In a Gotham hospital, Lex had a bandage wrapped around his forehead, while Bruce had one around his arm. Their argument could be heard from two corridors away, though whether anyone could understand it was another matter entirely.
Standing outside the door with his arms folded, Clark said to Bat-Cat on his shoulder, "I really don't understand what they have to argue about. I can't understand any of the things they're saying..."
To his surprise, Bat-Cat stepped on his shoulder, sharpened his claws against the wall, and said, "What exactly is that Lex talking about???"
"You can't understand it either, right? Even if they have an academic disagreement, they could discuss it calmly. Why do they have to fight? Fighting is wrong."
Bat-Cat suddenly leaped off his shoulder and rushed into the hospital room, meowing furiously at Lex. Bruce turned to Lex and said, "See? He agrees with me too. Your method is far too radical. Haven't you considered the consequences of an energy leak?"
"I already told you, my safety measures are fine. You're too conservative. And regarding human experimentation..."
"You want to conduct human experiments?" Clark had originally intended to catch Bat-Cat, but when he heard Lex mention human experimentation, he immediately said sternly, "Absolutely not, no matter what!"
Lex took a deep breath. "I mean reasonable and legal human experimentation. Don't you know clinical trials exist?!"
"If we don't conduct experiments on people, how can we know what effects this energy will have on humans? Why can't we recruit volunteers?"
"This isn't the same as medicine." Clark retorted, "That energy looks extremely dangerous. I still support throwing all of it into the sun and destroying it."
"No." Bruce refuted Clark as well. "We can't refuse to study some form of energy just because it is dangerous. Nuclear