"I am the instructor of the phys. ed. class at the school," the woman says. "I am also in charge of the botanical garden. I can't stand leaving things half done like Viluy did. I am Tellu, level 404, and I will obtain the highest quality souls. At the master's request, the souls of the sailor soldiers. Then I will bring the power that resembles the Taioron Crystal!" These are the words Tellu says at her initial appearance.

Tellu is the fourth of the witches 5 who appears first in act 28, tankubon 8. [cover picture] She sells special plants from infinity school which she so cleverly names "tellurians". Mako-chan, her senshi counterpart (hence the green) worries because she has neither seen nor heard of tellurians before.

Mako-chan buys Tellu's plant. It blooms very early and Mako is surprised, but is also suddenly very drowsy. All of the other plants in her house have mysteriously withered. Mako cuts through the tellurian and gases fill the air. She goes to investigate.

"They enter the Infinity botanical garden. "It's just like a jungle," says Makoto."

People lay collapsed everywhere and there are pink flowers all over the place. "Heh heh heh... The highest quality life energy. Carriers of the planets' protection," Tellu says. "The sailor soldiers themselves. How lucky that you've come here. Heh heh. The tellurians are the alter self of me, Tellu. I soak up life energy with my beautifully crafted flowers. The mass of humans' life energy, their souls, absorbed. If I offer the flowers, the master will be pleased, and I will be granted the position of Magus, like Kaolinite!"

Meanwhile, Setsuna's energy is being drained by a tellurian flower which she seems to be researching. Her forehead glows with her symbol, then at the same time, Haruka and Michiru's foreheads also glow. They transform into Sailorsenshi and save Setsuna.

Back at the lab, the Sailor Senshi have transformed and Tellu witnesses their transformations.

"You've shown your true selves!" Tellu says. "The Sailor Soldiers, carriers of the planets' protection. I am Tellu, level 404, and I will take your souls, and the power similar to the Taioron Crystal! I will tear your bodies into pieces and use them as fertilizer! Mandragora Buster!"

Jupiter and Moon attack Tellu, but all it really does is throw her back. Chibi-usa gains her super sailor powers from Luna-P, which turns into a wand. She uses her Pink Sugar Heart attack against Tellu and it mutates her into a monster. The outer senshi show up and Pluto destroys Tellu with Dead Scream

In Act 31, Chibi-usa's spirit is stolen to awaken the dark Messiah, so the Senshi must return to the delta only to see it overgrown in vines. Rei says abnormal power is making everything go mad. Each senshi is confronted with their counterpart: Mars against Eudial, Venus against Mimete, Moon against Cyprine and Pucherol, Mercury against Viluy, and Jupiter against Tellu.

Jupiter looks for Sailormoon but she turns to see herself in a greenhouse instead. Tellu appears and introduces herself. She acts like Mako's friend and Mako believes her. She convinces Mako to sit down as the gaseous fumes from her flowers make her forget that she has to fight; it makes her think she should just lay down in a garden of roses and be reminded of loved ones. "Wow!" Mako says, "It's full of roses! La France, the first breed of hybrid T! These are soleil dolls!" She picks a flower up. "My heart's softening" she thinks. "What was I coming here to do? I'm so tired... Fighting is absurd... I want to stay here forever... It's my dream. To spend a carefree lifetime in a rose garden, with someone I love..."

Chibi usa and the Outer Senshi begin attacking Sailormoon but they are only hallucinations. The Outer Senshi are really outside trying to cut up the plants to save the Sailor soldiers, but nothing happens, as the plants keep growing. they bust through the barrier with their talismen and uranus destroys the witches with her space sword and saves the inner senshi and Sailormoon.

These are the only times Tellu has appeared in the manga as far as I know and I have interpreted what has happened to the best of my ability. If it is not entirely accurate, please let me know and I will do my best to correct my errors.

 

For now though, these are more quotes from the manga.

"teruno ruru" (Tellu's name in the manga)

"Welcome, to the Infinity botanical garden. I am its caretaker, Teruno Ruru."

"You don't need to fight today. Okay? Slowly look around! See!"

"I'm so sleepy..."
"Yeah, I'm so tired..." They drift off to sleep.
"That smells good..." Makoto thinks. "It's stuffy..."
"Mako-chan."
"Who's that?"
"Mako-chan."
"Nichogi-senpai...?"
"The flowers have bloomed."
"Mako-chan!" Minako calls.
"Huh...?" Makoto sits up.
"I feel weak..."
"Mako-chan! Look at this!"
"What!? The tellurian has already bloomed!? No way!" "Mako-chan! The plants over there!"
"They've all withered!?"
"Mako-chan!?" Makoto takes a butcher knife and cuts through the tellurian. Gases fill the air. "That's-!?"
"The people are collapsing! There's pink flowers all over. This sweet scent of poison... The tellurians!?"

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