"Well, I dunno, I'm not an esper fangirl, I don't keep track of all of the names and stuff."

"Point is that the recovery and how long you can keep going are also an important part of the measurement of your rank."

"Yeah, think about Min Woo-young, here, he's the most powerful teleporter in the world but he's a B-rank because his backlash is so shit."

"Who knows, maybe I'll get a rank up with Tae-hwan's help, we're super compatible."

"That can happen?"

"Yeah! No pressure, though, it doesn't happen often at all, and besides to get the kinds of recovery times that might do it we'd need to do the kinds of guiding you don't want to do."

"Don't want to do?"

"He's straight."

"Ah. Legit. Yeah, it's harder that way."

...ok ngl Tae-hwan had kinda been gearing up to fight about that topic again given everything he's seen about Park Yoo-min's personality so far but apparently it was fine? Cool, he's cool with that.

"Sorry, sunbae."

"...Tae-hwan, all jokes aside, you don't have to be sorry that you're straight. I was just poking fun at you."

"Well..."

"Alright." He's not gonna feel bad.

"That said, you still need some guiding, right? Do you want to head over to my silo and take a shower so we can guide in a less sticky fashion? I don't have clothes your size exactly but if mine fit badly enough there's probably stuff we can get off Quasar's stash."

Tae-hwan got the very few feelings he had about being sticky burnt to a crisp by hell week but he guesses other people probably care more. "Sure." That way he'll get to see what a silo's like, too!

"Alright." To Seungjoo: "Thank you very much, sunbae, that was very informative. It'll be very useful information to have on hand when he does his official testing runs."

"Yeah, no problem."

"Wait hang on time out what do you mean official testing runs?"

"You know, we need to get your powers tested and recorded by official Quasar channels so they have a record and can properly assign you to missions."

"But."

Seungjoo hops to his feet to scoot over to where Yoo-min is and lean into the hug he knows is expecting him. "This was just some fun between friends! It didn't count for anything official, though."

Straight.

From.

Hell.

Woo-young's silo is an apartment. There isn't much special about it except that it's all outfitted to be wheelchair-accessible, plus a lot of it responds to his voice commands. "Lights on, please," he says after teleporting the both of them into it, Tae-hwan next to the door and himself onto a wheelchair he has waiting for him by it, and the lights are on.

He pulls his shoes off and asks, "Do you want to shower first or should I?"

Right, shoes off.

"Um, I don't mind, except, uh—do you usually need help with it, after dungeons and stuff?"

"I don't actually need the wheelchair right now, you've already guided most of what I got from helping with your testing, I'm just kind of used to it." And also, better to be safe than sorry. "Why don't you go shower first, you're stinky."