Reborn as Superman's Son, Ch 42

Chapter 42: Clark's Omniversal Secret Meeting, and Eden Gets the Full Explanation!

"Sizzle!"

After Eden strangled Angstrom to death, his heat vision, which had been building up, poured out and cremated the corpse.

Eden felt downright disgusted just looking at Angstrom's body.

"Let's go home, Dad."

Having finished all this, Eden came to Clark's side and said with a relaxed expression.

"Alright."

With a gentle wave of his hand, Clark opened a portal directly in front of Eden.

"Mark, Allen, Oliver, Thaedus, Eve, Cecil..."

Before leaving, Eden waved goodbye to each of the friends he'd made in this world.

"I'm going to miss you, Eden!"

Mark waved vigorously, saying goodbye to Eden.

Though Mark really wanted Eden to stay, he knew this wasn't Eden's world. He couldn't be that selfish.

"Bro, I'll come visit you in your world when I get the chance!"

Allen shouted loudly.

"I'll be waiting for you all."

After saying this, Eden followed Clark's footsteps and entered the portal.

"You've made a great group of friends, Eden."

Clark strode forward, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

Yes, Clark was genuinely happy that his son Eden had managed to make several true friends in this universe.

"They really are great."

Eden nodded slightly.

Meanwhile.

Eden's world.

"You did it, Angstrom!"

"You succeeded, Angstrom!"

After months of tireless research, Angstrom Levy of Eden's universe had finally developed a dimensional travel device with the help of the Global Defense Agency. He was so moved that tears streamed down his face. His dream had come true.

"Clap clap clap clap!"

"Congratulations, Angstrom."

"Angstrom, you did brilliantly!"

"Clap clap clap!"

"That's our Angstrom."

For a moment, everyone in the entire Defense Agency conference room, all the scientific researchers, sincerely gave Angstrom their applause and blessings.

"Alright, that's enough celebration!"

"Now isn't the time to congratulate Angstrom on successfully developing the portal."

"Open the passage to the parallel universe immediately and bring our hero back."

Cecil interrupted everyone's congratulations to Angstrom, his brow furrowed as he spoke in a commanding tone.

During the days Eden had been away from Eden's universe, Cecil had once again become that cold, decisive director of the Defense Agency.

"Alright."

After Angstrom nodded heavily, he waved his hand, preparing to open the portal to Mark's universe.

"Buzz!"

But at that moment, a golden light began to shine before everyone. A golden portal was gradually taking shape in front of them.

"Angstrom, did you succeed?"

Cecil looked at the portal before him and asked in pleasant surprise.

"Uh."

"Actually, that's not my portal."

Angstrom fell silent for a moment before answering honestly.

"Damn!"

"Everyone find cover immediately and prepare defensive measures."

Upon hearing this, Cecil immediately moved Angstrom behind him, ready at any moment to use spatial teleportation to take him and leave this dangerous place.

Yes, in Cecil's eyes at this moment, Angstrom, who could bring Eden back from another universe, was clearly far more important to Earth than Cecil himself.

"Buzz!"

At that moment, the golden gates were suddenly pushed open.

Then, under everyone's gaze, Clark and Eden walked through the doorway.

"Huh?"

"Everyone's here?"

"By the way, how did you know I was coming back today?"

After Eden walked out of the portal, he looked at the room full of Defense Agency talent and couldn't help but frown, asking in confusion.

"..."

In response, whether it was Cecil or Angstrom, they all fell silent.

"So what exactly were all our months of effort for?"

Some technician muttered to himself in confusion.

"Eden, you're finally back!"

"While you were gone, I spent every single day on edge."

Seeing that it was Clark and Eden, Cecil's nerves, which had been taut for three months, finally relaxed.

During the three months Eden had been gone, Cecil really did feel like he was jumping at shadows. At the slightest disturbance, he'd be scared to death.

Especially with so many Viltrumites living on Earth.

Cecil had been genuinely afraid that these Viltrumites might cause trouble while Eden was away. If they had a little disagreement, Earth could just vanish.

Speaking of which, after the Viltrumite War, Cecil had recovered a large number of Viltrumite corpses.

But the more he studied these Viltrumite bodies, the more he felt awe toward their formidable power.

