50 · Chapter 50
Superman scratched his head awkwardly and gave a simple smile: "Hi...?"
After realizing his identity as the Messiah, Superman's sense of distance, which was unique to a god on earth, disappeared, and he looked more like a friendly uncle next door.
Messiah didn't know what to say for a moment. He stared at Superman's smiling face. In front of him was the Son of the Sun of this world, but in his mind was the Supreme Leader of the previous world.
In the end, he said nothing.
Messiah looked away and nodded gently to Superman, his gaze lingering on the bed in the operating room for a long time.
Doctors and nurses are giving oxygen to the children.
The Messiah had never been more aware of his own hubris.
Because of his arrogance, he thinks he can grasp the overall situation and handle everything, so he does not learn and does not take "knowledge" seriously.
He thought he could solve everything with his abilities, but he didn't even realize why the children were unconscious. It was only because of Superman's reminder that he realized they needed to go to the hospital.
If Batman knew that the Messiah learning problem that had troubled him for so long was solved by Superman with just one sentence, it is unknown whether he would be relieved or silent.
Superman tried to show his friendliness to Messiah: "I don't know if B has mentioned me to you. B and I are good friends."
Messiah just glanced at Superman and remained silent.
friend?
Messiah thought that Superman in the previous world also said that he and Batman were friends, but in the end Superman announced Batman's true identity to the world, killed the butler whom Batman regarded as a father, and massacred Gotham.
Superman looked at the Messiah's silent appearance, almost visualizing Batman staring at him with a sullen face, and couldn't help but wail in his heart.
Rao, he almost thought he was facing another small B. Why couldn't all B's children be as lively as Dick...
Messiah's mind played the memories of the previous world frame by frame. Those memories were basically related to one person, and that person's counterpart was right in front of him.
Superman...
Messiah stared at Superman intently, his face revealing a trance and nostalgia that did not belong to his age.
The Superman before him was exactly the same as the Superman before the nuclear explosion in Metropolis. He seemed to see that God on Earth again, that...
The people of yesterday in the city of tomorrow.
Superman brought up new topics to Messiah one after another, but each was dealt with with "um" and "oh".
The sunny and cheerful golden retriever stopped laughing.
Superman sat uneasily under the Messiah's gaze. He always felt that the Messiah seemed to be looking at someone through him, but also seemed to be looking at him himself, with eyes that were particularly focused and deep.
This, this... He had no intention of kidnapping Bruce's child.
Superman was a little nervous when Messiah stared at him, but fortunately Messiah only looked at him for a while and then turned his attention back to the operating room.
The noise in the operating room gradually died down, and Messiah heard the children's rapid breathing and heartbeats gradually calm down.
Some children who inhaled less smoke have regained consciousness.
Messiah breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded to the doctor who came out to explain the treatment results to him and said calmly, "I'll be gone for a while and will be back later. I'll leave them to you now."
The doctor subconsciously glanced at Superman, showing an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, but in the end he said nothing.
Let’s go, it’s Wayne’s money anyway, not to mention that this is the child of his boss.
The doctor waved his hand weakly. Even if Superman was responsible, it would ultimately be Wayne's funding for the Justice League.
Messiah nodded to Superman, scanning the structure of the hospital before finding an area not covered by cameras and teleporting away from the hospital.
- Thanks to Jason's advice, after Jason knew that they were found by Batman because they did not avoid the cameras, he forced Messiah to remember the importance of avoiding the cameras by nagging him.
This resulted in Messiah being shown in his true form most of the time, but the cameras were still all out of the way.
The Messiah was too fast, and Superman couldn't keep up with him. He had to watch the Messiah teleport away, leaving him alone in Gotham.
Fortunately, Superman remembered Messiah's heartbeat frequency and appeared at the orphanage after hearing Messiah's heartbeat.
Superman took a deep breath, and the sense of responsibility unique to an elder made him chase after him, and he stopped him in time before the Messiah showed his face.
