5I'd like to give major thanks toward redlerred7 for giving me valuable feedback on how to improve this chapter as well as my story in general. This chapter is edited following his/her advice, and I think it's much improved from my original chapter.
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No matter how you slice it, Nobita Nobi is a normal boy in his early teen years. He may have taken part in space adventures, explored lost civilizations around the world, fought against an army of robot and an army of demons who wants to conquer Earth, and even played a part in establishing the tribe of pre-historic man which eventually becomes modern Japanese people.
But the thing is, those adventures all happened in his own mind when he developed a mental illness during the summer four years ago. He's pretty sure in real life, magic doesn't exist. Heck, it is the point of his adventure when he fought the army of demons: He uses Doraemon's [What if phone booth] to go into a parallel world where magic is well accepted instead of science.
Right now he is floating, or standing on some invisible platform within some outer space environment as countless stars shine brilliantly all over him. It is breathtakingly beautiful yet at the same time eerily dreadful at the same time. Nobita can't quite put his finger on why does it feel so wrong, or what feels so wrong. All he can think about is something like this shouldn't happen in real life.
The initial shock of almost being beheaded by a paper blade finally passes for Nobita. All he feels at the moment is bewilderment. He suppose he should do something, such as screaming at the top of his lung like he does a few moment earlier or start running away from those origami figures. However, the boy's body seem to actively plot against his brain's command to make some movement.
A loud clank sound draws Nobita's attention towards Jaiko as she blocks another sword strike aims at Nobita. She quickly skews the origami figure with her off hand spear and turn it into shred of snow flake sized paper bits while disappear into said snow storm. It is violent yet at the same time beautiful.
Jaiko's fighting style is very... fluid for the lack of a better term. She constantly moves and spins around on her feet while she waves around both of her arms and her spears, utilizing both of her weapon with a maximum efficiency. This almost feel like a dream, see Jaiko spins around those monsters while waving a dance of death with her twin spears - With Shizuka's face no less.
At this very moment Nobita is pretty convinced he is actually seeing a real life version of Magical Girl right in front of his eyes. That, or Jaiko turns out to be a closet case cosplayer who is also a martial art master in duel wielding short spears.
Second possibility doesn't explain how she's fighting an army of origami figures.
I'm currently in some kind of an alternate dimension where there's nothing but a night sky with stars... And populated by origami figures. This is the craziest thing I... okay, maybe not as crazy as an entire civilization hiding in the cloud but still up there. Come to think of it... something like this fits into one of my dream adventure. 'Nobita and the Origami Killer Magical Girl', how's that for a title?
Stop thinking stupid thoughts and get your act together Nobita! Start looking at this from a scientific perspective. What's the most likely explanation?
I know! I must still be dreaming like all my other adventures and my real body is safely resting in the classroom waiting for the mock test to end. Well, this felt a bit longer than twenty minutes but so does all my other dream adventures. It felt like I was stuck in fourth grade for years and years like a limbo that I can't grow out of. When in the real world I was only hospitalized for one month...Which means I can do whatever I want!
"Self-denial is the most dangerous attitude when you are stuck in a Labyrinth, just so you know."
Are we endangered of being attacked by a swarm of sentient tin-plated killer robot who want to overthrow humanity and said Labyrinth threatens to collapse any moment?
"When you are being that specific... no."
Than we should be okay, plus Jaiko is handling the situation pretty well. She's not even suppose to be one of the main cast of my dream adventure team.
"If you insist. Just to remind you, you can make a wish with me any time you want and help her out."
Now that Nobita accepts this is just another one of his dream adventure, he begins to consider the possibility of actually being a Magical Boy. Is it like that time where he become a magical sword man in the dream world or take over the role of the hero from a fantasy movie he watched? That can actually be pretty fun as long as he doesn't get turn into a pile of ash or a stone statue by the big baddie again. Nobita just hope a frilly dress isn't a unisex dress code for both magical girl and magical boys. He's pretty sure Dekisugi would look better in a dress instead of himself.
