Jean stood in front of Saber, which made Professor Xavier's expression change slightly. Saber tilted his head and looked at Jean.
"What do you mean?"
"You can't take her away!"
Jean said seriously, "I don't think you can take care of this child."
"I don't think I can take care of this child either. You see, I'm only 23 years old this year and I'm single. I don't know anything about taking care of children …"
Saber took a deep breath. His previous good impression of Jean quickly disappeared at this moment and was replaced by a faint sneer. "But what does this have to do with you?"
"Get out of my way!"
The atmosphere in the room completely froze at this moment. After Saber's voice faded away, Professor Xavier gently waved his hand.
"Jean, get out of my way."
The professor knew very well that Catherine had a special kind of dependence on Saber. Even if he forced her to stay in the school, it would only make the child hate this place. Moreover, with Professor Xavier's personality, he would never force someone to stay.
But this time, the always obedient Jean was stubborn and unwilling to move. She looked at Catherine and then at Saber. Finally, she took a deep breath.
"Professor, I don't want to keep Catherine in the school. From the day the Xavier Academy for Gifted Youngsters was founded until now, no child has been forced to stay. But Saber … I really don't think you can teach this child well … In fact, I don't even agree that this child should stay with you. You should let her go back to her parents."
"Haha … I'll say it again … What does this have to do with you?"
Saber refused to budge. This time, even the little girl stared at Jean with hatred. Her little face was full of anger and she shouted in a voice unique to children.
"Get out of my way! You bad woman! "
This made Jean's expression turn bitter, but she firmly believed that she did not do anything wrong. Looking at Saber's mocking eyes, she took a deep breath and raised her left hand slightly. An invisible force lifted Catherine's hammerhead shark bag into the air and extracted the hidden item in an instant.
The moment the black, well-maintained M9 appeared, Catherine screamed.
"Give Saber's gift back to me! You bad woman! "
Professor Xavier's eyes became serious the moment he saw the weapon. Now he finally knew why Jean had to separate Catherine and Saber. However, the professor, who had survived the Age of Turmoil, did not immediately stop all this. His superior wisdom gave him a feeling that the story between Catherine and Saber might have something to do with this weapon.
"Tell me … Saber, did you give this to her?"
Jean's voice became colder and colder. The protection formed by her spiritual power was fully deployed around her body like a wall, blocking Saber and Catherine.
"Is this your way of educating Catherine by giving her a deadly weapon to a child who can't control it yet? What kind of person do you want to raise her into? A murderer? A violent person? Or a lawless thug? "
"Haha."
Saber chuckled. This time, he was not impulsive. After hearing Jean's question, he took a step back and sat back down on the chair with Catherine, who looked angry. He looked at Jean with a face full of mockery and disdain, as if her previous questions had never appeared at all.
Saber admitted that he had done many bad things, but at least in this case, he had a clear conscience.
"I've only heard that there's a type of person in this world who would always impose their worldview on others and watch the world change with their eyes closed. I've always wondered how there could be such a stupid person in this world … Now I know that they do exist."
Saber took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. This was placed in his clothes by May. He lit it up openly. The smell of cigarettes appeared in Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youth for the first time. Under the cover of the smoke, Saber's last trace of anger disappeared. He reached out and flicked the silver ash away, but the ash was wrapped by an invisible force and kept in the air.
But he paid no mind to these marvelous little tricks. Calming down, he said to Jean, "Don't worry, Jean.
"Do you know why I gave this gun to Catherine?"
Without waiting for Jean to answer, he asked again, "Do you know what happened to Catherine in the year she went missing? Do you know what happened to her in the most chaotic Narrow Island in Gotham?"
He chuckled, spread his hands, and said innocently, "I won't tell you.
"No, I won't tell you, Jean, because you won't believe me no matter what I say. You've already been touched by your 'noble' actions. You feel like you've become the greatest 'Virgin Mary' in the world, working hard to save a girl's soul. As for me, Seiber Hawk, I've become the most despicable bastard in the world, a villain who seduces pure souls to hell. You don't have to retort, I know that's what you think."
Jean bit her lip. Her action of stopping Saber was just a spur of the moment. She could have taken action after understanding everything, but she was only a 22-year-old after all. Even if she was an Alpha-level mutant with unimaginable power, in this situation, she could only see her own failure in Catherine's hateful eyes.
She didn't even understand why things had come to this point.
However, Saber did not pursue the matter. On the contrary, he even took a step back.
"I heard that Professor X has the ability to freely read other people's memories. Why don't you see with your own eyes why Catherine accepted my gift and why she insisted on returning to Gotham with me?"
He looked at Professor X, who remained silent.
"Professor, you can do this, right?"
Professor X's finger gently slid across the book in front of him. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and nodded.
"Yes, and I can guarantee that this won't affect the child's memory in any way. I won't observe anything other than this memory … I swear on my name, Xavier."
