The Hunter's Gonna Lay Low is making me feral.
Cha Eui-jae was 17 when the apocalypse happened and he was the only person in the country to awaken as an S-rank. He adopted a hunter persona and wore a mask covering his face, and no one knew any personal details about him. For what? To have a personal life? No, of course not. He had no personal life. Did he even get to finish high school? His life was subsumed with running from emergency to emergency and becoming a national symbol.
It was so everyone could close their eyes to the fact that they were putting all this pressure on a teenager. When Jung Bin awakes as the second S-rank in South Korea, he's told not to look too close. Because everyone knew. They knew he was a kid, but they had that veneer of plausible deniability. They knew, but they didn't know for SURE, so they could hardly be blamed. Even if they admitted how young he was and that he didn't deserve the pressure and expectations they were putting on him, that Eui-jae didn't deserve to be a child soldier, what could be done? They needed him.
No wonder the second that he didn't have all eyes in the country on him, the second he realized that maybe things were in a state where they didn't absolutely need him, he broke.
