"—oh, yeah, the reason I thought I could in the first place was that I could grab some frozen stuff outside and interact with it and stuff. I think anything I'm touching will be unfrozen with me."

"It's involuntary? You can't like do platformer jumps on frozen autumn leaves?"

"Haven't tested it." He'll try to poke the pen but, like, willing it to stay frozen?

It gets unfrozen when touching him and freezes again when not.

"Seems involuntary, yeah."

"Less versatile but still cool."

"Yeah! But," and he lifts the hand with his gem then unstops time. "I only pay the cost in magic when I unpause time. I dunno what kinds of things could be more or less expensive."

"Oh that seems dangerous, if you can rack up a lot of expense without noticing. Do you have to do it subjectively or could you get some kind of - light measurement thing -"

"...hmmm." He wills himself visible to normies then grabs his phone to point it at his gem. Does the camera see him?

Yup!

"Probably a light measurement thing would work fine, then."

"And if you can afford a sword you can probably also afford a..." He detours to jisho.org. "Luxometer," he reads off.

This guy and his complicated words.

...

Why did he find it endearing this time. Yutaka needs to stop simping so much, it's unbecoming. He has had this exact thought like twelve times over the past hour, it's a problem.

"Where would I even find one of those," he says, mostly to himself, Googling it.

There are actually pretty cheap ones online, though it's anyone's guess if they're calibrated appropriately for souls.

Well, he can grab one that is not pretty cheap and that is pretty sensitive instead, probably.

"Will it fit in your bag of holding?"

"No idea, but I can always carry it around the hard way instead if not."

"I mean, you might want to buy one that definitely will."

"Well, fair." He can buy a second one, too.

"What else do you wanna test?"

He thinks about it for a second. "I think I don't have any other obvious powers? The place in my head where it felt like I could do things doesn't feel like it has other things in it for me to do."

"Aren't there things anyone can do?"

"Yeah, I think so? But it feels like somewhere else. ...I don't know how to explain it. But I think I can," make his buckler disappear?

Poof.

"You probably want that to exist most of the time but it's still abstractly cool."

👏Haru👏needs👏to👏be👏less👏kissable.👏

"Yeah." He brings it back. "Let's see what else... Ummmm Kyūbey?"