Officially, in the report from the mission, Nanami wrote that, in addition to finding shockingly low levels of curse activity, a barrier had been discovered covering the city of Kamihama with an unknown purpose. He decided to mention the existence of witches, but as he still didn't fully understand them, they came out sounding more like a different kind of curse in his description instead. This was enough to warrant additional investigation with Nanami being placed more or less in charge of it given his grade and the fact that previous sorcerers hadn't noticed anything before him. Regarding magical girls, he didn't even know where to begin with that, or if to at all. Really, he would have rather kept it all secret but if he wanted to justify his investigations he'd had to give them something.

As for the other half of his mission…

In giving Yachiyo, and by extension the other girls of Mitazuki Villa permission to contact him when they felt they needed an adult, he'd expected the occasional call or question regarding their difficult lives and roles. What he hadn't expected however was for what would follow.

It had begun with a single phone call a few days later, and not from Yachiyo. He'd seen the number and didn't recognize it. By his usual instinct, he had gone to hang up before remembering he'd pretty much given free reign to a bunch of teens to call him whenever, so he'd answered it.

"Umm…Mr. Nanami?" The voice was quiet and meek with an uncertainness that made him think if he answered wrong she would immediately hang up. So he kept his voice gentle.

"Yes that's me, is this one of the girls from the villa?" he asked, trying to see if he could place the voice to a name.

"Oh, good, this is Sana Futaba, we didn't really talk but..Yachiyo said it was okay if I called you if we're having trouble, and I don't know how to bring this up to anyone else…"

Futaba….oh, the invisible girl. On looking into records on his return to Jujutsu High he'd found she was technically a missing person though her parents didn't stress much care about finding her to the police. They had only reported her missing recently. In a sense, based on her wish, they'd never find her, "That's fine, I offered my number since I believe you girls should have an adult to reach out to, what do you need?"

She went quiet for a moment before she replied, "My parents, well, my mom and step dad, and my step brothers, have been sending me very cruel messages over text and voicemail. They've been telling me I'm ruining their reputation by running away….but it's not like they even noticed I was gone until recently…It's been over a year since I made my wish…"

Sana sounded stressed, and Nanami sighed, it pissed him off. Parents were supposed to take care of their children otherwise they shouldn't have them, he was still pissed off at his sister for having practically ignored Yachiyo, but at the same time at least she wasn't sending threats or insults to her daughter. "Have they always been like this?"

"Mhmm…" she said quietly, "Ever since my dad died, they were always praising my step-brothers but…they said I barely even counted as part of the Futaba family… When I made my wish I thought that…it would stop but now the only difference is that they can't see me, but they still have my phone number and now it's kinda hard for me to change it…"

"What can I do to help?" he asked plainly, it was a complicated request given the circumstances.

"Really I was just hoping for someone to talk to about it. I just feel so stuck right now. It's not like they ever wanted me while I was there, and I hate that they only want me back to improve their image." Sana said and it sounded like she was nearing the edge of crying. She was 14 if he remembered correctly, so she'd been living on the streets for a year before coming to the villa?

He took a second, then thought, it really wouldn't be the most outlandish thing a sorcerer had used their position for, "Sana, would you be comfortable completely cutting yourself off from them?" Yet it also wasn't unheard of.

"Huh? I mean, that's pretty much already the case right?"

Nanami nodded to himself, "I'll work on getting you put on my phone plan, that way we can get you a new number so that they can't keep harassing you. I've heard some family plans also have tracking so we can prevent that in case they think of it. That way you can still have access to your phone to contact others and for emergencies." and honestly what ever teens did on their phone nowadays, "Did you leave anything at their house?"

Sana didn't answer and when she did she sounded surprised but not against the idea, "I didn't exactly have much, they mostly focussed on my stepbrothers, but there are a few things I would want back I just never knew how I'd go about getting it without freaking them out.."

"Understood, give me their address and I can collect whatever's in your room. Jujutsu Sorcerers operate under a kind of pseudo government agency so in cases when we recruit we can usually pull a few strings.

"You'd really do all that for me Mr. Nanami?" she asked.

