BOOM!
A beam of light shot out from the void, heading straight for Kino's face.
BANG!
Kino's head exploded instantly. His headless corpse collapsed to the ground with a thud, raising a cloud of dust.
"NO!!!"
Barry's pupils shrank. His knees gave way, and he dropped heavily beside the cold corpse. Grief surged like a broken dam, and hot tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes.
"Why are you crying?"
"It's my fault he died. He shouldn't have died. It's all because of me..."
Barry suddenly froze.Someone was speaking.
Startled, he turned his head—and saw Kino crouching beside him, completely unscathed and holding a camera.
Click!
A flash went off. The burst of light left Barry momentarily dazed.
His eyes darted between the headless body on the ground and the very-much-alive Kino in front of him, moving so fast it was as if his head left afterimages.
"You're alive?! That's great!"
Barry's voice trembled with excitement. He instinctively reached out to hug Kino, as if to prove he was really alive.
Thud!
His head smacked into an invisible barrier and bounced back hard. Dizzy and seeing stars, Barry staggered.
"You're too dirty. I have a cleanliness obsession," Kino said calmly, putting the camera away.
"My bad, I mean… I'm sorry."
Barry shook his head, then looked at the headless corpse on the ground.
"What about him?"
"Forget him. Let's go find your team first."
Kino opened a portal and walked in first.
The headless corpse on the ground vanished.
Barry, full of questions, had no choice but to quickly follow through the mysterious portal.
Despite this Superman's twisted sense of humor, he seemed very strong.
Shelter Base
Besides Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Green Lantern, and Shazam, others present were: Doctor Fate, Hawkman, Zatanna, and Martian Manhunter.
These heroes had only joined the battle in its final stages.But by then, the tide had already turned for the worse.Their arrival couldn't reverse the outcome of this war.
"How's the boy?"
Wonder Woman's severed arm had stopped bleeding. She looked with concern at the child lying in the life-support pod.
Half of his face was burned beyond recognition.His lower body was gone, leaving only a charred stump.He lay silently, his breathing so faint it was like a candle in the wind—barely distinguishable from death.
"How should I know? Be quiet."
"Heal!"
Zatanna kept chanting backward spells.
But Billy's condition did not improve at all.
"There's a force inside the boy that's continually destroying his body. We can't expel it. What's worse, the boy is still conscious. If..."
Doctor Fate paused, leaving his sentence unfinished—but everyone understood what he meant.
Even so, his hands never stopped moving.A golden magical shield hovered like a thin layer of membrane, barely keeping Billy alive.
But this method was clearly draining his power.Even with the help of Nabu, he was only delaying Billy's inevitable death.
"Let me do it."
Wonder Woman stood silent for a few seconds before approaching the bed.Her left hand gently stroked the unburned side of Billy's face.
"I'm sorry."
She pressed her fingers against his chest.The same fingers that once moved with strength and precision on the battlefield were now trembling with hesitation and guilt.
She had never imagined a day would come when she'd have to kill a child—her own comrade, no less.
No one stopped her.The others silently turned away.
Letting him live like this would only prolong his suffering.Maybe release was the kinder choice.
Just a second before she struck, a portal opened in the room.
Kino stepped out——only to be greeted with a barrage of attacks.
"Darkseid's forces!"
"Ecnarf fo enarbmem eht tuohtiw ydob ym otni gniyrrac!"
Zatanna cast her spell.
A massive wave of fire surged toward Kino, warping the very air in its path.
At the same time, Doctor Fate unleashed a brilliant energy beam like a deadly arrow.
The others reacted immediately.
Cyborg charged his white noise cannon.Green Lantern conjured a heavy machine gun.Martian Manhunter rocketed toward Kino like a missile.Hawkman spread his massive wings and lifted his heavy mace, eyes full of killing intent.Wonder Woman didn't hesitate—she picked up the Godkiller Sword and charged at Kino with everything she had.
"I like this kind of welcome party," Kino smirked. He didn't expect such a thrilling surprise upon arrival.
"Cancel."
The moment the word left his lips, Zatanna's flames vanished as if erased by an invisible hand—gone without a trace, like they never existed.
"I heard you were tough?"
Kino grabbed the fastest one—Martian Manhunter.Before the alien could react, Kino used him as a shield and took the brunt of Doctor Fate's beam attack.
Then, with a casual swing, he threw the Martian like a cannonball toward Hawkman.
BANG!
The two slammed into the wall, forming a massive human-shaped crater.
Kino then approached Green Lantern.Before the hero could respond, Kino snatched the machine gun from his hands.
Without hesitation, Kino turned it on Cyborg and pulled the trigger.
Caught off guard, Cyborg was immediately engulfed in a barrage of bullets.
Green Lantern quickly dismissed the construct weapon and tried to summon a fist—
But before he could, his ring vanished.
"You got distracted," Kino said, twirling the power ring in his hand.
"You—"
Green Lantern's eyes widened.The next moment, Kino hurled him into Cyborg like a thrown sack.
Kino casually tossed the ring aside, then leaned slightly to one side.
A sharp slash whizzed past him, gouging a deep trench in the ground.
"Die!"
Wonder Woman screamed.Blood boiled at the stump of her severed arm as she attacked even more ferociously, driven by fury.
Her missing arm didn't hinder her—it only made her attacks more reckless and dangerous.
"You all love wearing your weaknesses on your sleeves."
"What?"
In a flash, Wonder Woman lost sight of Kino.He disappeared from right in front of her.
Before she could react—
Snap!
The Lasso of Truth coiled tightly around her, pinning her like prey.She crashed heavily to the ground.
"Borrowing this."
BAM! BAM!
Kino appeared behind Doctor Fate and removed his helmet, smashing it onto the old man's head.Then he gave Zatanna a swift hit for good measure.
Done!
He pulled out his camera and snapped a few close-ups.
[Time used: 6.66 seconds. Perfect number. I give this a solid 10.]
Venom's cheerful voice rang out.
Quote of the Chapter:"A monster in the wrong hands is a tragedy; a monster in the right hands is a masterpiece."
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