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This is kind of a post for random comment-sized fics. I'll be putting them in the comments and indexing them as needed.

Note that most of the Garo entries take place in a kind of High School AU set in the world of Kamen Rider Fourze. Yes, it's complicated. Some others take place in the Go-Busters universe.

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Garo Makai Senki, HS AU, Mio's penpal reacts to marriage proposal.

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And after that last fic, the warmage in question had to say her own piece.
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Marie opened the letter that had come in the day's mail. It was Japan - did she know anybody from there? Well, anybody who would send her postal mail, that was? She decided after a bit that the answer was "no".

A picture tumbled out, that of a teenager. Marie caught a brief flash of a letter that she didn't have a chance to read before the characters danced around and reformed. A letter that discussed mage matters, then, enchanted to be a mundane, boring letter to most readers. She didn't recognize the surname on the envelope, though at least they'd put it in Romanji.

She looked at it, and realized quickly that she'd need a translation spell. Her Japanese was barely good enough to decipher her own name and the "to". And if somebody was bothering to send her something so sensitive over the mail, she couldn't afford to try to read it without something that could make the words something she could understand. Translation spells weren't easy for her, but she managed one.

"To the esteemed warmage Marie Brown," she read out loud. Focusing her spell on the first paragraph, she willed it to translate itself. "My name is Fudou Namie and I am writing to you from Japan. My family has long aided the mages of the area, and I hope that you can help in return."

Marie's eyebrows rose. What aid could a Japanese family need from an American mage? Like most warmages, her expertise was blowing things up. And there had to be warmages somewhere closer than where she was. Warmages weren't common, but they weren't rare, either.

"You know my son's friend, Mio. I know she's told you about the fact that my son Leo has acquired his own magic recently." Marie shook her head. She would be the wrong person to teach him, given that their elements were completely different and the fact that her Japanese was far from fluent.

She took a quick peek at the photo. Well, he was cute. He'd hopefully make a good mage. Concentrating, she continued reading the letter. "Mio tells me that you are unmarried. I do not know if you are looking for a husband, but if so, I hope you will consider my son. He is only sixteen, but he is bright and a hard worker, and a natural Air mage. I don't know how it works for mages in America, but he is a good age for marriage here."

"What?!?" Marie lost the translation spell as the last paragraph sunk in. "You seriously want me to what with your teenage son?!?" She had to admit that the one thing she liked about being a warmage was that nobody seriously expected her to get married and have kids, at least in America. Warmages were too busy defending other peoples' families to have their own, the popular view went.

She sighed, recasting the translation spell. Might as well read the rest of it.

"My son's English is far from fluent, but if you agree to the engagement, I will make sure he takes English lessons before coming to America. He still has to apprentice, of course, but that can be delayed if you need it. He wants to become an electrical engineer and I think he'd be a good provider for you so that you can concentrate on your own duties. I've enclosed a photo in case you're interested."

Marie was fairly sure that she couldn't marry a sixteen year old. She didn't want to marry a sixteen year old. She was probably older than Leo's mother!

"If you are interested in the engagement, please let me know. Fudou Namie."

Letting the spell lapse again, Marie rubbed her eyes. Sometimes she had difficulties communicating with other American mages - how was she supposed to tell this lady that no, she wasn't really interested in marrying her son?