Chie woke up at 3am; holy fuck
Her room is an absolute mess and she hasn't checked her school email or mailbox in forever.
She does crypto and NFTs????? Thank god the school doesn't know.
She starts playing a new MMORPG game released by some High Court Students for the credit exchange system, Tales by Moonlight.

Yuzuku is extremely poor, as per usual.
There's a recently abandoned parking lot structure she plans to explore after school.

Ginga doesn't respond to his parents' email, but comments on the social media of an old friend.
At school, he checks for the abysmal attendence records of another student and confirms that at this rate, they will definitely have to repeat the year.
The treasurer, Theqin, briefs him about some past and upcoming student council activities, notably paperwork for the upcoming 3rd year trip to the Setia Museum of Cultural History. Additionally, freak accidents at the Torrel Academy of Art have resulted in the building closing its doors and the possibility of their students attending classes at other High Court Schools. The student council's secretary, Helio, hasn't woken up from her coma.

Don't talk to Sir Socksalot before he's had his morning tea.
Ichigo's dad is going to be doing a consultant in the afternoon as part of the family business, though he's recently retired from the main line of work.
He asks her to check out the parking lot near the Eastwood Apartment Complex and advises her to find companions before she leaves for school (she's late).

Marr, the vice-rep of class 3-2 asked Ginga to bring the field trip permission slip to Chie
After school, Ginga goes to the student council, Yuzuku does track and field, and Ichigo goes to work as they always do.
Yuzuku goes to explore and vlog the abandoned parking structure, which is partially caved in at the floor of the second story and surrounded by caution tape, with her extra bright pink camcorder, Kyoko. It was abandoned a few months ago when a high school student who lived in the area was injured. Reconstruction was attempted but the building kept collapsing.
Yuzuku tries to get to the second story by climbing the rubble, but predictably falls (lol). Kyoko dies. Yuzuku starts crying.
Ichigo gets there as her dad asked, transformed, and vaguely recognizes Yuzuku. She goes to bully.
8 dark hounds appear, which is typically more than Ichigo can handle on her own, but she goes to rescue Yuzuku anyway.
Yuzuku gets picked up and is so high off pain and crying that she thinks she's hallucinating (this is why Ichigo is always told not to interact with civilians).
In rescuing Yuzuku, Citha gets attacked instead, which has never happened before. They scream, and Yuzuku, Ginga, and Chie who are in the vicinity hear it and feel time stop around them. They make a contract in exchange for a wish:
Yuzuku wishes for her family to be economically stable
Ginga's wish is unrevealed
Chie wishes the next time Ginga visits her house he falls flat on his face so hard he starts crying
The four of them battle the dark hounds; Yuzuku is actively dying, Ginga is literally killing themself, Chie is kinda just there for a bit, and Ichigo is pulling all the weight (with Yuzuku giving some assistance).
Chie uses her new superspeed to get Yuzuku the fuck out of there and back ot her horribly messy room to administer bad first aid while Ichigo retrieves Citha and finishes the hounds off.
All of them go to the hospital and everyone finds out each other's identities except for Chie's.
Ginga and Yuzuku get treated (because universal healthcare is a thing) and Ichigo and Yuzuku leave.

The Ginga-Chie hospital interaction never happened...

As Ginga leaves the hospital, he runs into Yowane and Theqin, who were leaving from meeting Helio.
They had wanted to invite him but he left school in a hurry after student council activities.
He realized that in his dedication to academics and personal hobbies, he’s neglected personal relationships.
Although his fellow student council members respected him, they did not consider him a friend. They seem much closer with each other than with him.
Ginga and Yowane arrange to have letters written for Helio by their classmates.

