Midnight. After the battle. The moon is beautiful…

  Even her mother won’t start a fight at home, Utena thinks, as she walks back to her house for the first time in quite a while. Kiwi told her she shouldn’t, but…

  she has to.

  It’s what a magical girl should do. And Utena might not be one, but she’s fighting alongside them. Even Sayo, who’s just an ordinary girl, told her she should have the ce. And even if it doesn’t work out, Utena’s certain that even now, you wouldn’t start a fight right then and there.

  Utena has to know for certain. If it’s possible to achieve peace with words alone, or if she’ll have to take up arms as Magia Baiser to defeat her mother ond for all. Maybe it’s naive of her, but…

  if there’s even a tiny ce she reach her mother, then she has to try.

  And so, with the spare key she’d kept, Utena walks into your door. The lights are low and the home is full of boxes; most of it seems to be IK*A furniture and other such supplies, while there’s fiscated Tres Magia merdise and even what looks to be…

  yep.

  Utena sees it. Figures of the members of Enormita. You, Korisu, Korisu’s mom, Lord Enorme…even her and Kiwi. Clearly, you were taking aim at the Tres Magia in the hearts and minds of the people.

  It’s…demoralizing, maybe. But Utena won’t let it deter her, as she clutches her transformation star in her hand. She’ll stop you, and Enormita. Carrying their shared resolve on the wings of her transformation.

  And so, Utena steps upstairs. Looks into her bedroom – untouched. And then, steps into your own…

  and sees you sitting on the bed, untransformed, cradling Tanaka Michiko in your arms, as you breastfeed Utena’s new little sister, the entranced and pletely spaichiko gdly drinking down all you have to offer.

  “Utena! What a lovely surprise!” You lovingly stroke Michiko’s hair and smile brightly at your beloved Utena. “As you see, I’m just feeding your little sister. Would you like to join in? I have two breasts, you know.”

  Utena raises her hand to her mouth. Her stomach s. Her body trembles.

  She could see it. The woman looks a little different when untransformed, but without the anti-reition magic, it was obvious she was Lord Ehe proud, imperious viliness who had sin tless transformed heroines was nothing more than a babe in your arms – quite appropriately, as she appears to be pletely naked, her rear end showiale signs of abuse.

  Any thought that your mind hadn’t been ed by the a magic of the transformed heroine was pletely dashed. Whatever you were, you were no lohe mother Utena loved.

  “You…how could you do this?” Utena forces herself to stare at Michiko. “It’s ohing to toy with the Tres Magia. To be a vilin for them. And then yht in civilians, and that was unfivable. But to take a proud transf heroine and turn her into…into this…”

  “Do you think so little of me, Utena?” You shake your head. “It was what she wanted. A family. A mother. Lord Enorme was nothing but a lie made to force your true potential to blossom. Rather rude of Venalita, to waste so many girls that could have beinions of evil…”

  “You disgust me! Naoko!” Utena yells, her hands balled into fists, staring you down with the resolve that you’d hoped to develop in her for the sake of her lust and desire. “Please, just…just stop this. The magic is ing you. You’re no longer you.”

  “But I am me,” you say, lig your lips. “It’s not something a child could uand. Why do you think magical girls are teenagers? What, do you believe only girls ye have a talent fic? Pft. It’s because only a teenager could believe in that kind of hollow justice.”

  “Hollow?! You call their justice hollow?!”

  “Bold words, from a vilin who toyed with your precious Tres Magia’s bodies. Bold words, from a girl who thought her mother couldn’t tell she was masturbating every night. What a grand and intoxig innoce!”

  “It’s not the same!” Utena sms her fist against the door. “Magical girls represent the hopes and dreams of little girls everywhere! The ce to express themselves! All I’m doing is helping the Tres Magia get stronger! I would…I would never hurt them.”

  “You think so? On the trary. I think you’re hurting them by not itting. Teasing those girls aing them go on their way without even finishing the job…it’s a failure of me as a mother to let you do that. Why, Magia Azul is so desperate for your touch, you know? Just a single push, and she’d break pletely.”

  “You’re lying! Magical girls only get strohat’s not what this is for!”

  “What bitter tradis.” You shake your head as Michiko hugs closer to you, not even awakening from the electrically irance you’ve put her into. "You and I are the same. Our desires both e from the same blood. Both of us have done unfivable things. But you see, you’re unwilling to admit that you’re a monster, aren’t you?

