Lee Tae-gun did not know he particularly enjoyed this but apparently he really does! He is finding out new things about himself! And some of those new things are good!

"This is really fine?" she confirms, in a small voice.

"Would I lie to you, Hye-jin-ah?" Wow what the hell was that line why can't he come up with lines like this on command. "I like seeing you happy."

"... okay," she agrees, looking delighted.

Honestly, this is all he's ever wanted. He has a way to reliably demonstrate what he's feeling and make her feel happy and loved, and despite everything they're... getting through it. Talking. Figuring it out together. 

Maybe this can work. Maybe they can make it work.

Hyun-jae watches the two stupid lovebirds leave together then turns back to the others. "Think they'll come back tonight?" she asks Juheon in a soft whisper.

"It's fine even if they don't, they can take their time," he whispers back. Besides, all of them—except maybe Woo-young—feel like they need to make it up to Tae-gun for abandoning him to Kang Jaeha five years ago and figuring out how to deal with him now is the least they can do.

"Alright, people, focus up, we've got a job to do here! More ideas!"

"Maybe we should think of more reactive ideas? For after they're found but before Jaeha has them..."

"Actually, I was thinking earlier, we keep lumping the media and the public together but they're not the same, right?"

"—oh, I see what you mean. Having lots of eyes around increases control security but what lowers location security is those eyes sharing the information."

"Right! Even if the media will share information with the public eventually we can get it to not share it live."

"They could still be compromised internally."

"Yeah but that's true regardless, and it's still a lot safer than a whole crowd of civilians posting to Instagram."

"Plus the increase in control security from lots of eyes kind of maxes out reasonably early, right? There isn't much of a difference between fifty and a hundred people, nor even between twenty-five and fifty."

"But he doesn't work through technology so having more eyes behind screens helps."

"Instagram doesn't help much with that, though? People mostly don't livestream dungeons—like, a couple of them when the crowd is reasonably sized, but the usual pictures and uploaded videos are kind of reactive? I guess they usually upload those immediately but."

"While the media is constantly filming and having people watch it..."

"Right, and if we just consider the crew behind screens that's still a bunch of people Kang Jaeha has no access to."

"Why stop there? We already have radars and lidars and heat detectors on all sites being monitored by the support teams to deal with invisible monsters, we could also by default have cameras and have operatives looking at their feeds, it doesn't need to be media, the big advantage media has over that is just that it's distributed but we could 80/20 that."

Wait, right, Woo-young promised he'd get dessert, he got distracted. He gets up to go do that.

"Think we could swing that? Get everyone on board?"

"Woo-young said that the guild president knows about Kang Jaeha, right? So we could probably get Quasar buy-in?"

"On adding more monitoring to our support teams? Yeah."

"Everyone is freaking out about yesterday, though, I can't imagine other guilds wouldn't want to share the burden, and that'd make it even better for us."