I gotta admit, at first, this romantic relationship seemed pretty random, like
it came from left field. While I read through the series, especially earlier
on Chaw High, in felt like the other girls for the most part,
who were all similarly obsessed with our protagonists. For instance, if you told
me Sung Jin Wu would have ended up with Lee Joelhee, you know,
the scared b rank healer instead of Chaw, I wouldn't have been surprised,
especially since they had some sort of connection from the beginning of the series.
But in this video, I'm going to go back and see if there were
in fact clues earlier on and throughout the series that these two would get together.
And of course we'll discuss there happily ever after two, including their overpowered
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and all. So if you only read the first few chapters. Chances are,
as I mentioned, you'd think jin Wu would end up with Joe,
he the B rank healer. Even when our boys Sung was an E rank
and people joked about him being humanity's weakest hunter, Lee still showed an insane
amount of interest. Despite her fear. She often accompanied Sung jin Wu so
he didn't get killed, and even got mad at him for how often he
got hurt. She saw something injin Wu before he became an overpowered badass,
and for that you got to give her props, and it makes sense why
she'd be shipped by some with jin Wu. But alas for Lee, jin
Wu isn't into scared ber ranked girls. He's only into badass S rank girls.
As we're about to see now. Credit goes to the anime because they
did show Chav being badass and popular in the very first episode. At the
very least, you can't say she came completely from nowhere because they hinted at
her future importance. In contrast, in the webcomic, we have to wait
until chapter sixty five. That's a lot of chapters. Jin Wu joins the
mining team in a dungeon that Chaw's guild is handling. She's introduced as the
lady with a sensitive nose. She's all introduced as a hyphe figure. She
is the s rank vice master of the country's strongest attack for us. Jin
Wu wonders how many women are there in the world with such energy and thinks
that she's at least on Troy Jong Ian's level, maybe even higher than that,
thus implying that she's even stronger than the guild master, who has been
called the ultimate Soldier. So immediately Sung jin Wu does notice her power and
that she's probably the strongest girl in Korea. I don't think he was thinking
about how strong that would make their son yet, but it's interesting that he
takes note of her before she takes note of him. She, for her
part, seems to sense Jin Woo's strong presence, but Jin Woo masks it
in time and then remarks that she's sharper than he thought, meaning his future
wife impressed him. When Jin Wu sneaks off to check out the boss of
the dungeon, Cha is the one who asks him what he's doing. He
says he got lost. At the same time, though he smiles, thinking
that Chaw is not normal since she was able to get on his back.
She also gets even more curious about him because she noticed he was holding away
weapon, but it's suddenly vanished. She asks him to leave and not aggravate
the boss, but as he's passing by, she notices something jin Wu doesn't
smell. She even smells him to make sure, and as she points out
there's no stench, which is saying something after how much manual labor, our
boy just did her cheeks get red and she asks if he's really a hunter.
When she sees he has an E rank, she wonders if he didn't
smell just because his rank was too low, but then she says no,
not only did he not smell badly, he smelled nice, so from their
first meeting she sniffed out her future husband. From her perspective, this definitely
made him special and one of a kind. Again, most of us probably
assumed that, like many other girls in the series, it's not weird that
this one fell for it, and the smell thing might have been explained away
by the fact that jin Wu is not human in the conventional sense. Perhaps
players don't give off smells like ordinary hunters. However, in retrospect, Knowing
what we know now, it's likely that there is more to it, and
it's almost like Chaws knows was telling her who her soulmate was right from the
as mentioned, jin Wu was also impressed multiple times by Cha, but it
didn't really get into romantic feelings yet, and it seems that a recurring thing
in the series is that jin Wu is ignorant of all the girls that like
him. He's clueless and is not convinced that he's much of a catch,
so he doesn't really think of girls he encounters in a romantic way. I
guess since we're dealing with an action story rather than a romance, it actually
works so that the romance doesn't slow down the story too much until the time
is right. But clearly there were clues that from the get go each one
noticed that the other was special. After this encounter, one of the miners
tells jin Wu that it's rare to even get to talk to Cha once.
He calls jin Wu a lucky guy, so even he was telling us that
something special had just happened. The whole smell thing is then explained in further
detail. We're told Cha is able to smell a certain scent from hunters,
and apparently it's quite foul, and that is why she covers her nose with
a handkerchief. Jin Wu wonders if that's why she asked him if he was
a hunter. He recalls the I self who said jin Wu wasn't human because
the voice in their heads telling them to constantly kill humans was not telling them
to kill jin Wu. However, the fact that Chaw didn't say that she
could not smell him, but that he actually smelled good leads me to believe
that it wasn't just that. The romantic in me wants to assume that her
senses identified her future husband, Aka's soulmate even before her mind did, and
as we'll see in a bit, this connection does transcend time and even different
timelines, so the notion is not quite as far fetched as it may seem
at first glance. That night, Chaw can't help but think about jin Wu
again. She tries to find information on him. She's fixated on him,
but she doesn't know why, thinking maybe he's a spy from another guilt.
This is when she finds out that the Association has put a block on his
data and that that is the first time she's seen that for a non highly
ranked hunter, jin Wu just keeps getting more and more mysterious in her eyes,
which is definitely not hurting his chances. Frustrated, she throws herself into
bed, wondering why was he different. Out of all the hunters she's met,
He's the first to smell nice, so clearly she was into him from
the beginning. But we gotta keep going since, as I mentioned, a
lot of girls were albeit she's the only one who fixated on his nice smell
though. Soon enough, Chak comes to meet jin Wu again at work when
he's supposed to be with the mining team again. Then she hears that he's
actually filling in for the porter, so he is on the strike squad.
