“What? You don’t think Lee Gun has his memories?”
Several months ago, Stevens had heard something unexpected. Of course, it was a bit unusual because the one to bring news about Lee Gun was Sophie. It wasn’t as if he couldn’t guess why she knew this information.
“Are you still stalking Hugo?”
- W-What?! That’s rude! Lee Gun’s Construct makes me work very hard, so I don’t have enough hours in a day!
“Oh? You’re saying you would have done it if you had time.”
- #&$^#&!!!
Sophie wailed on the phone. She said she wouldn’t do something like that anymore.
The current Aquarius Iaso was making the Aquarius Saint Sophie work very hard. She had confiscated all of Sophie’s wealth and would give her breaks for only lunch and dinner, both lasting thirty minutes each.
For the rest of the twenty-three hours, Sophie worked without any respite.
‘Well, it’s fixing her temperament.’
Iaso was also Lee Gun’s Construct, and she was very very competent. That was why she had managed to clean up the mess created by Sophie and the previous Aquarius.
The Aquarius temple became a net positive, and everything had been returned to the people. The city was almost fully restored, and the civilians regained their everyday life.
Sophie was being rung dry, and she had tried to run away crying. However, Iaso responded,
- Oh my, sister! You still have the energy to move. That’s great!
- Kyaaaaah!!!
As expected of Lee Gun’s Construct, Iaso made Sophie work until the cusp of death; she was terrifying.
Of course, that wasn’t important right now.
Stevens’s golden lion-like eyes flashed. “You’re saying the baby doesn’t seem to have his memories, but for some odd reason, he acts like Lee Gun?”
- Yes. Also, he’s stronger than the time he was a Great Spirit. He possesses chaotic power now.
Stevens flinched. Lee Gun became stronger than before? Still, he was a baby, so he should be more beholden to his nature than his rational thought.
‘Maybe he wet himself while he was sleeping???’
Even if he weren’t a baby, Lee Gun wasn’t someone one could let one’s guard down in front of.
‘Lee Gun’s drinking habits weren’t tame at all.’
In terms of drinking, Lee Gun was number one among the thirteen; the weakest was Hugo.
This was why when the Zodiac Saints gathered to drink alcohol, it took Hugo only ten minutes to start praising Lee Gun. It would become background music. However, there was something else behind it.
‘Hugo was the only one who didn’t know about it, but Lee Gun mixed hard liquor into his beer.’
Lee Gun would do that whenever Hugo was distracted or had vacated his seat. He would slowly sneak hard liquor into Hugo’s drink. This was why Hugo went into Praise Lee Gun mode after ten minutes.
‘He’s a fanatic.’
Anyway, Lee Gun was strong when it came to alcohol. He was so strong that some thought he would be fine even after drinking 100% alcohol.
‘However, a specific type of alcohol was an exception.’
Lee Gun could drink straight hard liquor, and he wouldn’t be drunk. But alcohol fermented with fruit could get him drunk.
During the Great Raid of Russia, as a prank, they had snuck some weak homemade wine into Lee Gun’s drink.
After drinking it, Lee Gun had gone around taking care of the innocent neighborhood gangs!!
- I don’t like your hair color. You can get bent.
- What?!!
- I don’t like that you have two eyes. You can get bent.
- Ahhk!!!
The people of the town were happy that the gang members had turned over a new leaf, but Lee Gun had also tried to get rid of the Constructs and Zodiac Saints who had come with him for the raid!
- Ahhhk!! Why the hell are you doing this to us, you mutant?!
- I don’t like how your eyes are positioned.
- I-I’m a god without eyes! That’s why—
- You have a mouth!! Get bent!!
- Ahhhhhk!!
The Zodiac Saints blanched when they thought about the acts of brutality Lee Gun had carried out on that day.
If Heiji and Hailey hadn’t been present there, the other Zodiac Saints would have been destroyed alongside the town. Anyway, he was like that as an adult.
This was why Stevens had been frightened when the menacing Lee Gun had come back as a baby. However, he soon dismissed such feelings.
‘Yes. The ones who’ll have a hard time will be Hugo and his allies. It won’t be us.’
On the other hand, Yooha looked to be enjoying herself as she intended to carry out a scary plan.
Still, it didn’t change the fact that they had nothing to do with Lee Gun… Nothing to do with Lee Gun… They were supposed to have no connection to him…
“Ahhk!!! Stop him!!!!!”
Stevens screamed as he watched Lee Gun head toward the boxes of wine and cognac. What did the baby think the shiny boxes were?
“Byaaa!!”
Did he mistakenly think that it was a tasty fruit juice? Or was he going crazy because he had always liked alcohol?!
“I don’t care what you do! Just make sure he doesn’t drink those!!!”
If news of the baby drinking alcohol entered the ears of Hugo and his family, Stevens and the others were dead!
