"Eh, maybe when I just dropped my books or something, less so when I wound up in the hospital."

"—yes, that does in fact sound substantially less adorable. The hospital, really?"

"Yeah, one concussion, no shortage of broken arms and sprained ankles. In Canada I actually was looking into getting a wheelchair for winter when it was icy, we were starting to realize I wasn't going to grow out of it. All better now though."

"I'm very, very glad you're not regularly breaking your arms anymore!" Tiny Haru in the hospital does NOT spark joy. What does spark joy is nuzzling real present-day Haru to reassure his lizard brain that Haru is okay and unbroken. This is objectively very silly when Haru is an esper and even if he broke anything that would not be a huge deal but you know what's also objectively very silly, that's right, it's liking his Haru this much in the first place, and also it's taking his Haru to the best restaurant in Korea so that he can feel like a good boyfriend.

"After I'd had a little while to decompress from awakening and was starting to suspect that I could balance like a normal person Ren wanted to take me to the park and get video of me trying to run for effectively the first time, and wasn't shy about telling me that she wanted that right when I most felt like I owed her the world; she probably still has that if you ask her nicely."

!!!!!!!

"Oh. Oh I will."

"You're cute."

"You're cute. As is a video of you trying to run effectively for the first time right after awakening." He is going to back that video up on several different servers so that he never loses it. And also he is now starting to consider the possibility of acquiring tiny Haru pictures from Haru's mum and he is not sure his heart can handle that.

"I don't think I ever watched it for myself! Not my standard brand of narcissism."

"No? But having a boyfriend who obsesses about that kind of thing is, I assume?" he wonders, wryly.

"You caught me."

He grabs one of Haru's hands and lifts it to his lips to kiss Haru's knuckles. "I'm glad to be of service, Haru-ya."

"Eeeeee~"

It is so, so gratifying to be able to make his Haru happy just by liking him a lot. He can do that, he can do that so so much and so so well, he will like Haru more than Haru knew it was possible to be liked.

He will also kiss Haru right now, driverly audience be damned.

If the driver knows what's good for them they will be looking at the road anyway!

The street is an unassuming cramped one-way, and the building is a pretty basic commercial tower, but inside the restaurant is all big flat swathes of window and big flat expanses of floor and big flat rectangles of wall panel, all shiny and bouncing back the lights, as though to show off the diligence of their cleaning staff in keeping it polished.

Haru steps into it, looking around curiously, hand in hand with Jaeha.

Eheheheheheh LAST TIME he came here he was a nice little well-behaved boy trying to win the affections of a father who would never give him them, NOW he is incredibly, visibly gay holding hands with his BOYFRIEND and still being well-behaved he supposes but in a way that is spitting in the face of traditional Korean values so THERE.

The maître d' does not seem to find Jaeha's homosexuality a noteworthy fact about Jaeha. "Kang Jaeha-nim, Suwan Masaharu-nim?"

Yeah he'd BETTER not find it noteworthy, the amount of money Jaeha had to pay to get them this reservation this quickly better make them real happy to have him here. "That's us."

"Will you come with me? I'll show you to your table."

Jaeha gestures for Haru to go before him.

In he goes, glancing at what other people are eating as he passes tables.

Rice and fish and vegetables, sweet-looking sauces, hanwoo, all things that look recognisably like typical Korean food but really fancy with gorgeous presentation in absolutely minuscule portions.

And here's their table.

Since this is all for Jaeha's indulgence, he will also indulge in pulling Haru's chair for him.