She puts this info of him an E ranker being unafraid to enter the dangerous
gate with what happened yesterday with seeing him with a weapon in his hand in
front of the boss, and decides something fishy is going on. She goes
into the gate to investigate, but yeah, let's just take a time out
and say she is showing a lot of interest for someone who usually doesn't even
talk to people. She also realizes she didn't bring a weapon, so she
borrows a pickaxe from the mining team. She's not super happy with it and
thinks she'll go without a weapon for a second, but then thinks better of
it and grabs one anyways. Meanwhile, as an E ranker, Jin Wu
is about to take on the high Orcs that were clearly too much for the
strike squad summons his shadows. Eventually, Chaw shows up to see the battle,
carrying her peckaxe. Of course, she's shocked by what she sees and
says that mage type hunters specializing in something magic are only capable of handling one
or two beasts at most. In other words, jin Wu is insanely powerful.
He is confident in his victory and effortlessly overpowers the boss, saying a
mage without his guards can't block an assassin surprise attack. When the dagger doesn't
seem very effective, he switches to punches, as he usually does. The
manager of the surveillance team shows up, and again Shaw takes note that not
only mister Troy, but this guy knows about jin Wu as well. Manager
Wu Jinchoul then comments in Chaw's presence that Jin Wu is currently clearing an a
rank dungeon all by himself. Pretty impressive for an E rank Chaw must be
thinking. In fact, she's blown away, thinking he's no doubt one of
the best fighter type hunters, but he can also use something magic. How
many beasts can he control? She wonders. She asks who the hell is
that guy? After jin Wu beats the boss, Jaw, along with everyone
else, is shock to see jin Wu turn such a powerful boss into one
of his shadow underlings. Now, jin Wu gets red faced and surprised when
he sees that Wu Jin Chrul and Cha witnessed all of that. But to
be fair, this could be less because of any feelings for Cha, and
more because he's been trying to keep his powers a secret for so long and
two big names just witnessed it without him realizing. The surveillance team makes it
clear that they want to protect jin Wu's secrecy and tell the others that they
can't say anything. He also points out that his strength surpasses that of an
S rank hunter even this early on in the story. As Jinu is leaving
with surveillance, Cha reaches her hand out in his direction and wants to say
something, but seems pretty speechless. She's then interrupted when someone asks her why
she brought the pickaxe, Cha blush his heart, saying what if he thought
I was weird? So clearly by this point Cha has got it bad.
What may have started as curiosity has now turned into a full blown crush after
witnessing jin Wu's true power and action. And you can't blame triive until she's
so strong for wanting someone who is even stronger than her, like mitso your
demon slayer who can protect her? But by the other lady, She's asked
who is she talking about, and Cha just looks down, embarrassed, saying
never mind. This moment is all the cuter because jin Wu is making a
beast in her own right, arguably the second strongest hunter in Korea, or
at least third, act like an ordinary girl in love. Later, after
some demon tower fighting detours, we see Cha again during chapter ninety one.
At this point, the strongest Japanese hunters and Korean hunters have come together,
and Japan's strongest hunter, Goto, can't help. But notice that Chaw,
along with the Chairman Gogun, he would give Japan's best hunters a run for
their money. Then, during a sparring match, we see Chaw in action
against Japanese as rankers, and as expected, she's impressive. Kanatawata comments that
she thought Chaw was just fast, but she was wrong. She also can't
read the pattern of her movements. This is when we're told Chaw's nickname is
the Dancer, and she was given this name because of the way she'd swiftly
kill one beast after the other as if she were dancing. The funny thing,
though, is that she banned the nickname because she found it embarrassing,
so not many people call her that, and when you think about it,
she definitely gets embarrassed a lot. For such a powerful badass, she takes
kinda out of the competition easily enough. When Atsushi Kumamoto sneaks up on her,
she instinctively attacks him with so many punches she's compared to a gatling gun.
