Little Barry Allen's somewhat feeble explanation was clearly unable to convince Kara. As a devoted older cousin, Kara was fiercely protective of her beloved younger cousin and would even give her life to keep her safe.
Just like earlier, the reason she had been willing to risk her life in that test had undoubtedly been to avenge her cousin.
So when she learned that her cousin could have lived happily on Earth, only for everything to be ruined by one person's "selfish actions," how could she not be furious?
Kara's thoughts were simple. If Carl could truly live happily on Earth and be worshipped by its people, becoming the Superman they spoke of, then what did it matter if she did not exist in that world?
Zhang Ye had noticed this nearly pathological mentality long ago. After all, he had dealt with plenty of deranged mutants. For someone like Kara, who had been locked up and experimented on from the age of fifteen, it would have been miraculous if she had come out psychologically unscathed after all those years.
In Zhang Ye's judgment, the pain of losing her homeland and family as a child had made Kara devote every reason for living to raising her younger cousin. Other than that, she truly could no longer find any reason to go on.
And she was the "older cousin." Taking care of her cousin, who had still been an infant, was her responsibility. At the time, the fifteen-year-old Kara had innocently believed that the two of them were Krypton's last surviving people.
But what she had not expected was that after their sleep pods activated, her cousin had been intercepted halfway through the journey, while she herself crashed on Earth and became an experiment.
Years of imprisonment had carved the thought of