Love.
Connection.
Humanity.
Everything Wu spent his life trying to erase.
And it’s stronger than him.
I drive my knee upward hard into his injured shoulder.
Wu grunts violently.
Grip loosens.
Enough.
I twist free and slam him backward into the reactor railing.
The unstable core flashes beneath us.
Warning alarms shriek louder.
Wu grabs for another weapon hidden beneath his jacket—
But Clay appears through the steam like pure fury.
He hits Wu so hard the reactor platform shakes.
One brutal punch.
Then another.
Then another.
Years of rage.
Helplessness.
Horror.
All of it finally unleashed.
Wu crashes against the reactor railing bleeding heavily now.
Clay grabs him by the front of his shirt.
“You hurt children.”
Wu actually laughs blood into his own teeth.
“They made humanity stronger.”
Clay nearly kills him right there.
I see it.
The exact second murder enters his eyes.
