"Without Kal or any of you guys around, the government finally took back their property. And during all the chaos, Luthor wound up president-for-life so he was the one pulling the strings at the top."
The rest tumbled out of him in a rush. "They hurt me. They put this - this nanochain thing in me. To shock me from the inside if I didn't do what they said. They could even use it to make my teke go off like a bomb so that it'd hurt people. Three or three hundred, they said - I had to kill the targets or they'd set it off and I'd be there, laying in the rubble of a whole village, the only one left. Three or three hundred. They didn't care who died as long as it made me listen."
He finally looked up at her, eyes wild and lost.
"I don't deserve the 'S' anymore. We don't kill. We don't kill. We don't...we don't..." He looked at the floor again. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I let you all down. I'm sorry..."
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"Without Kal or any of you guys around, the government finally took back their property. And during all the chaos, Luthor wound up president-for-life so he was the one pulling the strings at the top."
The rest tumbled out of him in a rush. "They hurt me. They put this - this nanochain thing in me. To shock me from the inside if I didn't do what they said. They could even use it to make my teke go off like a bomb so that it'd hurt people. Three or three hundred, they said - I had to kill the targets or they'd set it off and I'd be there, laying in the rubble of a whole village, the only one left. Three or three hundred. They didn't care who died as long as it made me listen."
He finally looked up at her, eyes wild and lost.
"I don't deserve the 'S' anymore. We don't kill. We don't kill. We don't...we don't..." He looked at the floor again. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I let you all down. I'm sorry..."