"I think I messed up the enhancement. It's broken."
Igeon tapped the fountain pen as if it were absurd.
He banged it on the desk, disassembled it, and made a huge fuss. Thanks to that, Hyugo was dumbfounded.
No, what the hell did this bastard see to react like this?
"What did Scorpio write?"
"I don't know. Anyway, it's broken, broken."
At Igeon's muttering, Hyugo even let out a hollow laugh.
His expression of denial was a sight to behold. He wasn't the type to make that kind of face usually.
So Hyugo also found it strange.
'Heilly would have just received the same question as us.'
Of course, no one among the Twelve Saints liked Igeon. Because he was a piece of shit.
So the answer was obvious.
But if Igeon is reacting like this...
"Why. Did Scorpio write you a compliment? Or an insult?"
Hyugo snatched the question-and-answer sheet from Igeon's hand. A sneer was a bonus.
"Well, it must be an insult. No one among us looked favorably on you. I don't know what kind of baseless confidence you have, but if you expected a compliment, you were greatly mistaken..."
But as he read through the question sheet, Hyugo's expression turned strange.
It was strange. It didn't seem like Heilly took long to write the answer.
Anyway, the strangely increased amount of answer compared to the time she took to write was a secondary problem.
"Ah... ah..."
As if wondering if his eyes were tricking him, Hyugo reread from the top, his face colored with shock.
That wasn't all.
"Huh... hup!"
From the middle, as if embarrassed, his cheeks turned red.
And then finally the last line! Hyugo's face, after reading to the end, was so red it was about to burst.
There was content there that even a married man would be too embarrassed to say.
Eventually, Hyugo took a deep breath and grabbed Igeon's shoulder.
"Co... congratulations."
"What?"
"From experience, one daughter and one son is good."
"Hey."
"No, sons aren't great so two daughters. No, but daughters shouldn't resemble you... Ah, whatever! I'll raise them well and make them my holy knights... Urk!"
Hyugo inevitably got hit once.
Then Igeon, who had knocked down Hyugo, looked at the answer sheet again.
"Anyway, this isn't it. It's broken."
Igeon looked at his fountain pen worriedly.
However.
[Status: Best]
[Boasting perfect condition without any malfunction whatsoever]
Crack.
In the end, Igeon tried to break the fountain pen.
"This bastard. I enhanced it and it's using its head!"
Crunch!
As the fountain pen's body was about to break, it cried out.
It was protesting its innocence.
It had only committed the crime of working hard according to its parent's will!
It had only done its best to be picked up by Heilly's hand, carefully hiding its presence!
[It says this is not right!]
[The fountain pen appeals to its parent of its injustice!]
At that point, the Sagittarius saints watching the situation tilted their heads.
No, what on earth was written to make them like that?
Goteu picked up the question sheet that had fallen to the floor. Cheon Seongjae also rushed over.
"What on earth is it that the two of you are like that..."
Soon they too read the answer on the sheet.
But they had the same reaction as Hyugo.
"Huh...!"
Goteu just gaped, and Cheon Seongjae's mouth dropped open.
"Hey, this... ugh!"
Lee Jaewon, who was watching from the side, covered Cheon Seongjae's eyes.
"Young master, it's too early. Good children shouldn't see this."
Lee Jaewon smiled brightly as he pried open Cheon Seongjae's hand that was holding the paper tightly and refusing to let go.
Goteu leaned on the wall and took a deep breath, and the scribe lost his soul.
Eventually, Lee Jaewon, as if apologetic, folded the question sheet neatly and placed it back on the desk.
"I'm sorry, Scorpio Saint. We inadvertently peeked at private content. But still, we didn't know you would express such deep feelings in this place..."
Lee Jaewon smiled brightly. A smile that seemed to say they who read it were not at fault (?).
At the same time, Cheon Seongjae's scream rang out.
"Noonaaaaa! Emergency! Noonaaaaa!"
Screaming, Cheon Seongjae took out his phone. And immediately sent an SOS message.
It was a very urgent message that his uncle's body was in danger, no, that his uncle might be taken away.
Actually, he had instinctively sent an SOS message the moment Scorpio appeared, but now it was incomparable to then.
"Noonaaaaa! It's a Level 1 emergency!"
At that point, Heilly's expression, who had written the answer, was a sight to behold.
No, what on earth? What did she write?
She had just given a normal answer. So Heilly was rather confused.
'What? Was the conditional cooperation weird?'
Did cooperation not suit her? Or did the condition seem too petty?
Right then.
Unable to hold her curiosity, Heilly took the question-and-answer sheet.
'It's nothing much anyway...'
But the moment she checked the content.
"?????!!"
Heilly nearly screamed.
It couldn't be helped.
[Q. What do you think of Igeon?]
-> I like him so much, so much, so much, so much. I can't stand how much I like Igeon (omitted)
[Q. What do you want to do with Igeon in the future?]
-> I can't stand it. I want to rush at him right now and tear off the clothes he's wearing... (omitted)
Especially at the answer to the second question, Heilly turned bright red and just gaped.
In the end, she couldn't even read to the end and threw the question-and-answer sheet.
"What is this! I never wrote something like this!"
