Whoosh!!
The sharp, whistling sound of objects tearing through the air at high speed rang out outside the balcony windows on the first floor of the CEO's house. Naturally, it caught Kate Grant's attention. She had finished dinner and was patiently waiting for something, her eyes not focused on the gossip news playing on the television.
"Shazam!!"
?
A shout rang out, followed by a thunderclap like a bolt of lightning on a clear day. Soon, Kate, who had been waiting for something, finally got her wish: she saw her younger son, Carter Grant, change back from "Shazam."
What puzzled her, though, was why he had come home tonight looking so alarmed, pushing open the glass door and even running in from the balcony, instead of arriving with the confident air she had expected.
"What's wrong, Carter..."
"Why do you look so strange today? Did something major happen that I don't know about?!"
At first, Kate, a CEO and a mother, had wanted to have a good talk with him.
First,
there was the matter of him skipping school without her permission for an entire afternoon. He had even learned to turn into an adult "Shazam" and impersonate a parent to excuse his own absence—a serious act of lying. Yes, Kate herself had made him pretend to be her boyfriend on multiple occasions, but... that was a different matter. In any case, she absolutely wouldn't let her son develop the bad habit of cutting class and playing hooky!
Even if he now had powerful superpowers, even if he could easily make his way in the world with those powers in the future, knowledge would never become obsolete, and he wouldn't gain it just by inheriting those powers! So she would never let her son become a mindless idiot who relied