Chapter Twenty-Six: No Turning Back
On the balcony of Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne, dressed in a formal suit, sat sipping the black tea that Alfred had made for himself, and across from him, Superman also took off his battle suit. The two sat facing each other like this, not speaking to each other, and Superman finally followed Lex's advice and came directly to Wayne Manor to pass on the information that he was looking for Batman through Alfred.
It's just that he didn't expect that Batman, who had been chasing for nothing in vain, would appear in front of him like this, and he also said such a sentence at this time, and the sentence that he thought he would never say again blurted out again.
But after saying that, the two sat facing each other, looking at each other without saying a word, waiting for one of them to break the strange silence. Bruce was very patient, he sat there, took a sip of tea, and then watched Clark in front of him drink the black tea in the cup one after another, and continued to pour tea from the teapot, refilling the cup, until there was no tea in the teapot, Clark put down the teacup in embarrassment. Looking at the expression of Bruce on the other side who still has the expression that you continue to drink, I am waiting for you to finish drinking, Clark admits it, and it is better to lower his attitude if he asks for others.
"I didn't expect you to be in Wayne Manor." As soon as he opened his mouth, Clark wanted to slap himself in the face, as if he had come to trouble him.
"My home, I can still come back to live for a while, you came to me, not for a simple reminiscence, let me guess, for those little guys who suddenly appeared in Gotham?"
"How do you... Forget it, it's been five years, I've seen your methods, and I want to ask you to help find them, in exchange, during this time, the Superman regime won't trouble you again. ”
Clark offered his own price, decisively, but it made Bruce frown.
"What? Do you still think that my conditions are not good enough? Clark didn't understand why Bruce was frowning, and continued to ask.
"No, I just want to say that we fought each other for five years. For the first time, the two of us sat here calmly and drank tea, and the first thing you said was to talk about the conditions? Let's sit down a little longer, let's talk about each other for the past five years, as for the intelligence of those little guys, I will pay attention, this may be the last time we have a calm chat. ”
For some reason, when Bruce said that this might be the last time they would see each other, Clarke's heart relented, and the heart that had been static because of the death of his wife and children began to beat again. As he was about to leave, he sat down again and asked, "Okay, what to talk about, today I promise that only the two of us will know these words, and no third person will know them." ”
"Well, let's talk, Louise and you." To put it mildly, Bruce went straight to the pain in Clark's heart that could never be erased.
"How dare you mention Louise to me!" Clark roared.
"Why not, are you so cowardly that you don't even dare to face the fact that your wife and children are dead!"
Bruce's rhetorical question stunned Clark, many things have always been a fan of the authorities, Batman of the Injustice Universe is like this, and Superman is like this, but this time fortunately, Kewen woke up Batman as a bystander, so Batman can also jump out of the previous extreme state and re-examine his entanglement with Superman in the past five years.
"If it weren't for your indulgence of the Joker, Louise wouldn't have died, and my unborn child wouldn't have died!"
"I admit that I should have killed the Joker from the beginning, but it wasn't me, I knew from the beginning what kind of person I wanted to be, I didn't have any authority to sanction others, even though I knew that the Joker was a great crime, but if I did it, I would be the kind of person I hated and even feared the most. The same goes for you, Clark, think about the vows you made when you married Louise, what you have done now, everything you promised then, every principle you have adhered to, what you have done now! ”
"Say no more!" Faced with Bruce's questioning, Clark said with an ugly face.
"Don't run away from it, face it as you once fearlessly faced Doom! I can't recover the fact that Louise died, but you have to recognize this fact and understand why Louise chose to marry you back then, and why you chose me to be the godfather of your children! Those qualities that you and I have always adhered to! ”
"I said it! Say no more! Unable to stand Bruce's questioning, Clark yelled.
His every word made him ashamed, and when the two of them were so calm to think back to everything that had happened, the memories of fighting side by side, Clark realized that he was getting farther and farther away from the superman who brought justice, peace, and kindness to the world. This stark contrast was unacceptable to Clark. Ashamed, Clark planned to smash his fist at Bruce, a former friend, and Bruce did not dodge, looking at Clark, since the Joker dared to make a bet with himself to make Superman fall, then he could also make a bet with himself to redeem Superman back.
