"Mars might be more tractable but if I ever find a tame dungeon I'm gifting you it."

"Well now I'm going to spend all day thinking up names for my hypothetical tame dungeon empire."

"What kinds of things does Your Imperial Majesty look for in an empire name?"

"Oh, it has to be clever and aesthetic and ideally it'd also have anything do with the nature of the dungeon, which is what makes it so difficult to do it hypothetically."

"Are there specific types or aesthetics you'd most like for the dungeon your empire's in?"

"Oh, one of the fantasy ones for sure. With plants in it."

"Open air, I assume? Without the claustrophobic feel."

"It should have some open areas for the plants to grow in, like a nice imperial park sort of place, but people usually like to live indoors so if it had a lot of cave system in it too that would be fine!"

"Oh, I was imagining we could maybe get a castle built—although I suppose just a castle wouldn't house that many people... There's the problem that most novel dungeons are kind of small."

"Yeah. I'd want a 4D one but then I'd need Cricket just to get around the place."

Speaking of, Cricket has appeared to collect his breakfast. He rubs past Haru's leg with a purr and ignores Jaeha like he isn't even there.

...

"Cricket, is there a way I could redeem myself in your eyes?"

"Oh, I don't know, that seems like your problem."

"Kitty..."

Sigh. "I'll think about it."

"I look forward to it."

Cricket accepts a nibble of pancake out of Haru's hand and resumes plating himself fish.

He's not going to bother Cricket any more than this, and instead turns back to Haru to say, "That teleporter, Min Woo-young, was able to teleport in 4D, right? And his power can be stored. So it ought to in theory be possible to have ways to move along the fourth dimension in some automated way so people wouldn't have to be constantly asking Crickets for rides and bugging him all the time."

"I don't think Cricket works enough like an esper, but maybe there are monster batteries, that would be cool."

"I don't see in principle why there wouldn't be. ...I mean, it's not like I understand anything about any of this so for all I know there might be some reason, but it is not ruled out by anything I do know."

"A battery might be the wrong concept, Cricket just is advantaged at 4D when it's there and it doesn't take anything out of him to navigate it. Hmm."

"Ah, yeah, good point. ...hmm, I wonder if there'd be a way to just build something in 4D? Like a conveyor belt... Except, hmm, that might risk rotating people along the fourth dimension and I'm not sure that's... survivable..."

"Isn't it? I have no substantial 4D advantages so I don't usually go in them and certainly haven't got much background in the math."

"I guess I don't know for sure but if I think about, rather than someone's whole body being in a single 3D space, they're rotated around the fourth dimension so that a part of their body is here and another part is in another 3D space, that could be a problem? Their internal organs would no longer all be in one place... But then again, they would be, within their individual spaces... I don't know. I don't know any of the maths either and every time I've tried to think about them over the years I ended up getting myself more rather than less confused."

"You have all kinds of tendons and things holding you together. But you might leak."