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Whatever we inherit from the fortunate
We have taken from the defeated
What they had to leave us - a symbol:
A symbol perfected in death.


It's only when he's back in his office, and notices that his book is no longer in his hands, that he starts to wonder.

It takes a minute or two before the memories come back, but when they do it's as if they'd been there all along, and he picks up almost from where he left off.

The Rose Bride. Anthy Himemiya, who can somehow be enrolled and not enrolled at Ohtori at the same time, who is and is not in that bar at the same time, and who is and is not the Rose Bride -- no, is the Rose Bride, has always been the Rose Bride, will always be the -- but then how can she be there and here and both and neither?

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'We must defeat Tenjou Utena and obtain Himemiya Anthy,' Mikage says quietly, with the air of a child patiently repeating a long-learned catechism, 'and then we must kill her. The Power of Dios will bring eternity.'

The bird is twitching feebly now. The cat delicately licks at a front paw, grooming between its toes.

'And so the Rose Bride who is no longer a Rose Bride must be made to tell what she knows...or learn how to be who she was.'

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Mamiya looks back out at the window.

"Absolute destiny," he murmurs, "apocalypse."