Eheheheheheheh.

A-rank in the morning, themed around a haunted theme park that gives people this weird conviction that they're still children without actually messing with any other memories or perceptions of theirs. The effect seems to be kind of sticky, but the dungeon appeared only about an hour ago so they're not sure of much more. Jaeha can probably just stay outside and shield people and clear effects while Haru can go in and help rescue people trapped in rides from hell with evil clowns or FNAF-inspired demonic animatronics or what-have-you.

Sounds legit. How early are they meant to get up for that, maybe they should turn in.

Pretty early, they're expected there at seven-thirty.

"We should crash, might be our best night of sleep for a while."

"Yeah. Probably.

"...I love you." He's starting to get really fond of this whole "saying 'I love you'" thing, it felt weird at first but it makes him feel really giddy and warm inside.

"I love you too, my Jaeha."

And bedtime.

And bedtime.

And then wakeup time. Jaeha does not love having to wake up earlier than usual but he is not one of those people with very specific and rigid sleep schedules or who gets super fucked up when it changes, so he's just mildly bleary and in need of some very strong coffee.

Haru puts an ice cube and a generous squirt of Hershey's syrup and a splash of cream in his coffee and chugs it, pulls a hardboiled egg out of the fridge and starts sprinkling salt on that for the rest of his breakfast and munches through it dutifully, and checks for updates on the dungeon.

The effect is definitely sticky: after spending long enough under it, people start feeling uncomfortable with their senses of self and memories of their lives that are incompatible with how young they feel, with the end results varying a lot per person, as is usual for dungeons that mess with people's minds like that. The inside of the dungeon also looks a bit too big for it to be a first timer but it doesn't match any known records of escaped dungeons. It's a confluence, so it might well be a first timer anyway, but it might also be an unrecorded dungeon, or even a recorded one that refined its schtick beyond recognition while it was out.

Or it's from Indonesia because they do not have their shit together in Indonesia! In Haru goes, extracting people from roller coaster restraints and the tilt-a-whirl, gunning down clowns.

Meanwhile Jaeha shields espers and clears the psychic effects off people.

Honestly, he sometimes wishes he were a bit less OP? Like, other espers have trouble with this stuff, they need to be careful pulling dungeon yuck off people, making sure they don't break anything or cause extra damage, but Jaeha? All he has to do is kind of wave over people and poof all of the bad is gone nothing is damaged everything is fine, he doesn't even get much feedback from it other than that yep it sure did work. It makes his work occasionally really fucking boring.

And they're not in the dungeon together, which means Haru can't chatter at him and is reduced to going "hey kids, this ride's busted, we're getting you back to your family now, 'kay?" and suchlike, at least when he's not taking a guiding break.

Guiding breaks: the very few times when he remembers why he's doing all of this in the first place. Not just because he loves Haru with the very marrow in his bones, but also because it lets him remember that good things exist and are good.

Good things exist and are good! Haru can kiss this knowledge directly into the Jaeha.

He caaaaaan~

(Also he's kind of glad he's not in the dungeon itself because he is a bit of a wuss and a scaredy cat. He doesn't like horror movies or horror dungeons.)

Haru is being restrained with the photography, but he is wearing a camera that will not distract him from his job to compensate. Jaeha of course is under no obligation to look at the scary mascots.

Yeah he would prefer not to if it's all the same to Haru.

Honestly Haru's not likely to get through them himself till after the confluence beyond, like, making sure that the camera's working.

The dungeon turns out to be large enough, and has kidnapped and is kidnapping enough people, that they're pretty sure it's a repeat of some kind. Its core hasn't been found by the time Jaeha and Haru's shift ends, so they're going to be sending in a more powerful sensor/tracker soon once one can be spared. They might ask Jaeha to clear some more victims once that happens.

Before they can rest much, though, they get an emergency warning for another dungeon that seems to be spewing out psychically invisible monsters.

Yep. That's a confluence alright.

Is it in a place where Haru can safely shoot them or are there civilians all over?

It has the problem that the monsters tend to follow civilians so if they evac there will be monsters following civilians home which will be harder to contain. It has the secondary problem that they're just receiving the report that these monsters bud. It has the tertiary problem that they have the ability to hover, not so high that Haru wouldn't be able to get to them but high enough that melee is impossible most of the time.

Bright sides: they're kind of slow, and once a person is psychically shielded they completely lose interest and move on.

So, Haru carries Jaeha in flight, Jaeha shields espers and civilians and maybe confuses monsters, Haru shoots them?