Not Crazy yet [Comprehensive British and American]

"Nice to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Kent. Clark is a good boy, and I gave him a lot of trouble."

Tony Stark smiled and nodded to the two.His handsomeness and politeness need not be repeated.Jonathan Kent, who was quite curious but had just lost his glasses, narrowed his eyes subconsciously, and Martha lightly tapped him with her left elbow, and greeted him kindly:

"Nice to meet you, too. Clark has often mentioned to us recently that he made friends with Iron Man... This is too unexpected. I always thought he was bragging."

Clark winked at his mother gratefully, and belatedly realized that Tony had met both sets of parents...

Well.Tony was the first one.

"Oh, oh, I'm glad to know that he also takes me to heart. We are indeed very good friends—and because of this, Miss Celia's shop has been implicated. I'm sorry."

Superman pursed his lips slightly.But Jonathan was laughing before he could complain that Tony cared too much about it.It may be that the old Jonathan's majesty has been worn away by getting along with the three children these years. The laughter of the "head of the family" is really kind.

"Don't say that, you don't know how excited Celia is when she brings this up - she still thinks she's lucky enough to renovate the store for free and take paid time off... You're a good person, Sta Mr. Ke, you know that the losses caused by Superman in the past few years are still paid by the National Foundation?"

At the end, he even cast a mocking glance at his son.

"In short, we are very happy that you can make friends with Clark. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bit of an honor. You have also helped him a lot. He respects you very much, and we respect you very much. We all respect heroes like Iron Man .”

...Wow, wow.

This unbiased and kind words made Tony freeze the corners of his mouth.In front of the Kent family, any stereotyped impression seems to be invalidated silently—this old farmer who has never been abroad in his life, and has never even lived in a big city for a long time, is not extreme or stubborn at all... His inclusive and implied encouragement Mr. Stark really didn't know how to react to what he said.

Tony has always been good at dealing with the malice of others.But there is no doubt that goodwill cannot be 'handled'.

The hero in a tall suit faltered.He thanked him, then seemed to think that wasn't enough - but obviously didn't know what to say.

And the two couples looked at each other, knowing that they didn't intend to embarrass their son's super friend... So Martha Kent smiled and stepped forward to hold Clark's hand holding the phone, and the mother pushed her son.Complaining is generally 'accusing':

"Tony probably called because he wanted to talk to you. You really need to be sharp, little reporter... you go upstairs, son, and come down when you're done chatting—just in a while I'll be there too. It's time to prepare dinner. Joe also wants to go out and buy some of your favorite snacks."

The Iron Man on the other end of the phone fell silent knowingly.The Kents were touchingly thoughtful—but he had to start wondering if he shouldn't have called.It's clear he's ruining the Kent family's sweet moment...but Superman has less scruples.He was inexplicably relieved by the call.

In fact, Clark had a bad feeling when Martha sat beside him instead of his father.He was afraid that his mother would want to 'chat' with him... After all, he was still not good at lying.Since the call was from Tony, it undoubtedly saved his life.

Superman kissed his mother quickly on the cheek, and then almost ran away to the second floor.Clark murmured a few words of sorry to Tony in a low voice.Then pushed open the door of the former bedroom and walked in:

"Thank you for calling..."

"Am I bothering..."

--Well.

Both of them stopped for a moment, and they were silent for a few seconds...then they laughed out loud together.

Clark laughed twice before lowering his voice.Downstairs, his father raised his eyebrows strangely and blinked uncomfortably.But his mother didn't pursue it so much, she really found out the car keys, and signaled her husband to follow quickly.

The woman's idea is very simple... It is always good if her son is willing to have a good chat with his friends.

The quick-moving two walked out of the house in less than a minute.Clark blinked at his parents' thoughtfulness, and then embarrassedly leaned the phone next to the photo frame of himself, Eric and Celia.Superman cleared his throat:

"Thanks for calling, Tony."

The president on the other side of the phone also stopped laughing.Tony looks at a slightly distorted Clark Kent on the screen.Looking at the gentle and happy expression of this young man... He subtly pursed his lips, and noticed something.

"Mrs. Kent's pink blouse is really nice. I didn't have time to tell you just now. Remember to pass it on to her." Tony spoke very fast, and he was actually a little uncomfortable when he said this. "Your parents are wonderful people, Clark. I think I can see why you and your sister are, well, young and promising—"

The long, enigmatic tone of his last sentence made Clark laugh again.Tony looked at the rare emotion of this young man... felt that his guess should be right...but he didn't ask.He continued to tease the little boy to talk more.

If you ask 'how have you been recently? 'That's definitely not going to work.Little Clark must have just laughed and passed.He has to change his mind.

"I saw your article about 'The Flash Celebration' - do you have a red-gold complex, boy? I've seen that kid. He's not as grown-up as you make him out to be. It's not that I know what you're like, I'd think he bribed you for something..."

Superman's smile froze strangely.He squirmed, and quickly changed the subject to chat with Tony about his other things in Midtown.This is a very light and very suitable topic for chatting with 'Iron Man'.After all, the incident of Jianfeng people has not been reported in the newspapers, and he has taken great pains not to affect the development of the next Lightning Festival.

