"He's a very mysterious kittycat. - he would be moving with me if that wasn't clear."

"I expected as much. I suppose he'd have to live in a different wing of the house from me."

"Unless you quit smoking. Did you wind up trying gum?"

"I did. Maybe there's a placebo effect of some kind but it didn't quite work."

"Huh. Well, since your house is wingèd then Cricket having his quarters elsewhere is probably plenty sufficient."

"'Wingèd'."

"Wingèd. Possessing wings. Like Cricket."

"I think being this adorable might be in contravention of international law," he says, before proceeding to kiss him about it.

Mmmmkiss. "No crimes here, that was my alter ego, the dashing hero Traceless of British Columbia, I have a separate passport from that guy and everything." Smooch.

"...you have a codename in the West?" He is SO CUTE.

"Yep! It's not an amazing codename, they don't want to require anything like birthdate for esper IDs so the names themselves have to be unique. Like racehorses. I went through a lot of ideas that turned out to be taken."

He's always found the Western custom of giving espers codenames kind of weird but it is really goddamn cute to think of Haru as "Traceless".

Maybe he should just say that with his mouth.

"I've always found this custom a bit strange but I have to confess that I find the idea of you being a hero called 'Traceless' very endearing."

"I think you might just like me or something."

"I think I just might."

Is it time for more kissing, Haru thinks it's time for more kissing.

Yeah, so does Jaeha.

The prospect of having Haru move in with him is beginning to sound less concerning. This might actually work out alright.

Haru seems to think it will work fine if the way he can be induced to moan Jaeha's name in Jaeha's bed in Jaeha's house is any indication.

God, Jaeha is so addicted to hearing his name like that. He's keeping Haru. He's definitely keeping him.

Juno is... a Korean guild. That's something that can be said about it. It has a rigid corporate structure and hierarchy, and it is offering to pay Haru more than Hasegawa is (because they want to keep their anti-Nightmare star happy), and it doesn't have much else going for itself. It is certainly not offering to eradicate any diseases, nor any particular benefits other than "it's where Jaeha currently is". It doesn't seem like they've been informed of Jaeha's own feelings of imminent departure, though.

Bleah.

Hasegawa is a smaller guild than either Juno or Quasar, and while they do offer Haru a raise in response to his projected increase in dungeon clears, it's not actually quadruple. Then somebody makes a slightly too-barbed remark about Cricket's legal status and Haru texts Yoo-min to see if Cricket can possibly be teleported to Korea in advance of any signatures being signed so that nobody has to have a day in court over that. Haru is in Seoul again to sign things not long after.

What the fuck. Yeah of course.

Jaeha's going to be signing things with Haru; since they're planning to become officially partners, it's easier on everyone to just bundle all of that into a single meeting (but separate contracts, of course).

Excellent! These documents seem to be in order. It seems like they're planning to share a house to silo in? Quasar has shared ones if necessary and is able to offer them personalised silos, and for Haru specifically it can also help him get set up with somewhere to live if he'd rather live on his own.

Haru is planning to live in Jaeha's house. So as to have suitably redundant institutional protocols, though, should this arrangement fail catastrophically somehow, he can crash somewhere else - an empty silo if there's really no notice, but also he's modestly compatible with both of Tae-gun and Juheon and he also has a standing invitation (from Yamanaka care of her brother, not from Hasegawa) to go back to Yamanaka's place if he's ever in a bad enough way to get on a plane about it. Cricket is available for 4D dungeon navigation as a subsidiary of Haru, he will pawprint something saying so. Haru requires generous emergency exit clauses that kick in if he ever somehow finds himself spending more than a week continuously carrying any positive amount of backlash, which, again, he expects to be managing fine but if something should fail catastrophically he will absolutely not be making things worse before he figures out how to make them better, he wants to be alive and kicking in fifty years.

They can talk it over with Lee Tae-gun and Lee Juheon! The exit clauses seem reasonable, and Kang Jaeha-nim seems to also have something about his backlash?