Solo Leveling 08

S1.E8: This Is Frustrating

Jin-woo visits his comatose mother and decides to push forward with getting stronger so that he can get the needed ingredients to save her; he thus accepts Jin-ho's request to aid in running dungeons to allow creation of a guild. Meanwhile, as Joo-hee is dealing with her mother who wants her to retire as a Hunter, and Chi-yul is pressing forward with life even with his lost arm, they receive messages calling them to assist in a dungeon dive. A couple of men meet, one of which pleads to the other that "they" have to die. Later, Jin-woo also is called to a dungeon dive, and arrives to find he's been called with other survivors from the double dungeon: Lee Joo-hee, Song Chi-yul, Kim Sangshik, and Kang Jeongho. A Hunter Association employee explains that (due to a shortage of Hunters in the area) they are there to go alongside several C-rank Hunters who have been convicted to prison time, who will get time reduced from their sentences by assisting with dungeon dives, as well as an overseer to monitor the convicts, B-rank Kang Taeshik.