"John, you'd better come and see this."

At the door of the Forgotten Bookstore branch on the corner of downtown Gotham's commercial street, Zatanna struggled to push open the glass door.

Konstantin was standing in front of the bookshelf that he had just moved into, unpacking bundles of new books and putting them on the shelves, more than ten years younger since all his physical and mental ailments had been expelled.

At this time, he was wearing a white casual shirt and cropped suit pants, biting an unlit cigarette in his mouth, and his originally messy white blonde hair was long and then scattered on the sides of his cheeks.

Seeing Zatana push the door, Konstantin walked over quickly, opened the door for her and said, "What's the matter?" What do you think of the newspaper? ”

Zatanna wore a long hair tied in a high ponytail behind her back, a dark purple herringbone camisole on her upper body, satin wide-legged pants on the bottom, and a pair of flip-flops under her feet.

Zatanna leaned slightly in the direction of Konstantin, she pointed to the front page of the newspaper and said: "Look at this, someone has accused Bruce Wayne of mind manipulating women, using his money and position to mentally abuse his female companions, and even drugged them to stun them on dates, oh my God! ”

Konstantin's eyes widened slightly, and he reached out with a hand to tuck the long hair that covered half of his face behind his head, and read the words in the newspaper intently.

At this time, Zatana raised his eyes to look at him, Konstantin's hand was still on the glass door, Zatana was standing in front of his chest, and the height difference between the two made Zatana look up when she could just see Konstantin's sharp jawline.

His image was still unkempt, with unshaven stubble on his chin and fine golden fluff attached to his ears.

But as the saying goes, the bed is the best beauty salon, when you don't sleep enough and cause mental decadence, this image looks like sloppy, but if you don't have the trouble of nightmares, go to bed early and get up early every day, you don't have bad habits, and your mental state is extremely full, this image is wild and chic and masculine.

Konstantin subconsciously touched his chin and said, "I'm curious who has the courage to stand up and accuse him, it can't be those courtesans, right?" ”

Zatana looked a little stunned, and it wasn't until Konstantin's gaze fell on her face that she reacted, and then said, "Wait, do you mean you believe him did this?" ”

"Hasn't he been doing it all the time?" Konstantin put down his hand, walked back to the bookshelf and crouched down, stuffing books into the bottom compartment, and said: "He can even graduate with honors from Schiller, do you expect him to not do this?" ”

"I mean, even if he learns the trick, he doesn't have to, he's not like that...... Wait, he's not, right? ”

"How long has it been since you've seen him?"

"It's only been a little over a month......"

"I mean being with him for a long time."

Zatanna stood in place, holding a newspaper in one hand and fanning the wind in the other, tilting her head and recalling: "It was several years, he was my first love. ”

"You don't have to be his."

Zatana suddenly realized that something was wrong, she crossed her arms and laughed, shook her head and said to Konstantin, "You can't be jealous, right?" John? ”

Zatanna walked up to the crouching Konstantin, pushed her knee against his ribs, then crouched down on his back, put her chin on the side of his neck and said, "You don't know that your former nickname was 'John', do you?" ”

Konstantin crouched in place and snorted twice, then said, "That's one of my best nicknames, okay, seriously, do you believe Bruce didn't do that?" ”

Zatana thought for a moment and said, "I don't think he did it on purpose, although when I met him, he was a little gloomy and didn't look normal, but he was a person with extremely high moral standards and kindness, wasn't he?" ”

Konstantin slowly sat down on the ground, put his hands on his knees and said, "I don't think he would have taken the initiative to abuse others, but he drugged this accuser...... I think something is wrong. ”

"How?"

"Ethics aside, do you think it's that easy to make out with Bruce's hands? If he really wants to drug someone, how can an ordinary hospital find out the drug residue? ”

Zatanna leaned against him, put her chin on his shoulder, then nodded and said, "That makes sense, then someone is going to frame him, should we help him?" ”

Konstantin lowered his head again, let his long hair cover half of his face, and stared at Zatanna with a rather hurt gaze from the gap in his hair, Zatana patted him on the back vigorously and said, "Don't play this game with me, how many people have you slept with this poor stray dog's expression?" ”

Konstantin was still pretending, and Zatanna snorted coldly and said, "That includes Bruce Wayne, right?" That face of his, is your ideal type. ”

Konstantin immediately broke the mark, he laughed, pushed Zatanna to her feet, and said: "Are you jealous? ”

"Jealous that you didn't get him to bed with all the effort and I succeeded?" Zatanna rolled her eyes and stood up.

Konstantin reached out to grab her, and Miss Magician pushed the man away, and then said, "Don't stick to me, it's hot, I'll go to the second floor to measure the location of the air conditioning duct, don't even think about touching me a finger until the air conditioner is ready." ”

As soon as Zatana turned around, she heard Konstantin behind her make a "uh" sound, as soon as she turned her head and saw Konstantin clutching his chest to the side, Miss Magician instinctively wanted to use the rhetoric magic, but before the arm could be stretched out, Konstantin staggered, stabilized his center of gravity, and knelt on one knee.

"What the hell!" Thinking he was playing a prank, Zatanna crouched down and reached out to pull his arm, but Konstantin twitched again, took a deep breath, and when he raised his head, the hair on his forehead was wet with sweat and clung to his forehead.