People can't believe she hit him so many times in the blink of an
eye, saying no one could have blocked an attack like that, so she
pretty much accidentally embarrassed. This s class not so she gets angry, and
in such cases, he goes berserk. In berserk mode, he's able to
clear a beer ring dungeon by himself, but he may attack friends as well
as foes. Chaw notices how fast he is in berserk mode, but then
Jinwu decides to intervene, pretty much coming to Chaw's rescue, not saying Chac
couldn't handle it, but jin Wu says, I think you guys are getting
too carried away. This is just a sparring session. End quote. Either
way, you can say that jin Wu was protective of Chaw, and you
can bet that the fact that he stopped this wild beast for her so easily
only insures Chaw will fall for him even harder. Jin Wu and Chaw agreed
to give the victory to the Japanese S ranks since it's a friendly sparring match
anyway, so who really cares? But then Goto, clearly impressed by jin
Wu, asks for a one on one. So now, after the Japanese
S ranks have won a competition, the strongest of all Japanese S classes asks
to fight jin Wu. Both Cha and Bayak are excited to see what jin
Wu is capable of. It's hard to imagine him beating Goto, but at
the same time, he's never failed to impress so far. Even Cha doesn't
know whether to worry or not. Cha then notices that jin Wu isn't just
hanging in there. He's getting Goto to make attack after attack. Jin Wu
then confidently stops Goto's attack by just grabbing his hand and smiling. The flex
is all the more impressive because he could have grabbed his wrist and ended the
game, but purposely grabbed the hand so that they could keep going. At
this point, Goto, who's used to being the strongest in the room,
is losing it. Soon enough, things get so heated that the other s
ranks jump in to stop them, and Cha and the transformed Biak end up
jumping in to stop jin Wu, saying that that's enough. That man is
in charge of leading the Japanese team in a few days for the Jeju Island
raid, and nobody will be able to handle the consequences if something were to
happen to him. Jin Wu is calm after the fight is broken up,
but Goto is clearly shook, shown out of breath and sweating. It's the
face of defeat if I ever saw it. And I say all this because
Cha got to witness her future husband being a badass and not only being protective
of her, but going on to pretty much beat a legend and the strongest
of Japan's as ranks. Like we've seen, she was already interested, but
all of this definitely makes her fall harder for her crush, and at chapter
ninety five it starts to become clear that, yeah, the author is focusing
hard on Chaw's feelings compared to other girls. By this point, it's been
a while since Johi, our b ranked healer, for example, has been
relevant to the story, but Chaw keeps popping up and there are always clues
of her feelings being thrown in. For instance, as they're heading to Jeju
Island, she asks Bike about Sung jin Wu and if they met before he
came, and when Bike says no, why do you ask? She says
no reason and looks embarrassed with us single sweat pouring down her head. So
Yes, although it arguably took too long to introduce Cha compared to the other
girls, and that made it seem more out of the blue than it could
have been otherwise, by this point in the story, the emphasis on her
and her romantic feelings is definitely stronger than that of any other romantic interest,
and it seems even the anime agrees that she should have been introduced earlier,
and that's why they keep giving us scenes with her even before she meets jin
Wu so we won't be caught off guard later. By showing her so much,
they are hinting to us that she will be relevant as early on as
the first episode, and I respect that change. During chapter ninety seven,
Chai is seen taking down Royal Ant guards pretty easily, although she does note
that their bodies are way tougher than she thought. Bike is especially impressed with
her after she gets that boosts from yong Gu, the S rank healing and
buff magic user. Bike says that she probably slaughtered at least twice as many
aunts as he did, so clearly she's the most impressive S rank present among
them, and yet she continues to impress. Cha is the one to literally
sniff out the queen and more guards, and she's the one that ends up
cutting the Queen's head off too. Then, though, comes a threat that's
too much for even her to handle. The Ultimate Ant Soldier Akad and King
aka the Hidden Boss of Jeju Island appears. All the present S ranks are
shocked by only the or and energy of the Ant King. His mere presence
sends a chill down their spines. For the first time, Cha is in
real danger. The Ant King appears behind her and delivers a blow that sends
her body flying. She immediately coughs a blood. The Ant King deals with
the others easily and goes off to the feed go too easily as well.
Finally, as Ant soldiers are coming to finish off Chaw's wounded group, jin
Wu exchanges with a shadow soldier and appears he helps the surviving s ranks,
but Cha is unconscious, and jin Wu says that she suffered serious injuries to
the point that he can't heal her with just his abilities, not only that
she's solely growing weaker. In other words, she's gonna die if they don't
do something. The Ant King shows up, and now it's time for his
fight with jin Wu. After some impressive fighting, jin Wu thinks that the
Ant King is getting nervous, but he comments that his team is getting nervous
too. We see an image of Chaw still unconscious, suggesting that Jinu is
thinking of her when he then says, I have to end this fight as
quickly as possible. Again, some more proof that jin Wu cares for cha,
but we're just getting started. After jin Wu finishes the ant king with
his newly unlocked scale, mutilate Bike brings his attention to Chaw in her terrible
condition. Jin was upset, saying, damn, I took too long.
He says he needs to find a healer fast. He asks the recorder to
turn off the camera, and when he says pardon, he says, hurry
up. If you don't shut it off, I'm going to smash it to
pieces. There's a clue as to how badly jin Wu is rushing to save
Chap. No time for politeness with the camera guy. He decides to try
something he's never done to revive the good guy and healer Beyung You as a
shadow soldier. Since it's the only way to save Chap, even if it's
a moral he thinks to himself, he has to save Chop. Bike is
upset too by this, but when it's complete, Beyong's shadow immediately starts healing
Chop even without orders. Jin Wu can tell he had a good heart,
and he ultimately agrees with the others that as someone who hated violence, Beong
shouldn't be kept as a shadow soldier. And jin Wu releases him, but
only after he saves his future wife's life. Think about it, The writer
might have had anyone be in this life in this situation, but he made
sure that it was Cha, and that jin Wu was worried over her and
ready to break moral rules, albeit only temporarily for her. At this point,
the writer definitely knew they'd end up together, if you ask me.
At the funeral for our buff and healer magic user, Cha looks over at
jin Wu and when he looks back, she turns quickly and blushes. She's
definitely got it bad at this point, whereas jin Wu is clueless, question
marks appear above his head and everything. He doesn't know why she's acting this
way, and it's the ongoing thing of him being clueless with girls liking him,
whether it's a nurse or the strongest woman in the land. So later,
Jinwu decides to make his own guilt and his bro Jinho joins as vice
master. Who else shows up, well, none other than future wife Cha.
Again, you gotta hand it to her. This girl just won't quit.
She says she's come to sign up for jin Wu's guild. Classic.
