A web novel that is illustrated by Rakyeon is Mercenary Enrollment aka Teenage Mercenary. It is packed with action, suspense, military-themed scenes, and whatnot.
When Ijin Yu was eight years old, he lost his parents in a plane crash. He is stranded in a foreign land and is forced to become a child mercenary in order to stay alive and protect himself.
The story begins with Major Hamchan Kang and his troop caught in the war zone after their comrade betrays them. A young mysterious handsome young man then enters the scene and moves them to a safe place. This man is then revealed to be Ijin Yu.
After about 6 months, he returns home about a decade later to be reunited with his family in Korea. Unlike the foreign land where he was up until now, here food and shelter are plenty and everything seems very peaceful to him.
Now that Ijin is back in South Korea, he will soon have to rejoin school. He learns that life as a teenager is a whole other feat of survival as he joins the school as a third year.
With only one year of high school left, Ijin must master new tactics to maneuver his way around the schoolhouse battleground. Can he survive a year of high school? Or rather, will the school be able to survive him?
Previously on Mercenary Enrollment Chapter 130: Recap
In the previous chapter, we saw that the Borays went to South Korea to make a business deal with SW Corp where Ijin works as a bodyguard. To worsen things, when the Boray family goes on a trip around the area, the Forest group, a mercenary group, attacks their caravan.
The bodyguards in the front vehicle get killed first and in no time, one by one, all the bodyguards die. This is when Sophia Boray starts to feel something for Ijin. Amidst all the chaos, he tells them to fly away but she doesn’t seem to be interested in anything except for him.
Later on, the only veteran bodyguard who was left alive also seems to be a part of the mercenary group. Now the only person who can and needs to save the Boray Children is Ijin. Ijin is surely smart and strong, but he is the only one who can fight on this end and he has to save two other people except for his own self.
According to Ijin, the mercenary group is not here to kill any of them because if that is what they intended on doing, they could have done it in no time. But they choose not to, meaning, they just plan on kidnapping the children and probably making a deal with the Boray family while keeping their children hostage.
In the end, we witness the entry of a mysterious man, the killer who had been chasing the Boray children. Looks like we will get to see some new characters in the upcoming chapters.
Mercenary Enrollment Chapter 131: What To Expect From The Upcoming Chapter?
From where the previous chapter left us, we can predict that the readers will get to see more interactions between the mysterious figure and the main character, as well as learn more about their backstory and their relationship.
Who is this mysterious man? What does he want? Is he really his long-lost brother or he is faking it? We will know once we read the upcoming chapters.
Mercenary Enrollment Chapter 131: Release Date
Mercenary Enrollment is being serialized every Saturday (KST). Chapter 131 releases on 08 April 2023 (KST). Here are the release dates for international readers:
- Korean Standard Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Japanese Standard Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Indian Standard Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Central European Time: April 7, 2023, Friday
- New York Time: April 7, 2023, Friday
- Australian Capital Territory: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Eastern Indonesian Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Singapore Standard Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
- Pacific Time: April 7, 2023, Friday
- Eastern European Time: April 7, 2023, Friday
- Philippines Standard Time: April 8, 2023, Saturday
Mercenary Enrollment Chapter 131: Where To Read?
Mercenary Enrollment aka Teenage Mercenary is accessible to read on Naver Comic’s official website. The English translations can be read on the LINE Webtoon’s official website.
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