Godspeed Hand Blade

As the first rays of sunlight graced the sea, Shane, who had only slept for an hour, was mercilessly dragged out of the cryogenic pod by Rachel.

Although Viltrumites could fight non-stop for a week or even a month, he had come to Earth for an indefinite vacation.

How could Rachel not let him get enough sleep?

Rachel, however, stared with dead fish eyes, showing Shane the shopping list she had meticulously recorded on her phone last night, while simultaneously casting a cleansing spell on Shane's face.

Similar to the activation mechanism of Teleportation Magic, as long as it didn't cause harmful erosion to Shane's body, this attribute-less and superficial magic could still take effect on him.

Saving him the trouble of washing his face and brushing his teeth.

Shane, with a helpless expression, was dragged out of the escape pod by Rachel.

"Hurry, there's a lot to buy. I made a very detailed plan. After we finish shopping, we'll rush back to fix the house!"

Rachel nimbly jumped onto Shane's back, wrapping her arms around his neck and her long legs firmly around his waist.

Shane voiced a brief protest.

"You listed hundreds of things to buy. We definitely can't finish it in one day. Can't we sleep a little longer?"

"I specifically chose an earlier time. There aren't many people on the road. We can take advantage of this time to go directly to the center of Metropolis!"

Rachel's excitement was almost impossible to suppress with her emotion-hiding magic. She freed an arm to pat Shane's shoulder with resounding smacks.

"Yes, yes, yes, hold on tight and don't move around."

Shane, energized by Rachel's constant wiggling, didn't bother to comment on her riding on his back.

A few minutes later, the two hovered above the clouds in the center of Metropolis, carefully choosing a deserted spot before Rachel directly activated Teleportation Magic.

Accompanied by a hint of purple light, the young man and woman appeared out of thin air in a dark alley.

Rachel couldn't wait to jump down, pulling Shane towards the first shop located on her phone.

"Let's buy two cups of coffee first, then go buy you some clothes!"

"Do we really need coffee?"

"To experience a normal person's day."

"Normal people should be heading to work with gloomy faces after drinking coffee."

Under Rachel's lead, Shane spent the entire morning running through almost all the supermarkets and specialty stores in Metropolis.

The content was far more extensive than just the dryers and washing machines mentioned last night.

Bathtubs, pipes, curtains, TVs, tables, chairs...

Everything from food and clothing to housing was included.

Shane even calculated in his head, combining the unit weight of the building materials that hadn't been bought yet.

He discovered that Rachel wanted to build a three-story super villa with an average of over 250 square meters per floor on that deserted beach by the sea.

Moreover, they each had a large wardrobe, with an average of over thirty sets of everyday clothes.

Well, average.

Shane only bought five sets because spring, summer, autumn, and winter made no difference to him.

Most of the bulky items were directly stuffed into the magic space by Rachel when she had the chance.

But in order to feel like a real normal person shopping, the two were still carrying some specially selected large and small bags in their hands.

Due to his physique, Shane felt fine, but Rachel's legs were shaking!

With a crash, Rachel threw the packaging in her hands to the ground, shaking her trembling arms and quickly chanting a few spells.

Shane, who had also learned the fire-starting spell, could understand some of it this time.

It was probably something like stamina recovery, endurance recovery, and the like.

Rachel, who had regained her radiant appearance, picked up the packages again.

Although they seemed to have bought a lot of things, and some of the clothes with designs that attracted Rachel were not cheap, Shane roughly calculated that the two of them shouldn't have spent even a hundred thousand dollars in the morning.

Rachel turned around, revealing a shallow smile to Shane for the first time.

Buried in a small mountain of bags, with every place on his body that could hang something filled with them, Shane blinked his eyes, barely visible from a shopping bag.

He knew that being able to show such an obvious smile meant that Rachel was almost going crazy with happiness at this moment.

"How much money do we have left?"

Because Shane had been holding the card, Rachel asked cautiously.

"Um, about six million nine hundred thousand?"

"Wow!"

The girl's light blue eyes seemed to sparkle with stars.

Rachel seemed to have reached some emotional tipping point, suddenly walking quickly towards Shane, her cheeks even briefly flushed.

But in the next second, under the purplish-black magical aura, Rachel's dead fish eyes returned, and her complexion turned pale again.

She looked at Shane blankly, then took two steps back, her head drooping.

"Sorry, I almost lost control again. I'll store these things in my magic space, and then let's find a restaurant to eat."

Shane had read some of her memories and knew that Rachel had to suppress her emotions with magic at all times. Otherwise, the magic power from Trigon would run wild, endangering a wide area, and might even release a portion of Trigon's magic power directly on Earth.

The current Rachel was actually living a very hard life.

"Okay."

A few seconds later, Shane and Rachel, once again empty-handed, began searching for a restaurant they liked on the street.

Shane looked at the emotionless girl walking beside :him, contemplating how to enlighten her.

As soon as :he opened :his mouth, a sense of threat that should not have appeared made Shane's pupils shrink to pinpoints.

A golden lightning bolt seemed to flash across the distant sky.

Shane stepped forward abruptly, blocking Rachel.

In less than the blink of an eye, that golden lightning bolt was already standing in front of Shane.

The figure was covered in damaged, scratched gold and red armor, with bloodstains in many places, and even the helmet made of special hardened material had a corner broken off.

Strands of golden hair were stuck to the outer wall of the helmet's broken hole by dried blood.

Shane was a little stunned. The sense of threat disappeared abruptly, as if it had never existed.

"Flash? How did you get into this..."

"Wait."

Shane noticed something was wrong.

Although the armor, abilities, and appearance were all exactly the same, the look in this person's eyes and demeanor were definitely not the guy :he had met.

The Flash who had been surrounding Superman yesterday, dryly offering a long string of blessings with "disclaimer" attached, was young, shy, and talkative.

But this person was weathered, calm, and had been quietly observing Shane without saying a word.

"Who are you?"

Shane asked in a deep voice.

The battle-damaged version of Flash, who had appeared out of nowhere, snorted, :his voice as dry and cracked as if :he hadn't drunk water for three days.

"You should think about that question yourself."

"In this wrong world, you, who should never have appeared, have emerged."

The battle-damaged Flash looked at Shane, seemingly not fully decided.

Until the television in the shop next to :him, facing the window, began replaying the hot news from this morning.

A hint of anger appeared between Flash's eyebrows, and from that moment on, :he no longer hesitated.

"I can't bear to see the tragedy of that world happen in this world. The mad war between Atlantis and Themyscira will destroy everything!"

As :he spoke, accompanied by golden lightning, a hand blade wrapped in a large piece of missing hand armor vibrated at a speed that Shane could not even see clearly.

Death warning!!!

In 0.001 seconds, all the muscles in Shane's body tensed. The power to sink the entire Metropolis in an instant was ready in :his body.

His eyes widened to the maximum under the instinct for survival, trying to capture the trajectory of the opponent's attack.

But that golden light was too fast.

Probably.

Faster than the current Shane by an infinite number of times.

(Hello everyone, I'm your host, Louise. At seven o'clock this morning, Planet Media received breaking news that Aquaman, a member of the Justice League, has officially announced :his withdrawal from the Justice League and ordered that no land residents engage in fishing, navigation, or other work in the coastal areas of Gotham.)