Chapter 58

After Jason got on the plane, Messiah had been tracking Jason's whereabouts remotely using his super vision.

Until he saw Jason found his mother.

The blonde woman was gently treating the wounds of a child in the refugee camp. When she saw Jason coming, her eyes widened in surprise.

Sheila Haywood.

Messiah took in the blonde woman's appearance, his gaze lingering on her eyes for a brief moment.

She...had eyes similar to Jason's.

Messiah's gaze softened unconsciously.

Silla covered her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes, and said in disbelief: "Jason? You are my child?"

"My child!"

Sheila hugged Jason excitedly, and Jason's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but hug his biological mother back.

"Mother……"

Messiah looked at Jason and Sheila recognizing each other, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he retracted his gaze, respecting Jason's privacy as he had promised before, leaving personal space for the newly recognized mother and son.

"It's time."

Messiah's communicator vibrated again. The alien planet seeking help sent out a distress signal again. Superman was asking him if he wanted to go with them.

【Superman: Together?】

【Messiah: Good.】

Messiah changed into his battle suit and put on his hood, took one last deep look at Jason, and rushed into the blue sky.

When he comes back, I will hear good news from Jason.

The Messiah flew out of the earth with hope in his heart.

See you tomorrow, Earth.

See you tomorrow, Jason.

"You have come, Messiah."

Under the blazing sun, Superman looked at the Messiah with a smile, his scarlet cape draped behind him. He extended his hand to the Messiah: "We should go."

Messiah nodded, leaving the Earth far behind.

"Gulp-gulp."

Messiah landed on the planet's surface, and several blue-skinned locals hurried to greet him. They looked at Messiah with sparkling eyes, talking and gesturing at the same time.

"Volcanoes erupting?"

Messiah translated their words to Superman, who nodded and flew with Messiah towards the volcanoes they were talking about.

"I heard Jason and B had a fight recently?" Superman said to Messiah while exhaling freezing breath at the volcano. "B has a stern face in meetings every day. Ollie even tried to teach B his lesson - but his fights with Roy are even worse than B and Jason's."

Messiah swung golden light at the volcanoes, and the power invisibly destroyed the magma that was gathering momentum in the volcanoes.

After so many years of encounters and interactions during rescue operations, Messiah can now treat Superman, who has the same face as the Supreme Leader, with a normal expression.

"They're almost reconciled." Messiah couldn't help but smile. "Father told Jason and me a bedtime story last night, and he even bought Jason a plane ticket to find his biological mother."

"Jason has something he wants to say to his father. When he comes back, they will definitely reconcile."

The golden light illuminated Messiah's face. Messiah's face was exceptionally gentle, and the twinkling stars in his eyes were as bright as the Milky Way. He was enveloped by an atmosphere of happiness and joy.

Superman was infected by the Messiah's smile and couldn't help but smile too.

Anyone who sees Messiah's current appearance will think that he is a child who grew up in happiness.

"It's better to let the volcano erupt once."

Messiah suggested: "Let the volcano erupt once under controlled circumstances. This way, the planet won't have to worry about being destroyed by volcanoes for decades."

Superman nodded, agreeing to Messiah's proposal.

The Messiah stretched out his hand toward the volcanoes, and Superman stood around them, ready for battle.

Just as the golden light was about to burst out, Messiah suddenly covered his heart.

An invisible sense of unease enveloped Messiah. His heart beat faster and he even felt a sharp pain, as if something important was about to pass away.

...What does this feel like?

Messiah covered his aching heart with his hands, a trace of pain appeared on his face. This feeling of pain was somewhat familiar, yet somewhat strange. He seemed to have felt it at some point, yet it seemed as if he had never felt it before.

Waves of trance and sense of crisis hit Messiah again and again. Messiah no longer had the heart to control the power covering the volcano, and the golden light dissipated in an instant.

The volcano, whose eruption had been suppressed by the golden light, began to spew out magma again.

Superman's expression changed instantly. Seeing Messiah clutching his heart and curling up in pain, he rushed over and said, "Messiah, what's wrong with you?"

"Messiah……"

In the warehouse, Jason, who was beaten by the Joker with almost all his body broken, gasped and called out the name of the Messiah, holding on to the last glimmer of hope.