"You girls need all the help you can get, and you can't afford to let something else drag you down when you already have so much on your shoulders. After this, it's not as if they'll be able to go hunting for you. You should be able to focus on what you need to." he assured her, pulling out a notepad and taking down her former address, "Lastly, do you mind if I chew them out for how they've treated you?"

He could hear a faint sniffle from the other side of the line before she spoke up again, "Hah, that actually sounds nice."

The Futaba household was on the wealthier side of Kamihama, and in driving up to the house it was clear that the family had a substantial amount of money to their name. It wasn't really a house, it was far closer to a mansion complete with an iron gate at the front which was thankfully already opened as it was still relatively early in the evening. Good, he didn't want to spend any more time than necessary at the place.

The door to the home was ornate and gave off the appearance of wealth. When he pressed the doorbell, it played an over the top melody that seemed to last far too long.

With their wealth, he expected to be greeted by a butler or a maid, so he was almost surprised to see instead a blonde woman answering the door.

"Futaba Residence, how can I help you?" she asked with one of the fakest smiles he'd ever seen.

"I'm here for your daughter, Sana Futaba."

"I'm afraid…she's not here." the woman said with a look of irritation at her daughter's name, "We don't even have a daughter." She was evidently drunk.

"I know she's not." he said bluntly, he wasn't the type to throw his weight around as a Jujutsu Sorcerer, but as they were technically government employees it gave him some leeway to act, "You've neglected her, not to mention neglected to report her disappearance for nearly a year."

The woman looked at him dumbfoundedly, as if she could very well catch flies in that mouth of hers. She was saved from her surprise by a man who came up beside her. He was clearly trying to look intimidating but Nanami knew his type. "Why are you here? Is she dead?" Disgusting. Petty. Probably a middle management at some much larger company that thought because he had the money he was someone important.

"No. She's doing much better now. I've officially filed the paperwork to take her into custody, I've simply brought it here for you to sign." he explained, doing his best to not start yelling at them, his fists clenched at his side. "I'm also here to collect her things. Anything that's in her bedroom."

Nanami passed the paperwork to the two, and the man snatched it away from him. He only really glanced at it briefly but nodded his head, "You're interrupting our dinner. Her bedroom is down the hall."

He had no interest in dwelling in the presence of such vile people for any longer than he needed to and so brushed past the two and into the house. It was fancy on the inside, but felt empty even as he passed the dining room where two boys sat eating.

The house was full of pictures, they covered the walls, sat on tables, and dressers. All of them showing a happy family. But, if the pictures were all you knew, it was clear that the Futaba's felt they didn't have a daughter at all.

Sana's bedroom was at the very end of the hall, by its very nature isolated from the rest of the house with a tray full of rotten food sitting in front of her door. He pushed it away with his foot and entered her room. There was a thin layer of dust all over her belongings, with the room looking like what he expected a young teens bedroom to look like. Sana had only asked for a few things, but he began working on gathering everything. She really didn't have a lot to begin with after all. She had a few cat plushies while much of her bedding and linen was green in color.

He spent a couple hours collecting her things, and once he had the last of her things packed into his car, he went back inside to where the family was watching TV on the couch together, the paperwork signed and ready on a table near the door.

"You people are horrible parents. To drive away your own daughter and to not realize she was gone for an entire year, you should be going to jail for child neglect." he said, causing the parents and their sons to look at him in shock. "I hope your sons don't learn from that and abandon you when you need them most."

Really, he'd wanted to go into it more with them, to express more of his disgust and rage he felt but he couldn't bring himself to with their two sons in ear shot. Yes, the boys had been a part of Sana's abuse, but at the same time children learned from their parents both the good and the bad, and it was perhaps not too late for them to change for the better some day. Maybe losing their daughter would be enough of a kick in the ass to get these parents to better consider the way their actions affected people. Though he doubted it given how eager they had been to sign away their parental rights.

He drove back to the villa, taking a bit longer than taking a train would have taken, but he made it there eventually. Felicia ran out to greet him ahead of Sana and Yachiyo as the blonde girl began helping him pull boxes down.

