Careful, if someone throws another ball at you because of the butterfly effect you won't see it coming.

Magical boy reflexes will save me. But wouldn't it be romantic, getting hit by something because I was so distracted chatting to the boy I like? Or, at least, adorably corny?

I would still sooner you didn't get brained by a baseball.

My brain isn't in my head anymore! —well, I guess it is, but my me isn't in my brain anymore!

It'd still suck!

Fine, fine, I will be a bit more responsible and just pine from a distance, for now.

Biiiig stretch.

He is sooooo hot—

Here's another mean throw.

What is it that they say? Talk shit get hit? His reaction time is still good enough that he manages to block the ball with his bat but it's a near thing and he definitely doesn't do any better than "block it".

"Iwasaki! Stop drooling over your boyfriend and pay attention to the game!"

"S-sorry! I'll focus up!"

Sorry not sorry.

You are very wicked, Suwan-san.

But yes he WILL focus up because he has any self-control. Somewhere. He knows he does. He can find it and use it.

Suwan-san will just be innocently stretching and doing pushups and situps in his gym clothes over here till gym class is over.

Very, very wicked. But Yutaka does in fact manage to focus enough that Nakao is confident in having him at least try out with the rest of the team. He was pretty fit and good at sports even prior to being a magical boy, so he's definitely playing exceptionally well today.

And they have lunch! Haru sits with his translation club pals as usual.

Yutaka will sit with them, too. Last time he spent this lunch with the AV club folks but he hasn't actually met any of them individually this time yet so that'd be weird, whereas now he and Haru are ✨dating✨ and he gets to be a bit ridiculous about it.

"Hi, senpai," he says to the group.

"Hi, Iwasaki-san!" beams Watanabe.

"How're you guys doing?" he asks, taking a seat next to Haru and lightly bumping his knee against Haru's.

"Doing all right." Anju noticed my ring, try not to make yours conspicuous or the rumors are going to get less informative fast.

Less informative? He lowers his left hand under the table subtly under the excuse of grabbing his phone to look at something.

...if we're wearing matching rings?

If people think we're wearing couple rings they're not going to be wrong about what they conclude.

We didn't decide to go get couple rings, we're just secretly both magic rocks!