"C-can you hold me tonight again?" he says, the hatred and anger being replaced by fear and anxiety instantly. "I, I need to, I need to make sure you're okay—"

"Yeah. Of course I can. I need to text Ren but I can stay with you."

Cool okay he's gonna take Haru in his arms again and start roof hopping. He's gotten secure enough in his abilities by now.

Haru tucks his face into Yutaka's neck and is silent for much of the trip.

"How'd it happen? - there could be more of those."

"...the witch had—other witches. I mean, other dolls. We killed the big doll, a different doll appeared, and it was so fast we couldn't react, and it—took your arm and destroyed your gem with it." His breath hitches several times while saying that as he replays the memory.

His stomach is really, really hurting right now.

Haru clings a bit tighter. "...I wonder if I could move it to a less, uh, extremity, location..."

"Yeah... Maybe I should, too." His gem is also on his glove.

Haru tries baubling his gem and then attaching it to his costume under his robe, but it won't go.

"Could always just physically attach it elsewhere with like a belt or string or something rather than relying on the magic to do it..."

"It could fall off."

"Yeah..." Kyūbey, is it possible to modify my magical boy attire in any way?

Yes, if you want it to be cut differently or a different texture you can do that and the changes will stick!

What about placing my gem elsewhere? Say, if I wanted to not wear gloves anymore?

I guess if you got rid of the gloves on your costume your gem would find somewhere else to attach.

But nothing short of that would do it?

I don't think so.

I see. "Might be worth it, then."

"I'm using the right glove to shoot, but I can ditch the left one." He vanishes it and unbaubles his gem. ...it settles on his right glove. "Well. That was predictable in hindsight."

"Do you need the glove for that? Couldn't you wear, I don't know, fingerstalls?"

"If those are what they sound like I guess." His glove changes; the gem finally settles as a brooch near his heart. "...that looks probably fine?"

"It's... certainly less easy to damage. If you get your glove back does that force the gem back onto it?"

Glove returns. "Looks like no." He puts back the left one too.

What a silly constraint, then. He gets rid of his gloves and—

—his goes to his choker.

Well, fair enough. Gloves come back, gem stays on choker.

"You and Yamanaka'll match."

"Would be more romantic if I matched you," he says, but his heart kind of isn't in it. He's still scared and anxious.