Summary :
In Chapter 36, Jin-Woo is invited to a meeting with the President of the Hunters Guild, Go Gun-Hee. Gun-Hee tells Jin-Woo that he is aware of his true power and wants him to join the Hunters Guild. Jin-Woo refuses, saying that he wants to remain independent.
Gun-Hee respects Jin-Woo’s decision, but warns him that the Hunters Guild is the only organization that can protect him from the powerful enemies he will face in the future.
Jin-Woo leaves the meeting and continues his journey to become the strongest hunter in the world.
The chapter begins with Jin-Woo being invited to meet Go Gun-Hee, the president of the Hunters Guild. Gun-Hee tells Jin-Woo that he is aware of his true power and wants him to join the Hunters Guild.
Jin-Woo refuses, saying that he wants to remain independent. He tells Gun-Hee that he is not interested in the power or influence of the Guild. He just wants to become stronger and protect the people he cares about.
Gun-Hee respects Jin-Woo’s decision, but warns him that the Hunters Guild is the only organization that can protect him from the powerful enemies he will face in the future. He tells Jin-Woo that he is always welcome to join the Guild if he changes his mind.
Jin-Woo leaves the meeting and continues his journey to become the strongest hunter in the world.
Chapter 36 is a good chapter of the Solo Leveling manga. It’s interesting to see how Jin-Woo’s relationship with the Hunters Guild develops. Gun-Hee is a complex character and it’s unclear if she’s really trying to help Jin-Woo or if she has ulterior motives.
The chapter also does a good job of developing Jin-Woo’s character. He is no longer the weak and timid hunter he was at the beginning of the story. Now confident and powerful, he is determined to protect the people he cares about.
Overall, Chapter 36 is a good chapter of a great manga. Highly recommended for fans of action, adventure and fantasy.
‘I want he’d at the least communicate to me.’
Ju-Hui sort of felt that Jin-Woo became being instead bloodless-hearted here, now not announcing a single phrase till now.
in the end, Ju-Hui stopped taking walks first and with a few issue, broke the ice.
“surely… I suppose it’ll be not possible for me to devour some thing nowadays. allow me return this to you in the interim.”
Ju-Hui surpassed over a magic crystal to Jin-Woo. It turned into none apart from the identical crystal he entrusted to her again within the underground temple.
The guidelines of Ju-Hui’s fingers were trembling as she surpassed over the crystal.
‘That incident had been just a few days ago…. and he or she had to undergo some other one these days.’
Ju-Hui was the kind of character to get scared quite without problems. He should without problems discern out what she meant by using being not able to eat whatever.
“but, these days isn’t the handiest day, you already know? There’s no need to return this to me now.”
Ju-Hui shook her head slowly.
“I’m going again domestic next week.”
He heard that she become quitting the lifestyles of a Hunter, however now, it regarded that she become leaving the city altogether. Jin-Woo fashioned a rueful expression.
“Is it due to… that incident again then?”
“properly, it’s no longer really due to that, but…..”
perhaps she ended up recalling the events of that day, Ju-Hui’s complexion darkened. Jin-Woo quickly changed the topic in their conversation.
“wherein is your own family domestic, precisely?”
“It’s in Busan. ….without a doubt, Mister Jin-Woo?”
all of sudden, Ju-Hui’s expression became pretty extreme.
“Y-sure?”
Sensing that the temper had come to be sombre, Jin-Woo quickly wiped the smile off his face and shaped a extreme expression as nicely.
Ju-Hui slowly, cautiously combed over Jin-Woo’s face.
back then, whilst every body else become trembling from despair, most effective Jin-Woo’s eyes burned fiercely with a strong remedy. Ju-Hui turned into nearest to him, so she were given to see those eyes.
‘It became like, they were shouting out to the relaxation of the world that will pay attention his will to live to tell the tale.’
And the faint lines of hope those eyes captured managed to keep now not handiest her, but many others as well, from that area more than one instances.
no one could imitate what he pulled off back there.
