[with a soft sigh, he pocketed his gem, not realizing that it caused his dragonfly wings to disappear behind him in a flash of orange sparkles while he closed the distance between himself and the young girl. she kept calling him 'onii-chan'... both she and the Illya he'd known did the same thing. he never got a proper chance to understand what his relationship with her was supposed to be. but he could ask about it all later]

It's alright, Illya. You were probably only doing the same thing I'd do if I was in your shoes. [whatever that stick was, the fact that she was fighting so hard to hide it from him at first must have meant it was important to her. ...definitely a less intimidating companion than the hulking Berserker, that much was certain]

A magus is supposed to keep their abilities a secret from the regular world, right?

[magical girl. but ah, he only had what his own reality showed him to go off on for now]