"Let's hit the tent -" Haru pulls him out of the dungeon and they float down on polite portal floaty physics to the bottom of the apartment stairwell in which this dungeon secreted itself. Haru hums a little mnemonic while he responsibly divests himself of guns and then is much sloppier and more hurried about losing the bag and shirt. "Are you okay - it's probably not time to postmortem that but we should later."

"I'm sorry I'm not a very good partner."

"You're doing great but also please take off your shirt."

Okay, shirt off. Guiding is difficult to mess up, thankfully.

Hug. "Oh that's better. Most of them have everybody in pretty similar situations."

Right he needs to talk. That sounds difficult but he'll try.

"Most- Esper partnerships?"

"Most dungeons. - it's the wrong time for a postmortem but I'm failing at conversation topics, I should bring like a list in the future."

"Me too. Um. Ummmm... Journey to the West, did you end up reading it or is it on the list? I could talk about it."

"I grabbed a few different translations to see which I liked best and I'm leaning toward sticking with Yu's but I haven't gotten far in it yet."

"I read the Jenner version. I have heard it's less rigid and accurate in order to be more readable."

"I don't remember off the top of my head if that's one of the ones I got, I should check when I can read."

"Um... Should I talk about it or not? I think the first parts are mostly about Sun Wukong's life. It's really quite long, the whole thing."

"Please go right ahead and talk about it, stories which have withstood the test of time are not ruined by spoilers."

"Sun Wukong is kind of an idiot, it's a core part of his character. He's often reckless, lazy, selfish... And delights in causing other people problems. But like, he learns better. Slowly. Eventually. And something about that..."

"Something about it?"

"He's sympathetic to many despite a really terrible period of bad behavior. I, especially like this, feel like that's... Foolishness. A mistake."

"A mistake to be sympathetic to him?"

"Yeah."

"During or after his character development?"

"During. Then again he does invade Hell and steal its records so that no monkey may be damned. Just monkeys though."

"That's very specific!"

"And he also invades the Heavens and steals a lot of stuff up there and respects nobody at all."

"Respect for the heavens may be overrated but I guess whether I approve of it in this specific case depends on what he stole and stuff."

"All the peaches that make you immortal. Plus some guy's special immortalizing alchemy. Plus the Jade Emperor's special immortalizing wine stash. He ate all of these things and became super extra immortal."

"Was the peach tree okay?"