He looks at Jaiko again, who is currently in the process of finishing off the last five origami figures. "Are you going to scientifically explain this phenomenon as well? Actually… I dare you to scientifically explain how 'MAGICAL' girls exist."
The Incubator's scarlet beady little eyes meets Nobita's chocolate orbs behind his round glasses as if he's silently telling Nobita: Challenge accepted. Nobita raises an eyebrow at this and briefly consider picking the stuff animal like Incubator up and stretch his cheek outward again.
"Well… if you want to get technical about everything. Human seems to have this notion science and magic are opposite things which should contradict with one another's existence. But unless you are talking about narration magic where things happen 'because reasons', magic is just a different way which potential energy converted into kinetic energy where different effects take place. It follows its own set of rule just like human's modern science such as physics and chemistry. It is regarded as 'supernatural' or 'magical' because those principles seems to contradict with laws of physics or chemistry on a superficial level. As a result, you humans tend to dismiss them as mere superstitions when in truth it could be that principle of 'magic' is simply principles of physics and it's practical use which you human haven't discovered yet. Why, it isn't that long ago when majority of human consider what becomes modern science as practice of black magic…"
"You know what? A winner is you, forget I asked…" Nobita let out a sigh as he shakes his head at the wall of exposition text the Incubator is currently spewing out of its mind with a perpetual smile on its face. The Incubator probably looks smug, if that's not the only expression his face seems to have. The truth is Kyubey lost him around the part where he talks something about potential and kinetic energy…
"If you insist; I don't understand why human have such a hard time making up their mind though…" The Incubator tilts his head in a way one may describes as curious. A little distance away from the idling 14 years old boy and the Incubator, Jaiko just finishes putting down the last of the origami figures.
"You should really leave this Witch Barrier Nobita; you might get hurt when I fight it." Nobita's frown deepens. He knows Jaiko is trying to keep him safe. Yet, the implementation he would be useless in this kind of situation makes him feel sick no matter how true it is in practice. Besides, why should he chooses to leave when he knows he's not in any real danger?
"Actually Hana, Nobita here has the potential to be a magical boy. So I'd suggest keep him around with you. If you get into a pitch, Nobita here can form a contract with me, become a magical boy and help you in the fight." Kyubey walks up to Jaiko and jumps on her shoulder while look at Nobita.
"…Can somebody explain to me what is going on first? I mean… it's not like I go on world saving adventures on a regular basis or anything." Except in my own head, Nobita adds inside his mind.
"You have an interesting mind Nobita, I wonder if there's a tangential connection with your potential as a magical boy and your wild imagination."
I told you to stop reading my mind!
"Apologies... I got curious." The Incubator tilts his head once again, Nobita is not sure if the white fur ball taken his warning to heart or not.
"But the point is… what the hell is going on? The last time I seen you Jaiko you were still a normal girl… And now all of sudden you start to run around with fuzzy deadpan McGee and fighting Yokai for your life?"
"Witches."
"What?" Nobita look at Kyubey with a sharp stare. The lateral once again meet Nobita's chocolate orb with his own beady scarlet eyes.
"The ones magical girls fight are not called Yokai, but witches. You see Nobita, all magical girls and magical boys are born from a wish they make with my kind. They fight the entity that's called Witch who is born through curses. If they don't fight Witches, the world will be filled with despair as they…" Kyubey looks like he's going to keep going with the exposition, but suddenly Nobita claps his hands together and interrupt his monologue.
"Stop, stop! Who come up with those names anyway?"
"Well… they are just called Magical Girls and Witches… is there something wrong with the name?" Kyubey tilts his head in a curious way and regard at Nobita, who is frowning harder and harder.
"Ok, maybe you don't know human history that well… but you see Kyubey. There was a period when human society actually had this thingy called 'Witch Hunt' where some douche bag murder, hang and burn innocent people – mostly women – who hold contradictory belief to the government and church. And since you said yourself most of your clients are girls, is it such a smart idea to associate their career objective which can be seen as offensive to women in general?"
