[Zongyingmi] After breaking up, they all went to save the world

Bruce's memories

"Master Wayne, you seem to owe me two answers, have you forgotten?"

Of course Bruce remembered what Alf said he owed him two answers.Or in other words, what he owed him was more than just an answer.

He and Alf had known each other very early, back in the days when there were no Gotham Knights.

In a snow-capped Himalayas and frozen land, a long-lost foreign traveler ushered in.

Bruce had always been a little curious back then, how a thin and young boy like him had the courage and perseverance to walk into the hinterland of the plateau alone.

There may be beautiful scenery that is not well known to the world, and there will also be peace and calm away from the world.

But this is not enough for a person to walk into this inaccessible place at the risk of being buried by wind and snow at any time.

He can still remember the first time they met.

It was a dusk, a dusk that belonged to the late autumn season. The sunset on the top of the snow mountain always has a poignant and charming feeling.

That boy is such a person, standing on the edge of the cliff under the afterglow of the setting sun, facing the coming wind and snow.

For a moment of trance, Bruce thought he saw a phantom, and when he confirmed that it was really a person, he strode over.

At first, he thought that the child was looking for death, but when he got closer to that person, he realized that he was just admiring the beauty of the sunset, with an almost pious attitude of awe.

He was dressed a little thinly, and his skin was an unhealthy blue color due to the long-term low temperature.

Bruce wrapped his coat around him and asked loudly, "Where are you from? Can you understand English? Do you know that standing here like this will freeze you to death?"

The boy turned his head and gave him a grateful smile. He said, "This may be the place closest to the sun on this planet. The sunset here is like the last glimmer of light before the doomsday as predicted."

Bruce: "..."

At that time, he didn't know how to continue the conversation with this boy. In his mind, this was probably just a child who hadn't experienced the world and was still grieving in his adolescence.

Bruce later took the boy back to his residence.

He said that you can temporarily live in this hut, if you don't dislike the simple facilities and often bad weather on the snow mountain.

Or if you want to go back to town, I can have someone escort you down the mountain safely.

The boy shook his head, regardless of the weather outside the house, he suddenly opened the window, allowing the wind and snow to blow all over the house in an instant, "This place is very good, peaceful and comfortable, living away from the world."

The boy lived with Bruce in this way.Every day before dawn, Bruce has to get up early to go to the master ninja to learn various fighting skills.The boy also seemed to leave the hut on time after dawn and come back before sunset, but he never said where he went, but occasionally he would bring back some rare game deep in the snow-capped mountains for Bruce.

They lived together in this hut for four seasons, from a strange encounter, to a close friend who talked about everything, to...

Bruce had never been quite sure what his true feelings for the boy were, but he chose not to cross the line of friendship because there were more important things waiting for him in Gotham.

The night before they left the snow mountain, they sat side by side in front of the hut with a bonfire lit beside them.

Summer nights on the plateau are always full of stars, and the sky is so clear that the whole person seems to be flying. The boy pointed to the twinkling stars in the distance and told stories that only exist in mythology.

He said: Did you see it?That planet is Asgard, where the legendary gods live. Odin, the father of the gods, lives there, and his queen, Frigga, is beautiful and charming...

The boy said he was tired, so he leaned on his shoulder drowsily, but he finally couldn't hold back and asked a question he hesitated for a long time.

"I'm going back tomorrow. My home is in Gotham. It may not be a beautiful place, but there is something I want to protect. Will you go with me?"

"Well, good." The boy was confused and couldn't tell if he really agreed or he was talking in his dream.

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However, the boy eventually returned to Gotham with Bruce and lived in Wayne Manor.

A bat cave was built underground in Wayne Manor. Bruce was a dissolute playboy during the day, and a night knight guarding Gotham at night, and he never concealed these secrets from the boy, and maybe he couldn't hide them either.

More and more dark forces have heard of Batman's name and seen his determination to guard Gotham City and defend justice.Therefore, they finally extended their claws to the people around this knight of justice.

Rachel Dawes, Bruce's childhood friend, the crazy clown tied her into an abandoned building. He wanted to destroy Batman's life. He's just a criminal with a dark heart.

As he puts on his bat mask to rescue Rachel, he sees the boy standing at the gate of Wayne Manor, and he asks the first question Bruce owes him.

"If the person you care about and your enemy can only live one, how would you choose?"

He actually understood the meaning of the other party's question. No matter whether he could save Rachel or not, and no matter how many people he could successfully save, as long as the clown was still alive, he could walk out of Arkham and continue to hurt the people around him.

However, this is the justice he upholds, the justice that belongs to Batman, and he cannot let his hands be stained with the blood of the enemy, even if the price may be heavy.

So he couldn't answer the boy's question.

In the end, Rachel was not able to escape the clown's poisonous hands. In the ruins after the artillery attack, his former childhood sweetheart lay there, dripping with blood and losing his heartbeat.

In front of him is the clown's lingering wanton smile, and...

He didn't know when the boy came, let alone how the boy found himself, but when he recovered, he saw the boy squatting on the ground, holding Rachel in his arms, bit by bit Wipe off the blood stains on her face.

"Bruce, if I can save her, I want you to promise that we will never meet again in this life, how do you choose?"

This is the second question the boy asked him.

Bringing the lost soul back to reality from the underworld is a deal with the god of death. Even a god like Alf cannot use this forbidden technique at will. recalled it earlier.

The boy did not wait for Bruce's answer, but he still recalled Rachel's soul.

He wasn't making a choice for Bruce, but from the time he asked that question, he already had his own choice. He would no longer stay in Gotham, and he would no longer stay by the night knight's side.

He will feel sorry for him, for all he has to bear in order to defend justice and uphold his beliefs: pain, loss, guilt, remorse, and even despair.

He didn't know if he would personally know the lives of those villains instead of him, but he knew that if he did, Bruce would also hand him over to Director Gordon.

Batman belongs to the people of Gotham, to justice and hope, not to him.

Rachel, who came back from the dead, eventually left Gotham and even the country.

Alf also completely disappeared from Bruce's sight.

Wayne Manor had returned to its usual desertedness, and he would never see the boy on the long table in the dining room, facing the first ray of sunlight in the morning, smiling and saying to him, "Good morning, Bruce."

Whenever the starry sky is full of summer nights, whenever Bruce looks up at this moment, he will always think of that night on the top of the snow mountain, and he will always think, if that time, he told that boy...