Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 641

The Romantic Ideal.

That’s what they called it back then.

The Romantic Ideal.

It was a time when there was an excessive fantasy about masculinity. It was an era when it was common to say that a man should be able to drink heavily and pursue beautiful women.

It’s unimaginable now, but back then, even a leader of the Demonic Cult was considered flawed if he didn’t indulge in women.

The problem was that Kang Jin-ho simply couldn’t bring himself to like the women of that era.

Was it all about a woman’s looks?

Kang Jin-ho could say definitively, no.

In the past, the average appearance of women in the Central Plains was inferior to that of modern women. This was an undeniable fact.

Many did not develop properly due to malnutrition, and they were generally less attractive because they were not as clean as people are in modern times.

Even so, there were always those who stood out from the average.

There were quite a few women back then who had beauty that would make people gasp even if they were brought to modern times. And they were far more submissive than modern women.

Yet, Kang Jin-ho couldn’t see them as women.

The attraction to their appearance would vanish the moment they exchanged three words.

Their ways of thinking were completely different. Modern people, at least, have a common base because they have learned the same things and lived in the same places. They have differing opinions on a shared foundation.

But the people of the Central Plains and Kang Jin-ho had different foundations. So, they couldn’t communicate, and it was difficult to feel any attraction.

As a result…

A terrifying being known as a ‘hundred-year virgin’ was born.

And that hundred-year virgin was now sweating profusely.

“…Huh?”

“I said, stay the night.”

He had some immunity to women.

Having a younger sister made a big difference. Whether you’ve talked to girls your age or not makes a big difference. But right now, Kang Jin-ho was very flustered by Choi Yeon-ha’s words.

This was probably because…

“No! Isn’t today the day we’re going to do the deed! Am I making things up!”

Bator’s words, as he stubbornly protested even while getting his jaw smashed, came to mind.

If that guy hadn’t said such useless things, he wouldn’t be so confused right now.

“Stay… the night?”

“Yes.”

Kang Jin-ho didn’t know how to react, so he kept his mouth shut. No matter how he thought about it, this was a checkmate.

‘Let’s calm down.’

If he got excited for nothing and it turned out to be a misunderstanding, he would be so embarrassed that he would want to jump out the window. So, he had to act like it was nothing.

Kang Jin-ho reached for a water bottle and took a drink.

Casually, as if it were nothing…

“Then, I’ll take a shower first.”

“Ptoo!”

Water erupted from Kang Jin-ho’s mouth. Even decades of honed martial arts couldn’t prevent him from choking.

“What’s wrong?”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Why is she showering, why! It looked like she had already showered!

Choi Yeon-ha, noticing a drop of sweat rolling down Kang Jin-ho’s forehead, glared at him.

“Hey!”

“…”

“What are you thinking about!”

“Ah, no…”

Choi Yeon-ha, guessing the situation, grabbed her forehead as if there was no hope.

“No, that guy licked my leg! I need to wash it, don’t I!”

“That tongue must be pulled out.”

“Are you joking?”

He was serious…

It seemed that people sometimes tended to take his words as jokes. He wasn’t a person who joked often.

“…Anyway, I’ll go wash up first.”

“Wait a minute.”

“Yes?”

“Just wait, just wait a minute.”

“Ah… Okay.”

Kang Jin-ho got up and left the room. Then, he made a call and said something. After a while, the elevator opened, and the manager approached Kang Jin-ho with a pale face.

“Um…”

Kang Jin-ho looked at the manager with calm eyes and pointed to the broken door.

“You need to fix it or change the room.”

“I’m sorry.”

The manager kept bowing his head. Kang Jin-ho already knew how Gwo Ri-chin had opened the door and entered. The manager, clearly aware of his fault, had no room for excuses.

But Kang Jin-ho didn’t bother to scold him.

If a martial artist had made up his mind, an ordinary person couldn’t resist. Resisting would only lead to a futile death and having their card stolen.

“I don’t want to blame you. But it seems uncomfortable like that.”

“I will change the room right away.”

“Please do.”

“Yes! Then I’ll go to the counter for a moment, so if you pack your things…”

“Understood.”

The manager bowed his head deeply and got back on the elevator.

“Ooh!”

Choi Yeon-ha, who had been listening to the situation from behind the door, gave Kang Jin-ho a thumbs up.

“I was so out of it that I didn’t even think about it… You’re a thoughtful man, our Kang Jin-ho.”

He should have just stayed put, just stayed put.

The luggage was moved to the new room.

The manager said that the remaining luggage would be moved tomorrow morning. The reason was that moving luggage at night would inconvenience people. Kang Jin-ho glared at him, but Choi Yeon-ha, saying she was tired, sent the manager away.

And then…

Whoosh.

While Choi Yeon-ha was drying her hair after taking a shower, Kang Jin-ho was frozen like a stone. He knew that wasn’t the situation, but strangely, he couldn’t calm down.

“Aren’t you going to shower?”

“I, I should.”

Kang Jin-ho walked into the shower room with robotic steps. Choi Yeon-ha, seeing this, covered her mouth and laughed.

‘Why is he so innocent?’

With that face, no one would blame him even if he went to clubs every night and womanized. The worst thing anyone could say would be that he was living up to his looks.

But Kang Jin-ho was someone who didn’t know that at all.

Unlike his appearance, his thoughts were very pure.