The corners of Tony Stark's mouth twitched when he heard the tragic love story between the peak man and the golden glider, and he kept complaining.Iron Man's biting quips 'Only criminals of the highest or lowest intelligence would really want to rule the world.The former is considered enough, and the latter is considered enough. ', this sentence is extremely correct, which caused Superman to agree with him while wryly smiling.He did think of a couple of damn smart or naive dreamer criminals... and Hydra in passing.

— After all, this desire to dominate everything is incredible.

...and he actually said those words.

"...Why do they think they can do and do such a big thing well?"

"Don't they realize what a horrific act it is? He, uh, Peak Man. He's just an individual. He's just one of billions of human beings... He probably did get Some wisdom. But it still doesn't make him understand how arrogant he is. He thinks he's good enough to create a new world. He still doesn't realize that the problem is with him—"

Why isn't he a superman?

...Why didn't he put himself above the wisdom of thousands of outstanding people, and why didn't he put himself above the laws and rules?Why didn't he think of taking a shortcut... Did the self who once wanted to kill the clown become the peak man who wanted to destroy half of mankind to conquer the earth at that moment?

——The moment when he realized that he was mocking himself by mocking the peak people.Clark Kent chose to shut up.He no longer smiled wryly nor frowned.Superman suddenly returned to his expressionless face.

...his abnormality is so obvious.So much so that Tony Stark couldn't continue to turn a blind eye to it.Mr. Stark stopped the faint smile on his lips.He concealed his astonishment.Tony only wanted to open the topic through Midtown, and slowly asked why Clark asked Perry White for a short vacation after he was out of this location.After all, if Little Kent was still in Metropolis today, then he should have driven him to see this 'little surprise'...

——but luckily he made a video call on a whim.After all, this little boy's abnormality may be really hard to detect just by hearing his voice... He doesn't seem to be forcing a smile at all.Everything he said and did was extremely normal... But the darkness between the kid's brows remained stubbornly fixed, showing no signs of being melted by joy and surprise.And at this moment, the emotions that shouldn't belong to this child have even expanded...

But stop kidding.Do not make jokes.How could he make this little boy who had obviously fallen into the trap of growing up miserable?

"...Because human beings are creatures with such huge defects and limitations. This is a common problem of human beings. In many cases, we are extremely lacking in compassion and empathy, and we don't know that we have A ridiculous animal that has basically evolved completely."

Iron Man's voice was steady and sure.As if talking about a well-known trifle.His words were sarcasm to the extreme, but the tone of this sentence was a little imperceptibly gentle... The startled Superman raised his head.Confused looking at his friend, his comrade.

"……We are all."

Clark Kent repeated in a whisper.

... Even through a screen, Tony Stark could feel the entanglement and pain in Clark Kent's blue eyes at this moment.Subconsciously, the man pursed his lips tightly.He himself was a little astonished at this very emotional self at the moment...

He couldn't bear it.

...He couldn't bear to just tell this young man who was so kind that he was so unbelievably kind, like the most pure thing that shouldn't exist... Yeah.All human beings have inferiority...all human beings have desires.

"—This is a common problem of all people, my dear. No one is really genius enough to think through. What I just ridiculed is that he is not self-aware enough-a lot of times what drives criminals to commit crimes is just 'they want' That's it. A lot of times they don't even need enough good to drive them. They just 'think' and they do it. They don't even think about the next 50 years, let alone the next 500 years?"

"At the end of the day, it's all just desire. Desires don't think. Desires are common to everyone."

... This sentence simply defeated Superman.At this second, Clark Kent stopped breathing again - he suddenly understood something, he suddenly and truly understood Bruce Wayne's will...

— Bruce doesn't want to?How could he not want to?He thought incomparably, he also wanted to tear apart, he also wanted to destroy, and he also wanted to rule! --But he……

Superman bowed his head.But Iron Man continued.

"But Clark, there is actually a misunderstanding in this matter - you shouldn't learn to think like them. Because although desire can't think, there is no right or wrong...but just because people like you and I always restrain desire, this The world is a civilized world, where heroes and order always exist. You shouldn’t be hit hard just because you have selfish desires—the biggest difference between you and the kind of person I’m talking about is that your empathy is too strong.”

"But you don't think so. Because that's not what you are--you're a good, good man, boy."

"We are essentially the same creature. Yes. We are all 'the same'...but you are 'different' from him. You are not above him either."

"But you're also so different from him. And you'll never understand him, become him. You've got to believe that."

"You're better than him. He hurts, you heal. You're a good man, Clark."

The author has something to say: it is 19:53 after coding, which is a bit scary.

In fact, what Nini said was a bit irrelevant.But it does say what the bats want to say but will never say - they both believe that all people are essentially equal.Is your desire to kill someone out of hatred or justice?The latter shouldn't bring death, so why haven't you fallen with the former?

But Nini is a murderer.He did not bring this mode of thinking into this matter.In fact, Clark is actually distressed because his thinking has indeed crossed the line.Whether to kill or not is actually a trivial matter.How do people deal with their control over their destructive desires and selfish desires...

In the next chapter, Clark and Nini who have been groped will get tired of it... (probably)

Hehehe, can anyone guess what surprise Nini has prepared?