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What's It About and Where to Read It

This is an updated post as of April 2026. (My previous post from 2025 here)

Jump down to the Read More for info on the translations

Korean Title: 내가 키운 S급들

What's It About: It's about the Power of Love! And never giving up! And what does it mean to be a parent, a partners, a friend, a brother?

Fantastically detailed world-building and fantastically realistic and fleshed out cast of characters and a fantastically unhinged unreliable narrator of an MC.

It starts out looking like a standard male OP fantasy, but that is very much a fakeout, and it is very very much a subversion of that genre - something that has unfortunately earned this novel much ire in the Korean dude webnovel reader sphere of the internet.

It is also one of the best examples of "time travel fixit" as a canon premise that I have ever seen.

After his estranged little brother - Korea's top S-Sank Hunter Han Yoohyun - dies saving the life of the pathetic F-Rank Hunter Han Yoojin, Han Yoojin gets the opportunity to turn back time by 5 years and gain a new uber-powerful Skill that lets him 'nurture' S-Rank hunters to their full potentials - both humans and monsters. Yoojin is determined to just chill and prove himself by supporting Yoohyun, but it's not so easy especially as he finds more and more people to love and care about. And also this one annoyingly fascinating and useful guy - the current #1 hunter Sung Hyunjae - who had disappeared from the public eye in mysterious circumstances before Yoojin turned back time - keeps finding him fascinating and useful too and won't leave him alone.

This time a fan-made cover by s_class_potato that showcases a more complete cast list than the official cover. ↓↓↓↓

Webtoon Adaptation

Yes, there is a webtoon adaptation of it with an official English translation: My S-Class Hunters. There are 152 chapters in S1, which adapt roughly the first 160ish chapters of the novel, and the webtoon is currently on hiatus with work ongoing on S2.

The art is beautiful, and it is a very good work in its own right but it does adapt things more comedically than the novel. It makes for a pretty funny reading experience, but it leaves out enough of the (plot-relevant!) emotional bits as well as changes up certain plot points for better visuals that I would recommend reading (or at least skimming) from the start for anyone coming in from the webtoon.

Where to Read The Original

I.E. The novel in Korean: The complete story is 1165 Chapters

Main Story: 856 Chapters + 14 Epilogue Chapters (870 Chapters) Side Story: 167 Chapters Afterwords: 128 Chapters

These are now available on Naver, Ridibooks and Kakaopage.

Naver is horrendous to use internationally

Kakaopage is the easiest to use internationally IMO, and has a lot of freebies points. With enough grinding one can probably get all the webnovel chapters for free, while still showing support to Geunseo

Ridi is quite convenient too and often has sale events. Ridi is a more slash-friendly and female-reader friendly platform overall and has a more positive and shippier comment section I think.

However! Before you buy: One thing to note is that there are two versions of the text - a webnovel version and an ebook version. Yes, the text itself is different between the two.

Webnovel version: The ones that you can buy one-chapter-at-a-time and what you'll usually find on the 🏴‍☠️ sites. Side Story and After Words only exist as webnovel chapters as of April 2026. Ebook version: The 870 chapters of the main novel are also available as 35-volume set of ebooks. - Ebooks version has many added emotional beats and scenes (mostly of the homoerotic nature) - Ebooks version also has many "extras" - additional chapters and short stories, often from the perspectives of characters other than Yoojin, that often add a lot of great characterisation and world-building information. Apart from this there also exist some physical book sets but not in English - currently there is a Korean physical bookset of 10 volumes (with hopefully many more to come), and a Taiwanese bookset as well, and both these physical booksets have more unique "extras" in them as well.

If anyone decides to throw money at Geunseo for this, I would personally recommend going for the ebooks over the webnovel chapters.

Where to read the Translations!

TCF HIGHLIGHTS

CALE GETTING HURT:

•Chapter 45 : Magical Bombs [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 55 : Protect Knights From Toonka [Buckling knee, Drenched]

•Chapter 80 Giant Wave + Dragon Drying [Headache, Drenched] Chapter

•112 Red Thunderbolt [Spat Blood (A Copious Amount)]

•Chapter 162 Falling Tower [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 177 Eating Pies After Lightning [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 183 Destroying Houses [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 198 First Line Of War Defense [Blood Coming Out Of All Orifices]

•Chapter 215 ~ 225 War On Dessert & At Sea [Spat Blood]

•Chapter 238 Death Gorge [Blood]

•Chapter 244 "Are you trying to sacrifice yourself?" "Yes"

•Chapter 251 Prince + Raon Introduction [3 Days Left To Live]