Of course, Lee Gun wasn’t human. Unlike a human baby, alcohol might not be fatal to him. However, there was a different problem!
“He can’t have the fruit wine!!!”
If the baby was fundamentally the same as the previous Lee Gun, he would be weak against fruit wine!
Stevens imagined a scenario where the US was wiped off the map. He screamed as if his hair were on fire, “Hey! Stop… No! You guys should throw those away right now!!!”
“What?!!”
“Go to the restroom and dump it all down the drain!”
“What?! Each bottle costs a hundred thousand dollars!! You told us to save them for today…!”
“It’s fine!! Throw them all away, so he can’t drink the wine!”
At that moment, the baby’s eyes flashed, and he brought forth his magical energy once again.
Koo-goo-goo-goo.
Stevens and his subordinates turned pale from fright. The chaotic black aura from before started to encircle the baby.
“Byaa! Byaa!”
The baby’s eyes didn’t say that he wanted the boxes because they looked pretty. Those were the eyes of an alcoholic who had caught sight of expensive alcohol!
Stevens started to sweat.
‘He’s not a kid! I’m sure he has his memories!’
The officers quickly brought a donut from the break room.
“I have a treat here!!! This is tasty, right!?”
“Hey, baby! Why don’t you eat this instead!!!”
They used a donut to tempt Lee Gun, trying to catch Lee Gun’s gaze.
However, accompanied by a powerful magical energy, Lee Gun levitated.
‘Ahhk!!’
“H-He is floating!!?!”
They had been less worried since he was a baby who couldn’t walk yet!!
“Hugo! That son of a…!!! I thought he didn’t have any abilities!!!!”
“What the hell is happening?”
When Lee Gun headed toward the alcohol, Stevens decided to sacrifice his body. He snatched Lee Gun out of the air.
“Byaa?”
Stevens hunched over Lee Gun as if he were covering a grenade, then told his subordinates holding the alcohol to leave. “Hurry! Run away!”
“Yes!!”
He then glanced at the officers who were using their phones. “What about the Serpent Bearer temple!!!”
“They aren’t picking up! Yooha isn’t picking up! The Sagittarius temple isn’t picking up either!”
“What?!!”
What the hell were they doing that they were not picking up the phone? It was driving him nuts!!!!
“Byaaaaa.”
Lee Gun, who had been caught by Stevens, scrunched up his face. He was already hungry, and he was unable to drink any delicious-looking alcohol.
The men in front of him kept enticing him with the donut, yet they hadn’t given it to him. Lee Gun seemed angry.
Growwwwwwl!
“Byaa…!”
Or was he angry because someone like Stevens had caught him?!
Lee Gun’s eyes flashed like that of a monster. Then…
Zzuhng!!!
“?!”
An enormous power split the wall in half.
“Zodiac Saint-nim!!!”
Stevens was sweating because his head had almost been decapitated by an unknown power.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
“!”
The sound of an enormous beast running toward them rang out.
Kwang!!
The door to the office was smashed.
[Damn it! Do you want to die? Keep it down! Not even I can sleep through this!]
“!!!”
The one to burst through the destroyed office door was none other than an enormous lion. It was the Zodiac of the Leo temple.
After the Divine world had ended, Leo was renting out a room in the Leo temple’s building. He had been having sweet dreams while sleeping somewhere on this floor. Unable to tolerate the ruckus anymore, he had come here.
[You guys call yourselves my servants, yet you can’t even catch a mouse that snuck into the holy ground?! Hmm?!]
Stevens and the officers felt aggrieved.
“It isn’t a mouse!”
“That’s right! Lee Gun is here, you fat cat!!!”
[Hmmph. You dare talk short with me— What? Lee Gun?]
The eyes of Cargo, the Zodiac of the Leo temple, became round. He wondered why Lee Gun’s name would suddenly be mentioned here.
At that moment, Leo met eyes with Baby Lee Gun. This baby looked and smelled like Lee Gun, confusing Leo.
[Why is he here?]
No, that wasn’t important right now.
“Byaa…?”
A grave look entered Lee Gun’s eyes as he looked at Leo!
“!!”
Taken aback, Leo raised one paw without realizing it.
[W-What the hell? Why are his eyes like that?]
Lee Gun wagged his finger. The knives and the high-rank weapons around the waists of Stevens and his officers were unsheathed.
“?!”
The weapons started floating.
“T-The weapons are floating in the air?!”
“He does have an ability!”
The sharp end of the floating weapons headed toward Leo, surprising the Zodiac.
[W…Wait a moment!!!]
Leo didn’t even have time to say stop. The sharp weapons flew toward him as if they wanted to butcher him.
[Ahhhhk!!!!]
“Ahhk!!! Our god…!”
“Fat cat!!!”
“Byaa!”
Leo found himself suddenly being chased by flying weapons.
It seemed Lee Gun wanted to make a lion salami as a side dish for his drink.
“Byaaa!”
