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[color=firebrick][b]"It's Suki's favorite month, or is that February? I guess it's all the same for us since magical boys don't exist."[/b][/color][/center]

It appeared Evil Eye wasn't holding back on pointed questions today. [color=firebrick][b]"Can we handle a giga miseria at night? The last one may have seemed like it went down almost too easily, but it wasn't that long ago that fighting the same one at night felt impossible,"[/b][/color] she reminded them. [color=firebrick][b]"I'm not inherently opposed to taking multiple trips out, but doing so might attract more attention, from Rei, the GEMs, and if Ashbringer's watching, her too. It's also more likely someone or something will follow us home if we keep coming back after every trip."[/b][/color]

Suddenly, one of the other Club girls began to speak. It was Tsubomi—at least, as far as Evil Eye knew—but that was about to change. It had felt like the crisis surrounding Tsubomi's desire to 'kill Tsubomi' had been resolved, but rather suddenly, Evil Eye was forced to contend with the reality that there was no real reason why Tsubomi should suddenly just 'be okay.' Ever since Michi's betrayal, she'd been thinking of herself, Haruna, the three Shuukos, Suki, and even Roche, but the small part of Michi's stage play that she'd managed to catch before she'd run to find Rei had slipped through the gaps in her mind like a fever dream.

[color=00aeef][i]She said that she wants to destroy everyone who was included in her challenge. It sounded like she only cared about the people who were there when it happened, but I don't think that's right...[/i][/color]

[sup][sup][sup][color=dimgray]STOP TALKING.[/color][/sup][/sup][/sup]
Barely louder than a whisper, but clear as day, Haruna heard it: a desire even Evil Eye couldn't quite manage to suppress.

Suika felt something from Evil Eye, too: a twinge of shame when she began speaking, and after her mentioning of Ashbringer's challenge, a sudden surge of anxiety that came in an instant and abated slowly over the next several minutes.

The others could only notice that Evil Eye chose not to engage with the part of Suika's commentary that waxed philosophical. If Evil Eye had a wheelhouse, that was it, and she either missed it, or chose to ignore it. [color=firebrick][b]"I wouldn't worry about getting stranded because of a broken down van. Even with no cell signal, two of us can fly out and get help if we really need it, and as magical girls, we really [i]shouldn't[/i] be so helpless. I mean, I [i]can[/i] get two vans, but who's going to drive the other one?"[/b][/color] she asked, leaving the fact that she was pretty sure she was the only one with a license unsaid. [color=firebrick][b]"I wouldn't get pulled over on my bike because the normies can't see it when I'm riding it transformed, but I'm not sure that relying on magic obfuscation would work with a van."[/b][/color]