Episode 5: A Pretty Good Deal

Jinwoo's System-driven training has reshaped his frame, and the hospital nurses cannot stop talking about it. One of them, Choi Yoora, blushes at the sight of him after a workout and slips her request for his number into his discharge paperwork, which he answers without catching the intent. At home, his sister Jinah is startled by how much taller and broader he looks, and he insists she take an umbrella before school despite the clear forecast.

A landlord's call about overdue rent forces Jinwoo to seek raid money, though as an official E-rank he wants to avoid the scrutiny that higher gates would bring. After allocating stat points and reaching level eighteen, he answers a job listing and reports to a gate at a construction site, where leader Hwang Dongsuk waves off the others' mockery of the weakest hunter and explains that Jinwoo is only needed to fill the headcount for a C-Rank entry. The absence of any healer strikes Jinwoo as strange, but he signs the waiver. The youngest member, twenty-one-year-old Yoo Jinho, chats nonstop in expensive new armor as the group descends into a dark, beast-thin dungeon that reminds Jinwoo of Cartenon Temple.

An ambush of ant-type monsters tests the well-drilled party, and Jinho holds up thanks to his gear. Reaching the boss chamber, they find it glittering with mana stones and a sleeping giant spider. Hwang sends the team out for excavation tools, then seals the room with an explosion, trapping Jinwoo and Jinho with the boss as bait so the crew can keep the crystals. Jinwoo tells Jinho to stand back and prepares to face the spider alone.

Jinwoo is released from the hospital with a visibly transformed body, and his improved looks draw open attention. The episode introduces Yoo Jinho and Hwang Dongsuk, and Jinwoo resolves to keep his rising level hidden. He takes his first raid job since the Cartenon Temple disaster, signing into a C-Rank party to meet the entry quota. The chapter closes on the squad's betrayal: Hwang's crew detonates the boss room sealed shut, abandoning Jinwoo and Jinho to the dungeon spider so they can claim the haul for themselves.

The episode covers chapters eighteen through twenty-one of the webtoon, written by Norimitsu Kaiho and directed by Makiko Hayase under A-1 Pictures. S-Rank hunter Baek Yoonho appears in a televised interview, noting that only seven S-ranks exist and describing the daily routine he kept since his firefighting days. A notable difference from the source is that Song Chi-Yul, rather than an unnamed hunter, is the one who warned Jinwoo about lizards, hunters who turn to crime inside dungeons. The umbrella Jinwoo presses on Jinah is itself a System reward, and it proves useful later when rain falls unexpectedly.