Well, if you really want to go out in winter in your magical costume knowing that if you have to detransform you will be standing there in your altogether then that's your prerogative but I can wait.

Oh I'm clothed I'm just not decent.

If you say so. Where should we meet up?

Meet up halfway?

At - Intersection?

Sounds good. Should we ping Yamanaka-san?

She's in Nagoya for most of the next week doing concerts but she did finish the map, I'll forward it to you.

Ah... Alright. I suppose probably we should go talk to some magicals later, then.

Yeah. She ranked the Shibuya bunch relatively friendly so we should bear south.

Understood. The thought fills him with trepidation, and makes the nausea that's still not abated worse.

And there's Yutaka's golden superhero boyfriend waiting for him at the intersection.

Is Yutaka's golden superhero boyfriend ready for being glomped and kissed, he has half a second to prepare~

"Eep!" Hi!

Hi, gorgeous. That was so hot I want to put my hands all over you, God. Let's go be superheroes together.

Eeeeeeeheeeheeehee. Careful with the fluff rating~ And they can bound off southish.

Do they run into a witch first or the edges of "their" territory, first?

- yes, actually, there's one, with the cherry blossom sigil on the portal, right before Shinjuku turns into Shibuya.

"Man, did someone just let a fuckton of those goddamn flying squirrels escape, how come there are so many of these."

"Could have been around for a really long time? And occasionally one gets away? Are they stealthy? What's the M.O. for this kind?"

"Dunno if they're all the same but the one I saw with Yamanaka, you start at the edge of a cherry blossom tree branch and you gotta go in along the branch because space is fucky and you can't go from the ground, and then when you get to the trunk you climb down and find the witch. There's evil flying squirrels and clouds of razor cherry petals but honestly we can just stop time and skip all of that."

"Sounds easy with you along."

"Yeah! Let's go."

In they go. The witch is like the one Yutaka saw before. The exact configuration of the branches and positioning of the sakura and the squirrels differs but the basic idea is identical and they can go to the trunk and down to the floor and slay the witch in very short order.

Hopefully the fact that they spent a lot of it in stopped time means that there's no chance for any squirrels to escape.

It doesn't look like any do!

Pop goes the weasel witch.