Han Myungoh

Han Myungoh begins the scenarios as Kim Dokja and Yoo Sangah's self-important department head, a man who assumes money and corporate rank can protect him. A coercive curse, childbirth, and years spent keeping his daughter alive do not make him fearless or erase his early abuses. They change what he is willing to bargain for, until his most important late choice is to refuse a heroic regression and remain in the world where his child exists.

Biography

Authority without protection

Myungoh enters carriage 3807 as Mino Soft's finance department head and the well-connected superior whom junior employees avoid. When the dokkaebi appears, he offers money and a business card as though the apocalypse were a hostage crisis that status can negotiate. He initially objects when Kim Namwoon beats an elderly passenger, but Namwoon's claim that someone must die breaks that resistance. Myungoh joins the attack he had condemned, choosing complicity when fear makes murder appear safer than uncertainty. The scene establishes both sides of his early character: he knows cruelty when he sees it, yet lacks the courage to remain opposed once a crowd and a stronger personality move against him. (Chapters 3–5)

At Geumho Station he tries to reconstruct the old hierarchy. As the supposed Hankyung heir, he promises that the group president will arrange rescue, while Cheon Inho uses his title as the respectable face of a faction Inho actually controls. The arrangement exposes how empty Myungoh's authority has become: it can reassure desperate people but cannot feed, protect, or command them without another man's force. During the Dark Keeper conflict, infection and Asmodeus's curse separate him from Dokja's party. His disappearance looks like the natural end of a weak, selfish manager, leaving the people who knew him no reason to imagine that his most difficult Story has only begun. (Chapters 18–26)

A curse, a daughter, and the Demon Realm

Dark Keeper infection changes Myungoh's body, while Asmodeus's curse spends Probability to realize what the target considers the most terrible possible outcome. For Myungoh, the combined conditions lead to pregnancy and childbirth. The process is coercive and traumatic; the daughter born from it is not a benevolent reward that justifies the curse. Myungoh nevertheless describes the birth as painful and happy, then carries the child through capture-the-flag, the war of kings, and disaster scenarios without the main cast's protection. When demons and nobles finally corner them, he prays that anyone save her and promises to pay any price. The plea is the first bargain in his life centered entirely on someone else's survival. (Chapters 23–26 and 203–206)

Asmodeus answers, but rescue becomes another bond of control. The demon king makes the daughter an incarnation body and grants her parent a demon-noble title, giving Myungoh enough standing to live while placing the child inside Asmodeus's reach. Under Duke Syswitz, Myungoh works as a frightened subordinate and spy because he still needs a route back to her. When Dokja finds him months later, darkened skin, wrinkles, and species changes make the former manager difficult to recognize. The Four Yin Demonic Beheading Sword temporarily blocks Asmodeus's surveillance, allowing Myungoh to tell his Story and ask for help. Dokja must then revise a contempt preserved from the office: the old boss remains compromised and cowardly, but he is no longer a man whose fear serves only himself. (Chapters 203–209)

Administration and the choice to remain

After the industrial-complex revolution, Myungoh turns the skills of a finance manager toward Demon Realm administration. He negotiates, tracks institutions, accumulates usable Stories, and accompanies the Murim expedition without pretending to be its strongest fighter. During the Mythical Battlefield, he openly fears constellation-level opponents but enters because the team needs another helper. He survives largely by evasion and a demon-earl body's regeneration; a severed leg regrows, yet prolonged exposure ages his face and exhausts him until he admits he cannot continue. The episode neither glorifies cowardice nor dismisses his contribution. It shows a person measuring a real limit after enduring an encounter that would destroy an ordinary incarnation. (Chapters 230–263)

Myungoh's late life is defined less by combat than by continuity. He supports the industrial complex and chooses family time even when the company gathers elsewhere. When Han Sooyoung prepares Group Regression, he raises his hand to say he will not go. His daughter was born after the scenarios began and cannot accompany travelers returning to their starting point; following the heroes would mean entering a world where she has never existed. Myungoh remains in the principal world-line holding her hand and accepts responsibility for the understaffed complex. The 1865th turn contains a pre-scenario Han Myungoh, but Yoo Sangah explicitly recognizes that he is not the man she knew for four years. The changed parent does not regress, and his refusal preserves both his daughter's life and the development that made him choose her. (Chapters 519 and 528–530)

