Haru swallows, and then hugs Yutaka hard.

Yutaka's face slowly fades from its slack-jawed state of emotional inertia into something akin to horror. He hugs Haru back and hides in Haru's shoulder. Oh my God that was so mortifying I'm so ridiculous when I'm hypnotised oh my God.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

—are you freaking out about the mind control. Haru I didn't consent under threat. You own every part of me and that includes my mind. I'm—actually really happy right now. Embarrassed, but happy.

Well it felt incredibly gross and I had better really pull off my note to self about it so I never have to do it again. Yamanaka wasn't in the room, if you're not mortified about me hearing what you said what is there to be mortified about?

...honestly I don't know, I think I'm just Japanese.

It looks so uncomfortable to be Japanese sometimes.

Well it got me to meet you so it wasn't all bad.

Fuck I need to stop.

I... need to think, but...

I need to forget you just said that.

Sorry! Sorry, I cut myself off as soon as I - sorry.

He's breathing kind of hard and shaking a bit. It's fine. Don't worry about it. I've been very good about quashing every—about not thinking. I can keep doing that.

Sorry.

Its fine, he repeats.

Okay. Haru takes a deep breath and releases Yutaka. "Thank you, Yamanaka-san."

"No problem."

Yutaka stands up and bows. "Thank you, Yamanaka-san," he says, heartfelt. "I'll see you later for some monster hunting?"

"Of course!"

"—oh, right, today's Monday, we're gonna find an upgraded version of the origami witch that has extra phases and becomes more evil and like super fast, I'll share the strat later."

"You are a useful guy to know, Iwasaki-san."

"I try to be! I hope this is our last loop but if it isn't I'll make sure to get even better strats next time."

Thumbs up.

Haru bows to Yamanaka and sees himself out.

Yutaka follows after Haru and then, after a fraction of a second of fighting facial expressions, settles on a smile and a, "I'll see you later, then?"