"Eeenh."

He is, again, welcome to elaborate on that if he wants.

He doesn't actually feel like it. Dishes are all in the dishwasher. He sits back down.

Cool. Now on to suffering some consequences, this time in the form of feeling ambiently bad without knowing why and wanting to do something with himself and not knowing what.

...he'll just go exercise, how about. That's usually good to get his mind off things, and he hasn't exercised in, like, two days or something.

Haru takes a shower while Jaeha's at that, but comes out with pajama pants on. He's out before the timers on the cornbread and chili beep.

Jaeha takes a shower, himself, after that, and then they can have dinner, he supposes. It's been kind of an eventful day and he's tired but at least there won't be any Korean lessons tonight.

Yeah, Haru's pretty quiet when he's not backlashed or committing any bureaucratic murders. Though close analysis of his facial expressions might guess that he's sending murdery emails.

"So, uh, what exactly did happen, something about changing exams...?"

"Yeah. They were having an American contractor grade their SWAT cadet exams, which included fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. The contractor raised their prices, so they switched to a purely multiple choice test, and then in a separate unforced error also lowered the threshold of the score required to pass, with some idea that they'd compensate by making the test longer. Also they recently, for some kind of stupid political reason, fired one of the teachers who was notorious for driving people out of the school if they fucked around during practicals. So several morons got through the cohort that graduated in the fall."

"...well fuck all of these people very much, what the fuck."

"Yeah, I'm going to call the teacher who got fired at a politer hour and see if I can convince her to return with this ammunition in her pocket."

"Godspeed, get some idiots fired."

"Yeah, I'm hoping I don't have to escalate to organizing a strike but it's crossed my mind."

"Have there been other incidents? Worse ones? You mentioned Rhombus."

"Had a dungeon with unannounced particulates, yeah. I don't know of any worse ones but wouldn't necessarily have already heard about more close calls, like, if you were asking Rhombus herself, she wouldn't know about my snowglobe dungeon."

"...I hope no one actually died to these people's incompetence but it's been months, that might be optimism."

"Yeah. I think probably, most of the time, their squadmates are covering them. The snowglobe dungeon would've been particularly unpleasant and also boring for the SWAT guys. It kept shaking, and there were no monsters for them to be on the lookout for."

"I have no idea what would even possess someone to do that. Got spooked by the shaking? But it'd been shaking forever! And why wouldn't they notify the team before doing it, that's basic protocol, even when you see the dimensional instability five inches from your face you're meant to report it first!"

"Well, you see, they would've failed the good test, if they even got as far as sitting the exam."

"I really hope someone gets fired over this."

"Oh, several people, at least three SWAT guys - though really I want the whole cohort to take the proper exam to keep their jobs - and the proctor I spoke to and the genius whose idea it was to switch tests for budgetary reasons."

"Did he start cursing you out, was that why you brought up recording the call?"

"It was actually mostly minced oaths but he was definitely trending toward the verbal abuse."

"This does not reveal very good forethought of his part."

"Well, if he were any good at forethought..."