Chapter 41: Reasonable! This Is Truly Too Reasonable!
She didn’t know if it was the first glare of the day, but Superwoman’s expression was extremely colorful. Her mouth opened and closed, but she ultimately couldn’t muster the courage to ask.
“Next book, the next one will definitely include you, Cousin Aunt. The story that Wonder Woman and Superwoman have to tell, I think this will definitely get extremely correct market feedback in America.” Ian didn’t want to disappoint his relative, so he gave Kara what he thought was a promise heavy with affection.
However.
The Kryptonian girl’s face immediately turned extremely pale.
“I think I’m still a bit too obscure, not suitable, not suitable…” Kara frantically waved her hands, her eyes even carrying a hint of terror.
“Let’s talk about it! What exactly did you come to find me for! Did you cause some major trouble at home, so you could only flee here to avoid punishment from your parents?”
Kara frantically started changing the topic.
She sincerely felt that given Ian’s personality, and the symptoms written on that diagnosis, even if Ian caused a huge mess, she wouldn’t feel that shocked.
“Actually, the facts are exactly the opposite. My father caused a major disaster, forcing cautious me to step up and help him.” Ian walked toward the open kitchen.
His eyes were only on Kara’s big refrigerator. The previous chicken nuggets and french fries had high calories, but still hadn’t filled the hunger and energy deficiency Ian felt from using 【Self-Healing Tide】.
“Talk normally!”
Kara sighed wearily.
“Be serious, tell me the truth… if you still want my help.” She watched Ian open her refrigerator, then take out a box containing food.
“This is the truth, Cousin Aunt. Your brother, as close as flesh and blood, is on the verge of death, and we are the only ones who can save him.” Ian rarely spoke in a serious tone in a low voice.
Of course.
His seriousness didn’t last three seconds. He quickly lowered his head again, opened the lunchbox, sniffed it with his nose, slightly furrowed his brows, hesitated for a moment, but still shoved two mouthfuls of chicken breast from inside into his mouth.
“Ptoo ptoo ptoo!”
Ian spat out the chicken breast right after chewing twice.
“It’s already spoiled!”
He ran to the sink and rinsed his mouth vigorously, somewhat regretting why he hadn’t just taken a small taste when he smelled the sourness—hunger really affected his wisdom too much.
“Is this what you meant by there’s still food upstairs, Cousin Aunt?”
The youth wiped his mouth and issued a soul-searching question.
“…”
Kara felt extremely embarrassed.
“Maybe it was left a few days too long…” She hurried to the refrigerator and stopped Ian from taking more things out. “Actually, some things inside might have been there for dozens of days?”
“Anyway, definitely not more than sixty days. I only moved here sixty days ago.” Kara really regretted not having good living habits, but for most people, this was probably intermittent regret.
Once the embarrassment passed.
Habits remained habits.
“Are you sure you’re a girl?”
Ian felt his filter for girls shatter.
“Well… this is fermented gourmet food, you wouldn’t understand… Since you can’t stomach this slightly fermented gourmet food, I’ll take you out for some fried chicken later.”
The excuse Kara found for herself was truly the lamest of the lame.
“…”
This time it was Ian who was speechless.
“You call these things gourmet food?”
He grabbed a few more pieces of chicken breast from the box he’d taken out earlier. Except for a few on the surface that looked intact, the ones below had even started oozing green liquid.
“This isn’t attacking taste buds anymore; it attacks every consumer’s health insurance card!” Ian, as someone who could face an evil spirit without changing expression and take a few bites to taste the saltiness.
Even he truly couldn’t accept this.
Chicken breast already tasted like shit; before spoiling, it was barely tolerable, but now in his mouth, it had a very intense flavor of human sweat glands mixed with urine-soaked telephone poles.
“Stop with the irrelevant stuff and talk about your father… You don’t seem anxious at all!” Kara had already lost count of how many times she’d changed the topic today.
Still, this was indeed the main matter. Kara still held strong doubt about Ian’s claims, after all, there weren’t many things on the entire Earth that could threaten Superman’s life. Anything endangering Superman was a planet-destroying catastrophe each time, and she shouldn’t be unaware of such a disaster.
“Of course I’m anxious, but not that anxious. It’s only the second day, and I’ve already approached the truth. I don’t even know what to do with a full seven days… Fine, let’s talk about my father.” Ian noticed Kara’s expression was off and didn’t digress further.
