I'll Retire After Saving the World
In 2044, every dungeon across the world erupts at once and civilization begins collapsing under a catastrophic monster outbreak. Woo Hee-jae, chief secretary of Korea's Ability Management Agency, can do nothing but watch the future he worked for disappear—including the people he considers family. A strange device then throws him twenty ye
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In 2044, every dungeon across the world erupts at once and civilization begins collapsing under a catastrophic monster outbreak. Woo Hee-jae, chief secretary of Korea's Ability Management Agency, can do nothing but watch the future he worked for disappear—including the people he considers family. A strange device then throws him twenty years into the past without replacing his younger self. Hee-jae arrives in an era when his foster father, the legendary hunter Hong Seokyoung, is still alive and training the people who will matter in the coming disaster. To prevent the apocalypse and earn the quiet retirement he has always wanted, Hee-jae takes responsibility for this younger generation, works inside the hunter-training system, and begins changing the future while hiding how much he already knows about the world that is going to end.
I'll Retire After Saving the World is a time-travel hunter fantasy where the protagonist returns as his adult self rather than awakening inside his younger body. That detail gives the story an unusual emotional center: Woo Hee-jae can encounter people he lost, work beside the foster father who raised him, and even exist in the same timeline as his younger self. The series balances apocalypse prevention with found-family mentorship, institutional hunter politics and Hee-jae's dry insistence that saving humanity is ultimately just a prerequisite for finally being allowed to retire.
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The strongest StoryKai positioning is not generic regression but physical time travel plus found family. Hee-jae's adult self returning to a timeline where his foster father and younger self still exist gives the series its most distinctive emotional and structural hook.
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