Summary of Solo Leveling Manga Chapter 197
The manhwa’s penultimate chapter returns to the perspective of the young E-rank hunter introduced in Chapter 185. She has been levelling — slowly, with difficulty, the way E-rank hunters level when they do not have a mysterious system choosing them as its sole player. She is better than she was. She is not yet great. She is exactly at the place where the outcome is still entirely open. The chapter ends with her entering a dungeon alone for the first time, making the choice Jin-woo made so many years ago, and stepping through the gate.