Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1623

“I’m home.”

“Oh, Oppa! You’re here?”

Kang Eun-young rushed to the entrance to greet Kang Jin-ho. However, Kang Jin-ho just stared at Kang Eun-young without saying anything.

“Why are you glaring?”

“Why?”

“No… no, it’s nothing.”

“What? Why, why? What is it?”

“It’s nothing.”

Kang Jin-ho shook his head weakly.

My friend…

Why are you like this, my friend…

Feeling a bit melancholic, Kang Jin-ho took off his shoes with a sigh.

“Are you home?”

“Yes, Mother.”

“Good, you’re home early today. You’ve been coming home late every day recently.”

“Yes. I had some work.”

“Okay, being busy is good, but you need to take care of your health.”

Kang Eun-young nodded emphatically.

“That’s right! If you lose your health, everything is useless! You need to rest when you can!”

“You should be the one resting!”

“Ah, why are you always picking on me, Mom!”

“Where did you go out to again today?! You don’t even work!”

“I just went out for a bit.”

“You say you’re just going out, but why are you so dressed up!”

Kang Jin-ho saw it.

The moment the words ‘dressed up’ came out, Kang Eun-young’s gaze flicked towards Kang Jin-ho for about 0.1 seconds before quickly returning to its original position.

As suspicion turned into certainty, he felt like the sky was falling.

“…I’m going to wash up.”

“Did you eat?”

“…I don’t have an appetite.”

“Why don’t you have an appetite? Are you really not feeling well?”

No.

My heart hurts, Mom.

My heart…

“I’m going to rest…”

As Kang Jin-ho trudged towards his room, Baek Hyun-jung tilted her head.

“Does he really have something going on?”

However, Kang Eun-young looked unconcerned.

“Leave him alone. Even grown men have their moments. He probably fought with his sister or something.”

“Is he even human?”

“Why? Oppa is human too.”

“If they fight, he can only get beaten up. Would he even fight? He’d just get an earful.”

“That’s true.”

Kang Eun-young shook her head, watching Kang Jin-ho close his door.

“Anyway, he shouldn’t be like that. A man should have some backbone!”

“Instead of just talking, why don’t you try getting a boyfriend?”

“Oh, Mom. Haha… Me, a boyfriend? Men!”

Listening to the conversation from outside the door, Kang Jin-ho felt his heart sink.

‘No way.’

Something is wrong here.

This combination is unhealthy. No matter how he thought about it, it wasn’t a combination that could produce any good results.

“Ughhh.”

Kang Jin-ho collapsed onto the bed.

‘Should I call him now, even?’

He should meet Park Yu-min first.

Kang Eun-young clearly wouldn’t listen no matter what he said. But if he met Park Yu-min, who at least understood what he was saying, and beat him to a pulp, wouldn’t he come to his senses?

A sigh escaped Kang Jin-ho’s lips.

‘No, what am I, a crazy person!’

There are women around him…

‘There aren’t any.’

There are none at all.

Come to think of it, the only women around Park Yu-min were the kids from the orphanage and the auntie who cooked at the gaming team’s dorm.

The orphanage kids are family… so, realistically, that means there isn’t a single woman around him.

‘It’s my fault, it’s my fault!’

Instead of dating Choi Yeon-ha, he should have looked around Choi Yeon-ha’s circle and made Park Yu-min date someone first.

He should have forced him on a blind date.

“It’s all my karma.”

Kang Jin-ho covered his face with both hands.

“Yu-min, no matter how I think about it, that’s not it.”

I’m not saying this because I’m your older brother, Yu-min.

If it were any other guy, I would have welcomed it with open arms.

I would have had the gang kidnap him and marry him off first. But why does it have to be you?

Lying on the bed, Kang Jin-ho let out a soul-crushing sigh.

“This is a bust…

No, no.

It’s not time to give up yet.

Actually, that’s how relationships are. One moment you’re head over heels, and the next you’re strangers over something trivial. So, it wasn’t time to give up yet.

He had to separate them somehow!

Just as Kang Jin-ho was making up his mind, his phone vibrated briefly.

Turning his head slightly, Kang Jin-ho opened his phone without much thought and looked at the screen.

Choi Yeon-ha: What are you doing?

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes widened.

Kang Jin-ho: Help!

Choi Yeon-ha: o o?

Kang Jin-ho: Now!

Choi Yeon-ha: Come to oo’s house.

Kang Jin-ho: On my way.

Gripping his phone, Kang Jin-ho jumped up from his seat.

This wasn’t the time for this.

He needed to discuss this with family(?).

He opened the door and rushed out, shouting to his mother in the living room.

“I’m going out for a bit!”

“You just got home?”

“I’ll be back soon!”

Watching Kang Jin-ho run out the door, Kang Eun-young mumbled blankly.

“See, Mom? I told you he’s not doing well.”

“…Yeah, he isn’t.”

The two of them sighed simultaneously.

“So…”

Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes twitched.

“You’re saying that Park Yu-min and Eun-young are acting strange?”

“Yes.”

“And Lee Hyun-soo found out about it through CCTV?”

“Yes.”

“Then, shouldn’t we put everything else aside and sue Lee Hyun-soo first?”

Ah, is that how it works?

“I’ll consider it.”

I’ll consider it very strongly.

“Hmm, Yu-min and Eun-young…”

Choi Yeon-ha frowned and fell into deep thought.

“It seems like it could work, but also not.”

“…It works?”

“Yes. When people meet, it means they play a suitable role for each other, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Eun-young, who works hard, and Yu-min, who supports her, seems like a compatible match.”