Messiah subconsciously stretched out his hand towards the void, as if something very important was being pulled away from his arms. The feeling of unease made him subconsciously want to grasp that thing, but he only grasped air.

…and Superman’s hands.

Jason stretched out his hand with all his strength, trying to reach the bomb that was counting down, but his broken arm left him with only empty space.

Superman looked at Messiah who was holding out his hand, subconsciously took Messiah's hand, and looked at him worriedly: "Messiah?"

"Messiah……"

Jason gasped and called out the Messiah's name again, but there was no response. He glanced at the bomb with only a few seconds left on the countdown, closed his eyes, moved his body, and protected the trembling Sheila Haywood.

Superman hugged Messiah and asked Messiah worriedly: "Are you okay, Messiah?"

"Are you okay, Jason?" Sheila Haywood hugged Jason and choked up, "I'm sorry, you're a good kid. If it weren't for me, if I hadn't seduced you, the clown wouldn't have caught you."

Messiah knelt on one knee, clutching his heart. The strange feeling of panic made him close his eyes uncontrollably, and he squeezed out a few words from the corner of his mouth: "I'm fine..."

Jason tried to cover Sheila Haywood with his body, gave her a weak smile, and squeezed out a sentence: "I'm fine..."

The countdown for the bright red bomb had reached its final stage, and Jason closed his eyes.

The volcano's magma spread outward silently. Without the control of Messiah and Superman, the volcano that had been forced to dormant for a long time began to tremble.

"Bang!!!!"

"Bang!!!!"

The time bomb exploded with a bang, the hot gunpowder exploded and swallowed everything, the warehouse collapsed and the broken concrete and steel bars slammed down, the ruthless explosion and flames swallowed everything.

Jason fell heavily to the ground under the impact of the bomb, but he was still protecting Sheila Haywood.

The volcano erupted with explosive force.

There was a deafening explosion, and the volcano suddenly spewed out magma. The overwhelming magma and smoke covered the earth, and the exploded rocks flew everywhere.

It was like an explosion.

Messiah heard the sound of a volcanic explosion, saw the fire and magma reflected in his eyes, and his heart trembled violently.

In the void, it seemed as if another explosion sounded in his ears.

Following the two explosions, Messiah felt as if flames were burning his skin, even though he was protected from the magma by the golden light.

Messiah could no longer suppress the panic in his heart. He suddenly stood up, waved away Superman's hand, and rushed towards the earth without hesitation.

Definitely, definitely something happened!!

What on earth happened…?

It took only seconds for the Messiah to burst into the Earth and towards the land.

He caught Bruce's heartbeat in Ethiopia, but he didn't catch Jason's.

...Jason? Where's Jason?

Messiah could no longer control his power and landed on the ground with a bang. The airflow from his landing swept away the smoke that was spreading over the warehouse.

he……

he

he

Messiah looked at the scene with a blank expression. The huge impact made it almost impossible for him to react.

Batman was half-kneeling on the ground, holding in his arms a corpse that was covered in blood and burned by flames, and had almost lost its human form.

"Who is this? Where's Jason?" Messiah stared at Batman's face, refusing to look at the body in his arms whose face and body had been destroyed by the explosion. He asked over and over again, "...Where's Jason?"

Messiah looked dazed and stunned. The huge amount of emotional impact and information made him almost no longer like himself.

"Father... Dad, Bruce." Messiah called Batman's name, almost begging, "Please tell me where Jason is, I want to see him."

Batman hugged the body tightly in his arms and said nothing.

Looking at Batman who seemed indifferent, Messiah's voice gradually changed from pleading to anger. He didn't understand why Bruce refused to answer his questions.

Messiah subconsciously rejected the possibility that he didn't want to believe, and just kept asking Bruce, trying to make Bruce understand his emotions.

"Where's Jason..."

"Where's Jason?"

Batman's silence finally angered Messiah, who had been suppressing his emotions. Messiah could no longer control his emotions and almost roared out his question: "Tell me, where is Jason!"

Batman hugged the corpse in his arms in a daze. He looked intently at the bloody face of the corpse and still did not answer Messiah.

Messiah couldn't stand it anymore, he rushed forward and wanted to grab Batman's collar to ask him questions, but when he touched the corpse, he didn't dare to reach out.

