Right! Right, uh, pleasantries, right, she knows words and can even say them sometimes! She bows back, perfectly polite.

"The pleasure is mine, thank you for having me. Um." Words. She should continue to display her ability to say words in Korean. "My power is inducing exothermic reactions, and my backlash is hypothermia - it's on public record, there isn't an NDA or anything. I am not currently dungeon certified but I expect I could tidily replace a demolition team without too much trouble, though this does mean I haven't been officially ranked, yet..."

Is she babbling? She might be babbling.

"I'll be excusing myself, then," says Kim Ho-yeol, shutting the door behind himself after walking out.

"Inducing...?" That was a lot of words and he's still kind of having trouble focusing on words when his brain is going looooots of different places.

Oh no why doesn't anyone know what exothermic reactions means??? She keeps having this problem!! She's just going to have to gloss it as:

"- Fire," she clarifies. "I make fire. Or, well, heat in general, but it usually manifests as fire if I'm putting any kind of weight behind it. Sorry, I've been trying to figure out the specifics of the efficiencies of the chemical reactions I - cause." She catches herself before she says 'induce' again. Just to avoid sounding stupid.

"—I knew what it meant, sorry." He just kind of blacked out for a second there. "I was just wondering—does that mean you could control the rate of nuclear fission? Could you make nuclear fusion sufficiently efficient? Could you warm other people up by accelerating the rate of heat generation in their cells? ...that might require really fine control...

"Ah, please, sit," he adds, taking a seat again, himself.

She blinks at the depth of the questions, then sits herself. "I... don't know, I can't cause fission or fusion safely, and no one has let me at their nuclear facilities to test it. Uh - maybe on warming people up directly, but my power is pretty dangerous and I'd be worried about messing up their biological processes? What I was working on was efficiency of fuel consumption, I think I can manage to make it fuel efficient enough to avoid dangerous byproducts." When she put herself in the hospital. Ahem.

"Do you need to consume fuel? Can you not set air on fire and just conjure sourceless fire wherever you want? Do you have enough control of your powers to direct and manipulate the fire?" The initial shock of the guiding-at-a-distance thing (and the accompanying... effects... this had on him) seem to be mostly gone, replaced with interest in how her power works.

"No, I don't, but if I want to burn through things like I would for a combat situation, efficiency minimizes dangerous byproducts and would let me break through things that don't usually burn. As to the rest, um. Yes. I can do that." She wants to ask if he wants to see, but probably a guild HQ is not the place for it.

"Hmm, thinking about it you probably could find out whether you can cause fission safely depending on some details, it is a misconception that just breaking down any random atoms would cause a nuclear explosion, you need a good chunk of heavy unstable atoms cascading in a chain reaction to get them to properly explode. Then again, if you just boringly split an oxygen atom in two that wouldn't really be detectable and isn't that useful..."

Ah, shit, he started nerding. "—sorry, I, uh, got distracted and ahead of myself, um." He's not sure what to talk about instead, though, "exothermic reactions" is such an interesting power...

"No, don't be, they're good questions and I hadn't even though about assisting in the efficiency of nuclear reactions!! I would love to see if I could manage, if the backlash wouldn't potentially kill me. I, uh." She should be responsible and tell her prospective partner about her mistakes. "Accidentally put myself in the hospital testing things, while I was being guided by my partner at the time. So. Um."

But they're so compatible so probably that can't happen again!!!

"...with the level of compatibility we have that might be less of a problem," he says, unwittingly echoing her thoughts. Also the sex is going to be AMAZING he doesn't even know if she's down for that but can you imagine the way it must feel to pin her down and watch her moan helplessly with him hilt deep inside her Lee Tae-gun you have literally just met her get a fucking hold on yourself but they could try fireplay, he's never been interested in that but it sounds kind of appealing literally shut up.

"I was absolutely thinking that, but I wanted to warn you anyway, and I don't know what kind of partnership you're looking for so I didn't want to assume?"

But she's totally looking at him almost-hungrily, because. Scientific!! Testing!!! With proper safety margins!!!!!

...okay but "looking at him almost-hungrily" is. Not the way she should be looking at him. Unless she wants the same things he does what did he just say about shutting up.

"Um, but we should, uh, probably figure something out about, uh, the—I mean with this level of compatibility maybe it would just be really stupid of us to not partner even if we hate each other, but—"

"I already like you very much, and on a personal level would be willing to partner with you with, like, half this level of compatibility," she clarifies. "You're asking such good questions!!!!"

Oh. That. That's a nice smile. He likes that smile. He wants her to keep smiling at him like that forever you literally just met.

"Um. I—thank you. There's, um, I mean, there's probably professionals who would ask, uh, smarter questions, I'm just indulging my own curiosity..."

"They're good questions!!!" she repeats, feeling a little inane.

"Though um, yeah we probably should talk partnering practicalities, shouldn't we. I currently live in Japan but I, well, honestly I'm willing to emigrate," oh boy that is a bit too fast down girl, down. "- since I have family in Seoul." There. Nailed it.

"Oh. Right. Um. Do you prefer to speak Japanese, I can...?"

"Either is fine!!" she reassures, immediately.

"Okay. Um. Uh. Do you have—your backlash is hypothermia, right, do you have silo preferences, should it have good heating, probably yes? Do you prefer to have your own silo or shared, I'm fine with shared, but..."

"Good heating, those little - instant heat packs, space heaters, heated seats, heated blankets, hot liquids, all excellent, yeah. Um. I - want to silo with you but have my own silo if necessary? I'm just thinking of like, how it'd be hard to move all of the necessary equipment to warm me up if something happened."

"Quasar can move everything, we have a battery that can store the new teleporter's power and it's very powerful, it shouldn't be an issue. Nor for just getting new ones, either, Quasar isn't hurting for money and will make stuff to our specs."

"Okay! Uh. Designated isolation site for both of us to share, and then I.. also get some kind of apartment? Um. Is Quasar... willing to have me on staff even when I'm not certified or officially ranked...?"