Descent Of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1469

Han Eun-sol kept looking around.

‘This is fascinating.’

It was a strange feeling.

The MK building was located in the heart of Gangnam. The building was modern, and the interior was even more contemporary.

In terms of design and convenience, it wouldn’t be inferior to the headquarters of the most successful IT companies.

However, what he saw of the Assembly now was, to put it bluntly…

“A 폐교?” [폐교 (pyegyo) means ‘closed school’ in Korean]

“Or maybe an old military facility?”

A nondescript gray building stood squarely in the center, with smaller buildings arranged along a two-lane road below it.

Looking at that boxy gray building, he felt a sense of suffocation. It was hard to believe that this was the parent company of MK.

“It’s definitely time for a remodel,” Lee Hyun-soo said with a wry smile.

The building was over 50 years old. Moreover, with the technology of the time, it couldn’t have been easy to build such a large structure on the mountainside. It was a building that the martial artists had built themselves, carrying the materials directly with some blueprints and a few technicians.

Since they were building the building for their own use, there was no way there would be any shoddy construction, and thanks to that, it was still sturdy compared to buildings of a similar age.

But that was it.

‘It does look like a matchbox.’

When you think about it, the interior was similar to an old school. Well, back then, those were probably the only large buildings they could imitate.

“They have so much money, why don’t they just build a new one?” Choi Yeon-ha said, slightly annoyed.

“…It’s not as easy as you think,” Lee Hyun-soo sighed.

He, too, had wanted to tear down that hideous building every time he built a new dormitory.

When you think about it, that main building was the face of the Assembly. Even though this place rarely had visitors, there was no way Lee Hyun-soo, who was in charge of the Assembly’s internal affairs, would be satisfied with such a building.

It wasn’t like they didn’t have the money, as Choi Yeon-ha had said.

But there was a reason why it was always thwarted.

“Remodeling? New construction? Why bother? Why do martial artists need a pretty building to train in? Anyway, that’s why those guys from Yeongnam are a problem. Kim Seok-il, that bastard, was obsessed with such flashy things. So how is that bastard doing now? Is the East Sea warm?” [The East Sea is a body of water east of the Korean peninsula. The phrase is a sarcastic way of asking if someone is dead.]

Bang Jin-hoon’s reaction was understandable.

He was a natural-born Assembly member who was born and raised in the Assembly. In a way, it was not pleasing for Lee Hyun-soo, an outsider, to tear down the main building, which was the foundation of the Assembly.

He had almost shaken off his old feelings, but this was a matter of emotion, not reason.

“Building a new building is unnecessary. But the door needs to be fixed. Make it twice as wide as it is now.”

Batoru didn’t care about the building or anything, he was just very dissatisfied with having to do acrobatics every time he passed through the door. As long as the door was fixed, he didn’t care about the building, so he was no help.

“Why?”

“No. First of all, the aesthetics…”

“Why?”

“What looks good tastes good…”

“Why?”

“…It’s nothing.”

The biggest problem was Kang Jin-ho.

His superior, with his destructive aesthetic sense, didn’t understand the concept of decorating a building to show it off to someone.

It was impossible to explain.

‘If he understood that, he wouldn’t have hundreds of millions in his account and wear only three-striped tracksuits for years.’

That’s how he gave up.

He could understand if it was a problem caused by a lack of funds or construction difficulties, but the money was overflowing, and even at this moment, construction was underway at the bottom of the Assembly to build new dormitories.

So he was frustrated.

“What’s so difficult about it?”

“That is…”

Lee Hyun-soo, who had been sighing, suddenly raised his head and looked at Choi Yeon-ha.

“What? Why?”

“…Director.”

Why hadn’t he thought of this?

Come to think of it, wasn’t the human forklift that could remove the biggest obstacle right here?

Moreover, this human forklift was a high-performance forklift that could handle not only the boulder called Kang Jin-ho, but also the cancer lumps called Wiggins and Bang Jin-hoon in one go.

“The Assembly Head says this is good enough and doesn’t want a remodel!”

“That guy, seriously!”

Choi Yeon-ha glared.

‘Nice!’

Even Choi Yeon-ha, who was an actress and had an above-average aesthetic sense, must have found the bleak scenery of the Assembly to be torture just by looking at it.

“Putting that guy aside, aren’t the others dissatisfied?”

“Don’t even get me started. The water pipes are so old that rust comes out when you turn on the water, it smells when it rains, and it leaks, and the bathrooms… oh, I don’t even want to talk about the bathrooms.”

“…And they work without complaint?”

“How could they not be dissatisfied? They just can’t say anything. That’s why the kids who work here are so envious of the ones who went to MK. They say there are bidets in the bathrooms there?”

A vein popped out on Choi Yeon-ha’s forehead.

“Jin-ho hears all that and still does that?”

“That kind of report doesn’t make it up to him.”

“What is Director Lee doing?”

“…You seem to misunderstand my position sometimes, but I also have to go through the directors to get to the Assembly Head directly. And these things are quite sensitive issues…”

Lee Hyun-soo put on the most pitiful expression he could.

‘Oh my god, how did I get to this point?’

Lee Hyun-soo, who could directly contact Kang Jin-ho, the deus ex machina of the Assembly. But conversely, because he was so powerful, it also meant that if Kang Jin-ho said no, there was no way to do it.

