Out they go. He goes for the vital shots when there are monsters to be shot at.

Three dive bombers and one foot unit who comes around a corner suddenly. His escortee is quite calm and patient. 

"Thank you" - "xiè xie" is a pretty clear phrase with context. And she's shuffled out by support staff.

"Holding up alright?"

"Backlash-wise yes but the lady didn't speak English."

They can do the cheek touching thing again.

"Sadly it'd be a bad use of my backlash to chat. I'm even only borrowing your eyes once every few seconds- Uh, it feels a little weird and invasive, possibly backlash talking, you did agree to that for good reasons right?"

"Yes, if I didn't want you to I'd make you stop. I'm not looking at anything private in there and the map will be useful for looting the place and finding the core after the victims are out."

"Alright. Well, yes, we'll have a pretty solid map when you're done. I'm marking downed monsters too- You passed by one again on your way to her and it was still there-"

"Yeah, I'll circle back and haul them out once the people are taken care of."

"You think it won't turn into a big harvesting operation? -Well, good luck for the third time."

"You never know." Off he trots.

Guy who only speaks French. Young woman in just her underwear. Teenage boy with bloodied hands from trying to work at the cage himself. Esper fangirl who is excited about the kidnapping experience and wants an autograph. Gun nerd who talks Haru's ear off about guns on the way out.

Haru is happy to practice French, he does know some of it from school and is getting the sense that he should work on it a lot. Underwear lady gets a blanket from the swag bag. Teenage boy gets bandages from same. Fangirl gets an autograph but only once they reach the entrance and he's in physical contact with Teddy with the other hand. Gun nerd is a delight! Haru will happily explain what kind of heat he's packing on the way out!

In the break after Gun Nut Guy:

"I feel like I should be doing more, you're accumulating more backlash than me, but this is still the procedure that made the most sense to our unbacklashed selves and none of the support people have said anything..."

"Yeah, the time to change strategies is when this one causes a more serious problem or between dungeons. We're on seven of twenty-two, in four more we can go take a longer halfway-point break - though I hope that one guy is the only one who fucked up his hands, that looked nasty."

"He seemed pretty freaked out. More than the rest. Some people choose violence."

Trucker freaking out about how he has no idea where his load is now, he'll get his pay docked. 

A woman who's not in a cage but is instead on a slowly moving conveyor belt with a spike pit at the end and greased walls, who's been walking for hours now.

The support guys will sign a note for the trucker's boss.

Holy shit that poor woman, he will swoop her right off the conveyor belt.

"Oh thank god. Look, you guys ought to hurry, I go hiking but not everyone does!"

[-I feel sick that I missed this. Two more people who follow the pattern of slowly moving back and forth.]

"Most people aren't on conveyor belts, you got special treatment. I'm going to need to shoot a few monsters on the way out but I can do that while you ride piggyback, if you're all out of walking. My sensor partner'll point me to the others next."

"Oh a sensor? Cool! Uh like I said, I go hiking. I went down and up the Grand Canyon once, I've still got five, ten miles in me, easy, don't wanna slow you down at all. Kendra Mitsov if you're checking lists."

"Support guys will be glad to know that. And we don't need five or ten miles, it's less than one - stick close and we'll get out of here and I'll go back for the others."

"Sure sure. For me this is real unnerving, for you it's Tuesday, eh?"

"I'm still pretty new and my partner's newer, but it's getting there."

"Oops, oh no, there goes the illusion of the flawless dungeon-killing media darlings." She snickers.