Making a Contract. Realizing the Situation.

Right after Kang Yul acknowledged being a (vegetative) mage.

"That's right! I knew it!"

The woman clapped her hands with a bright smile, then shifted her rapid-fire speech into an even higher gear and chattered at Kang Yul as if she meant to bowl them over.

And so,

even as Kang Yul thought, 'You're awfully talkative for someone who looks like that….'

they kept up the obligatory responses, figuring they should humor her—at least for a little while.

"Oh, come to think of it, what are you doing here?"

As the conversation wound its way around to [Goblin Workshop],

she suddenly remembered Kang Yul crouching in front of the main gate a little earlier and asked what they had been doing there…

'I can't exactly say, '[the Monitor] told me to,' can I?'...