"That's exactly it," Chise responded, with a small nod. The brightly-smiling Hina nodded as well.

"... Wait wait, you [i]do[/i] go to our school!?" Hina asked, suddenly, rounding on Hanako as she did. It seemed as if Himeko's mild teasing had managed to convince her that Hanako had been disingenuous about her age the previous night. Not that it took a lot of effort to convince her of such a thing, and at least Chise seemed more dubious about the matter, instead giving her friend a bit of a look before focusing on the task at hand.

Chise had planned ahead considerably more, for that matter. If Himeko [i]was[/i] a magical girl... hadn't Hanako offered an alliance? In that case, couldn't she be expected to either stay back, or perhaps join in, if they ended up fighting Himeko? The miko was an older girl, and probably knew her powers pretty well(if she was a magical girl) which made her pretty dangerous. Of course, that relied on her getting her powers earlier in life and not recently, but... well... there was a lot of moving parts, okay? The point was Chise had a plan, and it was a plan she felt pretty confident in!

But they first had to determine if Himeko was a magical girl in the first place, and either get somewhere secluded or stall until it got darker out.

The black-haired little girl glanced wistfully at the sweets shop. ... Maybe getting somewhere more secluded could wait.

"First..." she paused for a moment, then got a piece of paper out of her backpack. On it, in quite neat scripture, was a set of questions. She had to make it convincing, after all!

"... What was it like growing up as a miko?"

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