Yutaka is very good and kissable but is not going to get in Haru's pants tonight in particular.

That's fiiiiine, Haru knows where to find him.

Yes he does.

And he bids his boyfriend goodnight and goes home.

Got a potential lead on the yakuza, Yutaka tells Haru at lunch the next day.

You don't have enough guns already?

I think I do, so I'm not sure I'm going to actually, like, follow the lead anywhere. But I got one. They might have some more creative weapons, too, the kinds I can't find in a regular run-of-the-mill military base in Tokyo.

Creative? You have grenades!

There are lots of types of grenades! I could get a high-explosive grenade or an incendiary grenade. I only got fragmentation grenades and stun grenades.

If you say so. Do you need company on your excursion?

I will always welcome your company, lovely, but I'm not sure I'm going on that particular excursion today. I was thinking about maybe hitting up another neighbourhood and seeing if I can't directly track down and talk to the magicals there. Maybe Bunkyō.

I'll come with you to Bunkyou.

And thankfully it's a Friday so they don't need to worry about getting back home early and can take some time with this, so after they're out of school they make their way there. And Yutaka decides that letting his anxiety about burning out Kyūbey's goodwill should not get in the way of them trying what they can to save Tokyo, so, Kyūbey, could you pass a message to the magicals that control this territory for us?

What do you want to tell them?

We're magicals from Shinjuku and we have information about a very big threat that's going to affect both of our territories and we'd like to discuss that, we'll be in Kōraku Park if they wanna talk.

Okay!

And in the park there are -

- two magicals, a boy and a girl -

- who look like they might be as old as fourteen, maybe.

...hey, uh.

Hi, says the boy. I'm Shigematsu Motoi and that's Ichinoya Riho.

Ichinoya waves. She's got a sky-blue color scheme; her friend's is dark red.

They're. They're children.

They're children!!!! What! The hell!!!! This isn't Sailor Moon this is Cardcaptor Sakura!!!!!!

"I'm Iwasaki Yutaka, and my partner is Swan Masaharu," he says, bowing politely, because he has been trained by Iwasaki Iemasa to be able to do this even while his brain is going ?????????????????.

The kids bow. "What's up?" Ichinoya asks.

"So, I'm prepared to offer proof of it all of course, but the gist of it all is: I'm from the future, and in three weeks, a big witch so powerful it doesn't need hide behind a barrier shows up and destroys most of Tokyo, killing all of us. I wasn't a magical boy yet, then, and I wished to be able to go back and fix that. So now I'm here, and I would like your help with it so that we can save Tokyo and ourselves." He bows again, more deeply this time.

"How could you be from the future?"

"When I wished to be able to fix it and save everyone, I woke up in my body a month earlier, as a magical boy."

Is that true, Kyubey? Ichinoya asks.