Jin Wu is confused, though he's so clueless that he wonders if mister Go
put her up to it, or if mister Troy kicked her out of the
Hunter's Guilt. When she says no, he asks, seriously, then what
is it? Why do you want to join the solo player guild? He
wonders why her heart is beating so fast, her breathing is uneven, and
she's avoiding his gaze. He thinks to himself that she's trying her hardest to
keep her cool, but there's no fooling me. So instead of seeing all
that as evidence that she likes him, he concludes that he should be on
his guard because of her suspicious behavior. He continues his questioning, trying to
figure out why she would want to join his guild. Jin Will says,
I'm pretty sure your contract with the Hunter's Guild hasn't ended yet, and she
responds that she has enough money to pay the penalty for breaching that contract.
On a side note, I love that she's in love with him so much
that money literally doesn't even come into the equation. When she's thinking about career
moves in her future, Jin Woo makes it clear that their guild can't afford
to pay in advance that will be sufficient enough for a hunter of her caliber,
and she says it doesn't matter, she doesn't need an advance. He
again asks point blank, why are you going to such lengths to join?
You have nothing to gain. She thinks about telling the truth, but then
thinks, no, he'll think I'm crazy if I tell the truth. How
it started out as a smell in curiosity, as an attraction to his scent,
as she puts it, then she witnesses insane strength. He was one
of the best fighter type hunters, but could also use summoning magic. She
researched him and saw how he got a bunch of hate online because he ruined
Le Minsung's press conference. Then when it came out that he's an S rank,
she thought that she knew it. She personally didn't get the impression that
he was a bad person, though, as the online hate would lead one
to believe. She told herself to stop worrying about him, and she had
no time to waste since Jedju Island was coming up. But when she saw
him again at the practice with the Japanese hunters, she couldn't help but think
that he stood out like a burst of color in a grayscale world. This
reminds me of the first episode of Clanad, where Tomoya meets his love interest
Nagisa and immediately the dark colors are replaced with vibrant, lively colors. I
love Clanad and love seeing that idea here too. Keep in mind she was
thinking this and was clearly in love before he saved her at Jedju Island against
the king. She was scared and afraid. The fear of death took hold
of her, but then she remembers waking up after her injuries were healed.
She asks go if Song jin Wu came to help, and he nods.
She makes the cutest expression, blushing and thinking she knew it, so it
wasn't a dream. She thinks to herself, how could she ever tell him
that she wants jean Wu by her side until she draws her last breath.
So sweet and wholesome, heart melting stuff right there. I love it.
But then she thinks, no way. Her face is beat red as we
see literal steam coming from her face. Like I've been saying, She's got
it bad. Jinu wonders what she's up to and if there is something she
can't tell him. He thinks to himself that her face is turning red,
so she must be hiding something. He pushes once again, saying are you
not going to answer my question? And she says something that doesn't really make
sense. She says, I want to live a comfortable life. However,
Ginho takes this to mean that the Hunter's Guild must have overworked her. Since
she's only twenty two or twenty three, the burden that comes with being an
s ring hunter must be weighing heavily on her shoulders. That's what jin Wu
thinks. He feels sorry for her, but is not ready to let her
join. He says there's action entrance test that she must pass in order to
join the g which is hilarious because every other guild would kill to get chap
whatever jin Wu throws out her though, she agrees and asks what kind of
test will it be? Jin Wu still can't believe it, thinking is she
being serious or just plain stubborn. He says that she'll have to defeat one
of his summons, and she feels like he's underestimating her. She asks which
one will it be, and jin Wo answers the strongest one just for you
to get to the gymnasium where the test will be. Jin Woo decides to
see if he can carry someone with him using his shadow exchange power. For
him at this point, it's a simple test, but for her, she's
of course flustered. When her crush grabs her and tells her she has to
stick close. She blushes as they get heelported together successfully. Then we get
a hilarious moment. Just says she just remembered that she didn't bring her weapon,
and jin Wo actually says, and I quote, ah, you mean
that pickaxe, and quote that's right. Our boy remembers the pick axe,
which bodes well for his interest in Chop. I probably don't have to tell
you that Chod blushes again. As you've probably noticed, jin Wo makes this
s ranker blush a lot. She says that wasn't her weapon, and Jinwoo
just smiles, saying he's just kidding. It was a joke. Jin Wu
doesn't joke around with everyone, so that also bodes well. Eventually, jin
Wu summons Igris to fight her, saying he's the best of his shadow soldiers.
Again, though it's actually the ant King Bedu, so he's being protective
of Chaw. Once again, he feels it would be too traumatic to summon
Bedu after the ant king almost killed her. So even if jin Wu doesn't
understand his feelings yet, you can't say he's indifferent to cha. He remembers
little details like the pickaxe he jokes around with her. He's protective of her,
willing to bend rules for her, and even worries about something being too
traumatic for her. Now, yes, he didn't summon his strongest beast,
but Igris is strong and he gives him a level S long sword, so
it would still be a challenge for S rankers, no doubt. He thinks
to himself that she's fast as expected when she dodges one of Igriss's attacks.
When Chairman Goes sees from the cameras what's going on, he remembers when Chaw
recovered and asked if jin Wu came to help, and then blushed. Go
finally realizes that she likes jin Wu and says he's been slow to catch on
as he smiles, but I'm thinking, don't worry, Chairman bro, You're
nowhere near as slow as jin Wu to catch off. Wingman Go tells them
to turn off the cameras so they can have their privacy, and as the
building shakes from the battle, he says, ah youth end quote. Now,
when he looked at the camera, he only saw them embracing after they
came through the portal. So I think you all know what it is that
the chairman thinks they're doing right about now. We then jump back to Chaw
and she overpowered Igris. She knows Jinu is going easy on her and asks
for the strongest, saying she's been wanting a rematch against the ant king.
