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"Unclear, we've only just barely got sensors on the ground, dungeon might be weird, but seems likely. Ready? Ready. Cool, you're on."

He teleports both of them.

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The area has been surrounded by yellow tape as usual, but there's a lot more activity than Hye-jin and Tae-gun have seen in their dungeons together so far. The professional buzz surrounding the place seems oddly incongruent with the warm late-morning sun and the sea breeze. This being a popular touristic destination, there are quite a lot of people just beyond the yellow tape ogling and taking pictures.

As soon as Tae-gun and Hye-jin teleport in, people start calling their names like they're K-pop stars who just walked in on stage.

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A tall, fit man with silver-green hair and pink irises, about the same age as Tae-gun, appears out of (not literally) nowhere to one-arm hug Tae-gun. "Yeowza, I wish they called my name like that! Must feel good to be on top."

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Tae-gun pushes the man's arm away and doesn't reply, opting instead to look around for where they're congregating—oh. Right here. Good job, Woo-young, he doesn't have to walk at all and so has no excuse to escape Park Yoo-min.

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Woo-young himself is sitting on a fold-up chair, holding hands with a younger-looking guy with black hair and green eyes, looking at three different screens and coordinating.

"Sunbae, we still have a few minutes before you and Kim Hye-jin have to go in, why don't you introduce her to some people?" he says, without looking up.

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...ugh, he's using his professional voice, that means he's serious.

"Kim Hye-jin, these are Park Yoo-min-sunbae," green hair, "and Seo Tae-hwan," black hair.

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"Yo!" says Yoo-min with a huge grin and a two-finger salute. "Big fan!"

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"Pleasure to meet you all," says Kim Hye-jin, with a polite and extremely Japanese bow. "Despite the circumstances."

That being said, she's totally going to peer over Woo-young's shoulder and attempt to make sense of the screens, because she's a little workaholic snoop and wants to know all of the things.

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He's looking at the preliminary map of the dungeon from the first sensor they sent in earlier as well as a tactical map of the locations in Busan people were kidnapped from, plus keeping an eye on a rapidly-updating public emergency chat channel.

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"Park Yoo-min-sunbae is combat-specialised and has lightning powers, his partner Choi Seungjoo-sunbae is defensively-specialised and does momentum redirecting." He doesn't bring up their ranks at all, which is pretty unlike Kim Hye-jin's experience with guilds in Japan. "Seo Tae-hwan, ah..."

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Tae-hwan, who had gotten up and bowed too (without letting go of Woo-young's hand), straightens up and says, cheerfully, "Today I'm useless! I'll be managing Woo-young-hyung's backlash while he plays rescue hero."

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"Handholding is a sacred and important duty, it is known," agrees Hye-jin, a little amused, even as she's eyeing the preliminary map.

"Tae-gun-sunbae and I can safely split up, if you need this to be three-pronged instead of two," she then volunteers, because it's looking like it'll be relevant. "He'd be better at ranged attackers, but I can handle melee just fine."

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"Waiting on Yun Minseo-sunbae's confirmation but it's looking like this one might be the type that likes to rearrange itself. Whether that means you two had better split up than stay together is not my wheelhouse. Incoming."

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There's a flash of light and a man in his early twenties with short black hair and purple eyes shows up.

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"Seungjoo-ya!" exclaims Yoo-min, running over to the new person's side and tackle-hugging him.

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He endures about a second of this before pushing Yoo-min away and looking at Kim Hye-jin. "Kim Hye-jin? I am Choi Seungjoo. It's a pleasure to meet you," he says, bowing.

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"Unless Minseo-sunbae reports a much more complex dungeon than we're expecting this should be the whole team," Woo-young says.

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"The pleasure is mine," she says, bowing back. Then, back to business. "Yun Minseo-sunbae is the sensor esper that works spatially, correct?" This is directed at her partner, because she doesn't want to waste Woo-young's precious attention right now.

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He nods. "Yun Minseo-sunbae's in a triangle with Kim Da-eun-sunbae and Baek Ji-woo-sunbae, shields and healing respectively."

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"That's such a good triad of powers," sighs Hye-jin enviously. Look, being able to set monsters on fire is great and all, but sometimes she really wishes she had something that was practical for, you know. Other things. ... Technically she can boil water to produce electricity, but that's not a very interesting other thing, so it doesn't count. Her powers, her rules. "So we should be on the lookout for anything immaterial or mind affecting. Are the civilians ambulatory, being held somewhere, or something else?"

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"Unclear!" says Park Yoo-min. He's now got one arm lazily draped around Seungjoo's shoulders, standing on the other side of Woo-young from Hye-jin, also looking at the screens. "No civilians have come out yet, and the first group didn't find any. Minseo's going to bring us all the info once she's out, meantime we're just chewing on our fingernails impatiently."

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"Mm. Well, if they're tucked safely out of the way I can just set myself on fire for any incorporeal surprises."

She says this very matter-of-factly.

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Tae-hwan looks up at her, blinking dumbly. "Wouldn't that... hurt?"

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"She's probably immune to her own fire. But most importantly, does that—"

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Seungjoo elbows him.

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