The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero

Chapter 14 - Give It Back

Lee Gun's laughter made everyone's expression change.

'His item?' The man on the receiving end of Lee Gun's attention, Min Sunghoon, scoffed. "What the hell are you saying? Why would I have your item?"

"It should have this mark engraved on it," Lee Gun explained.

"What?"

Soon, something caught everyone's attention. It was Lee Gun's fingertip. Its top was curved, but the bottom was straight. Lee Gun made this gesture twice, and everyone's expression distorted. It was to be expected. The symbol looked like two 2s drawn backward; it was a unique shape. Moreover, the whole world knew that signature.

"Wait a moment! Are you talking about Lee Gun's holy item?"

"Yes, I'm talking about that."

"Hey!" The first person to make a fuss was Chun Sungjae. He had been wondering what the man wanted to say in such a serious manner when he had seen that symbol. It's Lee Gun-nim's holy item, so why are you claiming it as yours?"

For a moment, when he had seen this man's sword technique, his heart was moved. However, he still hung on to the idea that this man wasn't Lee Gun.

As for Lee Gun, he didn't care what others thought. With a bright smile on his face, he shamelessly extended his hand. "You have it, right? My item. Hurry up and give it to me."

"Huh!" Min Sunghoon was at a loss for words. Of course, he was keeping his mouth shut only because a blade was pressed against his neck. 'Have you lost your mind?'

The man's words were true. Min Sunghoon was indeed carrying around Lee Gun's holy item. If he were being honest, this item was meant for the general of his temple, but Min Sunghoon had taken it for himself. 'I assumed Lee Gun's holy item would greatly help me in my career.'

However...

'I don't know how to use it, so I've been just carrying it around.' It was the same for the others. No one knew what this item did. It was the reason Saint Gemini had given it to the general without making a fuss.

Lee Gun put more strength into his blade. "Whatever! Hurry up and give me my item. I don't want to search your body. That's not my thing."

"...!" Min Sunghoon trembled when he saw the light in Lee Gun's eyes change. At first, he had thought that the man was an escapee from a mental hospital, but he had seen things he couldn't ignore. Moreover, the look in Lee Gun's eyes worried him more even as the blade was pressed against his neck. The man in front of him was laughing, yet Min Sunghoon felt an odd sense of pressure coming from him.

'... Is he the real Lee Gun? It can't be!' Min Sunghoon almost slapped his own head for having such a thought. It was nonsense. 'Yes. Their ages are different.'

Back then, Lee Gun had been twenty-nine years old. Even if one took into account that he was superhuman, at the very least, he should've looked like a forty-year-old.

'By the end, his face looked like that of a sixty-year-old man.'

Of course, the twelve Zodiac Saints and the disciples closest to the gods were an exception to aging. It might be their closeness to the gods, or it might be because they received the most power. Whatever it was, they aged much slower than regular Users. Then, there was the beautiful Zodiac Saint, who didn't age, like a vampire.

'I've never heard of a Saint who could turn back the effects of time!'

It was a bit too much to believe that someone who used to look like an old man in his fifties-sixties twenty years ago would now look like a person in his late teens. Moreover, unlike the other twelve, Lee Gun hadn't received any blessings from the gods. He didn't have any special powers.