Then he lifts his gaze up, an impish smile on his lips. "Here might not be the best place, though."

...cameras. There are cameras. There are cameras and he was just recorded, the cameras could see Jaeha doing, doing what he just did, and now Tae-gun is absolutely going to flee.

But he stops at the door and says, "I look forward to working with you, Kang Jaeha-nim," bowing deeply.

And then he's fleeing.

Oh, but that boy might actually be fun. To toy with, if nothing else, though Jaeha is curious about what happens when their backlashes clash.

He's also looking forward to working with you, Lee Tae-gun.

"So... you'll be joining Quasar?" Tae-gun asks while they're waiting for the paperwork to get finalised. He hasn't seen Kang Jaeha in person since the day they met for the first time, and Kang Jaeha left an impression which Tae-gun is doing his level best to put out of his mind. At least until they've both signed their papers and are Officially Partners and are somewhere, um. Else. Somewhere other than someone's office in HQ. "What's wrong with Guild Juno?"

"Wrong? Nothing. I just... didn't want to jerk you around. Juno dealt with me fairly, we had a productive partnership, but it really is a lot easier to have a partner in the same guild and there's no way Quasar would let you go."

"If I wanted to leave they'd let me leave," Tae-gun says, frowning. "They wouldn't need to let me go."

"—of course."

Tae-gun peers at him.

Some honesty won't hurt.

"I mean, you gotta see it's a bit implausible, isn't it? Korea's only S-rank, a rising star—"

"They wouldn't," he insists. "I don't know how it was at Juno but it's... different here."

Okay that's... definitely not the most amazing foot to start on. Turns out some honesty does hurt. Cameras or no, this is minor enough that he can just smush over these past couple of seconds and say, "Probably Juno was different. They were very sad to see me go. ...not that I'm anything like you, but, you know, I'm a bit jaded, is all."

...yeah. He has heard that Quasar is a lot better than other Korean guilds can be, and this tracks.

"Well. I hope you'll like it here. I do, people have been very welcoming." Okay that sounded like some TV ad or something. "...you'll see what it's like."

"I suppose I will. And, really, they have such an irresistible compensation package."

"...compensation package?"

Jaeha looks at Tae-gun, holding his gaze for a second, before lowering it to Tae-gun's lips and licking his own.

Tae-gun looks over his shoulder at the door the lawyer left through before looking back at Jaeha and, and, how does this man do these things in public, what if people see!!!!

(...he's gotta say he does appreciate being so clearly, obviously wanted, though. That's tingly in more ways than just the obvious.)

Jaeha laughs. "Lee Tae-gun, I suspect we'll have a great time together as partners."

"Y-yeah. R-right."

He was doing so well at not thinking, aughhhhhh!!!!!

"Ah, apologies for the delay," says the lawyer, coming back into the room with the papers. "We're doing a big migration to a new system on the backend and it's a bit of a mess." She sits down in front of both of them and offers them three copies of the contract. "This is the same version of the contract you've already read and accepted, but you can feel free to go over it again to confirm it. Once you're satisfied, sign all three of them; we'll keep one copy, and each of you will keep another."

Oh good a distraction.

Toying with him is fun.

Not looking at Kang Jaeha, lalalalala, reading the contract, lalalalala, not thinking about Kang Jaeha, lalalalalala~

You can hide as much as you want, little bunny, but you can't escape.

"Everything seems in order," he says, eventually, signing the documents.