"Oh."

"Useful!"

"I, um. Yeah. I feel kind of stupid now, actually. ... Am I already checked in at the hotel?? Without having to do it myself??? Does this have the - oh, it does have the room number. Okay. I guess. I'm. Checked in already????"

"You're not stupid," he says instantly. "But that's nice of them."

"I, well, I'm. Still not very good at this. It was nice of them, yeah. Um. ... I think I might want to go check out my hotel room, if that's okay? And you could come with me, if you want to. Or I could join you in your silo after? Whichever..."

She's overthinking this. She knows she is. Unfortunately, knowing she's overthinking things doesn't make her stop.

"...up to you? Um. It might be smart for me to give you some time, uh, away from, um, me," and the insane amount of at-a-distance compatibility they have, "maybe? Alone time is good. And then if you still want to we can—you could come to my silo or I could go to your hotel, whichever, um."

But she doesn't want to stop being around him!!

"Um. ..... I think I'd rather bring you with me to the hotel room, ifthat'sokay, alone time is good but I don't think I want it right now, though if you do that's fine, my main concern is making sure we, um, have condoms in case there are things we want to do when alone together in a non public place??" Was that presumptuous, that feels so presumptuous, he's going to think she's a weirdo now...

"Oh okay. Do you know the address. Did Quasar give you a teleportation there. I can buy a teleportation there."

"Er, maybe, I'm not sure how to check - oh, yes they did, that seems like a misattribution of resources but I guess they're the ones selling the teleports and I don't super want to run into more jealous fangirls being weirdly cringe at you, probably that's why, is there a way to, like, slot you in to my teleportation to make it more power efficient, probably I should not be worrying about this because it's not actually my job but I'm still not a real combat esper yet so it's all, um, I'm babbling. Help."

He tap tap taps at his screen and then she gets a notification requesting a teleport tagalong.

Oh! Okay! Agreed, and then - blip, teleport. They're in a nice suite. There's a large bed, a wall mounted TV, a desk with a telephone and a card of room service options, and a little fridge and mini-bar, by the door to what is probably the bathroom. The curtains are already closed, and Hye-jin has to summon a mote of light to illuminate the room.

"I suppose that doesn't solve the thing about condoms -" she begins.

Yeah no sorry she's got Korea's only S-rank esper draped over her and kissing her, words are for other people.

She huffs a little laugh into the kiss, but she kisses back. The words were important ones, but they can be shelved for now. They'll just avoid the pregnancy problem the way they had last time, and Hye-jin will bravely continue to live in a world where she does not get to be railed by her partner. One day. One day.

She drops her bag, tosses the room keys onto the nearby table, then wraps her arms around him and enjoys herself.

Yeah condoms can happen later it is naked makeouts with his hot new partner time.

Sounds good to her! Those pesky clothes were just in their way, anyway.

She's a very snuggly partner, even while asleep. He is waaaaarm and guiding is so niiiice.

Guiding is SO nice.

...wait, guiding?

He opens his eyes, blinking. He is... somewhere. That isn't his silo. And there's someone snuggling up to him. Is it Si-yeon-hyung? Except, they're not partners anymore, and they weren't this compatible, so who—

Right. Yes. Kim Hye-jin. His new partner. Who is so cute and nice and smart and talented and hot aaaaand they're both naked together in bed in a fancy hotel room and he has morning wood and um.

His movement causes her to stir a little! She nuzzles him.

He shouldn't wake her up. So he will just hold VERY STILL.

Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Is he planning to just stay perfectly still until the end of time, for fear of waking her up?

He needs to pee.

He will... caaaaarefully so carefully try to disentangle himself from her...