Maybe!

Seems like Haru isn't being affected, like, at all by Yutaka's act, though, which sucks because he doesn't know what other act to use. He guesses he'll be able to figure it out. "Not a slut" seems to be part of it, but that's gonna be not that hard, actually, he's still kind of shaken by the Kobayashi twins and it's made him a bit wary of casual sex. Maybe Ueda Masashi from the baseball team and maybe this time he'll manage to get in Tarō-kun's pants but his heart isn't into it.

...though in retrospect it might be because subjectively he almost died, uh, less than an hour ago? That could have something to do with it. And also with how clingy he is around Haru. Because, uh. Yeah Haru kind of died an hour ago, too. And so did Yamanaka.

Uh. Uh. Uh. He'll. Stop thinking about that, actually? He's gonna stop it and do it right this time and he doesn't need to focus on how he almost died because he didn't die. And it'll be fine. It'll be fine.

Classes ensue as normal. When he has one with Haru he can see that Haru's sneaking peeks of Wikipedia pages about diseases and taking notes on them.

Yutaka's already watched all of these classes, though, so it feels pointless to pay any attention. What he does instead is research of his own, and at lunch he sends Haru a collection of links about tuberculosis, plus a gift epub of John Green's "Everything Is Tuberculosis" as well as a summary review of it he found on a blog.

It looks like TB is really treatable, so there's a solid chance normal medical approaches could wipe it out soon, I might want to go for some kind of cancer or something instead, but thanks!

Yeah. There was also GiveWell's recommendation list, which is, you know, focused on tractable problems, so maybe not the ones that'd benefit most from magical intervention, but malaria's on there, so. He's banking on Haru already knowing about GiveWell but if he doesn't Yutaka can be the cool senpai who will tell Haru about it even though he only just heard of it!

Yeah, it's kind of orthogonal to what I want here, although Kyubey's been telling me repeatedly that I still care more about malaria so perhaps I have to settle for malaria.

Settle for, he says. Just malaria. Which has had serious estimates as having maybe caused half of deaths in the history of humanity. Really, it'll be such a disappointment if you can only fix that, tut tut.

It'll be incredibly cool! Which is half my problem here!

Sorry about that. If I could help you feel the right way about other things I would so let me know if you think of something.

Will do.

Do you wanna hang out after school while I try to figure out what my powers are?

Sure!

Is Yutaka going to join the school paper this time? It'll feel kind of boring to do the same things again, but maybe that means he could just half-ass is and have more time to himself?

But, hmmmmmm. He... could also join the translation club instead. That way they could spend more time together.

Yeah, he thinks he might do that, actually? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

The translation club contains Haru! And also Watanabe Anju.

"Have you translated anything before?" Haru asks Yutaka.

"Only as part of English class."

"You probably want to start with, like, a song, something very short. Don't try to make it rhyme or anything at a first pass. And probably go English to Japanese, not the other way around, unless you're better at English than you sounded in English class."

"Oof, ouch."

"Sorry!"

"That's okay, you're not wrong, but I'll get there. Maybe you could help me, I hear you're pretty good at English."

"It comes of growing up in Canada," Haru says in English.

"You've been in Japan longer than you were in Canada!"

"But I've spent my entire time in Japan already fluent in English!"

"Have you two met before?"

"Slightly."