Descent Of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 883

“Why are you so slow!”

“It’s a speedboat, you know.”

“Speedboat my ass!”

“Calm down. Anyway…”

The muttering from behind didn’t reach Lee Myung-hwan’s ears.

‘Damn it, how far have we come?’

All he could see was the vast ocean. It would be better during the day, but it was already night, and all he could see was the dark sea and the black sky, barely distinguishable from each other.

So, he had no idea where they were.

‘How long has it been since we left?’ Lee Myung-hwan bit his fingernails.

“Hey, Myung-hwan. Calm down.”

“How can I be calm right now?”

“Well, they must have had a reason to go in with such a small number. They might seem reckless, but they are very calculated people.”

Lee Myung-hwan sighed deeply.

‘Calculated, my foot.’

Kang Jin-ho’s position within the Assembly was too solid. Since his first appearance, Kang Jin-ho had never failed. Moreover, he was developing the Assembly at an incredible pace.

The loyalty of the Flame Demons, who were the biggest beneficiaries of this development, was as solid as steel.

The problem was that this solid loyalty was also creating distortions.

They didn’t doubt Kang Jin-ho. And they didn’t even consider the possibility that Kang Jin-ho’s choices could be wrong.

‘This is like some kind of religion…’

Anything in excess is poison. Overconfidence is also poison. These guys would believe Kang Jin-ho could make soybean paste from red beans [a Korean idiom meaning to believe the impossible].

‘Who is that guy…’ But Lee Myung-hwan knew.

Lee Myung-hwan also trusted Kang Jin-ho deeply, but he also knew how reckless Kang Jin-ho could be. Kang Jin-ho’s actions were never based on thorough planning.

He just assumed he would win and went ahead with things, based on his conviction that he would never lose. So far, his ‘I will never lose’ had worked out, allowing him to continue his unconventional path. But as seen in the Hong Kong battle, it was a very dangerous tightrope walk.

One wrong step, and he could fall into hell.

Lee Myung-hwan had no intention of just watching that tightrope walk. At least from Lee Myung-hwan’s perspective, Kang Jin-ho and Lee Myung-hwan were a community of fate. Only if Kang Jin-ho firmly maintained his position could the Assembly and Lee Myung-hwan grow further.

“Hey, what if the Assembly Head dies? What are you going to do then?”

“Who can kill that guy?”

“…What if the ship sinks?”

“Huh?”

Lee Myung-hwan said, annoyed.

“What if there’s an accident and the ship sinks? Even if that guy isn’t human, do you think he can swim all the way to the mainland from here? And can we even search in this darkness?”

The atmosphere turned somber.

“You guys seem to be mistaken, but that guy is also human. Everyone dies. You never know when someone will die.”

“Well, I still don’t think he went without any plan.”

“Did he have a plan when he fought the Hong King in China?”

“Huh?”

There was no rebuttal.

“If we hadn’t gone then, that guy would have died.”

Everyone fell silent.

After hearing that, they got a sense of what kind of person Kang Jin-ho was.

“That guy usually acts very calm, but the moment someone challenges him, he loses his mind. Anyone would have run away from the Hong King there. But he fought until he was about to die. If Chief Lee hadn’t given orders and Director Wiggins hadn’t helped, he would have really died. Don’t you get it?”

“…Then what about now?”

“Japan is invading, you idiot!”

From the start, he was the type of person who lost his mind the moment he confirmed that the enemy was targeting him. And that enemy just happened to be Japan.

Not all Koreans have bad feelings towards Japan. But if that person is Korean, their feelings would not be the same when another country invades compared to when Japan invades.

If it was the Kang Jin-ho that Lee Myung-hwan knew, his eyes would have gone crazy the moment he heard that.

“Th-then what should we do?”

Now that they seemed to grasp the situation, they started murmuring.

“What do you mean what should we do? We need to get there as soon as possible. That’s why I’m making such a fuss!”

Lee Myung-hwan snapped, annoyed.

These guys seemed to have turned black in the head after learning martial arts. Why were they so slow to understand?

“Wh-what is that?”

“Huh?”

At the panicked shout, Lee Myung-hwan quickly raised his head.

‘Huh?’

A helicopter.

A helicopter was approaching them from afar.

“Why is it coming back?”

“Maybe they changed their minds?”

That couldn’t be. It was impossible. Kang Jin-ho didn’t know how to retreat. He might think a little before deciding to fight, but once Kang Jin-ho decided to fight, no one could stop him.

The fact that the helicopter was returning meant only one thing.

“They already landed.”

Lee Myung-hwan’s face twisted. The deed was already done. So, they had to go as fast as possible….

“Hey, someone is jumping out of there?”

“Huh?”

Lee Myung-hwan quickly raised his head again. Someone was jumping out of the helicopter.

“…Crazy.”

He thought it was flying a bit high.

A parachute opened on the back of the person who jumped out of the helicopter. Normally, it would be impossible to completely reduce speed with enough lift at that height, but….

