Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 306 31. Gotham's Secret. Family and Relatives

In the broken ruins on the top of Arkham Asylum, Damian was dodging left and right under the mad attack of several sharp claws.

The kid's movements are very agile, and he can always dodge in front of Li Renjia, and then wait for the opportunity to fight back.The blade in his hand was as flexible as his movements, every time he swung it, he could cut off a part of the sharp claw's body in front of him.

But his enemies are a group of undead, they don't care about physical damage at all, they won't bleed, let alone die.

Behind Damian, there was already a lot of burnt wreckage, but before his eyes, the number of claws didn't seem to drop at all.

"I need fire!"

Damian kicked up and kicked the attacking claw back, and he shouted through the communicator:

"Who can light me a fire?"

"Here it comes, brother! Get out of the way now!"

Grayson's slightly aggressive voice sounded through the communicator. Without hesitation, Damian jumped out of the ruins in a flash. The next moment, the Batmobile roaring from the other direction savagely smashed into the rock in front of him, killing several people. A sharp claw that couldn't dodge pushed and hit another wall.

The first-generation Robin who was driving the Batmobile pressed the button on the steering wheel, and with the movement of the headlights of the cool Batmobile, two tumbling pillars of fire sprayed out towards the sharp claws that were squeezed in the corner.

"Jason needs help, Damian, go over there!"

While turning the steering wheel, Grayson let the flexible and powerful Batmobile circle in the ruins, spraying the scorching fire pillars in all directions, preventing the continuous invasion of the claws, and shouted to Damian:

"Bring him back to me, this car's flamethrower will burn 'em."

"Isn't he very attractive?"

Damian picked up a sharp claw sword from the ground, rushed to the other side of the ruins, and complained:

"I thought he could handle everything without help."

"Don't make trouble."

Grayson stepped on the gas pedal, and the growling Batmobile slashed through the wreckage, clearing a path for Damian.On the other side of the battlefield, the second-generation Robin Jason Todd was having a tough time.

This kid is very talented, but after all, he has been with Batman for too short a time. In terms of fighting, he is not as skilled as Grayson, nor as relaxed as Damian.

He was besieged by a few sharp claws, and he seemed a little flustered.

But Jason gritted his teeth and didn't retreat. Instead, he waved the two fighting sticks in his hand, fighting hard with those undead monsters.

When Damian arrived, there was already a lot of blood on Jason's combat uniform, but his offensive didn't stop at all, as if the pain didn't exist at all.

"Get out of the way!"

Damian yelled sharply. Jason saw the helper, and he didn't hesitate anymore. He rolled on the ground for a week, and when he got up again, his two sharp claws had been nailed to the ground by the saber thrown by Damian.

"Are you a fool?"

Damian rolled in the air for a few weeks, and then landed on the rock beside Jason. While taking out a handful of darts from his waist, he said to the panting Jason:

"You know you can't beat it, why do you still hold on?"

"Batman didn't teach me to fight and flee."

While pressing the wound on his arm, Jason said stubbornly:

"We came to rescue him, not to escape."

"Then you are really a bad student."

Damian threw the dart in his hand, accurately hit the eye socket of the sharp claw in front of him, knocked it back a few steps, and then said to Jason sarcastically:

"Batman learned to fight in the League of Assassins. Dodge and counterattack are the essence of his tactics. You only learned his fighting style, but failed to learn his fighting wisdom... You see Grayson learned very well .”

"I will surpass him."

Jason replied angrily:

"It's just a matter of time."

"Then I hope you don't die because of your recklessness before you surpass him."

Damian jumped off the rock. He glanced back at the ruins behind him. The flame lit by Grayson's Batmobile was like a torch in the dark night. This burning scene has attracted the attention of the surrounding residents. If they don't leave, they may Soon they will be surrounded by the police who arrived.

Although Gotham's police are crap, they undoubtedly have a numerical advantage.

Damian, Grayson, and Jason would still bleed if they could fight. Facing hundreds of guns shooting, they would most likely resent this place.

"We should go."

Damian kicked the sharp claw in front of him. Behind him, Jason lifted a rock with difficulty, and smashed it on the fallen claw, pressing the undead to the ground.

"Grayson, bring the car over here!"