The professor looked at his disciple and then at Saber. He had to admit that in this situation, his proud disciple was completely under Saber's control. It should have been a good thing, but now, no matter what the outcome was, she was completely at a disadvantage.
Most of the time, we must pay attention to the way we do things for others. Otherwise, we will end up in Jean's current situation, which is strenuous and unrewarding …
Saber gently patted the shoulder of little Catherine, who was glaring at Jean, and said gently to the child.
"Let Grandpa Charles see your memory. Don't resist. I promise it won't hurt you … and your sister Jean is stopping us. If we don't do this, she won't let us go … You don't want to see me carry you all the way out, do you?"
Catherine waved her hands angrily, like an angry kitten.
"She's a liar! She just tricked me into showing her your gift, and now she says you're a bad person. She's a real liar! I don't want to see her again! I never want to see her again! "
"Okay, okay. After we leave, we won't come back, okay?"
Saber comforted the little girl and pointed at Professor Charles. "Now, your memory is the only way for us to clear our names. Let Grandpa see it, and then we'll go back to Gotham immediately, okay?"
"Hmm … Okay."
A child at her age didn't understand what memory meant to a person. However, on the other hand, there were no secrets in a child's memory that couldn't be told. Especially for Catherine, her memory was only a dark hell.
She took two steps forward and stood timidly in front of Professor Charles. She played with her fingers, lowered her head, and asked.
"What should I do?"
"Little girl, you don't have to do anything. Don't be nervous … Look, I won't even touch you."
The professor smiled and extended a finger, placing it two meters in front of Catherine. His voice became unusually soft, and there was a trace of special mental power mixed in.
"Come, Catherine, look at it. Yes, don't move your eyes … 3.2.1!"
"Swoosh!"
The little girl's eyes became absent-minded, and Professor Charles closed his eyes. Saber sat at the side, clenching his fists to show his nervousness. Five seconds later, Catherine and Professor Charles came back to their senses at the same time. The little girl looked up curiously at the professor.
"I seem to have sensed you... in those memories of the past, you seemed to be standing beside me, watching me."
"Yes, that's right. I'm watching from the side …"
Charles took out a beautifully packaged candy from the drawer beside him and stuffed it into the little girl's hand. He patted her head kindly.
"You have a good brother … Go, follow him home. Don't let Pops and Robin wait."
"Okay, thank you, sir."
Catherine bowed her head politely and thanked Professor Charles for the gift. Then, she skipped back to Saber. Professor Charles nodded at Saber and waved his left hand. Jean's mental defense line collapsed instantly, and a path to leave appeared in front of Saber.
"Protect her, Saber … Just like what you did before, Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youngsters will always be open to you and Catherine …"
Saber snorted with satisfaction. He took the M9 from the air beside him, glanced at the pale-faced Jean, shook his head, and strode out with Catherine.
"You should go out and see the world instead of trapping yourself in your own world. This world is cruel and complicated. Other than your paradise, there are no other paradises … By giving the little girl a weapon, I'm giving her my best blessing. I hope she can have the ability to protect herself in this cruel world. That's the best gift for a child."
Saber patted Jean's shoulder lightly.
"People born in the sun will instinctively reject all darkness. Unfortunately, Catherine and I have lived in the darkness. We never expected the sun to shine on us. I hope you'll be more mature the next time we see you, instead of being so childish."
Jean's face turned extremely pale. Saber didn't see Professor Charles had secretly extended her senses into Catherine's memory. In the last five seconds, she and Professor Charles had seen everything that happened to Catherine in the past year.
No matter how determined she was, at this moment, she had to admit that Saber was Catherine's savior, not a person who only knew how to talk. At this moment, Jean instinctively doubted herself. Perhaps it was fate, but this doubt quickly spread to the level of her own existence. It was so fast that Professor Charles sensed that something was wrong and didn't have time to stop it.
Crack.
With a crisp sound that couldn't be heard, Jean felt the world spinning in front of her eyes. A dark voice sounded in her mind. The next moment, she blacked out and fell to the ground. Professor Charles' expression changed greatly. This old man who did everything at his own pace quickly moved his wheelchair and appeared behind Grey Jean at an extremely fast speed. He supported her falling body and pointed a finger at Jean's forehead.
In his disciple's sea of consciousness, a crack had appeared in the seal that he had personally placed in her youth. An unimaginable amount of spiritual power surged into Jean's sea of consciousness, mending the crack bit by bit.
The professor could still feel the terrible power surging behind the seal. In reality, with Professor Charles' strength, after doing all this, sweat appeared on his forehead.
"Saber …"
He shook his head. "Mysterious guy who suddenly appeared, you almost ruined everything."
Yes, without Saber noticing, Professor Charles already knew everything that had happened since he appeared in Gotham. This was one of the two extremes of mutants. Even though Saber was extremely cautious, he still underestimated this power.
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