To me, life sentence in a fancy comfy prison seems better than getting enslaved or killed by black market hunters. So there have been even better reasons!
Hopefully Danbi will take this as the gesture of goodwill it is. I could see him being grateful, but I could also see him being paranoid and uncertain. I guess I'll have to wait and see which response he decides to go with.
Could always be a weird mixture of both! Danbi isn't used to thinking of rule-breaking as a good quality, so even though this is obviously to his own benefit, it could take some time for it to really sink in.
I would see that as a deliberate threat, possibly even for fun, but DAAANG I come from a totally different (cultural and personal) background from Danbi.
It could be blackmail material, indeed, depending on how things go from here...!
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