?

Sure, here she goes.

Okay, cool!

She moves to the sink, then carefully and deliberately slices her arm open.

It starts healing near immediately. (Tae-gun can feel a slight increase in her backlash as it closes up, but it's very subtle.)

"Yeah, uh. I have regeneration, and never figured it out because. Where do you test that, I was avoiding injuries."

He aborts the motion to jump up when he sees what she's doing because it is currently Woo-young snuggle time but what the fuck Hye-jin.

"...so you survived and..." He looks up at Tae-gun's face. "You went after her to... save her? You knew she was alive?"

"...I could. Feel her. Her backlash, I mean. And I followed it."

...did he have a plan. What kind of question is that, Woo-young, of course he didn't have a plan.

Oh, like you can judge her, Tae-gun, with your constant use of ice blades for basic tasks even under your mountain of backlash. They've had two sex marathons, one of which was with her racking up as much backlash as possible and therefore eating at a lot of his, and it's barely made a dent in his backlash! Stop doing more things!!! A small slice on her arm is nothing in comparison, really!!!!!

Anyway yes conversation.

"Right, yeah. I was racking up a lot. I, um. Was kind of expecting to die down there, and so started doing my best to take as much of the dungeon with me as I could? Then Tae-gun showed up."

"Which, um. Went. As you can probably guess." Pause. "But also I was burning the dungeon down in the background because I was mad."

".....you literally fucked so hard you destroyed an S-rank dungeon."

See he might've been blushing about that but he's having some emotions about the way Hye-jin just used his personal name there. It was... probably a slip? But he's really not sure how it makes him feel.

"..... Y...yes. Yes we did. Um. And stepped out of the dungeon portal stark naked for all of the world to see. So. That. That's nice."

"But the dungeon is dead now! Which is the really important part."

You should—examine these feelings later. Not now. Now is not the time. 

"What did people outside... think happened?" He and Hye-jin have been in complete isolation since.

"They saw the two of you be ganged up on all of a sudden. They figured... you must've found something, that hadn't happened before—but the dungeon got in the way of letting them help you. Then they saw the, the rock dragon, and they said that everything happened really fast after that but in the end there were several explosions and you were just floating there—they assumed it was you but it's not like they could see more than a dot in the distance—and then you shot into the lava." Everyone thought he was doing some sort of suicidal run to destroy the core or something, assuming that must've been why the dungeon suddenly started trying to kill them.

"Then the dungeon started to get really, really hot, and they evacuated, and—you both went into the lava. We thought—we all thought—"

Ah fuck.

He pulls Woo-young closer.

No, you know what? He's starting to get mad now that he's thinking about it. "Tae-hwan was dead. He was already dead then. He was dead and, and then I hear the two of you were also dead, and you were fucking?? You were fucking!!! You were having sex in a fucking dungeon! And Tae-hwan was dead!"

He wants to try to push Tae-gun away but he still doesn't have much movement back. "Fuck you! Fuck both of you!! How, how, why—"

He looks away and takes a drag of his cigarette because this shit isn't good for his heart.

Wince.

"We..." would have died if we hadn't. That's not useful to say. "Yeah. Sorry."

He knows. He knows. "Hyung get rid of my cig."

...sure. He does that.

And then Woo-young turns towards Tae-gun again and curls up as small as he can when he still can't move his legs and most of his spine and sobs in Tae-gun's arms.

Yeah. She'll just. Continue quietly making food. (The fried rice is done, and the first batch of omurice is almost ready.)

"I, I, ah," he hiccups. "I feel like—like I'm s-second-guessing everything because whenever I hear what I'm feeling," hic, "I th-think, if hyung were saying this to me I'd, ah, be making fun of him for it."