The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 27

Smack! Benson’s head snapped to the side. He touched his stinging cheek. It burned like fire. “…I was slapped?” he thought, his mind still trying to catch up.

His cheek throbbed.

Benson was a knight from the Barco family, a family that was important in this area. He had always been proud. Being slapped in front of everyone was worse than the pain itself. It was a deep insult.

He looked at the man who hit him.

He knew it was Roman Dmitry. He knew why Roman had done it. People said Roman was stupid, an imbecile. But seeing Roman’s angry face did not make Benson feel any less angry. It made him even more furious.

“Where did this bastard…… Ack!”

Smack!

His head turned again.

Benson was confused. He held his cheek and tried to stop Roman, but Roman’s hand hit his cheek again.

Smack!

Smack! Smack!

Once, twice, three times.

Benson couldn’t even fight back.

Roman kept slapping Benson’s face, even when his head was still turned from the last hit. Benson’s body, which had been so confident at first, began to shrink back in fear.

His head spun.

The pain was stronger than his small pride. Benson’s legs felt weak. He waved his arms wildly and begged,

“Plea-Please……!”

It hurt.

It hurt so much.

Benson was used to pain in his life. But Roman’s hits made him feel weak and unable to do anything.

Only then did he realize.

That he had made a mistake.

But Roman didn’t give him a chance to apologize or make excuses.

Even as the nobles at the party started to gather around to see what was happening, Roman kept hitting Benson’s face with a cold look on his face.

Blood splattered.

Teeth were knocked out.

His legs gave way, and before he knew it, Benson was grabbing Roman’s legs with messy hair.

The situation was getting worse.

Kevin and Chris finally stepped in.

“Lord!”

“You have punished him enough! The man is a knight of Barco. Because of your relationship with them, it would be best to stop here!”

His men were right.

They gave good advice, but Roman, with blood on his face, looked at them and said,

“I decide how much punishment is enough. Chris, Kevin, what punishment do you think a knight who insults me, the oldest son of Dmitry, deserves? Even if this man dies from the beating, it is just the price for his words. It is not too much.”

Roman.

He was not a kind lord.

Benson had crossed Roman’s line. This showed a bit of the Heavenly Demon’s cruelty.

Being friendly and caring for your men is important.

But to truly hold power, you need something to protect it.

This was a strong punishment.

It showed everyone what would happen if they crossed Roman.

And again.

Just as he was about to grab Benson’s face and slap him again.

“What in the world is going on here!”

Antony Barco.

He had arrived.

He couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

Roman Dmitry was punishing a knight of the Barco family in front of everyone at the Barco party.

This was too much power.

Antony Barco’s face was red with anger, and he shouted.

“Roman! I don’t care that you are the oldest son of the Dmitry family. I will not let you touch a knight of the Barco family like this. Stop right now and apologize for being so rude!”

He had forgotten the talk in the private room.

He had agreed to work together for their own good, but he couldn’t ignore being insulted in his own home.

Everyone was looking back and forth between him and Roman. The nobles were holding their breath and watching with interest. So Antony Barco spoke louder.

He thought.

Roman had gone too far.

Now, he had the right to be angry.

However.

“Why should I apologize?”

Roman didn’t change his expression.

He was still holding Benson’s head. He looked at Antony Barco and said coldly,

“When I left the party, I heard the knight of Barco insulting me. He was saying bad things about the Dmitry family and making fun of me. And then, right in front of me, he touched a member of the Dmitry family. Antony Barco, do you really think I am wrong to be angry?”

“……Even so, this is going too far!”

“Going too far? You say I’m going too far.”

He laughed.

The other man knew it too.

That Benson was the one who started it.

But he couldn’t back down. It wasn’t to protect Benson, but because everyone was watching.

Antony Barco’s eyes were begging him to stop and protect his pride, but Roman didn’t listen.

“I told you when we talked in the private room that personal anger could hurt our relationship, and even the relationship between our families. From now on, you need to decide how you will treat me. Will we continue to work together, or will we fight every time we meet, like you want to eat me alive? I am not as patient as you think. So, decide how you will act now.”

The people around them were surprised.

They thought it was just a small fight, but it had turned into a problem between the families.

That was what Roman wanted.

The old Roman was an imbecile.

Even though he had the Dmitry family, a powerful group in the northeast, behind him, he was not respected.

He couldn’t blame others for that.

It was Roman’s fault for not using his power. Roman planned to fix that as he started his new life.

‘My name is Roman Dmitry.’

The oldest son of the Dmitry family.

He showed everyone that he was not afraid to be rude even to Barco.

