Haru writes that down and then resumes attending to his lunch. Where is Yutaka even sitting...

He's sitting with a group that seems like it's mostly composed of people from the AV club. They seem to be having a friendly and somewhat animated chat.

Huh. He's... a good multitasker? Or he's just had that conversation three times now.

After school Haru shuffles laboriously across the ice out to Ren's car, and falls.

No he doesn't. Here's Yutaka appearing out of fucking nowhere to catch him, trying to look chill about it and almost succeeding.

"- yeep!"

He pulls Haru to his feet gently then takes half a step back and folds his arms behind his back. "Are you hurt?"

"- no, I'm fine -" Did you rewind that, did I fall and then -

—no! ...I stopped time and ran here. I'm not going to rewind, I don't want you to miss any memories. 

"Would you like help walking the rest of the way?"

"...sure."

So he offers Haru his arm and walks with him the rest of the way.

I am not going to miss the dyspraxia.

I'm not going to miss it either. I spent the entire day anxious that you might fall and hurt yourself again. ...sorry, I don't know if that's okay—

...how would that not be okay, I'm not in the business of declaring thoughtcrimes.

I mean the—I guess not.

The what?

The—like—that's not acting very normal. If I'm thinking about you all the time.

No one at this school knows you, I think you have some slack in what your... new normal... is.

Yeah. I've been using it. I don't know what a Yutaka who isn't a slut and isn't pursuing or dating Haru is like, so I'm making one up.

WHY is Haru into this. This is an objectively embarrassing thing to be into.

Okay he knows why it's because he has an ego the size of the fucking Sun. That's why. It's still embarrassing.

—sorry I know I'm a bit too much. I'll—try to dial it down, but I know I'll fail.

It's, uh, it's fine? I -

- do you need to go witch hunting or something or can we talk more this afternoon -

I—should go hunt a witch, my gem is pretty dark, but I can be done in ten minutes sidereal.

I'm not in so much of a hurry you should use extra magic to not keep me waiting, just - I want to hear more about everything I don't remember, you gave me a summary but normally I would also remember details.

Okay. If I don't rush it it'll still be half an hour at most, maybe an hour if the witch I killed tomorrow isn't around today and I need to find another one, but it's most magically efficient for me to spend most of a witch fight doing setup in stopped time and relatively little time letting the setup pay off, so.

Okay. You know where to find me.

He gets into Ren's car.