Tae-gun and Hye-jin's schedule is cleared for the day after their race, and despite Tae-gun's insistence Quasar refuses to assign him anything. As a result, he spends the day flip-flopping between hoping there's an emergency call and hating himself for hoping for that. It's good that there are no dungeon-related emergencies in Korea right now! It's good that they can mostly hold the fort without him even if they clear fewer dungeons than they otherwise would. It's good that there are no dungeons abroad in such dire straits that it's worth sending him to them (it's been over a month since the last time he was deployed abroad, ugh). These are good things! He shouldn't be miserable.
Understood? He shouldn't be miserable!!!
So he spends the day shouldn'ting being miserableing practising double-bladed melee movements against a training dummy at home (he could have gone to the Quasar gym to train against other espers but he'd feel too embarrassed) and when he and Kim Hye-jin receive their updated schedule early that evening he immediately texts her to ask to meet and discuss.
