After the first few waves of small-fry goblins, Joohee is astonished and gladdened by the fact Jinwoo hasn’t been wounded once. Good, I say: Joohee has been through so much it’s good to see an unforced smile on her face. Unfortunately that smile, and the relative peace and ease of their raid, doesn’t last.
What comes as a mild surprise is that it’s not the three convicts who start trouble. They were a red (or rather orange) herring. It’s Kang Taeshik, their handler, who deviates from the mission. When the path forks three ways and the party splits up, Kang finds a quiet place to torture and murder the convicts one by one. He was paid handsomely to kill them by the father of one of their victims, who committed suicide not long after they assaulted her.
When Kim and his friend’s path happens to merge with Kang’s, he attacks them to. The friend is dead when Jinwoo, Joohee, and Song arrive, while Kim doesn’t last much longer. I knew he was a goner when he said he’d properly apologize for abandoning Jinwoo after they got out of this. Kang than swoops in and tries to kill the healer Joohee, but Jinwoo is quick enough to stop him.
After that, he kinda vanishes from the battle entirely, as the C-Ranked Song battles the B-Ranked Kang. Despite the difference, Song is a master swordsman who has trained S-Ranks, so he’s able to stay alive longer than most would against a B, and when he’s wounded, Joohee heals him. Of course eventually he runs out of gas and she runs out of mana, so it’s Jinwoo’s time to shine.
In classic shounen style, Kang provides constant commentary, both revealing what a bloodthirsy piece of scum he is, but that he far prefers killing people to monsters. Also apparently Hunters Association employees are paid shit, but rather than start a union, Kang here decided to break very very bad. Fortunately, Jinwoo is able to keep up with him, and when he gets sliced, he uses Full Recovery to heal instantly.
After poisoning him with his dagger earlier in the battle, Jinwoo uses the Murderous Intent skill, and despite Kang using a stealth ability that makes him invisible, he’s still swallowed up by Jinwoo’s overwhelming aura. Before he knows it the dagger is lodged in his chest and he’s breathing his last breaths.
While Kang knew about Second Awakenings, he knows nothing of the “System” that guides and directs Jinwoo. He also knows that anyone who gets stronger with each battle they win is bound to end up in some dark-ass places. Jinwoo must admit, it’s not just his physical appearance, but psyche that at which all this power and destruction is starting to gnaw.
Jinwoo was able to defeat a B-Rank, but he has no illusions about an A-Rank like Kang’s former supervisor, Woo Jinchul. Song covers for Jinwoo by taking credit for killing the rogue Kang, aided by Joohee’s healing, and Woo at least outwardly buys it, even though he’s suspicious of an E-Rank Jinwoo surviving another ordeal unscathed.
Woo takes them to the HA for paperwork, but their self-defense is confirmed when the father who paid Kang to kill the convicts turns himself in. After they’re free to go, Jinwoo and Joohee take a breather in the park, and Joohee presents him with an essence stone, hoping he’ll remember where it’s from. We’ll see if they play any role in his leveling, and if that leveling starts to adversely affect his relationships.
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