Thump, thump….
while she recalled the occasions of that day, her coronary heart started out beating faster and quicker.
‘No, i will’t….’
She had no regrets over quitting the lifestyles of a Hunter, because it didn’t even fit her personality, initially.
however, she couldn’t help however sense truly horrific after realising that it’d be tough to fulfill Jin-Woo ever once more.
‘Will he think of me as a unusual character, if I ask him about assembly each other again….?’
It changed into instead unlucky, but there have been some things on this world that she couldn’t genuinely do some thing about. Having any regrets over such subjects would most effective end up tormenting her.
ultimately, Ju-Hui genuinely fashioned a disarming smile and gently shook her head.
“Nah, it’s nothing, definitely. if you come right down to Busan one day, please supply me a call. I’ll buy you truely appropriate sushi.”
“Sounds good.”
whilst Jin-Woo fashioned a smile, Ju-Hui smiled lower back at him.
And so, Ju-Hui didn’t get to say the phrases she virtually wanted to mention. She genuinely done a quick good-bye and turned round to go away.
‘……..’
The manner again home in no way felt this lengthy to her before.
***
After sending Ju-Hui home, Jin-Woo also back to his location.
An antique, decrepit condominium building, visible even from a distance – his vicinity changed into on the eighth floor. (TL: ninth ground for all of you North American readers)
As he walked beyond the parked automobiles to go into the building itself, the voice of an antique man stopped him in his tracks.
“younger man from 902.”
It was coming from the vintage security protect ahjussi. He’d been around this area for a very long time; Jin-Woo turned into acquainted with the older man, so he greeted without hesitation.
“You haven’t gone domestic yet, ahjussi?”
“I’m at the night watch obligation today.”
“Aha.”
Jin-Woo lightly nodded his head.
The old security guard without delay added out a parcel from the defend put up.
“Jin-Woo, this came for you nowadays.”
“Ahh. thanks a lot.”
The sender written on the slip become the association.
‘Oh, so it became these days, eh?’
The day that his alternative phone from the association become supposed to arrive, that become.
Jin-Woo took out his brand new smartphone from the box; it glittered softly underneath the light.
He remembered listening to now not too lengthy in the past that, because of the continued extreme degree of interest toward the entirety related to Hunters, the number of non-wakened human beings trying to get their hands on such a telephones become at the explosive rise.
‘in no way thoughts folks that want to buy one, simply what are the ones idiot Hunters questioning, seeking to pilfer some and promoting them off?’
The old saying went that it’s now not the u . s . that lacked cash, however that there had been manner too many crooks, as a substitute.
whether or not it turned into within the affiliation or inside the army, or any region wherein humans collected in a few numbers, corruption would always purpose troubles.
due to corruption, money would leak out, and the promised economic help might lower as lots as the quantity of leaked money, which might make the overall scenario even worse.
this would finally mean that those who had been imagined to enjoy the machine in a rightful manner got screwed royally inside the a*s.
‘That became why I were given concerned, but….’
thankfully sufficient, there have been seemingly no troubles with his new smartphone.
while watching for the elevator to arrive, he had not anything else to achieve this he switched the smartphone on.
And nicely, there has been a mountain of unanswered messages and missed calls.
‘Will I even have the ability to test most of these out??’
Funnily sufficient, numbers saved stoning up as he took a look at the display screen. each of them regarded surprising to him. One known as him a lot, while the alternative despatched a ton of textual content messages.
‘but, I don’t recognise absolutely everyone who would possibly name me this usually, although?’
Jin-Woo tilted his head slightly, before figuring out to check the textual content messages out first.
[Hello, I’m from that hospital….]
[If you have free time this week….]
[Was I bothering you? I just thought we could chat for a….]
He belatedly remembered a certain man or woman’s face. indeed, it was the face of that pretty nurse from the medical institution, the one soliciting for his number again then.
‘turned into her call Choi Yu-Rah?’
