That's fine with Haru. "Do you want me to escort you past Cricket or - I suppose you're probably teleporting so never mind."

"Is Cricket likely to attack me or just insult me? I've got a pretty thick skin."

"I'm mostly confident in his ability not to be the first to initiate physical... contact, he'd probably take petting him in the wrong direction amiss even if that's not strictly speaking violence."

"I'm probably safe, then. But you are correct that I'll just teleport, so it's moot anyway."

"Thanks for fucking some sense into me!"

"I feel like I should say 'Anytime!' but that'd be pleasantry, we'll probably need to align schedules. A disadvantage of not being official partners."

"Yeah, one of us would have to move."

"Oh my father would hate it if I moved. Which makes me want to do it more rather than less, but that subject is perhaps one for the future."

"Yeah, we can logistics about it later."

One final kiss, one "It's been lovely to meet you, Haru-san," and he teleports.

Haru catches up on his email, because "almost, but not entirely, free of backlash" is a good state in which to do that, and then he pets Cricket and walks to Yamanaka's. (Ren's house was chosen to be in easy walking distance.)

With a book. And a notebook.

And Jaeha, as expected, is yelled at. Wo Do-in calls him a selfish and self-centered prick, which he can't argue with because it's true, and then they have some angry sex in which Do-in gets to be kinda rough and mean in a way he feels isn't a problem, and then they go to their respective homes to sleep away from each other. 

Jaeha kinda misses Haru, which is insane, they just saw each other. 

Anyway, it's just a matter of time, now.

Haru actually forgot to get Jaeha's number but will see if he has an email deriveable from name and guild, if Jaeha takes too long to send a text.

kang.jaeha@junoguild.co.kr does seem to be a valid email address.

I totally forgot to get your number.

- Haru

He gets a text shortly after.

Hey, handsome

Is this Jaeha or a secret admirer?

I'm kind of curious now what you'd do if I said it was the latter

Good question, I haven't figured that out in advance.

Well, I'm not very secret about my admiration at all

There are some very nice benefits to making it known to you that I admire you

Such as, for instance, learning the sounds you make when I kiss your neck

Now you have this information! Whatever shall you do with it?

What a silly question, Haru-san

I'm going to extract those noises from you more often

I'm looking forward to it ;)

logistics though......

Do-in hasn't, in fact, broken their partnership off, but even if he had Jaeha would not bring it up right now. It would not do for Haru to think he had been the one to cause this breakup; being with Haru might have sped it up but not by more than a couple of weeks, it was a foregone conclusion.

Does Yamanaka-san sync assignments up with you?

We sometimes even run dungeons together, for certain values of "together", but usually it's our boss who does the syncing on our behalf, for her sake.