mykidisthebest

You don't need to prove anything. If you don't want to go into a dungeon, no one can make you. The only reason the kids do is because they want to. Otherwise I wouldn't let them either.

Would other S-Classes not…?

[nibbles the taiyaki absently]

Not what? Go into dungeons? Not a chance. It's slightly different in every country, but in most countries the government will keep track of when dungeons appear and auction them off to guilds to manage. Guilds can raid those dungeons over and over again--it can be dangerous, of course, but it's incredibly profitable to sell off materials from inside of the dungeons.

And if they didn't go raid dungeons every now and then, the S-Classes would all probably end up fighting each other in the streets. You don't have that kind of mentality, and you won't even be in Korea all of the time, so that's not really a concern for you. Though if you feel the need to let off steam, please let me know so I can arrange something appropriate for you.

I meant, would they not insist I prove myself, but that was informative anyway.

I have not felt wild urges to engage in combat unprompted, but it’s felt good to stretch myself.

[vivid imaginings of Charon interacting with all of the Korean S-Classes]

..................They might tease you a little, but no one would ask you to prove yourself. Especially if you tell them you're a support class.

Good. That is entirely too much excitement for my nerves.

I can't promise there won't be excitement, but I'm confident that I can keep it to a minimum.

Balance is good. I just don't want to be...disruptive.

You couldn't be half as disruptive as most of the people I know even if you tried. Half of those punks would have destroyed my building without a second thought if I hadn't scolded them for it.

A fearsome scold indeed...

I don't know if it's fearsome or if they're only able to listen to reason when it's shouted at them...

I would assume other people shout at them without being listened to.

...I don't think anyone else does shout at them...

There you go, then.

[amused]

So the solution is to get more people to shout at them. I should have known. I'll put it on my list of things to do when I get home.

[reaches across the table, a hand on one of Lethe’s]

Delegate a little more…?

[tips his hand so he can lace their fingers together]

It was only a joke. I delegate plenty. We have a whole staff, so there isn't much that I need to do except diligently raise the kids.

I'm relieved to hear it. Children are a full-time job on their own.

They do keep me busy...They're good kids, though! And it's not like you can hold them to human standards. There's a balance between letting them be themselves and making sure they behave themselves so humans don't see them as a threat.

[amused]

Do you think I could tire them out, or...?

You could try! As an S-Class you'd be the most suited to it, since they couldn't easily hurt you from roughhousing.

Not unlike playing with my little brother back in the day, I suspect. Perhaps pointier.

Definitely pointier. For some of them, anyway. They're all shapes and sizes.

Dragons…?

Comet and the toddlers are the only dragons. And Comet is really the only one with spikes. Then there's Blue, she's a griffin, and Peace and Chripie of course, and then the dire wolves, and Songie is a big fluffy black sheep, and Sorok is a lazy white deer...oh, no, the water dragon is technically a dragon too! But it always feels like more of a serpent. There's a lot of them.

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