It does happen but quite a few fun things are omitted
And the themes are different, jungle and flowery
Yeah, That's why i was so confused. And i think ML was not supposed to appear so fast. Where is the girl who can see future, the one who knows Jae is J. Or is it not the same arc? I remember all that happened when Jae went for hunter test though!
Maybe they're gonna have some sort of flashback or something with ML to show the severity of MC's actual damage(or saving?) to the rift. Hopefully they will, because then the pacing would be too fast and we can't see him in action.
For that girl you mentioned, it's gonna be way later. Maybe 1 or 2 arcs after this.?
wait..wait wait... did this happen in the novel. I remember reading a bit different