"No."

Pout.

Woo-young will absolutely go get fed stuff though he is planning to drink enough to black out tonight he wants to forget literally everything that happened and to be told by everyone else about all the ways he embarrassed himself in tomorrow.

Say aaaaah.

That's his job, not hers. Hana will in fact patiently hand feed him his dinner. In front of everyone.

On the inside she's anxious about being judged or having this read into or or or - but her partner's health takes precedence over her anxieties, so.

Cute? Cute. Hana and Woo-young, that is, not Si-yeon being a bratty sub to her partner some more.

But she'll beam at Tae-gun and lean happily against him.

(eeeeeeeeeeee)

"Fugimura-san, I heard you do a lot of non-dungeon work?"

Oh, so they're going to hold a conversation while she's (carefully and diligently) hand feeding Woo-young?? That's what they're doing now??? Is this how normal people work, because she isn't one, so she doesn't know!!!

"Yes. Though, not lately." She shrugs awkwardly, carefully picking up another slice of grilled meat in her chopsticks to feed to her partner. "My work against Nightmare is -" oh no is she going to sound conceited?? "- particularly time sensitive, so. Everything else is on hold."

There. Nailed it. Did not come off as conceited and self obsessed.

Oh right she's working with Nightmare. He really doesn't want to talk about that, so he opens his mouth to switch back to the previous topic—

"Incoming."

A trio of women

arrive in a familiar flash

of blue light.

Yun Minseo is in the middle, hands held on both sides, and her gaze looks off into the distance in a way that many present might find familiar. She's not backlashing particularly badly, but her sight has yet to return.

(Confluences: extremely hard on sensor espers.)

"Hey," she says, to a spot on the wall.

"Aaaaaaaa~! You talked your partner into coming Woo-young, look at her she's so pretty and talented!" squees Ji-woo.

???????

"I have heard such wonderful things about your work, hoobae-nim, you are doing fantastically and I am so delighted that Quasar managed to finally get another support esper on staff!!!"

???????????????

The brunette of the trio will sigh fondly and gently lead Minseo to an empty chair.

"Hello, thank you for inviting us, we're delighted to be here," she says.

"Thank you for coming! This is my partner Fugimura Hana, she's great. ...wait, did I fail to introduce people to Hana... Oh no I'm a bad partner. Hana, who do you already know?"

"Um. I - recognize Lee Tae-gun and Kim Hye-jin?" ventures Hana, who has absolutely not met either of them before today. Or anyone else here, actually. "And Yoo-min-sunbae and Seungjoo-sunbae introduced themselves already."

"Oh I am such a bad sunbae, I'm sorry." He stands up. "These are Lee Tae-gun and Kim Hye-jin; Tae-gun is my sunbae and hyung, Hye-jin is my hoobae. These are Lee Juheon and Baek Hyun-jae, they're both my sunbaes and partnered to each other, and these are Ha Si-yeon and Kim Chun-hee, likewise. They're also Tae-gun's sunbaes except for Kim Chun-hee. Juheon was Tae-gun's first partner and Si-yeon his third, and they were estranged until recently.

"And these are Baek Ji-woo, Yun Minseo, and Kim Da-eun, they're all of them my sunbaes and noonas and they're a partnered triangle. ...should I mention their ranks, I think probably not but..."

The mentioned espers bow to Hana. "It's nice to meet you, hoobaenim."

Right, yes, that, he's feeling bad now.

"Nice to meet you, too," ventures Hana, looking like it's anything but.

Aaaaaaaaaaa that's so many names though????

Does she have to keep the ages and seniorities and relationships straight??? She does, doesn't she, aaaaaaaa she can't just learn last names and go with -san, terrible, awful, who invented this language.