"I can make myself immune to his powers."

"You'd die of backlash on the spot."

"I'll sniper shoot him from a distance like he himself did."

"You'd be arrested."

"It's worth it, if he'd killed Kim Hye-jin so many more people would die."

"And if you're arrested so many more people will die, too."

He grabs a pillow to scream into in frustration. "I hate him. I want him dead. I want him to never have existed. I want to, to, to never have stopped being Tae-gun's partner—uh, sorry, Chun-hee—"

"It's fine. I agree."

"How dare he! How dare he! In the middle of a confluence! Not that it would've been okay at any other time but still! How dare he!!!"

Juheon reaches for his hand to squeeze it. "I know."

"We do need to do something, though." They were all going to reconvene for their Let's Plan What To Do session on Friday evening, including Tae-gun and Hye-jin and Woo-young, but this changes things. "He'll know killing her didn't take, but he'll also know that it almost took, that if she'd been unconscious for five more minutes she'd have been trapped in the dungeon even if the actual killing didn't work. And there are other things he could've tried, like—"

"Let's not list all possible ways he can kill someone, please, Hyun-jae-ya."

"It probably wasn't him personally, whoever got into the dungeon managed to go undetected by both people and cameras, I reviewed footage of the scene."

"Where did he even find someone else who was willing to go take out Kim fucking Hye-jin in the middle of a confluence. What kind of horrible monster—"

"He's the heir to Kang Moon-il Group and money can buy you a lot of things."

"How can money buy trying to assassinate Kim Hye-jin."

"Not all espers get into guilds, or go independent, or work civilian jobs. Esper criminals exist. You know that, you've had work to capture those before."

He screams into a pillow again.

"Has anyone checked that they're not doing any dungeons tomorrow?"

"Woo-young did, he said Tae-gun cancelled his and Hye-jin hers."

"What can we do about it, though? Tae-gun would not like it if we killed Jaeha—"

"Tae-gun can go fuck himself if so, that man cannot be permitted to keep doing the shit he's doing. It's one thing to mess with people's heads but that was attempted murder—"

"That was successful murder, actually. If Hye-jin hadn't miraculously survived in a way no one could've predicted it would've been successful. And we wouldn't even have learned about how he did it, either, the dungeon would've just closed with her still inside it."

"My! Point! Exactly!"

"What I was going to say was that if Tae-gun isn't going to help us kill Kang Jaeha then we'll need to figure it out without him."