"I'm not offended." Jaiko raises her hand skyward at the point Nobita brings up.
Nobita gives Jaiko a blank look before faces the Incubator and continues. "The point is… if you are going to enlist underage boys and girls to fight monsters, can't you come up with a less possibly offensive name for the monsters? Wouldn't you say the last thing you want is to piss off your clients and make them start a revolt?"
"Hmm… I suppose you do have a point." The Incubator almost looks stunned for a moment before scratching its own cheek with its front paw. But he obviously doesn't expect Nobita will continue.
"And while we are on the topic… is it even legal to form a 'contract' with underage girls and boys? I know you probably don't care about human legislations because magic. But what if you end up getting one of your clients into jail? Your client would ends up with a criminal record and a crappy future and then spread words to stop other possible client from forming contracts with you… There's a thing called word of mouth you know, and crappy customer service is one sure way to bring the business you run into complete ruin…"
Nobita continues his verbal bombardment on Kyubey for another twenty minutes or so. Jaiko starts to let out yawn of boredom but doesn't try to leave those two behind since it looks like Kyubey is seriously listening to Nobita's lecture.
"…err…cannot compute…" The Incubator starts to wobble his head sideways and back before it suddenly takes a nose dive off Jaiko's shoulder and face plant into the invisible floor below. Its back bends forward, till the point its butt touches its head.
"Are you ok, Kyubey?" Jaiko bends down and start poking the fluffy cat rabbit fox with her finger. But Kyubey just lies perfectly still like he really is a stuff animal. "I think you fried Kyubey's brain, Nobita…"
When she looks up, she realizes Nobita is having a smug smile on his face and holding his fingers in a victory sign. "…you did that on purpose."
"What gave me away?" Nobita bends over and picks up Kyubey by eagle clawing his head. "Let's go, we have a witch to take down don't we?"
"Is it a good idea for Nobita to follow me though? With Kyubey gone you won't be able to contract and become a magical boy if there's danger."
"I'm sure he'll recover when the plot requires a Deus Ex Machina." Nobita waves his right hand which still having Kyubey's head in an eagle claw. The white cat rabbit fox's limb body dangles and wobbles all over the place like a ragdoll as Nobita flings his arm.
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Nobita has to admit, when Kyubey mentioned the name 'Witch' he has a pretty defined imagination of what the enemy Jaiko would face look like: Something along the line of Margaret Hamilton with a lot of heavy makeup, pointy hat, black cloth and maybe a broomstick...
Needless to say he is a little surprised after Jaiko point out the upside down origami fortune teller rotating and shifting in the sky like a satellite is the Witch she's going to fight. Nobita can vaguely see a dark silhouette that looks like a small girl praying, or making origami figures on top of the white fortune teller.
"That's what a Witch look like?" Nobita raises an eyebrow as he looks back and forth between the moving Witch and Jaiko. "Interesting design choice… I surprised myself."
Jaiko blinks her eyes twice while cocking her head sideways, her yellow irises gives off Nobita a 'I have no clue what you just said' sense. "It's not important, I was expecting the Witches to look like something else."
"They all look different. But if you were thinking something like the wicked witch from the wizard of OZ… no, they never look like a human." Jaiko takes her twin spear out once again and goes into a fighting stance. "I heard Mangetsu-San say she encountered some humanoid Witches before, but they don't look like real human. They usually look completely... wrong, like some kind of abstract painting or twisted puppet vaguely shaped like a human."
Nobita feels like a hand is grabbing onto his stomach from the inside after hearing Jaiko's statement. He doesn't know why, but this whole aspect of how Witches look doesn't sit well with him. Trying to change the subject, he starts to shake Kyubey in front of his eyes like he's a sock puppet.
