Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 770

The problems were piling up.

Wiggins’ idea of reform was quite simple. Dealing with obvious problems wasn’t reform. It wasn’t about just dusting off the surface; it was about moving the furniture to get to the hidden dust and then arranging everything in the most optimal way. Only then could it be called a true reform.

Wiggins began to turn the General Assembly upside down with that mindset.

Lee Hyun-soo had already reorganized the General Assembly once, but that superficial cleanup couldn’t satisfy Wiggins. Like a mother who starts washing the floors after her child has cleaned the house, Wiggins pointed out the areas Lee Hyun-soo had missed and pulled out the accumulated dust.

“If you do it like this, it’s going to take too long, Master.”

“Time? There’s plenty of time.”

Wiggins responded to Lee Hyun-soo’s timid protest with a smile.

“There’s a right time for everything. If you don’t do it now, you’ll never get to do it. You can’t miss the opportunity. You have to dry your laundry when the wind is blowing.”

“We use dryers these days! If you dry laundry in the wind because of the fine dust, you have to do it again!”

“Shall I dry it for you with a dryer?”

“…I’ll do my best.”

With the devil Kang Jin-ho quiet, a new devil named Wiggins was now tormenting Lee Hyun-soo. If Kang Jin-ho was the type to push things forward recklessly and throw work at people like crazy, Wiggins was the type to pile up work meticulously while smiling.

‘So, the work never actually decreases.’

At one point, Lee Hyun-soo thought of himself as a workaholic. But that was a really wrong idea. A workaholic is someone who enjoys work. Having a lot of work doesn’t make you a workaholic.

You only find out if you’re a workaholic or not when you encounter an overwhelming amount of work. After joining the General Assembly and facing an amount of work he couldn’t handle for the first time, Lee Hyun-soo realized that he was just an ordinary human being who longed for going home and taking a vacation.

The price he paid to learn that one fact was too high.

“Hurry up and finish. We have to attend the general meeting too.”

“What’s the agenda this time…”

The word ‘meeting’ was now scary.

These people had so much creativity that they created new problems every time they had a meeting. They thought they were helping the General Assembly by giving their opinions, but for Lee Hyun-soo, who had to turn those opinions into reality, each meeting felt like being hit by a cannonball.

“This time, it’s the Lord who called for it, so it’s probably not something you’re thinking about.”

“I guess so…”

But that didn’t reassure Lee Hyun-soo.

‘The Lord called for it?’

That was nerve-wracking in a different way.

“There’s a problem.”

When Kang Jin-ho opened his mouth, everyone looked at him with tense faces.

“As you all might have guessed, there’s a serious problem in the current Assembly. It’s a problem that needs to be solved first, but it’s a time-consuming problem, so it’s not easy to solve.”

Kang Jin-ho looked around at the people gathered.

Bator, Jang Min, Wiggins, Lee Hyun-soo, Bang Jin-hoon, and Elena, who was following Wiggins, and Lee Hyun-joo, who was sitting next to her. It was a gathering of all the key figures of the General Assembly.

“Lord, what is the problem you’re talking about?”

At Lee Hyun-soo’s question, Kang Jin-ho pointed his chin at the others.

“…Huh?”

“Look at their faces. Especially that guy.”

Lee Hyun-soo’s head turned to Jang Min.

Then Jang Min pouted.

“You suddenly started speaking in Korean, so I thought you were having some secret conversation that I didn’t know about.”

He wouldn’t understand. Yes, because it was Korean.

Looking around, everyone except Lee Hyun-soo had faces that said, ‘I know you guys were talking about something, but I didn’t understand what it was, and I don’t really care.’

“Ah…”

No communication, no communication.

Looking at them all gathered like this, he could see how serious the problem was. Except for a few, their nationalities were not unified. One Chinese, one Mongolian, two British, and the remaining Koreans.

‘This isn’t some kind of UN…’

Looking at their faces, he could feel that communication was seriously tangled. Right now, they were somehow managing to operate in a haphazard way, but if they were in an urgent situation, communication problems would definitely arise.

Kang Jin-ho came up with a solution.

“How about learning some Korean?”

Wiggins immediately protested.

“Lord, that’s a strange thing to say. Of course, the General Assembly is a Korean sect and Korea is the center, but now that it has become a place where people of various nationalities gather, there’s no reason to focus on Korean characteristics. It’s a global era. That’s an old-fashioned idea.”

“Then?”

“Of course, the common language should be English, shouldn’t it? The efficiency of English has already been proven. As you can see, everyone here understands English… Don’t you?”

Wiggins frowned without realizing it when he saw Jang Min with his mouth open.

Even that mountain bandit-looking Bator understood English, so why didn’t that dandy-looking guy know English?

Kang Jin-ho kindly translated Wiggins’ words to Jang Min. Cutting out the beginning and the end.

“They’re telling you to learn English?”

“Huh?”

Jang Min glared at Wiggins as if he was ridiculous.

