Big was silent for a long time before stammering, "He… they turned us into… this, and then abandoned us…"
"They certainly did wrong, but even so, killing them would also be wrong."
Kevin said some seemingly righteous words in front of Big and the onlookers outside.
In reality, Kevin didn't care about Big's parents at all.
Parents who turn their children into monsters and then abandon them without considering their children's feelings deserve whatever revenge their children might seek in the future.
If these parents were Kevin's acquaintances, Kevin might have said a few words on their behalf out of consideration.
But unfortunately, Kevin would not make friends who abandon their children.
However, to extract information from Big, Kevin had to portray himself as righteous to elicit Big's 'guilt' and make him tell the truth.
Big looked big, but at the end of the day, he was just a child.
He was probably only fifteen or sixteen this year.
Coupled with his good nature, he didn't seem to have the rebelliousness of adolescence, and after Kevin's words, he immediately lowered his head, gripping the edge of the table, unsure of what to do.
Kevin estimated the time and struck while the iron was hot, saying, "I don't mean to blame you. You haven't done anything yet, and you haven't personally killed your parents."
"Ye… yes! That's right, I… I haven't acted yet…"
"So you still have a chance to correct your mistakes. Now I ask you, do you know where your companions went?"
After a few sentences, Kevin officially got to the point.
But as expected, Big shook his head when he heard Kevin's question.
He didn't know where his companions went.
"I… we… led by Paul, hid in a certain factory, and then… then a new companion said that if we kept hiding, we would definitely be found, and suggested we go to a place he found to hide… and then…"
"Wait!"
Big was talking to himself, throwing out a lot of information in an instant.
Kevin knew this was the key to how Big came to this world, and immediately stopped him, saying, "Let's go one by one. First, who is Paul?"
"Paul… we… we all call him the Narrator, because… his ability is to describe everything he sees…"
The Narrator, Kevin remembered this person.
In the spin-off anime, he was a… mouthpiece who sat in a wheelchair and talked about what everyone was doing.
His ability was just that, a useless one among useless abilities.
Because describing things that have been done, seen, or heard, is something anyone with a little public speaking training can do.
Moreover, his narration sometimes carried subjective thoughts, so this ability was completely useless.
But what was the situation now?
A Supe with a useless ability, leading them to escape?
"You said, he told you to hide?"
"Yes, because… he said he saw other things, he saw our deaths, and he said he believed it was a chain reaction between him and his parallel world counterpart…
"Anyway, that's what he said, so we followed him and hid."
Big described it.
Through Big's narration, Kevin understood.
Perhaps the intertwining of parallel worlds allowed the Narrator, who could originally only narrate events in this world, to narrate events in parallel worlds.
In that case, his ability was no longer useless.
At least he could see what was happening in parallel worlds.
And indeed, the Narrator, precisely because he saw what was happening in the parallel world and knew what their fate would be, decided to hide with everyone before taking action.
This explained why no one could find these children from Red River after the incident.
With the Narrator, they could at least hide in a relatively safe place.
"Then who is this new companion you mentioned?"
Kevin then got straight to the point.
The person who made the Red River revenge squad hide was the Narrator, but the person who brought them to this world was clearly not the Narrator, but someone else.
And he wasn't a member of the Red River squad.
"He… he calls himself 'Flashback', he was… a companion found by Ghost, it seems that before… he was also a Supe with a trash Superpower, just like us.
"But unlike us, his body is normal, not mutated, but he is willing to help us."
"Flashback…" Kevin muttered the title and asked, "He didn't say his name?"
Big shook his head: "We… many of us don't have names, so… we didn't ask for his name either."
After being thrown into the orphanage, their titles became their names.
For example, Big's name was Big, and Ghost's name was Ghost.
So they only needed to know that Flashback was Flashback; as for his real name, no one cared.
"You said his ability is trash, so what is his ability?"
"Before this… he… he would only occasionally see some hallucinations and communicate with himself in the hallucinations, but, according to him, one day he suddenly became able to transfer things to another space, or transfer things from another space here.
"He doesn't know what that space is, but he can be sure there are other lives in that space… because… because he once transferred a chicken here…"
"A chicken?"
