Brand Master [Comprehensive Yingmei]

The first time Mary Theron met the heir of the Capellolin family was when the little girl was just born.

She watched with her own eyes that the Duke, who had just become a father, hugged the little fluff, and her hands were shaking.

Little Maomao's name is Venessa, a butterfly[Note 1].

At that time, it didn't matter that Mary had seen it, she only knew that there was one more person she needed to protect.

But she watched the little butterfly grow up to 13 years old in the dark, and she couldn't let go of Vanessa anymore.

Duke William de Capellorin is a ruthless man who only pays attention to power, wealth and inheritance. His wife Dialla is a pampered and immature love brain.

One of these two people is inhumane, the other is extreme... The only thing in common is that this couple is extremely selfish, and the one they love the most is always themselves.

But the little butterfly born from the union of such a couple is completely different.

She is as gifted as her father and possesses a strong learning ability, but she does not inherit the coldness of the Duke; she is as sensitive and gentle as her mother, and has strong empathy, but she is much stronger and more rational than Dialla.

Mary sometimes kept thinking:

If only Vanessa had been her child... just fine.

Although she can't bring children, she is better than this disgusting pair of parents no matter what.

There are no worse parents than them.

When Vanessa was 13 years old, Isa died in humiliation. The Duke deliberately ordered someone to tie up the murderer, and took Vanessa to the man, and cut off the lawyer's arm in front of Little Butterfly. limbs.

If it weren't for the ring and the covenant, Mary would really have killed the Duke.

The Duke called this the traditional education of the family. He hoped that Little Butterfly would wake up. He never thought about whether his daughter could withstand such a bloody scene.

The difference from the scene shown in the nightmare is that the Duke at that time did not let his daughter kill someone, but cut off the lawyer's head in front of her.

"Isa will be disappointed."

Afterwards, facing the little girl who couldn't control her vomiting, the Duke commented disappointedly.

This sentence completely destroyed Vanessa.

She blamed everything on herself, thinking that Isa was adopted by bad people because she didn't investigate first, that Isa was mutilated like that because she didn't find out in time, and even after Isa died, she didn't really like her father. Avenge Isa.

Day and night, Yisha, covered in blood, appeared in front of her, asking her angrily and painfully why she didn't avenge herself with her own hands.

From that day on, she could no longer sleep peacefully.

She said to Dialla in despair: "Mother, I can't sleep."

But Di Aila was very happy: "Then can you stay with me all night? Vanessa, you can't sleep, so go to practice the piano again, okay?"

Mary, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally found the Duke, and asked to take Little Butterfly away in exchange for a hole card that did not reveal her identity.

It took her three years to gain Little Butterfly's trust. When Vanessa was 16 years old, Di Aila, who had been suffering from repeated illnesses for several years, died, and she was able to get Little Butterfly out of that hell. like a castle.

But even so, the little butterfly she swore to protect would never go back.

During those three years, under the duke's increasingly wanton and excessive temptation and education, she was forced to come into contact with the [evil] of the whole world.

She has witnessed all the shady scenes behind capital operations, she has witnessed how politicians ruthlessly seize power and status, she has seen the bloody primitive capital accumulation process of the Capellolin family, and she has even witnessed a war in the capital. With the support of military capital, a war launched for profit.

More and more banknotes were rolled, and 10,000+ people died silently in the artillery fire, becoming a cold number.

She has many teachers who are famous in the political and business circles, and the person who taught the little girl for the longest time is called Francis Underwood.

The more I was in it, the more I saw the truth of the world, the more sick I felt, and I felt hopeless.

Because of this, when choosing courses, she did not hesitate to devote herself to a field that had nothing to do with those politicians, military officers, and financiers.

On the day when she followed Mary to the United States, the girl stood in the dark and narrow bathroom and cut off her thick and beautiful long hair bit by bit.

The girl in the mirror had a beautiful face, her expression was indifferent, her eyes were devoid of any emotion, she was as deep and introverted as the Duke when he was young.

"Your real name is Mary Theron?"

The 16-year-old girl nodded slightly. She turned her head to look at the floating clouds in the sky. In the sea breeze, she casually introduced herself:

"My name is Vera, uh... Vera Senna."