"And they just let her go! Just like that?" the blonde girl huffed even as she helped bring in the few boxes regardless of Sana's insistence she could do it herself. "Some parents huh."

"Maybe not right now Felicia." Yachiyo said as she went to help as well.

Nanami had been worried that being so easily dropped by her parents would have been at least somewhat traumatizing for the teen, but instead, other than fretting over Felicia bringing her things to her room, she seemed relieved. The second Nanami was done helping and had opened his mouth to say his goodbyes, she hopped over and ran over to him. Grabbing him in a hug that surprised him.

"Thank you Mr. Nanami." she said into his shirt.

"Wait, does that mean Mr. Nanami is your dad now?" Felicia asked.

"I umm, I don't know…." Sana said, breaking the hug after a moment.

"She has a father, just one who isn't with us anymore and I wouldn't want to take that away." he said, patting her head.

"Then why not uncle?" Yachiyo said with a bit of a teasing smile.

Sana perked up, "I like that, Uncle Nanami."

He sighed, "Alright then."

Tsuruno was the next girl to reach out to him, albeit with a much less dire situation in comparison to Sana's.

"Hey Nanamin! Do you know anything about Calculus?" A few of the girls, it seemed, had heard Itadori refer to him as 'Nanamin' which he'd picked up from Gojo. It was a bit annoying but there were far worse nicknames.

"Yes, but it's been a few years." he admitted, sitting in one of the offices at Jujutsu High. He'd managed to find a few books on anomalies that didn't necessarily seem to be curses, but they fell mostly into urban legends and rumors with nothing vaguely resembling magical girls in them.

"Yes, awesome! Think you can swing by Kamihama? If you come by BanBanzai I can get you a great deal! Both for helping me out and for helping Sana out too!"

Nanami sat the book he'd been reading down, he wondered if the information did exist, but was being suppressed, "I was scheduled to visit the city in a few days, will that work for you?"

"My test is in another week so that should be plenty of time!"

Banbanzai was located in the Sankyō ward of Kamihama City and was a quaint Chinese Restaurant though it seemed to be lacking quite a bit in customers. It was empty to the point that he wondered for a moment if he was even in the right place as he slid open the door.

Instead of Tsuruno, he first saw Felicia who was sitting at one of the few chairs in the restaurant absolutely destroying a bowl of noodles, "Hmmmello Namin!" she said as she waved at him.

Well, he was at the right place.

Tsuruno came sliding in a moment later, "Oh Nanamin!" She smiled as she entered from the kitchen. "Ready to eat?"

"I thought you wanted to work on your calculus?"

"We can do that after we eat, after all it's better to work when your brain is fed. Right Felicia?" Tsuruno grinned.

Felicia nodded her head enthusiastically as she slurped the last of the broth from her meal.

"Well…alright then." he said, sitting at one of the several empty booths. While Tsuruno ran back to the kitchen, he took a second to look around the restaurant. It was clean, with a largely red and yellow theme to it. There were multiple flyers along the walls and he looked at one in surprise, "Magical Girl Special?"

"Oh yeah, her dad doesn't know what magical girls are but she likes to give special discounts to them. There's like, a whole bunch of magical girls in the city too, but only a few come by; they're really missing out."

"Isn't that a risk?" He asked, noticing a newer looking flier that read 'Sorcerer Special'. That could prove a problem.

"Who's gonna believe it right?" Felicia laughed as she collected her own dishes, quite a few more than Nanami had expected to see. "Oh, yeah, that was put up today. She feels you guys deserve some recognition, and again who'd believe it?"

He leaned back in the booth, yeah that was true, and the odds of another sorcerer coming by were extremely slim. Though, with how his research into the city was going it was only a matter of time before more sorcerers were sent to investigate. He wouldn't hate the help, but did worry over where it could lead. Wait, had he even ordered something?

His question was answered as Tsuruno and a clumsy looking man who seemed to be her father came out with a comical amount of bowls filled with noodles and other foods. He looked at the massive amount of food, then back up at the two Yuis.

"My daughter said you offered to help her with her calculus, she's really been struggling so another adult who can help is welcome." the man said with a bow. "I'll admit, I've never met the family members of any of her friends."

