Family Bonding: Chibi Strikes Out At Training

Seiko Ayase

That's a murder grip, pink puffball. You trying to exorcise the ball or hit it?

Chibi Usa

Shut up! I don't need tips from my dad's ex-sugar-daddy turned harlot!

Seiko Ayase

Technically, I was the sugar daddy. Seiya knew I was the only one who could hold him down.

Seiya

Seiko, please—not in front of the kid—

Seiko Ayase

Channel it. The anger's good—aim it. Your parents' divorce, the cosmic nonsense, the fact that your princess form still has training wheels...

Chibi Usa

I'm not... I'm not a kid playing soldier...

Seiko Ayase

No. You're a kid learning to weaponize her trauma. Much healthier.

Seiko Ayase

See? Violence is a language. You're fluent.

Seiya

She's twelve, Seiko.

Seiko Ayase

And I'm technically seventy. Your point?

Chibi Usa

Teach me the exorcism swing. The one that made that bridge ghost cry.

Seiko Ayase

Lesson one: every hit's an exorcism if you believe hard enough. You got to seize life, like how I seized your daddy.

Seiya

This is going to end with us all in supernatural family therapy, isn't it?