  "You try to hold yourself back, Utena. You try to tell yourself that it’s enough to just tease them. But you’re a sadist, through and through. I’ve never seen you happier, your entire life, than you have been as Magia Baiser, getting to toy with and tease those magical girls every day. And you’ve built up fidence. Even started dating Kiwi – don’t think I haven’t caught that, either. Being Magia Baiser is the greatest thing that ever happeo you, and you know it.

  “If I’m ed by the a magic that flows through both our veins, then you’re equally as ed. You’re just unwilling to embrace it. And if you, yourself, are not ed by that magic…then my desires are just the same as yours.”

  “No. I wouldn’t have…look at her. You’ve broken her. Brainwashed her. She did such horrible things, but even she doesn’t deserve that. And you’ve been toug Korisu, too –”

  “Oh, e now, really? It’s a crime no matter which magical girl I touch, right?”

  “– and you absolutely turned Korisu’s mom into a mohis isn’t you! This isn’t any of you!”

  “Is there such a thing as an immutable, untouchable ‘true self’ in the first pce, Utena? Or do we all one another, every day of our lives? The world I envision –”

  “Isn’t one I want to live in!”

  Utena’s hand and palm dig into her transformation star. And it cracks.

  “If you say I’m the same, then…then maybe you’re right. But that doesn’t mean I o be ed by my nature. We rise above. We find ways to express ourselves.”

  “Do you think the world will five you, Hiiragi Utena?” You chuckle. “The world is not so weling that we may bare our souls true.”

  “You’re wrong. I don’t o brainwash Kiwi to love me –”

  “And what do you think you did with her that first time?! All those loviric shocks…”

  Ah.

  Now Utena sees it.

  From the start, that’s what she’s been. Just like you. She deny it all she likes, but the apple never falls far from the tree.

  “You’re lying…”

  “Am I? I would never lie to my little girl…e now. It’s not too te. Give yourself over, to Magia Baiser, to the desires that burn within you.” You stroke Michiko’s butt right in front of her, for emphasis. "You have all the toys you like, Utena. I’ll eve you spank Michiko here. Your little sister. You want your revenge on Enorme for her magical girl hunt, right?

  "The Tres Magia…you have all those ridiculous toys of them. Why not just keep the real thing? We them up, package them away, just like real toys. One of a kind collectibles. ized girls. I’m sure Kiwi would love to be subject to that treatment, too. You and I could rule the world together – you, me, Korisu, Mei, Michiko, all one family. We’ll save the world from itself, from the corruption that poisons the Earth and the sky, and fly high in outer space, as a new species of magical humans. We’ll take the secrets of the mascots as our own.

  "That potential lies within you, Utena, and I’ll be waiting for the day when you return to me. I will always show you my mercy. Because I’m your mother, and you deserve the world.

  “Literally.”

  …Utena has heard enough. A pity, but this is what you expected.

  “…I realize what you are,” she whispers, grasping her cracked star. “The spark of war…the darkhat haunts the Earth!”

  “And you want to stop me, then? With that fallen star of yours?”

  Utena stares at it. Having finally noticed – that her emotions had damaged it, and her hand had crushed it. Right nht now, transf into Magia Baiser is impossible for her.

  “You’re my daughter, Utena. I’ll let you leave. But sooner or ter…” You grin. “You’ll stand before the throne, and take your pext to me upon it, without really knowing why.”

  She ’t fight. To try would be to surrender herself to you, and your beloved Utena – s-willed, so powerful, such potential you never saw – could never accept a pce beh you.

  And so, she runs. Right out that doht out into the world. Runs away from the truth.

  But she’ll return. Someday, she’ll return, and you know it.

  “Mmh…” Michiko finally awakens, ging to you, nuzzling against your breast. “She…refused you, didn’t she, Mommy?”

  “She did,” you whisper, as Utena disappears into the night. “But your sister will e back, Michiko. I promise. And she’ll be Magia Baiser, and she’ll show you all the passion and love she has to give.”

  And Miiles, shtly, so widely, at that thought.

  All the love that you have to give, and your daughter too…all for the sake of the world.

  “I ’t wait, Mommy…for my big sister to return.”

  Utena runs.

  She runs, and she runs, and she runs.

  She runs, until she reaches the edge of town, the pier over the bay. The moon refleg itself upon the o’s surface.

