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First Lesson –

Rorschach watch as Terra gutted and butchered the pig. He decided to go slow and get her to become desensitized to the grim work that his road leads to. He had brutally shown her what's in store for her when he took down the sex slave ring. He left those who were still alive helpless in a gasoline doused house boat that they were using to ship their human cargo. The leader of the group was screaming that he's no different from her. He turns back to the boat with a fire bottle, calmly replies, 'Tell me something, I don't know', before he tosses the bottle lighting the boat in flames. Terra watched the scene and made no move to save the slavers.

He told her that it is easy to do good in times of prosperity or in a world like this, but it takes a true hero to be a good person when the entire world is screaming for you to be otherwise. He's friend Nite-Owl was one of those people, always trying to be the good guy even as the world around them was breaking down. But he isn't that kind of hero. He isn't to be like, isn't to be seen as a role model, he isn't here to make things better. He's just here to keep things from getting worse. The real heroes would be the ones who be the guiding light for young people to try to be like. While heroes like him the ones that no one likes just fade away. And that's the best ending for the kind of life he has to offer, for what he has to do so that people can sleep well at night not having to worry about the kind of people he deals with.

"How's this?" Terra ask having clean and gutted the pig leaving only the choice cuts.

"It will do. Now you know what it feels like to kill face to face. You need to remember to feel when you kill someone, like what you feel when you step on an ant. But remember never make a mistake in killing someone who doesn't deserve to die. Hurting someone is one thing but once you kill someone you can never take it back," Rorschach said.

"Right, I remember that," Terra said looking up to her mentor. She remembers the training that she had done with Slade but all he taught her was how to control her powers and how to fight like him. The training was hell but it paid off as she could now control her power better then before and had some Batman type skills now. "When are you going to give me some training from hell?"

"Training from hell doesn't work," Rorschach said surprising Terra. (1)

"What do you mean?" Terra ask.

"I'm not training you to be able to fight like Batman, I'm teaching you how to kill. Doesn't matter how skilled you are, getting your head smash open still makes you dead. You read what happen to Superman's arch foe. When you're facing someone with power armor but leaves their head expose you don't fight to take down you grab a gun and shoot his face. You don't need to be skilled to do that. I fought people who are trained fighters and they're all dead," Rorschach explains.

The Watchman, Chapter 25