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Lee Tae-gun. Korea's first and, currently, only S-rank. There are A-rankers who could get the promotion to S-rank, if they wanted to, if they revealed enough of their powers—or, at least, there is one, in Kang Jaeha himself—but this flash in the pan boy was the first one to decide to just go for it and now he's probably learning about how much it sucks to be the center of attention.

Not that you'd know from just looking at him. He's always gorgeous, stepping out of dungeons, and that's genuinely impressive in itself, but it's even more impressive if Quasar is right that they might be compatible. This implies things about the shape of Lee Tae-gun's backlash, things that suggest he's quite good at self-control, and that he must be holding quite a lot in, to be able to look like that. So that piques Jaeha's curiosity, and he looks into the boy.

Lee Tae-gun is 21; manifested really late, about a year and a half ago; has had three partners so far, none of them particularly impressive in their own rights, each lasting a handful of months and ending in the normal way these things do, with them finding partners they're more compatible with. As far as Jaeha can tell, there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the boy's history. He's really just very straightforwardly boring.

And, well, Jaeha is also between partners right now. The story with him is also usually the same: he's never found anyone he had great compatibility with, and they'd all eventually leave, even if they never found someone else. Better alone than with Kang Jaeha. But he doesn't take it personally. He knows they probably want more out of a partnership than he can give. This boy will be no different, they'll spend a while together and help each other survive and eventually the boy will move on and Jaeha won't take it personally either.

So Kang Jaeha is in a meeting room, reading some files and waiting for Lee Tae-gun to arrive so they can figure out whether they'll do business together or not.

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Pat pat. Poor sunbae, surrounded by lunatics.

"Besides," she continues, "it's not holding anything against him, is it? I mean, you've seen Kang Jaeha-nim, haven't you? It's not a wild guess that he looks good naked."

Ha Si-yeon

freefall

"Hear hear! The things I'd let that man do to me are not in the Bible."

Lee Juheon

"Aren't they? I'm no Bible scholar but I was pretty sure it was full of some pretty nasty things."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"You're all degenerates."

"Don't lump me in with them," Chun-he sniffles haughtily.

"Nor me."

freefall

"Our partners are such bores, noona," sighs Si-yeon.

"Tae-gun, too. He hasn't shared a single thing about Kang Jaeha-nim. What's his favourite book? Does he like romcoms? How big is—"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Not in public!!!" Tae-gun doesn't quite wail. It's a weekday morning and so the shopping mall they're in is reasonably empty but a group of five espers walking alone is attracting its fair share of attention and they've already had to stop twice to let people take pictures with them.

"I was going to ask how big his Spotify favourites list was! Your mind's in the gutter, Tae-gun."

"That doesn't even make sense, unnie."

"I couldn't think of an appropriate replacement fast enough. My brain went to 'how big is his CD collection' but who even owns CDs."

Ha Si-yeon

freefall

"Besides, it'd be really hard to beat the size of Tae-gun's CD collection."

"Would it, now?" She looks at Juheon. "You never told me that."

Lee Juheon

"It's not cool to share people's personal details like that," he sighs.

"...you're not even denying it?"

Ha Si-yeon

freefall

"It's hard to deny something that huge staring you in the—"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Can we talk about literally anything else please."

"Tell us about Kang Jaeha-nim! It's been weeks already!"

Well... it has been weeks, and she's also curious, but she hasn't known Tae-gun-sunbae as long as the other three have and she feels a bit awkward about pressing, too. Unnie can be pretty intense, herself, anyway.

neither_rest_nor_peace