Zatana hurriedly squatted down and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?" Where does it hurt? ”

Konstantin seemed to know something, he swallowed his saliva, shook his head and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly had a palpitation." ”

After speaking, he slowly straightened up, but Zatanna's face became serious, she directly pushed Konstantin in front of him away, stared at the space behind him and said, "Who?" ”

Konstantin turned back, and the first thing that appeared was a pair of pitch-black wings, and Azazel's face emerged from the flames of hell.

The Hell King was stunned for a moment when he saw Konstantin.

But Konstantin couldn't help but burst out laughing, until he bent down with laughter and kept patting the bookshelf next to him.

Konstantin couldn't breathe when he smiled, Zatanna looked puzzled, and when Konstantin finished laughing, he said to Zatanna: "Someone posed for a long time, only to find out that he had made a mistake." ”

Azazel's face immediately sank, he stared at Konstantin and said, "So you are playing tricks, Konstantin, do you want to rejoin the devil's deal?" ”

"Think again, Azazel." Konstantin was not afraid, but he leaned up and put an arm on Azazel's shoulder and said: "No matter how sure you are that you can get justice from him after the loss, you better think about it again." ”

"Don't talk nonsense with me, where is Schiller? Why did I find you after his soul breath? ”

"Have you ever heard of call forwarding?" Konstantin took the new phone he had just bought and shook it at Azazel.

Azazel frowned deeply, his fingers flickered, and a cluster of flames ignited in front of Konstantin's forehead, burning directly into his hair.

Konstantin hurriedly extinguished the flames, and Zatanna reached out and pointed to his forehead and said, "Extinguish!" ”

Konstantin looked at the wisp of black smoke coming out of his forehead, crossed his arms and stared at Azazaire and said, "The dignified demon king also plays this kind of trick, haven't you eaten?" ”

Azazel snapped his fingers again, and a larger flame flashed in front of Konstantin's feet, Konstantin jumped back in shock, and then glared at Azazel and said, "You can't do anything to me, killing someone without a contract will make the other party's soul go to another place, do you want me to go to heaven?" ”

"Then I deeply regret heaven." Azadze looked at Konstantin with a gloomy face and said.

"Okay, what the hell is going on?" Zatana raised her voice, interrupting the conversation between the two of them, and Azazel glanced at Zatanna, as if he was jealous of her abilities, and then he said, "Take me to him, Konstantin." ”

"You won't want to go." Konstantin shook his head and retreated, he looked at Azazel and said, "You don't understand one thing, that Schiller you know doesn't touch things in hell for no reason, and if he does, you shouldn't go." ”

A hint of annoyance flashed between Azazel's brows, and he said in a deep voice, "My demon general, Reiz, is missing, and his guards say that Schiller is in the palace. ”

"A demon general is worth your trouble?"

"Sixteen in a month!"

"I've said it all, he's not the Schiller you know." Konstantin narrowed his eyes, one of his hands still pressed against his chest, covering his heart.

Never before had Azazel heard such a serious tone from Konstantin's mouth.

All demons know that Konstantin is a man who can laugh and scream to the end even if his soul is thrown into the deepest part of the abyss of hell, and he is the true practitioner of the Dionysian spirit.

Such a person is inherently not associated with seriousness, but if he looks at the world with a little tragic temperament, he will be crazy a long time ago.

Suddenly, Konstantin relaxed his arms, sighed and looked at Azazel and said, "I warned you, if you have to go, we'd better go another way." ”

"In what way?"

"I'm going to drive."

Two minutes later, Azazel, who was sitting in the back seat, struggled to retract his wings, Konstantin put one hand on the steering wheel, crossed Zatana in the passenger seat, probed through the gap between the two seats in the front row to the back seat, and said: "You should really learn from your old boss, Lucifer can wear a seat belt in a car with his wings extended." ”

Azazel's face sank even more, and it took a long time before he spit out: "Don't mention him to me." ”

Konstantin raised his eyebrows in interest, but still didn't say anything, turned his head back to concentrate on driving, and suddenly Azazel, who was sitting in the back seat, said: "What is that?" ”

Konstantin glanced back at him, followed his line of sight, and saw Azazel looking at a construction site blocked by a wall, and he replied as usual: "Oh, that's a new subway line under construction, you know what a subway is, right?" ”

"The last time I came to the human world was two years ago, not 20,000 years ago." Azazel replied expressionlessly, frowning, never taking his eyes off the construction site, as if suppressing his anger, "Don't fool me, do you humans need to use such powerful dark energy to build a subway?" ”

"What is it not used, human beings have always asked for money rather than life, and this is especially true of Gotham." Konstantin turned the steering wheel and said, "What? The demons were all blocked from the earth by the green light energy, and you were angry? ”

"John Constantine......" Azazel's tone was low to the bottom.

Konstantin didn't seem to hear anything, so he naturally changed the subject and asked, "Did your demon general contact you after he disappeared?" ”

"Nope." Azazel replied with a blank face: "And that's exactly the problem. ”

In the back garden of the Rodriguez Manor, a sweaty Barry rushed to Pamela's side, grunting with the ice water that Schiller had handed him.

After drinking a large glass of ice water in one gulp, Barry sighed contentedly, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and was about to continue running forward to chase Harry, when he tripped over something under his feet.

Barry bent down and picked up the thing that had nearly tripped him over, took it in his hand, spun it around, looked at it and said:

"Did the moose's hooves look like this?"

(End of chapter)