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this_peculiar_power

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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this_peculiar_power

Oh that man is unreasonably attractive.

Back to cooking with him, feeling his heart hammer a bit too loudly and trying to ignore it.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Hehehehe.

neither_rest_nor_peace

But he'll open his commscreen with some information about upcoming dungeons and start scrolling through them while he waits for the food. If he's gonna take time off for personal reasons he should at minimum make sure it doesn't impact his future performance negatively.

this_peculiar_power

That did reduce the awkwardness, funnily enough, and the literal only negative consequence was that he felt kind of anxious for a while. Maybe Tae-gun's onto something, here, when he says it's not that bad. Regardless, he stops overthinking while making breakfast and even gets to a point where he's kind of cheerful again as he's serving the food on the counter and taking the seat across it from Tae-gun.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"You are housewife material," Tae-gun observes.

this_peculiar_power

"...I am?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Yeah."

this_peculiar_power

What would the confident Jaeha say, here? What would he say if he trusted that his read on Tae-gun's emotional state were correct without having to cheat?

"So should I start making my man coffee and sandwiches and kissing him on his way to work? Take the kids to school, make sure there's a warm meal waiting for you when you come back?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...we're men. We can't have kids."

this_peculiar_power

"We could adopt."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He grimaces. There just is actually no space in his life for kids, actually?

this_peculiar_power

He laughs. "I don't particularly want kids, either," he says, ruffling Tae-gun's hair.

neither_rest_nor_peace

this_peculiar_power

"...that thing I said a while ago, about you having very expressive eyebrows, that wasn't a cover. Or, not just a cover. You really are very easy to read, Tae-gun-ah."

neither_rest_nor_peace

...both of his prior partners have said exactly the same thing so it's not surprising. He guesses.

this_peculiar_power

You know what, he can do this. He thinks he can do this. He grabs a slice of salmon with his chopsticks and offers it to Tae-gun.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Chomp.

this_peculiar_power

"So! You were saying, about me being a housewife?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

He swallows and sighs. "Were you serious? When you said you'd stop being an esper?"

this_peculiar_power

"I meant everything I said."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"You did not mean the part where you'd go to the Sun."

this_peculiar_power

"Did too."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Why would you mean that part! It's insane!"

this_peculiar_power

Have another salmon slice.

"Well, part of it is because you wouldn't ask me to do that, so if you did... You'd probably have a really good reason? But another part is just that I cannot imagine ever refusing you anything."

neither_rest_nor_peace