"Huh that's true." Tsuruno realized, "Welp, anyways Mr. Nanami, eat up!" she beamed as her father returned to the kitchen, motioning for Felicia to follow.

"Damn I gotta wash my dishes now don't I? Eh, enjoy Nanamin!" Felicia said as she followed him.

Nanami looked at the massive amount of food uncertainly, especially at trying to work out where he should start. He hated wasting food, which meant he would have to eat as much as he could here, then live with the leftovers for a few days. The food looked good at least, though he wasn't the biggest fan of noodles. "Thank you." he nodded politely to her.

"I call it the Sorcerer Special! Since magical girls get a special meal, I figured that if you brought anyone you know here they should get the same treatment. We're all on the same side right?"

"I'm not sure how my bosses would feel about that. Though I know Itadori and Gojo would probably be thrilled." he smiled as he ate. The food all had a good taste to it and it wasn't often he had Chinese food personally.

"Yeah you should bring them next time! So how's your investigation into all this curse stuff been going? Kamihama is like, super weird or something right?"

He nodded in between mouthfuls, "A city of this size should have a lot more cursed energy, everything gives off cursed energy really. So for a city to lack so greatly in it, is an anomaly."

Tsuruno sat incorrectly in the chair in front of him, sitting with the back of the chair in front of her. "Kamihama does have a bunch of witches. A lot more than other cities."

"You said that they feed on negativity correct? Similar to curses?" he wasn't even done with one bowl and he was quickly feeling full.

"Yeah, they can manipulate people to do bad things, or, they can just out right absorb people, to where they're never seen again." Tsuruno crossed her arms in front of her, "Hey, what's it called when two predators have the same prey, so one survives when the other doesn't?"

He could see exactly what she was getting at, "Competition Predation." He said as he finally finished one of his many bowls, "Do you think the witches are absorbing so much negativity that it's preventing curses from forming?"

"Yeah exactly! Before there were so many witches I fought way more of those curse things, a few even scarier than witches. Plus there are also these Uwasa things and Yachiyo thinks they work the same way!"

"Uwasa," Nanami asked as he paused his eating, "Rumors?"

"They're a new thing, we don't know much about them but they form from rumors we think. They're pretty strong too! Kinda like witches. But they also feel different than witches." Tsuruno explained. "I've been a magical girl for a couple years now and they're definitely new. But they only show up sometimes, it's been a while since we've seen one."

Another factor to consider. "Then your theory may be right, but hard to verify. I'll have to ask Yachiyo to see what else she knows." He had to give in, there was far too much food, "Also, if you're ready to start your calculus, I'm alright to take the rest home. Actually Itadori would probably appreciate some too since he couldn't come with me today."

Tsuruno nodded, "Sounds good but first, what score would you give it?" she said, leaning forward in her chair towards him.

"Score?"

"Yeah, like 1 to 100! How good was the food?"

He had never really given much thought to thinking something like that over when it came to food, it wasn't like he left reviews at restaurants himself. It wasn't the great meal of his life but it certainly was far from the worst, "60."

"60 points huh? That sounds about right." she smiled.

"Then let's get to work."

From what he could gather, Tsuruno's trouble with calculus may have been due to her trouble focusing for long enough on the topics to really stick in her mind. With everything on her plate, being easily distracted was understandable. Even with his help she struggled quite a bit.

"Awwww, why do I even need to know this?" she grumbled placing her head on the table where they had set up her notes and worksheets.

"You probably don't." he admitted, "Depending on the career you want it might be entirely useless. But the point is to give you a well rounded starting point."

"Career huh? Honestly, aside from the restaurant I really didn't have any plans for one." she said. "Even then I wasn't planning on working much."

"Due to being a magical girl?"

"Eh partially. I always wanted to win the lottery, that way I could just enjoy the rest of my life right? So when Kyubey told me I could wish for that I was so excited!" she sighed before she continued, "But uhh, since I wasn't an adult I really wasn't the one who got the money, my parents did. And my mom ran off with my grandmother with all of it. So, I guess I'll just stay with Banbanzai and inherit it someday like my dad did."

