... Wow.

Gotta say that if that's what it took I'm not sorry I'm keeping Quasar at arm's length tbh.

Anyway thanks I'm good, I will accept my notes on how to get outside help and I will only mildly distrust them as traps.

competence in this guild is very noncentralised

has its perks but also its down sides

you can let whoever know if there's any other things you do need or want btw

Can do.

Might not, but I will be aware I can.

Thanks though, really. ^_^

yeah 'course

Online forums are abuzz with activity, that one fraction of a second of a change in facial expression of Lee Tae-gun's fuelling all sorts of discussion and speculation. For him to do something as reckless as racing through dungeons and then look like that at the end, well... Kim Hye-jin must be something really special, right? Lee Tae-gun never lost his composure like that in public before, not even when he had other partners (and there's heated discussion about which of his prior partners should've been the most likely to cause a reaction, with Kang Jaeha being the most popular one).

Of course this results in the Korean public—or the part of the Korean public that's really into espers, at least—to really start digging into Kim Hye-jin. It is unanimously believed that Tae-gun is a step up from Hye-jin's Japanese partner, but there's a growing contingent of people who think that she is also a step up from Kang Jaeha, despite both of them being A-rank espers. There just isn't really much that can compete with the kind of bullshit they just pulled, and it makes people speculate that maybe Hye-jin should be promoted to S-rank, too.

Tae-gun's official social media pages just don't engage with the thirsty masses begging for any more scraps of information, and the official traditional media outlets run a very flattering story in parallel to Park Eun-ji's blog post: the two espers wanted to challenge themselves, test their backlashes, and bond; it got a bit out of hand, but they knew what they were doing and took many reasonable precautions; other espers are cautioned against trying something like this and encouraged to seek their guilds or other support structures for guidance and care. Neither Kim Hye-jin nor Lee Tae-gun give official interviews, and their words as relayed by Quasar (with both of their consent) reinforce that message.

...but, really, the overall tone of all outlets, official and non, is that Korea has probably managed to score an incredible new asset in their struggle against dungeons. Everyone is rooting for Kim Hye-jin.

...not everyone.