“What is this foreigner saying? The most widely used language in the world is not English, but Chinese!”

“No, that’s because there are a lot of Chinese people…”

“Oh, Great Demon Lord, there’s no need to listen to the words of this scoundrel. The Great Demon Lord is familiar with Chinese, so how can we use English?”

“Well, that’s…”

“Great Demon Lord, are you good at English?”

Kang Jin-ho couldn’t answer.

He could manage simple communication, but if you asked if he could have a proper conversation with Wiggins… that wasn’t the case. His English was only at the level of a high school entrance exam student. If that was the level even with his brain enhanced by being self-taught, then he had no talent for foreign languages.

“How can a subject force his own language on his master instead of following the language his master uses! Strike the mouth of this delusional man!”

Kang Jin-ho nodded as he saw Jang Min trembling.

“Okay, okay, just tell me honestly.”

“I can’t speak English.”

Jang Min said confidently.

“And honestly, isn’t it elder abuse to ask me to learn English at this age?”

“I agree.”

Kang Jin-ho nodded vigorously. Of course, it was a reaction that was purely out of concern for Jang Min, who could be called the oldest of the old. It was definitely not because he didn’t want to learn English again now.

“So, it’s right for everyone to learn Chinese. There are a lot of guys who have come over here. Chinese must be essential for smooth communication with them.”

Bator seemed interested. It seemed that Chinese, which he was familiar with, was better than learning Korean.

“Lord!”

Wiggins said firmly.

He couldn’t understand what he was saying, but he had already translated it just by looking at his face. If he didn’t have this much sense, he wouldn’t have survived in that brutal round table.

“Chinese is the language of China. How can we learn the same language as that treacherous Hongwang faction? Every time I hear Chinese, my severed arm throbs. Yes? Lord! My arm! Yes?”

“…Okay, okay, I got it.”

Why are you being so dramatic?

Wiggins pointed at his empty arm several times and emphasized it to Kang Jin-ho.

Of course, he could speak some basic Chinese, but it was impossible to communicate with them at a level where he could speak the local language. So, he would have to learn Chinese properly, but Wiggins also refused to learn another language again at his age.

“English is the right choice!”

“Chinese! Let’s use Chinese!”

Bang Jin-hoon, who had been listening to the situation quietly, raised his hand lightly.

“Lord…”

Kang Jin-ho nodded, and Bang Jin-hoon opened his mouth.

“Where is this place?”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t this Korea?”

Bang Jin-hoon snorted.

“I can understand that foreigners are coming into the General Assembly. If that’s the way the world is, we have to accept it. But we’re not some international peacekeeping force, and we’re supposed to be a Korean martial arts assembly, so why should we learn another language to communicate with them? Why?”

Bang Jin-hoon’s face was filled with patriotism.

“I’m already annoyed to death because foreigners keep asking me things in English when I walk down the street. If we go to America and ask for directions in Korean, would they even listen to us? It’s annoying enough to be confused by Westerners in Korea, but a foreign language even in the General Assembly? I can’t do it. No, I won’t do it.”

Kang Jin-ho also nodded as if what he said made sense.

“If it’s Korea, we should use Korean! Isn’t that right! We shouldn’t lose our identity! You should have patriotism!”

“Director Bang.”

“Yes, Lord.”

“Do you know how to speak English?”

“…He, hello?”

The reason was understood. From Bang Jin-hoon’s point of view, either choice was hell.

“What do you think?”

The choice was passed to Lee Hyun-soo. He was the only one among them who was fluent in both Chinese and English.

Lee Hyun-soo thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“I don’t intend to be trapped in outdated nationalism, but if we have to learn a language, Korean should be the common language.”

“Why?”

“Because our base is in Korea. If we use Chinese or English as the base, we won’t be able to communicate again the moment we leave this place. Even if we are recluses, we can’t build walls against outsiders. So, to live in Korea, we have to learn Korean.”

Kang Jin-ho smiled and replied.

“That makes sense. Tell everyone to learn Korean.”

“L, Lord!”

“Master!”

“I won’t listen to excuses.”

Kang Jin-ho said firmly.

“Use Korean from now on. I’ll give you some grace period. But everyone has to learn Korean quickly. Understood?”

“Yes, sir.”

Since Kang Jin-ho had made a final decision, there was no room for protest.

Bang Jin-hoon had a satisfied look on his face, while Jang Min and Bator had gloomy expressions.

And Wiggins was…

‘Eek!’

Wiggins was glaring at Lee Hyun-soo with murderous eyes. When that person frowned, his face alone was hard-boiled, and the scene alone was like a movie.

It felt like he was about to say, ‘I will find you, and I will find you and kill you.’

“Then let’s proceed like that.”

Kang Jin-ho got up from his seat.

It was a clean decision, but Kang Jin-ho had no idea that this one decision would bring a small commotion to the General Assembly.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to see someone I’ve missed for a while.”

Kang Jin-ho’s face looked refreshed as he walked out the door.