Hunter is a very good job in the world of Solo Leveling. Hunters can earn a lot of money when they get the high position in the national. They’re heroes in people’s eyes. They can avoid punishment even if they committed a crime.
There’re so many benefits being a hunter. So many girls want to be a hunter. They think they don’t have to rely on men. Han Song-Yi is one of them. The girl is ambitious even if she’s just a high school girl. She awakens to be an E-Rank hunter. She thinks she can climb to the top when she knows nothing about the hunter world. There should be someone giving her a lesson. The person is our Monarch of Shadows, Sung Jinwoo.
Han Song-Yi Witnesses Sung Jinwoo Raiding C-Rank Dungeon
Sung Jinwoo decides to level up. So he needs to raid dungeon. He and Yoo Jinho choose a C-Rank Dungeon. But he needs ten members for completing the task. Yoo Jinho goes to hire some E-Rank hunters. He tells them that they just need to stay outside. He promises to pay them 30,000 won.
Han Song-Yi is one of the E-Rank hunters. She’s surprised. Because it’s an easy job. Sung Jinwoo notices Han Song-Yi. He doesn’t know she’s his younger sister Sung Jinah’s classmate. He goes to raid the C-Rank Dungeon with Yoo Jinho then. The hunters doubt Sung Jinwoo’s strength until the guy walks out of the dungeon and the teleportation gate is closed.
Han Song-Yi Wants to Drop Out of School
Sung Jinwoo goes to Sung Jinah’s school to see his sister. Sung Jinah is surprised that her older brother is so handsome. He goes to see her teacher then. The teacher tells Sung Jinwoo that Sung Jinah did a good job in the school. But she worries that the girl will be a hunter like Han Song-Yi. Sung Jinwoo promises the teacher that he won’t let his sister be a hunter even if she awakens. The teacher catches the chance to ask him to go to persuade Sung Jinah’s classmate Han Song-Yi. The girl plans to drop out of the school.
Sung Jinwoo learns that the girl is E-Rank hunter. He has a bad feelings because he knows E-Rank hunter cannot live in the dungeon too long. Sung Jinwoo remembers Han Song-Yi after he heard the girl’s name from the teacher. He knows she was the girl who was in Yoo Jinho’s strike team.
Sung Jinwoo walks out of the school. He runs into Han Song-Yi. The girl is surprised after she saw him. She wonders why he’s there. He takes out the group photo of him and Sung Jinah. She realizes that why he came. She tells him to give up the mind. Because she’s not interested in the study. She claims that she doesn’t want to give up being a hunter.
But he tells her that he doesn’t come to persuade her to give up. He promises to help her be an outstanding hunter. He knows the kid very well that she won’t understand it if he doesn’t let her experience the cruel reality.
Han Song-Yi Experiences Red Gate
Sung Jinwoo takes Han Song-Yi to a village. He contacted Ahn Sangmin. He wants to come to take part in the rookie training. Ahn Sangmin was very happy and he agreed to it. He comes to pick him up and he shows him the excellent training system.
Kim Chul wears the armor showing up. He’s not happy about Sung Jinwoo’s coming. He mistakes him for a son of a chairman. Ahn Sangmin introduces Kim Chul as an A-Rank tanker. He reveals there will be many hunters raiding the C-Rank teleportation gate.
Sung Jinwoo thinks it’s a good thing because Han Song-Yi will know the gap of her and other hunters. She will know how helpless E-Rank hunters in Dungeons. The assistant thinks it’s too easy to Sung Jinwoo. He persuades him to just watch the fight.
Han Song-Yi is excited. But she’s also nervous. Sung Jinwoo follows Han Song-Yi to get into the teleportation gate. But he has a bad feelings. Ahn Sangmin and the assistant find out that the blue gate turns into red gate. The instinct tells Sung Jinwoo that they need to leave the place. Because it’s very dangerous. But it’s too late. The most powerful energy draws him into the gate. He tries his best to come out of the gate. He yells at Ahn Sangmin and he tells him to report it to the main strike team. He’s drawn into the abyss. Ahn Sangmin is flustered. He thinks they cannot resolve the problem just call the main strike team. He contacts the president.
The hunters walks into the dungeon. They reach a snow land. They don’t how danger the place is. They just think the place isn’t dungeon. They don’t know why the teleportation gate disappeared. Sung Jinwoo looks around. He doesn’t find any unusual.
Two ice arrows shoot the hunters. Sung Jinwoo catches the ice arrow before it hurts Han Song-Yi. But another hunter isn’t lucky. The arrow shoots his head. The people around him yell that there’s a strike. Sung Jinwoo sees the ice elves on the tree. He realizes why he couldn’t sense the monsters because they’re too far. The elf provokes Sung Jinwoo. Sung Jinwoo swears to catch the elf.
Kim Chul introduces himself. He promises to take duty for the lives of the hunters. But he cannot promise each person will go back alive. He thinks it’s too hard to take so many people. He decides to form another team. He asks who is going to join him.
There’re many people wishing to join Kim Chul’s team. But he refuses to accept the low rank hunters. He tells the low rank hunters that they can leave the place once he kills the boss of the dungeon. But a pretty lady Park Heejin interrupts Kim Chul.
She offers to go to Sung Jinwoo’s team. He wonders why she wants to follow the E-Rank hunter. He acts that he doesn’t care for it. He tells the hunter he just rejected joins him. Sung Jinwoo worries about the hunters even if the strong hunters went to Kim Chul’s team.
Kim Chul is killed by Igris. Because he made most of the hunters killed. Sung Jinwoo takes Han Song-Yi and Park Heejin to leave the red gate after he killed the boss.
Yoo Jinho Mistakes Han Song-Yi for Sung Jinwoo’s Girlfriend
Sung Jinwoo takes Han Song-Yi home. She thanks him and she tells him that she will see him later. He’s confused. He realizes that he appointed Yoo Jinho. He goes to the appointment place. He sees Yoo Jinho. He asks Yoo Jinho to go to pick up Han Song-Yi. Yoo Jinho is surprised that Sung Jinwoo is close to the girl.
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He asks Sung Jinwoo if he needs to call Han Song-Yi sister-in-law. Sung Jinwoo explains it to Yoo Jinho that Han Song-Yi is just his sister’s friend. Han Song-Yi wears the casual dress showing up. She greets Yoo Jinho and she sits with Sung Jinwoo.
The talk makes Yoo Jinho mistake it. Sung Jinwoo asks Han Song-Yi if she had a good sleeping after she went home. Yoo Jinho sweats. He thinks Sung Jinwoo are Han Song-Yi are dating. He reminds his big brother that Han Song-Yi is a student.
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It seems that Sung Jinwoo doesn’t mind it. Yoo Jinho is silent to drive the car. He thinks he doesn’t know his big brother’s world.