"Umino!"

Umino looked scared.

"Umino, you're dependable when it comes to stuff like this!" stated Usagi, "Do you know anything about Mercurius, the exam ace?"

"Well, yes...," replied Umino, "he's my friend."

"Lucky!" shouted a delighted Usagi.

 

   Meanwhile, Ami was hitting the tutorial seminars.

"Watch out Mercurius," Ami said to herself, "I can study and study and study..."

"...and rest a bit..."

"and study and study and study some more...!"

"...and rest... "

  
     
  Ami woke up.  "Oh my! It's the first day, and I'm falling asleep in class."  Ami was overworked and had made herself sick.

Red glowing eyes peered in the window.

"I can feel it... an unspeakably lewd aura..." said the monster.  "Oh... there she is, that girl's in love..."

  

It was the Terakoya, a demon that feeds on the desires of others!

"Mercurius..." mumbled a sleepy Ami.

"She's filled with lust, thinking only
about a man... She's easy prey for me," boasted the Terakoya.  "I've been in this business for over a hundred years. Her desire will be mine!"

 

 

 
     
  The Terakoya perched invisibly on top of Ami.

"My head hurts...," sighed Ami as she plodded home, "maybe I'm getting sick..."

Meanwhile, Umino led Usagi, Mako, Minako and Rei to a tutorial school.  Usagi thought it looked like a dump but Umino assured them that it was a very old and reputable school.  A boy came out of the building.

 

  

"Oh!  Mercurius!" called out Umino.

"Hey Professor Googly-Glasses!" replied the boy.

"Professor Googly-Glasses is my pseudonym," explained Umino.

The girls stared.

"What's the matter?" wondered Umino.

  
     
  Ami lay in bed at home, sick.  The Terakoya was delighted.

"My body won't move..." moaned Ami, "Mercurius, are you doing this to me?"

"She's being haunted by her desires..." gloated the Terakoya, "she must be ready for my final act."

   The Terakoya launched her first special attack.  "The start of all desires: The Love Letter Attack!  No one is unaffected by the anticipated desires sealed within!"

"This reaction I'm getting..."  Ami broke out in an allergic rash.

"L... L... Love letters?!!"

Continue...!