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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, 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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this_peculiar_power

Tae-gun. Tae-gun, no. Tae-gun it's not ridiculous to want to cry because your actions however indirectly or reasonably caused the deaths of others. That is approximately the least ridiculous reason for crying there could be. Come on, let it out.

Jaeha will be here for him, for as long as he needs Jaeha to be.

neither_rest_nor_peace

He has a good hyung. He's... really, really happy to have his hyung.

this_peculiar_power

This dungeon appeared on their day off (because confluence or no confluence they need breaks to survive) so Jaeha isn't too badly backlashed today, only the last bits of it that they didn't manage to clear over the past few days, so he can take care of Tae-gun, make him something nice to eat, give him a massage, just spend some time together doing dungeon aftercare. Some of it is sex, too, of course, but Tae-gun takes a bit to be sufficiently in the mood, after everything.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Yeah. Turns out that being responsible for the deaths of who knows how many people kinda kills the mood. Even when they do have sex it's slower and sweeter than they usually do it, a continuation of Jaeha emotionally supporting Tae-gun and being there for him. Because they love each other.

this_peculiar_power

Yeah. They do.

freefall

🪁freefall: Tae-gun
🪁freefall: im feeling like shit
🪁freefall: come get drunk with me

neither_rest_nor_peace

...whuh??

this_peculiar_power

What—oh.

this_peculiar_power

No.

No. Ha Si-yeon has kept Tae-gun for long enough, has made Tae-gun risk his life like that, and then go through all of this when he had to clean Ha Si-yeon's mess.

neither_rest_nor_peace

LeeTae-gun: Sorry, hyung, I need to be alone right now.

this_peculiar_power

—wait, shit—

freefall

🪁freefall: alone? or alone with your hunk?

Lee Juheon

first_and_only_law

☘️LeeJuheon: Ha Si-yeon.

Ha Si-yeon

freefall

🪁freefall: sorry, forget about it
🪁freefall: it was just a rough day

neither_rest_nor_peace

Yeah. And that's why he wants to be alone (with Jaeha).

this_peculiar_power

—it's fine. That was fine. That wasn't anything. He wasn't even actually listening for Tae-gun's emotions. Still isn't. He wouldn't have been able to do what he did if Tae-gun hadn't already been feeling bad about the idea. Jaeha can't plant whole emotions in anyone, he can only pull on emotions that were already there, so the fact that he was able to do this blind just means that Tae-gun already agreed with him that this was bad. That's not any different than just asking, it's just—a bit more direct. He's not even sure he did anything, he has no way to tell, he wasn't listening, still isn't, and if he did do it it was an accident. It's fine.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...hyung? You okay? Your heart started..."

this_peculiar_power

"Ah. Sorry, I was just—for a moment I thought you were going to go out again with Ha Si-yeon-shi and I—got jealous—"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"You don't have to be jealous. I'm your boyfriend. Not his. And I want to spend time with you, not with him."

this_peculiar_power

"Yeah." He is Jaeha's boyfriend, and not Ha Si-yeon's. And Jaeha probably didn't actually do anything, he's just stressing himself out for no reason. He shouldn't be worrying about it. Tae-gun isn't going to leave. Tae-gun will stay. He knows this.

He knows this.

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

"Oh hey sunbae."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Tae-gun is in one of the Quasar training rooms, sitting on a bench resting a bit from his workout. He's going to get back to it in a minute but he's not training endurance today so he doesn't feel the need to simulate the breakneck pace of doing dungeons and can take breaks.

"—oh. Min Woo-young-shi. Hello." Out of all people to run into, Min Woo-young is a pretty alright one. Tae-gun finds it comfortable to be around him, probably due to the way he's always so patient and non-judgemental. Kind of like Juheon-hyung, actually, now that he thinks of it.

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

Right, sunbae is super into the honorifics. It's probably good practice, Woo-young is getting too used to Quasar and he wouldn't want to slip too much in public.

"Surprised to see you here, I thought you'd aligned your schedule with Kang Jaeha-shi's?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I did, but I'm taking today off to make up for the day we had to deal with Escher," because the guild president insisted, "and since I wake up early in the evening I only go to bed at 11, so I'm awake for a couple more hours."

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay