He gathers what's left of his sanity and dignity and locks himself in a bathroom and stays there for half an hour. Not all of it is spent on calming his hormones down; a good chunk is spent on gathering the courage to face Min Woo-young after that.

But he does leave, eventually, and the dominant emotion now is anger. "Min Woo-young," he says, in a tone of voice that would terrify most people, coming from the most powerful esper in the country.

Unfortunately for him, Woo-young is not most people. "Sunbae, I literally have seen you like that before, you don't need to work yourself up so much."

"That's—not the point—"

He sighs. "Fine. I'm sorry for showing up unannounced, I didn't mean to catch you like that."

"Seriously! I didn't! You wouldn't tolerate me if I were that kind of person."

...well, granted.

"I also kinda figured that being around Kim Hye-jin would've calmed you down some? Surely you got any guiding."

"I haven't—touched her."

"—wait, for real?"

He nods tightly.

"I'm not going to ask why because I know why, but why. Sunbae—"

"I get some guiding from just being... near her."

"Enough to count?"

"Give me a break, Woo-young, I'm trying."

"...sorry."

He takes a deep, calming breath, then releases it. "You're forgiven."

"I guess that... kind of answers what I came here to ask."

He shrugs. "Wanted to check on you, see how you were doing. You haven't had a partner in years, not since—anyway, it was bound to be important or change things or something. And if I needed to do any kinds of interventions it'd be better to do that earlier rather than later."

"Interventions?"

"Yeah, like yelling at prez. I did a lot of that right after he dropped you on Kim Hye-jin without forewarning because wow that was a stupid idea."

It was?

"I don't think you need to yell at prez for anything?"

"Not now, that was just an example of the kind of thing I mean."