"...right. Yeah. Good point."

"But that doesn't give us a great way to make it work. The man's only doing Nightmare, now, and we don't have any criminal friends we can hire to go into it and snipe him from a distance, not to mention that I don't think money can buy someone who's willing to go into Nightmare to kill him."

"We can still snipe him when he's outside Nightmare."

"Do you know for sure what his range is? Do you know that he can't detect you from a distance and make you think you're shooting him when you're actually shooting someone else?"

"Do I know that he's not literally Satan himself come to torment us? At some point we gotta do something, we can't keep speculating that he has the power to mind control you from Japan."

"I'm not saying we shouldn't do something, I'm saying if it was that obvious or simple we'd have already done it."

"Would we have? We've been wringing our hands for days, Tae-gun and Woo-young have been wringing their hands for years—"

"They didn't know Kang Jaeha was still obsessed with Tae-gun," Chun-hee counters. "And you said it yourself, he hadn't done anything we should kill someone over until now."

"I woulda killed him over what he did to Tae-gun five years ago—"

"And that would have been wrong."

There'll be a lot of screaming into pillows tonight.

"Also... we don't know that it was him."

"Are you fully out of your mind—"

"Oppa calm the fuck down."

He stops, blinking. Chun-hee... almost never swears.

"You're an A-rank esper, you need to approach this from a problem-solving perspective. Yelling about how much you hate him is not going to get you anything you want. We need to think about this rationally to figure out our next steps."

"...she's right."

"If not him, who?"

"I don't know. It was probably him. But if it wasn't, we'll waste however much time and planning on something that won't even actually help, and risk going to prison or worse at the same time."

"Si-yeon, do you think you could track down who did this? You must have contacts. The person who actually shot her, I mean."

"...I don't know how I'd even begin looking for them," he says, except that's not true at all because he's having some ideas already. "Maybe."

"It'll be someone who has the kind of heavy-duty illusion powers that would let them go into a dungeon undetected like that despite the multiple news cameras and witnesses."

"Well, that's easy, all they have to have is the kind of illusion powers that actually physically causes light to pass through them."

"They're immune to heat sensors and radars, too. All A-ranks have scanners on standby for those to detect suspicious movement that may not be detectable normally."

"That'd be, what, A-rank? S-rank?"