"Oh good. Hopefully now we can settle in properly."

"Yes."

And then breakfast and studying Japanese?

"Do either of you want to come grocery shopping?"

"...not especially?"

"No, thank you, Swan-san."

"All right, but we will read the ingredients together when I get back," she says, wagging a finger smilingly, and off she goes.

Kennedy smiles back, and returns to her studies.

She should probably practice her pronunciation some, by itself and by herself, instead of in a conversation where she's also thinking about picking words.

She heads to her room.

"...Haru?"

"何ですか?"

He showed her a picture of a dungeon portal and it was not this.  "Would you come here, please?"

"Okayyyy..." Up he gets. "WHAT."

"I don't know!"

A man in a T-shirt stands up from a bar stool. "- Hello!  Come on in."  He approaches them but leaves enough space that they don't have to walk especially close to him to get past.

"Who are you and what are you and your restaurant doing in my apartment?" Haru demands in English.

"It's not my restaurant, but the name's Julien.  I just got here a bit ago, the same as you - the door I'd meant to go in instead led to an interdimensional bar."

Kennedy steps inside.

"What happens if we go in?" Haru says, still hanging back.

"Uh, so, apparently, if you let the door close behind you, time stops in your universe until you open it again?  I tested this with my phone clock and it does seem to be the case; it snapped back to the time I left when I let it reconnect to the network."

"I should leave Mama a note." Scribble scribble. There that's done. In he goes.

There are several other people hanging around.  Julien sits back in his spot.  "So, yeah, it's called Milliways, apparently; the bar's a person and she can communicate through text on napkins.  I'm Julien, as I've said; Doucet."

"Kennedy Norton, sir."

"Haru Swan." He creeps toward the bar curiously.

"That's - Haru Swan??"

"...like the bird. Yeah. Iiiif you're speaking English. I am because I'm not great at Japanese yet and this is important."