He reluctantly lets her fight Bedu, but tells Bedu that he should defeat her,
but also make sure that she doesn't get hurt. When Bedu takes out
his claws, jin Wu lets him know to put them away and says he
won't make life easy for Bedu if he hurts her. Even jin Wu is
shocked by how she's not giving up when confronted with the power difference. He
says he didn't think she'd be this reckless and thinks perhaps she has her reasons.
I just hope she's not making the wrong call, he thinks him so.
So yeah, because Bedu is a killing machine that is even now repressing
his overwhelming thirst to kill. Chile's pretty much risking her life for a chance
to be close to the one she loves. She's fighting a losing battle for
love and that's so romantic. I love it. I love how far she'll
go. Eventually, she uses her skill sword Light, and it's too strong
for her own good. It triggers Bedu's survival instinct, and he remembers his
queen's command to annihilate the enemy. Jin Wu picks up on what's going on
and loses his composure, screaming stop and even comes to rescue again, grabbing
Bedu's hand. Bedu clearly isn't used to seeing jin Wou this mad, and
he trembles, saying, please have mercy. Jin Wu, for his part,
asks if Chia's okay and gives her hand up. One definitely can't deny
his protectiveness over this s rak. Jin Wu asks again, why is she
pushing herself so hard for a nameless skill. He says, she shouldn't be
risking her life over something like this, it's not worth it. When she
doesn't say anything, he asks, are you perhaps interested in me? She
says yes, I think so, With even the speech bubble blushing, and
now that she's finally revealed her feelings, jin Wu later wonders about it.
He says, he's pretty sure he's averaging. Look, he asks his sister
how she would rate him in terms of attractiveness, and she just says to
her, he'll always look like a bum. Classic brother sister dialogue. Right
there, cha, Though we see in her classic being embarrassed in her bed
position, with her red face buried in her pillow, thinking of when she
said I think so over and over again, it's adorable. She thinks to
herself that she basically told him she likes him, and we see his reply,
which was quote, then I don't think joining my guild was the best
option, he says, isn't there a better way? End quote? So
he didn't reject her, which is notable for our purposes. He just suggests
that she'd go about it in a different way from Chas's perspective, though,
She just screams out in embarrassment, thinking of the whole thing and thinking that
he probably thinks she's crazy. Then she gets all determined, saying, but
he saved my life, so of course i'd be interested in him. Yeah,
it's perfectly fine, and then again starts rolling in bed saying, who
am I kidding? Everything is totally not okay. Again, seeing such a
strong character acting like a girl crushing for the first time is wholesome and very
cute to see. You know that now, if not before, some part
of jin Wu will start thinking about her in a romantic way now that he
knows she feels that way, and of course he didn't reject her. In
other words, the romantic seed has been planted and we must only wait for
it to bloom in between his busy hunter responsibilities and saving the world and stuff.
She also recalls that when she was healed, Biong told her to tell
jin Wu to be careful of the powers that lie within him. Later,
Jinho brings his a Ran cousin to the guild called su Hung. She's going
to be the third founding member. Hilariously enough, when she posts a picture
of them three on social media, Cha sees it and trembles. Makes sense
that she wouldn't be indifferent since a weaker hunter than her was chosen, and
it's also a pretty girl. And don't worry, she will bring this up
with jin Wu pretty soon. Chai and jin Wu run into each other again
during chapter untre and twenty three. At first, she turns away, pulling
her baseball hat down. Jin Wu chases her down, saying, why are
you running from me? And what are you doing near my office? She's
nervous and man just to say that she left her car in his parking lot,
and that's when jin Wu remembers that he forgot that she left her car
here when he used shadow Exchange last time. She asks if he's free right
now. Then she asks about the pretty A rank. She says, why
did you take a photo with her? Does she really work for you now?
If so, why was she hired and not me? Isn't an S
rank better than an A rank? Are the two of you dating? She
asks? She finally adds that Biong wanted to relay a message about jin Wu's
powers, and he suggests that they talk upstairs. It's just the two of
them in the office, which of course Chad's nervous about. Finally, she
continues delivering Beyong's full message that someone pulled him out of an endless darkness,
but he was no longer himself. He was still conscious and his sense of
self was still intact. But he felt as if he had become a slave,
revived to serve him and only him. But the scarier part was he
felt happy serving him. His powers are incredibly strong and frightening. He must
be informed of this. His true army is dot dot dot. That's all
we get for now. Later, when he's checking up on people using his
shadows, he sees Cha in the tub naked, and this time he's the
one that gets flustered and loses his cool. He thinks to himself, blushing,
that he should apologize for that. Maybe he'll buy her dinner or something
thing so clear signs of interest and even thinking about dates by chapter one hundred
and twenty three. Later on, Chaw appears with other strong hunters that enters
the Double Gate where jin Wu is currently experiencing the vision of the past.
