"In my last life, I was a homeless child. I thought I was the assistant of the most cruel character in the world. I became a bird driven by revenge and an outsider."
Such a dialogue is taking place in the crime lane of Gotham City when the death knell and others are running at great speed.
In this alley not far from the theater, there is almost no sunshine even during the day. Only a bunch of gifts with white flowers are placed at the entrance of the alley, probably in memory of someone who died here in the past.
There are two figures in the alley. One is almost melted into the darkness, and the other is emotionally unstable.
In the former's eyes without any emotion, the latter speaks his own thoughts, and even doesn't care whether the dark people want to listen.
"But now? Ha! God bless us. I'm a mercenary... You want me to help? But what else can you give me?! you abandoned me when I regarded you as my family, but I managed to climb back from hell!"
"For so long, you've never said sorry to me. It's still like nothing. You always appear suddenly and ask me? Ah?!"
"I'm not Robin, I'm red hood, I'm Jason Todd, it's none of your business, Batman!"
The shadow in the dark said nothing, but the red hood walking up and down the alley became more and more excited. It even punched and kicked the garbage can on one side, making the broken metal bucket Bang like a gun.
This is the crime lane, which is of great significance to him and the other party.
In those days, Batman came here at midnight to pay homage to his parents, while Jason, a thief, quickly stole the tires of the batcar.
That was when they first met.
So now, Jason Todd is overwhelmed by memories. He can remember Batman's teaching and care for him in the past and his happy life in Wayne mansion.
But all this became pain with the memory of crowbar hitting the head.
The man once believed in Batman and believed that he could do anything, but he didn't come to save himself, but let himself die in the hands of the clown, and soon found the next Robin, Tim, to replace him.
Why?
Sometimes Jason will doubt whether Batman deliberately didn't come to save himself, just because the clown is his real friend, he is just an insignificant tool, and his resurrection is an accident.
Whenever such thoughts appear, he will be unable to sleep at night, burning with anger and eager to destroy everything around him.
However, thanks to the friends of the "outlaws" team, Jason finally crossed the psychological barrier with their support in the years after his resurrection. He even went to Wayne mansion not long ago and remained calm.
But he has been waiting for Batman to say sorry. As what Robin wanted in the past, it was only an explanation.
But the real Batman never explains his actions, because the past is the truth and there is nothing to say.
So today, Jason thought that bat invited him to crime lane to recall their good beginning in the past and apologize to him, even if it was a gentle hint of apology.
But that's not the case. Batman just wants to use him, just like in the past.
"Take me to the hall of all things."
Gotham's ghostly shadow in the dark said so. There was no other words. His eyes looking at Jason could not see any emotion behind the bat helmet.
So the red hood, who had endured for a long time, blew up again today. He had to destroy public property to vent his anger.
"I won't accept your business. I control the blade of the big caste. My outsider team will investigate the hall of all things together with the Arsenal and flash Wally. This operation has no place for you. Can you hear me? No, there is, your position!"
The sky in Gotham is overcast. Looking up from the crime lane, it seems that only a thin gray line can be seen, or a line that appears intermittent in the acid rain.
"You have no choice. Take us to the hall of all things."
The bat came out of the darkness. His black cloak dragged on the ground. The rain made him look more cold and terrible. His silent steps approached step by step. He came outside Jason's punch and looked down on him.
"Otherwise? You're going to take me to the hospital? Oh, or take me to Arkham?" Jason knocked on his red helmet and leaned close to the bat with his neck. "Come on, do it. Do you think I'm in your way when I'm alive? Am I your hindrance now?"
The bat in the rain didn't speak, but quietly watched Jason go crazy, as if everything was in his expectation.
When Jason couldn't help breathing in his eyes, the bat raised his hand and said in a voice like a ghost after passing through the sound transformer:
"Daughter of the clown, dura Dante, you saved her from the sewer. She lost her memory and forgot that she should be responsible for 37 serial murders. She also forgot that she should be Akam's patient and should be locked in a cage. You settled her in the abandoned 'Mrs. goon orphanage' nearby..."
"That's enough! She's a patient. When I'm also trapped in various psychiatric symptoms, only she can understand me. She's my friend! I'll decide how to treat her, but it's definitely not Arkham. You threaten me with her?!"
Jason's chest armor topped Batman's chest armor, and the blood red bird hit the dark bat.
However, the latter completely mastered the weaknesses of young people, and the momentum of the two sides is completely different, just like a predator who is bound to get, and a poor creature who is incompetent and furious.
"Yes, I'm threatening you. Take us to the hall of all things, or say goodbye to her."
The answer given by the dark Batman is also very dark. He can let her go for the sake of dura saving Jason many times, but the premise of this connivance is that she really loses her memory and is always under her own surveillance.
In addition, Jason needs to be obedient, or batman will take away his adopted son's toys.
Jason, or red hood, has never recovered after his resurrection. He thinks he is a normal person, but bat and Gotham have already seen everything.
Jason said he would treat the clown's daughter. In fact, he didn't. He just chained her in an abandoned orphanage and fed her food regularly and some sedative psychotropic drugs bought on the black market.
Then the red hood sat in front of the giggling girl and chattered to her in the dark.
Just as she is not a person, but a tree hole that can talk, or a large doll.
But Jason believes she loves herself.
Jason can be seen as his friend's face, but she can see it as his friend's face.
Given the relationship between himself and the clown, what Batman sees in Jason is like another younger self
And when he knows himself, he naturally knows all Jason's weaknesses.
The dark man knows that the young man is bound to compromise, because there is no other answer to choose, and he will not give his former assistant a chance to choose.
After all, the means of the death knell of the different world, in his view, is still too gentle.
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