“Please don’t use my friend like that.”

“Are you two dating?”

Choi Yeon-ha glared.

“If you have any sense, you should worry about your sister first! Why are you worrying about your friend first!”

“That’s because he’s not a sensible person.”

Kang Jin-ho sighed deeply, and Choi Yeon-ha chuckled.

“Jin-ho.”

“Yes?”

“Just erase this from your mind.”

“…This?”

“Yes. It’s not that big of a deal.”

Choi Yeon-ha said with a detached expression.

“Fate is something you can’t control. Frankly, how could we have known that you and I would end up like this? Right?”

“That’s true.”

“It’s the same for them. You can’t control who you like. And it’s not like there’s anything wrong with them dating.”

“Ughhh.”

Kang Jin-ho grabbed his head.

“I understand it logically…”

“It’s all in vain, mortal. It’s all your obsession.”

Choi Yeon-ha chuckled.

“You should wish them well instead.”

“What?”

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes widened.

“You want me to watch Yu-min jump into a fire?”

“When you first met me, other people probably saw it that way too, right?”

Uh…

I admit that.

Kang Jin-ho couldn’t answer and hesitated, so Choi Yeon-ha smiled and said,

“But how is it now? Is it a fire?”

“Yes.”

“What, you punk?”

“Ah, I answered wrong. No.”

“This…”

Choi Yeon-ha’s lips trembled.

It seems like his true feelings came out, no matter how you look at it?

Anyway.

Choi Yeon-ha took a deep breath and continued.

“That’s how it is. People change when they meet someone. The reason Eun-young is acting so recklessly now might be because there isn’t anyone she wants to impress enough to change for.”

“Ugh…”

“Like me, Eun-young might change if she finds someone she likes. So, trust them and leave them alone. Who knows, maybe thanks to this, Eun-young’s personality will improve, and Yu-min will become family?”

Family?

Kang Jin-ho imagined it in his head. Park Yu-min as his brother-in-law…

“I don’t like that either.”

“…How did my man become such a complainer? He wasn’t like this before.”

“It’s like, uh…”

Kang Jin-ho scratched his head slightly.

“It’s not that I dislike that kind of relationship, but I’m worried that the current relationship will change. I like Yu-min the way he is now.”

“There’s no such thing as an unchanging relationship.”

Choi Yeon-ha said indifferently.

“Even lovers who are madly in love will break up, and even friends who seem like they’ll be together forever will drift apart.”

“…”

“That’s why people get married. Because they want a relationship that won’t end even if their feelings change a little. This situation might be similar? If Yu-min becomes family, there’s no chance of drifting apart.”

“It’s complicated.”

Kang Jin-ho leaned back on the sofa.

Then, Choi Yeon-ha reached out and touched Kang Jin-ho’s forehead.

“It’s warm, so you must be really worried. Jin-ho, why are you being so cute?”

“Okay, let’s forget about it cleanly. Who knows, you might have to go to a wedding soon.”

Ah, I hate it. I really hate it.

Kang Jin-ho sighed deeply.

“Then I should hurry too.”

“Hurry what?”

“The older brother should get married before his younger sister does. That’s the basic rule.”

“…Huh?”

Why did it turn out that way?

“Hmm, I’m busy filming in the US right now, so… if I consider the filming and the release, it’ll be next year? I’ll think about it after that.”

“Think about what?”

“What do you mean, what? You know.”

Choi Yeon-ha grinned.

Seeing that expression, Kang Jin-ho leaned back slightly.

“Hey! Don’t move your butt like that, you impudent thing.”

“Come here, come here. They say there are special things to bring as a dowry these days.”

“…Why, why are you doing this?”

“Hey, just stay still.”

Kang Jin-ho’s face turned slightly pale as he kept moving his butt back, but Choi Yeon-ha pulled him closer with a deep smile.

“Your sister will take care of everything.”

“Take care of what!”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Your mother will like it too.”

“Like what!”

“Hey, just stay still.”

Just as Kang Jin-ho was about to scream, his phone vibrated briefly.

Kang Jin-ho snatched his phone as if he had met a savior and immediately opened the screen.

“Ah, something came up…”

At that moment, Kang Jin-ho flinched slightly.

‘Huh?’

Kang Jin-ho turned off his phone screen, shoved it into his pocket, and looked back at Choi Yeon-ha.

“So?”

Choi Yeon-ha stared at Kang Jin-ho.

“Give it to me.”

“What?”

“Give me your phone.”

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes flickered for a moment.

“My phone? Why?”

“Just give it to me.”

Kang Jin-ho reluctantly took out his phone. Then, Choi Yeon-ha snatched Kang Jin-ho’s phone like an eagle going for its prey.

Then, she unlocked it with her pattern as if it were her own phone.

‘Ah, she knows that.’

When did she find out?

Choi Yeon-ha opened the phone, immediately opened the messenger app, and opened the top chat.

Kiddo: Oppa, when should we meet? I’m free anytime! Tell me when you’re free, and I’ll try to make it work.”

Choi Yeon-ha, who had been staring at the phone, slowly turned her head towards Kang Jin-ho.

At that moment, Kang Jin-ho saw it.

The scene of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains where he died in the distant past.

“Kiddo?”

“Who?”

“Ah, that’s…”

Choi Yeon-ha put down the phone. Then, she smiled and said,

“Let’s hear it, who this kiddo is.”

Kang Jin-ho closed his eyes tightly.

‘Save me.’

Hell had begun.