Homelander could not allow that to happen.
He was willing to pay a price to prevent it.
Vogelbaum had been his only companion throughout his childhood. Homelander had always had deeply complicated feelings about him, but here and now, if he could kill Dr. Vogelbaum without anyone noticing, he would do it.
Compared with his own reputation, Vogelbaum's life seemed almost insignificant.
But Homelander could do nothing.
He had no way to kill Dr. Vogelbaum silently in front of all these witnesses.
Not unless he killed everyone present.
And before he made a move, he would have to cut every live feed.
Unfortunately, he was not Starlight.
Even Homelander had moments when he was powerless.
He could only watch as Dr. Vogelbaum was led to the witness stand and began answering the Chief Justice's questions one by one.
The strain left Homelander unable to sit still.
How he wished something would happen to interrupt the hearing.
Then, against all expectations, something did.
Homelander might have wished for Dr. Vogelbaum to drop dead on the spot, but he never could have imagined that the old man who had raised him in the cold confines of a laboratory would die like this.
Dr. Vogelbaum had just finished taking the oath and was about to testify as a witness to Vought International's crimes.
His head suddenly exploded like a watermelon smashed against the ground, spraying blood and flesh in every direction.
The room fell silent for two or three seconds. Then the first people to recover let out piercing screams, and others began rising from their seats, desperate to leave.
The carnage was far from over.
At first, no one realized that an Esper was carrying out a killing spree. Security personnel searched for the perpetrator, mistakenly believing it was a shooting.
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