Diana silently covered her forehead, unsure how to comment for a moment. From what Clark was saying, it seemed the resurrected Amanda was planning to assassinate the president. But the assassin she had hired—or the broker who had arranged one—was Schiller Rodriguez.
Barry did not quite understand the situation. "What Amanda? What happened between her and Schiller?"
Thinking of the woman he had personally killed, Clark's expression darkened considerably. Even if his own death had been part of Batman's plan, Amanda's crimes went far beyond that.
You could tell from the way Amanda handled things just how deranged and reckless she was. She had dared persecute even someone like Superman without restraint, let alone ordinary people. Who knew how many lives had been lost at her hands over the years? She was practically a scourge upon humanity.
Actually, Clark felt that compared to Amanda, he could even tolerate Lex Luthor. Luthor only targeted him. Call it paranoia or love turned to hate, but at least he did not drag others into it.
Luthor knew he would weaken without the yellow sun's power, so his solution was to send Clark back to Krypton, where there was no yellow sun, let him weaken, and keep him from escaping. If it had been Amanda, she would have just blown up the yellow sun.
That was not an exaggeration. Although Lex did not exactly seem brilliant either, at least he was not anti-human. He dealt with Clark while safeguarding his own interests, with a basic degree of intelligence and reason. Amanda was different. She was a complete lunatic who never considered consequences. The fact that she had once pushed him that far without fearing that he might take Earth down with him said it all.
Ever since the power of Death had appeared, it