Whatever he was expecting her reaction to be, it wasn't this. Not him triggering an awakening in her, something that brings him both unbridled joy and a deep sense of regret. He had wanted her to just live as close to a normal life as she could, to be the sort of carefree she hadn't had the opportunity to be in their previous life with all the pressures of being a princess bearing down upon her shoulders.

And now that very princess is before his eyes once more, Usagi taking on the form of his long lost love. It makes him wonder how he ever managed to be so blind, for she looks the same as she did then. How did he not realize the girl in his dreams was the one he kept bumping into on the streets?

Mamoru takes a step towards her and in a flash, he's in his princely form. "Serenity."