  She stares down, at her bloodied palm, and at the cracked star, now useless to her.

  And to be sure, with Vatz and Venalita’s expertise, she could surely get it fixed.

  But she ’t. She just…she ’t.

  If being Magia Baiser means being anything like you, then Utena wants no part of it. She’ll even give up magic, if that’s what it takes.

  And so, Utena takes that fallen star of hers, and tosses it as far as she , into the depths of the bay. Rejects everything, for the sake of her preagical girls, and the world she holds so very dear.

  Sure, it sucks – but that’s being human.

  And Hiiragi Utena will never be like you.

  A few days ter…

  Enormita’s Lord Enorme was defeated, and the transformer of the Tres Magia’s stro ally, Magia Baiser, went down into the o. After the intetle betweeion’s stroransformed heroihe Tres Magia had lost their greatest military asset.

  With but a sitle sinorme’s defeat, their town had entered a phase of stability – or so everyone believed. Behind the ses, Enormita reparing for a new, more violent phase of the war.

  You uand now, after all.

  Venalita’s afraid of you. And, perhaps, by extension, humanity in general. No wohe mascots need children! An adult could see through their schemes a mile away! All you o do is bring the Tres Magia into line, as you work to pry those secrets out of the meddling mascots’ greedy little paws. Once you discover those secrets…

  you’re certain nothing will ever stand in your way, ever again. For womankind’s golden age…

  “You’re really outdone yourself, haven’t you, Viccy?” says Lilienschwalbe, as she licks her lips, her green fingernails stroking over the rubbery surface of your test transformed heroine’s new e. “I really o start a proper fashion trend of this. Ooh, maybe we should start a clothing store with our new cashflow now that we’ve started selling our merch!”

  Alice is joining in on the fun, pyfully stig her head uhe new heroine’s skirt. Her own e has beeed a bit to suit your tastes, now that Alice is thhly ied by your desires. To go alongside both you and your new heroine, a rubbery makeover has been made to her efit, with a somewhat shorter skirt, and a whole bodysuit beh with blue and grey diamonds and high heels to show off her developing little butt.

  Even you couldn’t have predicted how well this turned out. Tanaka Michiko’s rebirth has produced a resolve that is more than suffit to produce a transformation. She’ll never be as strong as Lord Enorme was, sure, but the power is irely her own – or at the very least, yours, as she is yours.

  Even so…

  “I’ll say it again, my preichiko. If you wish it, you stay behind. There’s no need for you to fight, after everything that’s happened.”

  “A you have all the fun, my liege? Never.” She chuckles, stroking the surface of her half-face mask, as you touch at her twintails, at the exposed part of her face, hiddeh a thihat flowed down from a tiny little top hat.

  That false bravado and over-the-top viliny of Lord Enorme has given way to a yet crazed madness. A rubber harlequin, wearing a full-body tex suit and a frilly tex dress to match, childish yet not hiding her curves at all, secret knives and hammers and bats and tless strange chemicals to enact the will of her beloved Victricia Baiser.

  “As I thought. Much as I’d like to protect you forever…I could never deny you the a magic that is your birthright.” You settle onto the throne you’ve set up in Nacht Base, and raise a Moonlight Sword you bought for the occasion, knighting your precious little girl. “Therefore, I decre you, Knight Pierrot…King the Spade!”

  “I thank you, my liege, my Bck Joker,” your precious little servant says, nuzzling against y. “I am hoo be part of your Shuffle Alliance, one of your beloved and precious lieutenants.”

  Yes. Your Shuffle Allianero Alice, the Queen of Hearts; Lilienschwalbe, the Club Ace. You’ve yet to find your final member, with Utena so wayward and all, but you’re certain an appropriate didate for Ja Diamond will show up eventually. This shall form the core of Enormita’s new leadership, under your strong hand!

  (And with the little seeds you pnted in your enemies, when Azul challenged you…it won’t be long before your army starts expanding, now, will it?)

  “But, ah.” Pierrot stares up at you in adoration, as you pull her into your p, and stroke her hair, Lili and Aliing to embrace her as well. “But would you allow someone so lowly as me to ask you a question, Mother?”

  “Of course. Speak, precious one.”

  “…what’s a King?”

  …

  “…I don’t know. Although, e to think of it, I never did get around to asking before all this happened.”

  “Asking what, Mother?”

  “What’s a Lord?”

  …

  …

  …

  “…I don’t know.”