"I'm asking you, where's Jason..." Messiah's voice was almost choked with sobs. His voice was trembling, tears welled up in his eyes, and he almost begged, "Tell me where Jason is. I'll go find him."

"Please, Bruce, tell me."

Batman... no, Bruce Wayne, a father, is about to be defeated by great grief.

The Messiah wailed, and the birds' cries sang in Bruce's ears, but Bruce seemed to hear two cries.

"Jason, Jason..." Bruce wanted to tell Messiah the truth calmly, but he choked the moment he opened his mouth, "Jason..."

Bruce carefully embraced the unrecognizable body and said in a voice so soft that it was almost silent: "Jason is dead."

He didn't want to tell Messiah the truth so cruelly. To Messiah, Jason was the inseparable other half of his soul and flesh and blood, and he didn't want to hurt Messiah.

But as a father who lost his son, a father who sent his son to death with his own hands, Bruce could do nothing more.

No matter how much the Messiah didn't want to accept it, he had to accept it.

Messiah's pupils trembled violently, and his outstretched hand moved tremblingly towards the unrecognizable corpse.

It's Jason.

The Messiah's hand hovered over Jason's body, not daring to touch it for fear of awakening the soul that was ascending to heaven.

Jason's body was reflected in those bright golden eyes. Through Jason's unrecognizable body, Messiah saw Jason's face smiling at him before he left Wayne Manor.

“No…no.”

Messiah murmured, "This is fake, this is a joke."

I can't accept it.

I don't believe it.

I just left the earth for a while, just a moment, how could it happen, how is it possible.

impossible.

Messiah could no longer control his emotions. He snatched Jason from Batman's arms with an unquestionable yet terrifyingly gentle movement, and staggered to his knees.

He buried his head in Jason's chest, trying to listen to Jason's heartbeat, but there was only dead silence.

"No... I don't want you to die."

Before he left, they had fantasized about the future, thought about going to a city where they could go solo, and agreed to skip a grade and go to college together, and run away from home together to upset Bruce.

Those fantasies of a beautiful future.

Messiah stared at Jason's face in a trance, touching him with trembling fingers, the sob in his voice growing louder.

He wanted Jason to comfort him, but there was only endless silence and dead stillness.

The unprecedented huge emotional impact almost caused the Messiah, who had just experienced what love and family were in this world, to collapse.

Messiah was buried in Jason's bloody chest, and his wails lingered over Ethiopia, scaring away the birds that were briefly resting.

The little bird flapped its wings and flew into the sky, flying farther and farther.

…If only I could heal, if I had the power to save.

Messiah raised his head from Jason's chest in a panic and reached out to Jason's body with a shaking hand, wanting to heal him, wanting to revive him.

He begged for a miracle.

But the golden light couldn't even appear.

...can't do it.

I can't heal, I don't have the power to save, I can't resurrect Jason.

A tear fell on Jason's face, wetting his cheek.

It rained heavily in Ethiopia, and the Messiah cried for the first time in his life. His first cry was not when he was born, but when his brother died.

The heavy rain continued for a long time.

There will be no more rest.

Bruce walked towards Messiah and...Jason, his bat cape rising to shield Messiah and Jason from the heavy rain.

"Go away. I don't want to see you." Messiah said in a hoarse voice, "Go...!"

Messiah couldn't deal with the emotions in his heart, and Bruce's existence seemed to provide him with an outlet. He tried to make his father accept his emotions, and like a willful child, he wanted to blame everything on Bruce.

But Messiah only said a few words before his voice became choked again.

He couldn't do it, couldn't blame it all on Bruce.

Because, because it was his own fault.

It's my mistake.

The rain wet Messiah's hair and his tears wet Jason's face. Bruce didn't say anything, but just silently shielded Messiah and Jason from the rain.

The sky seemed to be crying for them.

Messiah hugged Jason, and after a long time, he finally managed to pull himself out of his grief.

At this moment, the appearance of Messiah overlapped with the appearance of the Supreme Leader hugging Louise's body.

"Who killed Jason?"

Messiah looked up at Bruce, tears in his eyes, but also burning with fire: "I will kill him and avenge Jason."

【Author’s words】

Let me see you guys take off your sunglasses [Sunglasses]