• • is very much liked by most visitors of the hangover soup restaurant, which... turns out to be mostly hunters LOL. He's very well-respected by these hunters (of all classes!) and it becomes a running joke as all these hunters perceive him to be a normal weak guy when he secretly outranks them all. Their support of him teeters between hilarious and wholesome, especially when MC registers as a D-class hero (D class? E class? something low like that) and everyone invites him to their guild, telling him they don't care about his value as a hunter, they just really respect him and like his personality TTvTT

• • more on the boomer part--he tried to sell rare crystals on a craigslist-equivalent type app and he absolutely had to face the consequences of his actions. one of my most favorite part of the webnovel as everything exploded in his face and he instantly regretted it within minutes of posting it. the internet reaction seemed pretty realistic to me

• • has a dedication to the grandma who runs the hangover soup restaurant and took MC in as well as the granddaughter who MC refers to as his nephew. Not much found family, but it's wholesome how MC has an attachment to them as if they were his real family, but a lot of the plot is taken up by the hunter aspect and there's not so much focus on them. There is a plot thread of MC making a deal with ML to get the grandma's legs fixed which I found very cute

• • This is just from memory, but I think I remember reading how he has a bit of trauma regarding rifts. He went into West Sea Rift with a full party and was the only one who came out, so basically everyone else died. That would probably traumatize anyone and leave them with trust issues, and in recent chapters when "Hunter J" became re-recognized in the system, Ui-jae is still #1 even after eight years. How this will unfold into the plot in the future is still unknown. But he clearly wants to give up that dangerous life because it's a lot to shoulder onto someone who has lost so much. His motivations are pretty clear.

There's a moment where MC doesn't want to anger the rank 5 (or something close to that number) hunter Honeybee so MC lies and say he's a big fan of Honeybee and likes his face that shows up in many advertisements. ML gets jealous and despite having an infamous record of rejecting all advertisement appearance offers, he accepts one just so he can try to get MC's praise... haha....

At some point, a teenage girl hunter who can look into the future approaches Ui-jae with a very ominous vision that KR will fall and some sort of apocalyptic future will happen. This is the main drive of the story beyond MC just trying to live a normal life. Of course, our MC is a good guy and he wants to help avoid this future at all costs.

I mean, the main reason why he wanted to live a normal life in the first place is that he doesn't see himself as "needed" anymore in the current society. He didn't become a hunter out of passion so to speak, he did it out of necessity because again, he was only one of two S-rank hunters in KR and he felt he had a duty to perform in order to minimize casualties.

There was a poison dungeon and MC saved him. He was the only survivor, and he was in critical condition. MC made sure to pay for his treatment with MC's own money. When he found out that MC and the hunters who went to the West Sea Rift presumably died, ML awakened as S-class due to grief. There's so much more to this but I won't expand, you have to experience the same heartbreak that I did. It's honestly very depressing and gratifying.

They're doing their evil deeds so they can prevent the apocalypse because it's an inevitable event that will happen. Sacrifice a few for the greater good, so to speak. But then again, they're a bunch of lunatics who thinks that what they're doing is justified.

You'll understand why Sayoung insists on calling Uijae "hyung", why he named his guild "Waves/Pado", why Bae Wonwoo is so loyal to him, and why his name is Sayoung (and what it means). There's so much more.

The second part of the novel is not that

bad? FOR NOW. as emotional focus is put into romance more, yeehaw!

I swear to God it's all, but I am considering translating series at this point. IDK how many years it's gonna take. Just a note, bc this review is already unreasonably long lol... don't promise anything.

it didn't quite fit well with me that he was flirting with our MC even before realising his real identity, especially given that the author emphazied how obsessed ML was with 'J'. It was a tad out of character.

But I shall give him the liberty since its pretty toxic to cling on to an old relationship and no one's obliged to stay committed to their partner even after their death. Luckily for our ML the guy he was interested in was his ressurrected crush

that they had a parental connection first or it felt like that yk. I mean "my boy" idkkk

”this kid I rescued years ago has a crush on me!” where the MC feels conflict about it (because obviously as a then-20 year old why would you be hold any romantic interests in a kid?) and also the MC being, slow, I guess? 😂 he clearly has non-old-brother-like feelings for the ML but he has trouble reconciling the fact that they’re the same person. Plus he has had a pretty crazy year or so dumped on him so I guess he gets a pass but like oh my gosh HAHA

im absolutely dying at the culmination of the MC’s building feelings and conflict about this and feeling so flustered at the moment from something the ML did for him that he suddenly runs away. Like straight up running away in the middle of a conversation with the ML. It’s genuinely just too funny for words I literally can’t

ML had a past with MC ~~ altought he couldn't recognise him at the beginning ohhh boy he was down bad

while part two has comedic elements, the story does switch to more drama and angst and away from the hangover soup slice of life as the full world ending plot gets revealed. But that said part two still has my favorite moments in the story and has the most amazing Gay Panic (tm) moment I have ever read

proposing a trade for a dungeon item on a civilian trading app that requires his location, without researching properly what the item cost would be. Then oh surprise his cover was almost blown because he literally told everyone to look here. I'm very much disbelieving that none of the Hunters that frequent his store can't recognize the green table or background of the infamous mana stone picture.