"I'm not gonna crash—" Pause. "Maybe do wait anyway though."

"Okay."

"Haah..."

"How far away is the fancy sushi place?"

"Ten to fifteen minutes from here, it's in Chuo near Ginza."

"...probably I should not be nervous about going to Chuo now just because it has an irresponsible magical custodian when I was fine with it before."

"I am not going to let Ogura ruin Harutaka, that'd be adding insult to injury."

"Most likely she's not monitoring the comings and goings of restaurants in her territory anyway."

"If there was any restaurant she did it'd be this one though," he mutters.

"Again kind of worried I'm underdressed. Ren talks about getting me a nice kimono when I'm twenty but I don't think we can actually afford it and I'm not twenty yet."

He makes a kind of face and swallows dryly. "You'll look gorgeous in it."

"I think that's at least part of the idea, yes."

"But it is completely insane for you to ever worry about the price of anything when you're—when I'm yours."

"...you're not planning to cut your dad off at some point in there?"

"...probably. But—not this month. But I don't mean that. I can duplicate stuff. There is no need for us to have material scarcity. We hadn't quite figured out how to use these powers to end material scarcity entirely but..."

"Oh, when Ren's waxing particularly fantastical she wants it custom, but that's her, I'd wear a pirated kimono."

"...no, you're definitely wearing a custom one. We can use the lack of material scarcity to generate money but I'm not about to let my Haru—uh."

"If you insist," Haru giggles. "She wants swans on it."

"A-anyway, maybe you'll convince me otherwise but I don't actually feel any guilt about mooching off the dude who is going to fuel my next twenty years of therapy and on reflection I'm not sure I see an actual argument against it."

"Oh, I don't much object to you getting money out of the connection as long as the connection exists, it just seems like maybe it would be better if it... did not. Exist."

"I'm also not totally certain how easy it would be to make it not exist, I'm his only child. He's not going to take me wanting to cut him off entirely sitting down."

"Well, we can think about it, I agree that it's not a priority for this month if you won't feel terribly stifled by not being gratuitously out to everyone at school."

"If he tries to enroll me in Kaiyo I could just stop going to school altogether. But if I'm thinking of doing that then I suppose I might as well not be out."

"Exactly, yeah. I don't mind being discreet. We do have telepathy even though it's not, like, the ideal medium for dating-y stuff."

"Well I do mind it, I want to show off that I have the best boyfrie—argh."