"Ooh, so I can play it the way I did before? At just the edge of plausible deniability? I can work with that."

"If that's safe! Cue me as necessary."

"Understood. Oh won't that be fun, the whole school saw you get those ridiculous gifts and then the next day you arrive at school with this boy, who says we're dating, I just drove you here and helped you across the ice because I know about your dyspraxia..."

"Everyone knows about it, it's hardly privileged information, and assisting the disabled is a nice thing for anyone to do..."

"And we all know I'm such a nice guy, so helpful. Especially of gorgeous, ambitious, intelligent, unfailingly ethical boys."

"Well, if I say that it sounds like bragging."

"I suppose we can leave that last part unsaid. I love you."

"I love you too."

Yutaka doesn't actually think he can get five hundred kids to make a wish this loop, or even next loop, he'd need to dedicate several loops to chasing them down and figuring out how to best pitch them on this, and he'd need to do several kids a day to fit five hundred into a month. Like, he'd need almost twenty per day. Like. That's insane. So they should try other things first.

His first suggestion is that they try coordinating with the existing magicals harder. He didn't write down specific events he could predict in advance last loop because he didn't realise he might have the ability to have multiple loops, he thought that'd be their only chance, but he knows the magicals better, at least, and can use that knowledge to be a little bit more convincing. In particular, he can also (if necessary) extort some of them (politely) by mentioning that since he will be resetting the month unless they kill the witch anyway, there isn't any sense in which they won't die at the end of the month if that happens, so they might as well gamble on surviving by helping them fight the witch. Yutaka won't go straight for the throat on that one, he wants to try other means of persuasion, but this is Tokyo on the line and he's fine with making some enemies if that's what it takes.

He will also try acquiring some heavier artillery, since there isn't actually an upper limit on how much power regular tech can bring to bear, and they might want those rocket launchers he mentioned. This will be harder to pull off than just sticking some shotguns in his buckler but where there's a will.

If our plan is a big coordinated attack I should wish sooner than later, so I can do practice with anyone who'll show up to it.