Damian shouted in the communicator:

"We have to get out before we get surrounded here."

"We can't go!"

Jason grabbed Damian's wrist and said:

"Batman's still in there!"

"Merlin is going to rescue him, he can take care of all troubles, we have to protect ourselves first."

Damian said indifferently:

"If Batman died like this, it can only be said that he was nothing more than that."

"You bastard!"

Jason screamed angrily:

"That's your father!"

"Really? I think he's more of a father to you and Grayson."

Damian shook Jason's hand away, and he said:

"From birth to now, he has not been by my side."

"you!"

Facing the reckless Damian, Jason almost gritted his teeth and wanted to punch the little bastard, but the problem was, he might not be able to beat him.

To be honest, Bruce did overlap with his father's image in Jason's mind, and because of this, he couldn't bear other people's cynicism towards Batman, especially Bruce's real son.

In the burning of the surrounding flames, Jason's eyes had complicated lights.

To be honest, he was a little jealous of Damian.

"They're at it again, damn it."

In the surrounding darkness, shadowy figures emerged again. Damian jumped on his toes, and a sword used by the claws jumped into his hand. The young man who enjoyed fighting turned his head and said to Jason:

"Hold your weapon tight, don't hold me back this time."

But just when the two teenagers were about to fight with the sharp claws that came again, in the ruins behind them, there were several howling and breaking wind sounds, and the black bat knife drew several whirling tracks in the air , pierced the bodies of those sharp claws precisely, and the next moment, the high-energy explosives in the bat knife detonated, and amidst several dull explosions, several gorgeous flames rose into the sky.

"Hey, you two boys, what are you arguing about?"

As the dark wind danced, Merlin appeared next to Damian and Jason. He swung the wand in his hand, and the Fiercefire Curse was thrown in front of him. Under the burning of the summoned magic flame, the couple were nailed to the ground by Damian. The sharp claws on the ground were quickly burned to ashes.

Merlin hooked his fingers, and the metal from the scorching ashes fell into his hands. Behind him, Batman in a cloak also walked out of the darkness silently.

He seemed to have returned to his previous indifferent fighting stance, but under the pointed-eared helmet, there was still an indescribable gleam in those eyes.

He hasn't fully recovered from the experience of witnessing his father's crimes, and honestly, from Bruce's point of view, it almost overturned his beliefs, and it took him a while to adjust himself.

"I'll go first."

Merlin grabbed Damian's arm beside him, and he said to Bruce:

"See you at Wayne Manor!"

After speaking, the Transfiguration Spell was activated, and while the light was twisted, Merlin and Damian disappeared into the burning fire.

Grayson drove the Batmobile and quickly rushed to Bruce. The latter carried the injured Jason into the car, and then sat in the driver's seat. He raised his head and looked at Dick Grayson beside the car. He said:

"Aren't you going back with us?"

"Me...I still have class tomorrow."

Wearing a blue combat uniform with a bat emblem on his chest, Grayson scratched his head, and said to Batman calmly:

"Brookhaven University's tutors are very strict. If you miss a class, then the exam results this semester will be terrible. I have to rush back before class. Don't worry about me, Batman. What you taught me makes me enough Take good care of yourself."

"Also, glad to see you are safe and sound."

This free-spirited young man waved to Bruce, turned around, jumped over the low wall behind him nimbly, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Bruce watched Grayson leave, started the Batmobile, and quickly disappeared into the burning, ash-filled field before the police arrived.

On the other side, in a forest not far from Wayne Manor, the figures of Merlin and Damian appeared on a hillside.

Damian shook his head to let the uncomfortable dizziness disappear from his mind. He looked at Merlin beside him, then took off the small pocket at his waist and handed it to him.

In that pocket were several pieces of mysterious metal obtained from Talon's corpse.

There are big and small, all have that kind of soft touch.

"Thanks, Damian."

Merlin squeezed the metal into a ball and put it in his pocket. He stood on this quiet hillside, and Damian stood beside him. The child took off his mask and breathed the air in the darkness. He enjoyed The battle before, but now it looks a little sullen.

"We teamed up to rescue your father. You proved that you can fight better than Bruce, and successfully made him owe you a big favor...Why do you still show this expression?"

Merlin said to Damian:

"Let me guess, because of Jason Todd?"

