"Kara had only been enrolled for two months, yet she had missed nearly half that time!"
"If this happens again, I'll expel Kara directly, even if all her teachers say she's exceptionally smart!"
A stern woman's furious scolding came through the phone.
Li Ang could only force a smile. "Principal Juliet, this will absolutely be the last time. Kara suddenly got sick."
"Mr. Li Ang, can't you come up with a different excuse? You've used the sickness excuse several times already!"
"..."
Among the teachers, Kara had already been labeled as frail and sickly.
But the problem was that whenever she did attend class, Kara looked perfectly healthy.
At most, she was a little gloomy and quiet.
After much pleading, Li Ang finally managed to get Kara a leave of absence.
After hanging up, he went to Kara's room and found her lying on the bed with a pillow pressed over her ears.
But it was clearly useless. Her eyes were wide open.
Li Ang was getting tired as well, so he said, "Kara, if you can't sleep, get up and eat something."
At this time, all Li Ang could do was keep her company a little more.
Perhaps the most important thing was taking her somewhere with no one around.
That way, she could avoid as much interference as possible and gradually get used to her abilities.
But unless Li Ang changed his name to Bruce Wayne, he did not have that kind of money.
"I'm not hungry."
It was obvious that Kara was becoming increasingly irritable.
The sounds around her were too chaotic, making her feel as if her head were about to explode.
Left with no choice, Li Ang called a nearby shop and had several tacos delivered.
When the delivery arrived, Kara finally showed a faint smile on her serious face upon seeing that it was tacos rather than noodles.
"Thank you, Godfather."
Li Ang ate a taco himself as well.
After she finished eating, he stroked her soft golden hair and said, "Get some good rest for the next few days."
Kara nodded.
After returning to his own room, Li Ang closed the door and did not dare make too much noise. He quickly lay down and went to sleep.
He had not closed his eyes all night. He was not made of steel, and he had long been exhausted.
But at that moment, a sight appeared before his eyes that instantly invigorated him.
[Name: Li Ang.] [Goddaughter: Kara Zor-El (Intimacy: 50).] [Ability: Can be drawn once.]
Li Ang was no longer sleepy at all.
He had obtained this cheat ability months ago, and now he could finally reap the rewards. Li Ang felt that his efforts had not been in vain.
So Li Ang did not hesitate for long and directly chose to draw.
In his impression, anything involving a draw depended on luck.
If your luck was bad, no amount of mystical rituals would help.
[Draw target: Supergirl.] [Abilities: Flight, Super Hearing, Super Healing, Heat Vision, Super-Breath...]
Kara had too many abilities, and Li Ang could not take them all in at once.
The sun gave Kryptonians comprehensive enhancements. Almost every aspect one could think of came with superpowers.
And Li Ang could draw one of them.
He suddenly wanted every last one.
[Draw successful. Ability obtained: Super Physique.] [Super Physique: All aspects of the physique receive basic enhancements, such as Super Strength and Super Healing. The upper limit will continue to improve through absorbing solar energy.]
Physique encompassed many aspects. Strength, speed, endurance, and more all fell under it.
In an instant, Li Ang no longer felt sleepy. He even felt like he could crush the bedframe. His once-fatigued body seemed to have become as hard as iron.
When he opened his eyes, the world seemed magnified. He could clearly see tiny black specks on the ceiling!
There were enhancements to his other senses as well...
Unfortunately, Super Physique did not include Heat Vision, Super Hearing, or abilities like those...
But then he remembered that Kara did not have Heat Vision yet either, and he felt better.
As a father figure, he had to leave his daughter some dignity.
Besides, the most important thing for getting by in Gotham was having a good body.
Otherwise, how could he deal with Bane, who was always breaking people's backs, or Batman, who claimed never to kill but only beat people into cripples?
A good physique was essential!
But thinking it over carefully, Gotham also had people like Joker and Riddler. Intelligence was important too.
All he could say was that Gotham was incredibly brutal, forcing people to develop in every area.
Still, having something was better than having nothing. After excitedly rolling around on the bed for a long while, Li Ang could not test his abilities at home, so he finally fell into a deep sleep.
Kara in the next room heard it all clearly.
Because Li Ang was the closest person to her, she forced herself not to listen to her godfather's thoughts. Yet even so, the sound of him rolling around was still very clear.
She did not understand what her godfather had to be so excited about.
It was only after quite a while that she heard his sleeping breaths.
Kara could not help thinking about every little moment she had shared with Li Ang.
She had already been over ten years old when she came to Earth.
A child over ten already had some understanding of the world and their own values.
Furthermore, Kara had personally experienced Krypton's destruction and retained memories and habits from her life there, so she had initially struggled to integrate into Earth's society.
It was only because Li Ang had been so patient that he helped Kara adapt to life on Earth.
Her godfather taught her Earth's languages, including not only English but also the Chinese of his homeland.
Her godfather personally cooked for her, though Kara felt she had already grown sick of noodles.
Her godfather also played games with her. He made her feel as though she had family.
That was why she gradually came to accept Li Ang. In Kara's eyes, her godfather was her only family on Earth.
Yet even so, Kara still thought of everything on Krypton from time to time. After all, that was her homeland.
It could be said that Kara and her cousin Superman were completely different.
When Clark came to Earth, he had no memories of Krypton at all. From childhood to adulthood, he had always regarded himself as an Earthling.
But Kara found that very difficult to do.
Childhood memories often influenced a person for their entire life.
Especially after discovering her own uniqueness, she increasingly felt different from Earthlings and found it difficult to truly fit in.
Under Li Ang's guidance, she could only carefully hide her abilities and disguise herself as an ordinary person.
Because if she revealed even a little of her strength, the people around her might treat her like a monster.
For Kara, that was exhausting.
She seemed destined to be different from everyone else.
Thinking that, Kara began to feel sleepy too. Perhaps because her drowsiness was deepening, the noisy sounds in her ears gradually faded and no longer affected her.
Kara knew this was because she was gradually gaining control of her abilities.
Just like Super-Vision and Super-Breath before.
When they first appeared, her eyes could nearly see through any material. When she looked at people, she could clearly see their bones and internal organs.
But afterward, had she not mastered them?
So Kara did not pay attention to the fading sounds and simply fell asleep.
After all, no matter what, she would eventually master these abilities. She just did not know why they had appeared.
Was it simply because she was a Kryptonian?
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