They quickly realize that they stand no chance against the Architect's powers, so Cha
is charged with waking up jin Wu. The architect gives some serious looking injuries
to Cha after he bests her. He calls the humans disappointing since they don't
deviate from the system's expectations. However, Cha does succeed in surprising the architect
by dodging his attack. When he asks what is jin Wu to them,
Cha says were his friends who are here to rescue him. This time,
she's the one trying to rescue jin Wu for a change, and don't worry,
guys, despite what she said, this isn't jin Wu getting friend zoned
or anything. Ironically, despite coming here to save jin Wu, this is
when jin Wu awakes and comes to the rescue yet again, smashing the architect's
stone face. Then, with his newly awakened powers, he makes quick work
of the architect who was giving the others so much trouble. Chaw asks jin
Wo if he's all right when they leave the portal, and at first he
says, yeah, of course, but then he says he's a bit tired
before he passes out. It's notable that Cha realized something was amiss first,
even before jin Wu did, and it's not the last time she does something
like this, as we'll get into. After jin Wu deals with the giants,
when he gets some free time, he thinks to himself that he's not
sure what to do with it. He doesn't even have someone to call,
and who's the first person to jump into his mind? That's right, Chaw.
Specifically, he thinks of the time that she revealed that she liked him
by saying I think so, But then he just says, hmmm, maybe
I should try looking for a dungeon that hasn't been claimed yet. Looks like
he's not quite ready for that date yet, but still he's thinking about it.
He's now at the point where he thinks of Cha not only before the
other potential love interests, but even before Jinho and his family. Later,
after he defeats strongest ranked hunter in the world, Andre jin Wu, attends
an international hunter meeting. When there's a question of what jin Wu will do
if confronted by his father, who people are saying is a monster, he
says that if it is a beast, then he'll take it down, But
if he really is his father and not a beast, he's going to protect
his family, even if it means turning all the hunters in the world against
him. And when he thinks about the people he really cares about when he
says this, the people who can awaken this level protectingness in him, he
first thinks of Chaw and then gen Hole, so again it's clear he is
willing to hunt even hunters or anyone else if he needs to in order to
protect his future wife. Before the battle what the monarchs? And after a
giant gate appears above the city, even jin Wu, as powerful as he
is, starts to consider that his time might be numbered and if this is
the end, he thinks, who should I spend time with? We jumped
to Chaw and in the middle of sword training, her phone rings. She
tells her coach that she has to get going. Something came up and who
made her run from training so quickly? Who did jin Wu end up calling
before the end came? Why? Of course he ended up calling Chaw,
and Chaw ran out to meet gin Wu. When people see them walking together
on there, let's just say a date. People even wonder who's that next
to jin Wu? Is it his girlfriend? They ask? Trustre Up asks
why jin Wu chose to come here to the amusement park with her, and
he says, because you're my only friend. Not quite that, because I
like, which he should have said, and hey, what's Ginho? Then?
Maybe a brother at this point, so it doesn't count as a friend
for that reason, but still that's kind of unclear. But anyways, he
just answers she's his only friend, but hey, at least they're spending some
much deserved one on one time together. And again jin Wu proves how much
he pays attention to Chop like with the pickaxe moment here she says what and
he says, remember in front of the weird statue when she said she was
a friend here to rescue jin Wu. She blushes as usual, finally realizing
that he heard that as well, and he says, yeah, I have
better hearing the most. She asks woes with that strange dungeon, and jin
Wu replies he'll tell her some other time once he's processed things himself. So
if you're reading between the lines, it's clear he plans to have more intimate
conversations with her down the line. It's fun seeing how jin Wu uses his
shadows to get some privacy for them, while Chap points out that the shadow
bodyguards are actually attracting more attention, but for jin Wu, it's fine as
long as they're blocked from their site. And by the way, I love
him using his world shaking powers to enhance his date experience. Cha like jin
Wu, has been focused on hunting and thinks to herself, she can't remember
the last time she went out just for fun. Her heart is so light
right now, she thinks, smiling, she says being with him feels so
different, and she brings it full circle by adding he has a special scent.
So we are back to a smell after so many chapters, and don't
worry, it's not even the last time we're gonna hear about how good he
smells. He asks her about going on different rides, and she says yes
to every single one. He asks, do you like all of them?
And she smiles a beautiful smile of pure happiness and says yes, every single
one, and jin Wu thinks to himself, looks like I'm not the only
one who's been wanting to come here, and then he says, all right,
let's go on every ride. When asked if she's having fun, Scha
says she's having loads of fun, but she hasn't screamed at the rides or
the haunted house because the rides feels slow for an s ring hunter, not
surprising. Jin Wu smiles and asks her to go ride something actually thrilling.
And no he doesn't mean you know what he means, his shadow dragon,
and I know that sounds pretty bad as well, but that's literally what happens
when they're up there. He asks what does she think, and finally she's
clearly moved by the ride and says, we're going very fast and we're high
up. She smiles and says it's also beautiful. She asks why he went
to the amusement park when he can experience something like this whenever, and then
Jinwu reveals it's because the gate his father went missing in spawned in that very
park, so clearly tries someone jin Wu trusts with his most intimate thoughts.
She then says, thank you. I've been meaning to tell you that because
I've received so much help from you. And at this point romance is in
full throttle as she seems to be leaning into jin Wu. The date finishes
off with him showing her a starry sky and even a shooting star. Together
on the grass in the night, She looks at him and smiles. She
leans on his shoulder. Another parallel to Klanad by the way, specifically to
the final episode of Cloud after Story, perfect romantic date in the middle of
all the action, and honestly I didn't think I would, but I gotta
give props at this point already, because many of the shown and we've covered
on this channel have not had as much of a focus on the romance as
this series has had. Before the protagonist finally gets with the girl. At
the end of the series, it seems the two also spent the night in
the forest together bonus points for that. We next see Chad drinking some water
from a pond and jin Wu is putting on his jacket make what you will
with that input. He tells her he knows a nearby hotel that serves an
amazing breakfast and asks if she wants to go there to wash up and have
a meal. She agrees, and they head out on their Shadow Dragon.
