Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 672

‘What did I just see?’

Han Eun-sol raised his hand and rubbed his eyes.

‘Did I just see things?’

After rubbing his eyes for a while, Han Eun-sol looked up. Then, he saw the people looking calm, unlike a moment ago.

‘That’s more like it.’

It must have been a hallucination. Being robbed in broad daylight must have taken a toll on his mind. He needed to resolve this situation quickly and go back to the accommodation to rest.

But….

‘Where did that guy go?’

That guy.

The crazy guy who was just holding a knife to Kang Jin-ho’s neck.

He’s nowhere to be seen.

He wondered if he had moved somewhere while he was rubbing his eyes, so he turned his head here and there, but the guy was still not visible.

“Sister.”

“Huh?”

“Where did one of them go?”

“One of them?”

“You know, the guy who was holding a knife to Kang Jin-ho’s neck. He was just there a moment ago.”

“Ah, him?”

“Yes. Where did he go?”

“Hell, probably?”

“……What?”

Choi Yeon-ha said as if it was nothing.

“If he’s alive, he’s in the hospital’s intensive care unit; if he’s dead, he’s in hell. Judging by the way he was wielding that knife, he’s done it more than once or twice, so there’s no way a guy like that would go to heaven when he dies. Don’t you think so?”

“……No, wait a minute. Sister, so that guy, he…”

“It’s a hellish either-or choice, but even if you’re rolling in a pile of dog poop, this world is better, so I think the hospital’s intensive care unit is a slightly better choice. Although, it’s not like he can choose, though.”

“He fell down there?”

“Why are you pretending you didn’t see it? You saw it; he fell down there.”

“Down there?”

“Yeah, down there.”

Choi Yeon-ha raised her hand and pointed below the cliff.

He slightly leaned his head out, but he couldn’t see below the cliff. Being in the car, he wouldn’t be able to see below.

And actually, he didn’t want to see it.

He had already seen it enough while coming and going on this road! He had thought several times that if the car fell down there, he would die instantly without feeling any pain, so it would be better!

But someone fell down there?

“Amitabha.”

Or Avalokitesvara [a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas]. Amen! Assalamu alaikum….

Ah, not that.

Han Eun-sol blinked a few times and opened his mouth.

“……So, what I saw was right. Kang Jin-ho threw a person off the cliff?”

“I guess so?”

“No, how can a person do that?”

“How would I know?”

Han Eun-sol turned his head and looked forward again.

Saying that you can’t believe what you see with your own eyes is a way to express a very surprised feeling, but at this moment, it became a literal statement.

Even though he saw it clearly with his own two eyes, he couldn’t believe it at all. He couldn’t understand it either. How can a person throw another person with one hand?

‘No, that’s not the problem right now.’

Okay, let’s say a person can throw another person with one hand. There are all sorts of things in the world. Of course, he had never seen such a thing even from a professional fighter, or even in professional wrestling, but let’s say it’s possible.

But why throw him off a cliff?

‘That’s murder.’

A chill ran down Han Eun-sol’s spine.

The thought that he might have just witnessed someone dying in front of his eyes was incredibly shocking.

‘He’s dead, right?’

It would be hard for a person to survive. Sometimes there’s such a thing as luck in the world, and there are people who survive even after falling from the roof of an apartment building, but you can’t always expect such luck.

“……He’s dead, right?”

“I don’t know.”

“Sister, are you okay?”

“What?”

“A, a person died. Right in front of our eyes.”

“So what?”

Han Eun-sol swallowed hard.

“A murder might have just happened in front of our eyes. Kang Jin-ho killed someone…”

“Are you stupid? Or an idiot?”

“Huh?”

“Then, should we worry about the lives of the guys who came at us with knives and try to deal with them?”

“No, that’s not it, but…”

“Hey, this is self-defense. Even if he killed all three of the remaining guys and went straight to the courthouse, the courthouse guard would say, ‘If that’s the case, you don’t even need to go to trial. I’ll give you a not guilty verdict on my own authority. Would you like a parking ticket?’ and send him back.”

“……That’s a guard with a lot of authority.”

Of course, Han Eun-sol was also someone who didn’t like the strict laws of self-defense in Korea, and he was sure that if it was an unavoidable situation, it was better for the robber to get hurt than for his life and the lives of his acquaintances to be in danger.

But there was a huge difference between thinking that way in his head and actually facing such a situation in front of his eyes.

Han Eun-sol was an ordinary citizen.

When would such a person have ever met someone who came at him with a knife, and when would he have ever seen someone throw that knife-wielding guy off a cliff?

Moreover, the person who threw the person off the cliff was the person he had been teasing until just a moment ago.

The guy who he thought was too naive for his looks and couldn’t live up to his face was calmly throwing a person off a cliff and then dusting off his hands.

‘This isn’t a dream either.’

Even a dream wouldn’t be this absurd. Even dreams are created based on a person’s basic common sense. At least, within Han Eun-sol’s common sense, such a thing could not exist.

“Sister, are you okay?”

“Why do you keep asking if I’m okay?”

“Still, a person…”

“Eun-sol.”

“Yes?”

“Stop talking nonsense and be quiet. I can’t hear well.”

“……Okay.”

Han Eun-sol quietly closed his mouth and turned his gaze forward.

‘Is she really okay?’

