"Excellent, father, why don't we start this again?"

In the end, it's not hard, either. Why did Iwasaki Iemasa come visit? Why, he didn't. He never came. He didn't even send a text yesterday, not as far as he can remember anyway. Yutaka is out of sight and out of mind. What he's doing at Shimamoto High is none of Iemasa's concern. The rumours around him are just rumours, and certainly don't matter any more than the rumours that used to follow him before.

Yutaka perhaps does more of it than was strictly necessary, but can you blame him? If you had been there, if you had seen it, he bets you you would've done the same.

Hey, handsome.

Hiiii.

Whatcha up to?

Thaaaaat is none of Kyubey's business.

Haru gets a call.

Is that you on the phone -

Yes it is.

You're alone, right, like, your dad's been and gone -

I wouldn't be calling if that old bat was still here. I made sure he won't come bug me again for a long time; he won't even remember he was here at all.

you what

Oh one of the powers everyone has is this "mind trick", you can make people forget some stuff or change the way they feel about it or whatever.

Anyway, let's talk about something else—

No, absolutely not, Yutaka, what the hell -

—he wanted to enroll me in Kaiyo! That's a boarding school!

So you - okay, look, you can still fix this, rewind to before he showed up and tell me what happened and I'll workshop something but not that, okay -

I tried that! And, and why are you even concerned for him he spent my life abusing me—

That could excuse a lot of shit but mind control crosses the line!

I didn't mind control him I just—tricked him...

...but that distinction feels kind of hollow even to his ear.

You understood when I was spooked about missing memories even when I went into the situation knowing that you can rewind time, and it doesn't sound like you stopped there either!

No. No no no this is all wrong this is bad he made a mistake he stops—

Fuck.

Fuck.

He, he needs some time. And maybe he's wasting magic but it's only a little bit of magic, right, as cheap as a few arrows, and it's fine. It's fine. It's fine because if Haru broke up with him he, he's, he doesn't know, but clearly he's gone insane.

Yutaka has said this so many times, but it keeps being relevant and brought to salience.