"It's showtime."

If the witch is confused by their seeming teleportation and the way her minions get taken down, she does not show it. She continues her performance, gliding effortlessly through the air as if dancing to music only she can hear, and all the while her paper and glass minions multiply to replace their fallen brethren.

Golden diamonds appear in the air around her, each with a hole in the middle, one two three four five six seven eight -

Yamanaka's sword flashes through the air -

She flies, she shoots, she attacks—

Time stops.

And then it resumes.

Now the witch seems confused at the sudden appearance of an ensaring web in nearly all directions, and she's going too fast to be able to change course without charging straight towards—

The pointy end.

She dies as quietly as she laughed, and her seed clinks to the floor of the subway station.

"Yatta!" he shouts before glomping Haru.

"We did it!" Haru exclaims, scooping Yutaka up and spinning him around.

Eeeeeeee okay Yutaka thinks he can get behind the kind of superheroing that's actually difficult. ...which is maybe not great for his life expectancy, now that he thinks of it, it would be great if he got this excited about the easy witches they've been dealing with, but eh, whatever, this was so much fun.

"Team healer, pretty ple-ease," sings Yamanaka.

"Sure, of course, sorry -" Healing for all that needs healing.

And then she picks up the seed. "I hope this at least pays for itself."

"So TIL they can level up, I guess."

"Which I guess stands to reason, since they can go from too weak to leave a seed to strong enough to leave a seed. Maybe this seed'll be extra capacious." When Yamanaka's through with it he holds out his hand for it and brightens up and then passes it to Yutaka.

The seed does seem to still have space even after clearing Yutaka, but only just barely.

"Wow. - Yutaka, what if you got some, like, tent spikes, not every witch has terrain that suits but this one, if the glassy stuff would have held onto them, I could have tied the witch down if I got anchors into place all around it and then got string over its shoulders and connected to those."

"—good idea. I'll get some."

"Let's see, what else would have helped..."

"I think if I'd done my sonic attack we'd've totally used up the seed but it might have been wise to do it anyway."

"Might've saved on some healing and some stopped time, though. Maybe not enough."

"The little flying things were too renewable, is my thinking, I'd've gotten a bunch of them but then there would've been more."