May brought her own.

She signs Traceless in a nearly-illegible scribble.

She turns visible at the instant she can no longer hold her telepathic link with Lianelle, as though the no-magic clause worked on esper powers, and keeps her pen clutched in her hand.

"There's a limo waiting for you outside," says the man, before starting to choke. 

"- sir, are you okay, I know the Heimlich -"

"Just - the spare - summoner -" he manages, his face turning a worryingly dark red.

Oh.

Well, limo it is then.

The man collapses as May leaves the restaurant.

The limo has two benches facing each other, with Sakir sitting on one of them.

"Hurry along dear, we wouldn't want to keep your champion waiting."

May leans into the limo and sits right next to Sakir. "My backlash from using my powers makes me lonely," she mumbles by way of explanation, fidgeting with her pen.

And then she's intangible to Sakir, and invisible because fuck her and her desire to watch May kill someone, and so's everything on her person, and she reaches into Sakir's chest with the pen and lets go of it there.

Sakir opens her mouth in shock, clawing at her chest with her hand before going for a knife she has stored under the armrest- 

That's May's knife now, it's easy to grab a knife out of someone's hand when you pass through their hand like it's not there and so does the knife as soon as you've got hold of it. Pen intersecting with heart didn't do it? Knife in the brain. "Fuck you."

Sakir doesn't reply because she's dead.

But she could very easily stop being dead if May preferred that. 

No, not here, she's still bound by a magical contract.

...she wasn't really expecting the universe to be paused.

Can she tell how expensive it would be, to dissolve the contract?

The caster for this particular contract was a champion, and so it would require a fundamental change to the fabric of reality to undo. Which she can totally do but it would cost most of the stored up power of the Spring.

Fiiiine she'll just buy Arctic a lot of plane tickets.

Can she talk to Lianelle from "here"?

It would cost a trivial amount of magic to talk to her champion.

[I got her. I've got the Spring. Is there anything glaringly obvious I should do with it in this universe before I go where I know more context?]

[Ressurect the innocents who died during the tournament maybe?]

[I'd like to, but - if I'm going to resurrect people and I can't just resurrect an arbitrary number of people I'm not sure they're the highest leverage option.]

[Okay, if you're sure.]

[There's espers who rescued people from dungeons all the time or did healing work, and died for various reasons, and they'd save more people. Probably there's people like that here too, but I don't know who they are. Are you coming home with me?]

How expensive, expressed as a percentage, will it be to get home, with Lianelle?

Around one percent, but for three percent she can get herself a reusable power that'll be way cheaper per use.

Ooh.

And resurrecting Sakir according to protocol will take...?

About 0.2%.

Wow, that's not actually very much. Can she tell from here how many random bystanders were killed in the tournament, maybe it would be justifiable to bring them back.

Twenty five people - It would cost a bit under 2% to bring them all back.