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[ And here comes Tsuruno, bounding over as ever. She dresses simply most days and that remains the fact today, simply a skirt and a blouse. ]

Thanks for waiting! I didn't miss anything exciting, did I?

[ He smiles and points to the poster in the window. ]

It seems like we missed a sale on buy one, get one free window curtains. [ How is that even possible when there's no need for money around here, oh well. ] I hope you weren't looking to redecorate any time soon.

... Ahaha, nope. I'm still camped out on someone's floor.

[ Things Tsuruno says with a sheepish little smile and no actual regrets-- ]

[ hol' up ]

On someone's floor? Do you at least have a bed?

I mean, there's a bed there, but it felt like it belonged to whoever lived there first, so I haven't used it...

So you've been making do with just the floor instead? [ This is so sad. ] Would you like to buy a bed of your own then? We can keep an eye out for one while we're here.

[ Although....how are they going to move it..... ]

I've got a nice blanket nest going on for now!

[ Oh, boy. ]

So you don't have to worry about me.

[ The worrying will never end. ]

If you're sure… [ He doesn't sound convinced. ] But if anything comes up and you decide you'd like something different, let me know.

[ He'll break his old man back for her. ]

Shall we get going though?

Yes, sir! Let's go check it out!

[ That is so much better than breaking his old man back for her. Sir. Please don't do that. ]

[ ONWARDS! Amazing how exciting walking through the front doors of a mall can be when you simply treat it like an adventure.

Although.... ]

It's probably less exciting to go shopping with an old man than it is a group of your friends though, huh.

I wouldn't say that. I used to love going to get ingredients with my grandpa!

[ Definitely a grandpa's girl? Yeah.

... He really doesn't look that old, though?? ]

[ You're basically anime old when you look thirty anyway. ]

Is that so? You really are the type to get along with most people, aren't you.

[ A good quality to have! But he points them in the direction of a store on their right, filled with various knick knacks. ]

Were these friends of yours friends you met at school?

Mmmmm... not all of them. But a couple, I just met them at different times! And then two of them aren't from the same school, they're younger, but we wound up stumbling across them and now they live with my friend.

[ Normal Magical Girl things. ]

'Stumbling across them'?

[ What a phrase. Hopefully she doesn't mean it literally. ]

I mean our paths sorta crossed...

[ well, no one tripped or stumbled literally, but they might have jumped off a building. ]

[ THIS IS SO VAGUE. Don't teenage girls usually love talking about everything under the sun?? Maybe March is a special case....hm. ]

Well, it sounds like a fortuitous meeting either way. Isn't it strange how a single meeting can sometimes change the path of our lives forever?

Right?

[ It's hard to be specific with Magical Girls, let's not think too hard about it. ]

Do you have any friends like that?

I do. I actually met several good friends of mine after they came to my rescue when I was stranded in space.

[ Because that's normal. Don't worry about it too much though, let's go look at those shiny rocks sitting on the shelf in this store. ]

[ We can look at the shiny rocks!

But we can also look at Welt Yang!! ]

Stranded??

[ Maybe he shouldn't have phrased it like that.... ]

Only for a short while. Like I said, I was picked up fairly quickly by my would-be traveling companions, who very graciously let me stay with them.

[ So it's fine, it's fine! ]

I'm glad, but...

Being stranded out in space sounds like the worst.

It certainly wasn't the most pleasant experience I've ever had. [ He can agree with that much. ] But I did get the opportunity to meet several wonderful people because of it, so it wasn't all too bad.

Good!

[ He clearly did not run out of oxygen or freeze to death or some other terrible fate, so Tsuruno nods, relieved. ]

I always thought it'd be kind of amazing to go and be up in space... there's so much to see up there, right?

[ Thansk for touching on a topic he can wax poetic on. Were they here to find trinkets? Too bad, it's educational seminar time with Professor Yang. ]

It really is. You think you can grasp the scope of it from movies or still images captured by NASA [ do they have NASA in magical girl land ] but truly nothing can compare to the experience of being out in the stars and of realizing just how small you are in the face of how vast the universe is.

[ ....Yeah, okay. ]

[ Wow yes she's still in the real world, we just have a lot more girls who made bad choices-- ]

Yeah, I did kind of think I got it from NASA images, but... that's not the case, huh? That makes sense.

I definitely want to see it for myself and feel insignificant! [ Okay, Tsuruno. ]

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