Messiah was about to land in a residential building not far from the orphanage, but was grabbed by the collar and forcibly stopped by Superman.
Looking at Superman's familiar face so close to him, Messiah subconsciously tensed his face, and his breathing and heartbeat slowed down unconsciously.
Superman skillfully brought Messiah in front of him—the source of his skill was a certain unnamed giant bat—and helplessly looked at Messiah's completely exposed face: "Can't you cover your face?"
This is so un-bat-like...
"...cover your face?"
Messiah looked at Superman's helpless yet gentle expression, and his past memories came flooding back, leaving him stunned.
Before the nuclear explosion in Metropolis, he once saved a worker who accidentally fell from a building. At that time, Superman asked the worker not to reveal his true appearance.
Superman tells him that in order to protect himself and his family, superheroes need to hide their true identities.
Messiah remembered the principle of confidentiality that Batman and Robin had talked about many times, so he asked others to keep it a secret and not let them reveal his abilities and Batman's true identity, but he never thought of actively concealing his true appearance.
Just let others not say it out loud, why let him cover it up himself?
Can……
The Messiah looked at Superman intently, the Man of Tomorrow from the previous world smiling at him.
"Okay." Messiah said softly.
Superman breathed a sigh of relief, and like magic, he pulled out a pair of Kryptonian technology glasses and handed them to the Messiah.
"Try these glasses for a bit. They're Kryptonian technology. They can change how you appear to others." Superman smiled at Messiah, his voice tinged with excitement. "They can be adjusted to fit your face. Try them on?"
Superman winked at Messiah and made a little joke: "This is what I prepared for my child. I didn't expect B's child to use it first."
Messiah paused in putting on his glasses and whispered, "...child?"
"Yes, baby." Superman nodded happily, his curly hair rising unconsciously, "My baby is about to be born."
Forgive this silly father. He has prepared everything for his child before his child was born.
Messiah looked at Superman with extremely complicated eyes, with many emotions mixed together.
...In the previous world, Superman's child was not born and died due to the Joker's conspiracy.
Messiah looked at the happy Superman, his eyes were dazed for a moment, and finally turned into determination.
"I will protect her." Messiah's voice was very soft, but his tone was extremely firm. "She will be born safely."
Messiah decided to break the clown's legs after he finished dealing with the orphanage.
He promised Bruce not to kill anyone, but Bruce himself often breaks the Joker's legs, so this is acceptable.
I will not allow Metropolis to be nuked again, nor will I allow the Son of Tomorrow to become the Supreme Leader again.
Superman showed a surprised expression. Although he didn't understand why the Messiah suddenly said he wanted to protect his child, he still said thank you.
"Thank you for your promise." Superman winked at the Messiah, "But it's not her, it's him."
“He is a boy.”
Messiah was stunned and repeated stupidly, "boy...?"
"Yes, boy."
But the unborn child of the superman in the previous world was a girl.
Messiah looked at Superman's brilliant smile and said in shock, "You are not him..."
Superman had no idea what the Messiah was talking about, so he just kept smiling.
He felt like he was involved in some ridiculous double scene... Would Bruce kill him if he found out?!
Superman wailed inwardly.
Messiah took a deep breath, quickly put on his black-framed glasses, stopped looking at Superman, muffledly said "My promise remains unchanged", then lowered his head and rushed into the residential building.
In an apartment in a residential building, several orphanage staff members sat together in shock.
"What should we do...If this gets exposed, we will definitely be sent to jail." A staff member said nervously.
The woman dressed as a nun clutched the cross around her neck, closed her eyes and prayed, "Great Virgin Mary, please forgive us and grant rest to these children."
"What are you afraid of? We've already done it." One of them said viciously, "They can't get out anyway. As long as we pretend that we were out on business that day and couldn't return to the orphanage, this will just be an accident."
It was they who chose to abandon the children and run away after the fire in the orphanage grew bigger. In order to cover up their actions, they locked the door of the orphanage, trapping the children in the fire and unable to leave.