Did all these girls have some sort of awful parent?

"I'm sorry to hear that, but don't feel like you have to limit your options. There's much more you can do even while being a magical girl."

She looked up at him from where she had her chin placed on the table, "You think so?"

"You're still young, you'll figure it out. I went to school for Jujutsu Sorcery, and while I would eventually return to it, I was a stockbroker for a while."

"Seriously? Why would you want such a boring job?"

"It was stable. But the point I'm trying to make is that you have plenty of time to decide or even change your mind. And if that leads back here then that's fine too."

Tsuruno sat up straight abruptly and nodded, "You're right sensei! Thank you! Hah, maybe I could even get into sorcery, at least that pays right?"

Where had the sensei come from?

"She put you as her emergency contact and we couldn't find any other guardians on file. Could you please come pick her up?" The caller on the other end was a cop which had frankly startled him when he'd first received the call. It was regarding Felicia who had gotten into a 'territory scuffle'. While the police assumed it was gang related he knew that magical girls could sometimes be protective of the areas where they hunted witches. According to Yachiyo, with the increased witches it had been less enforced, but Felicia was more of a special case.

"I'll be there soon." Nanami replied before hanging up, "Itadori, I'm heading to Kamihama, one of the girls got into trouble."

They'd just finished their own mission. The curse was semi-second grade so easily handled by the two of them.

Itadori perked up at the idea, "Hell yeah! I've been wanting to go back over there. And it was Felicia, wasn't it, I bet it was her."

"Unfortunately you are correct."

"They started it…For some reason a lot of magical girls really don't like Iroha or Yachiyo…" Felicia muttered as he walked with her and Itadori from the police station towards the train station.

"What? Why?" Yuji asked.

"They feel like Iroha is an outsider since she's from a different city, and they think Yachiyo is stuck up. But what the hell do they know? Besides, plenty of magical girls have been coming to the city since everywhere else is so lacking in witches." Felicia explained.

"Are witches that important to fight? Like if there aren't any in a city then you should be good to just relax and all." Yuji asked as they stopped to wait for the train that would get them to the Shinsei ward and Mitazuki Villa.

"We need the grief seeds they drop or we can't use our magic. They're kinda like how we recharge."

That would make the hostility between magical girls make more sense if they were such a limited resource. "So girls are coming to the city because they can no longer find them elsewhere?"

"Bingo!" Felicia nodded, "There's plenty of witches now, but some girls are just rude."

"You still need to avoid getting in trouble where others can see you." Nanami sighed, "You're lucky you haven't been picked up yet, especially given that you were previously living on the streets. If you draw too much attention to yourself you'll end up in juvenile detention."

"Geez, how harsh is that?" Felicia frowned as she puffed out her cheeks, "But yeah I know you're right. It just pisses me off when people talk crap about my friends."

"Yeah I can get that." Yuji nodded, "Doesn't really happen at Jujutsu High but when I was in middle school there were plenty of assholes who got on me and my friends' asses, some teachers too."

As the train pulled in, Nanami let them go in first, "Please in the future just be more cautious. I may have more influence than the average sorcerer, but it has its limits."

"I got it." Felicia said, hopping onto the train followed shortly by Itadori.

"Oh actually to talk about something else, have you guys unlocked any more characters in Smash?" Yuji asked with a grin.

Felicia seemed eager to chat about the game herself. "Yeah since me and Sana are home most of the time we've gotten most of the roster! When you drop me off maybe you can play a few rounds. Yachiyo even bought some of the DLC for us!"

Nanami mostly tuned them out after that as they talked about characters he only had passing knowledge of. Their chatter was better than Felicia still being upset over her altercation.

There were so many new terms that were coming up it felt like being a student again trying to wrap his head around them all. Witches, magical girls, grief seeds, Uwasa. A whole other world of monsters that he still struggled to get to the bottom of. He still needed to ask Yachiyo about the Uwasa, and maybe that way he would have understood if it was more something from his world or hers.

He didn't really tune back in again until Felicia abruptly stopped talking and looked around the train. Looking around it himself, it was like all the other passengers had frozen in place.

