The Hunter’s Gonna Lay Low

Cha Wijae, a Hunter who had been deployed to contain the Rift that occurred in the West Sea, was thrown out the moment he closed the Rift and came to his senses in some dumpster.

Overwhelmed by extreme hunger, he was drawn like a zombie into a certain hangover stew restaurant, where he realized he had fallen into the Republic of Korea eight years into the future.

An era where disaster alerts pre-announce when and where a Gate will open, where slime ASMR videos harvested from dungeons are trending, and where idle Hunters do unboxing livestreams with A-class longswords.

Unlike the past, when people trembled in fear that the end might come, the future was nothing but peaceful—and Wijae felt a deep sense of futility. Since it had turned out this way, why not open the second act of his life as a hangover stew restaurant part-timer instead of a Hunter?!

“That’s strange.”

“….”

“Have we met somewhere before?”

As the sole part-timer at a hangover stew restaurant that had been around for decades, Wijae’s plan to spend the rest of his life quietly went completely awry upon his encounter with a mysterious “gas mask”…

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Background/Genre: Modern/Fantasy

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Top: Lee Sayoung (24) – S-class Hunter and Guild Master of PADO Guild. An Awakened with poison abilities. Always wears a gas mask when active outside, giving him a cult-like popularity, and he is famous in the Republic of Korea for multiple reasons. Due to the nature of his abilities, he always wears leather gloves. When the survival of the former Rank 1 is confirmed, he becomes desperate to find him.

Bottom: Cha Wijae (28) – An unfortunate Hunter who entered the Grade-1 Rift that occurred in the West Sea and barely escaped, only to find himself dropped eight years into the future. Feeling a deep sense of futility in “a world that runs just fine without me,” he chooses not to return as a Hunter and instead switches careers to become a part-timer at a hangover stew restaurant. He wants to spend the rest of his life quietly, but the world won’t leave him alone, much to his distress.

Read this when: You want to see a sweet-and-salty battle romance where they’re fighting one second and things get subtly complicated the next.

Quote: “You’re not your average crazy, hyung.”