As for Clark, who had wiped out countless Viltrumites?

Though Clark was impossibly powerful, Cecil still couldn't feel that power viscerally.

Cecil could only revere Clark.

Like revering a true god.

Fortunately, everything had turned out fine.

"You've had it rough."

Eden patted Cecil on the shoulder.

"Alright, Eden."

"We should head home for dinner."

"Your mother's been waiting impatiently."

At that moment, Clark interrupted Eden and Cecil's conversation.

"Well then, that's it for now."

Hearing this, Eden waved to Cecil and the others.

"Whoosh!"

Before Cecil and the others could respond, Eden and Clark vanished from before them like a gust of wind.

"So should I continue with my cross-universe experiments?"

After Eden and Clark left, Angstrom from Eden's universe suddenly remembered something. He raised his dimensional travel bracelet and asked Cecil and the others.

"Go experiment on your own."

"When the experiments are done, remember to submit a report to me."

Cecil waved at Angstrom and turned to leave.

Clearly, Cecil had more important things to do.

"Uh..."

Angstrom watched Cecil's retreating figure, feeling a bit sour inside.

So love really does disappear, doesn't it?

When they needed him, he was Earth's hope, the Defense Agency's future.

When they didn't need him, he was just another ordinary researcher at the Defense Agency?

"Hang in there, Angstrom."

At the same time, everyone else at the Defense Agency also encouraged Angstrom before leaving.

Within moments, only Angstrom and Robot remained in the entire experimental facility.

"Robot, at least you're still here."

Angstrom looked at Robot and said with a smile.

Sure enough, in the entire Defense Agency, the only one who truly cared about research was him and Robot.

"Sorry, what did you just say?"

"My main consciousness was just in Unit Three, not in Unit One."

But in the next second, Robot's words completely broke Angstrom's spirit.

"Never mind."

Angstrom fell silent.

Kent Residence.

"Congratulations to my son on his successful return from a parallel dimension!"

As soon as Eden got home, he saw Nolanne presenting him with a congratulatory bottle of champagne.

"Thanks, Mom."

Eden took the champagne and drank it straight down.

Technically, in America you had to be twenty-one to drink alcohol.

But with Kryptonian physiology, alcohol couldn't affect him anyway.

"Eden, tell me!"

"What did you encounter on this trip?"

Nolanne sat beside Eden and asked with a smile.

"Mom, let me tell you..."

"I met a parallel universe version of you, except he was male."

"The guy's name was Nolan Grayson."

"If I had to say what he and you have in common, it's that you both have that indomitable family will."

Eden smiled as he recounted everything he'd experienced in Mark's universe to Nolanne.

"Oh!"

"What a fascinating parallel world."

Nolanne nodded repeatedly, listening and commenting as she went.

"Heh heh."

Beside Eden and Nolanne, Clark wore a gentle smile, quietly listening.

For a time, the Kent family's happiness was truly complete.

That night.

"..."

Eden couldn't sleep.

Honestly, Eden had gotten used to living normally during the day and fighting at night. This feeling of having nothing to do—he really wasn't used to it.

The main issue was that after learning that the System's so-called simulations actually threw his "clone" into other universes, he had to be extremely careful and cautious. He couldn't just simulate recklessly anymore.

"Damn it!"

"The enemies in my way are either too weak or too strong."

"Isn't there anyone just right?"

Eden felt deeply troubled by this.

At the same time.

Clark was currently drinking at a bar.

The bar's name was The Vestibule.

"Oh! Look who it is!"

"The great Clark Kent himself?"

"Then you've got to buy me a drink."

At that moment, a man dressed as a bartender came directly to Clark's side. He smiled at Clark while offering him a glass of whiskey on the rocks.

"It's been a while, Dream."

Clark smiled at the bartender before him. The two seemed to be old acquaintances.

"Clark, you came to my bar instead of going to the Light Bar across the street. If Lucifer sees that, won't he be upset?"

Dream spoke in a "teasing" tone, asking Clark.

"Ahem."

Hearing Dream's words, Clark nearly spat out the drink he'd just taken into his mouth.

In the entire Omniverse, there weren't many people who could tease him. The person before him was one of them.

"Alright, tell me quickly!"

"What business brings Mr. Clark, who never visits a bar without reason, to find his way here after going to such trouble?"

