"Does this change anything?"

"Not very much, just... To the extent it's relevant we shouldn't assume he's going to be monomaniacally focused on getting physical access to Tae-gun, he wants something more complicated."

"Something that works in our favour at least a bit, though, right?"

"Maybe. If he sticks to this pattern. But he might not. Now that that the façade has been broken, he might be more dangerous. Since, you know. I lived and what happened was very obviously not an accident."

"Hmm..." Woo-young edits the table again, adding red exclamation marks next to the three bigger problem entries then drawing a circle around the "physical" cells with an arrow to the side and writes "he might try more things?" next to it.

"...Hye-jin is right, that could make him more dangerous... to Woo-young especially."

"Hmm, yeah."

"You seem very blasé about it."

"No point freaking out about it," he shrugs. "We'll figure out how to deal with it. I trust us."

"...that is a level of chill most people can only aspire to."

It really is!

Hye-jin can't agree that it's a good policy the day after she got shot.

"Please be extra careful?" she opines, anxiously.

"I will be! I'm not suicidal."

"So, in what way are the body cams insufficient as protection against the mind powers?"

"They're very reactive? I mean, obviously mine did great. Just they're more for after action reports than really properly preventing mind tampering in the moment. And I'll admit I've ever slacked on footage review, because it kind of sucks to review video and audio files of yourself constantly, something subtle could get past our notice. ... I guess that's an argument for hiring out, isn't it."

"I'd really prefer not hiring out if we can avoid it. Not just due to, to, uh, comfort, like, mine and Hye-jin's, but also because the more people we include in this conspiracy, even remotely and, uh, compartmentalised like that, the more failure points we can have. We really don't want Kang Jaeha to know that there's more people than me, Hye-jin, Woo-young, and prez who know about everything, if we can at all avoid it."

"Can we actually avoid it?"

"We can at least delay it."

Nod.

"I don't know what his, uh, cyber intelligence network is like, but he does have a lot of money to throw around, and has had literal years to get established and entrenched. And he can just walk into spaces he shouldn't be, delete the video footage, and wipe everyone's memories of the incident. So. Yeah."

"Could you use AI for facial recognition and automatically get a notification if your body cameras see him? He has a longer range than sight, if I recall correctly, but that'd be one extra layer of security."

"...not a bad idea. Maybe voice recognition, too, he's given enough interviews and I, uh." This is uncomfortable to say. "Still have some voice messages he's sent me."

Not going to think about that too much, thanks!

"That's an excellent idea," says Hye-jin, who understands what positive feedback is. "Though for the record I have no idea how to make that happen."

"I do. I can make it happen."

"So I think a problem we're having here with all of these proposed solutions is that 'mind effects' is really vague, and I think we'd benefit from being more concrete about what our attack surfaces actually are."

"Oh, finally decided to say productive things, have you?"

...he wants to snipe but, like, she's not wrong.

"Yeah. Sorry about, uh, all the everything before."