As far as reasons to tell Samui our secret identity go, "I know this murderer from school" is a pretty good one.
It's not Samui I'm worried about telling. Her, as an individual, I would be willing to tell. However, we do have to keep in mind that MCAT is still a government agency, and Samui is its director. While I have some confidence Samui wouldn't tell anyone else thanks to how Naru's situation is being handled, even that makes me uncomfortable due to some of the people who have influence over her and the possibility of them trying to lean on her to get that information if it ever reaches a certain threshold of attention gained in their machinations. I'm also not "just" talking about the Diet when I say that either.

Speaking of Naru, I wonder if she's ever met Ahma, even in passing. If she has, we might be able to use that as a potential avenue for making MCAT aware of her, since Samui already knows who Naru is under her Sei desguise.
 
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Naru could probably straight up evolve a lingering ghost into a new youkai for the quickest solution?
We might end up with one of those "ghost permanently bound to an object" kind of things, though, and that wouldn't be so great. Personally, I favor the "make an artificial human body and then put him in it" approach, because that way we can give Mamoru and Endymion separate, autonomous existences, without Endymion having to die, and without Mamoru having to adapt to arbitrary or potentially random physical traits.

One thing we've learned is that Naru doesn't entirely have control or prediction over what she turns people into, so I'm always hesitant to use Naru's transformative abilities when there's no particular sense of urgency, or when there's at least some concern that they might not be comfortable with the body they get.
 
We can also just imply that Moon works as a fully adult school teacher. I mean, when she opened a company the first thing she did was create a school so...
Or we have Usagi say she was recruited by the Senshi to watch out for schemes targeting the school, and she reported it to Sailor Moon. I think Usagi is on record as working for Crystal Millennium, and Samui knows about Naru so it wouldn't surprise her that Naru's best friend is working for the Senshi. We could even tell the MCAT about the scouting of the Night Market that Naru and Usagi did together as a example of the work Usagi has done for the Senshi.
It could also cover for Usagi's improved test scores if she says she got interested in learning things when her magic was awakened, which has the bonus of being true, more or less. We just leave out the Senshi part, and it hangs together reasonably well.
 
While funny, I don't think that would happen. It's been shown since Crystal Seminar that transformed who fully descend into monstrous mindsets will be vaporized instead of changed back into humans.
Torgamous is right. Moon Healing Escalation was never used at Crystal Seminar, only the much weaker anti-mind-control Moon Tiara Stardust attack. Which is designed for liberating crowds of mind-controlled humans, not for purifying a youma.

Judging by Ahma's behavior and her reaction to us flexing on the hospital while she was in the AoE, she's likely to end up loose atoms instead of a human.
To be fair, the Moon Healing Escalation is a specific spell that does specific things, and its effects may not line up with the massive burst of generally healing/disease-purging radiance that Usagi used at the hospital in all cases.

It's not Samui I'm worried about telling. Her, as an individual, I would be willing to tell. However, we do have to keep in mind that MCAT is still a government agency, and Samui is its director. While I have some confidence Samui wouldn't tell anyone else thanks to how Naru's situation is being handled, even that makes me uncomfortable due to some of the people who have influence over her and the possibility of them trying to lean on her to get that information if it ever reaches a certain threshold of attention gained in their machinations. I'm also not "just" talking about the Diet when I say that either.
Yeah. We already know Fudo's poking around and at least beginning to send messages and interact with the Senshi directly (if only to make sure his son gets healed up ASAP). He's definitely going to be thinking of the Senshi as a power bloc he'd like to have a hold over, or a way to bribe us, or a way to neutralize us, or something. And he seems likely to have a lot of access to information about MCAT's activities, to the point where even Samui might struggle to keep secrets from him indefinitely unless outside circumstances are making it easy for her to do so.

And that's just the most obvious example.

We can also just imply that Moon works as a fully adult school teacher. I mean, when she opened a company the first thing she did was create a school so...
The trouble is that "all the teachers at the school" is a fairly short list. If you've narrowed down Sailor Moon's identity to the point where you're seriously considering "is a teacher at this school," then it's a straightforward exercise in detective work to work your way down the list and try to select a specific teacher in particular.

