"He can get over that to save Tokyo probably. Just gotta prove to him that we need it."

"What'd you do if you convince the P.M. that there's a monster coming in a week?"

"Honestly, I don't really know, but it's the kind of resource that could be useful."

"Mm. Well, don't get your hopes that far up anyway, dad's, like, not that close with the P.M., just, he'll pick up if dad calls."

"I mean, that's better than breaking into the guy's house."

"No, yeah, for sure. You got the military involved?"

"No, but I did copy a lot of artillery!"

"Copy?"

"I can duplicate stuff."

"Yo can I get some magic too?"

"I don't think so. You need some ineffable magic potential."

"How'd you get that?"

"Akira, focus. Why not get the military involved?"

"...so like, the way you get magic is that you make a wish, and then you get that wish, it has to be something you really very strongly care about, and you become a magical boy with powers themed around that wish, right, and... First time around, I found out I had magical potential at the beginning of this week or something? And I couldn't find anything I wanted to wish for, and then the big monster showed up without warning, and when I was about to die I wished I could try again but do it right this time."

"Oh you stuck yourself in the time loop? That sucks."

"Mm. And then the next loop we, like, tried stuff, but I didn't know I'd get more chances? And I didn't really understand the—scale—of that witch, I wasn't magical the first time around, it was so much worse than I thought it was. But I didn't, like—collect evidence. That we were in a time loop. I got in contact with the JMA and even though we could demonstrate magic the time loop thing was too much and by the time it was obvious I was too late.

"So this time I did start writing shit down that I can use to prove we're in a time loop, and if we fail, which we won't, but if we do then it'll be a lot more possible to get the military involved or whatever. It won't just be a random teenager wearing a magical outfit who can stop time showing up, I'll have, like, a proper way to convince them."

"Huh. Yeah. Okay. Makes sense."

(Haru kind of thinks they're going to fail. But if this is - loadbearing, for Yutaka, who has to bear up through it all in a way Haru doesn't - he doesn't care to jinx it. He will cope with his impending amnesia in the privacy of his own Notes To Fucking Self.)

"You know, this was a very surreal way to be turned down but all in all I vibe with it."

"...make sure to write everything down, though. Like, everything. The more I can send your... past selves.... the less you lose from this time."

"...yeah okay."

Haru fidgets with his giant shiny sleeves. He'll just have to recopy everything if he gets a new notebook off Yutaka now, he's halfway through one at the moment and it's in his civvie bag.

The twins have to return inside soon since it'd be weird for both of them to vanish for too extended a time, but Yutaka can't (without losing face) leave the party until a while later. He's somewhat more subdued for the rest of the night, though, and spends most of it on his own (or "on his own", with his Haru for company) before they can go.

He's not leaving with Iemasa, though. Fuck that. They can roof hop.

If Iwasaki Sr. isn't going to be inquisitive about it, sure, they can roof hop, even in the rain.

Yutaka's final verdict is that while he did appreciate going to this party with Haru it's probably a lot more fun to do when Haru is not invisible to others. So maybe they can do that in the future after they've saved Tokyo.