At breakfast, jin Wu gets a call now that his phone has the signal
again, and then he hears that there's a monster running wild in the middle
of the city. It's a beast that has wiped out an entire guild in
the blink of an eye. Understandably, that cuts the breakfast short, and
jin Wu rushes to deal with the beast. Monarch business calls, after all.
When the Ice Monarch is ending jin Wu before jin Wu's great rebirth as
the Shadow Monarch, he says that he has a different plan for jin Wu's
country than for the others. He will freeze every single human in this country
and make them suffer for all of eternity. They will live forever as beings
that are neither dead or alive. And who does jin Wu worry about when
he hears this His mom, sister, and Cha. And of course,
when the Shadow Monarch shows jin Wu the dream world where he could pretty much
live out any idea life, he wishes Cha makes an appearance because she obviously
would be an important part of his perfect world. Although jin Wu does decide
to go back and deal with the monarchs anyways, after all, he has
to protect the real Chop. After he defeats the monarchs, tries by jin
Wu's side as they wait for the giant gate overhead to open, and she
says she's never seen jin Wu so nervous. Again, goes to show how
well she knows him by now that she can spot if something is bothering him,
even while he may look the same to everyone else. Then, right
before his toughest battle against the Dragon Monarch, jin Wu decides to call future
wife try again. He smiles, saying it's me. He apologizes that he
couldn't call since he's been busy recently. She says, no worries, she's
been busy too, since the Hunters obviously have their hands full trying to save
the world. Right now, she continues saying, right, we haven't seen
each other in a while. Jin Wu says, let's meet up again soon,
and Chaw agrees, saying sure, let's do that. She then says,
jin Wu, promise me you'll come to see me, and he says,
I promise I'll come to see you no matter what. She smiles and
it gets flustered when her guild master interrupts her sweet moment with jin Wu.
He's like, we should be getting back to the world saving business and she's
like, oh yeah, right. So, last time he felt like the
end was near, he went on a date with Cha, and this time,
when he's about to face an even greater opponent, he wants to call
Chai again. At this point, he's got it beat. Then, after
jin Wu beats the Dragon Monarch with the help of the rulers, he decides
to use the Cup of Reincarnation to go back one more time aka to turn
back time so he could beat the monarchs in the dimensional crack before they ever
come to Earth. As a result, a lot of lives will be saved.
Yes, he won't have the credit of saving the world because no one
will remember or witness him doing it, but credit has never been what Jin
Woo was about. Anyways. After he succeeds in single handedly saving the world
and not taking credit, he's back on Earth and who should pass by but
Cha? Now. One of the problems, of course, is that what
happened before with them all happened in another timeline, and this Cha doesn't share
all those memories and experiences with our current jin Wu. She passes by just
when Jin Woo was experiencing a very empty feeling. He's told by the rulers
that he's too strong now that he will attract unwanted monsters and dangers to the
earth, so it might be better for him to leave this I mentioned he
feels like nuclear fuel that has become dangerous toxic waste at the end of its
life cycle. He was needed to save the world, and now that he's
done it, he's just in the way and doesn't know what to do.
But Chaw is like an answer to this empty feeling. He starts chasing after
her. Chaw, for her part, wonders if ice cream always smelled this
good. For full context, jin Wu was just eating ice cream at an
ice cream place, and this is just another reference to her being drawn to
Jinwou's smell. This attraction to his smell clearly transcends time and timelines, and
keep in mind it's a good smell, not a lack of a smell,
which is why by now we know that jin Wu's first theory that she felt
this way because he was a player rather than a normal hunter is just not
true. She's just sniffing out her soulmate. Jinwoo, despite the risks,
ends up deciding to stay because the people he loves are here, as well
as the people who love him now and loved him before, and then my
dad will love him again in the future. Obviously, future wife Chaw is
a big one, but he thinks of Ginho and his family too, including
his dad who is now alive in this timeline. For him, that's more
than enough reason for him to remain here, so he decides to stay and
search for other reasons to stay too, and the chapter and main story ends
with Cha turning around and them staring at each other that's how important this romance
is to the story. It's what the author chose to end it with.
Like I said, most action series do not give the romantic relationship this much
emphasis and focused, but I love that Solo Leveling does. And then just
when you think it's over, no no, we get even more juicy details
in the epilogue chapters. In this new timeline, jin Wu joins his school's
track and field team because there's someone that he wants to meet at the track
and field competition. Spoiler alert, This is Chaw, and it makes sense
that she likes track and field because even in the anime, she was seen
running around the track during this first season. Gin even points out that in
the old timeline she was a talented track and field star before she gave up
her dream and became a high ranking hunter. He decides if he enters the
track and field competition for middle and high school students, then maybe he'll bump
into her naturally, and he is older than her, so he's in high
school while she's in middle school. As expected, jin Wu does eventually cross
paths with Chaw again. It's on the street. Her foot is injured from
running and she's nursing it on the bed. What happened is she made it
past the first round, but worries about the rest of the rounds because of
her injured ankle. She's frustrated. Jin Wu starts explaining why she shouldn't run
on a damaged ankle. Well, all she can think about is you guessed
it. He smells, nice, man, I love this show. Jin
Wu decides to heal her ankle. He says, you only get one chance.
You should do your best and run as fast as you can. She
says, wait, haven't we met somewhere before? Like I said, a
love that transcends time and timelines, and some beings like the monarchs do retain
memories after the redos, so it's not crazy that humans may retain something as
well from the past timeline. Jin Wu smiles and says, let's run.