And it probably won't take an Intrigue monster with a lot of resources (e.g. Fudo) very long to determine that none of the teachers could fit the description, at which point he's going to start thinking about the possibility that maybe it's one of the student body. Someone with something like his own Symphogears.

Or we have Usagi say she was recruited by the Senshi to watch out for schemes targeting the school, and she reported it to Sailor Moon. I think Usagi is on record as working for Crystal Millennium, and Samui knows about Naru so it wouldn't surprise her that Naru's best friend is working for the Senshi. We could even tell the MCAT about the scouting of the Night Market that Naru and Usagi did together as a example of the work Usagi has done for the Senshi.
It could also cover for Usagi's improved test scores if she says she got interested in learning things when her magic was awakened, which has the bonus of being true, more or less. We just leave out the Senshi part, and it hangs together reasonably well.
The problem with repeatedly drawing MCAT's attention to the "Usagi Tsukino is heavily involved with Crystal Millennium and gets involved in shenanigans involving the Senshi" is that the more often we bring it up, the more likely the kind of bad actors we're worried about are to decide that Usagi Tsukino is a person of interest in and of herself.

And Usagi's secret identity really wouldn't hold up well under truly close examination if someone were already investigating her seriously. She's been using casual teleportation too much.

Only really a problem if it's an object they can't just carry around with them though.
I mean it depends a lot.

The point is, I'm not sure that it's doing Mamoru a favor to put him in a situation where his physical body has some potentially complex and unpredictable blend of abilities and limitations that he didn't choose for himself, just to save some time and get him into a body faster, when we may not be able to undo or fix or change things he's not happy with.

We can be reasonably confident that if we take a little time we can put Mamoru into a human body not too dissimilar from the one he had before the accident- maybe a child-sized body, maybe an adult body, but at least the same species. It would probably be more responsible to focus on that, if you ask me.
 
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Or we have Usagi say she was recruited by the Senshi to watch out for schemes targeting the school, and she reported it to Sailor Moon. I think Usagi is on record as working for Crystal Millennium, and Samui knows about Naru so it wouldn't surprise her that Naru's best friend is working for the Senshi. We could even tell the MCAT about the scouting of the Night Market that Naru and Usagi did together as a example of the work Usagi has done for the Senshi.
It could also cover for Usagi's improved test scores if she says she got interested in learning things when her magic was awakened, which has the bonus of being true, more or less. We just leave out the Senshi part, and it hangs together reasonably well.
Half-truths are simultaneously true, providing useful information about Usagi's identity, and deception, the thing Usagi is worst at. They're the worst of both worlds and should be kept to a minimum.
 
We could say we showed the fire vision to Naru and that she identified her fellow student. Then there's no more risk to Moon's identity than there already was from MCAT knowing Naru.

Better yet, Naru could report it herself.
 
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Yeah, I shudder to think of what might happen when (not if) he finally gains enough interest in this mysterious "white mask" individual who is assisting MCAT with the Yokai so much and eventually digs enough to find out about the whole All Mother thing. Him trying to put pressure on Naru/us to create an army of super powered monsters is something we do not need. Or equally bad, him trying to kill Naru in the event he decides he can't control her.
 
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Yeah. Big limiting point there is that the yokai are very used to keeping secrets from humans and that Fudo, while he clearly knows a good deal about certain specific things, isn't knowledgeable about everything, including things that might be common knowledge in Onogoro, let alone other magical societies. On the other hand, if he doesn't already have people hiring ex-Onogoro mages to advise him specifically, it can't be that much longer.
 
I don't think its that hard, we just need to say as Sailor Moon that we know the culprit attends Juuban, give them a picture and leave them to imagine how we met.

Because we already demonstrated pulling arbitrary visual data out of thin air before.
 
Against the vandals, we pulled arbitrary scrying data out of thin air and provided it. Nothing about this case, given that we had a time and place to look, suggests it needs any other capabilities.
A valid point.

