[Hmm, yes, now he's asked. Hazel will still have to sit down and have a proper crisis over ascending to fake godhood, or whatever, but he does have Jae-Ha here with him to make it work. And he'll have to keep Jae-Ha out of too much trouble in return, and make sure he doesn't fall apart from his missing young lady and all of his shinki problems in the meantime. They're both a real cumbersome mess to handle, aren't they?

Looking at his soup like that... just makes it more obvious!! Hazel nudges him again.]

That's more like it. [Stirring his soup... let him try speaking without surrounding everything serious in sass, hmm.] I know it ain't well-timed, sayin' this with your Yona leavin' so recently and all, but I think I lucked out, havin' ya come to me.

[Damn look at this Interesting Soup.]