This content is not rated for fluffy audiences? Should I avoid telepathically threatening you even facetiously?

You can do it and be aware of the fact that doing so has consequences not rated for fluffy audiences.

Seems like a good thing to be aware of.

The witch, when they find it, is hanging out with its barrier opening onto an indoor pool; they have to magic a lock open to get in there, though they can see it through the window.

Inside, though, it's a train station on psychedelics. There are escalators to nowhere, fare gates and tiled hallways and tracks that climb and twist into roller-coaster loops, fluorescent lights flickering and sputtering, and of course trains, screaming trains tearing through the labyrinth and into tunnels. The familiars look like shambling silhouettes of salarymen, with briefcases and ties and staring white eyes, crowding the platforms even when the platforms are vertical or upside-down.

"Why are these even called witches anyway..."

"Maybe there was a common one themed around witches, at some point?" A salaryman twitches in their direction and sprouts an arrow through his throat. The other salarymen step on him getting into their train.

"Something to ask Kyūbey later, I guess." Are the salarymen going to be doing anything more threatening than twitching? Yutaka's gonna be conservative with the timestops but not that conservative, when it turns out that using them is about the same amount of expensive a few of Haru's arrows seem to be, for him.

As long as they aren't on the trains, the salarymen don't get worse than twitchy, but it eventually transpires that to get anywhere in here they're going to need to get on a train, and the salarymen attempt to press in close and smother them when they do that; it's not a good use case for Haru's bow and he winds up stabbing a lot of them with the same arrow in timestop.

Maybe they could try riding on top of the train rather than inside it? Even odds on that not working somehow though.

"I don't think the clearance is adequate."

"Oh, tunnels, right. This is honestly more annoying than other kinds of unpleasant."

"Maybe the witch itself'll be a doozy."

"Fingers crossed question mark?"

"I mean, I don't hope it'll be a doozy."

"I hope it is exactly as much of a doozy as necessary to improve our skills at a sustainable pace so that we can defeat witchzilla in a month."

"Sounds good. I'm at least getting practice with melee. Did you ever buy a sword? I'd borrow a sword about now."

"I didn't. Haven't gotten around to raiding any Yakuza offices and the police station and military base I did raid didn't have any on display."

"That is the lesson we will take from this witch: buy a sword." Stab stab stab. When they've cleared their car they can huck the salaryman corpses out of the train and let time advance, clinging to the poles when the thing goes upside down.

Honestly do they even need to do the stabbing, if the salarymen aren't individually strong maybe they can just jump straight to the throwing them out of the train without stabbing first. But that's only if they'll need to board a different train, he guesses.

The salarymen are actually pretty resistant to being moved around even when they're dead, they're heavy.

The train comes to its next stop and another crush of them attempt to board.

Rinse and repeat? There has to be a better way for them to deal with this.

Rinse and repeat. "I wonder if the witch'll be obvious from the train. Or if it's even on this route..."

"In before the witch is the train. Or the tunnel. Or the station."

"I think if it were the train we'd have a bit of a problem from stepping into it and we seem fine so far."

"Could be biding its time.

"Hey is your string strong enough that we could, like, maybe surround ourselves with a cat's cradle or something? Makeshift barrier of sorts so they can't squeeze us even if they try?"