Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 2094

It wasn’t the first time in his life that he had been injured. It was the first time in his memory that he hadn’t woken up for fifteen days, but even though it wasn’t common, it wasn’t that rare for him to be in a coma for several days due to an injury.

However, the injuries Kang Jin-ho sustained in this battle were on a different level than his previous ones. Even after being in a coma for fifteen days, he still felt intense pain. At this point, even Kang Jin-ho, who thought of his body as something like a lizard’s tail that would repair itself if left alone, had to admit that he needed to rest.

Of course, that wasn’t something Kang Jin-ho could control.

“Jin-ho!”

Baek Hyun-jung, who had rushed over as soon as she heard he had woken up, kept stroking Kang Jin-ho’s face. The sight of Baek Hyun-jung wiping away tears and Kang Yu-hwan standing awkwardly behind her was a heartwarming scene for anyone to see. If only it wasn’t the same scene repeating for the past 30 minutes.

“Um… honey.”

“What is it?”

“Jin-ho needs to rest a bit…”

“You be quiet!”

A father’s love for his child is always overflowing, but when the mother is around, he has to keep a slight distance from that fact, doesn’t he? Or perhaps, Kang Yu-hwan was using that fact as an excuse to abandon Kang Jin-ho, who was turning paler and paler. Kang Jin-ho sent desperate glances for help, but Kang Yu-hwan just turned his head away.

‘I need to survive too.’

People need to have some sense. If he said one more word here, Kang Yu-hwan wouldn’t be able to make a sound at home for about a month. Eventually, Kang Jin-ho, giving up on Kang Yu-hwan’s help, began to find his own way to survive.

“Mother, I’m okay…”

“How can you be okay, how! You were unconscious for fifteen days and just woke up! How can you be okay!”

That’s true. Logically speaking, that was a hundred times correct.

“What did the doctor say?”

“Um, Mom. The doctor said that there doesn’t seem to be any major problem according to the test results.”

“Really?”

“Yes, Mom.”

Kang Eun-young, who was starting to feel sorry for Kang Jin-ho, also began to provide support.

“That doctor, he’s the quack who said Jin-ho might not wake up! How can you believe what that kind of person says?”

“…That’s also true.”

But Baek Hyun-jung was a fortress, literally impregnable.

“Why did you have to go and fight there!”

Everyone questioned whether that battle could be described as a ‘fight,’ but no one had the courage to object to such a trivial expression right now. Because there’s nothing scarier than a mother who has seen her child get hurt.

“It’s true that raising a child is useless! I’m so upset! I am!”

Kang Jin-ho, who was sweating profusely, turned to Choi Yeon-ha as his last resort. Perhaps that wise woman could provide him with a way to escape.

“Visiting hours…”

“Ah, visiting hours?”

Choi Yeon-ha nodded as if she had just remembered.

“It’s one hour for visiting, visiting.”

“It seems like an hour has passed…”

“Really?”

Baek Hyun-jung glanced at Choi Yeon-ha. Among them, Choi Yeon-ha was the only one Baek Hyun-jung felt even a little uncomfortable with. So, there was hope, only she could…

At that moment, Choi Yeon-ha smiled more brightly than ever.

“But this is a WIP room [Work In Progress room, a room for patients who are still under observation], so it’s okay, Mother. Please, do as you like.”

Kang Jin-ho closed his eyes tightly as he saw Baek Hyun-jung’s face light up.

‘I wish I could just faint again.’ But his strong body firmly rejected his desperate wish.

After worrying, fretting, urging, and getting angry dozens of times, Baek Hyun-jung finally got tired and went home. Just as Kang Jin-ho, who had barely escaped three hours of nagging and crying, reached for water with trembling hands, the second wave of the Kang Jin-ho subjugation team arrived.

“Hey, you bastard!”

“Jin-ho!”

Kang Jin-ho’s face turned pale as he saw Joo Young-gi and Park Yu-min bursting into the hospital room. Of course, the two of them were not comparable to Baek Hyun-jung. The destructive power of each person was definitely not as strong as Baek Hyun-jung’s. The problem was that there were two of them.

“Hey, you son of a bitch! I’m going to peel your skin off and make sashimi out of you! You’ve been running around doing all sorts of things. I’ve never seen my friend’s face broadcast live all over the world. You must be very happy to be a celebrity, you dog! Did you get my autograph ready in advance?”

“Jin-ho, are you really okay? You seemed to be really hurt, did the doctor say there are no aftereffects? Why did you do that? You didn’t have to do that. I thought my heart was going to stop. No, why did you have to…”

Kang Jin-ho’s face became even paler. Joo Young-gi on the left was cursing non-stop, and Park Yu-min on the right was crying incessantly. As completely different words and emotions simultaneously penetrated both ears, even the mighty Kang Jin-ho was on the verge of going crazy.

“Um… guys, I… um… I’m really sorry, but…”

Kang Jin-ho squeezed out the last of his strength to speak.

