“I think I messed up in its enhancement. I think I broke it”
Knowing this was nonsense, Lee Gun tapped the fountain pen. Then, he pounded it against the desk and made a big fuss about dismantling it.
This left Hugo dumbfounded. What the hell did Lee Gun see to react this way?
“What did the Scorpio Saint write?” he asked.
“I don’t know. It’s broken.”
Hugo scoffed when Lee Gun mumbled to himself. Lee Gun’s expression was a sight to behold. It looked like he was denying reality.
This was why Hugo found the situation odd. ‘Hailey should have received the same questions as us.’
None of the twelve Zodiac Saints liked Lee Gun. They considered him useless trash. Therefore, Hailey’s answers would have been obvious. Yet, Lee Gun was reacting this way. This meant…
“What? Did the Scorpio Saint write praises about you? Or did she insult you?” Hugo snatched the questionnaire from Lee Gun’s hands and snorted. “I bet she insulted you. None of us looked at you in a favorable light. I don’t know where you got this baseless confidence, but you made a great mistake if you wanted her to write something nice about you…”
However, when he started reading the questionnaire from top to bottom, Hugo’s expression turned odd.
It was strange. Hailey had written those answers quickly. Yet, for some odd reason, these answers were so long that it would’ve taken her a long time to write them. However, that was still a secondary problem.
“Ah! Ah!” Hugo wondered if his eyes were cooked. He started reading the answers again from the top, and only shock appeared on his face. That wasn’t all.
“Huh… Huhk!” As if he became embarrassed midway through, Hugo’s cheeks turned red.
He kept reading the answers until he finally reached the last line! When he finished it, his face was beyond red. His face looked like it was about to explode. The answers were so embarrassing that even a married man like him couldn’t speak them out loud.
Hugo regulated his breathing, then grabbed Lee Gun’s shoulder. “C-Congratulations.”
“What?”
“From what I’ve experienced, it’s great to have both a daughter and a son.”
“Hey!”
“No! Sons are overrated. You should have two daughters. I hope your daughters do not look like you… Holy crap! Anyway, you can raise your kids well, and I’ll make them my disciples— Kuhk!”
Finally, Hugo received a hit from Lee Gun.
After knocking down his friend, Lee Gun looked at the questionnaire once again. “This can’t be true. It’s broken.” He worriedly looked at his fountain pen.
[<Wooden Fountain Pen That Cannot Write Lies>]
[Status: Optimal]
[There isn’t a single broken part. The pen is proud to be in perfect condition.]
Bbah-jeek!
In the end, Lee Gun intended to break the fountain pen. “I enhanced you, yet you’re trying to get smart with me!”
Ooh-doo-doohk!
When its body was about to break, the fountain pen cried out. It felt aggrieved. The only sin it had committed was working hard as its parent had intended! Working hard to hide its presence, the pen had done its best to let Hailey’s hand pick it up!
[<Wooden Fountain Pen That Cannot Write Lies> says this isn’t right.]
[The fountain pen pleads its innocence to its parent.]
The Archer disciples tilted their heads in puzzlement. What was written on the paper?
Goat picked up the questionnaire from the floor. Chun Sungjae quickly moved in closer. The young man asked, “What is it about this that caused the two of them to be—”
Soon, they also read the answers. Their reactions to it were the same as Hugo’s.
“Huhk!” Goat soundlessly opened and closed his mouth.
Chun Sungjae’s mouth had fallen open as well. “Hey! This is— Oohk!”
Lee Jaewon, who had been reading the answers from the side, covered Chun Sungjae’s eyes. “You’re too young for this, Young Master. A good kid shouldn’t read things like this.”
Lee Jaewon let out a bright smile. Chun Sungjae wouldn’t let go of the questionnaire, but Lee Jaewon snatched it out of his hands.
Goat held onto the wall, taking deep breaths. The Secretary looked like he had lost his soul.
With an apologetic expression, Lee Jaewon folded the questionnaire. He returned it to the table.
“I’m sorry, Scorpio Saint! We carelessly looked at the content that should be private. We never expected you to express such deep feelings in this setting…”
Lee Jaewon let out a bright smile. He laughed as if they weren’t at fault for reading it.
“Nooooona! Emergency! Noooooooona!”
Chun Sungjae screamed as he took out his phone. Then he sent an SOS message. He wrote “Uncle’s body was in danger.” No, he wrote that their uncle might be stolen. It was a very urgent message.
In truth, he had instinctively sent out SOS messages as soon as the Scorpio Saint had shown up here. However, the messages he sent right now couldn’t be compared to before.
“Nooooona! This is an emergency DEFCON 1 situation!”
The expression on the face of Hailey, who had written the answers everyone was talking about, was a sight to behold. Why were they acting that way? What did they think she wrote? She had written normal answers.
The reactions confused her. ‘What is going on? I said I’ll cooperate depending on the terms. Was it an unusual answer? Was cooperation too awkward of a word? Or did I look too stingy adding the terms to it?’
In the end, Hailey’s curiosity got the better of her. She took the questionnaire. ‘The content shouldn’t be that interesting….’
However, when she checked the content…
“?????!!”
Hailey almost screamed. Her reaction was understandable.
[Q. What do you think about Lee Gun?]
-> I really really really really really like him. I like him so much that I can’t stand it! (Shortened)
[Q. What do you want to do about Lee Gun?]
-> It’s almost unbearable. I want to run at him now, and I want to rip off the clothes he’s wearing right now… (Shortened)
The answer to the second question made Hailey’s face bright red. She could only open and close her mouth.
