Solo Leveling

The commander was looking out of his office window at the time; he didn’t turn around and addressed Jin-Woo in a quiet voice. “I heard that you’re still interfering in other detectives’ investigations….” As expected – the senior of earlier carried that look of ‘I told you so’ as he was leaving, didn’t he? Jin-Woo inwardly swallowed his fake cough. The commander turned around towards Jin-Woo and formed a refreshing grin. “Please, I beg you to not go overboard and make other detectives resent you, Seong Hunter-nim.” The commander’s face was someone quite familiar to him. It belonged to none other than Woo Jin-Cheol, the youngest Station Commander in Korean history.

“Chief, weren’t we on our way back to the Association?” “I just wanted to confirm something, first.” Woo Jin-Cheol shifted his gaze over the Gate, some distance away. ‘A rank A Gate still gives me the creeps every time I look at it.’ Woo Jin-Cheol frowned deeply. If that giant hole opened up like a door and monsters trapped inside emerged outside….. Just imagining that made him shudder. ‘However, why did that man apply to become a miner in such a horrifying place?’ Not only that, for two days in a row, too. Even if Association President Goh Gun-Hui hadn’t asked him, Woo Jin-Cheol would have personally come here to find out, anyway. ‘Investigating behind his back is…. impossible.’ The man in question was a rank S Awakened. A measly rank A like him going undiscovered while secretly investigating a rank S was, realistically speaking, an impossible dream. That was why he decided to show up in the open like this. Since he had a matter to attend to nearby anyway, he was thinking of greeting the youth while saying he was in the neighbourhood, and then ask a couple of simple questions. ‘I hope he won’t find me strange or anything.’ Anyone would get curious of the circumstances if a Hunter, already pretty much confirmed to be a rank S, chose to shovel the ground for some reason. On top of this, wasn’t Seong Jin-Woo someone the Association President was paying close attention to? The Association President must’ve found this young man very much to his liking, because he even focused all of his attention on everything Jin-Woo did. ‘No, I’m not the strange one here.’ It was obvious that you’d get curious, and it was only natural to ask. While telling himself that, Woo Jin-Cheol walked over to where the representative of the Hunters Guild was.

With good timing, Section Chief Woo Jin-Cheol knocked on the door and stepped into the president’s office. He was a man who, by achieving back-to-back results early in his career, got to wear the title of the youngest-ever Section Chief.