Once again very stupid that holding a boy's hand can make his heart go dokidoki like that. "Y-yeah, I guess."

"I'm pretty great but I'm not inhuman. ...except in the sense that I'm a rock."

He giggles. "You're very cute."

He is also very kissable.

"So, should we try to talk to other magicals or—honestly that sounds awful actually, let's try to find a witch?"

Kiss! "Sounds good to me." Dowsing time.

There is always a nearest witch but sometimes there isn't a near-enough witch.

...he supposes it makes sense for there to not be one witch for every two magicals every day. It would make sense if there were, too, both things make sense, but, you know.

"I guess we're... not getting a witch tonight, then?"

"Looks like. Which in its own way is good news, I guess, but."

"You know, I'm going to choose to feel happy and productive because we talked to some magicals, even if they're twelve. That was a solid, concrete step towards saving Tokyo."

"Do you wanna try to set up a meeting with more of them?"

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea. And tomorrow's a Saturday so maybe there'll be more people available."

"Depends how many of these people, like, work day jobs, but yeah."

So he can see about getting his name out there, probably with Kyūbey's help, and in the meantime...

...does Haru want to go on a movie date with him? Probably they shouldn't be going out every night on the regular but like they are in fact going out every night on the regular due to the superheroing and while they're at it they might as well do other stuff, too.

Why shouldn't they go out every night on the regular? Haru will go see a movie with him, sure.

Cosy stay at home dates are also fun! Probably. He hasn't tried them before. Also someday Haru will let himself get carried away and then they'll have a lot more reason to want to spend time at home down, boy. Movie date, for now.

What's playing?

There's a romcom and an action flick and a Marvel movie and a drama and a coming-of-age movie and a horror movie and a supernatural thriller.

"I'm not usually a huge movie person so I don't have most of the Marvel movie context, and also it's weird to me when obvious Americans are dubbed into Japanese... I guess I might have a new appreciation for action and thrillers these days."

"We might be able to find somewhere that has them subbed," he says uncertainly. "I'm kind of a wimp when it comes to horror and thrillers but that's not necessarily a 'no', that's an 'I will scream like a little girl and cling to you throughout' warning."

"Oh no, I'm fine with something else I was just trying to not stare at the offerings and be so noncommittal that it would sound like I didn't wanna go at all."

"I think it would be pretty romantic for me to cower in fear and hide behind my brave, powerful boyfriend, and I can keep the screaming to a minimum. So your pick of action versus thriller, then."

"Okay." Supernatural thriller it is. Let it not be said that Haru doesn't always have his superheroic mission on the brain.

Yutaka was not, actually, playing it up when he said he's a wimp. He manages to only scream twice, but he gasps and covers his eyes and hides his face in Haru's neck more times than that, and absolutely needs to have his hand held throughout.

Haru is happy to hold his hand and stroke his hair and hug him through the scary parts.

Being pathetic and clingy and uncool under controlled circumstances in expected ways can be pretty cool, and he does enjoy being soothed by Haru like that, so even though by the end of the movie he has made a fool of himself a double digit number of times he still feels pretty good about the idea overall.