Ginga goes home and emails his teacher about writing letters for Helio.
He texts Xavier vaguely about what's been going on with him recently.
Ginga promises to tell Xavier about the near-death experience he mentioned the next day.
Ginga opens up one of his notebooks, dates the day, and writes down everything that’s happened.
He goes to sleep at 7 pm :/

Yuzuku went home and her parents told her that her dad was accepted for a position that paid more than his current job.
They gave her a second-hand phone in good condition as a make-up birthday present and she named it Konoko.
After dinner, she stalked the others on NINES on a browser
Ichigo’s handle her name; 15-20k followers; follows influencers; posts fashion, photos of herself with the location tagged, and other things that make her look rich.
The one of Ginga she found was his public one for appearance's sake.
The account Chie gave Ginga that Yuzuku found her from one that only had a picture of a half-eaten sandwich 5 years ago and hasn’t been used in 5 years (@nekogamer23).
Yuzuku makes an account to text her (@bhostbunter72) but Chie doesn’t log into that account.
She searches @nekogamer23 on her browser and gets an old Rede account, and finds her more recent account (@chieballer). Yuzuku made an account (@eatgrasstouchass) and texts Chie there. Chie asked Yuzuku to bring over cucumber salad, so she ran over at like 8 pm.
They had the weirdest conversation ever about cat boys and bunny boys and then built a pizza box fort. They failed miserably the first time and broke their relationship, and then succeeded the second time and restored it.

Ichigo gets home and Sir Socks examines Citha and leaves.
Ichigo tells everyone about her day and her epic tales of battle.
Her dad tells her that he talked with Tourmaline and Mera, the magical girl in charge of the area around the school including the parking lot area, has been MIA for around 2 months.
Ichigo will have to be in charge of her area for a time.
He says it’s good she has teammates now to help her with her increased workload and demands she ask them to dinner the next day.
Ichigo goes to the store, buys cheap letter sets, goes home, and writes invitations to the others by colors since she doesn't know their names.
Ginga’s is especially ugly
Yuzuku’s has a crudely drawn well surrounded by hearts with the caption “you’re next.”
She sprays it with heaps of expensive perfume.

Ichigo goes to school the next day with her letters. She gives Yuzuku hers by kabedoning her in a dark secluded hallway. She doesn’t know who Chie is irl, so she drops Chie and Ginga’s letters on Ginga’s desk.
Chie came to school and was stalking Ichigo the whole day, so she was the distributing of letters and took the one meant for her
Yuzuku and Chie arranged to go to Ichigo’s house together; Chie brought an empty backpack to stash stuff in

They have pizza at Ichigo’s place, throughout which they get freaked out by Sir Socksalot being untouchable and speaking in their minds.
Yuzuku tries to steal silverware, gets caught, but they pity her so much that they just give her a set.
Chie reveals her wish for the contract; because it’s instantaneous, once the wish is granted then the contract is nullified but not annulled. Because she would be freed from her contractual obligations, she would become an unbound magical hero who could wield magic at no cost or consequence.
Ichigo’s contract is continuous, so she is bound to her contractual obligations
Shousuke explains how contracts work: fairies grant humans a wish in exchange for something in return, and when the contract is formed, the human gains a part of the fairy’s magic and becomes a magical hero
The Order of Imagination is an alliance of fairies who want to defeat evil creatures and contract magical heroes for that purpose
There’s a community formed by magical heroes contracted to fairies of the Order, including Ichigo’s parents and the PCs
The Yaketsuku family have been magical heroes for generations and bear the roles of facilitating communication, assigning territories and patrols, and teaching new magical heroes within the community
When Yuzuku compares magical heroism to RPG games, Chie becomes motivated to join their cause
One of the local magical girls has gone missing so Ichigo will be teaching Yuzuku and Chie how to fill in for her patrols
Chie messages Ginga (RPG): “the craziest shit just happened, message me whenever you're online”

The next day, Chie comes to school to ask Ichigo for a celery/salad
Chie turns in her field trip permission slip
Numbers are exchanged and they made a gc
Ichigo tries to teach Yuzuku and Chie Mera’s patrol route, but she sucks ass at teaching
Yuzuku manages to defeat some monsters while sustaining injuries, but Chie does not so she becomes enfeebled until Shousuke makes Ichigo half-kill some monsters for Chie to defeat