"Did you already check if you can duplicate witch seeds?"

"—oh fuck. No, this will be my first seed after yesterday."

"That should solve, like, approximately everything, if you can? We could be so stupidly profligate with magic..."

"It can't work. Surely it can't work. You can't just get something out of nothing like that, can you? Surely not." That'd be amazing.

"Isn't that what magic is? Granted, it'd prompt the question of why no one managed it before, but."

He WANTS to KISS that BOY. He might kiss that boy later tonight. That'd be great, if that happened. He is SO EXCITED.

"Alright, wanna get this party started?" he asks, when it seems like there may be more projectiles than empty space around the worm.

"To the lookout spot." Up he hops.

He wants to hold Haru's hand. This would be bad tactically, they need to retain full range of movement in case anything goes wrong. He still wants it. He will be smart instead.

"Alright. Three... two... one..."

Bullets slam into the beast. Arrows thunk into its sides. The witch convulses and -

- they're standing where they came in. A seed clinks to the ground.

"Wait, did we do it? Did that just—do it?"

"Hooray for massive overkill!" Haru doesn't have the instinct, anymore, to do a happy dance when he's delighted, because that would have been very stupid for most of his life, but he wiggles slightly.

...you know what? Yutaka feels like this might be a situation where he can get away with a celebratory kiss. Can he? If he puts his hand on Haru's lower back and pull him close, can he kiss the boy?

Yes he can!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS HE GOT TO KISS THE BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY AHAHAHAHAHAH HE WINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS this is the BEST day EVER

Haru's not a great kisser but perhaps this fact will be missed in the excitement.

It won't be missed but who cares, Yutaka can make up for it, and if they keep practising it Haru will get better at it, and if it's up to Yutaka they will practise SO MUCH.

What, right here on the sidewalk? Not that anyone can see them...

Literally no one can see them and so long as no one steals the grief seed he does not have anywhere in particular to go, and he's wanted this for WEEKS now.

Then Haru will be very kissed and giggle about it a little bit!

Yutaka hadn't planned on it being an extended kissing session but if it's going to be then he'll place his other hand behind Haru's head, run his fingers through Haru's hair and his fingernails on the back of Haru's neck, press his body closer...

Oh well if that's what they're doing then Haru will - be interrupted in whatever he was about to do with those hands on Yutaka's back by the fingernails thing, apparently that's distracting.

...that so? Yutaka likes that. He likes that very much. He wants Haru to get distracted some more.

Haru's not going to stop him from exploring the options here!

Yutaka could die right here he is so happy. He got to kiss the boy and the boy is enjoying it and he's so cute and so hot and they KILLED A MONSTER TOGETHER wow that was a high he wasn't expecting it to be such a high and he's getting a bit too distracted here and it's a good thing probably maybe that Haru is wearing a hakama because otherwise Yutaka is pretty certain his hands would start going places they shouldn't go on a first date. As it is they're just doing as much exploring as they can do within these constraints.