His actual personality. Right. Sure. 

"Like?" ...also he'd been in the middle of getting himself food so he might as well resume that.

"Like, you haven't been - doing boundary-testing lashing out type stuff, so that's nice, for example."

...why would he do that. What. 

"I suppose I haven't." This was all so embarrassing and he wishes he'd managed to hold out for more than a few days before popping due to the pressure. Way to go on that emotional stability thing, Kang Jaeha.

"And you're not, like, spending money ridiculously, or trying to intimidate me or manipulate me, or - this has gone incredibly smoothly all considered, seriously."

"...you really don't need to reassure me. I was just curious."

"Okay. - now I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to give you my name that doesn't result in you being super Korean about it because I normally go by a shortening of my middle name and I'm kind of allergic to formality. For the reverse reason you might want to consider going by a codename once you're out and about because Westerners will very certainly mangle whatever transforms you want them to perform on your name and you didn't even tell me what to call you clearly enough that I have since that time in fact called you anything."

"...I'm perfectly used to foreigners calling me 'Mr. Kang,' but I'm not sure I'd be able to keep a straight face if people started calling me by a codename. You can call me whatever you want, I'm not going to kick up a fuss because you don't know the arcane honorifics my native language uses especially when we're not even speaking it."

"Okay. Though, like, your codename can literally be Mr. Kang, if you want.

"I'm Haru."

"And that's... not a codename," he clarifies. It doesn't exactly sound like one but it barely sounds like a name! "Right, you did just say you don't like formality," which apparently means not even actually telling Jaeha what the actual name that he's not going to be using is!

"It's what my parents and my cat and my non-work friends call me!"

"I see."

"Then it's a pleasure to meet you, Haru. I'm Kang Jaeha."

"Nice to meet you too. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot."

That's a hilariously insane thing to say. He is not going to engage with it because it would involve a lot more lying than he's quite comfortable with right now.

"So you mentioned your partner uses her power accidentally and then her backlash was... social anxiety?"

"Something like that. I don't know a lot of the details because I have never had a conversation with her. Because of her backlash being something like social anxiety."

"I don't really know anything about this due to, you know, having been in prison, but..." He taps his bracelet. "Surely this isn't one-of-a-kind?" And if it is, is he really the best use of this tech? They could just kill him and find someone else better.

"I did not encounter anyone offering to sell her one so she can retire, but it's worth looking into, I'll suggest it to her brother next time I talk to him."

"Do you know... where it came from? If it had existed seven years ago, I—" He needs to stop himself from considering what-ifs like that. They'll drive him insane. "Never mind."

"Dungeon material. But the dungeon's dead, so."

"It's always the case, with these things."

"Yeah. If they'd known it would do that it might have made the cut for dungeons to let go, but that's a very very short list and controversial to have at all, I don't know Korean policy on it."

"We never let any of them actually go, but any that look mineable or useful get the core placed next to the door and at least one sensor who can keep an eye on new kidnaps at all times plus a teleporter who can do last-minute rescues if the dungeon kidnaps someone and tries to flee before we can get them out. So we're generally very conservative about it and it's almost never done."

"Yeah. Zoo won't take any critters from live dungeons in case the Vadodara incident marks a consistent pattern, too, sometimes I've got to hold a beastie in a warehouse for a few days till they're done harvesting shit."

Alright his reheated frozen food is now reheated, he'll go to the table to eat it. "And this zoo..."

"Ontario Monster Park! Pays for itself these days but I think capturing and studying monsters is probably part of any story that concludes with us knowing what the fuck is up with dungeons so I pushed it into existence as soon as I found people who were willing to run it, and I still supply a lot of the exhibits, I have a good powerset for live capture."