"I completed my missions with all my heart, no matter how much I lost doing so."
Sinestro slowly recounted his story from when he was still a Green Lantern.
As a Green Lantern, Sinestro was also one of the most powerful Green Lanterns.
His willpower before was no less firm than Hal's.
If he had continued to be a Green Lantern, the title of strongest Green Lantern would likely have been completely out of reach for Hal.
"I never questioned the Guardians' orders, never questioned the Guardians' motives, doing everything I could for their ridiculous and pathetic approval."
"However,"
Sinestro paused, then continued, "They made me believe I was a hero, but they didn't care at all! They didn't see me as a hero at all! Just a tool, a weapon controlled by them to control the universe!"
"They gave me a universe sector to patrol, including my home planet Koluuga."
"After being granted this power, I saw that everything on my planet was wrong, and I could use my power to change it! This is where everything changed; I discovered the meaning of my existence here."
Hal, outside the confinement room, heard Sinestro tell his story, and his expression became somewhat complex.
He had always held a complicated attitude towards this man.
He both hated him and felt ashamed.
He both wanted to punch him without hesitation upon seeing him and wanted to avoid him, staying far away from everything around him.
John Stewart stood still, listening to Sinestro's confession with a furrowed brow.
One of his hands rested on the door of the confinement room, and the Green Lantern Ring on his other hand was ready to emit energy at any moment.
He did not trust Sinestro, not from the bottom of his bones.
No matter how perfectly the other party disguised himself!
"I began to fight for a better future, I began to transform my world, I no longer protected those regimes that maintained stability, but instead began to eliminate them step by step. And nowhere was as corrupt as our capital, almost corrupt to its very roots!"
Sinestro recalled how he gradually became a so-called "dictator."
"I was able to trip up the governments that ruled us, those corrupt officials who had failed the people of Koluuga for too long."
After recounting how he removed those high-ranking authorities, he suddenly changed the subject and began to talk about his family.
"Everything I did was for my daughter, for my wife Arin, to create a better world. This world would not be controlled by power and corruption; everything in it should be for the people!"
His eyes softened as he recalled a scene of himself playing with his daughter in the past.
At that time, he was wearing his Green Lantern uniform, even though it was covered in blood, he still excitedly picked up his daughter.
"This is our new home, Solanique. The bad guys who ruled here are gone; Dad made them pay the price."
Sinestro fell into his memories, and the entire Justice Society Hall was silent.
Finally, Mera broke the silence.
She asked Sinestro, "What happened later?"
"Some corrupt officials survived. My wife must have hidden my daughter under the bed because she saw them coming. And at that time, I was far away in the universe outside Koluuga."
"The Guardians sent me to a place far away from my family. At that time, I was on another planet, saving countless lives, fighting for other lives! Not my family, not my wife and daughter."
Sinestro's tone became a bit agitated.
"However, my family's lives were taken! Arin died, and the doctors couldn't even tell the cause of her death. They couldn't explain how those corrupt officials killed my wife!"
"But I saw the truth. It was those exiled governments; they found a way to deal with me! My weakness, my humanity!"
Gritting his teeth, Sinestro thought of that night of slaughter again.
All the exiled government personnel were completely consumed by his flames of revenge.
All those who might have been involved in killing his wife were personally killed by him!
"I admit my method of revenge was somewhat brutal."
Sinestro voluntarily admitted to the crowd the shortcomings of his methods.
"Suppressing my grief, I continued to help the people of Koluuga. I dedicated everything I had to the people of Koluuga!"
"But!"
At this point, he glanced at the thoughtful Hal and John Stewart.
"Those warriors I trained, those comrades I once fought alongside, stood up."
He suddenly directed his gaze at Eric and said, "Do you know, Eric Kent, I once served my people, I once brought prosperity to my people, I defeated suffering, I saved Koluuga. After everything I did, the Guardians made my closest friends turn against me!"
"I also tried to tell them, I also tried to explain to them, I tried my best to reason with them!"
At this point, Sinestro snorted coldly.
The hint of warmth in his eyes was already covered by slaughter and coldness.
"I didn't want to fight them, but they had already decided I was a corrupt and fallen villain, that I was beyond saving! I desperately resisted them, but my closest friend, my most successful student, the person I was most proud of, he was the one who stripped me of all my power!"
"He was the greatest betrayal!"
At this point, his gaze was fixed on Hal, who had been silent.
"However, I don't hate the person who betrayed me. He was just a person deceived by the Guardians; they poisoned his mind, making him a tool without his own thoughts! It's impossible to resist them."
Sinestro seemed not to blame the student who betrayed him.
He was silent for a moment, then said to Eric, "You'll understand this soon. They are coming for you. What you've done is the same as what I've done. We will both be seen as targets to be eliminated by them."
Eric listened to the other party's narration, then said nothing, only watching him with a tightly furrowed brow.
He knew that this story contained both truth and falsehoods and could not be entirely believed.
"Oh, come on! Can we not pretend to believe 'poor, misguided Sinestro's little story'?"
John Stewart stepped forward and said in an unfriendly tone, "You are not a tragic good person, nor are you a model youth of an evil legion who spends all his time doing evil deeds. Some people never choose to become the villain due to external factors; everything is their own choice!"
"We cannot trust him!"
John Stewart said to everyone.
"Yes, he is right. You cannot trust me, but I have no interest in destroying you, Homelander. We have a common enemy!"
Sinestro said earnestly to Eric, "I need you. I need you to stand up against them, otherwise, they will give you no peace!"
"I am not trying to deceive you, Homelander. I want revenge!"
John turned to face Sinestro and said, "Well, at least you did one thing right: you admit you're somewhat evil."
He then said to Eric and the others, "Now, I vote to let him rot in the cage. Who among you agrees?"
Sinestro was finally enraged by John. Yellow light shot from his eyes, and the power of his ring filled the surface of his body.
A powerful aura instantly enveloped the entire Justice Society Hall.
To everyone's astonishment, Sinestro ignored the confinement room's barrier and walked directly out.
"No, impossible!"
Bart next to him exclaimed in shock, "No one can walk out of the cells here so easily!"
The confinement room here was built by the former Justice Society members and was made even stronger after being modified.
Many metahumans had been imprisoned here before, which was why Bart believed no one could escape using such methods.
"You never understood my abilities, Stewart!"
Sinestro leaned his face close to John and said, "I can kill you anytime, Green Lantern!"
"Oh really? Then come and try!"
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