Looking at the cunning little liar who was no longer innocent, full of lies, Mary wanted to laugh at first, but she couldn't help but shed tears.

The wails of the approaching monsters sounded again, and Clark, who was standing beside Mary, made a sudden move, and all the monsters rushing towards them were wiped out in ashes where the hot eyes swept across.

"careful!"

Reminded by Superman's deep voice, Mary, who had been frozen in place all this time, came back to her senses from her past memories. She closed her eyes and summoned a terrifying gust of wind again.

The whistling wind crushed the monster that was rushing towards Batman head-on. The latter remained motionless in the whistling wind, and the magic pattern in his hand emitted a strong dark purple light.

Batman has always been second-hand ready.

The magic circle prepared secretly by the man collided with the magic of this space, and the outermost barrier covering the entire room began to appear unstable ripple-like spots. Through the looming holes, they were finally able to talk to Jason at the other end of the thin screen , trying to break the powerful magic with the help of the ring in the boy's hand.

Outside the room, superheroes are fighting against the tide of monster attacks to destroy the space against time.

Inside the room, the entire space centered on Vera is constantly collapsing, shattering, and turning into dust.

The girl's body flashed bursts of bloody red light, and in the phantoms of Gaston and the man in black that kept disappearing, her figure continued to elongate and change...During the whole process, the gun in her hand remained steady. Pointing to the duke.

Among countless memory fragments, they finally found the real Vera.

"Your prudence really exceeded my expectations."

The black gun barrel was held by a slender and pale hand. From the palm to the arm, what appeared in front of everyone was not the 13-year-old Vanessa De Capellorin, but the 26-year-old Vera Senna.

Holding the gun in one hand, she slowly wiped off the black and smelly blood stains and mottled tears on her face with the other, and raised her eyebrows slightly at her father:

"It has been repeated so many times, and you have never changed your actions every time - I have been waiting for you for a long time, father."

——Vera Senna has never been a little princess waiting for someone to rescue her. Ever since she fell into magic, she has been keeping her mind clear.

Like superheroes, she's constantly figuring out how to end the magic.

She spent five days dormant in the fragments, and finally realized that the memory of this magic should be immutable, and the only one who has the ability to change the plot and dialogue of the memory is the Duke himself.

After countless cycles of sobriety, Vera finally reached this point of mutation.

...she found the real duke.

Under Vera's indifferent gaze and everyone's astonishment, it should have been an illusion. The 30-year-old Duke's body was full of red light. In the flickering phantom, the man's face gradually aged and turned into reality. Duke in.

Everything in the illusion is false, but Vera and the Duke in front of him are all real.

Even if he was pointed at by his own daughter with a gun, the Duke remained indifferent. He rubbed the mother's ring in his hand and sighed:

"...Vanessa, I have no choice but to."

The Duke's eyes became extremely dark in an instant, but his entire face was still extremely helpless.

"I'm here for your own good."

He shook his head:

"If you leave the Justice League, it is to use that method to favor those superpowers. I would rather you have never been exposed to power."

He punched a monster flying with its mouth wide open. Hal, Barry and others who also heard this sentence were stunned and confused for a moment.

...What is it called, such a method?

Vera... During the two months since she left the Justice League, what did she do without telling them?

"Really—? So you are doing it for my own good?"

Vera elongated her voice, her eyes were bent, pretending to be surprised:

"I thought you were afraid yourself?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone could feel that the Duke's mood became sharp and severe.

Intangible magic energy surged out from the ring on the man's fingertips. As the Duke's mood suddenly soared, countless invisible and complicated lines spread out around him like chains, making the already precarious space even more precarious.

"Vanessa."

This time, the Duke's voice had become noticeably colder, and he warned impatiently:

"Don't force me to destroy all your memories."

"—!"

Clark suddenly raised his head from the magic vortex, and cast a cold glance at the Duke.

"You can try it."

"I...have a bad habit since I was a child, you know-oh, yes, you taught me this."

Vera shrugged slightly, relaxed and indifferent, she chuckled lightly:

"Eating at the same table, if someone insists on making me unhappy, I will overturn the table."

Smiling, she opened her calm eyes and asked word by word:

"You've already ruined me once, so what if you do it again?"

