"No, we were planning on all enlisting together so we'd come back out together and then this jerk went and got himself esper powers and ruined our plans."

"You say that like I asked for them." And like he didn't almost die, not that he's bitter about that or anything.

"Hey, think on the bright side, maybe we'll run into Tae-hwan being a big damn hero in our dungeon rotations."

"Oh yeah that'd be cool!"

"Yo that'd be so cool, I'd get to brag to everyone else in my unit about how my best friend's that cool esper over there!"

"We're almost certainly not going to be assigned to the same units, though."

"We'll run into him in different dungeons, it's fine."

(Woo-young will not rain on their parade by pointing out that Tae-hwan will be at minimum B-rank and therefore mostly not go into the same dungeons civilians clear.)

Here's their drinks and the first round of meats.

Meats get a-sizzlin' and beers get passed around and, "Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

He may be underage but he is not going to be the only one out of these guys who isn't going to drink, come on. Cheers.

"Are we allowed to be real now that we have alcohol in our systems?"

"Nope! Gotta get proper drunk for that!" And Ho-pil will do his part.

"We're embarrassing ourselves in front of hyung, day drinking like this."

"It's a Sunday, we're having barbecue, it's a party, and we're breaking the ice, come on, it's fine, Ji."

"You'll note that I'm also day drinking." It's wine but it's still alcohol.

"Did you go to uni, Woo-young-hyung?" asks Ji-pyeong, using a pair of tongs to flip the slice of meat he got for himself on the grill.

"I attended a month and a half of classes before I manifested and then I dropped out." They wanted to give him an honorary degree, probably due to how he's now kind of a big deal or something, but he refused.

"Oh, what'd you major in?"

"Psychology."

"Oh is that why you're always staring at me, are you tryin'a psychoanalyse me or something?"

"It's really not very hard to do, you wear your whole heart on your sleeve."

"...can't argue with that."