[h2]Tachibana Hibiki[/h2]

With the world no longer at threat from ancient priestesses, mad scientists, alchemists, or primordial goddesses (hopefully for good, but at least for the time being), Hibiki was free to resume her ordinary life. Disaster relief instead of fighting, still doing poorly at school, and Miku. Living with Miku, eating with Miku, still sharing a bed as they had done for years now…

It was embarrassing how long it had taken for Hibiki to acknowledge her own feelings and the rather extreme situation required to [i]force[/i] this acknowledgement (and the less said about how it may have become worldwide knowledge, the better), but after all that had happened and the number of times she had nearly lost Miku for [i]good[/i], it was just a relief for things between them to finally be in the open. Not that it changed any of the big things between them, they couldn't possibly be closer there.

The little things, though? Finding somewhere out of the way where they weren't going to be interrupted for a little while? [i]That[/i] was a new thing for the pair of them, even if Chris would be annoyed when they met back up later (but getting annoyed like that was just her way of showing affection, Hibiki was sure). Even if they'd gotten things quite a bit out of order in other regards, like this, it was an ordinary teenaged romance.

Of course, with all of her attention firmly on Miku and [i]not[/i] her surroundings, Hibiki was very reliant on her girlfriend to notice anyone coming. After all, she couldn't see anything except Miku and the wall behind her, and the brunette did [i]everything[/i] with the maximum enthusiasm that she could muster – combat, crane games, making out…

So it was, of course, the green-eyed girl that actually noticed the extreme change in their surroundings, pounding at Hibiki's shoulder until the other girl caught on.

And reacted about as well as could be expected in the situation, with at least two random men having shown up first and gotten a rather good chance to look: immediately make space and try to distract from the massive blush on her face.

"Wh-What's going on? Where is this!?" It [i]looked[/i] like a nice plaza, but… it wasn't Japan, as far as Hibiki could tell, and she wasn't the best at geography, "Miku, did you see what happened?"

"No, I closed my eyes for a moment and we were here."

… well, maybe one of these other people would notice?