"No."

Damian categorically denied:

"It has nothing to do with that stupid boy."

"Did you smell it?"

Merlin sniffled, and suddenly said to Damian:

"That sour smell."

"what?"

Damian turned to look at Merlin, who shrugged at him:

"You're jealous of Jason, aren't you? You think he's taking your place."

"I'm not so childish!"

Damian folded his arms, turned his face away, and said indifferently:

"Jason is an idiot. He is obviously weak, but he has a disregarded temper. Sooner or later, he will kill himself because of this."

"But he is by Bruce's side, just like his son, admiring Bruce, just like a child worshiping his father, he has absolute trust in Bruce and completely obeys him."

Merlin said softly:

"It must be a good feeling to be able to trust someone so unreservedly. Damian, but Jason's position should have been yours."

"I do not care."

Damian snorted:

"Whoever loves will want it, and I don't want it."

"Okay, you bastard."

Merlin squatted down, looked at Damian, and said:

"This is supposed to be your Wayne family business, and I shouldn't interfere, but Thalia asked me to take care of you, so I will take care of you, no more, no less. Listen to me, you and Bruce don't get along, no Because you are born at odds, there is no hatred between father and son."

"You are just too strange, and you are eager to get close, but you have inherited Bruce's character, and neither of you is the kind of person who will take the initiative to say 'love'. This is normal, not everyone hangs love every day. Mouth."

"But he is your father. Whether Jason is there or not, it can't change this fact. I think that kid is probably jealous of you too. The big reason for his dispute with you is because he thinks you don't understand Cherish...I mean, maybe you should learn to change your rampant personality, just like getting along with Ah Fu, learn to get along with your father."

"Why did I change?"

Damian looked at Merlin, and he said seriously:

"Why didn't Bruce adapt to me? He spent almost two years training Dick Grayson to be Robin. After Grayson left him, he found Jason again. He taught him, he took care of him, he Protect him...but he never did that for me!"

"Yes, he didn't know I existed, I don't blame him, but when I got home on the first day, he didn't even give me a 'welcome' and a hug!"

"He just told me that my grandfather is a bad person, so I shouldn't learn from him. He asked me to stay in Wayne Manor and live in a way I'm not used to...I grew up without a father, so what How? I can still live alone! And I can live more freely and better!"

Damian gritted his teeth and said:

"I don't need a father! I don't need a father like Bruce!"

The child's words made Merlin silent.

Sure enough, he shouldn't have been involved in this matter in the first place. There are too many factors mixed up in the father-son relationship between Damian and Bruce. Neither Damian nor Bruce is the kind of person who will take the initiative to change. This is not what Merlin can do at all. solve the trouble.

Seeing that Merlin was silent, Damian suddenly said:

"You and my mother met earlier than she and Bruce. Why didn't you pursue her? I think we are more compatible than me and Bruce."

"Come on."

Merlin says:

"A woman like your mother can't be tolerated by everyone."

He stood up and looked at Damian.

After a while, he took something out of his pocket and put it into Damian's hand. It was an alchemy product, like a pendant, but there was a vague raven mark on the pendant.

"what is this?"

Playing with the metal pendant, Damian looked at Merlin, who said to him:

"The microphone I made some time ago, you can use it as a magic phone, but it's safer, and you won't be tracked if you use it to communicate, unless you use it in front of a big wizard, but I guess you won't be so reckless .”

"I won't be around forever, Damian, in fact, I may be leaving Gotham soon."

Merlin said to Damian:

"You're right. We really get along very well. I don't have many friends, but I think you are one. Listen to me, go back and have a good talk with Bruce. Believe me, he loves you."

"The reason why he is cold to you, I think, maybe it is because he is afraid that you will have the same childhood as him... He knows what a dangerous job he is doing, and he is afraid that after you like him, he will It will disappear from your life in a very cruel and abrupt way, leaving you alone to live alone again."

Merlin stroked Damian's hair, his voice became softer:

"Bruce, what he does is a job that can only be supported by ideals and beliefs. He thinks he is indestructible, but he is actually very fragile... He has just survived a terrible nightmare, and now he needs someone who is stronger than beliefs. pillar."

"He needs you, Damian."

(End of this chapter)