[ it's another ordinary day for kaoru, which means sitting alone in his room, curtains drawn save for the one view of the ocean, and losing himself completely in The World.
haseo hasn't been online all day, though, and this is troubling him. he's sure he's just busy, but everything is just... better with haseo around. more fun. he rarely bothers to join a party and dungeon crawl at all if haseo isn't in it.
so kaoru is just a little bit melancholy when he hears an aggressively loud knock at the door. and then another, and another. under normal circumstances, his mother would answer it, but his mother is out of town, so...
kaoru bottles up his anxiety and resigns himself to his fate. ]
... Yes?
[ he opens the door only a crack to peer out, and then kaoru blinks. is he seeing things? has he been staring at a screen that long? ]