The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 2

The Blood Fang gang looked at each other, confused. They didn’t understand what was happening.

The leader had a cruel face. He looked around quickly, trying to see if anything was wrong or hidden.

“What does the young master think he’s doing, acting like this?”

They were alone. Dimitri’s soldiers were far away, and even the normal people had run away quickly. The place was empty.

Only two people faced the Blood Fang gang: Roman Dimitri and his servant, Hans.

“Hey, young master,” the leader said, his voice dangerous. “Maybe you’re a rich kid who doesn’t know how things work. But you’re acting stupid outside the city, especially to us, the Blood Fangs. We’re not high-class, but we have our pride. We can’t let you talk to us like that and do nothing, even if you are from the Dimitri family. We’d look weak.”

With a *shk* sound, the gang members behind him pulled out their weapons. Their eyes were full of hate, ready to attack when the leader said so.

Roman smirked. “I knew it.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You’re trash,” Roman said. “If you act like this in front of the lord, you must be even worse normally.”

“Trash? You son of a… Ack?!”

The leader couldn’t finish his curse. His face went red and then purple with anger at Roman’s words. But as soon as Roman jumped forward, the leader’s eyes went wide with surprise.

“Attack!”

“Ahhh!” The Blood Fang gang ran forward to attack.

The leader already had a dagger and tried to stab Roman in a dangerous spot. But Roman moved just in time and avoided the dagger.

Black hair fluttered in the wind. Roman’s sharp eyes met the leader’s. In that instant…

Thwack!

“Ugh, Grrrr.”

The leader spat out blood, his neck pierced by a tree branch.

Everything happened very fast. The Blood Fang gang members were furious and attacked Roman.

Ten men attacked at once. Hans was very worried and twisted his hands. Then he grabbed a big rock to try and help Roman.

But he didn’t need to help. Roman had already taken care of the leader. He moved quickly and easily avoided the men’s attacks. He fought back strongly and defeated them one by one.

It was amazing that he could block daggers with just a tree branch. And every time he hit them with the branch, he made holes in their bodies, in places that would hurt them badly.

“He’s a m-monster…!”

“Is that really Roman Dimitri?” The men were terrified and confused.

At first, they were fighting hard to win. But when they saw their friends dying and unable to do anything, they became very scared.

Now everything had changed. Men kept falling down, one after another.

As the last remaining man tried to flee, Roman’s brutal hand seized him by the hair.

Crack!

“Let go! Let go of me!”

The man struggled. His face was white with fear as he looked at his friends lying dead on the ground.

Roman said, “You broke Dimitri’s laws. And instead of saying sorry, you tried to scare me. If a group wants to work well, everyone must follow the rules. I won’t kill you, but I will punish you to show everyone how scary the law is.”

People called Roman the Heavenly Demon. In the world of fighting, Roman made the rules. He had been a leader his whole life, so he knew he had to make hard choices for the law, even if they were cruel.

Thwack.

“Ugh.”

Roman pushed the man down to his knees.

Then, he quickly moved his head back and used his other hand to grab the man’s tongue and pull it out.

“You used your tongue to say bad things. Now you will pay for it.”

“Ugh… Ugh, ugh!”

The man struggled.

But he couldn’t get away.

Roman’s strong hand held the man down. Roman picked up the dagger that had fallen and cut off the man’s tongue. Blood flew everywhere. The man screamed in pain and struggled, his voice loud around them. The villagers closed their eyes tightly because it was horrible to watch. But Roman didn’t change his face at all. He cut off the man’s tongue quickly and cleanly.

Thud.

The tongue fell to the ground.

The man dropped his head.

With a blank look on his face, he shed tears, struggling to block the blood gushing from his mouth with his palm.

“My name is Roman Dimitri. If you don’t like how I punished you, come and find me whenever you want.”

This was like the Heavenly Demon Church. In a world where only the strong survive, people paid for their actions with blood.

Roman looked at Hans.

Hans, startled by his young master’s appearance, took a slight step back.

“Contact the guards. Report today’s events and tell them to send troops here to clean up the aftermath.”

“Ah, I understand… Hic, yes, sir.”

Hans hiccuped.

He checked the corpses once, then hurried back to the castle with a pale face.

It had been an overwhelming battle.

But Roman’s expression was not good.

‘To think I’m stuck with this trash body.’

Roman.

No, Baek Jung-hyuk.

In the world of fighting, he was a man who had risen to the pinnacle.

Hundreds, thousands of martial artists had been unable to withstand Baek Jung-hyuk alone and had been massacred, and when blood flowed like a river, they acknowledged that the Heavenly Demon Church was the ruler of the martial world.

The fact that he, of all people, had exchanged several blows in a scuffle with mere street thugs was something that Roman, with the spirit of Baek Jung-hyuk, could not help but find displeasing.