‘Well, he is a martial artist.’

It was obvious who had jumped. All the combatants had already landed, so only non-combatants would be left. Then it was Lee Hyun-soo.

Even if Lee Hyun-soo was a half-baked martial artist, he was still a martial artist. He could withstand that speed with his body.

However, there was one problem.

“Hey! Hey hey! Grab me! Hey!”

Splash!

Lee Hyun-soo had fallen into the sea, far from the ship, probably because he had misjudged the direction. Lee Myung-hwan was in serious thought as he watched him fall into the sea.

‘Should I just leave him?’

If everyone here kept their mouths shut, it would be perfect….

“Hey, you bastards! I have a satellite phone! I’m going to call the Assembly Head and tell him you left me behind!”

“…Pull him up.”

“Roger.”

Lee Hyun-soo was incredibly good at finding his own way to survive.

“Cough! Cough! Damn it.”

Lee Hyun-soo, who had been pulled onto the ship, spat out the water he had swallowed.

“Think before you act. Even skilled paratroopers have a hard time landing accurately at this kind of spot, but jumping out of a parachute onto a moving ship is not something a human should do.”

“…The Assembly Head did it without a parachute.”

“That guy is not human, so he can do that.”

Lee Myung-hwan said, full of annoyance.

“Why are you here?”

“We can’t go back. We have to transfer to a suitable ship and go again.”

“We can just watch with the helicopter.”

“Do you think fuel is unlimited? Do you want to become fish food?”

Lee Hyun-soo nervously wiped the water off his face.

“Where is the ship? Are we almost there?”

“It’s not far. It’s a bit ambiguous because we came by helicopter, but we should arrive in about 10 minutes.”

“Then we should be able to see it…”

If it was on land, it would be different, but on a ship, 10 minutes away was a distance that could be easily seen. Lee Myung-hwan peeked out, wondering if they had gone in the wrong direction.

“Isn’t that it?”

“I see it!”

Indeed.

A small dot could be seen at the end of the horizon. As the ship moved forward, the dot gradually grew larger and began to take the shape of a ship.

‘We’re on the right track.’

The other ship was also moving. It was not easy to accurately find a moving ship on the sea. Fortunately, the process was successful.

But this was not the end.

“Tell them to catch up quickly!”

“Okay!”

As Lee Myung-hwan shouted, someone ran to the engine room.

“Chief.”

“What do we do now? Do we go in right away when we get there?”

Lee Myung-hwan’s words made Lee Hyun-soo frown.

“Wait and see.”

“No, it’s not something we can just wait and see…”

“I said wait and see.”

Lee Myung-hwan shut his mouth.

Recently, Lee Myung-hwan had been slowly rising up to Lee Hyun-soo, but that was during peacetime. In wartime, Lee Hyun-soo had a completely different presence than in peacetime.

“We need to figure out what’s going on. We might just get in the way if we go in recklessly.”

“Get in the way?”

“No, not get in the way, but…”

Lee Hyun-soo smacked his lips.

‘You guys will die.’

Kang Jin-ho and the others were probably going crazy right now. If they were losing their minds and rampaging, they could end up getting cut by their swords if they tried to help carelessly.

That kind of thing wouldn’t happen easily, but the current situation was not a normal one.

“Let’s approach first. I want to see the situation.”

“Understood.”

The ship moved quickly.

‘Why is it so far?’

He thought they would connect quickly since they could see it, but it was taking longer than he thought.

Everyone stared at the ship with anxious hearts. Their bodies began to lean forward. Then, as the ship began to get closer, the speedboat began to slow down.

‘What the hell is going on up there…’

That was when it happened.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

A blast erupted on the ship. And at the same time!

“Aaaaaaah!”

The eyes of the onlookers widened.

“Wh-what is it!”

“That!”

They could only look up from below. The speedboat was too small compared to the huge passenger ship. So, they had no idea what was happening on the deck.

But now they could see.

With the explosion, people were thrown off the deck and into the sea.

Splash! Splash!

The people who were thrown off fell into the sea.

Some floated up, some never floated up again, and some, who were not injured, clung back to the ship.

Before they could even assess their reactions, a group of people jumped back into the sea.

‘Wait a minute.’

Jumped?

The second group of people who entered the sea were different from the first. The first people who fell from the ship were literally thrown off. But the people who were jumping into the sea now were abandoning the ship and throwing themselves into the sea of their own will.

What the hell was going on up there?

Kwaaaaaaang!

Another explosion erupted.

Lee Myung-hwan and the others stared blankly upwards with their mouths open.

“That…”

Along with a clear spray of blood, as if spraying red water from a spray bottle, a group of martial artists were flying off the ship.

“It’s like popcorn popping.”

Lee Myung-hwan nodded, thinking it was an inappropriate yet fitting analogy.

Splash! Splash!

The people who jumped into the sea were swimming away from the ship as if they had seen a ghost. In this vast ocean.

They couldn’t know what was happening up there, but one thing was certain.

“I told you not to mess with those guys.”