Aquaman Knelt First

Mera was conflicted.

She longed to leave right now, but her damned sense of responsibility kept her from doing so.

You brought him here; you should take him away from here.

This is your responsibility; you cannot shirk it for fear of causing unrest in the human world.

Mera's excellent upbringing ultimately led her to grit her teeth and stay.

"Hurry up, Beckett!"

"The police are on their way!"

Mera kept urging Beckett on the second floor.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night will almost certainly attract police attention.

Whether it was psychological or not, Mera even felt that she could hear police sirens now.

"Shut up."

Beckett, who was engrossed in checking Woz's system logs with his book in hand, replied impatiently.

From the automatically generated log, Beckett clearly perceived the tense state of the battle.

Woz was the only living being he could trust in this world, and Beckett wouldn't go anywhere until Woz returned to normal.

"Are you crazy?"

"Once the human police arrive, we won't be able to handle this situation, you understand?"

Mera was still trying her best to persuade Beckett, but he remained as unmoved as a stone.

"Okay, maybe the concept of police doesn't exist in your world. Let me explain it to you."

"Police officers are human beings—"

Sizzle!

Beckett pointed, and a sharp silver light instantly pierced through the flashing light from the headlights of the pickup truck not far away.

Boom!!!

Several homeless people who rushed to get into a pickup truck out of fear and tried to drive away were instantly killed in the fire!

The raging flames after the car explosion made Beckett's face appear exceptionally cold. "If you want to leave, no one's stopping you."

Mera stared blankly at the sea of fire. Before she could come to her senses, the piercing sound of sirens and flashing lights appeared before her eyes.

Those were the first two police cars to arrive at the scene after receiving the alarm.

"Don't move!"

"Police!"

"Hands up, everyone!"

"Hands behind your head and squats down!"

Four clueless police officers, who thought they could slack off, raised their pistols at a man and a woman at the library entrance.

"It's over..." Mera murmured, raising her hands in perfect compliance.

They're definitely in for a rough time when they get back.

Her father had repeatedly warned her not to cause trouble in the human world.

She, on the other hand, was directly approached by human police agencies.

"Hey! I said hands up! Didn't you hear me?!"

With jam still smeared on his lips, the fat policeman pointed his gun at Beckett, who was standing next to Mera.

That spiky hair and that expressionless face—he looks like a typical delinquent.

Who in their right mind would do something like smashing up the library door in the middle of the night?

"Beckett! Hey Beckett, listen to me!"

"They are innocent! They are police officers!"

"You can't do this—" The moment Beckett frowned, Mera already saw the fate of these four policemen.

The words of advice that escaped his lips were ultimately too late; the energy blast that Beckett casually flicked from his fingertips had already shot towards the police officers who were still cursing.

Boom!

At the critical moment, a green jeep suddenly appeared out of nowhere, blocking a fatal blow for the four policemen in mid-air!

"Hmm?" Beckett, whose attention had been focused on Woz's system log, noticed something amiss and looked up at the sea of fire created by the explosion of the green jeep.

A shirtless, muscular, tough guy slowly emerges from the sea of fire, sipping whiskey.

He was unkempt and had a stubble beard.

"Arthur?"

Mera's face showed surprise when she saw the newcomer.

The son born to Atlanna, the former queen of Atlantis, one of the seven underwater kingdoms, and a human named Tom Curry.

Arthur Curry, a man considered a bastard and a disgrace by the current King of Atlantis, Orm, whose veins flow with both land and sea blood.

Of course, Mera knew him only because she often wandered around Atlantis and knew that Queen Atlanna had such an eldest son who had been living away from home.

She had met this man once, along with Vigo, the second-in-command of Atlantis.

Vigo met Arthur Curry to teach him martial arts so he could become king, while Mera was simply curious to see what Queen Atlanna's eldest son looked like.

"I remember you, the woman who used to be with Vigo." Arthur Curry, drinking his wine, clearly hadn't forgotten Mera either.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing that the four policemen were all unharmed, Mera breathed a sigh of relief.

"You drove my car away, what do you say?" Arthur Curry pointed to the old pickup truck that was now in pieces, Mera's smile, which had just begun to appear, froze instantly.

"If I remember correctly, you should be engaged to my younger brother, right?"

"So he was the bodyguard my brother sent?"

Arthur Curry walked step by step toward Beckett and threw a punch at him.

Atlanteans need to be properly disciplined.

Although this isn't Gotham or Metropolis, it's not a place where Atlanteans can run wild.

"Arthur! No!"

Mera gasped in surprise, never expecting Arthur Curry to attack without a word.

Snap!

The hard fist struck Beckett directly in the cheek.

"?"

Compared to Arthur Currie's robust physique, Beckett's body appeared significantly slimmer.

Yet this much slimmer body remained completely still under Arthur's fist.

Is that all there is to it?

Holding the Norse Mythology series in one hand, Beckett slowly turned his head, bracing himself against Arthur Curry's fist.

He grinned, a sinister smile.

Their eyes met, and Arthur Curry suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.

"No, Beckett! Stop fighting!"

Snap!

Snap!

Snap!

A knee strike, an elbow strike, and a final whip kick.

Beckett's triple strike sent Arthur Curry flying backward, smashing the police car window.

"...Damn it..."

Groaning, Arthur lay on the police car for several seconds before he could recover.

"That's awesome, I like your style."

With a sudden burst of power from his legs, Arthur Curry used the police car as a springboard to ram Beckett!

Bang!

Beckett reached out and slammed the man against the tile floor!

Debris flying everywhere!

With the Norse Mythology series of books out of thin air, Beckett dragged Arthur Curry, whom he had pinned to the ground, and slid along!

Boom!

The future king who would rule the seven seas was like a lamb to the slaughter, powerless to resist Beckett's hand. His massive body was pressed firmly into the mural in the lobby of the library, unable to move!

The sturdy walls began to crack as a massive human body art class took place at the Kansas State Library at 3 a. m.

Performers: Beckett, Arthur Curry.

Audience: Mera, police, and other cameras.

"Celebrate! The great—uh, what's the next word?"

Having just defeated Bruce Wayne in a head-on battle online, Woz returned to normal. After seeing Beckett's victory, he felt something was missing, so he tried to sing the anthem in the way he remembered The Other.

Unfortunately, he wasn't skilled enough and stumbled as soon as he started singing.

After leaping over and catching the book falling from the sky, Beckett's previously expressionless face now wore a strange expression. "Woz?"

Thanks to [Book Friends 20180927200711997], [yyaJy], [┍The bed is tight], [Ai Xihan's um], and [Beautiful Meixi] for their rewards~