"That's right." Something - pride, maybe - wars with honesty, and honesty wins. "There was going to be nothing left, and we went with Galaxia."

She might mean that Galaxia was the final blow, or that she was the saving grace from a world that was dead anyway. Both are, perhaps, true.

"Your solar system will be no different," she says, taking John's interest in Sailor Mercury to mean he's from the same, even the same planet. "There won't be resistance."