robot?" Ami quickly deduced the mechanical nature of the object, becoming more curious than afraid. "What's it doing here?"

"No idea..." Rei muttered under her breath. The time was now. While Ami was distracted, Rei began moving through the rubble, approaching Ami from behind.

As Rei crept, Ami heard more metallic clacking from her right. As she turned to see what it was, a second spider threw itself at her from the rubble, bladed fangs bared. But Ami's reactions were as quick as her wits.

"Shine Aqua Illusion!" she called out, sending forth a shimmering ball of water straight into the mechanical arachnid. It was sent flying back, crashing hard into the ground. It made one vain effort to stand, before collapsing into a heap of parts. It had no defence whatsoever against Sailor Mercury's powers. "One thing's for sure," Ami said, turning her attention to the other machine. "They're not friendly." As if in response, the mechanoid spat out a thick white strand straight at the blue-haired Senshi, seeking to capture her as it and its fellows had captured Sailor Mars.

But there was a reason that Enyx had chosen to capture Rei first. Ami fired another aquatic blast which not only dissipated the fibrous strand totally, but made short work of the machine that had shot it.

"Rei, be careful! There might be more of those things. They're sneaky, but not very -" Hearing a sound behind her, Ami turned around to find Sailor Mars standing only a few inches from her.

"Oh, there you -" Ami didn't get to finish her sentence. She barely had time to open her mouth before Rei whipped out a small white canister, and sprayed a clear mist into Ami's face.

"Ugh! What are - what did you...?" Ami gasped, stumbling backwards, and falling against a concrete wall. Almost immediately, Ami felt a sensation of weakness spreading through her whole body. Her arms dropped to her sides. Her slim legs began to give way, forcing the petite girl to lean against the wall for support. But her shock at the fact that it was Rei who had done this to her was even more staggering than the effect of the drug she had been dosed with. "Rei...what did you do to me?"

"I've drugged you," Rei replied simply, walking over to her weakened comrade. "In a few seconds, you won't be able to stand. A few seconds after that, you'll pass out completely." Rei bent over, sifting through the wreckage of one of the destroyed spiders, before she found what she was looking for: a tightly wound spool of sticky white cord.

"But why...why are you...doing this?" Ami found that Rei's description had been accurate, and she slumped onto her knees. With some effort, she lifted her head to look up at Rei, who loomed over her, ominously unfurling a length of rope.

"You're certainly the most perceptive of us. If anyone was going to suspect me, it'd be you," Rei explained, as she knelt down and seized Ami's wrists, crossing them behind her back. As Ami felt her eyelids start to flutter open and shut, she also felt Rei lashing the sticky cord around her wrists, swiftly binding them together.

"No...Rei, don't! Whatever's making you do this...you have to...fight..." Ami was utterly bewildered. It had all happened so fast - betrayed, drugged, and now tied up by one in whom she had unshakeable trust. She was overwhelmed with confusion and fear, not only for herself, as her captor wound rope underneath Ami's pert breasts and bound her arms to her back, but also for Rei. "Who did...did this to you? Who made you...ooohhhnn...ooohhh..." Ami's eyes fluttered desperately as she tried to remain conscious, but her efforts were in vain. She was so weak she could barely even wriggle against the ropes in which Rei wrapped her ever more tightly. Her powers counted for nothing. She was as helpless before Rei as Rei was before Enyx. With a whimper, she fell back into her captor's arms, completely unconscious. Without a word, Rei laid the delicate looking girl on her back, before beginning to bind her legs. She first strung together Ami's ankles, the white cord sticking to the Senshi's light blue boots, before wrapping rope around Ami's soft, bare thighs, two circuits right between Ami's knees and hips. Sailor Mercury had been utterly defeated.

Rei stood up, and tapped another hidden switch on her tiara.

"Sailor Mars to Invincible, I've secured Target Blue. Ready for extraction." Within moments, a pale orange light enveloped Ami's slumbering, bound body, before she vanished into thin air. For a brief instant, Rei felt something almost resembling pity for the petite captive as she was delivered into Enyx's clutches. But the feeling passed quickly, quashed by Rei's conditioning before it could affect her mental states further. She reminded herself what needed to be done. She would have to work quickly in order to -

"World Shaking!" Rei heard the attack being called, and turned around in time to see a sphere of yellow energy that was careening towards her.

"What?!" Rei gasped, throwing forward a shield of flame to protect herself. The sphere crashed into Rei's shield, destroying it, and knocking Sailor Mars to the ground. "Aughhh!" Rei grunted. "Who in the -?" As Rei looked up to see who or what had attacked her, she turned pale. Standing before her was another Senshi - but not one Rei had had any expectation of seeing. It was Sailor Uranus, Senshi of the Sky. Tall, with short blond hair and blue eyes, Haruka in a way seemed everything Ami was not: athletic, confident, and strong. Her face wore an expression of rage, and her fingers were crackling with power.

"You traitor!" Uranus bellowed. She had seen everything. Rei considered for a moment trying to explain, trying to talk Haruka down, but knew that in Haruka's position, she would not have listened to explanations. Rei had been expecting her mission to be easy. Now, she would have to do battle with one of the strongest of all the Senshi.

