(Jaeha can't feel him. At all.

That must be the esper he read about in the briefing document.

But an esper being immune to him? That's—not actually possible. What the fuck.)

Fist bump it is, then, and Jaeha will hope the hiccup is interpreted as him just being awkward over the fist bump and—

"- and once you're unburied from the patients are you headed straight back to Korea or do you have time to hang out?"

He ought to go back to Korea because he'll be even more backlashed and even less personable.

Wo Do-in has been acting unsatisfied and Jaeha expects he'll want to break up as soon as Jaeha gives him an excuse to and not going into isolation after this dungeon would be an excuse. 

Jaeha might have just found himself a new partner. 

"For someone like you? I have all the time in the world," he says, falling back into the flirting almost subconsciously before he remembers that actually that can backfire horribly and he has no idea what this man is feeling and he can't even change anything—it's fine. He's fine. Flirting is fine. It might make things awkward but it'll be fine.

"Delightful - I hate to tear myself away but there's at least twenty more people in there and if we're not lucky somebody's going to have a plastic bag and cleverly put it over their head -" He shrugs apologetically, takes one step backwards before tearing back off into the dungeon.

...that went better than expected! He was totally responding, right? That was the body language of someone who's responding?

Fuck.

Anyway, yes, there are victims to clear, he'll keep doing that.

Here's another one! "Wow, you're fast!"

"Right back at you." That was a lot of compatibility, right? A lot more than he has with Do-in. And this man is in fact drop-dead gorgeous, and seemed to be responding positively to that tiny bits of flirting... On the other hand, maybe he interpreted it as just being friendly? Homophobes are often extremely clueless. On the other hand, he's an esper, so... "I never caught your name."

"Call me Haru! Unless you're too formal for that in which case Swan or Suwan is fine." That lady looks a little more fucked up than she should; he takes her pulse and waves over a medtech when this is inconclusive. "And you're our miracle sanity dispenser Kang Jaeha, right?"

"I see my fame precedes me. You can call me Jaeha, Haru-san."

Here's the medtech! They carry the woman to the med tents for more observation once Kang Jaeha's done with her.

(Should these espers really be doing this right now? He supposes Kang Jahea has been making short work of all of the rescues, but still...)

"You're very famous! The Anti-Nightmare! And also the anti-whatever-the-hell-this-thing-is, and one thing it is is suffocating people so I will be right back with more of those!" He does a little ironic salute and runs off.

He's really cute. Jaeha will try to remember that he thought this later and hold onto it, it'll be easier to act normal if he does.

There are a lot of people in this dungeon, it must have been incredibly hungry. Haru is trying the strategy of talking to the people he's rescuing in spite of them slipping in and out of consciousness for refusing to breathe, by the time he brings in the next one. "You're gonna be okay, sir! This guy here can fix you right up lickety-split, okay, and you will go home and be totally fine!"

This guy here? What guy? Oh God oh God he inhaled—

Boop.

—bwuh? The man blinks confusedly at being... somewhere... he did not expect to be.

"Sir, you were kidnapped by a dungeon," Jaeha explains. "If you'll follow my colleague?" The support staff are here for a—well, for a very large number of reasons, actually, and one of them is handling victims and figuring them out so Jaeha doesn't have to. Hard enough to figure out what to say to the esper guy when he can't use his powers, having to figure out how to sound human to victims sounds awful.

"All better, you'll have a great story to tell at parties," says Haru, clapping his hands and contributing to gesturing the guy support-staff-ward. And then turning to Jaeha - "You're - oh my god, stop me if I try to stay and chat, it's my backlash running the show and it doesn't even help, we will chat after, I'm holding you to that -" Off he runs.

Alright, sure, it'll be easier to seem human within a single interaction rather than over several broken ones.

...not that he can resist. That boy is really very cute.

With the espers Kang Jaeha shielded being able to help bring victims out, they can deal with rescuing all of the kidnap victims in short order, and soon after that they can close the dungeon, bringing its core to the portal and destroying it just before stepping out to make sure no one will stay behind. The portal's edges turn green, and one by one the espers that went in leave, looking various levels of bedraggled and tired and backlashed.

Haru is tired and backlashed but absolutely not in a way where he wants to run to Yamanaka's silo. She might actually be there and could certainly get there if he summoned her with the right emoji but Kang Jaeha the Anti-Nightmare is right there and like ninety percent as compatible as Yamanaka is and will have a conversation with him instead of requiring that Haru pretend he not exist the entire time. He bounces right up to Jaeha. "Everybody's safe and it's no longer embarrassingly irresponsible of me to chat you up! Welcome to Japan, is it your first time here?"