Inside the bathroom,
steam rose in the bright and clean bathroom. The large bathtub was full of murky hot water, and Konrad Curze had already been forcibly changed into a suit by the Custodes, sitting in a barber's chair in front of the bathroom mirror, surrounded by several Custodes holding power halberds.
Sanguinius was using scissors and clippers to cut Konrad Curze's hair, and soon Konrad Curze's long hair was trimmed into a short style.
Why was Konrad Curze so compliant? Because Sanguinius had directly "fixed" Konrad Curze.
At this moment, Sanguinius removed the barber's cape from Konrad Curze, and then several Custodes pushed Konrad Curze's barber's chair to the shampoo basin and began to wash Konrad Curze's hair... Konrad Curze was very uncomfortable at this time. He wanted to tear apart all the "golden corn spirits" in front of him, but his body was controlled by his "mother," and even opening his mouth to speak became a luxury.
Moreover, the genetic suppression within Sanguinius made Konrad Curze obediently allow himself to be brought to bathe and get a haircut... just like the phrase all mothers would say: "Look at you, how dirty you are!"
Sanguinius even gave Konrad Curze a hairstyle... Looking at her "work," Sanguinius smiled.
"Very good, a nice cut. Such a handsome young man, always making himself look neither human nor ghost; as expected, tidying up makes him handsome."
After blow-drying Konrad Curze's hair and styling it into a fashionable new look.
"Look, how's my craftsmanship?"
"..."
Seeing that Konrad Curze didn't speak, Sanguinius realized she had forgotten to release him. With a snap of Sanguinius's fingers, Konrad Curze shrieked and leaped from the chair, hiding in the corner of the ceiling.
Immediately, several Custodes rushed forward to surround Konrad Curze, and several power halberds were instantly aimed at Konrad Curze, who was clinging to the ceiling.
"How old are you! Get down here!"
Sanguinius's words instantly suppressed Konrad Curze's genes, and Konrad Curze obediently descended from the ceiling, standing in front of Sanguinius.
"Do you know how expensive this suit you're wearing is? This is pure wool! Found it in your dad's dressing room."
When Konrad Curze heard the clothes belonged to his father, he instantly became like a kitten, sniffing the scent of the clothes on him... Hmm, it really had his father's scent.
Konrad Curze tentatively asked, "Mother..."
Sanguinius was washing her hands in the sink at this time, not looking at him, she just replied, "What's wrong?"
"Mother, aren't you angry about what I've done? Everything I've done deserves to be judged, otherwise justice cannot be served..."
Sanguinius looked puzzled: "What have you done?"
In fact, after ten thousand years of "Dragon Field Enlightenment," Konrad Curze had also changed a lot... "I... I..." Konrad Curze looked at his hands, and countless memories began to flood his mind, "I killed many people, I even killed and tortured Vulkan countless times! I even wanted to kill Guilliman's adoptive mother! I originally thought... in the prophecy, the assassin sent by Father would kill me... but he locked me in a dungeon for ten thousand years!"
Sanguinius stretched out her finger, touched Konrad Curze's forehead, and then read all his memories... Konrad Curze landed on the Kharon Nostramo, which was, to put it mildly... simply "Gotham City on steroids."
The vast majority of Nostramo's population had long been trapped in poverty, forced to resort to any means to survive. Even acts like murder and cannibalism had become commonplace; the people here had long lost their conscience.
Konrad Curze saw a broken, fearful, selfish, and ruthless individual, and countless others like him. Human nature is evil; this was the first impression humanity left on Konrad Curze.
Initially, Konrad Curze's approach was simple: become batman, upholding justice, because it was the simplest way to punish criminals and ensure they wouldn't reoffend. But... he was a batman who killed.
Konrad Curze was likely pre-programmed with concepts of what constituted "justice" and "evil," much like Primarchs are born with vast knowledge.
However, Konrad Curze, who grew up alone, unlike Guilliman and Corax, who had perfect families or were adopted by kind workers, did not understand why justice was important, nor how to achieve it. He only knew that crime was "evil," and "justice" meant punishing "evil."
From then on, Konrad Curze began to inflict horrifying tortures on his targets in the most terrifying ways a Primarch's superhuman mind could imagine. Notorious criminals lay dead in the streets, either disemboweled or impaled on factory lightning rods.
Even a young girl attempting suicide was discovered by Konrad Curze; because suicide was unjust, Konrad Curze directly subjected the suicidal girl to death by a thousand cuts. What was even more terrifying was that his method actually worked. Within just one year, Konrad Curze had terrified the residents of Nostramo into submission, and the crime rate dropped to almost zero.
At the same time, Konrad Curze was actually a very powerful Psyker. His gift was the ability to foresee future visions; these visions were incredibly precise and rich in detail, like watching a VR movie.
However, this precognitive ability had a drawback: when faced with choices, he would foresee different timelines. Once, he stopped two Boys from attacking a woman. He killed the first Boy, then played a cat-and-mouse game with the other, eventually cornering him.
When he was about to kill the second Boy, he saw a vision. In the vision, he did not kill the Boy as usual but gave him a chance to live, which led to two outcomes:
The first was that the Boy became batman's "Robin," helping him form a vigilante group on Nostramo, and from then on, Nostramo became a better place. The Boy also healed Konrad Curze's inner self, and Konrad Curze's enforcement became gentler.
The second was that the Boy picked up a knife from the ground, stabbed Konrad Curze, and escaped. The public then knew that the "Night Haunter" could also be injured, and therefore no longer feared him as before. The crime rate soared again, and he was forced to kill more people.
At this point, Konrad Curze directly chose a third option: he directly crushed the Boy's throat, because justice did not allow for mistakes.
But after he killed the Boy, he found that the Boy's small knife had already flown far away; the Boy couldn't reach it at all. This left Konrad Curze confused and uneasy. For a moment, he suspected he might have made a mistake.
But he eventually dismissed his doubts, convincing himself that he must have missed some details in the vision, because he couldn't imagine his visions being wrong.
From then on, Konrad Curze became completely a "prisoner of prophecy." After making progress in curbing crime, Konrad Curze became even more convinced of the correctness of maintaining order through fear. This made him the only Primarch who single-handedly conquered an entire Kharon solely through the threat of force.
Konrad Curze was actually an excellent ruler; he was impeccably rigorous and surprisingly gentle in formulating policies. He would do his best to learn all the knowledge he needed, and his impartiality as an arbiter made even other Primarchs feel inferior.
Originally, everything was developing for the better... The Emperor arrived... However, Konrad Curze suddenly saw a series of visions, the most intense and clearest he had ever experienced in his life.
He saw the fates of his brothers, himself, and the Emperor, and the horror of the future the Emperor faced was so great that Konrad Curze directly fell to his knees, screaming. If the Emperor hadn't intervened in time to stop him, he would have almost gouged out his own eyes.
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