The article says that it's really hard to get an esper to come poke someone suspected of awakening because they're false alarms more often than not - it's also a completely normal age range in which to have a bog standard mundane psychotic break or bad drug trip or psychosomatic stress symptom or whatever - and that even if someone is discovered to be awakening, they can almost never get anyone compatible found in time to ease Hell Week. However, there is an esper from Singapore who made a a habit of circulating through hospitals and checking every single suspected awakening personally, as a sort of public service. She found her present partner this way and Haru has excerpts from a machine-translated account of her experience. Apparently she brought the newer esper home with her and the symptoms didn't return to full awakening strength if they were apart for just a few minutes, but trying to sleep in separate beds gave it lots of room to pull up to full strength so they didn't do that.

(While he reads this Traceless is murmuring to Cricket about how Cricket could perhaps fly home and tell Ren what's up.)

It is nice of the showrunners to give him notes on how he can play along in ways that don't get him tortured.  (And also the drugs.)

"Okay, I've read it."

He takes his phone back. "So, yeah, do you want me to bring you to my house for the week, I wouldn't wish an unnecessary full-strength awakening on anyone and I promise not to be weird about it."

"Sure!"  (...What does promising not to be weird about it entail.  He is going to worry about that later.  Hell of a chekhov's gun, but Julien's not going to tear it off the wall before its time.)

"Alrighty. Do you need to call, uh. Starbucks. About being off work for the next week. Or your family or anything."

"...I should text my manager, but I don't actually know her number.  And I can't get into my phone."

"You could see if the franchise has a number listed online?" He offers his cell back.

"I guess, yeah."  Google google google okay.  Answering machine, sure.  "Hi, everyone, it's Julien, I seem to be having an esper awakening and will be back maybe never but definitely not for a week, sorry!  I'm doing pretty okay now but I wasn't earlier, really sorry about that.  Hope you guys are handling it okay.  Miss you," what is he saying "Bye!"  End call.  Phone back to Traceless.

"And hopefully they know who else to call, or will call me back, or something. Anyone else going to notice you've vanished?"

"My housemates?"

"Do you know any of their numbers or should I like, send Cricket to your address to insult all their hairstyles and also incidentally inform them."

Oh rad the simulation is not making him simulate boring detective work, that's really nice of it he would have hated that.  "That would be great!"

"Okay, where are they at -" He pulls up the map app; Cricket hops up beside them to look at it. "Kitty, please do hold it down to hairstyle-grade remarks, I don't mean to ask miracles but this might be a stressful eventuality."

"Maybe their hair is all fine. I won't know till I see them."

Address type!  It's a shame that interacting with this Cricket tells him nothing about the real one; he was curious.

Cricket peers at the map. "Them first or Ren first?" he asks. "They are opposite directions."

"Them first, Ren's probably not even home, I'll text when I can text."

"Keep him company," Cricket sternly instructs Julien, and he trots out of the hospital on this errand.

"I will!"  ...Hm.  - He's not going to worry about that in the middle of a hospital.  Even if it's not a real hospital.  Because he's going home with Traceless and that's going to be a much better place setting for - whatever's going to happen to him.  They're not going to make him do anything weird in a hospital, he doesn't think.  Not based on how things have gone so far.

"Let's see how much of a hassle it is to get you checked out, okay? Also like if anything freaks you out because of your backlash I get it, tell me and we'll troubleshoot, mine dips into delusional stuff sometimes too."

Hahahaha it's not like they don't already know how to hurt and scare him, so it's not like withholding that would do him any good, but:  he sees you, showrunners.  He sees the upcoming beat where he asks to avoid something scary and then that thing gets done to him extra bad, just for the rug-pull of it.  Well the joke's on them!  He will simply always expect this to go poorly.  "Of course!"  But also there's no way that he's going to get good-placed and go along with lots of really upsetting things just because it would be awkward to not.

Really the scary thing here is that even being this smart and savvy is not actually remotely going to prevent him from getting tortured in the long run.  But - it does seem like he can steer, some.  And if he ever gets out of here, maybe having exercised the agency that he could will be instrumental in being able to eventually recover.

"How do you feel about flying to my house, it might pull your backlash down a little quicker but I'll be more annoyingly chatty."

Wow that was fast.  "...With what....... safety equipment?"

"...well we definitely shouldn't do it if you're at risk of actively trying to fling yourself to the ground, but I don't fly very high or all that fast, and I'm more than strong enough to hold on to a person who isn't actively resisting, I do it all the time in dungeons. The alternative is calling an Uber, my car's at home, and I don't know how you currently feel about being across a backseat from me."

"I would... definitely be spending the whole time worried that you were going to drop me," (because Traceless would drop him) "so, yeah, Uber seems fine?"