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Rumor Spreader: Have you heard? Have you?! I’m talking about the Rumor of the Bus In Reverse!
There it is, the thing, the fucker, jumping around in the middle of the main street, acknowledged by no one but heard by everyone. Neither the Pink Kyubey nor Sana can be seen by humans, so you witness the walking insult from behind a parking lot’s wire mesh wall. You want to punch it badly. But Sana is your arms and fists, and those hands are only for drawing picture books for kids.
Rumor Spreader: Plant a stick on an empty street, stick a plank with the word: ‘LOVE!’ on it, make a heart with four fingers- and a red bus will come from the opposite side! In reverse! Get in, get in, but, oh no! The fare is your heart!
λ Sana: Kaname-san… Could this be…!
You can’t believe it either; clearly, you didn’t squint your eyes hard enough the first time, even after you went full asian mode.
Rumor Spreader: It will take you to your one true love, true, and If it says ‘yes!’ then everyone can come out to celebrate! But if it says ‘no!’, then- oh, no! Your heart stays on the bus! But if there are no more seats, then- heartless people will wander the streets! It’s the hottest rumor among the old nee-sans in Fukushima Ward! Evol!!
But when it teleports right in front of Sana, when their noses bump, when the Invisible Girl has the other’s wide grin almost biting her, there’s no more doubt. Sana reels back.
λ Sana: Um, are you… a Magical Girl?
Rumor Spreader: YES!!!!!!!
…no, no more doubt anymore. It’s wearing those stupid pants, it's wearing that stupid hood, and yet, a Puella Magi is what stands before your pink avatar. At least this one has arms.
λ Sana: Um, hi! I’m a Magical Girl too!
Rumor Spreader: COOL!!!!!!
And then the Puella Magi is somewhere else. You… you don’t know. This unthinkable abomination, this atrocity inflicted upon you by none other than the Devil itself, should be eradicated- but that is when the weight of your choice is felt in full. While Nagisa would have spent less than two nano-desu seconds to obliterate the invader with soap bubbles, Sana is well on her road to being one of the gentlest Magical Girls ever seen after the other one left. You shake your head in dismay; it’s over. Now that Sana knows that this Rumour Spreader, the new Uwasa-san is a Magical Girl, there’s no way in ten thousand hells she’s laying a single digit on her. You doomed yourself to relying on the power of love and friendship right from the very start.
λ Sana: Kaname-san… what should I do?
By the tone of her voice, Sana may still be a little bit peeved off- but no time for that, really. Uwasa-san laid the new Rumor straight to your face, so there are a few tracks to choose from now.
>Chase the new Uwasa-san and try to get answers from it.
>Follow the Rumor of the Bus in Reverse. Uwasas were dangerous back then.
