Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 638

When a human lives for about thirty years, it becomes difficult to feel new emotions. After all, emotions are like the body’s feedback to external events, and the more days one lives, the more one experiences, so most things have already been felt. Therefore, as people get older, they simply repeat feeling emotions they’ve already experienced, either more strongly or weakly, and they can’t feel new emotions. But right now, Guo Liqin was breaking away from that obvious truth. A raw emotion. An emotion he had never felt before was dominating his entire body. ‘What is this?’ Fear. Yes, this was an emotion that should be called fear. Yet, the reason he felt this emotion so unfamiliar was because the emotion he was feeling now was on a completely different level than any fear he had ever experienced before. His body wasn’t trembling. It wasn’t the feeling of being scared to death. It was more like… what should he call it? It felt like he was dreaming. Even though he was clearly aware of what was happening before his eyes, he found himself in a daze, as if he were in a dream. Why was that? His sense of reality was fading. Thud. The man who had opened the door, no, the man who had broken the door, walked towards the bed without saying a word. Guo Liqin realized anew that the man was younger than he had thought. Even though he had already seen his face. What should he say? It was that kind of feeling. Even though he had clearly seen the man’s face, if he were to see him again in the future, he wouldn’t be confident that he could remember his face. It wasn’t because his face was unremarkable, but because the atmosphere the man was exuding was so overwhelming that it erased his features. The man, exuding that overwhelming atmosphere, didn’t even glance at him as he headed towards the bed. Choi Yeon-ha, who was slightly convulsing on the bed, covered her disheveled face with her hand when she saw the man. The man sighed softly as he saw her. “It doesn’t seem like that’s the place you should be covering.” The man reached out and adjusted Choi Yeon-ha’s gown. Then, Choi Yeon-ha reached out and tightly grabbed the man’s sleeve. “Hey!” “Yes?” “Are you an actor?” “Of course not.” “Right, I’m the actor! Not you, I’m the actor! So why are you filming a movie!” The man seemed a little flustered and took a small step back. “That’s not it…” “Why did you come at this timing! Why! Which director influenced you!” “I don’t watch movies much.” Choi Yeon-ha suddenly got up and tightly pulled on Kang Jin-ho’s sleeve. “I like movies where a muscular American guy comes out and smashes everything! Just smashing everything, no matter the crisis!” “Please calm down…” “So, solve things before it gets dangerous! Before it gets dangerous!” “I, I’m sorry.” Kang Jin-ho apologized first. He didn’t quite understand what she was saying, but it seemed like apologizing was the right decision in this situation. And… “Are you okay?” “…Do I look okay?” “No…” Choi Yeon-ha glared at him. Her face, a mess from tears, was filled with anger. “Don’t say obvious things, say something helpful! Or do something helpful!” Kang Jin-ho was sweating profusely. ‘It usually doesn’t go like this…’ He admitted it. If he had been just a little later, something terrible would have happened. He had no excuse, even if he was cursed a hundred times for that. But in the various media he had seen, when something like this happened, the woman would sob and hug the man, or thank him… ‘She is sobbing though…’ Choi Yeon-ha couldn’t control her tears. He had never imagined Choi Yeon-ha crying. She was the type to tell you to work if you had time to shed tears. That’s why he was even more angry. This person was crying… “You can’t do anything right!” Kang Jin-ho slowly backed away. But Choi Yeon-ha held onto his sleeve and wouldn’t let go. “Sit!” “Yes.” As Kang Jin-ho sat down obediently, Choi Yeon-ha started yelling like an angry lioness. “So, I told you to come quickly, didn’t I!” “You did.” “What were you going to do if you were any later!” “I have no excuse, even if I had ten mouths…” “Me! In this! Faraway land of China!” “Did I have to go through this? This kind of mess?” Kang Jin-ho shrank a little. Normally, Kang Jin-ho wouldn’t shrink this much even when Choi Yeon-ha was nagging him, but today he couldn’t resist at all. It was a situation where he had no excuse, even if he had ten mouths. Of course, it wasn’t Kang Jin-ho’s fault, though. “When are you going to get that bastard out of my room?” Kang Jin-ho glanced back at Guo Liqin. Guo Liqin’s blood ran cold. The look in his eyes. It was a completely different, icy gaze that didn’t match the slightly bewildered attitude he had when talking to Choi Yeon-ha, and it was crushing him. But it was only for a very brief moment. Kang Jin-ho quickly turned his head away, as if he didn’t need to look at Guo Liqin. And that brief exchange of glances brought Guo Liqin back to reality. ‘I have to run away.’ Fight? That’s a joke. That’s not it. Even though he looked like a human, that wasn’t a human. Wasn’t Guo Liqin also a martial artist? Sure, he was. But wasn’t a cat and a tiger both felines? Guo Liqin wished he was a cat being chased by a tiger. Because if a cat ran for its life, it might be able to escape from a tiger. Whether it climbed a tree or jumped under a vine. The difference he felt between himself and Kang Jin-ho was enough to make the difference between a cat and a tiger seem trivial. This wasn’t a movie. This wasn’t a scene where a moron, not realizing the difference in strength, would act like a thug and get crushed. Those kinds of guys? They probably existed. There were plenty of trash who couldn’t even sense how strong their opponent was. But Guo Liqin was at least someone who could sense the strength of his opponent. Fight that? It was more realistic to stop a train rushing at full speed with his bare hands. He shouldn’t fight an enemy he couldn’t handle. The only sliver of hope for survival was to run away from this place without looking back. A large front window came into Guo Liqin’s sight. Running into the hallway was just a pipe dream. The only possibility was to break that window and jump out. Even though Guo Liqin was a martial artist, this room was on the 20th floor of the hotel. If he ran at full speed, broke the glass, and jumped out, he would surely fall into the empty air with nothing to grab onto. He wondered if it was possible for his body to survive a fall from the 20th floor… ‘But there’s at least a chance.’ If he jumped out of that window, he might die. But if he stayed here, he would definitely die. It was obvious what he had to choose, unless he was an idiot. And at that moment, Guo Liqin made up his mind. Now was the only chance, while that monster wasn’t paying attention to him. ‘I’m going.’ The muscles in his entire body tensed up. Outwardly, there was no change. He didn’t show even a hint of it. If that monster realized he was planning to run away, it would immediately reveal its sharp claws and tear him to shreds. Sweat beaded on his forehead. ‘Now!’ The energy he explosively pushed downwards seemed to burst his legs. But his body didn’t move at all. No, he couldn’t move. Guo Liqin’s face turned black. ‘No.’ It wasn’t that he wasn’t paying attention. The reason he had his back turned and wasn’t looking at him wasn’t because dealing with Choi Yeon-ha was more important than catching him. It was because he had already… already caught him. He wasn’t moving. He thought he wasn’t moving because he was tense and stiff. But that wasn’t it. It wasn’t that he wasn’t moving, but that his body couldn’t move. He didn’t know the principle or the reason. All he knew was that no matter how hard he tried, to the point where his muscles were bursting and his energy was flowing backward, he couldn’t even move a finger. His face flushed red, as if it would explode. ‘Ah, no…’ Kang Jin-ho hadn’t left him alone. He didn’t need to keep an eye on the prey he had already caught and locked in a cage. He could deal with him anytime after he finished what he was doing. Leisurely and slowly. As he realized that fact, his heart started to beat like crazy. That monster could have killed him at any time. If he had wanted to, he would have been torn to pieces the moment he made eye contact with that monster. The reason that monster hadn’t killed him was too obvious. As he thought about the reason, his mind became hazy. Slowly. Very slowly, Kang Jin-ho’s head turned back again. A different look in his eyes than before. The moment he received that gaze, filled with a low sneer and ridicule, his strength gave out. He had already known everything. That he was trying to run away, and that he couldn’t run away. He had just been watching. Wondering what a prey that didn’t know it was trapped would do. That gaze… “Where are you looking!” “I, I’m sorry.” Kang Jin-ho’s head turned back again. “How long are you going to keep that thing here? I’m getting goosebumps just looking at him.” “I’ll take care of it.” “What are you going to do?” “Yes?” “What are you going to do with that thing!” Kang Jin-ho tilted his head slightly, as if he was pondering. “I can get rid of it without getting caught.” “What do you mean, without getting caught?” “Si…” “This guy is crazy!” Kang Jin-ho whimpered and lowered his head slightly. ‘Did I do something wrong?’ No matter how much he thought about it, he hadn’t done anything wrong. And that made him a little sad. He hadn’t done anything wrong that he could understand, but he felt depressed that he shrank whenever Choi Yeon-ha yelled at him. He wasn’t like this before. “Are you going to kill him?” “No.” Kang Jin-ho shook his head firmly. Seeing Choi Yeon-ha looking slightly relieved, Kang Jin-ho opened his mouth in a low voice. “I don’t plan to kill him easily. That’s too easy of a punishment.” Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes trembled. Kang Jin-ho’s eyes and voice were telling her that what he was saying wasn’t just a bluff. “…Kang Jin-ho.” “Yes.” “Haa…” Choi Yeon-ha sighed deeply. “I’m probably the one who wants to tear that bastard to pieces the most. Right?” “Well, probably.” “No matter how angry you are, you wouldn’t be angrier than me. Right?” “That’s right.” There was a slight disagreement, but it was something he had to agree with, at least outwardly. “So, what I’m saying is, if we killed everyone we wanted to kill, there wouldn’t be anyone left in the world. I want to beat that bastard to death… but still, killing him isn’t right. Isn’t that right?” “I know that what I’m saying is a bit strange. But…” Choi Yeon-ha sighed. And then, she said with her eyes still wet. “I know you’re not an ordinary person. Maybe it’s nothing to you. But still, I… I don’t want you to kill anyone because of me. So, please don’t.” A strange emotion appeared on Kang Jin-ho’s face. It was bewilderment.