Felicia glanced around with a more intense look in her eyes, "There's a familiar nearby." she warned, immediately transforming.

Yuji jumped to his feet as he looked around, fists already clenched, "Then let's fight it…but uhh, what's a familiar?"

"You two were in a witch's labyrinth right? Familiars are some of the minions that spawn. They're weaker than witches, but leave them alone and the little bastards will become a witch themselves. You two might actually have a shot, since it's separated from its witch it should be easier to handle."

Nanami got to his feet. The other passengers of the train had a dazed look on their faces, as if they were in some sort of trance. He felt less hesitant about pulling his blade out as he scanned the area. A weaker enemy made for a learning opportunity, it would be beneficial to face it and see if he could understand it better. "Where is it?"

Felicia held out her hand telling them to wait before pushing past several passengers and towards a break in the crowd where they seemed to be avoiding a piece of the train in the middle. Focused on the spot, she slammed the bottom of the hammer on the ground.

In a brief glimmer of light, a doorway resembling the Victorian style opened in the spot she'd hit. A doorway that just happened to be on the floor, big enough to fall through.

"Wanna come Nanamin, Yuji?" she smiled back at them.

"I wasn't about to let you go alone." Nanami said as he stepped and looked at the unusual doorway. "Itadori, you stay."

"Oh come on! Even Felicia said I could-"

"Felicia, these things can cause people to harm each other or themselves correct?"

"Oh, yeah." she nodded.

"Then Itadori, I want you to keep an eye on them, it also would be a good idea to see if the engineer has been affected or not." Nanami said, "The last thing we need is for this to crash. If the engineer is compromised, find an emergency break."

Yuji nodded his head, "Yeah I can do that! But next time you're taking me to fight okay?"

"Alright." Nanami said.

Felicia nodded her head, jumping down into the doorway as Nanami followed her a moment later.

The space that was created by the familiar was far smaller than the witch's labyrinth and whether the labyrinth was large or this space small he was unsure. Instead of a wide seemingly endless world, it seemed to just make itself one large room the size of an auditorium. Said space had a floor that felt like walking on a bed, with hundreds of stuffed animals varying in size from miniature to massive filling the area. As nothing was immediately attacking him, he took a minute to focus on the energy he felt around him as it was essentially the same as the witch's, albeit weaker.

He held his blade out, it was an odd feeling to engage with his own cursed energy here. It felt as though the very essence of his cursed energy was at odds with that of the familiar's labyrinth. Nanami tried to remember if it felt like this when he faced one of those smaller enemies in the witch's labyrinth, but he was so caught in the moment at the time that he must have missed it if that was the case.

"Incoming!" Felicia warned as some of the stuffed animals began to move towards him at impressive speed, as if being thrown by a massive toddler.

Nanami faced the smaller minions head on as did Felicia. He focussed, and swung his blade through several of them that came at him. He destroyed them, but it felt like he had a jolt of static electricity go through his arm when he did. It was odd, and he took a brief second to recover as he switched hands and stretched the one he was using out. His attack felt different. But again he couldn't dwell on it as more of the creatures attacked him.

Overall they were less intense than his previous experience and he and Felicia made progress clearing a path through them. Being able to act was something, but Felicia moved faster, having an easier time running and jumping on the plush ground than he did.

"You're doing pretty good Nanamin! You're a lot faster than I thought you were." she grinned, jumping up and bashing through a group of the minions that had tried to clump together. "Most familiars don't have guards, so we might be catching this one just in time!"

Nanami did his best to use the momentum of the floor's plushness to bounce himself a bit higher even if he felt a bit ridiculous doing so. Actually, from an outside perspective, he imagined a grown man fighting through an army of teddy bears and stuffed rabbits was ridiculous itself.

He would have to avoid telling Gojo too many specifics, he could only imagine the teasing.

At the other end of the space they'd fought through, sat a bed the size of a child's with pink, lacey blankets and a single stuffed bear in the center. The plush looked innocuous, but he could feel a vile aura coming from it. For now it seemed that the smaller enemies had withdrawn, and he didn't like that.

"Is that it?" he asked as Felicia got closer to it, he did as well.

