"Anyway, yeah. I guess I'll see you tomorrow at school but—oh. My number. We have telepathy but that's useful too."

"Mm-hm?" Notebook. Pen.

He recites his number, then stands up and stretches. Which is completely unnecessary but old habits. "Right, then."

Haru writes the number down. "See you tomorrow."

"See you." Out the window.

Hey, Kyubey says you're new and want to meet up?

Yutaka is: in bed, under the covers, hiding from the world. Not asleep yet, but still sufficiently disconnected from the world that he jumps when he gets the telepathic message. 

Hi! he says, injecting levity into his mind voice. Yeah, I am, and I have zero experience with all of this and have been a bit nervous of trying to hunt witches on my own, especially because I don't have a weapon.

He told Haru he wasn't going out tonight but he had hoped Kyūbey would only send Yamanaka his way tomorrow as a consequence. It's an understandable miscommunication, but it means that now he has to go out and hunt witches, which he really doesn't want to, ughhhhhhhhhh.

I thought everybody had a weapon...

I have a buckler, and it has some powers, but none of them directly offensive.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay he's going to unhide and turn the lights on to let the stab of pain from them start bringing him back to reality.

What does it do instead?

I can stop time for myself and anything and anyone I'm touching, and I can rewind time for myself. 

He sits up. And doesn't do more than that for now.

Ugh.

...that sounds more useful than a weapon, honestly, though, like, best combined with one.

Yeah I'm not like complaining (much) just, you know, I stop time and then punch witches, sounds like it might not be super effective.

Yeah, you want a team. My last teammate went hunting alone and died so I don't have one right now, do you want to come out with me?

...wow that's surprisingly blasé about the topic. Maybe she's had a lot of time to move on from it.

Yeah I think so.

Where should I meet you, Kyubey says you're within my usual range but hasn't given me an address.

He mentally recites the address, but I can meet you wherever, roof hopping is fun. When he's not in this funk at least.

It is!! I'm on a streetlight at - Intersection. Not too far from you, come on out.

UGH. 

At least he doesn't need to make himself presentable, he can just have a transformation sequence and then he's dressed up. Down the lift because he's still not confident in his ability to survive a fall from this height and then roof hopping.

There she is, standing on a streetlight! Alive! Smiling and waving!

He lands on the roof of the building next to the streetlight (- She lands with a splash, the shards of her gem falling out of her choker, in the flooded sidewalk just a couple meters away from Yutaka. -) with a little bit of a wobble but then straightens up and tells his face to behave. "Hi!" he says cheerfully, before bowing. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Yamanaka Junko-san."

She bows right back. "It's nice to meet you too, Iwasaki Yutaka-san. D'you have any questions before we go hunting?"

"I guess, uh, do you have ideas for how to synergise our powers? Or, are there any obvious tips for the newbie?"

Also you die in a month hhhhhhhhhhhh.

"If you can stop time probably the best thing to do is to do that once we find a witch, walk in holding hands, find the witch in the barrier without any familiars getting on our case, and then I kill the witch with my sword. Unless it's too expensive?"

"Well I kind of... don't really know how expensive it is, because I pay the cost all at once when I resume time. I also don't really have a feel for what is or isn't expensive."

Howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww does he tell this woman that she died. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.