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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, two A-ranks and one B-rank, each lasting a handful of months and ending in the normal way these things do, with two of them finding partners they're more compatible with and one stepping away from dungeoneering. 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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Kang Jaeha

this_peculiar_power

But before Tae-gun can say anything he takes it from him and gives Tae-gun the bigger box, which is big enough Tae-gun will need to actually lay it on the bed to properly unwrap.

neither_rest_nor_peace

What the... a knife? Bwuh? Okay, he did not expect that, he's not even sure whether he likes it or not, it's just so insane.

Alright, what's the second gift?

A glass casing containing twin swords, also beautifully carved, the style that's pretty enough it ought to be hung on a wall somewhere.

Kang Jaeha

this_peculiar_power

"They're real," he explains. "They're pretty but they're also real. I think they have a good weight distribution and balance for dual-wielding, they won't break or get damaged even if you go really hard on them. The knife, too, for a different style. I figured that you could use them to practise your melee combat, and you could maybe use them as inspiration for when you conjure your own ice blades, since there's a lot of history and expertise in the world about how to forge effective—"

neither_rest_nor_peace

Tae-gun finds himself on top of Jaeha shutting him up with a violent, hungry kiss.

It turns out he was wrong; they are having any more sex today.

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

Park Yoo-min lets out a long, low whistle as he looks at the swords Tae-gun's brought to the Quasar gym. "They're beautiful. Do they have names?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

...it had not occurred to him that he ought to name his swords? "No."

freefall

"Call them Left and Right."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"No."

Choi Seungjoo

sen_so_joo

"Kang Jaeha got them for you?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Yeah."

freefall

"After you went through all that trouble to convince us to not get you birthday presents. Is it because he's prettier than us?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Yes."

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

"That is pure slander. I'll have you know no one's prettier than Seungjoo."

Choi Seungjoo

sen_so_joo

His hyung is so stupid.

freefall

"Do I get to give them a go after you've kicked my ass with them?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"You know how to dual-wield?"

freefall

"Nope!"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Isn't that just wasting your backlash, then?"

freefall

"Some things are worth the backlash, and learning how to use those definitely is."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...alright."

Tae-gun doesn't expect he's going to kick Si-yeon's ass, though; Si-yeon's got him totally outclassed in melee like this if Tae-gun isn't willing to go lethal. It's just a lot more useful to spar with an intelligent moving target than against a practice dummy.

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

Yoo-min and Seungjoo get out of their way and take a seat somewhere they can watch the sparring. Neither Tae-gun nor Si-yeon are likely to fuck up badly enough to actually be dangerous to them but if anything happens Seungjoo is perfectly capable of stopping them.

neither_rest_nor_peace

They start circling each other. Tae-gun has one sword in each hand and thin ice sheets discreetly attached to the bottom of his shoes, and he eyes Si-yeon warily trying to look for an opening.

freefall

Si-yeon skips from foot to foot, grinning and doing the same. He's the more impatient of the two, though, of course, so when he gets bored of waiting he leaps, covering the distance between them in an instant.

neither_rest_nor_peace