But at this moment.

For the first time, a powerful person who could stand up to Kang Jin-ho had descended upon the Assembly.

‘Is this why they have a separation of powers?’ No, is it a multi-party system? Anyway…

“Hmm, is that so?” Choi Yeon-ha looked displeased.

“Is there anything else wrong besides that?”

“Shall I submit a report?”

“Please do. But I don’t know if I’m even allowed to receive such a thing. It’s presumptuous of me.”

“Presumptuous?”

Lee Hyun-soo jumped up.

“Director, you are not only a director of MK Entertainment, but also a director of MK headquarters. In other words, you are also a director of the Assembly.”

“Really? Who decided that?”

“I did.”

“I’ve already registered it.”

Lee Hyun-soo winked, and Choi Yeon-ha stared at Lee Hyun-soo, speechless.

“Of course, I didn’t intend to use it for this, but it was better for MK overall. Companies above a certain size are required to have a director.”

“Anyway, so?”

“Of course, you are qualified to receive the report.”

Choi Yeon-ha chuckled.

“Okay. Give me the report. If I think it’s really bad, I’ll give them a piece of my mind.”

“Director!” Lee Hyun-soo looked at Choi Yeon-ha with emotion.

‘I tried to stop someone like this from coming to the Assembly.’

It was a stupid thing to do.

In fact, when he looked back, how much had Lee Hyun-soo suffered? Practicality and aesthetics were not incompatible. You could keep a moderate balance. But the higher-ups of this damn company had zero interest in aesthetics.

It was time to break the chain of this wretched pragmatism.

“It is definitely a bit bleak,” Han Eun-sol said, and Lee Hyun-soo replied as if he was moved.

“Right?”

“But is it really… oh?”

Han Eun-sol looked around with a subtle gaze.

“Is it really because of the building?”

Lee Hyun-soo turned his head, following Han Eun-sol’s gaze, without saying anything.

Step by step.

A crew-cut head with a gold necklace around his neck walked by with his hands in his pockets, frowning. Behind him, people wearing tracksuits that looked like they were from the neighborhood were walking around with cigarettes in their mouths.

“I told them to pay attention to their attire…”

“I have some doubts as to whether it’s really a matter of attire. If a normal person wore it, it would just look like a decent fashion.”

“Is that… so?”

Their faces were like gangsters.

Not in a figurative sense, but their faces were really like gangsters.

It didn’t matter what you put on those guys. If you put them in a neat suit and put them out on the street at night, everyone who saw them would report them, and the police special forces would be dispatched.

“…Should we get them some plastic surgery?” Choi Yeon-ha shrugged.

“You can’t change the original. Just by looking at their eyes, you can tell they’re criminals.”

Oh…

In fact, half of them had real criminal records, so there was no way to refute it.

“If you look over there, that…”

Choi Yeon-ha pointed to one of the people passing by.

It was that moment.

“Hiiiik!”

The person who was passing by with a slightly nervous face, froze in place the moment Choi Yeon-ha’s finger pointed at him.

Choi Yeon-ha was rather taken aback by the reaction and looked at the person. The guy, who was as big as a mountain and looked like a neighborhood thug who would start by bowing his head, was trembling like a big dog that had been hit after acting up.

“Ah, no, why?”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I was wrong! I won’t do it again!”

Choi Yeon-ha’s head tilted to the side.

“Do you know who I am?”

“Aren’t you, Choi, Choi Yeon-ha? Ah, no! You’re the director!”

Choi Yeon-ha’s face went blank.

“No, why is this person acting like this…”

Choi Yeon-ha turned her head as if to find the answer to the question, and those who met her gaze immediately lowered their eyes.

Choi Yeon-ha asked with a blank look.

“Why are these people acting like this?”

“The rumors… uh, um, I don’t know how to put it…”

Sometimes rumors spread falsehoods, but sometimes the truth is exaggerated.

Most of the MK employees were people who had moved from the Assembly, and they were still in contact with the members of the Assembly. And those who lived in MK inevitably witnessed Choi Yeon-ha scolding Kang Jin-ho and Lee Hyun-soo.

As the rumors were distorted and distorted again, the people of the Assembly, who had not seen Choi Yeon-ha directly and only heard the rumors, thought of Choi Yeon-ha as a monster with three heads and six arms.

Martial arts?

‘What’s so important about that!’

What was important was that an ordinary person without martial arts was scolding Kang Jin-ho. What was even more serious was that Kang Jin-ho was her boyfriend, but Lee Hyun-soo, who had no relationship with her, also ran away whenever he saw Choi Yeon-ha.

How could an ordinary martial artist handle such a person?

“I, I’ll correct it,” Lee Hyun-soo said, flustered, trying to appease Choi Yeon-ha.

It was not a good feeling to be treated like a monster.

“Hoo?”

But Lee Hyun-soo froze on the spot when he saw Choi Yeon-ha’s expression. Choi Yeon-ha was smiling with a very satisfied look on her face.

“I like this place.”

“Director Lee.”

“Yes?”

“If there’s a room left, make me an office.”

“Is that not possible?”

“…It is possible.”

“Heong, I’ll have to come to work here sometimes.”