"Oh?"

"Were you going easy on me?"

"A little. I cared more about the city than I did about this... forest." She indicates the general destruction around them.

"Huh."

"Can you teach me to do some of that stuff? Since we're working together now and all."

"...We'll see."

"Yesss!" She pumps her fist in triumph. "The other guys had some neat stuff too. Like that, uh, fireball thing. What did that feel like?"

"It didn't get through my ward."

"Oh, right. You kept that going for a long time, though. How old are you?"

"Sixty-eight standard."

"Wow. Hey, Shisui, how old was that creepy guy?"

"...I think sixty-three or so? Our year lengths might be different, you do not look even remotely sixty-eight unless your people age slower or you're using an anti-aging technique."

"Magical girls don't get old unless we want to. Or, well, we get older but we don't get old."

"Most shinobi get old that way; I can think of only three exceptions."

"That kinda sucks for you, I guess!"

"Are we likely to meet any of the exceptions?"

"Unlikely. They mostly avoid making big waves, so no one makes too great an effort to end them anyways."

"I see. Are you finished here?"

"Yes. There's not much else I can do to destroy the rest of the evidence, unfortunately..."

"Why do you need to destroy the evidence?"

"He has allies I'd rather not know I was involved, or even that anything happened here."

"Apologies. Covert operations are... not our strong suit."

"Eh, they're not for everyone, especially not hard-hitters like you guys. It's why teams are a good idea."

"More than one magical girl is usually overkill."

"Yeah, like my combat instructor Eliese blew up half a continent one time, all by herself. She's like two hundred though, so she's super strong."

"...They let the Terror of Ransheer near children?"