If it weren't for the Messiah, if Superman hadn't received the call for help, those children would have died.
Messiah floated outside the window, looking coldly at the staff who were either nervous or vicious.
He kicked the glass to pieces and rushed in amid the screams of the staff, floating in the air above the apartment and looking down at them.
"Cowardly and vicious," Messiah said coldly, "You should be thankful that I don't kill."
The Messiah promised Batman not to kill, so even if he felt these people deserved to die, he wouldn't kill them.
and……
Messiah looked at the faces of these staff members, and through them, he saw the families and relatives behind them.
Why do these bad guys have families, but those innocent children don't?
Messiah looked at these scumbags in his eyes with disappointment.
The staff looked at Messiah in horror: "You, you..."
Messiah gently moved his fingers, and a long golden rope condensed into it, binding all the staff together.
He could not kill these staff members, nor could he punish them privately, but they had to be punished.
Messiah decides to deliver them to the police, just like Bruce would do after taking down those criminals.
But Messiah always felt uneasy about giving the right to punish them to others...
While Messiah was thinking, he flew to the nearest police station with the orphanage staff, and Superman followed behind Messiah, willing to help Messiah if he needed help.
Is this supposed to be the Messiah's superhero debut? Superman pondered this in his head. He didn't seem to have heard of any new vigilantes in Gotham recently.
In the police station on a weekday, the police were busy handling a case until Messiah suddenly appeared with a group of people tied up together.
The police looked at Messiah in surprise: "You are...?"
They tried their best to control their facial expressions, but when they saw a short child carrying a bunch of adults, they couldn't help but reveal strange expressions.
Messiah pointed to the orphanage staff and said simply, "They locked the children in the orphanage in the fire."
"What?!"
Several policemen quickly stood up and stepped forward, recognizing the identities of these people. They had been to that orphanage to transfer children who had lost their parents.
The staff tried to explain to the police, but Messiah glanced at them expressionlessly and moved his fingers slightly, and the staff couldn't help but tell the whole truth.
The staff tried desperately to keep their mouths shut but couldn't control their movements.
The policeman's expression gradually became serious, and he asked, "What about the children in the orphanage...?"
Messiah said calmly, "I have rescued them. Some are in the hospital and some are still in the orphanage."
The police looked at Messiah with gratitude, but seeing that Messiah was only about waist-high at most, and looked to be about five years old...
Isn’t it a bit of child abuse for a five-year-old to be a superhero…?
Until Superman also floated into the police station, stood aside with his arms folded, and watched the conversation between Messiah and the police.
The police looked at Superman and exclaimed, "Superman?!"
They looked at Superman, then at the Messiah, and couldn't help but reveal expressions of sudden enlightenment.
This must be Superman’s child. He can fly and has Superman following him. He must be Superman’s child.
Superman nodded to the police, completely unaware of the accident that had occurred.
After Messiah handed over these staff members to the police, he flew out of the police station.
Superman and Messiah looked at each other for a moment. He hesitated, not knowing what to say to Messiah.
He stayed just to ensure that nothing would go wrong when Messiah handled the incident alone. Now that the incident has been resolved, it seems he can leave?
We can't send the Messiah home.
Thinking of Batman's gloomy appearance, Superman shuddered unconsciously, and then said goodbye to the Messiah.
Messiah looked at Superman with complicated eyes and said softly, "Goodbye, Superman."
This should have been the end.
But it’s not over yet.
The next day, poor Clark Kent spit out a mouthful of coffee after reading the newspaper headline: "New Teenage Super Hero Debuts? It Turns Out to be Superman's Son!"
A call came from a number marked B. Clark looked at the phone nervously, closed his eyes and answered the call.
"Superman, we need to talk." Batman's gloomy voice sounded from it.
Clark thought sadly: I'm done.
【Author’s words】
Let's pray for poor Kekeken, the [vegetarian dog] who is not dead.
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