•Chapter 257-259 Receiving Sky Eating

•Chapter 295 Putting Out Dragon's Fire [Blood]

•Chapter 302-306 Rose Gold Fire [Blood, Fainted] "Slap me"

•Chapter 339 Vs White Star [Fainted] •Chapter 354 The Wind Whip Trial [Fainted]

•Chapter 384 After Using All 5 + Crown [Shaky]

•Chapter 421 "He is writing a legend :"[Blood]

•Chapter 448 Earth + Water vs WS [Blood]

•Chapter 570 In The Sealed God's Test [Blood]

•Chapter 602 Sealed God's Bullshit [Blood]

•Chapter 607 Using The Shield In SG's Test [Blood, Collapsed]

•Chapter 646 'Instant Skill [Blood, Scars, Fainted]

Other cute stuffs that happens along the way :

•Chapter 6 Cale and Choi Han first meet

•Chapter 53 Saving Paseton's Life and Himbo Bob's first apperance.

•Chapter 58 Offering Dragon a house •Chapter 59 Return home to worried! fam

•Chapter 66 Yandere eyes! Choi Han

•Chapter 67 Concerned! fam about visit to Whipper Kingdom + Dragon Name

•Chapter 71 Pre-battle trash talk

•Chapter 76 Heading into No-Return Path

•Chapter 85 venuon tortute

•Chapter 89 Ron comes back heavily injured.

•Chapter 91 "My Blood Would Be Very Effective."

•Chapter 96 Cale treats Ron from the mermaid poison.

•Chapter 97 Laziness Raises Concern

•Chapter 101 Raon Reveal To Dark Elves

•Chapter 124 "Shouldn't You Blow Up?"

•Chapter 130 Asian Parent! Raon

•Chapter 133 Everyone In The New Villa

•Chapter 140 Big Shots Meeting

•Chapter 147 "Pretended to be trash"

•Chapter 163 Sleeping with Raon

•Chapter 168 Sick Raon!

•Chapter 170 Meeting World Tree Elves

•Chapter 174-175 Cale messing with Clopeh

•Chapter 176 Cale, whose favorite way of working out was breathing.

•Chapter 177 EAT APPLE PIES

•Chapter 178 “I told you I'm okay.”

“I will guard you.”

“I will protect you!”

“I'm going to surround the enemies with poison.”

“I'm going to cover their sights with fog.”

•Chapter 185 Worried Prince

•Chapter 190 Shopping Spree

•Chapter 195 Cale vs Old Nobles

•Chapter 196 Holding Up Shield For 3 Days

•Chapter 197 HUG (Choi + Cale)

•Chapter 198 “You are not the one who will create a legend. That role is already reserved for someone else.”

•Chapter 206 “If I make a mistake, it will be that I accidentally killed them. There will be no other types of mistakes.”

•Chapter 207 “Please just make it so I can make sure the soldiers have time to eat.”

•Chapter 208 Clopeh's New Religion

•Chapter 209 Every1 trynna feed Cale

•Chapter 232 “You seem to be someone who is quite loved.

•Chapter 235 Adressing Insecurities

•Chapter 252 Ron Hearing About 3 Days

•Chapter 258 Immobilized In Bed

•Chapter 259 “Goldie! Why are you saying something that’ll make me want to destroy the world?”

•Chapter 262" Well, you can say that he l almost died but came back to life."

•Chapter 264 HUG (Cale + Alberu)

‘Both you and I have experienced it once. That is why we cannot let it happen again. This is our last house. You know that, right?’ -Ron Molan

•Chapter 285" Human! Didn't you say that you would only use a little bit of your power? Are you trying to collapse again ?!"

•Chapter 269 The reason Cale never explains anything

•Chapter 291 Raon Meet Sr Rex + Billos •Chapter 292" Imma go put out the fire i made "+ Two-man Sick Patient Act

•Chapter 306 Sleep Talking

•Chapter 309" You fucking moron: "

•Chapter 310 Gluttony

•Chapter 320" That can't all be possibly true, right?” “Mhm, that's true. ""Excuse me? "+ Hide And Seek

•Chapter 333 WS Meeting

•Chapter 346 Bud Ilis, barely a day after knowing Cale, "My friend, you're such a good person :"

•Chapter 353 FEELS

•Chapter 354 "Why is only one day's worth of food gone?"

•Chapter 359 "Cale Henituse, this-" "it's fine for me."

