"Yeah. Fuck malaria. It's almost certainly an overestimate but it has been seriously put forward as an estimate that the approximate number of deaths from malaria over the course of human history is 'half of them'."

"What the fuck."

"It's shocking! And it's shocking that something as simple as giving people treated bednets has as much of an impact as it does!"

"If I hadn't awakened I wanted to be an epidemiologist!"

"Huh. That's cool. I didn't have, like, a plan or anything, I wasn't that kinda kid."

"I actually always wanted to be an esper but there is not a place you can enter an essay contest about it so I had other plans."

"I thought the idea was kinda cool but also didn't give it that much thought. ...I am not a person who thinks very much about the future." There's a reason his IM picture is a mint-green labrador.

"Well, it would be a dull world if we were all alike, or so I hear."

"Well I don't know about you but I could definitely not fu—uh. Be with another version of myself. Or someone who is very like me."

Oh yeah. Thinking of another Kang Jaeha is... no.

"I think I'd get along with me swimmingly but maybe that's just me."

"Anyway, I should get going now, my partner's just arrived and I'm trying to convince him to love me and it's really hard."

"Good luck have fun!"

"It's been a pleasure, Park Yoo-min-nim."

"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?"