The three Spider-Men met Harley in a children's shelter.
At this time, Harley was already white and fat. She raised her red face and said to the dean: "Please, Mr. Pence, don't find an adoptive family for me. I really can't stand them!"
"The couple who came yesterday were as noisy as parrots. The two ladies the day before yesterday were too fond of telling bad jokes. There is also a family that actually has five children and wants to adopt them. Otherwise, you should send me back to my original home.
A place to stay."
The dean named Pence said: "Because you are so smart and lovable, everyone wants to adopt you."
"Come on, it's just because I'm the fattest and they look down on those skinny kids, but they don't think about it. I can make myself gain thirty pounds in the slums. Can they handle it?"
Dean Pence also sighed, touched Harley's head and said, "I'm also very confused about how you did it. The children who came in at the same time as you ran away when they saw you, as if you were going to eat it."
Like them."
Harley rolled her eyes and didn't say anything. Then she turned around and saw Spider-Man and the others. She recognized Damian, who she had spent the longest time with, at first glance. He had that gloomy look on his face.
No one can imitate your temperament.
Harley immediately rushed over, put her hands on her hips and said in a loud voice: "Today, the shelter staff said they were going to sweep the streets. I was wondering which of the unlucky ones were picked up, and it turned out to be you."
Then she clicked her tongue a few more times, looked at Spider-Man and the others up and down, and said, "How did you starve yourselves like this? You shouldn't have gone to those streets to the east to hang out, right? There's a lot of fun over there.
There’s nothing to eat.”
Damian felt a little ashamed and angry, and turned his face silently. Spider-Man rubbed his belly and reminisced about the meal he had just eaten. Only Bruce said calmly: "We are indeed in the east, because apart from there, there are no other places."
None of us can survive."
"Bruce!" Damian raised his voice to tell Bruce to stop talking.
Harley laughed twice, looked at Damian and said: "One of you has such strong assassin skills, and the other has the most genius brain in the world, but these are not limited by the body, and you are reduced to being like those
Is it fun to compete with disabled children for food together with children with disabilities or congenital defects?”
"Harley Quinzel!" Damian yelled Harley's name, but Harley picked out her ears and said, "Why don't you guys with these skills get to the bottom of Gotham, this city?"
What kind of mess has it gotten into?"
"You're right." Little Bruce was so calm that he didn't look like a human being. When Damian turned to look at him, he felt a chill on his back. Some familiar feelings came again. He unexpectedly found that he was in the presence of little Bruce when he was young.
I can see the shadow of the complete Batman in my body.
"This city is unimaginably rotten. Before I saw all this, I would never have imagined that there was such a place in the city where I live." Little Bruce said expressionlessly: "And you are not right either.
Wrong, we can blend into the old, weak, sick and disabled with the memories of reborn people. I don’t even know how to describe our stupidity."
Damian blushed with anger, but little Bruce turned to look at him and said calmly: "You think we are saved, right? Why don't you think about who saved you?"
"Of course... of course we are lucky!"
"Are you really lucky?"
Damian was choked. He thought carefully. During this period, his luck had reached rock bottom.
"Everything we encountered before was not because of our bad luck. You'd better wake up and stop lowering my understanding of your IQ." Little Bruce said unceremoniously.
Damian's face turned blue and white with anger. He could never defeat Batman, but now even the baby Batman can mock him.
"You sound like you're smart, so why didn't you turn the situation around?" Damian held back a sentence for a long time.
"I really didn't have the ability to make changes before, but at least now I can see clearly." Little Bruce stared directly at Damian and said: "Someone saved Gotham, but it was not a gang."
"Who is that?"
"Batman."
Little Bruce turned to look at a small TV equipped in the hall, which was playing a piece of news. Damian followed his gaze, and then he saw the host on the TV making an introduction.
"...Neiwei Group is conducting a new round of bailout financing. The person in charge of the group said that while developing the economy, we cannot stop caring about people's livelihood. The latest 27 children's shelters have been completed in the East District. At the same time, we called for
People from all districts can visit the shelter and donate money, and those who meet the requirements can adopt..."
Damian was completely transfixed in front of the TV.
"Nevi Group?! That's not us..."
"He's doing it for you." Little Bruce sighed and said, "Maybe he's also expressing dissatisfaction with you, just in a fatherly and tactful way."
"You used Wayne's reverse name without his consent, and you didn't really do anything with this name. Batman is Batman, but you and he both have the last name Wayne. This is the most important thing between you."
He may not want you to treat this surname as a child's play."
Damien clenched his fists. He thought of the hesitation in Batman's tone when he first called him Damian Wayne. He had felt angry and humiliated about it. He felt that he didn't deserve it.
