Descent of the Demon Master

rd he tried—he still had to scream.

Even though he knew it was useless, even though his struggles would only add to the devil ’s amusement…
The Fallen continued to scream and yell as tears streamed down his face.
However, his end remained unchanging.

Firstly, it was his wrist.
It was broken into bits.

“I still can ’t hear you.”

Then, it was his forearm.
The limb below his elbow was ripped off of the joint and was tossed away.

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The devil cackled quietly.
Despite that cackle being whisper-quiet, the Fallen could still vividly hear the madness swirling within.

Did…
did his victims feel this way, too? All those people the Fallen had murdered, did they feel the same thing as him?

No! Definitely not! The Fallen murdered people, yes, but he had never, ever toyed with his victims by tearing them apart limb from limb like this insane devil!

To his victims, the Fallen had to have resembled a devil.
However, the one captured in the Fallen ’s eyes was not an imitator but the real deal.
The real devil! The devil that…
laughed as he tore a living person ’s body apart!

Kang Jin-Ho whispered again, “Can I tell you something?”

By now, the Fallen ’s consciousness had abandoned him halfway.
Perhaps due to the excessive bleeding, he could no longer feel any pain.
All he could sense was this crippling coldness as if he was inside a fridge.

However, that coldness was still not enough to surpass the deathly chill of Kang Jin-Ho ’s voice.
If a person ’s voice could control the temperature, the Fallen ’s body would have instantly frozen up.

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“I have good news and bad news.
Which one do you want to hear first?”

More tears trickled down the Fallen ’s cheeks.
He…
He wanted this to stop.
This was already way beyond merciless.
It was far too cruel!

Unfortunately for him, the devil didn ’t seem all that eager to stop here.
Indeed, Kang Jin-Ho could have reaped the Fallen ’s life at any time he wanted, yet he chose not to.

Even though both of his legs and one arm had already been ripped off of his body, the Fallen was still alive.
Even though all that bleeding should have killed him by now…! He was still alive because the devil hadn ’t grown bored of him yet.

Just how much pain and terror were he supposed to suffer before he was allowed to escape from this hell?!

Kang Jin-Ho ’s quiet and eerie voice dug into the Fallen ’s ears, “The good news is simple enough.
I won ’t kill you.”

The Fallen didn ’t want to hear it.
Because he thought he knew what would be the bad news.
The elation from the hope of not dying would be easily dwarfed by the despair of the looming bad news.

That was why he didn ’t want to hear it.
However, a part of him wanted to know.
Even after finding himself stuck inside this contradictory emotion, the Fallen continued to struggle, scream and howl in sorrow.

“As for the bad news…”

It felt like the devil ’s forked tongue was tickling the Fallen ’s ear.
The fact that he could still feel goosebumps break out on his skin despite the state of his body was—an incredibly terrifying experience.

“…I won ’t kill you.”

The Fallen began to shudder even worse.

He understood what this meant.
He also called himself a villain, after all.
He oh-so clearly understood what Kang Jin-Ho was trying to tell him.

“Uwuh…
Uwwuuuuuh…
Uwhhuuuh!” The Fallen desperately and urgently cried out with his broken vocal cords.
“Wuwuuuh! Uhuuuh!”

‘Kill me! Just kill me already! Pleaaase!’

However, the devil simply bared its pearly whites in a mocking grin while listening to the Fallen ’s despairing cry from his soul.
The moonlight shone so coldly and clearly behind the devil.

“I can ’t hear you.”

Riiiip!

The last remaining arm was ripped off of the Fallen ’s torso.

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‘Why! How come! Why am I not dead yet?! All my legs and arms are gone! I should be dead by now, so why am I not dead yeeeet!’

The Fallen sobbed pitifully.
He wanted to lose his mind and escape from this cruel reality.
If only his tongue were still intact, he would have bitten it off by now to kill himself and escape from this torture.

However, he had nothing left.
All of his accumulated internal energy had long been scattered, while all four of his limbs had been ripped off of his body.
Every single one of his teeth was broken, while his tongue was severed at the beginning of the ’fight ’.
The only thing he could do was writhe around like an insect.

“I want you to remember this.” Kang Jin-Ho looked deeply into the Fallen ’s eyes.
“Remember the last thing you see in this world.”

Stab!

The light disappeared.
Even then, Kang Jin-Ho ’s crimson eyes still remained vividly burned into his memories.

“Ah…
Ah, aaaaah…!”

The Fallen ’s legs and arms were severed.
He couldn ’t speak.
And now, his eyes were taken away from him, too.
Even though he was alive, he couldn ’t be described as living.
Unfortunately, the Fallen knew something else.
This…
This wasn ’t over yet.
The devil wouldn ’t be satisfied with merely this.

As if to answer the Fallen ’s suspicion, he felt Kang Jin-Ho ’s hand touching his ear.

“During the hardest times in my life…”

“…?”

“I thought many times that…
it ’d be wonderful to go to sleep and never wake up again.”

“Euh, euh…”

“Sometimes, death can be a luxury to a person.
However, you don ’t have the right to welcome death and escape this punishment.
You shall live out the remainder of your life in a world without light, sound…
or, for that matter, where you can ’t do anything.
I promise you, I won ’t let you die that easily.”

The Fallen ’s trembling became so, so much worse.
He would rather…

He would rather have his eardrums exploded right now so that he wouldn ’t have to listen to the devil anymore!

“So, remember…”

Who could have guessed that not having hands to cover up one ’s ears would be this torturous and painful?! The Fallen was so scared of what Kang Jin-Ho would say next.
So scared that—if he could—he would have ripped his own ears off.

However, he couldn ’t do anything.
He could only sob and despair like a death row inmate staring at the guillotine ready to fall on top of his neck.

“This will not be the end.
I ’ll come for you again.
When that happens, pain so much worse than this will also come for you.
Until then, I want you to remember all the pain your victims felt.
Remember them for thousands, millions of times.”

At the end of those words…
the Fallen ’s eardrums ruptured.
And it meant he was now trapped in eternal darkness with neither light nor sound.