What would that look like, if people can't see you?

I'd untransform first so I'd be visible, but also, like, when we talked about it the first time around we didn't really have a good reason why magic should be secret.

Oh, well, that should help with evacuating Tokyo. People're going to ask how we know each other if they see you helping me across the ice though.

Yutaka hops off the roof somewhere out of sight, untransforms, then jogs over to Haru in civvies. People are a lot less curious than you think. I guess maybe Watanabe-san might be curious, if she saw. Maybe I just happened to see you across the parking lot and wanted to be a gentleman about it? Which isn't, you know, false. He offers Haru his arm.

Haru leans on the offered arm. Step step wobble. "Anju? What, does she ship it?"

"She does. Tomorrow you fell down the stairs—the Japanese language is not equipped to handle time travel—anyway, tomorrow you were going to fall down the stairs, and you were gone a week, and then next week you were super cheerful, and I was, like, certain you had acquired a boyfriend, somehow. So I—later on I kind of, ah, you know. Wanted to know. But I was embarrassed to ask you. So I asked her. And she said you hadn't told her anything about it and she'd have expected you to. She actually suggested I speak to Ren about it but that would have been even more embarrassing. I just, you know, eventually gathered enough courage to ask you out anyway." He's looking resolutely away, because he needs to make sure to pay attention to the ground so that he doesn't trip and fall. Nevermind his normal reflexes or his renewed magical boy body. Mmhm mmhm.

"...well, I guess I'll be careful on the stairs tomorrow but I am always careful on stairs so I don't know how much it'll help. Maybe I'll finish my tuberculosis research tonight and be cured tomorrow."

"And if you aren't, I'm happy to support you until you are."

"—I, I mean, if you're fine with that."

"Don't you have to hunt witches and save people?"

"Yeah but I need to figure out how to do that and I think I don't actually have a weapon? I seem to have a shield. So I'd probably benefit from being with someone else. Plus they mostly appear at night. And I'd need to practise some."

"What's Yamanaka-san's weapon?"

"Huuuuge sword. Like, taller than she is."

"Good combo with my bow 'n arrow. Should work all right with your shield too?"

"Might indicate I have defensive powers? Or whatever my time powers will turn out to be, I need to figure those out." Ahahahah he sure hopes he has something more useful for combat than just rewinding.

"Do only magical weapons work against magical enemies or could you just, like, buy a sword. I guess I don't know how expensive they are." They reach the entrance, where Haru can proceed a bit more confidently on the salted ground.

"—my father's, uh, actually," my father's the CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, I can buy a sword. I don't know how susceptible to normal weapons they are, I wasn't brought on witch hunting dates due to how they could eat me. Kyūbey?

Magical enemies are pretty tough, but you could still defeat them with a normal sword! It just won't appear by magic.

So you can probably afford a sword, though it might be inconvenient to carry it around.

Could I hide a sword in my magical boy outfit? Like, untransform while holding it so it goes wherever it is that the costume goes when I'm not wearing it? —wait, hold on, where does stuff go when I'm not wearing it? Like both magical and mundane.

Yutaka's kind of thrown by how easily he's taking to playing this character of a kind of dumb boy with a crush. Like, he's usually a lot more confident and suave, and he guesses he's not not confident, here, he's been such a gentleman, but still. Maybe his subconscious is learning some wrong lessons here from seeing Haru be all happy near him while he's playing this character, even though Haru's clearly happy about the magic not him.

It isn't anywhere until you de- or re-transform. You can modify your outfit, but it might be expensive to make it include a sword by default.

Once they're off the stairs Haru disentangles from him.

Awwww mannnn stop that right this instant, you fool.

...but he'll let his face show a moment of disappointment in Haru's view right before he "manages to school it". That's good, yeah.

So there isn't, like, a bag of holding with infinite storage anywhere or anything we can make use of? 

That's not how transformations work, no.

Damn. Okay. So maybe a gun or something, instead. Maybe I'll get time powers that let me reuse the same bullet every time? Although that'd be more like duplication powers.