Heilly's heart pounded.
No, of course, it's not that she hadn't thought about such things at all.
But just as she wondered why this was written in her handwriting.
'Ah...!'
She was shocked seeing the fountain pen Igeon was about to break.
'N-no, no way!'
The fountain pen she used was that fountain pen!
'A holy relic that makes you write only the truth!'
A holy relic that reveals the truth no matter what you write.
In the end, Heilly despaired.
As the item she sent to Igeon, there was no way she wouldn't notice the item's presence.
'He said he enhanced it...!'
In any case, it was fine.
She felt Igeon's gaze. Though he didn't show it, even Igeon had a rare embarrassed expression.
Eventually, Heilly averted her eyes.
"R...right. It's broken! The item seems to be quite damaged. It's best to melt it down."
"R-right? This guy really used its head, right? I'll melt it today."
[Bwoooooo!]
The fountain pen was truly wronged.
On the other hand, the scribe's face was beaming.
"Then Miss Heilly has never held that bastard in her heart, right?"
Heilly flinched and her eyes flashed without realizing.
"O-of course not!"
The scribe was relieved.
"Then it's truly the holy relic's trickery! Indeed. No matter what you write, it's an item that reveals the truth or inner thoughts, but still, such absurd sentences..."
Heilly flinched again.
'A...absurd? Is it?'
Unlike suddenly feeling embarrassed, Heilly became sullen.
But another person got caught in the crossfire of their conversation.
"Hey. What did you just say?"
"!"
"A fountain pen that reveals inner thoughts?"
It was Hyugo.
And perhaps he didn't know about the fountain pen's function.
His face was pale with shock.
"That fountain pen had that function?!"
The scribe looked at him dumbfounded.
"You didn't know?"
At the same time, Hyugo's face turned red. That was natural.
"Damn it! Then the answer I wrote last time too...!"
He and Kevin had also written answers on the same question sheet with that fountain pen, at Igeon's order.
In the end, Hyugo grabbed Igeon by the collar.
"Hey! Why didn't you say it was that kind of thing... No, forget it, give me my answer sheet! You definitely laughed back then! Show it to me!"
"It's gone, you bastard. I threw it away."
But then.
The slime attached to Igeon's back sparkled.
Then it subtly spat something out of its mouth.
"!"
It was the answer sheets Hyugo and Kevin had written. They were completely crumpled like balls, but it didn't matter.
Hyugo sneered and spread the answer sheet.
"Well, don't worry. I'm just checking. Inner thoughts can't be anything special..."
But soon Hyugo's face turned red.
[Q. What do you think of Igeon?]
-> I can't live without Igeon, our Igeon is so cool, the best in the world (omitted)
[Q. What do you want to do with Igeon in the future?]
-> Just let our Igeon do whatever he wants, just don't get hurt and do whatever you want, eat whatever you want, cause trouble if you want, I can handle that much... (omitted)
At the same time, Hyugo tore the answer sheet and shouted.
"That fountain pen is broken!!!"
[Bwoooooo!!!?!!]
Eventually, as even Hyugo joined in trying to melt the fountain pen, it cried out.
And after the great storm passed.
The fountain pen was tightly bound and put into Igeon's pocket.
At the same time, Hyugo, who had been fuming, calmed down a bit after seeing Kevin's answer sheet too.
Of course, he was still not over it, but he gradually regained his reason.
Why?
"If the fountain pen has that function, there's nothing more to ask."
Hyugo looked at Scorpio Heilly.
"At least that attention whore or Scorpio is not someone who will harm you. Of course, my answer was naturally the fountain pen's trickery."
Saying that, Hyugo pouted.
He was still displeased about being deceived and made to use such a fountain pen.
"Anyway, Scorpio doesn't seem to be the culprit, so why don't you two get along well this time?"
At his friend's sulking, Igeon clicked his tongue.
"Well, your two answers are the truth, but this one's answer is broken. She's a woman who doesn't even want to see my face because she hates me."
Hyugo was dumbfounded.
"Geon-ah."
"What."
"You've never dated, have you? You're a lifetime single, right?"
Hyugo got hit again.
Igeon leaned back in his chair and continued.
"Anyway, there's no way it's sincere, and even if it's true, she's not even human, so it being written like that makes me doubt her intentions more."
"Right. So it's suspicious..."
Hyugo's eyes suddenly widened.
"Huh?"
At the same time, everyone there doubted their ears.
It was because of what Igeon had said. There was definitely something that shouldn't have been in the middle.
That's why Lee Jaewon, who had been watching the situation with satisfaction, also stiffened.
"Igeon-nim. What did you just say?"
But Igeon smiled, looking at the flustered Heilly.
Igeon's eyes looking at Heilly changed into snake eyes.
[The 13th Sense is activating]
In the vision that turned into a black-and-white world, people's figures turned blue.
Hyugo was blue.
Cheon Seongjae, Lee Jaewon, Goteu. Even the scribe was blue.
But.
[Warning. An extremely dangerous and strong energy is sensed]
Only Heilly's entire body was red.
Indeed.
Igeon smiled at the frozen Heilly.
"You're not human, are you?"
(Continued in the next episode)