Appearance and personality

Myungoh begins as a well-kept corporate manager whose business card and confident presentation advertise social status. Fear quickly turns that composure into trembling, pallor, or exaggerated deference. By the time Dokja meets him in the Demon Realm, childbirth, infection, and months of survival have left his skin darkened, his face covered in small wrinkles, and his human appearance altered by species variation. In the Mythical Battlefield, regeneration replaces a lost leg while constellation pressure visibly ages him again, making his body a record of survival rather than a clean demonic upgrade. (Chapters 3–5, 203–206, and 263)

He remains vain, opportunistic, easily frightened, and excitable about profit or novelty. Growth does not replace those traits with heroic serenity. It gives them a stronger competing loyalty. He can still complain, run, flatter power, and overestimate his rank, but he also speaks soberly about the joy and pain of raising a child, accepts work that will never make him the protagonist, and declines the grandest journey because it would abandon his daughter. His development is credible precisely because the old personality remains visible inside changed priorities. (Chapters 206, 230–263, 519, and 528)

Abilities, attributes, and stories

Management, negotiation, and administration

Myungoh's finance background gives him instincts for hierarchy, bargaining, staffing, accounting, and resource organization. Those instincts initially fail because he assumes old money and corporate connections still carry authority. They become useful after he learns the Demon Realm's noble structure and Story economy, where administration requires actual knowledge rather than a business card. The skill remains institutional, not magical: it cannot overpower Asmodeus or defeat a constellation, but it lets Myungoh help maintain a mixed community and later take responsibility for the complex when many stronger figures leave. (Chapters 3, 18, 203–224, 325, and 528)

Asmodeus's curse and household bond

Asmodeus's curse consumes Probability to manifest the target's idea of the most terrible outcome. In Myungoh's case, it compounds Dark Keeper infection and leads to childbirth. The daughter later becomes one of Asmodeus's incarnation bodies, while Myungoh receives demon-noble standing as her parent. These links do not mean he controls the curse, the demon king, or the incarnation vessel. Attempting to disclose contract information can trigger penalties, and a demon-slaying weapon can only conceal or sever the connection temporarily. The teenage body Asmodeus uses and the mentally much younger child within it must also remain distinct from the demon king speaking through her. (Chapters 23, 203–206, and 366)

Demon-earl body and accumulated Stories

Household affiliation and demon-earl status give Myungoh greater durability, access to several historical-grade Stories, and regenerative ability sufficient to regrow a severed leg. Those traits let him survive travel through higher scenarios and remain active under heavily suppressed constellation attacks. They do not make him a high-ranking frontline fighter. The Breaking the Sky Master defeats him immediately, regeneration takes time, and the Mythical Battlefield's Status pressure leaves him aged and spent. His latest body remains alive in the principal world-line, but the fading system makes continued access to every demon-world ability uncertain. (Chapters 231, 260–263, and 528)

Evasion and scenario survival

Myungoh's most reliable battlefield method is survival rather than dominance. He reads danger quickly, uses movement and terrain, and is willing to flee while stronger participants commit to direct clashes. That caution helped him carry his daughter through scenarios alone and later kept him active for more than an hour against constellation-class helpers. It also has a clear ceiling: avoidance cannot win the team's battles, exposure still inflicts pain and aging, and he must withdraw when his body and nerve are exhausted. The ability is best understood as adaptive judgment sharpened by responsibility, not an elite named combat art. (Chapters 206 and 260–263)

Relationships

• His daughter: Born through a coercive curse, she becomes the person Myungoh protects through solo scenarios, demonic bargains, administration, and finally refusal of Group Regression. Her existence changes what he values without making the circumstances of her birth good.

• Asmodeus: Asmodeus curses Myungoh, answers his desperate prayer, uses the daughter as an incarnation body, and grants Myungoh a demon title. Their connection combines coercion, dependency, hatred, and limited bargaining; it is not sponsorship freely accepted between equals.

• Kim Dokja: Dokja first knows Myungoh as an abusive boss and expendable coward. Hearing the parental Story forces him to recognize genuine change, and their later cooperation becomes practical respect without turning them into intimate friends or erasing the workplace past.

• Yoo Sangah: Sangah begins as his subordinate and later shares the political world his administrative work supports. In the 1865th turn, she immediately distinguishes the untouched pre-scenario manager from the Myungoh changed by four years of scenarios.

• Han Sooyoung and the industrial complex: Han accepts Myungoh's decision to stay and entrusts the complex's manpower crisis to him. The responsibility confirms that his latest contribution is governance and parenthood rather than following every company battle.

Items

• Myungoh's later authority and survival come from demon status, accumulated Stories, and administrative experience. The Four Yin Demonic Beheading Sword briefly protects him from Asmodeus's connection, but he does not own it and has no separately catalogued signature item.