Confronting

"Alright."

Nick Fury, standing nearby, was about to speak when Zane's curt "get lost" made him swallow his words.

Zane then hurried away, ordering everyone in the building not to approach the corridor where he was.

Even a fool could see that Zane was in a bad mood right now. If he angered him, Nick Fury didn't dare to think about the consequences.

In the hospital room, the now-conscious Magneto was looking at Lorna, who had just entered.

In reality, Magneto was just experiencing some exhaustion from overusing his powers and wasn't seriously injured.

"Young lady, if I'm not mistaken, you're Zane's girlfriend, right? What brings you here to see me?" Magneto said politely.

Having regained consciousness, he had learned about Zane's terrifying abilities through viral videos online.

Although Magneto was extremely confident, he still knew his own limits.

To put it bluntly, even if he risked his life facing Zane, the only outcome would be death.

So, facing Lorna, Zane's girlfriend, Magneto naturally showed his respect.

But Lorna didn't respond to his words. Instead, she looked at Magneto with extreme complexity in her eyes, then used her powers to pull over a chair and sat down by Magneto's bedside.

Sensing the momentary disturbance in the magnetic field in the hospital room caused by Lorna's powers, Magneto's expression changed, revealing a look of joy.

"Young lady, what's your name?"

"Lorna, Lorna Dane," Lorna said expressionlessly.

"Lorna, do you know, you're my kin!"

"We're all members of mutantkind, and the potential of your abilities is beyond your imagination. Would you like to join the Brotherhood? I will train you to be my successor."

Magneto said eagerly. In his old age, he had begun to sense the decline of his body.

The ever-expanding Brotherhood also made him feel increasingly inadequate.

So, he was eager to train a successor for himself.

However, none of the abilities of the Brotherhood members were convincing.

The appearance of Lorna, who had the same abilities as him, at this moment was like a gift from heaven to him.

So, he couldn't wait to recruit Lorna, even without considering Zane's existence.

In the face of Magneto's expectations, Lorna suddenly smiled bleakly.

"Erik Lehnsherr, do you know, I only found out half an hour ago that you're my biological father."

Magneto was taken aback, then ecstatic. Just as he was about to speak, Lorna continued.

"But in the first 20 years of my life, you were nowhere to be seen."

"You weren't there when my foster parents bullied me!"

"You weren't there when a homeless man stole my food!"

"You weren't there when I was about to freeze to death!"

As Lorna recounted her dismal experiences in a flat tone, Magneto's head lowered more and more.

Every word from Lorna was like a knife stabbing into his heart.

Magneto opened his mouth, but in the end, he chose silence.

"I used to wonder, why did you bring me into this world and then abandon me?"

"Were the contraceptives too expensive 20 years ago, or were you just drunk and had a one-night stand?"

"Child, I..."

Before Magneto could finish his sentence, Lorna waved her hand, stopping Magneto's useless apology.

"At first, I resented you, but not anymore."

"I even want to thank you. If you hadn't brought me into this world, I might have missed out on that man I've been yearning for all these years."

With that, Lorna's face lit up with a sweet smile, recalling every moment since she met Zane.

"Child, can you give me a chance to make up for it in the rest of my life?" Magneto said, full of guilt and cautiously.

He didn't doubt whether Lorna's words were true. That sense of kinship from blood couldn't be faked.

And as Zane's girlfriend, Lorna didn't need to stoop to acknowledge him, the leader of an illegal organization, as her father.

Facing Magneto's somewhat humble request, Lorna suddenly smiled, with a hint of mockery in her smile that made Magneto's heart grow cold.

"Erik Lehnsherr, I think you've misunderstood. I didn't come here to acknowledge you as my father."

"I just want to see what kind of person my long-awaited father was. I just want to give my past self an explanation."

"Zane once told me something, and I agree with him."

"Some mistakes, once made, can never be undone!"

"Your repentance now is just to ease your troubled mind!"

At this moment, Lorna's words completely plunged Magneto's heart into an abyss. He even dared not look directly at Lorna's cold eyes anymore.

"Erik Lehnsherr, thank you and some unknown woman for bringing me into this world."

With that, Lorna pushed the chair aside, knelt down on the ground, and knocked three times on the floor in front of the still-stunned Magneto.

After knocking her head, Lorna stood up gracefully, as if she had put down a hundred-pound burden on her shoulders and felt an unprecedented lightness from the depths of her soul.

Just as Lorna said, she had given herself an explanation for the past.

Those three knocks were like an invisible blade that severed all the ties between Lorna and Magneto in an instant.

Meeting again would just be two strangers.

This was the choice Lorna made for herself!

"Then let's leave it at that. Goodbye, Mr. Erik Lehnsherr."

With that, Lorna didn't care about Magneto's reaction anymore. After brushing off the dust on her knees, she turned around and left.

"Child, are you doing well now?"

As Lorna was about to push the door to leave, Magneto suddenly asked, trembling.

Lorna's hand paused for a moment, then she turned her head and gave Magneto a sincere smile from the bottom of her heart.

Without saying anything, she simply pushed the door and left.

Magneto, who now understood, slumped on the hospital bed, looking visibly older in just a few minutes, as if he had aged ten years in this short time.

He kept muttering to himself:

"That's good, that's good, that's good..."

Just as Zane said, some mistakes, once made, can never be undone.

For Magneto to be like this, it can be said without exaggeration that it's entirely his own fault!

Since it's done, don't expect forgiveness anymore, because you're not qualified.

He also knew that with the closing of this door, he and Lorna would henceforth be like two parallel lines, and their life paths would never intersect again!

After walking out, Lorna saw Zane still smoking there. She walked slowly to Zane's side, sat down, hugged Zane's arm, and leaned her head on Zane's shoulder.

"Is it settled?" Zane extinguished the cigarette in his hand and asked.

"Mhmm," Lorna nodded.

"How did it go?" Zane asked nervously.

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