It wasn’t that he was asking if she wasn’t shocked that someone might have died in front of her eyes.

He was asking if she was okay with the fact that Kang Jin-ho might have killed someone.

But Choi Yeon-ha’s reaction was too calm. It wasn’t that she was pretending to be calm. She really seemed to have no other thoughts.

‘What the heck is she?’

That thought suddenly occurred to him.

Maybe Choi Yeon-ha had seen Kang Jin-ho like this several times? Is that why she wasn’t surprised?

Han Eun-sol looked at Kang Jin-ho with a new look on his face.

‘What the heck is that guy?’

It was only now that Han Eun-sol was questioning Kang Jin-ho’s existence.

“……Pujing.”

Dabao bit his lip.

Wang Pujing was nowhere to be seen. It was inevitable. He had just fallen off the cliff.

Dabao looked at Kang Jin-ho with trembling eyes.

‘What the hell is this guy?’

He had to trust his gut feeling.

This was the price for ignoring the cry from within.

Not only Dabao, but the others were also looking at Kang Jin-ho with shocked eyes.

Ordinary people cannot know how great the event that just happened was. Only a martial artist can know that what just happened was beyond common sense.

Throwing a person is not that big of a deal.

That he threw a sturdy man with one hand, and that the distance he threw him was extraordinary, was not particularly surprising.

The point to be surprised about was that the person who was thrown was a martial artist.

The problem was that Wang Pujing was completely unable to react to the simple action of lifting and throwing a person.

If Wang Pujing was a martial artist of his level, he would have tried to counterattack while being thrown, and even if he couldn’t counterattack, he should have been able to stick a knife into the ground or flip his body to change direction.

But he couldn’t do anything.

Like a stiff piece of wood, he was just thrown into the air with his eyes wide open and fell.

Can you even imagine how enormous this is?

For a martial artist to suppress another martial artist’s movements and throw him into the air, it was impossible without a huge difference in skill. For ordinary people, it would be like the difference between a healthy young man and a three-year-old child.

With just this one incident, Dabao realized the gap between the Korean man in front of him and themselves.

It was already a little too late.

‘I should have waited.’

This guy is someone they can never deal with on their own. Even if all the organization members who are flocking to Chengdu came, they couldn’t be sure of defeating him.

Did the higher-ups already understand this situation and order them to wait?

No way.

It was probably just a way of saying to take it slow since there was nothing certain. If they made even a slight misjudgment, a situation could arise where they would have to take down the organization’s signboard.

Of course, it wasn’t Dabao’s concern. What he had to worry about now was not the organization, but himself. The jaws of the tiger were slightly tightening, and one person was caught in its teeth and torn apart. Who could guarantee that he wouldn’t be next?

“You.”

At that moment, Kang Jin-ho called out to Dabao.

“……Yes?”

Before his head could even think, his body reacted first. Although he had not yet established a relationship with the other party, his body was honestly showing a polite reaction.

“Who sent you?”

“The answer?”

Dabao swallowed hard and opened his mouth.

“It’s, it’s difficult to say who it is.”

Dabao desperately explained.

“We were just ordered to gather in Chengdu. While talking to each other after receiving the order, we found out that the order was given because of Guo Liqin’s disappearance.”

“Guo Liqin, huh…”

Then it wasn’t the Hongwang Group that moved.

Kang Jin-ho was slightly lost in thought.

If the Hongwang Group were to move in earnest, he would have no choice but to leave China. It wasn’t that he was particularly afraid of them, but if he stayed here, the people around him would inevitably get caught up in it.

It was still too much to fight them while protecting the people around him.

“Hmm…”

Kang Jin-ho looked at Dabao and said.

“I need one guy.”

“Yes?”

“One guy. I only need one guy.”

Dabao’s spine tingled.

There were three people here now. If he needed one person, then?

“What happens to the other two?”

Kang Jin-ho quietly looked at Dabao and said.

“You guys are lucky. I’m in a good mood today.”

Kang Jin-ho gestured with his chin towards the cliff.

“This is probably the first time I’ve voluntarily let someone who held a knife to me live. So, I don’t think I need to do anything, right?”

“Choose.”

Kang Jin-ho smiled.

“Whether you jump off the cliff on your own, or stay here and come with me.”

It was a ridiculous thing to say.

Who would choose to jump off the cliff after hearing those words?

But a strange thing happened.

As soon as Kang Jin-ho finished speaking, all three of them started running towards the cliff at the same time.

“You bastards! Get out of the way!”

“Get out of here!”

The three people, realizing that one person had to stay, pushed and pulled each other, tumbling around. Kang Jin-ho watched the scene and took out a cigarette.

‘It looks like it’s going to get a little more interesting?’

Kang Jin-ho lit the cigarette, blew out a puff of smoke, and said.

“Ah, when you fall off the cliff, don’t use your internal energy [qi or life force].”

The eyes of the three people who looked back at Kang Jin-ho with trembling eyes were filled with venom.

But that venom was not directed at Kang Jin-ho. The three people who had drawn their weapons began to attack each other.

Kang Jin-ho sighed as he watched the three of them fighting over who would fall off the cliff.

“Kids these days have no loyalty.”

It was a heartfelt remark from an old man from Baeknyeonsan [a fictional mountain, likely a reference to a place where martial arts are practiced].