‘The flow of qi is a mess. And the amount of qi I have in my body is also very small.’

It was the worst.

Still, there were traces of martial arts training, but in Roman’s standards, it was worse than not doing it at all.

‘To think I have to start over with a body like this. The only good thing is that I have the past experiences of honing my skills as Baek Jung-hyuk. If I set the right direction from the beginning and train my martial arts, I can get meaningful results even with the worst conditions.’

Various thoughts ran through his head.

First of all, it was necessary to quickly gather information and proceed with a complete transformation to build the foundation of his body.

It was then.

“Y-young master. Thank you so much for helping me.”

It was the boy who had been beaten.

He seemed to have trouble walking, limping as he bowed his head, showing his respect.

He looked pitiful.

But Roman’s voice was cold.

“I didn’t help you because I felt sorry for you. I executed the punishment because the Blood Fang gang violated the laws of Dimitri, and you cannot escape that responsibility either. So explain your situation without the slightest lie. If I determine that there is a lie in your words, your tongue will not be safe either.”

“…I understand.”

The boy’s expression calmly sank.

He had quite the mettle.

He had been impressive for not even groaning when he was being beaten, and he certainly seemed unusual.

“As you know, the Blood Fangs are a force that lends money and charges high interest rates. My parents borrowed money from the Blood Fangs to rent land, and if we harvested the crops normally, we would have been able to repay the money sufficiently. But the Blood Fangs deliberately interfered and ruined the farming. At first, I didn’t know why they did that, but I found out that it was because they coveted my sister. Young master. We are wronged. Although we are not a family with many possessions, we have not lived our lives harming others. There is not a single lie in my words, so please save us from this pit of evil.”

The boy bowed his head deeply.

His words were logical, and there was not the slightest tremor in the boy’s voice as he reported the situation.

Roman showed an interested reaction.

His face was dark and his body was thin without any muscles, but the boy’s eyes showed intelligence.

‘I obtained the Mad Demon, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, in this shabby environment. At that time, the Mad Demon was just an insignificant boy, but he later grew up and became a more reliable ally than anyone else. It feels like I’m seeing the Mad Demon.’

“What is your name?”

“…Kevin.”

“Kevin, is it? I will remember your name. And within a few days, I will make sure that this case is handled properly through the correct process.”

“Gasp! Thank you! Thank you so much!”

The boy, Kevin, expressed his gratitude several times.

Roman smiled faintly.

A new life.

A new relationship.

Already, his heart was pounding.

Roman, having roughly sorted out the situation, dressed in formal attire with Hans’s help.

It was almost time for Lawrence’s young lady to arrive.

It was a meeting with a typical noble lady, and he couldn’t meet her wearing clothes stained with blood and dirty mud.

And in the process of changing clothes, he was able to hear the engagement story of the two families through Hans.

“To be honest, this marriage is a political marriage where each other’s interests align. The Lawrence baronet family has been in a very bad financial situation recently due to repeated wars with neighboring territories. So, in order to solve the financial problem, they proposed a political marriage to our Dimitri family. Fortunately, the young master actively supported this marriage. The Lawrence family’s young lady is famous for her beauty in the area, so the young master fell in love with her at first sight.”

He could roughly see the picture.

Two families.

Lawrence needed funds, and Dimitri needed a background to firmly establish himself as a noble family.

It was a deal where interests aligned.

However, the problem was that Lawrence wanted the second son of the Dimitri family, but Roman Dimitri actively expressed his intention to marry, and the marriage was concluded.

And today was the first day the two met.

Roman had only seen Lawrence’s young lady from afar at a noble party, so the two had never met and talked in person.

‘Marriage, huh?’

In fact, it was not something Roman wanted.

For now, he was entrusting himself to the flow of reality that had befallen him, but he was willing to overturn this marriage at any time.

‘Marriage is something that can only be done when each other’s hearts align. In the process of forming a lifelong bond, conditional issues such as family background are not important. I need to look for an opportunity to find a way to undo this marriage.’

The other person’s background.

The young lady’s beauty.

Such things were not important to Roman.

But, strangely enough, the problem was quickly resolved.

That afternoon.

As planned, Lawrence’s young lady visited Dimitri.

“I am Flora Lawrence.”

She was as beautiful as the rumors said.

Her golden hair, which reached down to her waist, was so luxurious that it made onlookers admire her, and there was no part of her face that was lacking.

A typical beauty’s face. In particular, her clear and calm eyes, like a lake, gave the feeling of being drawn in as soon as you saw them.

It was easy to see why Roman Dimitri had actively pushed for marriage with her.

With her appearance alone, she was already a woman of considerable value.

Flora suggested they walk separately.

Then, when they reached a quiet space where no one was watching, her face turned cold.

“I would like our marriage to be called off.”

An annulment.

That was the reason Flora Lawrence had visited the Dimitri estate.