Bruce returns to the Batcave, and Catwoman's words silence him once again. Batman has no weaknesses and cannot have weaknesses. As soon as Batman reveals his weaknesses, Bruce knows full well that the fangs hidden in the darkness will immediately pounce on him and tear him to pieces.

“... Do you need me to put this uniform away? ”

Alfred asked cautiously as he looked at the man who had been standing silently in front of Jason's uniform.

“... No, it won't solve anything."

This will not solve anything, Jason will become his weakness, and the mad hatter's hypnosis is not deliberately directed, but only the desire to be embodied in his own heart. But soon those guys will realize that this is going to be the perfect opportunity to take out Batman.

What can you do with Jason's uniform put away? Nothing can be done.

"I'll train for a while"

Bruce's deep voice came, and the exhaustion in his words made Alfred swallow the persuasion that came to his lips.

"There is an important shareholders' meeting tomorrow morning, please rest early"

Bruce took off his uniform and changed into regular sportswear and began training.

Only high-intensity training can get him out of those decadent thoughts. He had to come out of this low state quickly.

Weight training over and over again, the weights he had long been accustomed to satisfying his muscles but not stopping his crankiness.

He originally hoped that when Jason grew to the point where he was no longer suitable for the title of Robin, he would let him have his own title like Dick, and then upgrade his assistant title from Robin, and then when Jason grew strong enough, maybe it would be time to find an opportunity for him to take over the title of Batman, and he could take a back seat, and he could spare more time and energy to cultivate a new force born with Gotham Crime.

Make the speculation that has been circulating in the streets of Gotham come true - Bruce. Wayne is the owner of Batman.

Let more and more people participate in the order of governing this chaotic city, so that the city will slowly come out of the darkness.

Later, he realized that Jason might not be a good fit for this kind of role, and it was not a good idea for him to continue to grow up immersed in dark emotions. He plans to make him change roles and become a behind-the-scenes character like Barbara, and become a beneficial backup for Batman. But all of this vision faded into ashes with Jason's death.

Zatana's magical shield on the Batcave alerts Bruce, who was already immersed in memories, to the enchantment that Zatana had set up to prevent some magicians from trespassing on Wayne Manor and the Batcave.

Changing into his uniform, Bruce made a slight detour through the entrance to the manor's nearest cave into the Batcave. In the dimly lit cavern, the vague mass of glowworm polymers stood out.

Zatana had told him that this barrier could absolutely refuse the teleportation of magical objects, so the mass in front of him should be just an illusion.

"Oh, I thought you'd come down from above"

The uninvited guest spun around his massive body and looked at Bruce with what might have been an eye.

"Who are you?"

He didn't remember the number one, and all the people he knew who knew magic were through Zatana, and he was sure that Zatana hadn't mentioned such a person to him.

"Who? It doesn't matter who it is, I'm just a businessman, I'm here to make a deal with you........"

I can't hear the gender, and the hollow sound is like air passing through a hollow pipe.

Bruce stood silent, he had heard Zatana say that the demon would find the right spokesperson at the right time, and then tempt the spokesperson to sign the contract they needed, so that the agent would be the spokesperson for their actions in the world.

It's just that Bruce didn't expect to be one of them.

"Don't you ask what you're trading?"

Bruce's silence made the black shadow a little overwhelmed.

"I don't need anything"

Bruce knew that this kind of pact demon could only tempt people to sign it, not force people to sign it, so there was no problem as long as he refused.

“.... Make the sins of Gotham disappear? ”

The demon threw the first bait.

"Human beings have both good and evil sides at the same time, and the only way to make evil disappear is to make humanity disappear"

Bruce longs for the safety of Gotham, and he also wants this place to be as reassuring as the Met, but he is not a naïve child with a desire for a better world peace, and he knows very well that as long as there are people, it is impossible to eradicate evil.

"So, how about giving you the superpower to fight sin enough? Whose do you want? Superman? Or someone else? ”

The demon threw the second bait.

"I'm strong enough, and Superman will be there to help me whenever I need it"

Temptation to the point of stupidity.

"It's nerve-wracking....."

The demon's huge and mixed body actually made a cheek-holding movement, which made Bruce feel weirder than the demon itself.

"So how about this?"

The glowworm polymer suddenly cracked, and a boy in a red uniform slowly walked out of it, eventually standing in front of Bruce.

A black mask, a bright red uniform, and that little black cape. Bruce heard his heart pounding.

"Wouldn't it be better to have a living him than to try to portray him as an object that he needs to alleviate his suffering? Bruce"

The demon called out Bruce's name, and the black polymer pulled out something that looked like a hand, and took the "boy" hand and walked towards him.

"How? Although I'm just a puppet now, as long as you sign your name here, I'll bring this boy back from the world of the dead."

A piece of paper with an ominous black glow appeared in front of Bruce, along with a dipping pen with a tattered feather in it.

Bruce could barely read the words on the paper, it was the devil's words, and even Zatana didn't know much about them.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll sign a pseudonym?"

Reaching out to pick up the pen suspended in the air, Bruce could clearly feel something invade his body.

"Thinking that you can fool demons by signing a pseudonym is nothing more than a delusion of human stupidity, and whatever you sign on it, it's a text signed out with a fragment of your soul"

The demon seemed to think that everything was a foregone conclusion, and he didn't care about what Bruce already knew.

"So how can I be sure that you will abide by the contract"

"This piece of paper is a part of me, equal to your soul, and I can't break my promise, as you've probably heard from Zatana."

The demon's words finally got Bruce to the point, and sure enough, he came for Zatana.

"Okay, hurry up and sign it, the enchantment here makes me very uncomfortable"

"So.. I refuse! ”

With a slight force on his right hand holding the pen, the pen condensed by magic quickly shattered into countless feathers and collapsed, and the contract book also collapsed, and the boy standing in front of Bruce turned into a black element with the contract and returned to the demon's body.

“.... You'll regret it.... Human ....."

The demon left a word, then gradually lost form under Bruce's gaze, and then disappeared without a trace.

When the demon's figure disappeared completely, Bruce finally put down his pretended strength and decadence, sat on the ground and called out the almost forbidden name:

"Jason!"