So Haru texts Ren, and she agrees to bring his new friend home with them from school.

Okay! Cool! Totally what he planned for! He really was in fact 100% okay with this! Totally!

"Good afternoon, ma'am. It's nice to meet you," he says, bowing.

"Hello there, Iwasaki-kun! I'm Swan Ren."

"Thank you for allowing me to come over today." Does Haru want help with the walking?

Sure, if he's offering. "He joined translation club today," Haru mentions.

"Aha," says Ren.

Of course he's offering, he's not a monster. "I was made to face the fact that I am really not as good at English as I thought I was, so that's an opportunity for growth."

"Oh, I'm sure you're fine! But there's always room to improve."

They make their way to Ren's car and she hops in the driver's seat.

Presumably Haru will go in the passenger seat? Yutaka will open the door for him.

"- thank you!" says Haru, and in he goes.

He is getting such a good grade in gentleman.

Into the back he goes.

Ren drives. It's not very far, but it's enough that Haru would probably have fallen over three or four times in the course of taking two hours to walk that far, in the winter weather. She parks in the apartment building's garage and there's an elevator ride up to their little Tokyo shoebox apartment.

Oh wow this place is minuscule. Yutaka is now feeling guilty for living in such a huge place on his own. He walks in after the other two and leaves his shoes in the genkan.

And once everybody's shoes are off Ren grabs herself a protein bar out of the kitchen, drops her bookbag in her room, and leaves again with a "don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

How the fuck should he know what it is that she wouldn't do. He grins anyway.

"Ittekimasu!"

"Itterasshai!"

"Itterasshai!" he agrees, and then, "Transformation sequence?"

"Hell yes."

Transformation sequence! And then he is a magical boy.

"I did not get a sequence, you just - flashed. Did you design that outfit?"

"I didn't! It just kind of happened. I'm very happy with the result, though. I—actually never asked if you designed yours, it was this gorgeous traditional Japanese archery outfit in blue and white and gold and you looked very fetching in it."

"—er, I mean, you looked good in it, ah."

"Well, you'll have to tell me if I get the same one - do you want to help me any further with the disease research -"

"Yeah!" He is now openly simping for this guy. What is up with him.

They can research diseases! Eventually Kyubey walks right out of Haru's bedroom having been in there for who knows how long and sits on Haru's lap and informs them periodically that alas Haru still has more emotional resonance with malaria.