Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1083

‘The Round Table?’

‘That’s right.’

Lee Hyun-soo’s eyes widened.

‘What is this all about?’

Suddenly, being dispatched to the Round Table?

His suspicious gaze turned to Wiggins.

However, Wiggins maintained a calm expression. It was a businesslike face, simply conveying the message. But Lee Hyun-soo, who had lived a life of being worked to the bone, could smell a scheme hidden in those words.

He needed to investigate a bit more right now.

‘I’m not sure what you mean all of a sudden, Master.’

‘It’s simple. You’re going to the Round Table for training.’

‘But my training was set for Jae-kyung?’

‘This is a slightly different matter.’

Wiggins smiled and continued.

‘The reason you’re going to Jae-kyung for training isn’t because Jae-kyung is the perfect training ground. It’s because it’s hard to find another suitable place.’

‘Ah, yes. Of course…’

‘In that sense, the Round Table is a much better training ground than Jae-kyung.’

‘Huh?’

Lee Hyun-soo looked at Wiggins, as if he didn’t understand.

‘Isn’t the reason you’re going to Jae-kyung for training because of the new system’s issues? Now, the General Assembly needs to connect with the outside world. But the problem is that no one has ever experienced that before.’

‘That’s right.’

‘So, you’re going to experience how an external company is managed, and based on that experience, you’re going to connect the new corporation and the General Assembly, aren’t you?’

‘……I guess so?’

Lee Hyun-soo tilted his head, looking unsure.

In his sight, he could see the top of Kang Jin-ho’s head as he sat in front of the computer.

Tap tap tap.

Kang Jin-ho was typing at a rapid pace.

‘Or maybe they’re just sending me away.’

The person who decided on Lee Hyun-soo’s training was none other than Kang Jin-ho. Since Kang Jin-ho was the one who made the call, it was impossible to know what his true intentions were. He could only speculate.

Logically speaking, Kang Jin-ho would also be aiming for what Wiggins had said, but since Kang Jin-ho was such a variable person, it could be a completely different intention.

Unless he opened his mouth, how could anyone know?

‘It’s not a bad idea. If it were yesterday, it could have been the best option. If you couldn’t go to the Round Table, that is.’

‘……W-wait a minute, Master.’

Lee Hyun-soo looked at Wiggins with a slightly horrified expression.

‘So, you’re saying that the Round Table has agreed to train me?’

‘That’s what I’m saying.’

‘Why?’

‘Wouldn’t it be the Master’s pure goodwill?’

‘Cut the crap!’

Lee Hyun-soo had long since realized that pure goodwill in this world was about as much as the amount of lobster in a lobster-flavored snack. He’d sooner believe that Bator [a character known for being strong] was frail than believe those words.

‘This is definitely some kind of scheme.’

Moreover, that attitude.

Wiggins’s attempt to maintain a nonchalant attitude was bothering him. No matter how he looked at it, it smelled fishy.

‘This is a trap!’

He absolutely must not fall for it.

‘No, is it really necessary for me to… receive training at the Round Table?’

‘It’s the best.’

Wiggins grinned and explained.

‘What you need to do is connect the external business and the General Assembly without any problems. It’s about how to channel external funds into the General Assembly and how not to lose control over them, isn’t it?’

‘That’s right.’

‘The Round Table is already doing that.’

‘……Ah!’

Come to think of it, that was true.

The Round Table had been connecting themselves with the outside world for a long time. Although the Round Table received subsidies from the state, it was impossible to run such a large organization with subsidies alone.

They must be running their own businesses.

‘There’s no better place to learn from than the Round Table. Isn’t that right?’

‘Master, you’re right. I definitely acknowledge that.’

‘Hehe, so hurry and pack your bags…’

‘However!’

‘Huh?’

Wiggins raised his head slightly.

There was a sense of determination in Lee Hyun-soo’s voice.

‘Hehehe, you might be thinking of tricking me nicely… but this Lee Hyun-soo, who has been through his fair share of hell, won’t be fooled so easily.’

‘……What are you trying to say?’

‘Of course, I could learn those things if I went to the Round Table. But that’s not a reason for you to send me to the Round Table. Because you already know those things.’

‘Cough, cough.’

Wiggins flinched as if he had been caught off guard.

‘With your career of over ten years at the Round Table as a Knight! And with your tendency not to let anything pass unless it’s perfect, there’s no way you wouldn’t know about external businesses. If necessary, you could just educate me directly. Yet, the fact that you’re trying to send me to the Round Table means you have another agenda!’

A sharp one.

Wiggins looked at Lee Hyun-soo with a disgruntled expression.

His uncute disciple was also quick-witted. Well, he had to be, to be Lee Hyun-soo.

‘Hehehe, you must have had some kind of deal.’

‘Hmm.’

Lee Hyun-soo leaned back on the sofa, crossing his legs as if he had completely gained the upper hand.

‘Master, you seem to be underestimating me too much lately. You can’t trick me like that. I’m not going to the Round Table, and I’ll go to Jae-kyung for training as planned.’

‘Ah, no, the Round Table is much…’

‘Promises are important. If I don’t go after agreeing to go, wouldn’t that cause problems with trust? So this time…’

‘Go.’

Lee Hyun-soo’s head snapped around.

Wiggins also turned his head with a triumphant smile.

Tap! Tap!

Kang Jin-ho, who had cheerfully hit enter, stood up from his seat.

‘I can take care of the promises, so go to the Round Table.’