‘And yet, he’s strangely aggressive when it’s important.’

That gap was Kang Jin-ho’s charm.

It was obvious what kind of reaction he would have to any topic, but sometimes, he would give answers that Choi Yeon-ha never expected. That gap sometimes made Choi Yeon-ha’s heart flutter.

But today was a day for obvious answers.

She had deliberately acted a little ambiguous, and that was his reaction.

‘Even dramas don’t write scripts like this. They’d get criticized for being childish.’

Seeing that childish reaction in real life made it feel cute rather than childish. Maybe it was because it was Kang Jin-ho.

‘I should stop before the atmosphere gets too weird.’

Teasing him was fun.

But the reason Choi Yeon-ha was doing this wasn’t just for fun, but to suppress her own surging emotions.

Her heart was still beating. She was still anxious.

The door was tightly closed, and Kang Jin-ho was in the shower room, but she still felt anxious as if someone would attack her at any moment.

It was natural.

No one could easily regain their composure after experiencing something like that.

‘He’s such a fool.’

She knew.

She knew that Kang Jin-ho was acting like a fool to make Choi Yeon-ha feel comfortable.

They were both considerate of each other.

As if nothing was wrong, as if there were no problems.

But…

‘Oh my god, I think my face is red?’

Choi Yeon-ha was flustered when she saw her changed complexion in the mirror. She had tried to tease Kang Jin-ho, but it was her blood that was flowing faster, not his.

“I must be a pervert.”

Choi Yeon-ha slapped her cheeks.

‘Not yet.’

Not here…

Have I gone crazy! ‘Not yet’!

The moment Choi Yeon-ha jumped up and down on the spot, the shower room door opened, and Kang Jin-ho came out.

“Ah, no, this is…”

Kang Jin-ho with a dazed look and Choi Yeon-ha with teary eyes stared at each other without a word.

“…Honestly, I’m having a really hard time right now.”

“Yes.”

“Kang Jin-ho, think about it. I closed the door tightly, but a crazy guy opened the door and tried to… you know, do that to me. Right?”

“Yes.”

“So, how scary would that be? I’m pretending to be calm right now, but my heart is actually pounding so hard I feel like I’m going to die. So how can I sleep alone? How scary is that?”

“Yes.”

“I was so worried that Kang Jin-ho would just leave earlier. That’s why I’m doing this, so please don’t misunderstand. And… even though there’s a spare bed over there, the reason I’m asking you to stay in the same bed is part of that. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Yes.”

“It’s definitely not that I’m expecting anything tonight, so please don’t misunderstand. I really don’t think it’s right to do anything on a day like this. Really. I’m not going to say the obvious thing about crossing the line and being a beast, but it’s really not today. Do you understand what I mean?”

“I…”

“Yes?”

“Can I… go to sleep now?”

Kang Jin-ho was exhausted.

Choi Yeon-ha was explaining things over and over again, as if she were a rabbit sleeping in the same cage as a tiger. It was enough to make his ears bleed.

“So, don’t have any funny ideas!”

“I won’t.”

“Absolutely don’t…”

“I said I won’t!”

“Are you yelling now? Seriously.”

“No, that’s…”

He wanted to run away.

He wanted to escape from here.

Kang Jin-ho, who had never turned his back even in front of tens of thousands of righteous sect members, could resolutely choose to flee at this moment.

“Hmm, okay. Turn off the lights.”

“Yes.”

“And this isn’t a romance, it’s a medical drama… Don’t think weird thoughts when you turn off the lights. Got it?”

“…Yes.”

Kang Jin-ho sighed and turned off the lights.

“Eek!”

And he turned the lights back on in one second.

“Why, why are you doing that?”

“No… that…”

Choi Yeon-ha shook her hand as if she was also flustered.

“It suddenly felt a bit weird when the lights went off. I’m sorry. I didn’t know it would be like this.”

Kang Jin-ho nodded.

It was understandable. She had gone through something like that.

Kang Jin-ho suddenly wanted to see the face of the guy that Jang Da-jing had dragged away.

“Should we sleep with the lights on?”

“Ah, no. I don’t want to be that dramatic. Just turn them off.”

“Yes.”

Choi Yeon-ha gritted her teeth.

In fact, Choi Yeon-ha had always kept the lights on when she slept since she was buried under the tunnel, but if she brought that up now, Kang Jin-ho would feel even more sorry.

‘I can nag. But he shouldn’t feel sorry for me.’

Choi Yeon-ha thought that it was okay to bicker playfully, but they shouldn’t feel genuinely sorry for each other. It wasn’t Kang Jin-ho’s fault either. But the moment Choi Yeon-ha said those words, that fool of a man would feel genuinely sorry.

So, she had to endure it. Even if it was a little scary.

“Ahem.”

Kang Jin-ho cleared his throat and burrowed under the blanket. Choi Yeon-ha froze like a stone at the vibrations transmitted through the bed and the rustling of the blanket.

‘Oh, what do I do!’

Choi Yeon-ha realized.

She had laughed at Kang Jin-ho’s flustered appearance, but when she thought about it, it was Choi Yeon-ha who had no real experience with men. She didn’t have any brothers, and she had never even shared a bed with a man before.

Choi Yeon-ha, who had frozen like a stone, and Kang Jin-ho, who kept sweating on his forehead, lay side by side, staring at the ceiling.

Awkwardness settled heavily upon them.