Even in a confluence, named S-ranks are relatively rare, but unnamed ones, ones that do require both Tae-gun and Hye-jin and other espers besides, those are becoming common as the confluence's really starting to gather steam. Nightmare is often (though not always) the herald of that, the dungeon that appears before things rapidly escalate. From past data, it's likely that Tae-gun and Hye-jin will be called to S-ranks two out of every three days. The day immediately following the appearance of Nightmare is one such day, as is the next.

The third day doesn't have an S-rank, though, and is consequently a day of lighter work for both of them, in which they're going to be soloing a few dungeons on their own. They're still not all of them easy dungeons by any means: while Tae-gun and Hye-jin usually prefer to share A-ranks, they can solo most of those and with the way the confluence is going there are times when they need to do that. Or, well, "need"; there's too much work and not enough people to do it, and at least Tae-gun himself is the type to take those dungeons on when he feels it's necessary.

Well, she does like to keep busy.

... She hasn't actually been worked this hard before, though. She doesn't have a problem with it, exactly, and it's also not like she can't handle it, just. It's clear that she wouldn't be able to handle it forever, and she is very extremely tired. Not even just physically, but - emotionally. There's the actual confluence, and the S-ranks (that could somehow become like her first one!!!! and they might really kill her this time!!!!!) and then there's the crazy stalker ex (who is only sometimes indisposed with Nightmare!) and then there's helping Tae-gun reconnect with his old friends and partners (and apparently some of them will bother him in the middle of the fucking night???) and she still doesn't have the secret underground base properly set up yet, and probably she should get to know more people in Quasar before someone else dies, or get out more and meet people that are not at risk, or... suffice to say, there's a lot. Most of it isn't even confluence based, just exacerbated by it.

At least solo dungeons (solo A-ranks, now!!!) are sufficiently distracting to take off some of the non-confluence pressure. She can just turn the part of her brain that's not immediately tactical off and focus on doing her job. And then she will head over to Tae-gun's silo and either be fucked out of her bad mood or just collapse to fall asleep on him, she's not sure which.

The confluence will be over eventually. She'll have more space to breathe and think about how to handle her litany of problems, then. She just has to get through it.

Tae-gun notices the strain that's being put on her, but there's not really much that can be done. He's also under that same strain, but he couldn't possibly do anything else; people rely on him. He just has to get through it. 

One dungeon at a time.

Yeah.

One dungeon at a time.