The fist stopped a few centimeters in front of Bruce, and the fist wind contained in it blew the teacup on the table away, and the two just stood there facing each other, Bruce looked at Clarke, there was no disappointment or fear in his eyes, only an expectation of the return of his old friend.
"Why stop, Clark, just like those people in the past, you went berserk at the mention of the Joker, and used Louise's death as an excuse for everything you did, why not continue this time, because you understand that Louise never wanted you to be such a dictator, all this is just an excuse for you to be a coward!"
"Enough! Find those four little guys, this is my last collaboration with you, you and I both know, we can't go back, you are the leader of the underground army that rebels against me, I am the superman who imposes his own will on the world, whether Louise wants it or not, we can't turn back, from the moment I killed the Joker, we all lost. ”
Forcing himself to calm down, Clark confessed everything before him so frankly for the first time, whether it was because of killing the Joker or for his own reasons, one thing he was right, there was no turning back between himself and Bruce. In the past five years, he knows what he has done, and the whole world can see it clearly, and some of the previous ones can be explained by righteousness, such as his one-man destruction of the Apocalypse Star troops that invaded the earth.
But what about the massacre of the Green Lantern Corps? What about killing Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Guy Gardner's pen and blood debt? And what about the protesters he killed for rebelling against his imposed will on the world? His hands are already stained with the blood of innocents, the so-called putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot is just empty talk, what if he says now that I was wrong, what about apologizing to the people of the world, and the pain that has been inflicted on them is so easy to erase?
People once thought that Superman was the god sent by God to save them, and the justice and goodness that Superman has always upheld made people believe, but now people have also seen the other side, this god who saves them can enslave them and destroy them at any time, so this trust built up over the years is gone. So, what's the use of admitting your mistakes or not, anyway, everyone can't go back, so let's see the real chapter under your hands!
Responded coldly to Bruce, Clark could see the disappointment in Bruce's eyes, but he avoided Bruce's direct gaze, "I'll only give you a month, and after a month, come directly to the Hall of Justice to find me, and I will keep your permission." ”
With a simple word, Clark left, put on his suit again, and left Wayne Manor, just as he had had with Bruce in the Batcave, only this time they talked more deeply and more clearly than the last time. When Clark turned back into the Superman who imposed his will on the world and left, the light door next to Bruce opened, and Kewen and the others also walked out of it, looking at the Superman who had disappeared, Kewen asked: "How is it, do you still need to bring little Jonathan over to meet him?" ”
"No, no, everything has an answer." Bruce's voice was a little bitter, "I always thought that he just couldn't get out of that quagmire, but now it seems that it's useless to come out, he is covered in mud and can't return to the bright world, this battle should be over, a month, not only for him, but also for us, let's prepare, while we can still make some preparations." ”
"Yes, then train little Jonathan more, no one will get involved in the fight between you and Superman except for us, who loses and who wins, the people of the world don't care anymore, although Superman is a tyrant in some ways, but he did make the world achieve a long-lost state of peace, even if this peace is built on dictatorship, but it is also peace."
"They'll care, human beings are born free, no one likes to kneel all their lives, go and prepare." Bruce was a little tired, today was his last conversation with Clark, and in the future, there would be no more.
Bruce went back to his room, and Curvin also looked at the direction of Superman's departure and fell into thought, for now, Superman can't turn back, so, what should I do next to make the ending of this injustice universe better, he doesn't want to fight a wave of Brainiac here, he and others don't have so much time to spend here, Brainiac is still handed over to the Justice League of this universe to deal with, but he has to ensure how to make the Justice League of this universe win bigger.
Just as he was thinking like this, the departing Deathwing flew in front of him again, and among all the people, only Cowen noticed the approach of Dick, the dead man, and when Dick approached, with a wave of magic in his hand, Dick's figure appeared in front of him again.
"What's wrong?"
"Help me get to Bruhaven, I think I might be able to get a fight for Batman."
"Bruhaven? Okay, I see, but I've got to bring another little guy over, is Damian free? Come out. He shouted to Damian in the hall, and Damian, who was eating the cake Alfred had made for him, walked out, and saw Dick, who had a flat head and a ghostly face, standing next to Curvin, and when he greeted him with a smile, his chewing mouth stopped moving, and the cake he was holding fell to the ground.
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