"I am not going to withdraw my promise of protection but I am going to also threaten you if you keep flirting rather than playing."

"Can't play much if the team captain's too busy with the threats."

"Not wrong! Let's start with the drills. First drill of the day: everyone throw balls at the newbie."

"Oi! That's bullying and violence and I will not stand for it!"

"Catch!"

He catches, again without looking.

"Bro are you like an anime boy or something, what the fuck was that, how did you not break anything?"

"In this house we do not question the blessings our ancestors rain upon us at our time of need, we merely throw balls at him. Now let's get started. Iwasaki I know you seem to be gifted with the reflexes of a cat and the pain tolerance of a Catholic but I will insist that you actually wear the glove for this bit. I'm liable otherwise."

"Yes, sir."

"Let's hit 'im, boys."

After he is done being pelted with balls does he want to hunt witches? Or maybe do another diplomatic overture, they should be going through those steadily.

Diplomatic overture! He likes those! He can contribute to them!

They can go to Minato next maybe.

Kyubey gets them a meeting time with the guy from Minato but then he cancels on them for no given reason.

...well that's frustrating. Is anyone else available for today?

The ones in Chiyoda say they will speak to you the day after tomorrow.

Okay. Thank you for all your help, Kyūbey.

No problem!

Then he supposes he can do the less fun part of being a magical boy, i.e. witch fighting. Unless it's a fun witch again.

It's a boring witch.

The Minato guy is short with them and looks like he's seen a dozen Witchzillas come and go, though presumably he hasn't. He thanks them perfunctorily for the information and shoos them.

The Chiyoda magicals are apparently a married couple, her in pink-and-black and him in white-and-grey. They appear to take the warning seriously. "The rain starts when again?" asks Mrs. Minorikawa.

"Saturday a week from now."

"Okay, that gives us enough time to get out of town, thank you."

"—I'm sorry?"

"- to avoid the witch. You're planning to... try again? Which is very brave, of course, but it sounds a bit out of our usual adventurousness level..." Her husband nods.