Some honesty won't hurt.

"I mean, you gotta see it's a bit implausible, isn't it? Korea's only S-rank, a rising star—"

"They wouldn't," he insists. "I don't know how it was at Juno but it's... different here."

Okay that's... definitely not the most amazing foot to start on. Turns out some honesty does hurt. Cameras or no, this is minor enough that he can just smush over these past couple of seconds and say, "Probably Juno was different. They were very sad to see me go. ...not that I'm anything like you, but, you know, I'm a bit jaded, is all."

...yeah. He has heard that Quasar is a lot better than other Korean guilds can be, and this tracks.

"Well. I hope you'll like it here. I do, people have been very welcoming." Okay that sounded like some TV ad or something. "...you'll see what it's like."

"I suppose I will. And, really, they have such an irresistible compensation package."

"...compensation package?"

Jaeha looks at Tae-gun, holding his gaze for a second, before lowering it to Tae-gun's lips and licking his own.

Tae-gun looks over his shoulder at the door the lawyer left through before looking back at Jaeha and, and, how does this man do these things in public, what if people see!!!!

(...he's gotta say he does appreciate being so clearly, obviously wanted, though. That's tingly in more ways than just the obvious.)

Jaeha laughs. "Lee Tae-gun, I suspect we'll have a great time together as partners."

"Y-yeah. R-right."

He was doing so well at not thinking, aughhhhhh!!!!!

"Ah, apologies for the delay," says the lawyer, coming back into the room with the papers. "We're doing a big migration to a new system on the backend and it's a bit of a mess." She sits down in front of both of them and offers them three copies of the contract. "This is the same version of the contract you've already read and accepted, but you can feel free to go over it again to confirm it. Once you're satisfied, sign all three of them; we'll keep one copy, and each of you will keep another."

Oh good a distraction.

Toying with him is fun.

Not looking at Kang Jaeha, lalalalala, reading the contract, lalalalala, not thinking about Kang Jaeha, lalalalalala~

You can hide as much as you want, little bunny, but you can't escape.

"Everything seems in order," he says, eventually, signing the documents.

Jaeha also signs it.

"Wonderful! And if I understand correctly you've arranged a temporary silo together while the main one is set up for you?"

"That is correct."

"Then I believe that will be all for today!" She stands up and shakes both of their hands. "I hope your partnership will be fruitful for you and for the good of Korea. And welcome to Quasar, Kang Jaeha-nim!"

"It's wonderful to be here."

"Now, what do you say we go check out our new shared silo together?" he asks Lee Tae-gun once the lawyer's gone.

Gulp.

They're making out a second after they've walked into the temporary silo. Jaeha is enjoying the desperate whimpers and moans he's getting out of Tae-gun tremendously, but the real reason why he particularly enjoys fucking his partners is just that the sex gets progressively better in real time, as the guiding slowly dissolves the anhedonia and intensifies the pleasure he's capable of feeling. It's always a thrill, and it's hard not to get addicted to the feeling. The fact that he's more compatible with Lee Tae-gun than he's ever been with anyone and that Tae-gun is melting under his touch makes it all the better. He remembers a time, before he manifested, when he took great joy in making boys moan his name; it's a throwback, really, to that time.

But they're wearing far too many clothes, right now, and Jaeha is of a mind to fix that immediately.

Tae-gun isn't sure if it's just the esper compatibility, but he's guessing it's probably not; Jaeha is several years his senior, has had multiple partners, and so probably has a lot of experience. Experience he's applying to great effect, Tae-gun doesn't think he's ever been kissed so well, he's never been touched like this before and it's driving him wild. And he's got some accumulated backlash, obviously, both of them do, even with meds and just hanging around other espers you do actually need to have your own partner to properly deal with it, and it's all coming in at once and he can't breathe.