Unable to even read it until the end, she threw away the questionnaire. “What the hell is this? I never wrote that!”
Hailey’s heart was pounding. Of course, it wasn’t as if she had never harbored such thoughts. However, she wondered why it was written there in her handwriting.
‘Oh no!’ When her gaze fell on the fountain pen that Lee Gun was trying to break, she was shocked. ‘Can it be!’
The fountain pen that she had used to write the answers was THAT fountain pen! ‘It makes you write the truth!’
What one wrote didn’t matter. This holy item revealed the truth.
In the end, Hailey despaired. Since she had sent that item to Lee Gun, there was no way it should have escaped her notice.
‘He said he enhanced it…!’
It didn’t matter though.
Hailey could feel Lee Gun’s gaze. Although he tried not to show it, he looked uncharacteristically embarrassed. Avoiding his gaze, she said, “Y-Yes. It’s broken! Your item seems to be terribly broken. You should melt it down.”
“R…Right? This bastard came up with that, right? I’ll have to melt it down today.”
[Boo-ohhhhhhhhhh!]
The fountain pen felt aggrieved.
On the other hand, the Secretary’s face brightened. “That means Hailey-nim never accepted him into your heart, right?”
Hailey flinched, and her eyes flashed without her realizing it. “I-Isn’t it obvious!”
The Secretary was relieved. “As expected, the holy item played a trick on us! It’s supposed to reveal the truth or one’s innermost feelings through writing. However, the words revealed were absurd….”
Hailey winced midway while hearing those words.
‘Is… Is it absurd? Is that how it is?’ Instead of being embarrassed, she became sullen.
However, their conversation implicated another person.
“Hey! What did you just say right now?”
“!”
“It’s a fountain pen that reveals one’s inner feelings?” Hugo asked. It seemed he had no idea about the ability of the fountain pen. His face had turned pale. “That fountain pen has such an ability?!”
Dumbfounded, the Secretary looked at Hugo. “You didn’t know about it?”
Hugo’s face turned red. It was to be expected. “Damn it! I answered the questions using it last time!”
Hugo and Kevin had received the same questionnaire, and they had used the same fountain pen to answer it. They had done it under Lee Gun’s order.
In the end, Hugo grabbed Lee Gun by the collar. “Hey! Why didn’t you tell me about… Whatever! Give me my answer sheet! You laughed when you saw it! Give it to me!”
“I don’t have it. I threw it away.”
At that moment, the slime’s eyes flashed; it was stuck to Lee Gun’s back all this time. The slime discreetly spat out something.
“!”
The questionnaires Hugo and Kevin had filled! They were balled up, but it didn’t matter.
Hugo smirked as he unfurled his answer sheet. “I’m not worried. I just want to confirm something. Even if they are my innermost feelings, it’s probably nothing…!”
However, Hugo’s face turned red when he saw the answers.
[Q. What do you think about Lee Gun?]
-> I cannot live without Gun. Gun is too cool. He is the best in the world. (Shortened)
[Q. What do you want to do about Lee Gun?]
-> I want to do whatever Gun wants. He can do anything that doesn’t get him hurt. He can eat anything he wants. He can cause any trouble he wants. I can take care of all of that for him… (Shortened)
Hugo shouted as he ripped apart his answer sheet. “That fountain pen is broken!!!”
[Boo-ohhhhhhh!!!?!!]
The fountain pen wailed when Hugo tried to help Lee Gun melt it down.
The situation seemed as if a huge typhoon had swept through the room.
In the end, Lee Gun bound the fountain pen and placed it in his pocket. Hugo, who had been panting, calmed down a bit after he read Kevin’s answer sheet. Of course, he still felt frustrated, but he was slowly regaining his composure. Why?
“If that’s really the ability of the fountain pen, there is nothing more to ask.” Hugo looked toward the Scorpio Saint Hailey. “At the very least, that attention hog and the Scorpio Saint aren’t people who’ll cause you harm. Of course, the fountain pen pulled a prank regarding the answers I wrote.”
Hugo pouted after saying those words. He was still unhappy about being tricked into using the fountain pen.
“Anyway, it seems the Scorpio Saint isn’t the culprit. So why don’t you two use this opportunity to get along with each other?”
Lee Gun clicked his tongue when his friend sulked. “I’m saying the answers written by the two of you are the truth. The only broken answers came from her, a woman who refuses to even look at my face because she hates me.”
The words left Hugo dumbfounded. “Gun!”
“What?”
“You’ve never dated before, right? You’ve been single for your whole life?”
Hugo took a hit once again.
Leaning back in his chair, Lee Gun replied, “Anyway, there’s no way it’s the truth. Even if she wrote the truth, she isn’t a human, so her real intention is still suspicious.”
“Yes! That’s why it’s suspicious—” Hugo’s eyes immediately turned round. “What?”
The others also wondered if they had misheard. Among the words Lee Gun spoke were some shouldn’t have been present there.
Was that the reason? Lee Jaewon, who had been watching everything with a pleased smile on his face, asked with a hardened expression, “What did you just say, Lee Gun-nim?”
Lee Gun laughed as he looked at the flustered Hailey. His eyes changed into the eyes of a snake.
[You have activated 13th Sense.]
The world turned black and white, and people turned blue in his field of vision. Hugo was blue. Chun Sungjae, Lee Jaewon, Goat, and even the Secretary were blue. However…
[Caution! You feel a very dangerous and powerful energy.]
Hailey was the exception. She was entirely red.
Lee Gun laughed as he looked at the frozen Hailey. “You aren’t human, right?”