“I’m not in good condition right now… can we do this later…”

“Condition? What the hell are you talking about? You bastard! Is that what you call not being in good condition? Hey, you bastard. If you had died there, it wouldn’t have been an accident, it would have been natural causes. You walked in there to die, what? Condition? You should be grateful that they even managed to salvage your corpse. If you didn’t want to be cursed at, you should have just died, why did you come back alive, you dog?”

“Jin-ho, are you not feeling well? Is your body badly damaged? Shouldn’t you get another checkup? I heard that there are many people who suffer from aftereffects even though the test results show no abnormalities. Why did you do that?”

“Young-gi.”

“What?”

“Don’t you have to open the store?”

“I closed it today, you bastard! Do you think I’m in the mood to do business right now?”

“…Yu-min, don’t you have a match today?”

“It’s not about the match right now, Jin-ho. And even if there is a match, it’s in the evening, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Kang Jin-ho, resigned, closed his eyes.

‘Just kill me.’

It was truly a blessing to be worried about. It was also truly appreciated that they were angry for him. But… if they could just mix in the fact that he was a patient who had regained consciousness after fifteen days, it would be even more appreciated.

Thus, Joo Young-gi and Park Yu-min also went on for almost two hours, spewing curses and tears before leaving. If Kang Eun-young hadn’t chased them away after seeing Kang Jin-ho, who had almost lost all color, they would have continued until nightfall.

“I feel like I’m going to die…”

Of course, it wasn’t going to end there.

“Master Demon!”

Kang Jin-ho stared at the ceiling with unfocused eyes as he saw Jang Min burst through the door.

“Master Demon! Master Demon! Please kill your subordinate who failed to assist you! While you were unconscious, I deeply realized the pain of heartbreak. Please, with your noble hands, strike down this incompetent subordinate who did not know the true way to serve you…”

“Get out of the way, old man!”

Bator grabbed Jang Min’s face, who was clinging to Kang Jin-ho and spouting all sorts of words, and threw him backward.

“Are you alright, Master?”

“…I was fine, but now I’m not.”

“You look fine.”

What meaning does language have for this human?

Bator’s face twitched.

“You are so weak. Even if the injury was severe, to be asleep for fifteen days.”

“…Are you okay?”

“A mere injury like that will heal in two days.”

At this point, he should be considered non-human.

“Take this opportunity to learn some external martial arts. There’s nothing better for protecting your body.”

“Don’t say strange things, Director. Why would someone who rides a motorcycle buy an electric bicycle?”

“Are you disparaging external martial arts right now?”

“Isn’t that the truth? External martial arts are for people who need them, why would you try to apply that crude stuff to the Guild Master? He’s the one who achieved the greatest feat ever.”

“Feat? Is this some kind of game?”

Kang Jin-ho covered his face with both hands amidst Bator and Bang Jin-hoon, who were bickering and fighting among themselves, and Jang Min, who had rushed back in and was spouting gibberish.

“Um… everyone, please just leave. Please.”

But it wasn’t like things would be resolved even if they left. Before long, the Ma Yeom [a group or faction], led by Lee Myung-han, came rushing in through the broken door.

“Guild Master, are you alright?”

“Are you conscious!”

The hospital room was so spacious that dozens of people could fit inside without any problem. As the number of people filling the room increased, Kang Jin-ho’s complexion became paler and paler. By the time Lee Hyun-joo, as the representative of MK, visited, Kang Jin-ho had become a limp piece of fish.

“Why… are so many of you here?”

“What are you talking about, Guild Master?”

“Huh?”

“We carefully selected the ones who came up. All the guys below are gathered right now.”

Lee Myung-hwan said nonchalantly.

“We beat up a couple of those bastards who were also coming up as a demonstration and came up here. We didn’t want to disturb the Guild Master’s rest.”

“…Thank you.”

He was truly grateful to the point of tears.

“Ah, don’t push there.”

“Hey, the nurse is angry about why the door is broken?”

“I don’t know. Bator must have broken it when he came in. His body is too big to fit through that space.”

“It wasn’t me, it was the old man, you bastards!”

Kang Jin-ho, who was sighing deeply, flinched and turned his head.

“Where are the guys?”

“They’re below the hospital. You can see them all if you look out that window. Please wave your hand once. They’re all waiting right now.”

So, the entire assembly of the guild was gathered at the hospital?

“All of them?”

“Yes. They’re all here.”

“Why?”

“Of course, they came to see the Guild Master.”

“So, why?”

“…Well, of course, they’re worried. What can we do when everyone wants to come?”

“Everyone cares about the Guild Master that much. Ah, I heard that the Ma Gyo [another group or faction] bastards will be here soon too. Don’t forget that we came first. Those bastards are always just loyal in words.”

As Kang Jin-ho stared blankly, Lee Myung-hwan smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

“There’s no need to be moved. It’s all natural. The Guild Master was hurt…”

“…Dismiss them.”

“Yes? Thank you?”

“…Dismiss them, right now.”

“Yes?”

“…Before I kill them all.”

It was the moment when neurology was added to Kang Jin-ho’s afternoon medical appointments.

“…And bring Lee Hyun-soo here.”

…It was also the moment when another reason for Lee Hyun-soo to get beaten up was added.