Oh whoops. Sorry, slipped. Not all that sorry though. 

"Anyway, let's put me to work, why don't we," he says. "Got a suggestion or should I just Google-fu a song?"

"I think it's ideal if it's one you know so you can keep more of it in working memory."

"Fair enough." What's Eve put out recently, oh Sayonara End Roll is good and relatable. 

...

Look, shut up.

Haru doesn't comment. He's working on translating Pride and Prejudice, he's been at it for months.

...wow. That's. 

Okay.

Occasionally somebody asks the room what they think the difference between two possible words or phrases for a concept is and they all talk about that but it's mostly a pretty quiet club.

Yeah that's valid. Also Eve puts out official English translations of his songs so Yutaka should not look at those while translating lest he bias himself but at least then he has the official answer at the end and he can ask the better English speakers in the room why he chose whatever he did instead of what Yutaka did.

"Wow, that's a pretty depressing song," Watanabe remarks after he's mentioned a few lines.

"—yeah. It's, uh, kind of following a storyline from previous songs about a character."

"Oh, it's like a concept album?"

"More like a concept loose collection of songs across lots of albums? Some of them are their own thing but some are set in this shared universe and about specific characters in it."

"Cool cool." She goes back to working on her fansub of Murderbot.

And he goes back to his song. (And to occasionally stealing discreet glances at Haru. That boy really is unreasonably gorgeous.)

He continues being unreasonably gorgeous. He is not working very quickly on his translation today and might be telepathing Kyubey.

Without Yutaka? What is wrong with him today. Is he feeling lonely because of the death and feeling like he needs to make sure he's still alive and this isn't all a dream and the world is solid and not going to turn to water under his feet? 

...he needs to learn to stop having thoughts.

Eventually Haru does ask him what transforming is like! When the club's winding down and people are starting to pack up.

There's a little routine that supposedly happens a lot more slowly for me than to external observers, it's very magical girl-coded.

Can I see?

Soon as we're not in public!

Are your folks home?

I live on my own. I roof hopped here but I can grab my car and take you there if you want? Or we could go in yours. He doesn't actually know for sure that Haru has a car but he'd have no reason to be walking down the parking lot otherwise, with the dyspraxia.

...did I have a car last time? How'd I get a car?

Shit. Why would—his mother works at this school. It was probably Ren's. Ughhh if he makes the wrong guess here he's gonna have to rewind again and he doesn't wanna, stuff is going so well!

I meant your mother's, he "clarifies". I guess you—wouldn't have had time to tell her about it, right, because I just told you earlier today and you don't even have a way to demonstrate like last time yet.

I can ask her if I can bring you home if you don't mind her maybe being around, she often has plans out of the apartment but not always.

Up to you, I'm fine with whatever.

NICE save.