The next day, early morning.
The moment Kara Danvers, wearing old-fashioned black glasses, holding her schoolbag, and walking with her head slightly down, stepped through the school gate, the sounds of the entire large middle school opened up to her.
From the intense stomping and slapping sounds of soccer and basketball being played on the school field, to the slight tremor of a hibernating insect in the small grove behind the teaching building. From the loud discussions or whispers of students nearby, to the weary yawn of the guard at the back gate on the other side of the school.
Even if Kara didn't deliberately try to listen, a massive amount of sound information clearly and unimpededly entered her ears.
Kara frowned, slightly uncomfortable. Fortunately, more than three months had passed since she awakened her Super Hearing. She didn't show the slightest abnormality and walked into the teaching building as usual, accustomed to it.
Unlike Kara, who instantly perceived and peered into their secrets, the students outside and in the corridor at most glanced at Kara and quickly looked away.
For them.
A female student like Kara, who didn't bother to dress up and had a reclusive and gloomy personality, was a 'little transparent' with an extremely low sense of presence in this school.
Because of this, Kara secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't attract the attention of her classmates, including those in her own classroom, and quickly walked to her seat in the corner by the wall from the back door of the classroom.
She reached out and gently pulled open the sturdy backrest chair, as if afraid she might accidentally destroy it. Only after she was fully seated in the chair did Kara let out a relaxed and pleasant sigh.
Such cautious actions were repeated almost every time she went to school.
"Kara, you can do it. No accidents happened this time, nothing was broken." Kara Danvers secretly cheered herself on, a bright and sweet smile appearing on her face—a beauty that even thick black glasses could hardly conceal, though unfortunately, no one was there to appreciate it.
Yes.
Kara is a Kryptonian hidden in the current ordinary world, and the second Kryptonian remaining in the entire universe, with the true name "Kara Zor-El."
The first Kryptonian, of course, is the Superhero already famous on Earth—Superman, who is her cousin: "Kal-El."
As for.
Why Kara looks younger than her cousin, a fifteen-year-old girl in the prime of her youth, it all goes back to the destruction of Krypton.
At the time of Krypton's destruction, Kara's parents sent her to Earth, intending for her to protect her cousin, Karl, who was still an infant. Unexpectedly, Kara encountered a wormhole while traversing the universe, instantly losing over a decade of time. Her spaceship arrived on Earth about six months ago.
By then, her cousin had fully grown into Superman and no longer needed Kara's protection. Instead, he helped her find her current adoptive parents, the Danvers family, allowing her to live like an ordinary person in an Earth city.
Kara glanced at the clock on the wall; there were about five minutes left until class started.
She took out her textbooks early to review, and the sound information from within the school continued to stream into her ears. Most of it, naturally, consisted of conversations and discussions among students.
However, today's discussions differed from the usual gossip about school couples or famous Superheroes. Almost ninety percent of the students were talking about the morning news.
Although it was morning news, the event itself had occurred last night.
A giant green monster appeared in an outer district of Washington. Armed military forces were dispatched immediately to suppress it, but the military soldiers suffered heavy casualties. In the news report, which included blurry and shaky on-site footage, the green monster was seen destroying and ravaging the city and the military with terrifying and immense power.
After this, the figures of Spider-Woman, the Silver-Haired Goddess, and a golden-armored knight successively appeared in the city battle. A small segment of the live footage of the Silver-Haired Goddess's confrontation and battle with the green monster was broadcast, and the clash of shield and giant fist immediately caused a huge sensation and reaction worldwide!
Among them, the most talked-about topic, naturally, was the Silver-Haired Goddess who defeated and beheaded the green monster!
"I unilaterally declare that the Silver-Haired Goddess will be my Superhero idol from now on!"
"Pfft! Get lost, you! You said your idol was Superman before."
"Who says if Superman is your idol, you can't also support the Silver-Haired Goddess?"
"As a Batman fan, I also love the Silver-Haired Goddess, she's too cool..."
Not just among students, in just one morning, the Silver-Haired Goddess became the most popular Superhero (female) in the local Washington area!
Even many teachers in the middle school, especially the male teachers, were excitedly banging on tables in the office, exclaiming: "Does this mean the Silver-Haired Goddess lives locally in Metropolis, Washington?"
"Hard to say. For Superheroes with extraordinary talents like them, the distance between cities isn't as far as we understand it," one teacher rationally analyzed.
Several other teachers immediately nodded in agreement. For example, Superman and Iron Man, although the public knows they live in Metropolis and New York City respectively, with their extraordinary abilities, even if they appeared on the other side of the Earth, it would never surprise anyone.
"I don't care, from now on she's my dream goddess, and I'll definitely buy any hero merchandise!" The male teacher said with a determined look.
However, if he knew the true identity of the Silver-Haired Goddess, who knows what he would think.
"Silver-Haired Goddess, Spider-Woman, green monster..."
Kara murmured softly, but she was completely indifferent to it.
Quite the opposite of ordinary people.
Kara was only interested in ordinary human affairs. As for anything involving the so-called extraordinary—her existence as a Kryptonian was the greatest extent of the extraordinary hidden in the city of Washington. Therefore, there was nothing to care about.
"Class is about to start." Kara was slightly startled, but as she filtered through the many voices in the school, she didn't hear the gentle voice she most wanted to hear.
That person also didn't pass through the corridor along the wall by her seat as usual.
Ding!
The class bell rang in the teaching building.
Kara quickly looked towards one side of the upper floor of the teaching building; in her eyes, several layers of walls instantly became transparent, allowing her to see a certain classroom for higher grades. In the classroom, full of students, two seats were conspicuously empty.
The male teacher who had just been discussing buying hero merchandise came to the classroom podium with his thermos, explaining: "Today, Vincent Prince and Gwen Stacy, both students, have taken the day off due to feeling unwell."
"Feeling unwell? Yesterday, he seemed perfectly healthy."
Kara frowned slightly, and what concerned her more was that in that classroom, many students began to whisper.
"How coincidental, both of them took time off at the same time?"
"It seems my guess was correct, they might really be a couple!"
"Does that mean I have no chance?!"
"You never had a chance, sigh, my goddess Gwen..."
Hearing the heartfelt laments of many students, Kara's heart also involuntarily trembled.