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Meanwhile, hundreds of miles above the Earth, Enyx's Invincible had just received a new passenger. Sailor Mercury had appeared in an orange flash right in front of the ship's Captain.

"That was easy," Enyx chuckled to herself, examining the blue-haired girl who lay before her, subdued by the sleeping gas Enyx had given Rei. Ami seemed much more delicate than the powerful, strong-willed Sailor Mars, like she could have been overcome by strong breeze. "I wonder how much use you're actually going to be," Enyx muttered. The alien bent down, putting her hands on Ami's hips, before lifting the unconscious Senshi up, and tossing her over her shoulder. Sailor Mercury flopped helplessly over, moaning quietly as Enyx seized her exposed thighs to hold her in place, carrying the slumbering captive away.

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Back on Earth, things were not going so peacefully. Both Senshi fought desperately, neither able to outmatch the other in skill or power. Every blast of heat was countered by an orb of lightning, every deft manoeuvre undone by the prescience of the other.

"I heard the rumours about a monster in these tunnels," Haruka explained between volleys of magic. "I suspected it might be a trap, so I came to check it out before your group got involved. Obviously I was right, but I didn't think Ami would do the same thing. Nor did I think you would be the one who set the trap," Haruka spat. "How long have you been working against us?"

"Not for long enough," Rei replied. Haruka had assumed that Ami had come alone - she did not know that the other Senshi were nearby. "If only you could see how foolish you are to defend your naive ideals, and your moron of a Princess."

"She is your Princess as well, you turncoat!" Haruka cried. "You swore an oath to her! And now you betray her? Betray all of us? How could -" She paused.

"No. Of course. You're no traitor," Haruka said. Rei paused as well, confused. "I never trusted you inner Senshi completely, no matter what Michiru said. But I only doubted your competence, never your loyalty. Something has happened to you, Rei. You could never betray us, not willingly." Haruka smiled confidently, sure of her own abilities. "You've been hypnotised, or brainwashed. Either way, I will take you down. I will rescue Sailor Mercury, and I'll save you as well."

"Mere talk," Rei replied. If she managed to subdue Sailor Uranus quickly, she could avoid alerting the other Senshi, who wandered through the tunnels at that very moment.

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"Mmmmpphhh...mmmpphhh..." Ami whimpered, her eyes fluttering open. She was lying on her back, staring straight up at a metal ceiling. "Where am I?" she wondered. "I remember...Rei drugging me...and beginning to tie me up...I suppose I've been kidnapped. But where am I being kept?" She tried to move to get a better look around, but found that Rei had finished what she'd started. She was completely trussed up. Her arms were bound behind her back. Her ankles and thighs were tied tightly together in sticky, white cord. Not only that, but she had been strapped down to something not unlike an operating table, her body securely fixed on top of it.

"Mmmphh..." Ami mewed, wriggling her dainty body, but finding herself powerless to escape. She tried to use her powers, but even they had been subdued. As she cast her eyes down, she saw why. There was some kind of mask over her mouth and nose, with a thin tube extending up to the ceiling. This not only muffled her speech, but it appeared to be a delivery system for some kind of gas. "I'm still drowsy...and I feel so weak...is it because of this gas? Is that why I can't use my powers?" Ever inquisitive, Ami was curious as to how exactly this effect had been achieved.

"Don't bother struggling." The tinny metallic voice seemed to have come from behind Ami. She lifted her head sleepily, and saw the one ultimately responsible for orchestrating her capture. Grey skinned, with black, inhuman eyes, Enyx loomed over the captive Sailor Mercury, extending her slightly-too-long fingers to snatch the tiara from Ami's head.

"Mmmhhh...gmmphh..." the blue-haired girl complained weakly.

"Mmmphhh? Mmmm-mmpphhh?" Enyx mocked. "Sorry, I just can't seem to understand a word you say." Having removed Ami's tiara, she then replaced it with an outwardly identical replica. She'd done the same thing to Rei not so long ago.

"Mmmmphhh? Nngghhhmm?" Ami knew that the replacement crown could be no good thing, and tried fearfully to shake it from her head, wriggling in her bonds. But she did not succeed.

"I guess I should introduce myself," Ami's alien captor mused, strolling to the foot of the table so that Ami could see her properly. "I'm Enyx. You're currently on a spaceship. My ship, actually: the Invincible. You've been...recruited, I suppose you'd call it, into my service - that is," she said, hastily correcting herself, "into the service of the Calderian Empire."

"Mmmmphhh! Nnnmmph!" Ami protested. She could hardly believe it, but it seemed that she had been the victim of an alien abduction.

"'Oh, a Senshi could never serve evil! Your evil ways will be your undoing!'" Enyx laughed. "Save it, bluebell. I've heard it all before. Sailor Mars put up quite the protest when I captured her, and you've seen how loyally she serves me now."

