"...I'm starting to think there's some serious disconnect here. Sunbae, he mind-controlled you. He probably dictionary-attacked her. It's been over half a decade and clearly he's still not over you and if he isn't he's not going to play fair either. What he did to you wasn't just being a shitty boyfriend, sunbae, it was an actual crime, and we have no reason to believe he's changed."

"You said you'd keep an eye on him. You and the guild president. To see if he ever... did the same to someone else."

"He hasn't, as far as either of us knows, but it's starting to seem like the reason why is that he's still gunning for you."

No. No. That's enough panic attacks for one day. He's going to process that later. 

"I need to talk to Hye-jin about this."

"Yes! You do! And since we've got you back this far can we please wash this puke off us, I've been trying to ignore the smell but it's really getting to me."

...ah. Yeah. Right. He can—stand up, getting them into his bathtub was a great idea, good job Woo-young.

"...and by the way? Fuck this sunbae bullshit. From now on I'm calling you hyung. We've been well past that point for years but I think once you puke on someone the least you can do is let them do that."

"Yeah. Fine. You can call me hyung, Woo-young-ah."

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here, I didn't say you could call me that."

Tae-gun laughs and turns the cold water on directly on both of them.

"Ack! You're such an asshole, sun—hyung."

"Right back at you."

Hye-jin is still in her silo, systematically working through options for dealing with her latest, well, not dungeon, but. Threat. The security footage from the bookstore was a bust; she managed to check it with a combination of lying about losing her purse and bribery, but mysteriously, it was corrupted. Somehow. So. Damn it, he’s not stupid and he’s not careless. It has to be something the bastard doesn’t know about, and can’t get to first. That means private stuff.

She has a legal document sent to Lucid asking them to please leave her the fuck alone. It makes her look a little crazy, and it’ll probably end up public, but who cares, she’s looked crazy before. She orders little wearable microphones that can be used for recording audio, and sets up a server based in fucking America, so there’s no way he can get at anything she saves. She checks the security footage from her house, which she will still use for now but not plan to stay in long term. She’ll have to see about having a custom, secret house built somewhere, off grid, like some kind of madwoman. If she has to boil her own water for electricity every morning, fine. Maybe she’ll have it be underground. She doesn’t know. But that’ll take time, so for now she can live out of the house that has cruelly been stolen from her by her partner’s creepy mind controlling ex.

What’s next? Different locations across Korea to teleport to in order to check over her evidence? Yeah, okay. He can’t be literally everywhere at once, he’s as human as any esper, mind powers or not.

But this is all defensive, how does she kill him…? In a dungeon is the obvious location, but ideally she’d want to be out of range of his powers, and make it look like the dungeon did it. But she can’t just burn him alive if she sees him again, because he could trick her into burning someone innocent, because mind! Control! Is the worst! So it needs to be verifiable from an outside source, and….

Look, she’s got a lot to do.