Chapter 022: Contract
"Hurry up, Rorschach, I'm going to be late for school."
Martha fried the eggs, frowning slightly.
"That's it, that's it." Rorschach stuffed another loaf of bread into his mouth, grabbed his bag, and ran with Clark to catch the school bus.
It's another sunny day.
"Have you heard?" Pete mysteriously leaned over.
"What did you hear again?" Clark raised an eyebrow.
Pete really loves gossip, and I don't know where he got so much gossip.
Rorschach, as always, did not speak much, and it was not surprising that he had fallen asleep.
Chloe also came over in time.
"Yesterday the rugby team seemed to have been beaten up at school, and the locks in the equipment room were picked."
Pete didn't deliberately lower his voice this time.
While the regular members of the rugby team are very popular in school, they are also annoying.
"Isn't there a connection between these two things?" Chloe is worthy of being a journalist, and she captured something in an instant.
"Ahh......h
"The people on the school team won't be interviewed, after all, it's a mess." It was Rorschach who spoke up and stopped Chloe's thoughts.
"Where did you get the news Pete?" Clark quickly changed the subject.
"I have an aunt who is a cleaner at the school, and she said she saw the school rugby team swearing out of the school gate and limping."
Pete looked quite happy, compared to the swaggering guys, it was a rare scene.
Especially these guys are calling themselves and constantly sarcastic.
Thinking of this, Pete envied Rorschach's ability to see it again.
It is really comfortable to wrap up the days without looking at anyone's eyes, but it's a pity that he doesn't have this determination.
Rorschach didn't continue to join the conversation, his thoughts drifting a little farther away.
I haven't asked Clark for cell absorption all these years, and it would be false to say that he doesn't want to master the abilities that are unique to Kryptonians and even superhumans.
Yesterday Clark asked himself, and he answered in accordance with his heart.
But it always felt like something was missing.
He is not the protagonist of some brainless cool article, he thinks that the beginning is the ceiling of combat power, invincible in the universe.
He also has a sense of awe for this new universe that he has come.
Is the black light virus powerful? Strong, strong enough that Rorschach, as the archetype, could face Nannaway and an entire suicide squad with full odds of winning.
And the most primitive desire of this virus is to keep evolving.
Even if Rorschach is a fool, after more than ten years, he is also an incomparably strong fool.
If he were to change to someone like Whitney, he would probably absorb some of Clark's cells without thinking, and then go to bask in the sun with joy.
This is what people see as the "easy path".
Embarking on this path, not to mention becoming a god in one step, it is also a guarantee that there is no problem in getting a place in the future.
But the black light virus has been trained by Rorschach for so many years, and its nature has long been known by Rorschach.
No matter how hungry it is, the eating process it pursues is still the way of being a predator.
If Rorschach and Clark are opposites, then once the battle begins, the winner will have the final say.
The Whitney-style mindset of hoping for something unearned will only lead to a cycle of self-satisfaction and a state of stagnancy.
What's more, the black light virus itself has little interest in this matter.
When that fatal pain hit Nanaway, Rorschach only felt that the cells in his whole body were cheering, and his whole body felt extremely happy.
But in the face of Clark's proposal, not only Rorschach's spirit, but also the black light virus, which is active all the time and wants to infect the world, has little interest.
Rorschach has tested, even if he eats wheat raw, eats the wheat that Jonathan moved into the warehouse, and eats the wheat in the field, although the number of points is very small, the former is even more meager, almost negligible.
Even if it is eating, the results of predation are completely different from those that can be obtained with your fingers, not to mention that the first absorption is the most important.
For several reasons, Rorschach still plans to wait until later when he has the opportunity to taste Kryptonite.
So Rorschach refused Clark's kindness and didn't bother to bother to buy meat from other regions.
As the school bus slowly stopped at the school gate, the three people who were still chatting got up one after another, and Rorschach came out of his thoughts and got off the bus with the crowd.
"And voila! It's the varsity! Pete was a little excited, but then lowered his voice.
"Their argument is that the team's practice is too strong, don't let the news go."
"Poof......" Chloe couldn't hold back, lowering her head and covering her mouth and snickering.
Clark didn't say much, but his expression wasn't so natural.
Only Rorschach ignored the other party's gaze and just passed by indifferently.
However, the yellow energy in the body is growing much faster than before in this process.
So Rorschach glanced at Whitney again.
Well...... It doesn't feel bad to bring fear to people and increase their strength.
The morning went by.
"I'm not with you today." Rorschach said towards Clark.
"Ah...... All right. Clark was a little surprised, Rorschach had never left a small group of four, although he hadn't been very gregarious before.
But Rorschach did have something to do.
I ate a meal this morning, but I still haven't been able to make up the points.
If you really want to accumulate points, even if it's a fraction, you can only hunt on your own.
Rorschach sighed, and after a while, a few more snakes appeared in his hand.
With the red light on their bodies flickering, soon, these snakes also turned into nutrients and points of physical strength.
"Okay...... And that's it......"
Rorschach already had a choice in mind, so the moment he had enough points, he didn't hesitate to choose to redeem.
A piece of parchment appeared in his hand, and in the corner, there was a human finger bone as an embellishment.
The words on the paper were somewhat obscure, but Rorschach already felt the meaning.
Help an evil spirit satisfy its desire to punish sinners and gain his power.
It's not in the Marvel universe, but there's heaven and Satan here.
So Rorschach did not hesitate to drop a drop of his own blood at the end of this contract.
He certainly didn't exchange the contract on the spot.
Although he is now more versatile on the physical level, it is also possible to encounter enemies on the magic side.
Although the contract states that Satan will take his soul after death.
But it's not like there's no way to crack it.
After that, Rorschach signed a few contracts.
Seeing a flame ignite in his palm, Rorschach frowned slightly.
It seems that he has not yet begun to punish the sinner, to the dissatisfaction of this vengeful soul?
The power to give oneself seems to be somewhat weak.
However, just like the yellow energy in his body, the abilities that Rorschach now possesses will continue to grow stronger with the passage of time.
He'd already thought of a great place to go to enhance all of these abilities.
When Rorschach returns to the school cafeteria, Clark is surrounded by an unexpected figure.