He organized his words.
Ian began to recount the relevant experiences in detail.
About ten minutes later.
Kara had roughly understood the full picture through his account. However, in Kara’s view, after hearing Ian’s “experiences,” she suspected even more that he was “having an episode.”
“So…” Kara even needed to take a deep breath before speaking, her voice squeezed out through gritted teeth. “You mean you met a universe-level deity who is 100% secretly in love with you, so she risked breaking the rules to secretly tell you how to save your father?”
This wasn’t surprising that Kara didn’t believe Ian.
The plot was truly fantastical.
“Yeah, with a bit of artistic license, not much. That’s roughly how it happened.” Ian sat on the sofa opposite her, his expression serious and determined.
Hearing this.
Kara fell into a long silence.
Her gaze scanned back and forth across Ian’s face, trying to find a flaw in that innocent expression—he was inscrutable, truly inscrutable!
Was this cheap nephew having an episode, or had something this outrageous, absurd, and heaven-defying actually happened? And just as Kara’s head was buzzing, on the verge of entering a 【Dao Weird Super】 state.
Ian suddenly pulled a military dagger from his pocket.
Kara’s eyes widened instantly.
“Wait—”
Her warning wasn’t finished.
Ian had already unhesitatingly stabbed toward his own heart.
“Whoosh!”
Kara turned into a blur, the Kryptonian’s speed tearing a brief sonic boom in the air. Her hand gripped the blade tightly, the metal groaning under the strain in her palm.
“What are you doing!?”
Kara felt lingering fear.
Her voice was almost a roar, the whole person looking like a bristling cat.
“Of course, proving to you that my father is truly on the brink of death, and there’s a big shot who wants to save him… Of course, I’m also full and want to rub off on the big shot’s bug while I’m at it.”
Ian tried to force the dagger into his chest but found it immovable no matter how hard he pushed. The power difference between him and Supergirl Kara was too vast.
“Cousin Aunt, you’re blocking my path to takeoff.” Ian could only try to persuade Kara to let go, but Kara’s expression changed and she directly crushed the military dagger in his hand.
The blade shattered into pieces in the seemingly slender girl’s palm.
“I’ll go investigate with you right now! Happy now!” Kara took a deep breath, her chest heaving violently. She suspected Ian was having an episode, but regardless, she could only first send him back to Metropolis.
“Alright!”
Ian bounced up from the sofa.
“What are you doing?”
Watching Ian approach her then leap suddenly, Kara was stunned. But thinking of him as a pitiful child, Kara could only swallow her speechlessness.
After rushing out the window.
Supergirl took flight.
And Ian… he sat on Supergirl’s back and flew up too.
“So this is what flight feels like!” Ian grabbed Kara’s hair with both hands, feeling the breeze across his face, his longing to unlock 【Homelander】 growing stronger.
“No! Can’t you show some respect to your Cousin Aunt! I know which way to fly! No need to pull my hair for navigation!” Kara had never felt so exhausted in her life.
But she was the elder.
What could she do?
She could only scold him angrily a few times.
Unfortunately, Ian’s way of thinking was truly hard for her to fathom.
“Giddyup!! Giddyup!!!”
Ian no longer needed to control Kara’s direction with her hair. But hearing the sounds from behind and feeling her waist being kicked, Kara thought it would be better if he pulled her hair!
“Can you settle down…”
Kara’s utterly helpless complaint was only half out.
The next moment.
Her super hearing caught an anomaly in the distance.
“A plane is about to crash!” Kara turned sharply, changing direction. Ian looked up to see a civilian airliner trailing black smoke, plummeting at an extremely dangerous angle.
“Another plane crash! Too frequent! There was one yesterday!” Ian couldn’t help furrowing his brows, starting to suspect some unknown conspiracy behind it.
Could it be the start of some major event?
Ian increasingly felt he might be in turbulent times.
However.
“Where’s the frequency? It’s normal!”
Kara was very calm about it.
Clearly experienced in saving planes.
“Boeing, it’s always like this.” The casualness in her voice, and her puzzlement at Ian’s fuss, were truly a mental blow to him.
“…”
This time, it was finally Ian’s turn to be silenced.
Speechlessly objecting.
