Prologue

“I’M SO POWERFUL, I can destroy this whole world in one blow!”

“Cool.”

“What? That’s not ‘cool’! You should be asking me why I didn’t tell you sooner!”

“I don’t expect you to tell me every single thing about you.”

“Doesn’t it make you mad that I kept it from you?”

“I could never get mad at you for that.”

“Oh, stop! You’re making me blush!”

“What made you finally reveal yourself as a supervillain, anyway?”

“So much for ‘stop,’ I guess…”

“Yeah, I thought it’d be fun to keep going.”

“Oh boy… Here’s hoping I don’t disappoint…”

“Hey, no pressure or anything.”

“This is some kind of reverse psychology, isn’t it?”

“I mean, I wasn’t angling for that, but I was hoping it might help.”

“Okay, well…it all started when I came here to destroy the world.”

“You must be one scary supervillain.”

“Oh, I’m scary, all right! Rawrrrr!”

“That…wasn’t scary.”

“I shouldn’t have done that…”

“Anyway, continue.”

“Right. So, as I was scoping the place out, I inadvertently took a liking to you all.”

“Well, I’m glad to hear you have a heart.”

“And there was one person in particular who was especially kind…hence I decided to come clean.”

“How very flattering.”

“The End.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

“Well, uh…I have a question, if that’s okay with you.”

“Be my guest.”

“Thank you. What I’m wondering is: what secrets are safe to learn about the people around us?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, people wouldn’t want to be friends with a supervillain, right?”

“Right.”

“But there’s probably a lot of people who would stay friends with you regardless.”

“Gosh, I hope so. I’m not actually a supervillain, though.”

“So what do we discover in other people that makes us love them?”