Descent Of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1031

Team Leader Jeon Byeong-su watched with hawk-like eyes as the people entered the auditorium.

‘I don’t like this.’

It had been ten years since he started conducting new employee training.

In the first place, new employee training at Jaekyung is conducted through the cooperation of a number of training teams and a small number of field practitioners. Team Leader Jeon Byeong-su, a ten-year veteran of the training team, was in charge of this new employee training.

New employee training.

It might be an exciting new challenge for the employees, but for those actually conducting the training, it was a frustrating process. They had to coax and cajole people who knew nothing about practical work and turn them into talent that could be put into the field in a short period of time.

Their goal was to make them fully understand the corporate culture and at the same time learn at least the minimum amount of minor tasks. If this series of processes is not carried out properly, complaints and grumbling will erupt from all sides, saying, ‘The new employees this time didn’t learn anything in training and are useless.’

The stress is something that those who haven’t experienced it can’t even imagine.

The last new employee training didn’t go well, so they suffered throughout the period. Just when they thought they could rest a little by doing employee training until the next training period, an emergency training was suddenly scheduled.

‘What the heck is this?’

New employee training is a training course for those who will join Jaekyung. But they’re giving training to employees of other companies who aren’t Jaekyung employees?

It was a decision from above, so they had no choice but to follow it, but it was an unacceptable measure.

Moreover…….

‘Why is the training period so tight!’

People equate the word ‘training’ with acquisition.

However, Team Leader Jeon Byeong-su did not think so.

Even if it’s different elsewhere, company training is not just about acquiring skills and abilities. What’s more important is ‘assimilation.’

Integrating people with different personalities and ways of thinking from society into one company. Creating that series of processes is the goal that those who conduct new employee training should pursue.

But this training was missing all of those processes.

The higher-ups’ demand was to somehow make these people into usable company employees within the period, regardless of corporate culture or anything else.

Even though doing what you’re told is what company employees do, this was a bit too much to ask.

“Hoo.”

Jeon Byeong-su sighed lowly and looked at the trainees entering the auditorium with sharp eyes.

‘The more I look at them, the stranger they are.’

Thanks to conducting countless new employee training sessions, Jeon Byeong-su could now roughly guess how well each class would perform just by looking at how they entered the training room.

But this time, there was nothing he could guess.

The reason was simple. It was because he couldn’t figure out the tendencies of these trainees at all.

‘Huh?’

The trainees entering the auditorium were all dressed similarly. Of course, they were all dressed in suits befitting new employee training. Usually, when new hires come in wearing suits like this, you can feel their overflowing energy and freshness.

It’s the freshness and vibrancy you feel from those taking their first steps into society.

But what is this, right now…….

“Team Leader.”

“Huh?”

“Is this a gangster gathering here?”

Deputy Yang Jin-chan looked at Jeon Byeong-su with a sullen face.

“Do you see it that way too?”

“It’s… it’s a bit like that.”

Jeon Byeong-su slightly distorted his face and looked at the new employees.

What was this unsettling feeling?

There was nothing specific to point out. No one was violating the dress code, and no one was acting threateningly.

But something was strange.

‘It keeps feeling like a scene from a movie.’

The sight of men in neat suits with their hair neatly combed back walking in one by one made people feel tense.

Of course, it could be because they weren’t new hires. Because they were a little different from the new employees they knew. But it wasn’t just because of that.

They didn’t feel the freshness of new employees. Rather, they smelled of the stale scent of those who had been around for a long time.

“Do you know where they’re from?”

“I didn’t hear properly either.”

“They feel like older brothers… like those pectoral muscles that look like they’re about to burst out of their shirts, or the muscles on their wrists that you can see peeking out from their sleeves.”

It was hard to tell whether this was a new employee training site or a gathering of shoulder brothers [a term for close, often male, friends or associates, sometimes with a hint of camaraderie and shared hardship].

“……Team Leader.”

“Why?”

“Will this training go well?”

“……What are you talking about?”

“No, I mean, this training is supposed to be intense, and if they don’t understand properly, we’ll have to yell at them a bit.”

Deputy Yang Jin-chan swallowed hard as he watched them enter the auditorium.

“If you yell at them, they look like they’ll punch you in the face.”

Team Leader Jeon Byeong-su looked at the people entering the auditorium with a sullen expression.

“Hey, is that something a trainer should say?”

“No, I’m really a bit scared. They don’t seem like new hires.”

“Of course they’re not new hires.”

“No, that’s not what I mean……”

Deputy Yang Jin-chan tilted his head.

“They don’t look that old when you look at their faces, but something feels a bit……”

“Okay, man. They all look neat.”

Yang Jin-chan looked at him with a sulky expression, but Team Leader Jeon Byeong-su ignored Yang Jin-chan’s words.

How could training be done properly if the trainer was intimidated by the trainees?

‘And, to be honest.’

If they were the kind of guys Yang Jin-chan thought they were, would they all be dressed neatly and come in here? It must just be a coincidence that they all have bad impressions.

That was when it happened.

“Hey.”

“Hmm?”

One of the trainees who was entering the auditorium tilted his head and asked.

“Where’s the bathroom?”

