Wiseman's Evil Hand: Chibi-Usa Disappears

Wiseman abducts Chibiusa and steadily poisons her mind, convincing the girl that she is unloved by anyone until she surrenders and becomes his tool. In a separate thread, Esmeraude commits to wiping out the Sailor Guardians by whatever method she can find, desperate to claim Prince Demande's affection for herself.

At the Crystal Palace, the Guardians await Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask while Luna and Artemis fret that the Silver Crystal never shielded the building. Once the couple returns, King Endymion explains that the future crystal vanished the moment the Black Moon Clan struck, and Sailor Moon's own crystal fails to rouse the frozen Neo-Queen Serenity. Slipping outside, Chibiusa is cornered by Wiseman, who discovers she has taken her mother's crystal and manipulates the child into helping him.

Elsewhere, Saphir warns that Demande underestimates how delicate the Black Crystal is and distrusts Wiseman, while Esmeraude, stung by talk of Demande's infatuation with Neo-Queen Serenity, storms off swearing to destroy the Guardians. Wiseman flatters her, hands her a crown, and warps her into a dragon that assaults the palace. Sailor Jupiter wounds the beast with Sparkling Wide Pressure, Tuxedo Mask shields a careless Sailor Moon and stuns the creature by hurling a rose at its crown, and Moon Princess Halation finishes it off. Esmeraude flickers into view for an instant before tumbling into a void, leaving Wiseman pleased and already scheming the deaths of Saphir and Demande.

This thirty-eighth chapter of the second season, the 84th overall, aired in Japan on February 5, 1994, written by Megumi Sugihara and directed by Yuji Endou. The DiC dub retitled it Jealousy's Just Rewards and ran it in North America on December 15, 1998. The installment is Esmeraude's final appearance in the anime, and her dragon's roars were recycled from the opening OVA of the 1990 Record of Lodoss War.

The manga handles the plot differently: Esmeraude never becomes a dragon and falls to Tuxedo Mask instead, Wiseman recruits Chibiusa while the child is stranded in the time dimension, and the stolen future crystal stays on Chibiusa's necklace rather than disappearing.