"You know Kyubey… You might want to consider renaming those thing 'Angels'… Because they look like they escaped from Evangelion's design book. Just saying…" Nobita holds up Kyubey's face to his eye level. The white cat rabbit fox doesn't respond in anyway. "Still out huh? Guess the situation isn't too dire yet."
"This is for Iyo-Chan!" Jaiko brings the tail ends of her twin spears together and gives them a twist. She forms the two short twin spears into a 3 meter long lance. She then charges at the Witch and launches herself into the sky using the lance as a pole. Jaiko spins around in the sky like a gymnast, and holds her lance out. The decoration mane flips forward and covers the spear tip making it look like a huge paint brush instead of a lance. "Divine Brush… Erase!"
Before Jaiko's brush can touch the Witch, it's origami buddy start to rapidly folding as if the silhouette is trying to tell a fortune. A seal of light appears right in front of Jaiko's brush and stop it in mid air. Electric sparks start to dance and shots off in every direction between their struggles. Eventually, Jaiko loses the struggle as she's repelled back into the invisible floor like a cannon ball.
"I'm sure this will hurt like hell…" Nobita let out a sigh as he opens up his arms to catch Jaiko. She hits him with the force of a minivan in the stomach as they both rolls on the ground for about ten meters before skits to a stop.
What the hell... that really did hurt like a bitch! It feels like my whole body has been liquidized into jelly after all my joints get busted. It never hurts like this in my dream even that time I gets turned to ash, or that time I was slowly turning into a stone stature. Sure, I cried like a baby because I fear what may happen after I turn into stone, but it never hurts.
Could it be... this is actual real instead of a dream adventure in my head? But that is absurd... monsters, and magical girls can't exist in real world. They are just modern make belief... Something that happens in anime or manga, not real life.
Aren't they?
Unable to move a single muscle, Nobita only manage to look at the rotating Origami Witch in the sky. It continue to rotate without a care in the world, as if looking down on both Jaiko and himself with a condescending sneer. It may look something out of his dream adventure, but this is certainly not a dream or a nightmare for that matter.
This is really happening.
Nobita can see Jaiko runs up beside him. Her lips rapidly open and close like she's saying something to him. It comes out as a series of buzzing and ringing sound in Nobita's head.
Nobita whimpers as he tries to move. For all his effort, he only manages to twitch around uncontrolled from the pain of being Jaiko's human safety pad. He tries to give Jaiko a reassuring grin, but the pain makes it look like his mouth is trying to tear his own face apart.
For a moment, Jaiko's normally happy face turns into one of panic. The Magical Girl quickly takes out an oval shaped gem which shines a light yellow and holds it to Nobita's face. It glows in a soothing light and washes over Nobita like a sea of warm current. The glasses wearing boy find his pain recedes as he slowly regain the control of his body again. Jaiko's face look reassured as Nobita slowly rises up. "Healing magic."
Nobita tries to get to his feet like Jaiko, but his body still feels sore all over so he only manages to sit up. He looks up again, and realize the Origami fortune teller like witch is rapidly folding itself in and out once again.
"That Witch is doing something." Nobita looks up and realize the Origami Witch is folding its fortune teller once again. When it stops, a ray of concentrated light shoots out of its center and start to move towards Jaiko and Nobita. In the moment, all the second year middle school student can think about is how a skyscraper disappears into a pile of rubble under the giant alien robot Zanda Claus' laser beam. He doesn't need to actually get hit by that thing to realize it'll ruin his day even more. "We need to run!"
Easier said than done of course, consider Nobita's muscles still aches all over. The middle school boy can practically hear all his joint screaming back at him as he puts them under the stress. A strong need for survival pushes him forward, ignoring the pain shooting through his body as he quickly exceed his top speed when he's stealing bases. It almost feel nostalgic, like all the times he tries to outrun his 'friends' who want to give him a savage beating. Unlike all the times where he gets chased by Gian and Suneo, a black eye and bleeding nose is the last of his problem.
Good thing he's always been a fast runner when his own hide depends on it.