"Yeah, that's it alright. Looks like I was right, this thing is getting pretty close to becoming a witch, that's probably why it grabbed all those suckers on the train." Felicia said as she held her hammer out.

"Might wanna stay back old man, no clue what this thing will do." she said before she swung down, stopped by the massive claw that came from the stuffed bear, blocking her hammer. "Wanna fight more do ya? Well fine then!"

In an instant, the bear had grown quite a bit larger, around 4 or five times his height if he were to guess.. It gave a roar as its body manifested, looking like a patchwork quilt that had been forgotten outside. It had massive claws and a spiraled horn on its head with colorful eyes.

"Here we go!" Felicia yelled, jumping up and slamming her hammer on its head, making contact this time.

As the familiar was stunned, Nanami jumped ahead towards it, making contact with his attack and sending it collapsing to the ground leaking stuffing. Again, he felt the weird electric jolt when he did make contact but he only held his grip on his blade tighter, yanking his tie off and wrapping it around his other hand to give him a second point of attack.

While Felicia would focus on getting high in the air to swing her weapon down with as much force as possible, Nanami kept lower, capitalizing on the moments it was stunned.

Despite swinging around a massive hammer, Felicia was quick on her feet and dexterous with her swings. The familiar seemed to realize its situation, and the space began fading away a bit when they weren't on top of it.

"Nanami!" Felicia yelled as she jumped behind him holding out her hammer like a baseball batter would. Nanami only had to look at the situation for a moment before the plan clicked in his head as he jumped at the hammer face, allowing her to launch him at the Familiar.

With a final swing, he cut its head off, the familiar popped in a blast of confetti. And a moment later they were back on the train.

Nanami put his blade back in his suit before anyone could see, and extended his fingers in and out as he tried to work out why his hits, while more effective this time, had had such an unusual feeling. Even now he could feel almost a buzzing under his skin.

"Great, you made it back!" Yuji grinned, and Nanami, as well as the gradually awakening passengers, looked at the teen in confusion. Confusion as Yuji was holding a couple windows closed with his hands as several people were trying to pry them open before they came back to. One of his shoes was pressed against the chest of a man who looked ready to beat him with a briefcase.

After a few confused apologies and overall everyone just trying to ignore the oddity, the three were able to sit back down normally.

"Did anyone get hurt?"

"Nah I was on top of it, I checked on the engineer guy and he seemed fine, kinda like he was on autopilot. All the other carts were fine too. Those guys didn't start going for the window until just before you guys got out. So how'd it go?"

"Nanamin does know what he's doing. I'll be honest, I didn't know how much I believed the whole sorcerer thing but damn!" Felicia grinned.
"Yeah he's a pretty cool teacher." Yuji smiled. "Wait, but does that mean you got to fight those things?"

"Yes." Nanami said, "I was able to do damage, and even destroy it, but it felt, off." he sighed, "Another thing to work out."

"I mean, we still crushed the familiar." Felicia said, "You shoulda seen me Yuji. I actually have a rep for being able to one shot some witches. Though, at least witches drop grief seeds."

"Hey, that's pretty cool. Makes me wonder how I'd do in a fight with you."

"You'd be crushed." she laughed.

"Which is why you will not be doing that." Nanami stated.

"You're no fun." Felicia pouted, "Besides, what I really want to crush are witches. It's what I wished for." she said that last part more quietly.

"Why would you wish for that? If you were a magical girl, wouldn't you already be fighting them?" Yuji asked.

"I wasn't really thinking when I made the wish, I was, it just wasn't great." she frowned, "But since I did, I have to be the best at it right? It's why I was a mercenary for other magical girls who didn't want to fight."

"A mercenary, that sounds cool."

"You got paid to fight witches?" Nanami asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, 1,000 yen per witch! But Yachiyo made me stop when I moved in."

Nanami and Yuji looked at her in surprise, "Only 1,000 yen ... .to fight one of those things?" Yuji asked in disbelief.

"I gotta eat right?"

She could use a lesson in economics.

Something mostly sweet before things start getting more intense. I just think Nanami incidentally becoming a girl dad is hilarious