[i]Why is she following me?[/i] Tokiko figured that most girls would have been scared off by her surly demeanor by now, but this one just kept getting more and more riled up. Even when Tokiko tried heading down an empty alleyway to throw her off, she kept on coming. The taller girl scrunched her face up in frustration. What would she have to say to get rid of this person?

"I'll call you whatever I damn well please, you tiny—"

She found herself stumbling forwards as something slammed into the wall behind her, hard enough to crack concrete. Her glasses clattered to the ground, and she yelped in alarm. [i]The heck was that? Did someone shoot at us?[/i]

Someone was talking, but it wasn't Hikari. Some other girl, talking about competition... [i]aha.[/i] The realization calmed Tokiko down, and as she snatched up her glasses and put them back on, her suspicions were confirmed. [i]A magical girl![/i] It made sense: there were likely to be scuffles ahead of the Hex Night itself, and as (in her own opinion) one of the stronger magical girls in the area, of course some of the competitors would want a chance to take Tokiko out early. Only question was how this one had found her...

Actually, wait. There was another question. "You!" Tokiko shouted at the girl with the spear. "You [i]cretin![/i] Don't you remember the rules?" She gestured vaguely in Hikari's direction. "She's a normie! A muggle! And we [i]do not[/i] fight in front of people without magic!" She groaned, and slapped her forehead with one palm. "Look, I get the eagerness. But if you wanted a piece of me, couldn't you have waited until I was alone?"

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