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Haru is not to zero when he goes out to dungeon 3 but he's close enough to not be at risk of introducing himself to monsters. Off with him.
Jaeha will not actively try to interact with Cricket, this time. He'll do some dishes and try to get some more reading done and—
—Haru has a blog? Oh that's such excellent source of information for what interests him! He's glad he ran into it.
Haru has actually had a blog about espers and dungeons since before he awakened, though it was more amateur when he was sixteen. He used to do more book reviews/summaries/commentaries, before, and not so many photos, though he's hardly the first person to bring a camera into a dungeon and did occasionally include illustrative snapshots from other photographers. He has a lot of interviews after the point at which he's been an esper for a few months - the pattern, if Jaeha looks at timestamps, is a nearly-wordless photo upload from a dungeon, Haru answering comments on the photos, and then hours later a more substantive post with an interview of an esper or dungeon researcher or author or support staffperson, and/or some more verbal reflection on the nature of the dungeon and what it most resembled and what he noticed about the profile of who it kidnapped if there was one. There's also posts about Cricket, mostly around the time when Haru gets him, but occasionally also photo posts with Cricket in them as apologies for periods of low update activity.
Oh okay that is kind of interesting, actually. Not the Cricket pictures, he's salty about Cricket right now, but the interviews and musings are cool. And also that's making him want to look into Haru in more detail; he'll see what he can find out that's publicly available, at least at first.
Haru has actually managed to talk to and take selfies with enough kidnap victims that there are a couple of straight-up fanblogs of him diligently collecting all the pictures of him in his tactical dungeon gear and out of it that are available online! He's very photogenic, probably mostly because he's an esper. Many people are very sad that he's gay. There's also an official British Columbia Espers page and Traceless has a profile there but the fanblogs have already acquired and digested all its contents so it doesn't add much.
Yes Haru is gay and also he is not getting with any of you weird creeps, thank you very much.
Anyway can he find Haru's past partners, other than Yamanaka Junko? How long he's been active for? Who his friends are? ...probably not that last one, not without digging further.
Haru's listed partner in B.C. is this guy codenamed Sparkler, but that seems concurrent with Yamanaka, who he partnered with less than six weeks after his awakening. Haru has an agent, Paula Bescond, with the Maple Esper Agency. Whether he is friends with these people is hard to determine but he's probably hooked up with Sparkler, considering, Sparkler's pretty cute.
He's 20, power is listed as some kind of flashbang situation, no public backlash, actually using the secret identity thing and masking to enough of an extent that his name doesn't come up in a casual inspection. Curly brown hair, million-watt smile, has appeared in a beer commercial. Has a primary partner, "Arctic"; Haru's a part-time secondary.
Oh Jaeha is not being casual about this inspection. He's gonna find out everything there is to know about this dude, he has money and contacts and a mission. ...he maybe won't get everything today if there's anything he'll need to hire an actual investigator for but short of that, he can find people who work at this guy's agency and discover where and with whom he's worked and when he awakened and what his family situation is like and other partners than just the two if there are any and...
The Wayback Machine says Sparkler activated at 19, almost two years ago, and used to partner with an older lady named Harvest Moon; she's since retired and he took up with Arctic then and added Traceless later. Arctic is a 27 year old sensory-power esper who also has another partner, a "Pyramid", but the chain stops there, Pyramid doesn't have anyone else and never has. If he wants to acquire Harvest Moon's self published memoir and follow up on leads about her half-dozen younger male partners over the years he can determine Sparkler's first name, but it's John (Harvest Moon actually refers to him as Johnny), so that won't get him very far.
He can probably find the guy's full name if he pulls some strings and contacts someone who's worked with someone who's owed a favour by the guy's agent or something. That might take a day or two to pan out, depending, but he's casting his net wide for any more info he can get.
The number one most important thing to learn, though, is why he's occasionally partnering with Haru, if he has a primary partner already. Can he find that out? If there's some problem that means Johnny's primary partner isn't enough Jaeha is interested in finding out what that problem is and how to solve it.
Sparkler works with Maple, same as Haru, but the agent is some other guy (whose name, like Paula's, is not hard to find). Arctic is working sans agent at the moment but used to have somebody in Mead & Neveux till last year. There is an unfinished documentary about espers in the advertising industry which features an interview with Sparkler about the beer commercial, in which -
Jaeha is so down to give Haru a massage. Approximately anything Haru asks for, really, and this isn't even hard to do. Plus of course the guiding means that it's good for Jaeha, too.
Yes he does. The best partner who will kiss him goodbye and pop out for dungeon #4 when his timer goes off.
And now it's back to figuring out what's up with Sparkler and how he can make sure Sparkler isn't available for future Haru guiding.
(It might be nothing. Maybe just having Jaeha around will be enough. But it doesn't hurt to be sure.)
If he socially engineers himself the script of the French dub of the unfinished documentary he can learn what high school Sparkler attended and narrow it down to 23 Johns/Johnathans/Jons/Jonathans/one Jonah just to be sure, some of whom he can tentatively rule out by hair color and the rest of whom mostly precipitate out by having alibis for times at which Sparkler was accounted for. Sparkler's legal name is John Parker Halliwell and he has a house in Belcarra and posts on Facebook about his dog all the time. Two brothers who are still in high school, parents in downtown Eastside in Vancouver, cover occupation as a bartender.