Seongjun Lee was an antagonist turned supporting character in The Warrior Returns. He was the Resurrection Warrior and a former member of the 9-Warriors, being the group's actual leader who was manipulating Minsu Kim from behind-the-scenes. It was later revealed that he was stuck in a time loop that can only end if he is killed by a Demon Lord, and he was trying to turn Minsu into one. After succeeding in this goal, he defected to the Resistance Warriors and trained Jeongsu Park to defeat Minsu after he is slain by him. Lee is a calm, strategic man with a Handsome look, he has short black hair with a pair of bangs sticking out. He had gray eyes but Normally kept his eyes closed, he also normally opened his eyes whenever he sadistically expressed his true self. Lee sports a black suit with a blue outline, A diagonal pattern tie mixed with black and blue, and he had black pants. Seongjun Lee acts as a calm individual and is always close to Kim Min-Soo as his right-hand man in order to earn his trust. He seems to be always calm and loyal to his own team throughout the entire story. Seongjun Lee is notably known for being a highly-intelligent and strategic individual, he appears to be calculative, although, thanks to this, he is also deceptive when it comes to eradicating humanity. Due to his ability, He is extremely persistent, willing to endure re-doing moments in time for hundreds of thousands of attempts until he gets his desired outcome. Due to his ability to create time loops, effectively undoing his death, he is condescending toward his opponents. It was only revealed in Chapters 61-62 that Lee isn't inherently evil, but all of his actions were in fact for the goal in order to save the world from being trapped in the constant time loop caused by his ability to return every time he dies of old age. As revealed, due to his return ability activated upon his death of old age, Seongjun was continuously returned to the point of time where he had just returned from saving his other world, resulting in him being forced to do everything and endure all the hardships he had done all over again. As shown, Seongjun had exhausted every other possibility he had as a “Hero” in order to escape his time loop prison, slowly eroding and destroying his mind as he was forced to return over and over millions of times. This eventually caused him to decide to become a “villain” instead in order to find a way he could finally die. As shown, after the millions of loops he had to endure, Seongjun now operates without moral restraint or remorse as long as the methods achieve his ends to create a Demon King for Earth, as being killed by one is the only form of death that Seongjun's ability can't rewind. He befriends and grooms the corrupted Heroes to have them accumulate the necessary massive karma and destruction so one of them could transform into this world's Demon King, and in addition manipulates events and government organizations for the good Heroes that fight for humanity to ensure they don't group up, overpower and kill the corrupted Heroes before they can become a Demon King. However, even though Seongjun came close numerous times in creating a Demon King, Minsu Kim would always kill them off before they could complete their path. And unable to kill Minsu himself no matter how many loops he tries due to the vast power difference between them, Seongjun decided to turn Minsu into a corrupted Hero and a candidate for the Demon King. Over the course of three hundred and seventy thousands returns of trial and error, Seongjun killed Minsu Kim's parents, bribed his school, and spread nasty rumors to his friend's parents and to the police to prevent Minsu Kim from finding any happiness or help in the world. Furthermore, he prevents all events that would lead to Minsu from either repenting from evil, being killed or committing suicide. All to turn Minsu into the Demon King of Earth and have him kill Seongjun to put him out of his misery and allow the world to progress forward into the future. Likewise, as revealed in Chapters 46 and 83, Heroes are summoned from Earth by otherworlds due to it being the "World of Void": a world without its own Hero or Demon King, making it the only place the otherworlds can use to summon Heroes. By having a Demon King be born on Earth, Heroes can no longer be drafted to the otherworlds and thus prevents Earth from being threatened in the future by ever-stronger corrupted heroes that return from other worlds or from Heroes with uncontrollable powers such as Seongjun's Return power trapping the world in a time loop. As shown, despite everything he had done and everything he had to endure, Seongjun still bears a strong sense of responsibility for the “Hell” he created, with his top priority after transforming Minsu Kim into a Demon King to find and prepare someone strong enough to kill him to prevent the world's total destruction, then go fight and weaken the Demon King himself as best he can before dying by Minsu’s hand to ease the burden on the hero.
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