We all miss hangover soup restaurant...

the f*cking slow burn and doom yaoi HURTS ME SO MUCH like wtfff hey broo why, it's those novel that everything you see in the novel, even the tiny details has use/foreshadows something. The angst between the main characters like seriously makes me wanna stab myself, like I want them to be happy BUT THE WORLD ISNT also I quite like the concept of “the end of the world” like literally, the end comes when you think about it, when you say it. Almost as if saying that humans brought this upon themselves, you wished/called for the end and so the end came. It's that saying “Think of devil and devil is here” instead of there being a villain who is the direct cause of the end (there prob is it just havent showed up idrk im just speculating at this point becz it gives me so much pain) but really, the concept of the end, the time travels, the ‘this is your third chance’ its a kind of novel that speaks of what if the world was going to end again, and way that we are slowly being guided to discover what happened is very fun. I hope it ends well, almost somewhere around mid154-200 I was like srsly biting my fingers wondering and desperately wishing if they will ever f*ck. Like please??? PLEASE 🥺

the Day of Change,

Euijae finds out that grandma always knew he was J, and this was made explicit from the 3rd chapter. Seriously, I went back to confirm that the author had really written that.

time travel and parallel realities,

• • The 'Trackers eyes' that he could use to map the structure of these infiltration sites, to discover the location of enemies and allies? It doesn't exist in those moments either.
  • And to this day I still don't understand what exactly happened with the 'Poker face' trait.

• • Seo Mingi's shadow power, he can teleport through the shadows (I think, idk it was never explained at all), but when he needs it most, that's not viable either. Sometimes he can track the shadows, sometimes not; Sometimes he can hide himself and other people in the shadows, sometimes not. It all depends on what the plot wants to happen.

• • They only remember the Romantic Opener when the plot WANTS them to have fast transportation, because if the plot doesn't want it hahahaha they'll go on foot anyway so they don't have enough time and everything goes wrong.

• • And that happens with the items too. HYS's teleportation sheets, when the plot allows it, they have about 23 sheets left over, now when the plot doesn't want it, those sheets aren't even mentioned or they're gone. And like, with such an important item, why didn't they ever stock up on it for emergencies???

• • Sometimes the inventory is there, sometimes it isn't.

case of Mathew's addiction,

It'S JuSt BeCaUsE He'S tHaT cHiLd

that Sayoung is his """little brother""". Like, it took him a long time to work through his feelings and separate the frail child he rescued from the adult Sayoung. He feels conflicted about romantically loving someone he once considered family and needed a hell lot of time to sort it out.

I hate when novels deal with these complicated relationships and resolve them in a simple way without any reflection, just a "omg, I kissed him, now I don't see him as family anymore let's get married ;) " so The Hunter's Gonna Lay Low won my heart in that regard.

He has a strong PTSD due to the West Sea Rift that slowly becomes clear as time goes by. It's cool to see the small effects it has on him, even shaping his actions and perceptions.

He's the strongest guy in Korea, and yet he's afraid of simple things like silence and solitude. The way he always leaves a TV or other sound source on when he's alone just so he doesn't have to deal with the silence still breaks my heart, especially after the most recent chapters.

The fact that he was the only survivor of this rift made his habit of taking responsibility for everything worse, especially since he was the direct cause of the rift's class change. I like how this PTSD didn't just disappear out of nowhere.

The West Sea Rift was and still is a sensitive topic for him (especially now that he's recovered his memories and the origin of the monsters there has been revealed).

end of the world

GA YOUNG I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL

from the start we can see how much eui jae means to sa young being the one who saved him and he shows his affection and love to eui jae endlessly but what I absolutely love was how the author wrote how much sa young meant to eui jae for being the one who has never stopped waiting for him 8 years and because of that, he finally escaped his loneliness and saw how much he loves sa young. When I read this, I was so touched and happy for eui jae.

I like how the author layed out the time regression from the very beginning of the story with seemingly such a small detail. I had barely even payed attention to the watch that CEJ gave to the grandma. The realization had my jaw dropped. The reveal of the different timelines was a bit random but not unwelcome. At the beginning, it was a bit confusing but it was easy to understand after all the details were laid out.

Last, just a very small detail I noticed, , what happened to CEJ's poker face trait?? He uses it consistently at the beginning of the story but after part 1 it seems to have been forgotten? Maybe I missed a detail but the author recently put emphasis on the fact that his face is easy to read and such but doesnt that ability combat that entirely? Does he just not use it anymore because of LSY?