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"Y-yes. That's correct. Thank you, Yamanaka-san."

"No problem. It's sort of like if movie hypnosis worked, the way I know how to do it, you cool with that?"

"Yeah do whatever you need."

"Cool, get comfy, I dunno how long he wants with you."

He sits and gets comfy and looks—more cheerful than Haru's seen him at any time he wasn't pretending in public.

Haru looks like he might throw up.

Yamanaka glances between them, sighs, and presses her thumb to Yutaka's forehead. It leaves a glowing indigo thumbprint. "Y'want privacy?" she asks.

...Haru's going to let Yutaka answer first.

"I'll do whatever Haru wants me to do," he says, looking at Haru with half-lidded eyes and a goofy grin on his face.

aaaaaaaugh why is this the way that things are. "Thank you," Haru tells Yamanaka.

She goes into the next room.

"Is my current understanding of your subjective history with me and relating to magic incomplete in any way other than the level of fine detail you've been providing?"

He blinks and furrows his eyebrows. "I don't think so but I don't know what your understanding is completely so I can't say for sure... You're so pretty..."

oh help.

"Have you misrepresented your intentions, capabilities, or motives to me, since the last time I died at the end of March."

"—no! Why would I do that? I don't suck anymore. I probably still suck but not in any ways I know of, I just sucked a lot for a long time... But I wouldn't lie to you. Not anymore. It was so bad. I'm sorry Haru. I love you so much... I shouldn't have done any of that."

"Under what circumstances might your - intentions and approach - change, again?"

"...oh. Oh that'd be awful... If I got mind controlled? If," he swallows, "it was necessary to save Tokyo? Oh please don't let that happen that'd be horrible, I love you so much..."

"What might cause you to believe that it was necessary to save Tokyo, short of mind control?"

"If... you were... Walpurgisnacht...?"

"...but nothing along the lines of what you were doing toward the end of the last loop where you were putting off confessing because you needed to save Tokyo first?"

"...I've already told you all of the horrible stuff I did. I couldn't dig my grave deeper if I tried, without lying, and I promised never to lie to you ever again..."

"...this time. I mean to be including future possible loops in the scope of my questions."

"—you mean hiding it from you? No! That'd still be lying! Just because I'm not saying anything false doesn't make it not lying!"

Haru swallows, and then he calls, "You can undo it now."

Yamanaka, guitar slung over her shoulder, comes out of the next room and poofs the indigo spot on Yutaka's head.