He can do that.

And if he drops it?

It starts falling but rapidly slows down as it does, for about a second, then stops again.

...huh. So it's not, like, if he releases it it just stops exactly where he did? Interesting. What if he throw the pebble rather than dropping it, how far will it go?

About just as far! It slows down a lot more quickly to compensate for the extra speed from being thrown rather than dropped.

He feels like that's probably going to be useful for combat somehow but he's not sure how. Or, hm, well, he supposes that'd make using guns a lot easier, actually? If he can shoot a bullet and it doesn't get stuck in the gun's barrel and actually goes a way out. Yeah, this is wicked, he digs it.

Yutaka's gonna walk back to Haru's place, then—wait. Actually. He's been doing a lot of magic, today. How's his gem doing?

It might be somewhat darker than it was this morning? But not, like, so much so that it's immediately obviously dangerous. And it's darker around the edges of the diamond than near the center.

Hmmm. Okay. He's gonna watch his gem as he walks and see how much darker it gets.

If it's getting darker over time, it's not doing that so quickly that he can notice it by the time he's back near Haru's.

Huh. That's. Strange? Or maybe it's just too subtle and he'd notice it if he hadn't been watching it directly.

Well, he'll unpause time before he gets in because it would be dickish to suddenly appear at Haru's without warning.

That makes the gem get noticeably darker, resuming time.

—oh, the fuck, does it only cost magic once he's back in real time? Does it cost more magic the longer he's been paused? He's not sure how he'd test that, the change is so minor.

Well, whatever. He'll jump up and knock on the window when he does, since he shut it behind himself as he was leaving.

Haru opens it for him. "How'd it go?"

"No time-turner but I can stop time!"

"Oh cooool!"

"I think I might be able to bring other people with." He offers Haru his hand.

Hand!!

Click, the shield does its clockwork thing and then everything stops. "I think if I let go of your hand you might get frozen too but," he can grab a pen and drop it midair.

"Oh that's going to be so useful I bet!" He bounces a little bit, still holding tight to Yutaka's hand.

Oh no he's so cute Yutaka wants to kiss him. 

All in due time.

...he doesn't want to let go of Haru's hand now to test what happens, but he will stop being such a fucking simp and do it anyway. "I'll let go of your hand now to see if you stay with me or get frozen, okay?"

"Okay!" Haru relaxes his grip so Yutaka can escape.

Escaped!

And yeah Haru's frozen.

Yutaka waits a couple of seconds, waving a hand in front of Haru's eyes, then take Haru's hand again. "Verdict, you do get frozen."

"- but then you can pull me into your time stop again? Cool!"