If you can run faster than me, He says he'll answer that question.
She saw him taking first place in all the events, though. He asks,
so are you throwing in the towel? She says, could you answer
my question once I beat your record, even if it takes some time.
Jin Wu thinks to himself, she's younger now, but she's still as innocent
as ever. He says, it's a deal time past, and we see
that they see each other over the time skip. Jin Wu studies for college
entrance exams at Christmas Eve a date for romantic dates in Japan, and I
guess for Korea too. Jin Wu and Chow meet up. Jin Wu says
he wants to go to a specific university because there's someone he wants to meet
there. She gets upset, saying is it a woman? Clearly she has
a bat in this timeline too. He says that's a secret, which doesn't
satisfy her. She asks if he remembers his promise that he would answer any
question if she managed to run faster than him. He says yeah, and
she challenges him to run to a nearby Christmas tree to see who can get
there first. He wonders what she wants to ask, and she says everything.
She wants to know what he's thinking about, if the person he wants
to meet at the university as a woman or a man, and if they
ever met before the drag and field competition. He smiles and says all right.
She puts her scarf around him and then cheats. She says Jin Wu,
if you like me, stay right here and don't move. Of course,
by this point we should know that he does like her, and he
stays in place while thinking about how far they've come since their first meeting when
he was on the mining team. She gets to the tree and excitedly asks,
this means I want right. He then tells the Shadow Soldiers to close
their eyes as they embrace each other under the Christmas tree, feeling pure bliss.
We get a fun chapter where we see the Shadow Soldiers cheering jin Wu
on in their dimension while he got closer to Cha. There's also a funny
moment where jin Wu straight up shuts down our b rank healer Lee jo He
in this timeline, as if to definitely tell us that he's chosen Cha above
everyone else. As I mentioned in the beginning of the series, arguably Joe
he was potential of interest number one, But here she stops him on the
street and asks haven't we met somewhere before? And he just says no and
cheps walking. Chaw would probably be so happy to see this utter rejection of
an old potential love rival. In later epilog chapters, we see that Cha
and jin War are married now and have a son. We know that jin
Wu can share memories with people and make them remember the old timeline, so
it seems like he did that with Chaw at some point, since she asks
him why did he go out for drinks when he can't even get drunk,
meaning clearly she knows now about his ability that lets him neutralize all kinds of
toxins in his body. Jin Wu's son is called su Ho, and he's
excited to see his dad. It's funny we see the shadow soldiers arguing if
teaching the little boy academics where swordsmanship is more important, but jin Wu is
like guys at least wait until he learns to walk before you worry about that.
Chad then asks jin Wu for him to come home earlier until his son
learns to walk, and he answers yes, ma'am, so I guess he
can go out drinking with Jinho every night. Later, Chaw freaks out and
phones jin Wu, telling him that their son is already flying before he can
even walk all over the house. And considering how overpowered Suho's parents are,
it's not surprising the power couple was always destined to produce hella talented children.
And thus there's every possibility that Suho's power can even surpass jin Wu's own.
Eventually, as we're going to see he lets Chaw know that he'll be home
early today as she's trying to deal with Sue Hoo. We find out that
Suho inherited the power of the Monarch, and that that's why the other children
fear him despite him being a very happy kid. Because of this, jin
Wu decides to seal these powers away and erase his son's memories of the Shadow
Soldiers until he learns to get along with other people in the regular world.
Eventually, when he's older, jin Wu creates portals for his son so he
can level up like he used to do until he's right to inherit the full
power of the Shadow Monarch. Even Igris must admit when fighting him that the
Little Monarch has an incredible amount of potential, as he says, as the
son of our king who has become one with the previous godlike monarch and an
s rank hunter who was forgotten when history was rewritten, he holds an enormous
amount of mona and potential compared to jin Wu, whose mother was arguably a
fragile lady and definitely not an s rank. I think Igris is definitely implying
that jin Wu's son will surpass him eventually. It's only a matter of times.
The little Monarch gets so strong that he stops leveling up as well,
but he still improves by getting better at how he uses his power. Jin
Wu tests his son over and over again, but doesn't give him his powers
back even when he makes it to the final boss, who is jin Wu
himself, because Boss jin Wu is still too much for it. As jin
Wu says, if he comes across an opponent like the Dragon Monarch, he
has to get better, so he is overprotective but hopeful since his son does
seem to do better each time he enters one of jin Wu's game portals.
And I spoke in detail of their son because I think he has an important
aspect of jin Wu and Chaw's relationship. The epilogue ends with jin Wu again
taking Chaw out on his Shadow Dragon and giving her a necklace for their sixteenth
wedding anniversary. He tells her to go home soon and says he'll be right
behind her. Even though she's older now, she still has that same blush
and smile to this day as she says she'll be waiting for him. The
final image we get is also genuine Chaw embracing after the notes to the reader's
section. So in retrospect, after Chaw was introduced, this relationship definitely got
a lot of focus, as illustrated by how long this video is probably gonna
end up being way longer than I thought. Sure, she wasn't introduced immediately,
something the anime remedied, but like with life, you can meet your
love interest along the way, so we can't really hold that against the story.
When she was introduced and realized how good jin Wu smelled, she easily
got the most emphasis of any romantic love interest, and jin Wu, although
pretty oblivious at first, would go on to think more and more about her,
and by the end, she's the one who gave his life purpose again
when he found himself feeling empty after saving the world. So if you'd like
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