"Okay. Let me know if you change your mind and need the day off instead. I will try to send you off to your personal silo if you start, I don't know. Yelling your secrets through the door or something, but. I'm not going to be offended if you don't trust that and want further safety measures for yourself."

"Okay."

Woo-young has some kind of facial expression. He's not even sure what it is, but probably some mixture of exasperation, fondness, disbelief, and humorous glee. "I think we're done, then?"

"I think so! Uh. ... Let me know if you want to another tactics talk for our dungeons today, we would probably be fine without it but," she likes them, "they definitely help our operational efficiency I think."

"—oh. Yeah. I'd like that."

Woo-young bites down on a joking remark about their relationship because neither of them would appreciate it and instead just rolls his eyes. They deserve each other, honestly.

"That'll be on the Guild's dime," he says, standing up. "Hye-jin, we need to get drunk again sometime." He winks. "But for now I'll be off."

“Sure, thank you for being our intermediary. It’s appreciated. Now go forth, be free~!”

Light flashes and he's gone.

...along with his phone, so Tae-gun texts Kim Hye-jin.

Shall we discuss today's dungeons, then? 

I reviewed yesterday's performance again before sleep last night and I think I have a couple of ideas about efficiency improvements we could try.

Sounds good! Do you want to have this conversation in person? I kind of want to take every available attempt to chip away at your backlash without doing anything that actually makes you uncomfortable.

Yeah. I'm not actively backlashing right now.

I'd be kind of alarmed if you were tbh! My (still temporary, promise) silo for now?

Yes, that works.

He requests a teleport (off the Guild's storage of Woo-young's power, rather than from Woo-young directly), and vanishes.

Then they can meet there! And have their tactics talk! Hye-jin is just as delighted by tactics talk as ever, and! And! She has figured out the program he gave her and and loves it very much.

...yeah, he's. Glad it's been useful to her.

... She notices this hesitancy and discomfort, and switches topics. Back to directly breaking down their scheduled dungeons and how their abilities can be leveraged to efficiently destroy them. That seems to be a topic he likes much better.

Yeah that is in fact a topic he is a lot less touchy about. If nothing else he can—

Both of their phones buzz at the same time with an emergency alert, and their commscreens get a notification.

Well. This was bound to happen eventually.

All right, where are they heading, and how bad's the damage.

A dungeon appeared in Busan, floating ten meters above the pavement in a hidden-away corner in Haeundae-go district, and started quietly kidnapping locals and tourists.

Woo-young video calls both of them on their commscreen.

He picks up.

"Hello, hello, this is the taxi service calling, I believe you've ordered a trip to Busan? The dungeon hasn't spewed out any monsters yet, but the number of kidnapped people is already in the double digits and Busan is busy this time of year, don't know if you knew that, Hye-jin. They're figuring high-B or low-A, but big. You in?"

"Obviously."

"Of course," she says, nodding. "We're tip off the spear to draw monsters away from civilians and rescue, yeah?"