Where is it?

Jeon Byeong-su’s eyes twitched. He looked at him with trembling eyes, but the trainee was still tilting his head, looking like he didn’t know what was wrong.

A normal person would have gotten angry here, but fortunately, Jeon Byeong-su had been working in the training team for ten years. Even after filtering through tests and interviews, crazy people sometimes appear in new employee training.

It wasn’t that he was holding back his anger because he was intimidated by the huge size of the guy who seemed to be a head taller than him.

“You.”

“Yes?”

“Even though you’re not affiliated with us, we’re the people who will be in charge of your training from now on. What’s with that tone? You should at least show some respect to your superiors.”

The trainee listened to Jeon Byeong-su’s words and chuckled.

“Superiors?”

“Yes.”

“Wow, I’ve heard it all. It seems like even academy instructors are superiors these days?”

“Enough, just tell me where the bathroom is.”

Jeon Byeong-su bit his lip.

If this person showing this attitude was a new employee of Jaekyung, he could just declare him a training failure on the spot and send him home, but these people were not Jaekyung employees.

Jeon Byeong-su could grade them, but he didn’t have the authority to disqualify them from training.

“Wow, your expression is fierce. Why? Are you going to hit me?”

When Jeon Byeong-su didn’t know what to do, someone came up and grabbed the trainee’s sleeve.

“Why? Let go.”

“No, that’s not it……”

“What’s the overreaction? Did I do something wrong? I just asked for the bathroom……”

“That’s not it, you crazy bastard.”

A voice whispering urgently.

The urgency was overflowing, but the voice was too small to be heard because he couldn’t raise his voice. The man, sensing that something was wrong from the voice, turned his head with a slightly embarrassed face.

Sluuuuuuurp.

Iced Americano went up the straw and into his mouth.

Sluuuuuuurp.

The man who turned around began to tremble.

“L-L-Lord… Lord?”

Kang Jin-ho, who was sucking on his coffee with one sleeve rolled up, opened his mouth and spat out the straw.

“Ah, no, that’s……”

The man’s face turned bright red.

‘Why is the Lord here?’

It would be better to face the Grim Reaper. For everyone belonging to the General Assembly, Kang Jin-ho was an existence that could turn the Grim Reaper into a neighborhood thug in an instant.

Click.

Kang Jin-ho’s finger bent.

The man rushed to Kang Jin-ho with a face like a cow being dragged to the slaughterhouse.

Jeon Byeong-su stared blankly at the scene.

‘What’s going on?’

It was a strange thing.

The man who was threatening him was a head taller than Jeon Byeong-su. His shoulders, which were wide from side to side, were wide enough to be used as a cutting board. But now, the man who was clicking his finger seemed smaller than Jeon Byeong-su.

Looking at the two people standing right in front of him, the difference in size seemed to be twice as much. But the small man was clicking his finger expressionlessly, and the big man was trembling with his body bent as much as possible.

Even though social status and power aren’t determined by size, that scene was definitely a bit strange.

“Name.”

The small man opened his mouth.

“Jo Hyuk-min!”

Jo Hyuk-min answered at the top of his lungs.

“Jo Hyuk-min.”

“Yes! Lord!”

“Aren’t you here for training?”

“……I-I’m sorry!”

Kang Jin-ho stared at Jo Hyuk-min for a moment, then put the straw in his mouth.

Sluuuuuuurp.

Jo Hyuk-min thought.

There are many people in the world, but this man is the only one who can scare people with the sound of sucking coffee through a straw.

“Tell the guys inside.”

“Yes!”

“Those who get bad training scores will have individual counseling with Lee Hyun-soo.”

Jo Hyuk-min’s face turned pale.

The devil of the office.

Those who have worked with Lee Hyun-soo know how vicious he is. Although he was this big, Jo Hyuk-min was also an office worker. Rather than having individual counseling with Lee Hyun-soo for failing grades, it would be better to jump from the 10th floor office.

“And…”

But Kang Jin-ho’s words were not over yet.

“Those who fail due to attitude scores will have counseling with me, not Lee Hyun-soo.”

Jo Hyuk-min’s face turned pale.

“You get a 1-point deduction for now.”

“I-I will correct it!”

Kang Jin-ho pointed his chin up.

“The bathroom is on the second floor, so go up.”

“Yes!”

Jo Hyuk-min answered as if the building would explode and ran up the stairs at full speed.

Sluuuuuuurp.

Kang Jin-ho looked at the scene and sucked on his Americano.

‘There was a problem.’

He thought they were all cute and polite subordinates, but if he let these guys out, each one of them would make a gangster sit on their lap and do tricks [a metaphor for complete dominance and control].

It wasn’t something to rush into without having a proper control plan in place.

Well, of course, since Kang Jin-ho had decided to take the training together, it was already a solved problem.

Kang Jin-ho approached Jeon Byeong-su and bowed his head slightly.

“Excuse my impertinence.”

“Ah, no, it’s nothing.”

Jeon Byeong-su found himself using honorifics.

‘Who is this guy, anyway?’

That was when it happened.

“Kang Jin-ho!”

A familiar voice to Jeon Byeong-su came from behind.