Episode 16

My Person (1) is the sixteenth episode of The S-Ranks That I Raised webtoon.

Yoojin follows Yoo Myeongwoo to help him with the loan sharks.

Summary
The thugs who have come to pick Myeongwoo up take his Awakening subsidy from him, grumbling about how it doesn't come close to paying off his debt. Yoojin demands to know who they are and where they're taking Myeongwoo, and flustered by their intimidating nature, insists on coming along. Yoojin asks Myeongwoo why he got involved with loan sharks, and Myeongwoo explains the bank wouldn't grant him a loan, before fretting over Yoojin also getting involved. Their conversation is interrupted by the loan sharks, who ask whether Yoojin's also Awakened. He tells them he's an F-rank, hiding his association to Haeyeon Guild, and claims to have been interested in the potential job for F-ranks that Myeongwoo mentioned. The amused loan sharks offer him a job mining for magic stones in dungeons, playing it up as a generous offer. Yoojin plays along, laughing, while internally recognizing it as a mine worker contract, a potentially deadly scam he's been caught in before, and wonders whether it's what got Myeongwoo killed in the pre-regression timeline.

They drive to the loan sharks' base, the Hope Resources Guild building in Myeonmok-dong. Yoojin enters the building, loudly complimenting various aspects of the building's appearance and their current location. Upon reaching the upper floor, he and Myeongwoo are abruptly kicked down; the guild members declare that despite how agreeably he came to them, he won't be leaving as easily. Myeongwoo apologizes softly for dragging Yoojin into this, but is interrupted again by the guild members, who present them both with a contract, explaining the harsh conditions and penalty for breaking it.

Myeongwoo is forced to stamp it with his thumbprint, and Yoojin quickly asks to compare their contracts before he signs his own, claiming that he wants better conditions than Myeongwoo since he's not in debt. However, the moment they hand him the contract, he scoffs at the slave-like conditions and rips the contract clean in two, coldly asking how they dare to treat Myeongwoo like that. Yoojin's Curse Resistance leaves him unfazed by the D-rank contract penalty curse, and he attacks the guild leader viciously; at the other guild members' disbelief, he points out that he is F-rank, just an overly-equipped one. When the guild members grow furious, intending to attack him, he pulls out his phone. The guild members shout that it's too late for him to call the authorities, but he reveals that the whole time, he's been on a call with a helper—Kim Sunghan, who forces his way through the iron door, having followed them with the location info Yoojin kept calling out earlier.

Characters

 * Han Yoojin
 * Yoo Myeongwoo
 * Kim Sunghan
 * Hope Resources Guild members (individually unnamed)

Objects

 * D-rank contract

Locations

 * Haeyeon Guild building exterior
 * Hope Resources Guild building

Skills

 * Curse Resistance

Novel & webtoon differences

 * Rather than tracing Myeongwoo to Hope Resources Guild with Do Hamin's assistance, escorted by Kim Sunghan, as in the novel, Yoojin comes along with Myeongwoo right when he's picked up by Hope Resources, and Kim Sunghan presumably follows in his own car.
 * In the novel, Yoojin only discusses the form of a mine worker contract, and how the scam works. In the webtoon, however, he adds that he himself has fallen victim to the scam before.
 * The guild leader is present when Yoojin and Myeongwoo are presented with their contracts, unlike in the novel, where only the vice guild leader, Kim Deoksu, is present at first, while the guild leader is called in later.
 * Myeongwoo signs his contract at the same time as Yoojin is meant to sign his, instead of having already signed it before his arrival, as in the novel.
 * In the novel, Yoojin is worried that his contract conditions will be lower than Myeongwoo's due to him having signed later. In the webtoon, however, Yoojin is concerned that his contract conditions might be the same as Myeongwoo's, wanting to have higher conditions since he isn't in debt.
 * In the webtoon, the person Yoojin assaults and slams into a table is the guild leader, instead of a normal F-rank guild member, as in the novel.