Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5693502-20140503152126/@comment-6166034-20140503160805

Well if we concider "becoming a ranker" as "getting to the 134th Floor", then according to Hwa Ryun "I can go anywhere. I'm a guide after all."[Vol.2 Ch.54] (to put in her introductory quote or the guide one :p such impact !), then indeed, whenever they please.

Now we have to ask ouselves: is it all that makes the ranking/ becoming a Ranker thing ? And I think it's not enough. The grading of Regulars so far has been (20F) passing a certain floor, alright, but it was passing the test there. It seems it requires a specific test for D-rank as well. So I guess simply "showing up" at the 134th floor doesn't make one a ranker. Also it is mentioned in the articles that becoming a High Ranker is the prerequisit to get the right to go to the 135th floor. So I guess I will stand by this definition that makes more sense.

Also, not to forget some physical problems with climbing up even as a guide : Shinsoo pressure/concentration. Meaning their shinsoo resistance at least has to improve to "do as they please".

Finally concerning Hwa Ryun's being a ranker or not...frankly idk. She doesn't seem to have trouble following Baam so far, with her trying to hold her own against a "novice" F-rank princess of Zahard, but massacring the other contestants in the crown game. And unable to handle Leesoo and Vespa  (and Amigo ? Was the "drill" thing something like his spear ?) in a fight (but maybe it was part of a "plan"/prediction), and not able to handle an untransformed Reflejo + Cassano with Novick +Horyang with her(eventhough it is precised she wouldn't take the "death path", she almost did there, but it can still be part of a plan/prediction). Still, what she says to Koon A.A. is : "I only became a regular and took the test for an assignement." meaning : she wasn't a regular before, and somehow Headon went along with her pleasing (strange !:/), or she's no more a regular= a ranker, and mascaraded as one only for the assignment (and I mean...What the guardians rule of no interference between regulars and rankers means ?).