"So that's it! Rei's been brainwashed by this Enyx creature!" Ami realised, at once relieved and afraid. Rei had not willingly turned traitor, at least. "But if Enyx managed to hypnotise even Rei...how could someone like me possibly resist?" Ami looked down at herself, seeing her svelte body all wrapped up, her bare thighs pinched by the ropes Rei had bound her in. She looked so delicate, so frail. "What's the use of resisting? Look at me...I'm so pitifully weak next to the others. I should...I should give up now." Ami's eyes suddenly widened. "Those aren't my thoughts! It's...it's already happening...there must be a way...to...to fight…"

"That's right, little bluebell," Enyx crowed, "you're already slipping into my control. Do you feel it? Do you feel your strength buckling? Soon you, and that cute body of yours will be mine."

"Mmmmpphhhh...mmmmpphhhhh..." Ami whimpered, wiggling her body futilely in her restraints. "I can't...I mustn't...the others need me..." But as Enyx's nefarious device continued to search for any weakness, anything it could use to subvert its hapless victim's will, Ami's last thought provided just the opening it needed. "No...they don't need me. I'm not as powerful as they are...not as strong...I'm useless to them..." As Ami's will was eroded, her drowsy struggles stopped. She lay passive and subdued, no longer capable of resisting. "Maybe...if I surrender myself...Enyx will...have a use for me..."

With that, it was done. Ami's blue eyes went blank, their lids half-closed. Now Sailor Mercury, as well as Sailor Mars, were Enyx's puppets. The blue-haired damsel turned her head toward her captor, awaiting instructions.

"Computer, retract gas delivery system and release restraints," Enyx ordered. Her ship obeyed, withdrawing the mask from Ami's face, and unstrapping her from the table, leaving her bound only in the ropes Rei had used. "Ami, from now on, you will refer to me as 'Mistress.' Do you understand?"

"Yes, Mistress," Ami replied instantly.

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"Space Turbulence!"

"Mars Flame Sniper!" The two attacks, one an arrow of flame, the other formed from ribbon-like pulses of energy, collided to spectacular effect, illuminating the dingy tunnels. The two combatants were thrown apart by the force of the explosion.

"Auughh!" Rei grunted, landing hard on her back in a pile of concrete rubble. She tried to get up, but the force of the impact had winded her. She was in a very vulnerable position, and had to hope that Haruka had been as unlucky as she. If not, then -

"It's over." Rei looked up to see Sailor Uranus standing over her. Her fingers held an orb of energy. All she would have to do was release it, and Rei would be finished. Haruka had won.

"Fi...fire..." Rei gasped, but she couldn't get the words out, couldn't summon her strength quickly enough. The dark blue, ankle high boots, the same colour as her short, tapered skirt, made Haruka seem even taller, exaggerating the length of her already long legs, and making her seem all the more imposing. Rei cursed herself inwardly for not having foreseen Sailor Uranus' interference.

"Transform back to your civilian form, Sailor Mars," Haruka said. "After that, you can start by telling me what you did with Sailor Mercury."

"I'm right here, Haruka," came a voice from behind the blonde Senshi. Haruka spun around, taken completely by surprise, finding that - indeed - Sailor Mercury was standing behind her, having appeared out of thin air. She was apparently unharmed, with a small, innocent smile on her face.

"Ami! I thought you'd been -" All too late, Haruka realised why Ami had so miraculously reappeared. She turned back to Rei, ready to incapacitate her completely, but the raven-haired miko had already recovered. Leaping to her feet, Sailor Mars produced once again the featureless white canister that had served her so well before. Jabbing the switch down, she sprayed a thick white mist into Haruka's face.

"Ugh! No!" Haruka coughed, stumbling backwards. The weakness was already taking hold. Ami and Rei were standing side by side: comrades now, instead of enemies, coldly observing as Sailor Uranus grew ever weaker. "Oooohh..." Haruka sighed, as her knees began to buckle. Her arms dropped to her sides. In an instant, the tables had been turned on her entirely. Not only had she been unable to rescue Ami or Rei, now both brainwashed into working against her, but she herself was being captured. As her taut, smooth legs began to give way, their length now served to make her fall seem all the greater as she dropped to her knees, before tumbling face-first onto the ground. Lying prone and exposed on the concrete floor, Sailor Uranus too was defeated. Helpless, but not quite unconscious, she heard one last thing before passing out.

"Tie her up. She's ours now."

To be continued…

So you were surprised as me?

One of the reasons why I liked this fanfic when I read on the Internet is due to the type of hypnosis/mind control/brainwashing that takes place in the victim is the most efficient type. The victim suffers a "non-personality-breaking hypnotism/mind control/brainwashing" in that the victim has his free will taken by the villain to make him or her obey only him or her, but not end up affecting in any way the unique personality of the victim, or the feelings that the victim has with others people, but is under the command of one who uses this type of mind control.

it is similar to that used by the villain Baby of Dragon Ball GT, but it is much more efficient because instead of turning the victim on a slave who acts to obey every order of his Master and not hide his new bad personality, the method used by Enyx can do better than that of Baby, and also allows the victim to think and act with your original personality intact, but being in complete control of Enxy and whim, and yet consistent than was suffering from his brainwashing. It ends up becoming very, very difficult even be able to know if the one who is on your side is your friend or not.

The next chapter will show it better. To the next.