I think they see him as a threat because he's conversing and getting unnecessarily close without need. ML literally said, protect him like I would, and this is exactly like how he would protect him
They had him join the party because he has poison skills, but that was planned before they had all gathered as a group and hadn't seen him react to Seonwoo.
I imagine the two of them are now instinctively picking up on the strange vibes he is giving off towards Seonwoo and now are perceiving him as a threat. Their top priority is keeping Seonwoo safe and this guy is glaring at Seonwoo and trying to talk to him instead of keeping on task. They gave him a warning once and he's pushing it.
They're high ranking hunters who would be able to sense that's something is off.
I mean when the party was first formed, Chorok and Taera already tried to distance Seonwoo from hunter Koo, and all the guy did was stare at him. And even Jehee let Seonwoo talk with people he just met before, so unless the guy had some criminal records, I don't get the reaction
All the staring could also be seen as him knowing Seonwoo before, which he actually did, so unless he had some past misdeeds, why did they conclude he was a danger instead of 'oh maybe he had some connection with Seonwoo'. I feel like there's something more, another reason why they acted like this
I'm saying that they have a higher sense of danger due to their profession. It's like animal instinct.
Someone could look at you totally normally and it not set off red flags, but the way this guy stares at Seonwoo is predatory and they can tell.
They didn't do anything when they were outside the dungeon to keep him away specifically. They were already clinging to Seonwoo because they were told to keep him safe.
But if you go into a dangerous dungeon and this dude is glaring at Seonwoo in a not normal way and not doing what he's supposed to be doing for the mission then that's weird.
When he first approaches Seonwoo he's trying to nudge into "protection duty" which is not his job. The healer guy says leave him to us (the people who already have protection duty) and go do the task you were assigned. He warns him to not "glare at him like that" indicating he's being weird in the way he looks at him.
He then DOESN'T stay on task and tries it again with even MORE noticeably bad vibes. If the man is being weird to a party member AND not doing his assigned mission task or listening to the person in charge that's really good grounds to kick him out.
Their gut instinct is correct and they have to watch out for danger in and out of their party.
No, they already did want to separate them when they were outside, and only did a basic introduction. I'm not denying they have sharp intuition, more so than normal people. But see, this is where it's a bit tricky, they shouldn't have let him in if he's a dangerous guy. A person won't suddenly change their nature so suddenly, so there would be signs of him being creepy even before meeting Seonwoo. Even if they needed someone adept at poison, they could've picked someone else. I still feel like there's something else about him that Taera and Chorok haven't told Seonwoo
They didn't do anything explicitly that was separating him from this guy before they went into the dungeon. Like I said they were clingy, but they were going to be clingy anyway because they were told to protect him like the ML would. They only give the guy attitude when they get into the dungeon and he starts to pull shit. They are acting pretty normal and give a explanation on who it is that came with them because Seonwoo asks.
The guy was one of their hunters BEFORE this mission and the guild has a lot of members. He's an A rank poison hunter which they probably only have one of in that specific field that is that high ranking.
They had no reason to suspect he'd do something strange involving Seonwoo because they had never seen them interact before today.
Clearly the guy has a specific hang up/obsession over Seonwoo that wouldn't have presented itself before now. They are CURRENTLY picking up that he is acting weird because he has a specific target and he is CURRENTLY giving off bad vibes which is setting off their gut instincts that something is wrong.
He probably did his job on other missions normally before now, but he's only now glaring at and hyper focusing on someone that they also have to protect.
The one he's glaring at was Taera, hence why he gave the warning. What he did to Seonwoo is STARING and making failed conversations. They were already wary of him getting close to Seonwoo before entering the dungeon what are you talking about. Yes they did what Jehee told them, but they especially focused on distancing Seonwoo from him. And you said something pretty contradictive, like if they had no reason to suspect him doing something to Seonwoo, then there's no reason to immediately deduce they guy's obsessed with Seonwoo. If one met an old acquaintance who acted like they didn't know them, ofc they'd be curious, hence the staring. But they didn't give him a chance to explain. Like okay they maybe sensed something from him. And since he is also a radish guild member, that means they know his behavior before meeting Seonwoo. Like i said before, someone dangerous wouldn't chance their nature so suddenly, and that's what makes me suspect hunter Koo has some past misdeeds, why are you ruling out that possibility? He didn't set off bad vibe JUST CURRENTLY. He's been their guild member for long and Taera is the vice guild master ffs. I don't buy the bs that he just picked up his bad vibe just now.
They literally don't do anything aggressive towards the poison guy until they are inside. They calmly say "yeah that's our A rank poison guy" in chapter 24 and move on. The poison guy didn't even try to walk up to him to talk until after they were in the dungeon.
I'm not being contradictory. I'm saying he's on the team right now because when they made the team they didn't know Poison Guy had a weird thing about Seonwoo. They don't necessarily hang out with every single member of their guild long enough to know them past a professional setting. Hunter's are clearly not the most normal group of people in the first place so him being kinda weird is not odd.
It doesn't make sense for them to put a guy in their party that you know sucks and then immediately kick out of the party unless you feel like something is wrong.
The instinct I'm talking about is when something is currently actively dangerous. Like you could take a path in the woods every single day, but one day you get a bad gut feeling and avoid it because you sense something that is ACTIVELY dangerous that puts you on edge. People have this gut instinct all the time in situations. It's like when people sense killing intent. That danger only presents itself when the person is actively about to kill.
Or another example, the same person could serve you tea every single day and be totally normal, but then one day something feels off and you don't know why, but you decide not to drink the tea, only to find out that they poisoned it.
Poison guy is only giving those vibes now because he has CURRENT bad intentions towards Seonwoo. As in he is actively dangerous RIGHT NOW and is acting strangely RIGHT NOW. They aren't sensing he's innately a bad dude, they're sensing his current malicious intent.
I don't know what's so hard to understand about that.
What did the guy do?? If they're gonna keep him away from Seonwoo, why did they put him in the party in the first place