"Is there a magical famine I should know about or just some dicks in Harajuku?"

"Witch activity is very spiky, sometimes there's a lot and sometimes not, and the with the way people need the witches' seed to live..."

"There's no, like, international coordination effort to taper the - what am I saying, of course there's not."

"Yeah. There isn't. But maybe if we do go public with magic that'll become more doable. ...Kyūbey, do you know of a reason why magic is a secret? I talked to Haru about it last time but not you."

It is pretty hard for normal people to remember anything strange about witch attacks and they can't see most magical things most of the time.

"So it really is just, like... 'coincidences' is the wrong word, but no one's really bothered I guess?"

You can tell people if you want to!

"Yeah. That might be good. And maybe we could enlist Yamanaka's help with that, since she's famous and all." That was originally Haru's idea but he'd rather die than tell either of them he rewound time and the new conversational branch didn't get there.

"Oh, good idea."

Yeah, 'cause it was yours. 

"It'd be hard to do it in a way that couldn't be faked," he repeats the objection he had last time, "but it might be worth workshopping."

"There's the disappearing? And... healing could be pretty convincing?"

"What I'm thinking is that on a stage or on video special effects can do anything so what she can do for that is signal boost it more than anything? But we'd still need to make individual people aware of it to start with."

"Yeah. When does it get noticeable?"

"The big witch? It's really sudden, there's this insipid fancy rich person garden party that was meant to happen on Saturday in three weeks and there was so little advance warning they had to scramble last minute to host it somewhere else."

"But it looks like weather?"

"Yeah. When it gets here it's really obvious—uh, if you can see magic stuff, I mean, there were familiars all over everywhere—but while it's out in the ocean it looks like weather."

"Could we go meet it on the ocean somehow, kill it there?"

"I don't see a reason why not, other than the practical ones."

"Not having a boat?"

"It's—it was breaking skyscrapers in half."

"...did you see it take any damage? The witch?"

"It had barely made landfall when we died. As soon as it showed up it killed Yamanaka w-with one h-hit and th-th-then it threw her body right n-next to me a-a-a-and then you d-died and I di-di-didn't even s-see but I h-heard—" Why is he stuttering. Why is he shaking. His, ah, his vision is swimming a bit, but his body was meant to be better? Not human, right? If, if it fixed Haru's dyspraxia then he shouldn't be getting vertigo, and should definitely not be hyperventilating, and, "I need to sit," he says, and does.

Haru hugs him again.

Oh okay. Yeah. He's. That's good. He's gonna hug and, and, and last time he had a near death experience Haru told him to take deep breaths so he's going to do that now. Deep breaths. Deep breaths. 

Sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean to derail the conversation—

It's okay. Sorry for like, breezing past the near death experience thing.