What is it to destroy all the memories?

If you want to die, how about simply destroying Vera Senna's entire brain so that she will never wake up?

The Duke clenched his fists violently.

In those eyes that were exactly the same as Vera's, there was a momentary flash of anger, and his voice became even deeper, as if every word was squeezed out from between his teeth - in terms of the duke's calmness and self-cultivation, this was already his Biggest gaffe.

"...In that case, Vanessa, don't blame me."

Before he finished speaking, hundreds of streaks of roads circling around the Duke soared into the air at the same time, sweeping towards Vera in front of him like real chains.

Like countless huge pythons, entangled and collided with each other and rushed out.

The light from the Duke's fingertips burst forth, and blood-colored energy gushed out from the ring. The chains formed by these magic lines rushed towards Vera aggressively as if they had their own consciousness, completely smashing the entire space. balance!

Under the endless chains all over the sky, Vera, who was targeted by hundreds of monsters at the same time, still stood there, never taking half a step back, never moving a bit.

She stood there quietly, her eyes passed through many obstacles, and through the gap of blood light, she slammed straight into the eyes of her biological father.

The four eyes met, and the Duke clearly saw the girl who was about to be imprisoned, and curled his lips at him.

In the next moment, under the action of the Duke and the operation of the ring, the space that was completely out of balance was reduced to dust.

The roaring crackling sound exploded from all around, and the moment the front chain was about to touch Vera, the girl fell into a warm and generous embrace.

In the presence of the omnipotent god on earth, even time slows down.

She was tightly protected in her arms, and the moment she soared into the air, Vera poked her head out of Clark's arms, smiled innocently at the dignified Duke standing far below, and said solemnly:

"This is the correct usage of speech."

Duke: "..."

Clark who managed to escape all the attacks with Vera: "..."

——This is her plan again! ?

What's the point of slaughtering a scumbag in front of children?

In just a few words, the Duke, the old fox, was forced to use magic, causing the whole magic to be unstable, so that Jason and Batman could cooperate inside and outside to completely destroy the space, which is Vera Senna's style!

No one knows how she learned about changes other than magic, no one knows when she woke up, no one knows how she found the real Duke...but that's what she did.

Quiet, wicked as hell, vile, scheming, and strategizing—this is Vera Senna.

This is the Vera Senna who can make the beasts show their peasy eyes, and who is clearly an ordinary person, but who can subdue all superpowers.

Until he saw the familiar expression on the face of the Duke hovering in chains, showing the impotent rage that all enemies would show when facing Vera, Clark suddenly felt completely at ease.

He worked so hard, searched all over the world like a headless fly, found France from Gotham, and found dreams from reality—the girl who made everyone worry about anxiety and worry, was in his arms.

Her head was pressed against his heart, and he lowered his head to clearly see the undisguised cunning and arrogance in her eyes.

It's like saying: If it weren't for someone outside to respond, would I provoke you so arrogantly?

It was as if something sweet and soft filled his empty chest.

Unconcealable and uncontrollable joy surged out, Clark first hooked the corners of his mouth, then gradually widened his smile, and finally, he gently took Vera into his arms, and laughed uncontrollably.

Everyone laughed along.

After the entire space collapsed, those grotesque memory fragments and endless corridors disappeared, and in the shattered fantasy, the entire castle once again revealed its hideous and terrifying original appearance.

Under the effect of magic, the figures of those monsters and ghosts that could not be wiped out all swelled up, and they rushed towards the superheroes one after another in a more ferocious and ferocious appearance.

Surrounded by countless monsters, they are trapped in the gap between reality and dreams, and they can't find a way to leave for the time being... But whether it's Clark, Halbali, or even Diana and Sand who arrived late... Praise, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

However, although……

Vera is here.

As long as she's here, it doesn't matter.

The bloody magic lines continued to spread, and soon spread from the core center of the castle to the outer circle. Several people rushed to them at the same time, repelling the swarming monsters while protecting Vera and Jason behind them.

During this process, everyone had a relaxed smile on their faces, and the previous negative emotions of anxiety, anger, and forbearance disappeared. In the process of repelling the monsters, some people even talked about it:

"I thought you were married back home—tsk, Duchess."