He couldn’t say that she changed into bothering him, but he were given this feeling that the moment he replied lower back to her, his lifestyles would possibly get clearly and unnecessarily complicated in a heartbeat.
‘k, so. I’ll pass….’
next up, the quantity that called him again and again.
Jin-Woo pressed the call button. a reasonably new and catchy pop music noisily greeted him as the ringtone.
listening to that, Jin-Woo ought to extra or much less guess who this quantity belonged to.
the call changed into linked pretty quick.
– “hi there?”
Yup, certainly it became him.
Jin-Woo leaked a wry giggle after his wager changed into established accurate.
“It’s me. From nowadays onwards, call me only in this range.”
– “Ah! You finally got your phone, hyung-nim!”
Of path, it become none other than Yu Jin-Ho.
Jin-Woo did write down the boy’s contact range somewhere but he had never called it earlier than, so it changed into a touch wonder why he did not comprehend it.
Yu Jin-Ho spoke with a alternatively excited tone of voice.
– “i was virtually taking into account supplying you with a name just now, hyung-nim. I’ve finished recruiting the crew participants, so I’ll be coming round the following day morning to fetch you!”
simply from hearing that voice, Jin-Woo could photograph Yu Jin-Ho’s happy face. Jin-Woo additionally chuckled gently.
“o.k.. See you day after today, then.”
click on.
As Jin-Woo ended the call, the elevator arrived at the ground ground and its doors slid open.
Tting.
finally, the raid would begin for actual from tomorrow onwards.
His coronary heart beat quicker simply from considering it.
‘let’s stage up as speedy as i’m able to.’
He’d increase his degrees, decorate all his Stats, and become more potent than every person accessible.
once he have become a virtually effective Hunter, he’d be able to get his palms on cash, reputation, and have an effect on.
And day after today would be his first step toward that purpose.
***
The East of the usa.
late at night time.
Hwang Dong-Su become the principle Hunter of the Guild, ‘Scavenger’, one of the top Guilds inside the entire u.s.. now not best that, however he turned into additionally an S-rank as properly. And simply before he went to sleep, he received a telephone call informing him of a shocking depend.
“…..My older brother is useless?? I want you to talk slowly, and tell me the entirety in detail. got that?”
The name of his older brother turned into Hwang Dong-Seok. seemingly, he entered a C-ranked Gate and misplaced his existence.
“….My older brother and his eight teammates all died, and handiest two others escaped unharmed?”
And the two who survived have been only a rank D and a bloody E??
some thing smelled fishy here.
The older brother Hwang Dong-Su knew might never sacrifice his very own existence for a far weaker teammate. also, what if that said teammate came about to be a temp?
there was no need to even mention it.
however, simplest the ranks D and E walked away alive, at the same time as his older brother and other C-ranked Hunters all perished in that dungeon.
‘There’s something going here….’
Hwang Dong-Su’s eyes became exceedingly sharp.
proper now, he changed into in a much-off foreign nation after being scouted away by certainly one of america’s pinnacle Guilds, but back while he was nevertheless in Korea, his brother did the whole thing viable to look after him and be an awesome brother.
He won’t had been a terrific person, however he became a fantastic, precious brother…..
‘i used to be planning to ask him right here once I’ve secured my foothold, however now….’
To think, he’d meet an twist of fate earlier than that passed off.
Hwang Dong-Su bit his decrease lip.
“Fax me all of the facts on the 2 surviving participants. My range is….” (TL: Yup, it said ‘fax’ inside the uncooked. Uhm, so, no emails in this international, then?)
Hwang Dong-Su ended the smartphone name and then known as his manager subsequent. the call were given thru pretty speedy.
– “Mister Hwang. You’re calling me pretty late. What’s taking place?”
“Laura. What could occur if I had been to kill a few human beings in Korea?”
– “Do you genuinely imply that?”
“yes.”
there has been a bout of silence earlier than the lady’s voice persevered on.
