Dragon and Lake

God might not be able to uphold justice openly, but people could.

Both were criminal acts, yet people found it easier to accept a serial killer like Zodiac while feeling extreme contempt for vile criminals.

Even serial killers hated the kind of person who dated someone else while pretending to be pitiful to deceive others into sympathizing with them.

Young girls often encountered this sort of thing. They were deeply in love with their boyfriends, who kept saying they loved them, making endless promises, and pleading pitifully with them.

To avoid losing that love, or out of curiosity, or for other reasons, the girl agreed.

Later, when she discovered that the bastard was involved with other girls too, that fury was beyond words. Everything that had once been beautiful became unbearable to look at. The feeling was truly awful.

Then there were the homewreckers who barged in and refused to leave no matter how hard they were driven away. Compared to those third parties, Zodiac practically seemed like a good person.

And there were those "country-hating traitors" who passionately praised other eras and other countries while looking down on their own time and nation; stubborn hardheads who never yielded, and reckless fools who cared about nothing. All of them were on Zodiac's kill list.

Homewrecking and making inappropriate remarks fell into legal gray areas. Not only could God not punish them, even people had no way to do so.

At times like that, people often hoped those "superheroes" who roamed the darkness would appear.

In American culture, superheroes emerged one after another. They might be withdrawn and strange, but they were embodiments of justice, with one identity by day and another by night.

Take Batman. He often helped the police catch criminals. Even if some of his actions were illegal,