•Chapter 362 Taking a call looking drunk

•Chapter 368 Cale Feeding Raon + CHOI HAN'S PAST REVEAL

•Chapter 391 Bud Meets Cloph

•Chapter 394-395 ‘Kim Rok Soo, it’s not your fault.’ <You were the one who was supposed to die.>

•Chapter 402 "Because I think you will use the power if things look bad : "We've had to watch you be in pain like that over and over!"

•Chapter 414 "Apparently, Choi Han woke up while shouting, 'Kim Rok Soo!' Human, do you know who Kim Rok Soo is? "

•Chapter 423 "..Why am I crying? I'm not sad."

•Chapter 424 Kim Rok Soo Meet Choi Han

•Chapter 425 "Oh, by the way, the original owner of your body is living well too. He said he is happy."

•Chapter 432 "It looks like the Henituse household will become at least a Marquis and at maximum a Duke household." + "Do you want to become thw territory lord?"

•Chapter 433 Clopeh + Witira vs Farmer! Cale & Territory Lord Hot Potato

•Chapter 434 Parental Concern

•Chapter 435 Sworn Brotherhood

•Chapter 437 Trash of The Duke's Family

•Chapter 447 Breaking out of illusion

•Chapter 456 Ron + Beacrox Homecoming

•Chapter 460 “It is not the Henituse County anymore. It is the Henituse Duchy now."

•Chapter 463 “Cale-nim, are you planning on sacrificing yourself again? "

•Chapter 470" LaNgUaGe, siX-yEaR oLd "

•Chapter 475" Honestly speaking, Alberu Crossman cherished the current Cale Henituse"

•Chapter 478 DHB Joins The Party

•Chapter 481" The God of Death cherishes heroes, but is willing to sacrifice a few to save the masses. ""It looks like it is you this time. “

•Chapter 483 “Cale-nim ,. Did the God of Death do something?”

•Chapter 485 think your ancestor was a criminal?"

•Chapter 487 Concerned! Alberu on Cale's involvement with GoD

•Chapter 490 Meet Princess Jopis

•Chapter 494 “really seemed to have made a deal with Someone who is worse than the Demonic race.”

•Chapter 500 Guardian Knight fanboys

•Chapter 501 Back To The Other World + Cale faints after getting captured by Fake World Tree

•Chapter 502 Choi + Raon goes feral

•Chapter 503-505 Aluding to 💖🔪

•Chapter 507“You showed our young master-nim despair. You shouldn't have done that."

•Chapter 515" Hand your blood over to us. No, serve it to us."

•Chapter 524".You are someone who has received the will of a god"

•Chapter 525 Conspiracy Theorist! WS •Chapter 527"Do you have any intentions of making the White Star's comments come true?"

•Chapter 528 GoD better watch out for one" innocent "swordsman + baby dragon lord" Cale Henituse, what do you think? Have you thought about it yet? I want to quickly drink your blood."

•Chapter 530 Best Actor goes to.Naru! Cale

•Chapter 535"Please give the order to kill Cale Henituse right away :, Cale Henituse said.

•Chapter 540 Choi + Raon vs WS's first name + face

•Chapter 554 "Cale had instantly fallen into darkness." "There's only one reason that a VoW of death would be cut. "That means that the other person is dead"

•Chapter 555 Sealed God's test start

•Chapter 556 "Cale's eyes teared up at that moment"

•Chapter 580 Cloppeh Sekka 2.0

•Chapter 582 Lee Soo Hyuk Reunion •Chapter 587 Ron continue to scare Alberu

•Chapter 589 <Become the sun.>

•Chapter 603 “It feels like someone is trying to pull my heart out.”

•Chapter 605 "Are you still thinking about protecting others in your current situation?"

•Chapter 615 Beacrox switches to black gloves

•Chapter 616 Caleism spreads to Earth 2

•Chapter 618 Truth Revealed to LSH •Chapter 620 Thanking SG

•Chapter 622 SG's Test Completed

•Chapter 623 Visiting The Henituse Duchy

•Chapter 624 Basen thinks Cale wants him to become the territory lord because he thinks he's gonna die.

•Chapter 627 Reuniting with dad

•Chapter 628 Cale Fanbois

•Chapter 630 Cale in the capital + Cale fanclub

•Chapter 631 Dragon Master Cale

•Chapter 634 Motherhens about Cale's health

•Chapter 637 "Dragons." "..Ah. They're Dragons." "Nod nod. Bud just decided not to think about Cale's group anymore."

•Chapter 640 "We need to destroy everyone who messes with our kids."

•Chapter 655 The OG Cale

•Chapter 687 “I finally think that my life is a bit precious.”