I notice that this chapter confirmed that normals (or at least normals who have been told of the existence of magic) can see raw grief.
Also sayaka you dumb blueberry you owe sabrina and hitomi nothing XD
Um. I don't recall any debts to Sabrina, but she kind of
does owe Hitomi. But since Hitomi neither needs nor wants Sayaka to pay back the debt directly, the healthy response would be for Sayaka to respect Hitomi's wishes and treat the debt as a general debt to be a better person and help other people like Hitomi helped her rather than to continue to stubbornly focus on Hitomi.
We could just wait until after he's healed. If he doesn't ask if he can reward us again after we do it for free, he's almost certainly not interested enough in us to be a problem.
Kyousuke asked us now, so we should have some sort of response now.
Making the request before makes it seem like the healing is contingent on the request. Which isn't true, but also presenting the healing as a transaction (even a very weird one) will not make him respect us as a person as much as doing it for free and so will make him paradoxically less inclined to follow our life advice (or desire to not be stalked).
The way the request is worded makes it obvious that we're healing him for free. We're just giving him some good advice at the same time. He is not
forced to heed the advice, but the context means that he will take it seriously. If he decides to be stupid and ignore our advice and stalk us or whatever, then he deserves the clue by four that wil inevitably come his way. But I doubt that he's that stupid.
And... I'm not sure I want to tell Kyousuke that line in front of the others. I feel it's kinda rude.
Yeah I get the concerns here but it just feels wrong to talk about this in front of everyone, especially with Sayaka and Hitomi right there. Hitomi's crush hasn't even been revealed yet and putting emphasis on the both of them here just comes off as awkward at best and invasive at worst. The original vote with Kyousuke was basically snubbing, and I don't think Sayaka and Hitomi would've taken it well. The other's (minus Homura) would also be a bit disappointed.
At worst we get some questionable looks with the whispering, which by itself isn't a big deal.
Telling Kyousuke that his friends care about him and want him to be healed and that he should pay attention to them? I would expect Kyousuke to take that sentiment platonically (it's just the fact that we know about the crushes which makes it embarrassing), but it's not rude. On the other hand, whispering the answer to his question (i.e. the price we're requesting for his healing) is most definitely rude to the others, especially to Mami and Homura who are active parties in the healing. There are contexts where whispering is socially acceptable, but this isn't one of them.
We don't really want to be nice to Kyousuke though.
Correction: we don't want him to start crushing on us. We want to be nice to everyone, we just don't want our niceness to be misinterpreted. Your original vote has us being nice but a bit distant; I'm fine with that approach.
[x] Just one thing. We're healing him largely because of Sayaka and Hitomi. His friends care about him, so he should remember that once he gets out of the hospital. We know that his hand is important for his music and we know how musicians can get about their music, but he should make sure not to neglect his friends.
[x] Group healing. Ask Homura to timestop if necessary.
-[x] Thank her and Mami for helping out.
[x] Mention to Kyosuke that it might not be a good idea to talk too much about how it happened. Just treat it as a surprise you can't explain, okay?
[x] Talk to the others once it's done, after everyone's left Kyosuke's room.