Benson.

He was just an excuse.

From the moment he arrived at Barco’s party, Roman had been looking for a chance to prove himself, just like he had won over the nobles with his words.

It couldn’t be on purpose.

When Benson made a mistake, Roman jumped on it like a hyena attacking its prey.

He showed his teeth.

Antony Barco couldn’t hide his embarrassment at Roman’s strong actions.

‘Damn it.’

Roman’s anger.

Everyone watching.

He wanted to fight back.

But if he did, he couldn’t fix the mistake.

He knew from their talk in the private room that Roman had changed. He knew that Roman was serious when he said that personal anger could hurt the families’ relationship.

What if that happened? Barco would lose out.

He could get Lawrence’s good land and marry Flora Lawrence if he was just patient. He didn’t want to ruin his plan by hurting Dmitry’s pride.

Very slowly.

Antony Barco started to find reasons to accept what happened.

He ignored everyone watching and decided he had no choice.

He said.

“……Now that I think about it, you’re right. If a knight of Dmitry had insulted me in front of me and touched a member of the Barco family, I would have punished him the same way. This is clearly our fault.”

He took a step back.

He swallowed his pride and made a weak excuse, saying he would have done the same thing.

That was the end of it.

Roman smiled and pulled Benson’s head forward.

“You think so too, right?”

He didn’t need to say more.

Benson looked at him with fear in his eyes. Roman slammed his head into the floor and said,

“Clench your teeth.”

Benson closed his eyes tightly.

Benson was carried away on a stretcher.

His face was covered in blood from the beating. Pieces of teeth and blood were on the floor where he had been lying.

The party was over.

Roman wiped the blood from his hands with a handkerchief and left the party with Chris and Kevin.

On the way back to their land.

Kevin had been walking quietly behind Roman. He looked very ashamed.

“……I’m sorry. My lord, you suffered because of me.”

He felt terrible.

If he had been a knight like Chris.

The knights of Barco wouldn’t have started a fight, and Roman wouldn’t have been in trouble.

Chris added.

“I am also sorry. I saw Kevin being beaten and the Dmitry family being insulted, but I didn’t do anything. If you want to punish me for what happened, I will accept it. I will make sure this never happens again.”

Chris was strong.

But he held back for Roman’s sake.

If he had known that Roman would be angry enough to fight Barco, he would have drawn his sword and fought from the start.

Tap.

He stopped walking.

Roman turned to his men and said calmly,

“You made the best choice you could. It must have been hard to hold back, but thank you for doing so and waiting.”

This was not their fault.

Everyone thought the Barco family was strong, and Roman Dmitry couldn’t treat them badly.

If Roman had started a fight with the Barco family without being ready, he might have been in trouble in front of everyone.

Chris and Kevin knew that.

They knew Roman was strong, but they also knew his position was not secure. So they held back and stayed strong, even when their pride was hurt.

However.

That didn’t mean it was the best thing to do.

“Acting without thinking can cause big problems. Your choice might have stopped the worst from happening, but it wasn’t what I wanted. From now on, learn how to decide what to do when someone insults you. Then, today won’t happen again. At least in the northeast of the Cairo Kingdom, no one should be able to insult the Dmitry family and get away with it.”

When he was at the bottom.

Baek Jong-hyuk had no power.

So he used tools. He became the king of the 12th Ward by hitting the boss in the head with a stone.

Things are different now.

When you have no power, you can do anything. But when you have power, your choices affect the lives of your friends.

So.

He needed to know how to understand the times.

If it wasn’t the right time, he would smile. If he thought it was the right time, he would cut off the enemy’s head without hesitation, even if it seemed reckless.

He had faced death many times.

Chris and Kevin’s choice was best for them. But if they knew how to understand the times, they wouldn’t have just held back today.

The Barco family.

Or the Blood Fang.

If they knew how strong Dmitry was, they would know that they could fight them without any problems.

And.

“Even if you have to hold back against someone, remember their faces clearly. There is a difference between holding back and just giving up. I will definitely defeat that enemy someday, so don’t lose your anger. I can’t stand having someone above me. If you want to follow me and live a life where I control everyone, you need to get used to that.”

At that moment.

Chris and Kevin thought.

Roman Dmitry.

He is a man who is meant to rule.

To be the kind of people who can stand by him, they can’t just do what everyone else thinks is right.

Roman walked ahead.

Chris and Kevin followed him.

They looked at Roman’s strong back. They trusted him even more than before, and their steps felt stronger.

The Heavenly Demon Church.

A group that was once very strong was slowly forming in this Cairo Kingdom.