Oh right. That's part of it.

He will... Fuss with installing and setting up first.

"Hmm. I was imagining two little tables and a small ottoman between them? This would go better with Nintendo Switches, not laptops... Oh well."

"I don't have one of those but if this works at all I can get one."

"Makes sense. We can put the laptops on couch pillows for now?"

"Do you not normally just put yours on your lap? I put mine on my lap." He demonstrates, sitting sideways on the couch with room for Teddy to go back-to-back.

His laptop emerging from the backpack is a big, chunky thing. It's red and has fancy bits.

"It usually gets too hot for that?"

"Huh. Mine doesn't do that but I don't know why it'd differ."

"Oh, uh, I have a much more powerful then usual laptop. For good graphics."

...He takes his shirt off. And then walks Haru through the setup steps that let his computer mirror Teddy's screen, and also send input back correctly. He's done this before.

And then they can have more skin contact again! Back to back. It's... Warm and pleasant. He finds himself holding good posture to maintain it.

"Sorry for all the rigamarole to set it up," he says as the game loading screen progresses.

"No problem. ...That character's in a wheelchair, does that have mechanical effects?"

"Nope, everyone moves the same. Must be electric and mentally controlled. Or maybe the racoon is an esper."

"Does it exhibit backlash?"

"Not on-screen, at least."

Haru takes the raccoon. "Is there a tutorial level?"

"Yeah. It's silly."

The Onion King needs them to make salads to feed a giant meatball! Guy on the right picks things up and puts them on the center counter. Guy on the left chops the things and puts them back. Guy on the right plates them up and feeds the meatball. 

"The first few levels are really simple but the later ones need, like, actual talking about - oh this burger needs cheese, or I'm out of tomato."

"I was about to ask why a meatball wants to eat salad but I suppose the things meatballs are made of certainly would eat salad."

"Oh, just wait until we start feeding ghosts in... I think about halfway through? Probably too much for today though. -One more lettuce-"

"Here you go. What do ghosts eat, the flesh of the living or something?"

"Don't be silly, pizza and burgers, of course. Classic Americana."

"They're specifically American ghosts? Do they have little flags?"

"I don't think this game is set on Earth actually. What with the giant meatball villain and the time travel. Speaking of which... That's the tutorial level done."

They have FAILED to satisfy the giant meatball! The Onion King sends them back to 1993 to hone their kitchen skills in a desperate final move...

He pushes more firmly into Haru's back for a bit, in a little stretch.

"If it's not working at all now's a good time to say so."

"I think it wouldn't work at a really high level, I'd drop focus on the game, so probably we shouldn't count on it after an intense dungeon where I have to keep a million monsters from noticing I'm burgling their house, but it works when it's only about this much."

"Well, guiding is... Startlingly nice even without doing something else at the same time. I mean-"

He pauses, obviously tense.

"It is yeah. - I don't want to, like, scare you off, come on too strong -"

"I have read online that clear communication is important for healthy interpersonal relationships."

"I'm scared of sexual things and have no experience with them aside from porn. It's- Entirely different, being, actually close to an actual person who might- Things. I don't know what I want except- Not to fuck it up. Guiding is nice. I'm having mental images of your back. I don't have a principled objection to sex and - well - do look at porn and - I'm worried about being more straight than bent and this being bad and disappointing and ruining things and. Any more detail than that is blocked by this heavy sick ball of fear in my gut."

"Might be easier when you're down to zero?"