Jaiko is also running besides Nobita with no apparent difficulties. Still, Nobita can feel his back grow warmer and warmer till the heat stings through his thick jacket. At this point the boy realizes Origami Witch's death ray is gaining distance on them, and they can't outrun the threat.
Nobita turns toward Jaiko. "Let's split up and I'll act crazy to draw that Witch's attention, if that light follows me you can take the chance to jump up again and thwack its ass!"
Not a fool proof plan of course, but it's the best Nobita can improvise under such circumstance.
"No! I will protect Nobita!" A look of determination suddenly appears on Jaiko's face as she sharply turns spins around. She holds her giant brush lance with both hand and point it to her left before swing it right. "Divine Brush… Barrier!"
Nobita turns around as well. He sees a white screen of paint seem to appear as Jaiko swipes her brush forming a wall of white color moment before the death ray hit. The ray of light clashes with Jaiko's screen of paint and intense white light shines in Nobita's vision. He feels like the liquid in his eyes is burning up as him quickly closes his eyes and bring both of his arms in front of his face. Even with his eyelid tightly shut and his arms around his face, he still feels the brightness in his eyes.
Strong force pushes Nobita back as he struggles to maintain his Stance. The glasses wearing boy fails to do so as he loses his balance and hit the floor with a loud thud. He lowers his arm down as both the force and light disappear and look ahead, finding Jaiko on her knees and panting heavily.
"Jaiko!" Nobita runs to the 5th grader's side and puts one of his hands on her shoulder. "Are you ok?"
"… That took a lot…" Jaiko lets out a heavy breath as the gem she uses earlier to heal Nobita falls onto the ground and bounces away. Nobita notices the gem look cloudy with a shade of black in it. "…facing a Witch by myself without Mangetsu-San and Iyo-Chan's help turns out to be a bad idea… haha…"
"Don't talk, let's get out of here and fight it another day…" Nobita yanks Jaiko's arm up over his shoulder, but before they can run away the witch charges up another ray of light and sends it their way.
Damn… coming to the shrine with Jaiko turns out to be one of the worst decisions I had… Now we'll both die… Have to think of something to at least get Jaiko to safety...
Nobita quickly goes over his options. He can stand in front of Jaiko to try and shield her with his body, or he can try to throw Jaiko away from the light as far as he can. But he can't imagine she'll survive in either case. Before he can do anything or the ray of light fries them both, a dark silhouette suddenly jumps in front of him.
"Refraction." The dark figure with deep voice seems to hold a stick in front of Nobita and Jaiko. The voice sounds funny to Nobita, like he's trying to conceal his identity. Before everyone a large glass lens appears in front of all three. When the Witch's light attack meets the lens, it is refracted into six different rays and shoots away harmlessly away from Nobita, Jaiko and their mysterious saviour.
But the mysterious stranger is not finished yet. He holds up his stick again like it's a magical wand, and now Nobita realize it's a well decorated walking cane. "Compass Imprison."
A giant compass suddenly appears right on top of the Witch. It quickly draws a circle around the Origami Witch and a screen of light column descends from the compass, completely enclose the Witch inside its light.
"… #$%^&*!" The Witch makes some strange otherworldly sound as it tries to ram out of the light prison. All it gets is its origami body burning up by the light.
The figures turns around to face Nobita and him finally manage to have a good look on this mysterious stranger. He wears a set of black tuxedo with white undershirt and a black top hat like one of those European gentlemen. In addition, he also has a black cape, white gloves and a white domino mask on his face.
The short version, he looks like a Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer for Sailor Moon franchise. The only thing that ruins this perfect replication is his golden crested walking cane in place of a red rose, and his shoulder long hair. "You two alright...?"
Nobita wonders if this is what Kyubey means when the rabbit cat offers to turn him into a Magical Boy.
Their saviour bends over and picks up Jaiko's healing magic gem and takes a black gem out of his pocket. He takes the black gem to Jaiko's yellow gem and draws away its black shade before handing it back to Jaiko. "You need to take better care of your Soul Gem. That's the most important thing to a magical girl."