"I don't mind granting you another honorary title, how? Do you want to marry?"

"Don't listen to him, Vera, I don't know who it is, it will explode as soon as it hears the news of your disappearance..."

"Hey! You too!"

"Shut up, one or two are obviously cheated enough."

"... You were the first one to yell at the clown with the sword, right? Diana?"

"What? You met that madman from Gotham? What's going on? Uh... Batman?"

"..."

No one answered Vera, not even Bruce.

"Batman? Batman? Batman? Bat-"

"...Enough, let's talk when we go back, Senna."

Chirping, croaking, making a lot of noise, they didn't give those monsters any favors.

Mary watched this scene silently. Her eyes wandered over the rings in the hands of the Duke and Jason for a moment, and her whole figure turned like a shadow into the ruins and darkness.

——Since the Duke has arrived, in order to prevent his order, she can only temporarily choose to hide and disappear.

When everyone was suspended in mid-air, through the green light shield, they could easily see the countless chains below the castle. In the center of the terrifying magic circle, the expressionless Duke walked out slowly.

Under the cold eyes of everyone, the man raised his hand lightly, and the chains suddenly became bigger, and they rushed towards Chaoying like a giant python.

At the same time, an infinite magic circle spread from the ground, and the entire land continued to emit a scorched stench, and countless torrents of strong acid that could swallow everything swept towards Clark.

The owner of this space... is really angry.

Judging from this posture, the Duke no longer simply wants to take Vera back, he really wants to kill Superman.

From the Duke's perspective, it is impossible not to know Superman's real deterrence against aliens at this stage, but even so, he still wants to kill this Kryptonian, which is very intriguing.

Bruce looked at Vera helplessly: "...what did you do?"

Judging from the dialogue between the Duke and Vera at the beginning, he can probably guess:

During the more than two months since Vera left the Justice League, she must have done something extremely dangerous, which touched the Duke's bottom line, and was captured by the furious man.

"I didn't do anything, it's William Capellolin's own problem."

In the whistling wind, Vera, who was hugging Jason tightly, raised her head, blinked at Bruce, and replied nonchalantly:

"I didn't do anything. I just used the reputation of the Justice League and the influence of Capellorin's hostile family to contact the current chairman of the Peter Berg Club and get a club spot in an exception."

"..."

"..."

Clark, who was flying in mid-air, staggered, and was almost hit by an oncoming acid and chain at the same time.

Not only him, but everyone who had just learned from Bruce and Cyborg what kind of a terrifying existence the Peter Berg Club was at the same time froze for a moment, and their pupils trembled at the same time.

What do you mean, getting a club spot by breaking the rules?

What do you mean, simply taking advantage of Zhenglian's reputation and hostile family power? ?

Also, or nothing? ?

The Peter Berg Club is the largest political organization in the world, and all the people gathered in it are from old families with extreme wealth, countless resources behind them, and great power.

Without the recommendation of the club's insiders and the nod of the chairman, even upstarts like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark would not be able to get a place in the club—Vera, do you know what you are doing? ? ?

No, more importantly, how did you do it! ! ? ?

Among the teammates with drifting expressions, only Bruce was the most sober, and he immediately grasped the key point in Vera's words:

"You got the quota, but not as the heir of the Capellolin family?"

Vera's eyes were a little erratic: "...I am not representing the interests of the Capellorin family."

"then you--"

Bruce frowned. He wanted to continue asking, but when he saw Vera turned his head in a hurry, he understood the real metaphor of the woman in front of him.

She spent two months traveling around the world, spent countless thoughts contacting the enemies of the Capellorin family, she left the Justice League, but used the name of the Justice League... She paid all kinds of things to join the Peter Berg Club, even Therefore, the duke was completely angered, and it was certainly not for the benefit of the Capellolin family that he was treated like this by his biological father.

"The Justice League has not been legal so far, and the war damage caused has always been borne by private individuals. The "Superhero Control Act" is still being planned, and the Anti-Super League squad is still eyeing... These things cannot be resolved purely by public opinion."

Two months ago, the girl shook her head and sighed vividly.

—she was for them.

She's for the Justice League.

He suddenly understood everything.