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It's so good when people tell him what to do. Yes, he can do that.

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It's trippy as fuck and a little bit terrifying, the way everyone else just blips out of existence while the entire environment kind of flows like it's made of putty, but he was braced for it. Time to do whatever he can do, until Woo-young finds the core.

Hopefully it won't be inside the monster.

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It's not.

It still takes Woo-young a while, because despite the existence of radars and the software to interpret their results into 4D maps he still needs to understand the damn things to teleport people, he needs to know where the core is.

But the stupidest thing is that the core is three-dimensional. It is in one of the infinitely many 3D slices of 4D space, with actually zero probability that you'd hit it by just looking. But, well, Ha Si-yeon is doing a pretty damn good job of keeping the monster occupied, so Woo-young can teleport Tae-gun to the right place.

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Perfect.

"Get us all out of here."

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Vworp.

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It takes all of them a moment to adjust, Si-yeon in particular, but as soon as he realises he doesn't need to mess around with 4D anymore and can just leave he promptly goes sick on the floor.

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"How many more people are there left to rescue?"

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"...Lee Tae-gun-nim. We cannot actually wait."

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"—we can't just leave the victims behind—"

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"We can, and we will." It is the team leader's job to make these calls, after all, and... "This dungeon has existed for as long as espers have, if it's at all smart it is going to seal itself immediately with all of us inside and it is actually that smart, and all of the monsters will be gunning for us—we're killing it. I'm not discussing this. Place their lives on my shoulders. But we're ending this now."

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He saw the logic even before she said it, saw the inescapable truth. This is a named S-rank, the smartest, most dangerous kind, the kind that has been escaping them for decades—they need to kill it. They cannot give it the opportunity to leave.

Fuck.

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Yeah. She knows.

She made the decision, so she'll be the one to go through with it. She gets Woo-young to teleport all espers out, waits until every other person has left, then finally destroys the core and leaves.

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How is he meant to face the public. How is he meant to act when they just, just—

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With his head held high and the confidence that he did the right thing because now that threat is gone. It is gone for good. Their names are going down in history; even if they retired tomorrow, they'd have saved more lives than most espers do in their entire careers.

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Sure doesn't fucking feel like it, though.

Fuck.

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The team leader gently encourages everyone else to go into isolation, but she needs to be there to answer questions and have her decision reviewed and all of that.

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Yeah.


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Jaeha has to hold his annoyance and jealousy back when Tae-gun tells him about what happened. He went after Ha Si-yeon, at great personal risk, despite having no idea what had gone wrong—what would Jaeha have done if Tae-gun'd died?? It was a named S-rank. And he just, just—

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No. No. What did he expect? Did he really expect his Tae-gun to just leave one of his best friends behind? Obviously not. That's ludicrous. His Tae-gun wouldn't be who he is if he did that. Jaeha will be supportive, instead of petty and jealous.

"I'm proud of you, Tae-gun-ah."

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"...I didn't do anything."

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"It certainly wasn't anyone else who managed to locate Ha Si-yeon-shi and Kim Chun-hee-shi and then figure out what to do to finish the fight."

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He... guesses. It feels like it could have been anyone else. And...

"...and all of those people we didn't rescue, they..."

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"Oh, Tae-gun-ah..." He knows what it is that Tae-gun needs, here. He know that Tae-gun knows it was the smart decision, the correct decision, the decision that gets the most people safe in the long run, but... Tae-gun'll be beating himself up about it regardless. Or just plain old sad. And for that, he can hold Tae-gun close and pet him soothingly and just be there for him, the way Tae-gun's there for Jaeha.

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...yeah. Yeah, that is what he wants. And, and he wants to be a little bit ridiculous and cry, also.

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