"Thank you, Tuxedo-San." Nobita takes a look at Jaiko's face and realize she's blushing. To his surprise, he feels like his face burning up like when he sees Shizuka happily chatting with Dekisugi back in the old days. That is an absurd thing; consider he doesn't really like Jaiko in the same way as Shizuka. Is it because she looks so much like Shizuka now he's reminded of all the time she shows her affection toward Dekisugi?
"You are welcome young lady, we magical boy and magical girl need to work together. What do you say we bring this Witch down together?" Tuxedo Mask gives Jaiko a warm and gentleman-y smile before turning to face the Witch, who finally manage to shatter his compass prison by folding its origami fortune teller and emit a huge force wave.
"You bet!" Jaiko lets out a happy laughter as she gives the Magical Boy a nod. She jumps up once again using her spear as a pole and takes a quick swipe at the witch. The Origami Witch conjures up its barrier to stop Jaiko's attack as she screech pass its paper like body. The tuxedo wearing Magical Boy follows right after Jaiko as he holds the crane in the head and swipe its long body like a stick. The Witch leaves a loud shriek as the Magical Boy leaves a scar on its body.
"More durable than I thought." The Magical Boy lets out a soft murmur as he looks up, seeing the Witch folding itself once again. A burst of multiple beam shots out from its center towards different directions mainly aiming at the Magical Boy and Magical Girl duo. He quickly back flip out the way for harm but Jaiko doesn't have the luxury as she's still airborne.
The tuxedo wearing Magical boy immediately slide his hand down the body of his walking cane and point it up like a magical wand toward Jaiko mid flip. "Refraction."
A glass lens appear right in front of Jaiko once again and deflect the Witch's attack into multiple directions. "Young lady, you focus on the offence. I'll shield you from the Witch's attack with my lens."
"You got it!" A cocky smile appears on Jaiko's face as she leaps up to attack the Witch once again. The tuxedo wearing Magical Boy conjures up his glass lens up to create mid-air stepping stone as well as cover for the agile Magical Girl.
While the battle is going on, Nobita can't help but feel a dreading sense of uselessness. It's like grade school baseball all over again when his 'friends' only bring him along to fill the mandatory quota for players but don't let him do anything important. Of course, his 'friends' always put the blame of losing a game on him and reward him a savage beating.
Only this time it feels even worse. Consider Jaiko is fighting for their lives but he can only stand around like an idiot and not do anything helpful.
There's got to be something I can do to help them… but I have no magic and I can only throw something at the witch to try and distract it… damn, all I have is my cloth on my back, my cell phone and my music player. I don't want to throw those two since breaking them will earn me a nagging marathon from mom and I really don't want to experience one of those again… there's got to be something I can use… I got it!
Nobita suddenly notices the limb form of the still not recovered Kyubey lying around and he runs towards the white fluff ball. He quickly picks it up by its head and goes into a baseball pitcher's stance.
I always wanted to try Gian's burning pitch… here goes nothing…
"Hey, Asshat!" Nobita suddenly shouts at the Witch at the top of his lung. "Yippee ki-yay MOTHER FUCKER!"
He throws the Incubator with all his strength. The white fluffy cat rabbit fox darts at the Origami Witch with the force of a small missile…
And splats on the Witch's AT Field… " #$%^&*!"
The Witch suddenly realize it takes the wrong priority in using its strongest defence against Nobita's projectile attack as Jaiko brings down her divine brush's erase attack. It tilts its body, using the Origami Fortune Teller to take Jaiko's attack head on and half of its fortune teller is instantly erased from existence. Still, it's better than letting Jaiko's strongest attack hit her main body on top…
Except Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer is currently diving toward her silhouette like body and bringing his walking cane down on its head? " #$%^&*!"
