– prologue –

Back when martial arts and martial arts were still the rule of the world.

On that land, there was a man called the Heavenly demon.

It is said that his strength reaches a thousand.

It was said that his fist could pierce the sky.

Its power breaks rocks with only momentum.

You can run a thousand miles with just one step.

People sang with fear and reverence in his voice to the supreme being who stood tall alone, free from the rules of Moorim.

It’s called the Heavenly Demon.

… However, it is said that the Heavenly demon, which had such a great reputation, suddenly disappeared one day and could not be found anywhere.

More than a thousand years have passed since then.

In an age when the words “muu” and “hyup” are worn out and treated like nonsense in a daydream.

“Ah, sir. Hold on, hold on!”

“Oh, he told me to stay still.”

“Keah, kkeuh!”

Kang Tae-han, the Heavenly demon who was once feared and feared.

After suddenly falling into Moorim, he returned to modern times and began to make a name for himself as the best masseuse in Korea.

* * *

“… Uhm?”

Kang Tae-han woke up on the bed. I saw the familiar ceiling, but I thought I would never see it again.

‘What is this again?’

Azure-colored ceiling with stains here and there.

Staring blankly at the clearest and largest stain among them, Kang Tae-han got up from his seat.

“no way… did you come back? again?”

Kang Tae-han searched for his memory.

Just a moment ago, he would have been sitting cross-legged on the cliff of Baegunsan Mountain.

But here… This is the room where he originally lived. The room where Kang Tae-han, a senior in sports medicine at Pyong-O University, lived, not Moorim’s Heavenly demon, Kang Tae-han.

I looked around and saw a familiar sight.

A cheap table, a dusty monitor, a used game console I bought with a big heart, laundry piled up in the corner, and even the cheese pizza I had left for dinner… … .

It was a place he could only vaguely see in his dreams as his memory had worn off, but it was as if not even a second had passed since he disappeared.

‘The hallucination… No.’

The mind is clear without a hint of turbidity. It means you are not dreaming or hallucinating. That is, it really came back.

Kang Tae-han slowly rose from his seat.

Suddenly, I looked down at my body with a different feeling than usual. The body was also the same then. Not the Heavenly Demon Kang Tae-han, but the body of Kang Tae-han. The body that had been trained to the limit disappeared completely, and the Danjeon, which had become bottomless from a certain moment, was also empty.

“Huh… I thought this was a dream.’

There is no evidence of himself as a Heavenly demon.

only like this

Rather, it seems that everything in the past has been a dream.

Sixty years after suddenly falling into the world of Moorim.

He survived far away with just one talent acquired through talent and crossed the realm of life and death hundreds of times, and the traces were intact on his body.

However, those traces are nowhere to be found.

The traces of the puncture wound in the middle of his right hand, the sword marks of the swordsman engraved on his chest, and the ugly scar of the dantian that remained like a stigma… All the scars that had been proof of his struggles were all gone.

“Whoops, hahaha… … .”

The futility outweighed the joy of returning.

It is because of the feeling that the hardships of the past have completely disappeared. Kang Tae-han burst into laughter involuntarily.

“… whoops, what Going was sudden, so returning was just sudden. That’s all.”

However, it is a body that has been able to break through several times of coin indoctrination. Kang Tae-han blew away the thoughts in his head by bursting into laughter.

In any case, this is what he has longed for.

returning to the original era.

Kang Tae-han is a modern person.

No matter how much he adapted to the world of Moorim and rose to the position of being respected as a Heavenly demon by those around him, that place was a different world to him and he was a stranger.

In the early days, he had prayed every night that he would be in bed when he opened his eyes, and after he became a master, he pursued the legend of Woohwadeungseon with the feeling of catching at least a straw.

Of course, I didn’t expect such a sudden return, but… what is it In any case, this was the world he should have lived in.

‘It’s strength. If I train again, I’ll stop.’

In some ways, it might even be better.

Round bone metamorphosis, half turn round or rejuvenation.

There were not one or two masters who wasted their time chasing the bullshit in the legend, but now he had literally achieved rejuvenation.

Kang Tae-han sat cross-legged with a smile on his face.

‘Uh… … .’

His eyelids twitched.

‘It’s rare, but it’s not nonexistent.’

Ki floating in nature.

If you accept this into your body, save it with the mind law, and accumulate it in the danjeon, it will become your inner gong.

Although compared to the world of Moorim, the feeling of energy was far lacking, but it is not completely absent, so it is too early to be disappointed. In the first place, this place was just a small room in the city.

“… Tsk. It’s kind of uncomfortable.”

Unleash the lotus position and sit on the bed.

I only focused for a moment, but I can already feel that my stamina has been shattered. If this is the case, you will not be able to dream of proper internal air management.

there is a long way to go

A laugh leaked from Kang Tae-han’s mouth.

Weiying.

Just then, a vibration rang on the desk.

The sound of a smartphone vibrating.

… This sound is too long. With a new feeling, Kang Tae-han picked up his smartphone.

[Kang Tae-han. Transportation use may be restricted in case of non-payment due to delay in transportation payment.]

“Huh.”

came up late

That his financial situation at the time was quite difficult. The text message meant that the balance on the check card was insufficient, so that he could not even pay for public transportation right away.

Is that all?

Above it is a letter from the landlord. Last month’s rent didn’t come in, so please check.

“Well. Is this also an entertainment?”

I was agitated for a moment, but like a Heavenly demon, I brushed off the thoughts in my head with a single laugh… But that doesn’t make up for the shortfall.

how will we do it.

At least I can’t come up with a plan on what to do right now.

Originally, he must have thought of something, but since more than sixty years have passed, what thoughts do he have?

“Well?”

Kakao Talk!

Suddenly, an alarm sounded on my smartphone.

It is the sound that announces the arrival of someone’s Chaos Stock.

[Taehan, are you coming today or not? Please tell me quickly.]

Name saved as Seonghyeon.

I immediately remembered who it was.

Seonghyun Choi. They are old friends who spent three years of high school together and went on to college in the same department. I scrolled up the Chao Stock and looked at the contents that came and went before that.

[Hey, are you thinking of getting a part-time job as a masseuse?]

[The head of the department is short of manpower, so get some borad. haha]

[it’s okay. Do you know that sometimes there are kids who only know about rubbing their shoulders with stupid words? We go to related departments and have qualifications. It is a fully qualified workforce. Really]

… I remembered.

There is a massage shop in a jjimjilbang he knows, and if it’s okay, would you consider working part-time there? Hourly wages and incentives are also quite good.

‘Don’t… … .’

It was probably around the time I was about to enter university.

The massage therapist qualification, which was originally granted only to the blind, was granted to the general public, and Kang Tae-han had prepared for about three years from then on to obtain a license.

So, as Seonghyeon Choi said, there would be no problem working there. However.

Kang Tae-han looked down at his hands for a moment.

It is a hand that has been stained with a lot of blood.

Do not kiss the Heavenly Demon. It was a simple and foreign word that did not really fit.

Kang Tae-han raised his head again.

His troubles did not last long.

“Well, this is not the time to cover hot rice with cold rice.”

Either way, I needed a job.