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Kim Hye-jin has been soloing a lot of dungeons.
It wasn't concerning at first, because it made sense as a way to take power back from the people that tried to kill her, be powerful, and at the same time give every other exhausted esper after the confluence a break.
It's now perhaps starting to get concerning.
Outwardly, though, she... seems fine? Just really work focused. Distant towards everyone, maybe.
"Nothing! Nothing, don't worry about it, she's very nice and that is a good plan."
She admittedly might have already ruined it by making it weird via that whole orgy thing but probably it's fine! Esper culture! It's fine.
"She's very nice, is she? I don't think I remember you interacting with her all that much last time we all got together..."
"It was - there were - anyway I approve of this plan so far just, you know, um, I am going to take it slow on the social front and keep being a crazy workaholic because I do find soloing dungeons kind of empowering and, I mean, it lets other people take a break after what was probably the worst confluence in decades, it chips away at Tae-gun-ah's backlash backlog, everybody wins really..."
She's babbling. Worse, she's being too honest in her babbling.
"Hey girl I'm not gonna stop you from using the coping mechanisms you have available to you to get through your life as a sane and functional human being, it'd be real hypocritical of me, I smoke cigarettes. Just, you know. Having nice things in life is nice, regardless of whether it's anything to do with, like, being healthy or whatever. Some video games are just fun."
"Mmhm! And speaking of nice things, have you tried this onigiri here? It's to die for, I would literally trade my soul for the recipe for the filling, it's just spiced salmon but it's delicious."
"I feel like on a matter of general principle you should avoid selling your soul for material goods," says Hye-jin, amused. "But no, I haven't tried it, maybe it really is worth a sketchy backalley soul sale for."
"I feel like this one is more arguable as objectively correct, considering it means I get to keep my soul! Better for my long term interests!"
"Well on the bright side they only charge money and not souls for these so the question is moot. You have plenty of that."
"It's true, I do. I actually even leveraged some out of Kang Jaeha out of principle, when in doubt apparently my go-to is ask for money."
"I've heard it can generally be exchanged for goods and services so it's not a bad pick."
"Right! And making the world better. I figure there are worse things than extracting maximum financial value out of things and then throwing them at half-decent causes."
"So I usually go for disease eradication or containment, because there really isn't any argument about whether or not pathogens are bad for humans, just math about how efficiently it should be done. For me in particular, throwing money to research and then patent vaccines and then make them free to reproduce is the kind of fantastic absurd big spending only someone like I can do, but I also have a fondness for energy efficiency now after my silo -"
Tae-gun made a reservation, so they're expected, and are quickly shown their private room.
"What made you pick this place?"
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