"That's what he said, so, before we were about to be found by Vought, the Narrator suggested using Flashback's ability to temporarily transfer to another space to hide, and then… we split up."
Big recounted the events.
By this point, the three minutes had long passed, but Kevin no longer cared about that.
He cared about the Supe who called himself 'Flashback'.
The impact of the intertwining of parallel worlds was greater than Kevin had anticipated.
Many Supes whose abilities were originally unremarkable began to develop new abilities due to the intertwining of parallel worlds.
For example, the Narrator who could see parallel worlds, and also this 'Flashback', who, before the parallel worlds intertwined, would have only been considered to have a personality disorder.
The reason for the Red River revenge squad's disappearance was this 'Flashback'.
First, the Narrator 'observed' that Vought would soon find them, and then suggested using Flashback's ability to temporarily transfer to another space to hide.
But they didn't know that Flashback's transfer was actually just transferring their parallel world counterparts.
His transfer, strictly speaking, was an 'exchange', so while they were teleported to the parallel world, their already deceased counterparts from the parallel world were also teleported to this world.
At the same time, perhaps because Flashback also left with everyone, the landing points of 'them' exchanged from another world also became different.
It was not an exchange of equivalent positions, but an exchange of random positions.
Even the time was random.
Some of them might have been teleported to the future.
No, that's not quite right.
More accurately, some of them are still in a 'teleporting' state and have not yet arrived in this world, which is why they separated.
Just like the fresh 'remains' Kevin found in his own world.
It wasn't that the limbs traveled through time, but rather that due to the instability of Flashback's ability, a large portion of the things were fixed in a teleportation state, stuck between the two worlds.
Of course, these were just Kevin's guesses, but Kevin had heard physicists make similar conjectures and could deduce a guess close to the truth.
And if such a conjecture were true, Big and Ghost were clearly the 'lucky ones' among them.
They didn't stay in the world's interstice for too long.
Correspondingly, the others who have not yet been found are very likely still in the world's interstice.
So no matter which world they were in, Kevin couldn't find them.
"Flashback… what does he look like?"
Kevin continued to ask.
Big thought for a moment and said, "He… is very thin and small, wears round glasses on his face, and his clothes are worn-out jeans and a black shirt, looking like they've been worn for a long time.
"He has… short hair, yes, very short hair, like he just came out of prison, the rest… the rest I can't remember clearly."
"This information is enough, thank you, Big."
Although Big didn't remember much, with these details, Kevin could confirm Flashback's appearance.
After thanking Big, Kevin continued to him:
"You haven't done anything yet, so you shouldn't be locked up here, but unfortunately, what I say doesn't count here right now. But don't worry, as soon as I find Flashback, I will let you go home."
"…I don't have a home anymore."
"You will. Aren't you and your companions a family supporting each other? Wherever your companions are, that is home."
Kevin, uncharacteristically, spoke to Big with very gentle words.
This tactic was very effective; at least after hearing it, tears began to well up in Big's eyes.
After speaking, Kevin got up and left the interrogation room, leaving Big in the room.
After leaving the room, Kevin heard Mallory say to him, "Well said, where your companions are is home. It seems you must be a good person."
"If just saying a few words can increase your goodwill towards me, then I'm truly happy."
Kevin picked up his sunglasses and put them on, continuing, "Alright, I've got the information I wanted. To show my sincerity, you can ask me questions related to Vought, and I will tell you."
"Then we won't beat around the bush. Butcher found out about Sage Grove, and he wanted to use Lamplighter as a witness to accuse Vought, but it clearly won't bring down Vought, so…"
Mallory looked at Kevin:
"We need stronger evidence to bring down Vought."
"Hmm, that's simple. Since you know about Sage Grove Center, you should understand that Vought is experimenting on adults.
"And Vought doesn't have just one institution like that."
Kevin pushed his sunglasses up. His eyes behind the sunglasses swept over the two people in front of him, then he said, "Underneath Godolkin University, there is another Vought institution, 'The Woods'. The main purpose of The Woods is to research methods against Supes, and it has already achieved some results… How do you like this evidence?"
Because it wasn't his world, nor his corporation, Kevin had no hesitation in exposing Vought's secrets.
Anyway, whatever they did had nothing to do with Kevin.