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fire_of_the_heart

The dungeon felt a little off, even from the beginning. A little... a little fuzzy around the edges, like the spaces where they weren't looking were rearranging themselves just a bit. It was one of those dungeons that rearranged itself at semi-regular intervals, but it still made sense, physically. All of the pieces were being rearranged, but they were still the same.

Until they weren't.

It was right as they were closing in on the core. Another dungeon had sprung up, and this A-rank dungeon had been predictable enough that they decided to let Yun Minseo depart early to prep for looking at that one. It's not clear if it was feeling threatened by the pair of super powerful combat espers closing in on its core, or if it was waiting for the much less obviously threatening sensor to leave, but, well. That was when it went from 'tricky and annoying but doable' to. Whatever the fuck this is.

Walls of iron turn to sludge around them. The ground shifts from stone to mud to something else, something stickier, at their feet, and then drips down the ceiling to attempt to cover them in some sort of horrible tar as their comms suddenly die. A swarm of something with the wings of birds and the heads of dogs and the claws of some kind of velociraptor comes barreling out of the sludge, a great tidal wave of teeth and claws and malice. The sludge around them writhes and turns to something like snakes, each one's body as sharp as knives, twitching and stretching in unexpected directions.

That is not to say that Tae-gun and Hye-jin take this lying down and go, "Oh well, the dungeon isn't what we expected. Time to give up and go home." Obviously, they're not doing that. Tae-gun can keep them above and protected from whatever fresh new bullshit this fucking - sludge dungeon - throws at them, and whatever the fuck this stuff is made of, Hye-jin can actually just melt it away with a truly astonishing amount of fire. They can still win this, still find and destroy the core.

It just means that - well. Here they are. It's started.

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neither_rest_nor_peace

"...huh?" Sniffle.

fire_of_the_heart

"You said that you used to have more people. Are any of them available for you to message, or call, or something? Check in?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Oh."

They... probably are, actually?

fire_of_the_heart

"Well. That's available to you, if you want it." Pet pet pet.

neither_rest_nor_peace

...it is.

Isn't it.

He... looks at the pile of sex toys on the bed.

fire_of_the_heart

Snort.

"Oh, hush before you even start. I saw where you got them from, I'll put them away. We can use them later, okay?" Hair-kiss.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Okay..."

fire_of_the_heart

"Get some water, okay? ... and please get me a glass, too, we both have kind of gone through a lot of fluids in what is in retrospect a short time. Ahem."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Right. Yeah. He can go do that.

God, he's such a mess.

fire_of_the_heart

Well, he's a mess that gets a tiny kiss on the end of his nose before he goes, so. Maybe it's not all that bad.

neither_rest_nor_peace

That's making him have some feelings too which he's not going to examine at all. Off he goes to get water, and also to wash his face for good measure.

fire_of_the_heart

Hye-jin stays behind and gets to putting away his truly astonishing amount of sex toys!

... He hears what sounds like a delighted cackle, a few minutes later.

neither_rest_nor_peace

He startles at the sound and spends a fraction of a second thinking about bolting upstairs before he recognises the sounds as... positive? Uh?

Well, he'll just walk back up with her water then?

fire_of_the_heart

She's perched on the bed (in one of his shirts, because she got cold), giggling over her comm screen.

"Did you know," she giggles, turning the screen to show him, "that the Korean government could offer a Yes/No screen for confirming if I want to be S-rank or not? It's not even like, the board of directors has reviewed your case or Quasar made one or something, it's just, just." Giggle.

It is in fact basically just a long letter telling her about how she's great and impressive, and they would be honored to make her an honorary S-rank if she would please just agree here. She got what she wanted! It sure isn't in question now!!

neither_rest_nor_peace

He blinks.

"What took them so long?" he wonders, offering her the glass. How was this not automatic after Volcanic Range?

fire_of_the_heart

She giggles even as she takes the glass. Sipping at it will come later, when she's got the giggles more under control.

"Bureaucracy, probably? Anyway I'm going to just click yes or the media is going to be very confused." Click. (Giggle.) "But I was not imagining getting S-rank by the, the government equivalent of a 'Do you like me Y/N' note!!!!"

neither_rest_nor_peace

She looks really happy.

...oh.

"Congratulations."

fire_of_the_heart

"Thank you! Probably I was being silly for even doubting it a little, just, you know, what if they didn't know for sure that I did it, what if there was international politicking and Japan throwing a fit because I left, something something, anxiety something." Water sip. "Thanks. ... Come hold me? I'm happy and want a hug about it."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He can definitely do that, look what a good ~~puppy~~ partner he is.

fire_of_the_heart

Eeeee comfy compatible esper snuggles.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Honestly it's great, his backlash will be gone in no time (like six months).

"...if I did get in contact with some people I haven't seen in a while... would you want to meet any of them?"

fire_of_the_heart

"Sure, if you want company or support."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Yeah. I... think I might."

neither_rest_nor_peace

So he rubs his swollen eyes to try and make his vision less blurry and sends a message to a group chat he hasn't messaged in five years.

LeeTae-gun: Hey.
LeeTae-gun: How have you guys been?
LeeTae-gun: Would you have some time soon we could meet up and chat?

Min Woo-young

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