"Likewise!"

And he hangs up.

"So how're you doing?"

...he really wishes he had a way to figure out what the correct thing to do here should be.

"I am... not amazing, to be honest. My, uh... partner officially requested that we sever our relationship today."

"Oh, yikes, what happened?"

"Honestly, nothing in particular. Our compatibility isn't amazing, and personality-wise we were also not great for each other, it's actually been a foregone conclusion for a while now, it was just a matter of him finding someone he liked better than me. Which I assume he must have, though he, ah, did not tell me."

"Do you have a secondary over there? Did he leave you with a backlog? I still don't actually know what your backlash is..."

"My... backlash... I'd need you to sign a contract to tell you what it is. And no secondary, yes backlog."

"Wow, that bad. Well, I don't need to know what it is to kiss it better, if you wanna come over soon?"

"I would love it for you to kiss it better. I don't have any more dungeons assigned today or tomorrow pending looking into alternative arrangements."

"I've done my today-dungeon and do not expect a tomorrow-dungeon unless something special happens, I'm wide open."

"And I'm not going to be imposing on any other inhabitants of your house to just show up at your door?"

"It's just me and Ren and Cricket, and Ren's out a lot unless I specifically ask her to cancel on all her friends to take care of me, which I try not to do more than a couple times a year."

"Are you home right now, then?"

"No, but I can be in five minutes, when I bought Ren a house I put it near Yamanaka's silo."

"Way to get a guy's hopes up and then keep him waiting." His tone of voice is teasing, though, and Haru can hear the noise of teleportation in the background of a call just then.

"Oh, is that not fun? I need to know these things." He sends Yamanaka an emoji and gets up to put his shoes on.

"Oh it's fun. It's very fun."

"I'm terribly impatient, personally, maybe I'll jog instead of walking."

"As you said, it would be a dull world if we were all alike. There are so very many things I bet you would like to do but not to have done to you."

"Do you have some in mind?" Jog jog.

"I seem to recall you enjoying taking charge of this and that. Would you like telling me what to do? When to come or not to come? Tying me up, not letting me move until and unless you feel like it? Using me however you want to use me?"

"Well, I'll never know until I try, now, will I." Haru can jog pretty fast. Here he is on Ren's doorstep glomping Jaeha and reaching past him to get the door open.

Jaeha laughs and kisses him and is happy to be led inside.

The bedroom is as it was before. Cricket was at Yamanaka's with Haru but flew away before the phone call got too steamy.

It is of no lesser import to the cause of fighting dungeons that all the espers who do it be put right again after they return from missions. Haru sets about kissing it better.

And since they were already on the topic, Jaeha is so very curious about whether Haru wants to try any of his suggestions, or has ideas of his own.

Also? Jaeha has test results, now.