You'd Better Not Underestimate Me-I'm Really Strong! If I Can't Win... I'll Call for Backup!?

Bang!

Whoosh!!

Boom!!!

Just as Superman Clark was about to press his advantage and keep pummeling the enemy's head, trying to knock him unconscious—or disperse the strange power surrounding him, so he could defeat or subdue him—something changed again. Clark had nearly smashed the man's face to a pulp and was just about to burst that strange, eerie-blue eyeball right out of its socket when it happened...

"Hm?"

"What in the world is going on?!"

For some reason, a thick arm suddenly reached out from behind him. As if grabbing a child, it seized his right arm while he was throwing a punch. Another hand clamped around his neck... And that wasn't all. Two more equally thick arms grabbed his left arm and wrapped around his waist, forcing him to release the bald monster he had pinned beneath him and beaten down into the desert's underlying bedrock.

Superman Clark thought he had almost succeeded...

He was sure he'd figured out something. He really could feel the other man's resistance weakening. He'd seemed just on the verge of being knocked unconscious or killed. At any rate, that was what Clark had felt, though he had no idea why.

But now,

he had no chance, because he himself had been restrained by a monster that had appeared behind him out of nowhere.

"Bastard..."

"Damn Kryptonian, you alien scum... You really hurt me just now..."

As Dr. Thaddeus Sivana got to his feet, he covered his right eye—the vital "Eye of Sin"—and glared grimly at Superman, who was being tightly clamped in the grasp of one of the enormous Seven Deadly Sins demons he had released. No matter how he struggled, Superman couldn't break free.

That treasure of his, the "Eye of Sin" he had obtained from the Rock of Eternity, the source