Of course, it should be noted that from MCAT's point of view, our ability to pull arbitrary postcognitive scrying data out of a seemingly random location that no Sailor Senshi has ever actually visited in person is rather more impressive than our ability to do so for the literal front lobby of our own building, to which we have unlimited access.

So we might accidentally raise some rather paranoid questions. And raise expectations for our future capabilities that we may not be able to live up to (e.g. some Onogoro ninja may assassinate a prominent Japanese politician, and we may be asked to do what we did twice before, and fail, and leave them wondering if we did it on purpose).

But... still a valid point. Usagi's pulled enough bullshit that she COULD just provide the information she knows, refuse to elaborate, and vanish into thin air, and there'd be at least some hope that no one would draw a correct or near-correct conclusion from the available evidence.
 
I lean towards disclosing this to Samui in private, and having the official story be that MCAT got an anonymous tip they followed up on. Getting anything useful out of an anonymous tip is objectively pretty suspect, but it doesn't really leave much for an outside investigator to follow up on.
 
Tbh Usagi COULD do that for anywhere on the planet theoretically.

In practice the network is nowhere so responsive or convenient, but in theory anywhere on the planet with a known time and place not under specific protections can be scanned the same way.
 
Personally I say we just jump the girl. She has evilness as such an intrinsic part of her self that Moon's magic activity burned her. She goes to our school and glares at our Ami. She's killed a woman in such a brutal fashion that the sailor moon part of ourselves has already decided that she needs to go down hard.

Hit her with a healing escalation and let the chips fall where they may.
 
Re Mamoru and Endymion
Point 1) There is no indication that either is suffering any harm from being separated. One has managed to persist as a ghost for a decade with no additional problems.

Point 2) Destroying one life in favour of another is bad. And that goes both ways, regardless of where those lives come from or how long they have been going. Any solution that results in only one of them going on to live their life is objectively worse than both of them living their lives.

Point 3) As a practical consideration Endymion is presently acting as the parole officer for a (former?) dark general and the parent for a regressed youma. Any resolution that takes him off the board presents some complications.


Re telling MCAT
Given the ridiculous BS it has proven to be thus far I trust our glamour against any level of scrutiny. People suspecting that Usagi is Sailor Moon is no issue. People thinking Usagi is an important employee of the Crystal Millennium is a potential problem.
 
The problem with repeatedly drawing MCAT's attention to the "Usagi Tsukino is heavily involved with Crystal Millennium and gets involved in shenanigans involving the Senshi" is that the more often we bring it up, the more likely the kind of bad actors we're worried about are to decide that Usagi Tsukino is a person of interest in and of herself.

And Usagi's secret identity really wouldn't hold up well under truly close examination if someone were already investigating her seriously. She's been using casual teleportation too much.
And as we saw with Ranma miss-identifying Makoto as Mars, it's entirely possible for someone to pierce the magic just enough to realize we may be a senshi, just not which senshi. Remember how Jadite was convinced Moon was V for the longest time? Well Usagi still fits the bill for V in her civilian form just fine.
 
Well, if anyone's glamour umbrella extends just far enough to protect Usagi in particular, it'd be Sailor Venus's, but the broader point is entirely correct.

Though if someone's doing mundane detective work, the first thing they will observe is that Sailor V/Venus' known presence in England doesn't match up well with Usagi Tsukino's whereabouts. Q Division isn't going to be giving too many details too easily, but the bare fact that she was there isn't at all unknown. There are ways to doublethink around that, but honestly I think they might go for Usagi being Sailor Mercury. Anyone acquainted with Sailor Mercury knows she's got a towering intellect, after all.

And looking at Usagi's grades, "the shade of an antediluvian warrior-sorceress awakened within her and forces her to put in a competent effort at her schoolwork for self-respect's sake" is as good an explanation as any.
 
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Minako really works better as an Usagi body double. Like Usagi was hired because she looks like 2 Senshi, or Venus is revealed to be 'one of the younger Senshi still in school' so Usagi was hired to cover for her civ ID. Stuff like that could work if necessary.

That they're old buddies from before middle school only made Usagi more willing to help her eerily similar-looking friend.
 
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