You need someone else to take your surname.
But when he was in the Bat Family, he was often complacent about it. Only he and Batman had the same last name, they were father and son, and they were a family in the most traditional sense.
Damian stared at the TV with red eyes. He didn't know what emotions were swirling in his heart at this moment.
Maybe it was the humiliation of being saved by him after he vowed to reverse Batman's mistakes before, maybe it was the confusion that he didn't understand how Batman did it, maybe it was because Batman escaped from the sea of suffering, but he didn't come to save him immediately or give him anything.
Any grievance of special treatment.
Damian didn't know why he felt aggrieved whether Batman could save him or not.
"Because you feel that Batman is not qualified to educate you." Harley pointedly pointed out: "Because he has not successfully saved Gotham in the real world, and because he is also a loser, do you feel that he has any moral education for you in this regard?
, it’s just that he wants to show his authority, not that he is better than you.”
"He has not succeeded in saving Gotham, and you have not tried to save Gotham, so you will naturally assume in your imagination that if it were you, you would do better than him."
"But now you two are at the same starting point. He succeeds but you don't. This proves that he is right and you are wrong. At this time, some of his educational behavior will be interpreted as success by you.
The humiliation inflicted on the loser."
"But in the real world, you clearly know that you bear a heavier responsibility than other Robins. You think that others can just find excuses not to take this path because they are not related to Batman by blood.
, some of them are not locals from Gotham, you think they can just walk away, but you can’t.”
"Batman gave you this surname and admitted that you are his blood relative, which means that you must inherit his mantle. One day you will have to face problems that he failed to overcome. You think this is your responsibility."
"You feel that you have taken on more responsibilities, so you should naturally get more love from Batman. If he doesn't give it, you will feel wronged. You feel that you have to pay more than anyone else in the future, but now
But we don’t get more special treatment, which is simply unfair.”
"Stop talking!" Damian roared: "You don't understand anything at all!"
"I know Batman will never give up. He will never give up saving Gotham until he dies. That means that once I take over his cape, he must die!"
Damian said with a trembling tone: "None of them care whether Batman is dead, but I know that I will definitely care, I will hate the city that killed him, and I will want to destroy it instead of
Save it, but then I won’t be able to inherit his cloak, but I am clearly his son..."
"Of course you are."
A figure appeared in the corridor. His voice was no longer deep and hoarse, and he was not as tall as before, but it was still clear who he was at a glance.
Damian couldn't bear it anymore. He turned around and huddled in the corner and started sobbing. The anger and grievances he had accumulated during this period and the psychological shadow caused by the dark reality he saw all burst out, but he still didn't want to get close to the bat.
Xia.
"Your mother gave you too much honorable education, but you are still just a child."
Batman looked around, saw little Bruce and Spider-Man, and then he said meaningfully:
"Your pain all comes from the responsibilities you want to bear, but you actually don't have to bear anything, because you are just children."
"The failure to allow children to spend a stable and happy childhood is the fault of this society and the people who created the social order, not the fault of the weak children."
"Any action that endangers the future of a group cannot be explained by unintentional mistakes. This is the only reason why I did not save Falcone at that time. He is responsible for the crying of the children in Gotham."
Spider-Man, who was squatting on the ground, looked up at Batman. He thought that Batman was surrounded by endless darkness, but because of this, the light that flashed through the cracks was particularly dazzling.
The multiple layers of dark curtains draped around his body and the heavy shackles hanging on his hands and feet did not make him look like a prisoner, but rather like a hero heading to the execution ground.
Spider-Man finally understands how ridiculous the Joker is.
Only a bad actor would want to make everyone laugh during a tragic performance. Indulging in and experiencing tragedy is the choice of the actors and the audience.
Seriousness, compassion, and profundity are indispensable parts of human art—comedy is not the savior of tragedy.
In a world without the influence of mysterious forces, Batman saved the city in a beautiful way that everyone expected, but it was not just a fairy tale in a dream.
He made Batman realize that there was a special reason why he failed to succeed in the real world, and made him clearly realize that since this reason can stop him for twenty years, it can stop him for a lifetime.
Then there is no need for the Bat Family he formed to do his best to be blocked for hundreds of years. His Robins are still very young. They should not be happy just to get tickets to a dead end. They should have more.
A vast stage.
Batman sighed in his heart. He felt that he had finally found a way to solve the problems of the child and his parents at the same time. That was to put them together and all conflicts would be resolved.
Just when Batman was about to take a few children to visit the headquarters of the group he had just built, he suddenly heard chaotic screams coming from the street.
A huge shadow covered the sky. Batman looked up and saw a familiar huge battleship.