It would have been, if... not quite like this. But certainly fighting Shadows produces quite a bit of money.

"I'm certainly not going to turn down company." Especially not that of someone who is, however adjacently, important to the most precious person in Haru's life.

A cognitive waiter comes by to take their orders; after they depart, Haru says, "Forgive me if this is an intrusion, but I'm getting the sense that you had... a rather dramatic change of fortunes, compared to the story as I know it."

Compared, Akako can reasonably assume, to the story as most Goros here have lived it.