Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 644

Handling (2)

“Ugh…”

Choi Yeon-ha slowly opened her eyes.

Her face was completely distorted.

‘What is it?’

She couldn’t grasp the situation.

It wasn’t that something strange had happened. It was just that she had slept so deeply for the first time in ages, this feeling of waking up from a deep sleep was unfamiliar.

She should feel refreshed after a good night’s sleep, but her body felt like a soggy rag.

But this feeling was almost welcome. It was a sensation she hadn’t felt in a long time. When she couldn’t sleep properly, she could get up without much trouble, but from the moment she washed and made tea, she felt like her whole body was sinking to the floor.

Even though it felt difficult right now, she knew from experience that her body would be full of energy from the moment she woke up. However, there was one thing that made her wonder.

‘Why did I wake up?’

Usually, she couldn’t wake up. Not when her body felt this heavy. But to wake up on her own, it was like the sun rising in the west….

Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

‘Figures.’

Choi Yeon-ha let out a low sigh. As she became more alert, she could hear the deafening sound of the doorbell ringing. And her cell phone was vibrating like crazy, as if it was broken.

‘Eun-sol, please!’

This pattern was definitely Han Eun-sol.

Han Eun-sol was optimized to wake up Choi Yeon-ha. To put it another way, she had the ability to do the things that Choi Yeon-ha hated the most.

Just like now.

The piercing doorbell and vibration sounds were maximizing Choi Yeon-ha’s annoyance.

“I’m getting up! I’m getting up, you jerk!”

Choi Yeon-ha jumped out of bed. She roughly threw on the leggings and t-shirt she had left by the bed and stomped towards the door. With a hand full of irritation, she yanked the door open, and Han Eun-sol was looking at her with a worried expression.

“Noona, are you okay?”

“What? Why! Why! What! What’s okay! What!”

“No, what happened last night that the room is under construction and your room has been moved? I was so shocked. And the bodyguards are gone.”

Choi Yeon-ha clicked her tongue.

‘Come to think of it, I didn’t tell her I was moving rooms.’

She couldn’t get angry when she thought about how panicked Han Eun-sol must have been when she woke up this morning. Even though she was out of it, she could have easily contacted her.

She couldn’t understand how she hadn’t heard the loud noises, but those things always managed to create such ridiculous situations.

“You….”

Her twisted personality was revealed in these moments. Inside, Choi Yeon-ha felt sorry for Han Eun-sol, but she couldn’t bring herself to say kind words.

“Hey! You said you were going to keep checking last night because you were worried!”

“That’s….”

Han Eun-sol took a step back.

“Actually, I even set an alarm and went to sleep. But it was like I was possessed by a ghost, I didn’t hear the alarm and I kept sleeping until just now. I’m sorry.”

‘She must have been tired.’

She understood. She understood completely.

Choi Yeon-ha was having a hard time, but Han Eun-sol was also suffering in a foreign land. That’s why she was always grateful.

With that gratitude, Choi Yeon-ha shouted.

“How can I trust you to work when you can’t even keep your word!”

And then she regretted it.

‘Ah, I really need to sew my mouth shut.’

She didn’t know why she always spoke like this when she could have said it nicely.

But Han Eun-sol continued to speak, with an expression that said your attacks can’t penetrate my defenses.

“Okay, just hurry up and wash. We have to go to the shoot. We’re already a bit late.”

“Okay, I got it.”

“But….”

“Why?”

“Did something good happen?”

Choi Yeon-ha clicked her tongue.

“Wh, what are you talking about?”

“No, your face looks really good. Well, not good, but how should I say it… Until yesterday, you looked pale because you had no color, but suddenly you have a rosy complexion? Did you work out?”

“Work out? What workout at this hour? You know I was just sleeping.”

“It’s just that you suddenly look so much better. It’s like you’re wearing blush. You’re flushed?”

“Stop talking nonsense and come in.”

“Huh? Go in?”

“Yeah. Are you going to stand there?”

“Ah, no.”

Choi Yeon-ha turned and walked into the living room, but stopped mid-sentence. Han Eun-sol, who was awkwardly following her, also stopped abruptly.

‘Where did that guy go?’

She had forgotten about Kang Jin-ho in the rush of getting up and greeting Han Eun-sol. But Kang Jin-ho, who should have been in the room, was nowhere to be seen.

‘Did that guy leave me here and go somewhere this morning… No, it’s better this way.’

When she thought about it, she had no solution.

Even though Han Eun-sol was like her younger sister and her manager who needed to know everything about her, she didn’t want to show her a strange man in her room. That would cause unnecessary misunderstandings. It would be better if Kang Jin-ho came in from outside….

That’s when it happened.

She heard a small noise. Choi Yeon-ha’s head turned sharply towards the sound.

‘The bathroom?’

No.

No way. Don’t do that. Not that.

But, despite Choi Yeon-ha’s desperate wish, the bathroom door opened resolutely, and Kang Jin-ho, with a towel around his waist, walked out, shaking his wet hair with a towel.

