"I already let you pay for snacks!" Haru says, but it's a mock protest, he produces the address.

This is substantially more expensive than the snacks.

He could do this several times a day every day for weeks before he started to feel it. Throwing money around is one of many good ways to get boys to like you.

They teleport.

"Tadaima!" Haru calls, letting himself in.

The cat glides down the stairs, alights, and assesses Jaeha.

Ah, right. The judgmental cat. He will do his best to be liked and bow to the cat.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Cricket-san. I am Kang Jaeha."

"You reek," pronounces the cat.

Blink blink. "I'm sorry?"

"You should be, it's all your own fault. You will deserve all the cancer." Off he trots into the kitchen.

"I'm sorry about him."

...ah. Because he's a smoker. Right.

"I should have seen this one coming."

"You won't deserve the cancer but you do have the power to reduce the risk!" chirps Haru, tugging Jaeha by their joined hands up the stairs. Haru values his sanity too much to be highly paid for an esper but he did manage to buy his mom a nice non-shoebox sufficiently central to Tokyo for her tastes.

His room might offer more clues about what he's into for Jaeha's perusal! There is a bookshelf; it's got classics from the complete works of Shakespeare to the tale of Genji, and some science fiction. It's got a computer, with a screenshot of Civilization-but-modded-so-it's-fantasy up as the desktop wallpaper. The closet, left halfway open, showcases clothes that are all just about as boring and Western as the ones he's already wearing, but also a yukata in indigo shibori. The bed will be snug but it's a full, not a twin, so they won't be pushing each other onto the floor by accident, and it's got a quilt on it that looks like a souvenir from India or someplace. There is a rug covering most of the floor and it feels squashy, like it's got an unusually thick rug pad under it, and the corners of his desk have foam things glued on them like people get to prevent their toddlers bonking their heads. The curtains are closed and too thick to see much through. The walls are painted dark blue, like the way his eyes look in certain lighting conditions, but the ceiling is white and there's plenty of light to compensate for how the color is trying to eat it up.

...those are definitely some clues. He ought to examine them at some point. He might even muster up the interest to do that.

You know what will definitely stir that interest, though? Kissing Haru is what.

Oh god yes, Canadian fuckbuddy is way less compatible than this and also is not big into kissing, this is amazing.

Jaeha is way into kissing. He's way into kissing and into getting his hands all over Haru and trying to get Haru's clothes off without taking breaks from the kiss which is approximately impossible but always a ton of fun to try, and more skin available means more places he can kiss, which he also does even though it's less good guiding because, look, he just likes doing it okay.

(Not that the guiding doesn't feel amazing. Fuck Wo Do-in, he hasn't actually ever been with someone was compatible at this and God this feels good.)

Oh, about the more skin meaning more places he can kiss, Haru has a suggestion, it's the back of his neck. Why did he suggest this? We may never know and certainly aren't getting any clues from the moaning noises.

His wish is Jaeha's command, of course. Jaeha is a quick study, at least when it comes to this, and anything that makes this gorgeous boy make noises like that is something he'll be doing a lot of.

Oh good, Haru loves it when he gets to be selfish in bed, it is a profound charity of the world that even though it seems like being on his preferred end of all possible intimate acts should be the universal consensus position of every human being there's actually a lot of variety and he has landed one who wants to nom his neck. (They're not literally in bed yet, they're kind of leaning on the door. Shirts go flying across the room. Maybe now they should be on the bed.)

Yes they should. He really likes this thing where he doesn't have to figure out a normal way to be because he can just be horny instead. All decisions are easy, just do whatever makes pretty boys moan, touch them and kiss them and bite them, grind against them and play with their bodies. Shirts are off but surely they won't stop there, right? Surely Haru will let him get his hands more places?

Oh yeah. After the briefest detour to get the condoms out of his pocket and onto the nightstand.

Hmmm yeah those are for later he's back to kissing now because fluid exchange ahoy, he knows for a fact making out with people you're not this compatible with just feels a lot less nice in itself and, and he thinks he can feel it, too. He might be making it up in his head but he thinks he can feel the guiding, can feel the fog start to move hopefully in his brain. 

That only makes him want to do more.

Mmmmmmmm enthusiasm is so gratifying. And sex is one place where backlash thinks he's having a social interaction, sanity is excited about coming back online, and introversion acknowledges that unlike paintball this activity is part of a balanced diet. And the compatibility is so good? He's never smooched Yamanaka and in theory that would also be great but he's too gay to find it appealing and right now he is very very gloriously gay.

And here's the thing Jaeha likes the most about guided sex: it cures backlash. That's not winning any awards for surprisingness but it means that he gets progressively more into it as he does it, his interest going from mostly performative to something much more genuine. He usually fakes the genuine version using his power but he has no practice with doing it for real and he's sure there are a myriad tells he doesn't know about or can't correct for, so he probably won't be able to fool Haru at all, if Haru is paying attention. Although, well, depending on how much time they spend on this the change might be too subtle to notice; if it's up to Jaeha they'll do it for at least an hour but other people tend to get less high on sex than he does.

Still, hopefully Haru will like this? He seemed pretty enthusiastic about how into him Jaeha is, so this will probably be a good thing.

God it's good to get to feel positive things again.

Progressively increasing sincerity of enthusiasm mostly comes across as being... impressed or something? Which is slightly odd, Haru's not pulling out any particularly exotic tricks to be impressed by and is not showcasing any kinks that weren't presented with an engraved invitation by that one "sir", but that doesn't make it less flattering.

Bearing in mind that Haru's refractory situation is not as superhuman as some other espers the narration could mention, he is still completely on board with spending an hour in bed as long as the pacing varies accommodatingly between nice sustainable handsy naked makeouts and other stuff that can't comfortably go on for as long at a stretch.

Yeah Jaeha also cannot sustain the most strenuous of these activities for a whole hour but he's such a junkie for the feeling of touching someone who guides him as well as the guiding itself.

Eventually they do wind down—if nothing else, it is the end of the work day, and Jaeha himself's done three dungeons today so he's kinda beat—but Jaeha can snuggle afterwards before he's gotta teleport back to Korea to be yelled at by Wo Do-in.

Snuggles. Snuggles during which Haru doesn't feel an overwhelming itch to carry on a conversation! He's almost totally clear! Even if Jaeha leaves suddenly he can probably finish up getting down to baseline with an hour of putting his feet on Yamanaka's feet and reading a goddamn book. Snug snug snug.