Believe in Yourself, You Can Do It

"Work twice as hard..."

Poison Ivy's eyes widened in fury. "I'm a person, not a machine. How could I possibly work around the clock without sleep or rest? Even machines wear down and age faster from prolonged operation until they're scrapped. Are you trying to kill me?"

"If you don't work hard, how will you know where your limits are?"

Russell poured a bowl of scalding motivational soup over her. "The biggest lie in the world is 'I can't do it.' It's not that the whole world thinks you can't do it—it's that you think you can't do it..."

Poison Ivy: (_)

"When you give up, you become a joke. But when you give it everything you have, only then will you know where your limits lie. Only then can you become a dazzling miracle. Believe in yourself—you can do it!"

"I'm a materialist. I believe more in objective facts. If I can't do it, then I can't do it."

Poison Ivy felt that Russell's motivational soup wasn't poisonous—it was just too hot. Poured over her head and face, it practically scalded her skin off.

"Hmph!"

Looking at the hopeless lump before him, Russell turned on her faster than flipping a page and said coldly, "I don't care whether you can do it or not. That's your problem. All I know is, if you can afford to support Batman, then you can definitely afford to support me!"

With that, Russell spread his wings and soared into the sky, vanishing into the heights in the blink of an eye.

On the ground, Jason moved his blade away and strode out of the valley, his figure flashing before melting into the darkness.

Poison Ivy stood there dumbfounded, reflecting on how hard it was to be a villain in Gotham City. Those two