"This is good night." Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer mutters under his breath as the golden top of his walking cane comes down on the Witch's head like Thor's hammer. It shatters what remains of the Witch and it slowly disintegrates like ash blowing in the wind.
As the Origami Witch starts to disappear from Nobita's view, he realizes the world around him is shattering. Before he can say something Jaiko runs to him, grabs him and drags him away till they hit grass on their feet. "I made it… before the barrier collapse…"
"That looks dangerous…" Nobita turns back and sees the presumable Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer emerges out right after them. For a second Nobita almost regret this guy isn't buried in that collapsing barrier or something. He immediately shakes his head at this kind of ill will at someone who just help saved his life.
Such disgusting thoughts… how can I have it towards an innocent, human being who is just trying to be helpful in a life and death situation? I really should slap myself for it…
"Why would you feel there is a need to cause yourself harm? Shouldn't self-preservation be the first priority of any sentient being? I really don't understand human." Nobita immediately turns his head and sees the white fluffy cat rabbit fox comes around the corner of the shrine.
"Kyubey? But I thought you got completely splattered on that Witch's force field…"
"I got better." Nobita gives the cute creature an intense stare, unable to tell if he's being sarcastic or serious with his everlasting expressionless face. "I should thank you for throwing me against the Witch Nobita. Switching to this new body turns out to be the fastest way to solve my central process melt down problem. But don't think you can easily disable me again using the same tactic next time…"
"Oh well… worth a shot. I'll just troll you harder next time." Nobita gives Kyubey a shrug as he folds his arms behind the back of his head. He is feeling much better now that he has some fun banter with the Incubator.
"Alright, your Soul Gem is now clean again." Nobita turns around to look at Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer; who is handing back Jaiko her healing magic gem. "But to the victor goes the spoil. I got the last hit on the Witch, so her Grief Seed belongs to me."
"Ok, that's only fair Tuxedo-San. Thank you for cleaning my Soul Gem." Jaiko nods to Tuxedo Mask Cosplayer as she tries to grab his arm but fails. "What's your name?"
"You are very welcome young lady, and… Tuxedo-San is fine with me." The Cosplayer turns to look at Jaiko, tips his hat before jumping into the night sky and glide away like a giant bat with his cape.
"Show off…" Nobita shakes his head at the Cosplayer before looking at Jaiko, who has a sly smile on her face. "What?"
"Someone's jealous~" Jaiko says with a sing song voice. "But don't worry about Tuxedo-San Nobita. He's cool, but I already have my eyes set on Mote-San."
"That manga weirdy?" Jaiko's response to Nobita's remark is bringing her brush on his head. "Ouch…"
Nobita looks up at the moon which is now up in the sky. It turns out they spend a lots of time in the Witch's barrier. "It's getting late, I'll walk you home. I… won't feel right to make you go home alone at this hour."
"It's a little bit too late to change your image into a gentleman now you know…" Jaiko sticks out her tongue at Nobita, but then gives him a warm smile. "But thanks for the nice offer nonetheless, I'll take it."
"I'm glad the two of you are working things out… but Hana. Don't easily give your Soul Gem to someone else. It is the most important thing to a Magical Girl, or Magical Boy. You shouldn't even put it into your family's hand." Kyubey jumps on Jaiko's shoulder once again as he tilt his head. "And I advise you not to give another Grief Seed to that Tuxedo wearing Magical Boy in the future."
"Why is that Kyubey? Tuxedo-San is nice to me, help me fight the Witch and even clean my Soul Gem with his own Grief Seed. Shouldn't we Magical Girls and Magical Boys work together?"
"Yes… if he is a Magical Boy contracted by me. But the truth is; he is contracted by a rogue Incubator who use Witch's Grief Seed for his own end instead of dispose it properly. It can… cause lots of problem."
Nobita shudders at Kyubey's cryptic message as he walks besides Jaiko towards her home while taking out his cell phone to call home like he initially planned before he gets entangled in this Witch Hunt mess. Still, he can't help but feel he's forgetting something important.