kitkatcat: I told you, he's the pinnacle of feline masculinity
kitkatcat: honestly we're lucky my ovaries haven't exploded from that picture

🍵Tconnoisseur: also he's given interviews

💤Zzzzgirl: brb gotta marathon your blog @traceless

🔔 traceless: leave comments, I read them all! and if any of you want to be interviewed you can make a date with my backlash lol

💤Zzzzgirl: I cannot connect my digital and rl selves ever
💤Zzzzgirl: also I'm not nearly cool enough to be interviewed
💤Zzzzgirl: will leave comments though! :)

🔔 traceless: I can interview you under a pseudonym, I do it with Western espers all the time! But I would probably wind up asking things that wound up being identifying, if you're an esper.

🍉 melonmelon: ooh do me. fifteen minutes of fame here I come

🔔 traceless: send me an email about what would be interesting topics for you!

🐠nemo: yo me too me too

"Having fun with chat?"

"Mm-hm. You can read over my shoulder if you want, it's the same chat you could be in if you were so inclined."

"Maybe someday. I'm not really sure what the point is, though."

"I probably wouldn't either, if, well."

Well all of these people may be helping with Haru's pica but you know who's helping Haru with his actual backlash? That's right, it's Jaeha.

He kisses Haru on the cheek. "If you'd like moral support I could join."

"Either way works for me, you're literally in the room with me and when I have something to say to you I can say it with my face."

"I definitely also find your face the better option, too."

Mwah.

"So how dreadfully bored have you been this week, do you think you can put up with it for a few more?"

...ah. It has been a week, hasn't it. 

He's... in fact not felt that awful! At least not due to the not doing anything thing, though he supposes probably if he were more backlashed he wouldn't be so stressed out that Haru doesn't like him and is going to leave in a couple of weeks. And he did find things to occupy his time with, even now that he's no longer trying to figure Sparkler out.

"I suppose I probably can. Inventing new hobbies has been..." He feels like this is the wrong conversation to lie and say it was "fun". "Engrossing."

"That sounds like a good sign!"

Of?

"Yeah."

He wants Haru not to leave and he doesn't know what to do to keep him.

"I should be able to keep up on my end too, it's exhausting but also it makes me feel very cool."

"It's good when our feelings reflect reality."

Kisses for that. What a good Jaeha he has.

Kisssss so that he'll forget he's riding straight into his doooooooommmmmm.

Haru's doing a lot of completely normal dungeons - standard issue pocket dimensions full of monsters on some theme or other which kidnap people, where he's useful because he can be imperceptible to all the monsters while he shoots at them or hauls people out. Now and then he needs to walk through a wall or fly a short distance. Nothing too strenuous, power-wise.

But of course he's also a good pick for a psychic dungeon, since he can self-shield, and they can get one more esper in there for the same amount of load on whoever's shielding other people. And he's an especially obvious pick for this psychic dungeon which is keeping its victims in hollow stalactites, each open on one side and curved on the floor of the tiny caves so they have to actively press themselves to the wall to avoid plummeting to the stalagmite-covered ground and impaling themselves. It's making everyone vertiginous and loopy, like they've got altitude sickness; it wants them afraid of heights and it's willing to insist. The monsters, little gargoyle things, are numerous and they've got echolocation on top of vision, so that's more senses he's hiding from - not that he'd normally let them hear him, but normally he's not making a ton of noise, in a dungeon, to need to cover with his power, so usually it weighs on him less.

Haru flies up to retrieve eighteen people from this dungeon, and since he's got to cover for the echolocation anyway he might as well talk to them, that doesn't add much, and he sets the eighteenth person down and they flee through the exit, and he should be going and getting a nineteenth "person", and he just doesn't really want to play this video game any more.

He sits down on the floor and leans on a stalagmite.

This dungeon has a small group of medical support staff by the portal, appropriately shielded, and they notice that he's just... sitting there.

"Suwan Masaharu-shi?" asks one of them, walking only half of the way to him in case whatever got him is contagious. "Are you feeling unwell?"