"And Suwan Haru-shi?"

"I can turn selectively imperceptible. If you have exotic sensory powers don't try to use them on me, it won't work and I'll get random little upticks of backlash till I figure out who's being rude - I can let them through but by default I go around observable by normal channels to humans and not at all to monsters and to dungeons themselves. I can at greater expense also fly, and I am looking forward to reliably having a high-bandwidth backlash clearance mechanism so I can ever do that for fun instead of just to get over pit traps and stuff."

...selectively, you say.

"You know," says Ha-eun, leaning back over from her conversation with her friends after overhearing Haru's power description, "I went to a dungeon that had that power, once. You couldn't see its portal or its monsters and if you went in it was pitch black. Pain in the ass to clear."

...wtf.

"Please forgive her, she has a habit of making up stories about her work."

"It's not made up! It was really hard!"

"Come on, that one was weak. You usually put more effort into making your stories believable."

Pout.

"Well, I tried."

"Well now I want to know who'd win if there were a dungeon like that and I got into a fight with it."

"Probably whoever could tank more backlash."

"Dungeons don't have backlashes."

"Sure they do! It's why they gotta go away and come back later."

"I mean I wouldn't just go in and stand there, the question would be whether I could take it out with good old fashioned artillery before I started compulsively introducing myself to monsters."

"That sounds hilarious."

"That sounds dangerous."

"I haven't introduced myself to any monsters yet unless you count my cat but it does seem like one of the likeliest ways for me to perish in the field."

Haru should not perish on the field. Who knows when Jaeha's gonna find someone as compatible with him as Haru is? Hasn't happend in eight goddamn years. Jaeha pets him protectively some more.

Here's Haru's cider and Jaeha's coffee! And the waitstaff goes to ask the two newcomers what they'd like, and is then interrupted by three more arrivals (none of whom are particularly compatible with Haru, either).

It's good to check these things even if you get the expected null result. "So if this is just the queer group, and not even all the queers are showing up, how big is the whole guild, or is it somehow actively specializing in queer espers?"

"I thiiiiink we're at... maybe five thousand people total? And about two hundred espers."

"Wow, that's like three times the size of my present outfit."

"It's the biggest guild in Korea!"

"Best-funded, too, so if you guys join us..."

Jaeha is not particularly moved by that but Haru might be and if so, Jaeha knows where he'll be.