Ikaris had deceived everyone!
By this point, that fact was already painfully obvious.
Even if the Eternals were slow, they had all realized it by now.
What's more—
The Eternals weren't stupid to begin with.
"Homelander, it seems we wrongly accused you."
Kingo couldn't help letting out a long sigh, then voiced a question that had been bothering him.
"But why did Ikaris say that you killed Ajak?"
This was a doubt that simply couldn't be ignored.
Ikaris's eyewitness testimony, as well as the heat-vision wounds on Ajak's body—neither could be easily explained.
If it weren't for these two points, how could the Eternals have been so firmly convinced that the Homelander was the murderer?
"Ikaris said I killed Ajak?"
Alex raised an eyebrow slightly, his suspicions becoming more and more confirmed.
"Mm! Mm!"
Ikaris struggled desperately, trying to speak, but with his mouth still tightly sealed by Alex's telekinesis, he couldn't utter a single sound.
"Yes. That's exactly what Ikaris told us."
Thena admitted it and relayed everything Ikaris had told them to Alex.
Just like Alex, they also wanted to figure out what was really going on.
I want to kill Arishem?
Forcing Ajak to reveal Arishem's location?
And then killing Ajak with heat vision?
Alex fell silent for a moment, then looked at Ikaris with a gaze full of admiration.
Man, you're really good at making things up.
What a waste not becoming a Marvel screenwriter.
After piecing together all the information on the scene, Alex quickly understood the truth of the matter.
Ajak was definitely killed by Ikaris!
And there was no other hidden mastermind behind the Eternals' assassination attempt on him.
Ikaris hadn't been deceived by anyone else—everything had been planned by Ikaris himself.
As for why he did it, Alex knew perfectly well.
Blind loyalty to Arishem, nothing more.
"Let me tell you the truth."
"The one who killed Ajak wasn't me—it was precisely the one who told you this story."
"Ikaris."
With a thought, Alex withdrew the telekinetic pressure from the other Eternals.
They immediately regained their freedom.
Of course—except for Ikaris.
Alex was about to clear his name in front of the Eternals, and naturally didn't want Ikaris interrupting him.
"This is absurd!"
Kingo, Ikaris's most loyal supporter, had barely gotten back on his feet when he shouted out his objection.
"Homelander, this really is absurd," Sersi added.
"Even though Ikaris has heat vision, there's no way he could have killed Ajak!"
Not just Kingo and Sersi—this was also the instinctive reaction of the other Eternals.
After all, they had fought side by side with Ikaris for hundreds of thousands of years. Their trust in him ran deep.
"I'm guessing… you don't actually know the truth about the Eternals, do you?"
Under the gaze of the Eternals, Alex suddenly asked this question in a meaningful tone.
???
What did that mean?
All the Eternals were momentarily stunned, completely confused.
"Mm! Mm!!"
At the same time, everyone noticed that Ikaris—the only one still pinned to the ground—began struggling even more violently.
It was obvious.
The Homelander wasn't bluffing. There really was some so-called "truth" about the Eternals.
And that truth—
They didn't know it.
But Ikaris clearly did.
Not only that—
Judging from how frantic he looked, he very much didn't want them to learn it.
Could it be…
What the Homelander said earlier was true? That it was precisely because of this truth that Ikaris had killed Ajak?
At this moment, the Eternals' rock-solid trust in Ikaris began to waver.
"Do you know where the Deviants came from?"
"Do you know where you, the Eternals, came from?"
Facing their gazes, Alex began to explain calmly.
He laid bare the ultimate secret of the Eternals—everything, without holding back.
When he finished, every single Eternal stood there dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning.
The Deviants were actually created by Arishem?!
And not only that—the Eternals themselves were also created by Arishem?!
The reason they hunted Deviants all this time… was for the Emergence?
And inside Earth, there was actually a Celestial gestating—one whose Emergence would completely destroy the planet?!
Each revelation was a bombshell.
All of it hit at once, leaving everyone completely stunned.
"The moment Ajak came to find me, it meant she had already betrayed Arishem."
"And Ikaris, who was fanatically loyal to Arishem, couldn't tolerate that."
"So he killed Ajak."
"And he also planned to kill me."
"Am I right, Ikaris?"
As Alex finished speaking, he lifted the suppression on Ikaris.
Ikaris finally climbed up from the ground.
Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh!
In an instant, every gaze on the scene locked onto Ikaris.
"Ikaris… is all of this true?"
"Is what the Homelander said… all true?"
"Was Ajak really killed by you?"
The Eternals stared at him, asking in disbelief.
"I had no choice!"
"Believe me—I'm just as heartbroken as you are. I loved Ajak just as much as you did!"
Two streams of tears ran down Ikaris's face.
At this point, there was no reason to deny it anymore.
Boom!
The Eternals swayed, as if struck by a devastating blow.
They couldn't accept it—
Everything the Homelander said was actually true.
Ajak… had really been killed by Ikaris.
"Do you know how much pain I've endured all these years?"
"Knowing everything, yet having to lie to all of you, pretending I knew nothing."
"Can you even imagine—"
Boom!
Ikaris's words were cut off mid-sentence.
Because Alex casually crushed him with telekinesis—squeezing his entire body into a pile of bloody paste.
That was it.
It was true—
Ikaris was, in a way, a tragic figure. On some level, Alex even felt a bit of sympathy for him.
But—
No matter what, this man had tried to kill Alex.
And that alone sealed his fate.
He was never letting someone like that live.
"Alright," Alex said calmly, as if he had just brushed off a speck of dust.
"The matter Ajak and I were discussing—are you willing to continue it?"
After casually killing Ikaris, Alex looked at the remaining Eternals and asked.
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