– “….The States haven’t begun to signal an settlement to trade Hunter criminals with South Korea. Mister Hwang, you are now an American citizen, so you’ll get a listening to in a US courtroom instead. If we’ve got a talk with the applicable authorities officers, then your typical sentence should be quite mild.”
“desirable to pay attention that. seems like I’ll must make a journey to Korea for a while. some thing happened there. can you solve my agenda for a piece?”
– “but, Mister Hwang, in case you go away so all at once like this, the operations in the Guild will grind to a halt. are you able to tell me of the nature of this ‘some thing’?”
“It’s a personal remember. Of direction, I’m not going to harm the Guild in any form or shape. tell me simply how a long way my schedule’s been booked for.”
– “You’re absolutely booked out for the following two months.”
“ months, is it… quality. After that, i can want some loose time, so don’t agenda whatever. I don’t want a long time, either. simply weeks. I’ll best want two weeks to pop in and out of Korea.”
– “…..Understood. What need to I inform the higher control?”
“inform them, I’m going to my brother’s funeral. also, going on a trip to cheer myself up, as nicely.”
– “okay. Will do. by the way, Mister Hwang… If there’s anything i can help you with…..”
click on!
Hwang Dong-Su ended the call.
Didn’t matter whether it become some cheering up or an advice…. He turned into now not inside the mood to listen either of those in the meanwhile.
Whirrrr-!!
It was then, the fax had arrived. Hwang Dong-Su took a study the files arriving separately.
on the white pages, pics of two Hunters, their names, and their quick bio might be visible.
“The rank D Hunter, Yu Jin-Ho, and a rank E, Seong Jin-Woo.”
Hwang Dong-Su alternated his gaze on the two guys’s images and gritted his enamel in dedication.
‘I’m sure I’ll get some answers from either one if I requested them individually.’
And, if he discovered whatever even remotely suspicious, then….
“you may regret popping out of that location alive. I’ll make certain of it.”
the edges of Hwang Dong-Su’s eyes reddened barely.
component 6. abnormal raids
next morning.
Jin-Woo went downstairs after receiving the cellphone name, handiest to find a big van parked outside.
“…..??”
Even before he should say, “Who the hell do you think you’re to block a person else’s go out”, the driving force’s window rolled down routinely. And the brightly smiling face peeking out from behind belonged to… Yu Jin-Ho.
“Hyung-nim, get in!”
Yu Jin-Ho caught his hand out the open window and slapped the facet of the van.
for the reason that the kid become excitedly putting forward his intentions to come and fetch him remaining night time, Jin-Woo half-expected to see a Benz or some thing, but….
irrespective of how a lot he looked, it became a ordinary-looking passenger van.
sure, it was on the biggish aspect, but still.
“Didn’t you assert you’re the second one born of a chaebol?”
“I concept it’d be too 32012fd371b2d8bbf6e5e631dc96cdaf if we used my automobile. i bought this guy no longer too lengthy ago to apply at some point of our raids.”
most effective now did Jin-Woo apprehend the purpose for all this shininess coming from the van itself.
‘It’s brand spanking new, that’s why.’
From his sincerity, as seen from the boy arriving at Jin-Woo’s place the first component inside the morning, to his cautiousness as visible from the kid buying a new van just to keep away from being too conspicuous….
Yu Jin-Ho turned into doing his pleasant to make sure that the whole lot became going easily.
It additionally verified that his hopes and expectations using on these upcoming raids were certainly large.
Yu Jin-Ho misunderstood the motive why Jin-Woo turned into taking his time to check out the brand new van, and worriedly asked.
“by using any risk, don’t you like this sort of car, hyung-nim?”
“on no account.”
Jin-Woo declared as so and climbed into the the front passenger seat.
“k, we’re placing off now, hyung-nim.”
Yu Jin-Ho must’ve been feeling genuinely excited due to the fact he saved buzzing to himself at the same time as twirling the steering wheel this manner and that.
They drove for a while, before coming to a forestall in an empty lot.
Screech.
“Hyung-nim, we’ve arrived.”
There had been 8 humans waiting for the duo on this assembly location.