Even a Zodiac would find being stabbed by SS-rank blades painful! Moreover, Stevens’s blade had been looked over by a Creator not too long ago!
A couple of days ago, Aslan had suddenly appeared inside the Leo temple’s holy ground and looked at their weapons!
- Do you want me to look at your weapons, Cargo?
While he might not be a manufacturing-type god, Aslan was a Creator. Repairing weapons was no big deal to him.
- It’ll be great for us, but… why are you suddenly doing this?
- Help begets help.
A troublemaker like him was suddenly offering his service to repair all the weapons of the Leo temple.
Leo hadn’t understood why he had done so until now. Did he do such a thing for this event? No, that couldn’t be true!!
[Ahhk! My hide is being skinned!!!!]
Seeing the possibility of himself getting butchered, Leo screamed. He expressed his anger toward Stevens.
[Stevens! Is it a baby or a monster?]
“I told you it is Lee Gun, idiot!!”
[What?!! Why is he here?!!]
“That’s…!!!”
Stevens had no idea. A baby who couldn’t even walk couldn’t have come here by coincidence. He had come here for a reason.
‘Why is he here?’
Stevens’s face became pale as he watched Lee Gun stare in a certain direction. He knew who was present in that direction.
‘Can it be?’
Is he here looking for Hailey? As luck would have it, Lee Gun was looking toward the building where Hailey and the Flame monarch were hidden.
‘Only Hailey and her mother should be inside that building.’
No changes occurred to Lee Gun’s expression as he stared at the building. However, it seemed as if he was trying to check if anyone was living within the building. It was as if he could see through the building.
In fact, the color of Lee Gun’s eyes changed when he viewed the building.
‘…red?!’
Stevens shook since it truly had been a while since he had seen eyes of that color. Lee Gun having those eyes meant he had been hiding his abilities?
There was a chance that Lee Gun had pretended to not have any abilities or memories. He might have kept them hidden.
If Lee Gun had come here with the intent of meeting Hailey…
‘This place might be reduced to ruin.’
[Ahhhk!!! My tail!!!]
No, it seemed his goal had changed. He planned on turning Leo into a side dish.
Lee Gun seemed to be done with looking through the building. The floating blades drew closer to Leo’s neck.
The Leo temple’s disciples screamed.
“No! Stop!”
As those shouts rang out, Lee Gun escaped from the disciples and landed atop Leo’s head. Lee Gun slapped the Zodiac’s head with a solemn expression.
“Byaa. Byaaaaa!!”
Donut! He also wanted alcohol.
In the end, the disciples gave up. They offered up the food and drinks that Lee Gun had wanted. An expensive bottle of alcohol was produced.
The subordinates monitored Stevens with worried expressions.
“Is it ok to give the baby alcohol, Zodiac Saint-nim?”
“Of course, I swapped out the content.”
Baby Lee Gun was happy as he chewed on the donut. He also sucked on the baby bottle containing alcohol(?).
Stevens was a bit disappointed as he looked at the baby. “He doesn’t realize it’s fake alcohol. He really doesn’t remember anything…”
His subordinates were puzzled.
“This has been bothering us for a while. Do you want Lee Gun-nim to have his memories?”
“What….”
“That’s quite unexpected. While it doesn’t matter to us, wouldn't it be better for you if Lee Gun-nim didn’t regain his memories?”
Stevens had been robbed by Lee Gun over and over again. The Leo Saint scrunched up his face as if that wasn’t the case. “I want Lee Gun to make me a weapon again.”
“????”
The expressions of his subordinates were a sight to behold. He still hadn’t given up on that????
Their eyes turned round as they looked over at Stevens.
“You….”
Stevens’ eyebrows rose. “You?”
“You’re a really cool Zodiac Saint…!”
“You guys are starting to get uppity with me.”
“I…I’m sorry.”
Their reactions were understandable! Why did he have such an obsession with items manufactured by Lee Gun?!
“A new manufacturing god arrived at the Capricorn temple.! Also, a Creator appeared not too long ago to look at your weapon!”
Stevens seemed glum.
When the disciples saw his expression, they were dismayed. They whispered among themselves.
“Wow! This is crazy! He isn’t satisfied with their work…!”
“Now that I think about it… That bone which was worth a billion… Didn’t he put it back in his office?”
“Yes. In the end, he bought it back from Yooha. He had to pay her a million dollars. The deal also included a rare picture of Lee Gun-nim from twenty years ago.”
“He didn’t buy it…. He had to rent it from her.”
“What?! He didn’t buy it, yet the cost was a million dollars!?”
The disciples grabbed the back of their necks. They looked at Stevens with baffled expressions.
“Why are you so obsessed with Lee Gun-nim’s work?”
“We understand Lee Gun-nim was skilled, but….”
Leo snorted.
Lee Gun had pulled out all of his manes.
‘Why else?’
It was a bit of a nonsensical reason.