Seeing Clark's reaction, Dream smiled. He had no intention of continuing to tease him and asked directly.

"Crack."

At that moment, the door to Dream's Vestibule was violently pushed open.

A man with short blonde hair, wearing a white suit over a floral shirt, giving off the impression of an irreverent playboy, strode right in. His gaze ignored Dream, who was dressed as a bartender, and locked directly onto Clark. He laughed and said, "Look who it is? Isn't this my good friend Clark?"

"You really are impossibly clueless, walking into the wrong bar? Why don't you hurry up and come back with me?"

As the playboy spoke, he grabbed Clark, who was sitting at the bar, and tried to drag him out of the establishment.

"Damn it! Demon, get out! Get out now!" Dream blocked the playboy who'd barged into his bar without permission, practically shaking with rage. "What rotten luck today! Lucifer, are you blind?! Didn't you see the sign outside? 'Demons (Lucifer) and Dogs (God) Not Allowed!'"

"Clark, look at him! He's yelling at me!"

At this point, the playboy's form had already shifted into that of a voluptuous and graceful woman. She leaned against Clark's side acting coquettish, pointing at Dream's face while speaking in a honeyed, tea-sipping tone.

"You disgust me."

Dream took half a step back. The look in his eyes as he gazed at Lucifer was filled with revulsion and irritation.

"Alright, alright."

"I didn't come here today to catch up and chat."

"I came about my son Eden."

Clark calmly pushed the female version of Lucifer aside. Standing between Lucifer and Dream, he said with a troubled expression.

"So, Clark, you mean you're planning to have your son undergo trials in our universe?!"

Dream narrowed his eyes. He seemed to have guessed what Clark was getting at.

"Yes."

"That child is growing too fast. He needs more trials."

Clark said softly.

"With a father like you, what trials could he possibly need?"

Lucifer had shifted back to his male form. A cigarette dangled from his lips as he puffed away, asking in confusion.

"Precisely because he has a father like me, he needs trials."

Clark answered.

"Why don't you just tell that child everything?"

Dream looked at Clark with some confusion and asked.

"Heh heh."

Clark laughed and shook his head. "If Eden knew everything, he'd 'lie flat.' Educating children is far more complex than you both imagine."

Clark had two great hobbies.

First, loving his wife.

Second, pressuring his son.

"So you're planning to send him to my world?"

"But my world isn't mine alone to command."

Dream said thoughtfully.

"Just look after him a little."

"Don't let those cosmic-level beings notice the child too early."

Clark explained.

"That's simple."

Dream straightened his chest and smiled. "Leave this matter to me!"

"So, Clark?!"

"Why won't you entrust your son to me?"

"Don't you trust me anymore?"

"Has the friendship between us been severed completely?"

Seeing that Clark planned to entrust Eden to Dream, Lucifer said with some jealousy.

"..."

Clark fell silent.

Entrust Eden to Lucifer? Don't be ridiculous.

He was a responsible father. How could he possibly stand by and watch his child descend into hell?!

At the same time.

The next morning.

"Mm~"

Eden slowly opened his eyes.

Because he really didn't know who to simulate, Eden had been thinking about it last night when he'd 'mysteriously' fallen asleep. When he opened his eyes, it was already light outside.

That said, this was the most comfortable sleep he'd had in a while.

"Mom, Dad, what's for breakfast?"

With this thought, Eden pushed open his bedroom door.

However, what met Eden's eyes wasn't the familiar second-floor hallway, but rather a hollow corridor.

"Well, this looks like an old apartment hallway."

Eden evaluated in his mind.

"No!"

"This IS an old apartment hallway."

Eden's eye twitched as he exclaimed.

However, this wasn't the most devastating part for Eden.

What truly left Eden frozen in place was that his super vision clearly showed him that about eight hundred meters away, a person in red tight-fitting pajamas constantly shooting out spider webs was swinging like on a swing set between various high-rise buildings.

"Good morning, citizens of New York!"

"I'm your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!!"

At the same time, Eden's super hearing could pick up the pajama baby's chattering monologue.

"Motherfucker!!"

Eden's mouth dropped open as he said incredulously.

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Sorry for the delay guys, i'll make it up with multiple chapters soon!