It does get fully used up this time, though. "What... do we do with this now."

"We give it to Kyubey." Hey Kyubey, got a full seed for you.

Here's Kyubey slipping into the door they left ajar after breaking into the building.

Huh. "Hi Kyūbey." Yutaka crouches down to offer him the seed.

Kyubey's - back opens?? And the seed can go right in there. Thank you!

What the.

The diamond on his back is a lid??? Is Kyūbey hollow inside????? What the fuck.

Kyubey closes up again. It gives itself a little shake.

"Does that... hurt or anything."

No.

"What happens to full seeds if you don't, uh, eat them like that, is that when they hatch?"

Yes, if you leave a full seed out for long enough it will hatch.

"...if a witch hatches and we kill it immediately afterwards before it can hurt anyone do we get a new, empty seed out of it?"

No.

"What do we get instead?"

Nothing. Witches that have not taken any prey do not leave seeds behind.

"Oh. That... makes sense. Sucks, but makes sense."

Nod nod.

Haru picks up the fluff and pets it.

Honestly Yutaka is kind of still weirded out by the "Kyūbey is hollow" thing so he's failing to conceptualise the fluff as cute for the moment. That's probably just him, though, he was also pretty weirded out by becoming a magic rock piloting his body from a distance initially but he's kind of used to it now.

"Let's go get dinner?"

"Sure, where? - also we should get out of here and at least make a good faith effort to lock the door."

"We have some teekay, maybe we can use that to lock the door?" he wonders. "And, uh, wherever you want, are you craving anything or anywhere in particular?"

"Uhhhh we don't go out to eat much unless it's someone's birthday. Sushi's always good? Maybe kaitenzushi so we don't have to wait too long."

"Oh I know a good kaitenzushi restaurant near here, we can go there."

"Awesome." He puts Kyubey on his shoulder and they can get out and lock up or at least cause the lock to no longer open, hopefully it will yield to keys in the morning; and then they can detransform and go to the restaurant.

It's not the best sushi restaurant Yutaka knows but it is pretty damn good sushi for a conveyor belt restaurant.