A life for a life.
That was the drug Poison Ivy had made.
"Does it have to be me?"
Mr. Freeze asked.
"No. It could be anyone."
Poison Ivy answered honestly.
"Cough, cough."
Black Canary suddenly started coughing.
Did she really have to be that honest?
What if he forced us to inject it later?
But clearly, Mr. Freeze wasn't going to do that.
Harley Quinn cleverly reminded him, "There are criminals all over the place right now. You can just grab one."
But Mr. Freeze shook his head.
He began to remove his armor.
"Hey, you don't have to do this."
Harley Quinn was stunned.
No one there followed Batman's "no kill" rule.
Even if they grabbed some random person to take his place, the only one who would feel a little uneasy was Black Canary.
After all, she considered herself a superhero.
As for Huntress?
She'd killed plenty of criminals.
"No. I have to do this."
Mr. Freeze said it very calmly, as if he were ready to face death.
"I never wanted to become a criminal, but for Nora's sake, I went down a road of no return. So many people died because of me."
"And now, am I going to make someone else pay with their life?"
"So I have to atone for my sins. My life will save Nora."
He had once been nothing more than a researcher in a laboratory. He'd never imagined becoming a criminal.
But Gotham showed no mercy.
It turned people into monsters!
At least now, he'd come to his senses.
There was still a chance to make things right.
His heart had long since turned to ice. Only now, for his wife's sake, had it begun to thaw.
"You don't have to do this!"
The others tried to talk him