‘L-Lord Chairman!’

‘Lord!’

Lee Hyun-soo and Wiggins called out to Kang Jin-ho at the same time. However, the meaning behind their calls was completely different. Lee Hyun-soo’s was filled with shock, while Wiggins’s was filled with ‘nice’.

‘W-wait a minute, Lord Chairman. I can’t go that far.’

‘Why?’

Lee Hyun-soo swallowed hard.

‘Think, think!’

He had to come up with a perfect reason.

This was Wiggins’s doing. It could never be good for Lee Hyun-soo himself. He was definitely planning to squeeze every last drop of blood out of Lee Hyun-soo.

If he was dragged away, he would see hell. He had to escape somehow.

‘If I’m gone, wouldn’t there be problems? Training is training, and I have to do my job. According to the original plan, I was going to receive training in Jae-kyung and then handle the General Assembly’s work after work, but if the training location becomes England, that’s impossible.’

‘It’s okay.’

Kang Jin-ho gestured with his chin.

‘I can do it.’

‘……Huh?’

‘I’m done.’

Lee Hyun-soo’s eyes widened to the size of fists.

‘Done? Done with what?’

Could it be the thing he gave him earlier?

Lee Hyun-soo looked at Kang Jin-ho with an unbelievable expression.

Recently, Lee Hyun-soo had been teaching Kang Jin-ho his work. To be precise, rather than teaching him the work, he was handing over his duties so that Kang Jin-ho could share Lee Hyun-soo’s work while he was away for training.

He had been passing on his work half-heartedly, but today he had completely dumped it all on him.

He had dumped all the work that Lee Hyun-soo had to handle today. At the same time, he was showing how much of a work gap would occur if Lee Hyun-soo was gone…

‘Was he trying to make me suffer?’

It was like a protest, showing how much work Lee Hyun-soo was handling.

But he said he had done it all?

It hadn’t even been two hours since he had handed it over?

‘W-wait a minute. Let me check!’

Lee Hyun-soo jumped up from his seat and rushed to Kang Jin-ho’s computer. Normally, it would be a major breach of etiquette to rummage through a superior’s computer without permission, but Lee Hyun-soo didn’t have such thoughts in his head right now.

Lee Hyun-soo, who had opened the organized documents with a trembling gaze, scanned through them.

‘Uh…’

It’s real?

There’s no fault to find…

‘Huh? Wait a minute?’

There was no way there would be a fault. Come to think of it, that was true.

‘Ah, no, isn’t this cheating?’

‘Why?’

‘No, that’s…’

Lee Hyun-soo looked at Kang Jin-ho with a truly wronged expression.

Come to think of it, it was obvious.

Lee Hyun-soo’s process of handling work was like this. When an agenda came up, he would determine the optimal process and plan to handle it. Then, he would report to the relevant departments and board members and seek their cooperation.

Most of the board members would just say, ‘Handle it as you see fit,’ but even so, the process of reporting and confirmation was necessary.

But Kang Jin-ho didn’t have that. Why?

Because he was the Lord Chairman.

When an agenda came up, he could just handle it as he pleased and then notify them.

‘Just this alone…’

Among the recent agendas, there was one that had been giving Lee Hyun-soo a headache.

The Magyo’s [a group of people] residential area wanted to open a mart to obtain daily necessities.

It sounded absurd, but it wasn’t something to take lightly. Currently, there were over ten thousand people living in the Magyo’s residential area, and the families of the Magins [people with magical abilities] who had come from China were also starting to settle down.

Ultimately, over twenty thousand people would live there.

To live, they needed a lot of things.

But this place was in the mountains.

Even if they needed something, there was nothing they could get. To get things, they had to go to a mart near a city far away. The problem was that these people…

‘Are illegal immigrants.’

The largest criminal organization in South Korea, which was hiding tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, was the General Assembly.

It was an undeniable sin.

But if they were to bring a mart to the place where they lived, they wouldn’t be able to prevent information from leaking out.

However, telling them to use the marts in the city was also problematic.

‘They’re illegal immigrants!’

They didn’t have cars.

The most illegal immigrants could use was a bicycle. It was impossible to tell over ten thousand people to go to the mart using bicycles.

Still, people had to live, so they were trying to create a mart somehow, mainly by selecting people who had worked for the General Assembly in the past.

However, this was such a complicated process that the work was endlessly delayed.

It was also no easy task to transport the daily necessities to feed over ten thousand people in this mountain village. They had to seek cooperation from distribution companies, and they had to file business registrations…

Anyway, it was a very troublesome matter. On top of that, if you added Jang Min, who would barge into the office from time to time, yelling, ‘The kids don’t even have soap, so they’re washing with plain water!’, it became even more of a headache.

But Kang Jin-ho had solved it very simply.

He had thrown away all the permits and cooperation that Lee Hyun-soo had been struggling to obtain and issued an official document in a single line.

Consider it part of your training and run.

’10km, you bastard!’

Was it even possible to run 10km to buy a popsicle! Even if they were martial artists!

It was an absurd tyranny! This was oppression!

But…

‘……Did you issue this official document?’

‘When?’

‘An hour ago.’

Lee Hyun-soo smiled faintly.

That’s right.

Well, I guess so.

If the Demon Lord told you to run, you had to run. If you didn’t want to get beaten…

He really did his job well. Really incredibly efficiently. However…

‘Is this okay?’

Really…

Is this okay?

It sounded like someone was sobbing somewhere.