“Did you wake up?”

Choi Yeon-ha’s eyes trembled.

Why do you always….

‘Why do you always appear at the worst time in the worst way! Always!’

Choi Yeon-ha turned her head with a slightly horrified expression. Her eyes turned to Han Eun-sol.

‘Huh?’

Han Eun-sol’s eyes were wider than she had ever seen them before.

‘Were her eyes always that big?’

They were a bit too wide.

It was clear how shocked Han Eun-sol was. Then, those big eyes that were drawing attention slowly began to move.

Choi Yeon-ha naturally followed Han Eun-sol’s gaze.

The messy bed where she had slept, and her robe thrown down below.

Kang Jin-ho, who had just taken a shower.

The spare bed, which was perfectly new and unused.

And finally….

Choi Yeon-ha’s cheeks, which were flushed red.

Han Eun-sol’s expression, after confirming all of that, became indescribably subtle.

His slightly trembling lips slowly opened.

“….You did it, didn’t you.”

And very intensely.

There are many ways to drive a person crazy.

Guo Liqin knew this very well. Due to his nature of handling dirty work, he had seen many cases. Among his clients, there were quite a few who asked him to drive people crazy instead of killing them.

Due to inheritance issues or other problems, the target could not die, so they wanted the target to become an idiot who could only breathe.

Of course, it was his role to fulfill the client’s request, so he had often driven people crazy himself.

There were too many methods. There were so many that it was hard to decide which one to choose.

There was a method of directly injecting energy to destroy the brain, and there was also a method of crushing the body to make them lose their minds due to the pain.

Among those many methods, the one that Guo Liqin enjoyed the most was mental torture.

It was quite fun to slowly drive the opponent crazy by mentally torturing them. Moreover, there was a great advantage that no traces were left on the body.

That’s why Guo Liqin preferred mental torture.

To the point that he even studied psychology to make his targets go crazy more effectively. When his colleagues found out that he was studying psychology, they cursed at him, telling him that he should go to a psychiatrist instead of focusing on making his targets go crazy.

Maybe it would have been better to listen to them back then.

Because now, Guo Liqin was realizing that everything he had learned was useless.

The simplest and most perfect method of mental torture was right here. Guo Liqin was experiencing that torture with his whole body.

‘I can’t move.’

His body wouldn’t move. Not even a finger.

He was just breathing, like a dead person who was still alive. The deprivation of losing the freedom of his body while his mind was still clear was pushing him further into a corner.

At first, he was flustered. And after a little time, he tried to become calm. But soon, an overwhelming fear took over him.

How was he now?

He was anxious.

It wasn’t scary. He was just too anxious.

But that anxiety was so great that he couldn’t handle it. More than the fear of dying like this, the anxiety that he might never be able to move again was crushing him.

‘No way. Absolutely… This can’t be the end.’

He suppressed the anxious thoughts that kept coming up. The only thing he could move now was his eyes. His eyes, which had been open all night and were completely dry, felt like they were being stabbed with a sharp knife every time they moved. Nevertheless, Guo Liqin did not stop moving his eyes. If even this movement was not allowed, he would really go crazy.

Then, a huge figure that didn’t seem human came into his view.

‘It can’t be.’

He had heard rumors about someone with such a huge body. But it couldn’t be. There was no way that person would be here.

Then, the man sitting in the large chair slowly opened his mouth.

“The life of a servant is always the same, but it’s a very unfortunate thing. To have to guard a guy like this while the master is busy with breeding activities.”

“Bator-nim.”

“Why?”

“….It’s nothing.”

Jang Da-jing let out a low sigh.

Even though he and Bator had now become close enough to have a conversation, the wording ‘You got beaten up so badly for saying that, and you’re saying it again?’ was too rude to say to a superior.

“You look like you have something to say?”

“Isn’t it normal for a young man and woman to do that breeding… well, whatever it is?”

Jang Da-jing, who almost used Bator’s ‘term’ without realizing it, mumbled. For some reason, he felt like he shouldn’t say those words.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying. How timid. If you’re a man, you should go and make a child with pride, and tell them to guard that guy in the meantime. What’s there to be ashamed of! My master should be confident in any situation.”

Jang Da-jing was speechless. He concluded that he should avoid talking to Bator, at least in this area(?).

“B, but, sir.”

“Hmm?”

Jang Da-jing quickly changed the subject.

“Why can’t this guy move? Did you give him some kind of paralysis drug?”

“Paralysis drug?”

Bator laughed cheerfully.

“A paralysis drug for a martial artist? Even if it’s a clumsy guy, you’d have to feed him enough to kill an elephant to paralyze him to this extent. He’d die from his stomach bursting before that.”

Bator glanced at Guo Liqin and gave a subtle smile.

“More importantly, why did we bring this guy here?”

Jang Da-jing’s eyes were filled with questions.