Crime Alley.

That's the name of the alley.

It's called this because it's located behind the 'Gotham Theatre', away from the road, with almost no lights and no living quarters around, and if you scream here, your voice will most likely be drowned out by the noise of the Grand Theatre.

It's like a place that's just ready for crime.

Especially after the original site of the 'Gotham Theater' was abandoned, it became a place where almost no one would come.

However...... It is such a blessed place, but for so many years, there has only been one crime.

It was midnight many years ago, when the Gotham Theatre was still a gathering place for the upper class, and at the end of an opera, a couple, with their eight-year-old child, wanted to cross the place.

They didn't know the name of the alley, and if they did, they wouldn't have walked in.

But it was too late, and by the time they tried to turn back, a robber had already stopped in front of them......

He had a gun in his hand.

And then...... With a quick turn, he took away the woman's necklace...... Mr. Na's wallet...... and their lives.

Perhaps it was the only remaining conscience, or perhaps the siren sounded in the distance, and the criminal spared the child, leaving him where he was, standing dumbfounded, watching the blood of his parents gather into a bright red river and overflow his shoes.

That year...... I was eight years old.

......

Nobody knows, I'm Bruce Wayne, nobody knows, I'm that kid.

However, the strange phenomenon that has appeared for several months in a row is undoubtedly trying to lure me here.

Well, then I'll see who the hell is trying to do a trick.

So, I turned on my own sonar system, and a sound wave that was beyond the range of human hearing instantly covered the entire Crime Alley, and this sound wave could let me know everything around me in two seconds.

Sure enough, in the center of the alley, I spotted three people.

I ducked into the darkness and silently touched the place.

Soon, I heard some voices, panic, nervousness, and a little self-blame.

"I know, we don't have time for you, but...... But...... You can't do this. It was a woman's voice, with a little bit of crying.

"Well, I don't know where you got this thing, but you need to put your gun down, you should be a good boy." A man's voice came again.

I hid myself high and quietly, looking out of the roof.

Then I saw a man and a woman, standing on the ground not far away, and in front of them was a small man, whose face I could not see because he was facing away from me, but ...... The figure was undoubtedly a child.

And the child was holding a gun in his hand at the moment, aiming it at the two adults in front of him.

At this moment, I naturally can't hide anymore, that gun can kill those two people at any time.

So, I crept down to the ground and followed the darkness to the child.

However, at this moment......

"Bang!" The gunshot that had been in my ears for three months finally came again.

This time, instead of being in my sonar system, he appeared in my ears and in front of me.

I watched in amazement as the muzzle of the child's gun burst into flames for a moment, and the man across from him fell in a pool of blood.

"Ahhh————h

Then, the familiar scream of a woman.

Exactly the same as in previous months.

Of course, I was not only surprised by this, but also that I did not react at the moment when I was shot.

I should have been able to react, my bat dart should have been able to knock out the kid's gun in time......

Why...... Didn't I do that?

Well, almost in the next second, I stopped thinking about it, because I was already frozen in place, and a grotesque feeling that suffocated me rushed from the soles of my feet to my head, and with a "buzz", every pore on my body began to spasm.

The kid ...... Spoken.

"You've never been with me......"

"You ...... Only know how to do business, only know money. ”

He said, and walked towards the woman little by little.

The woman looked terrified, she backed away, and then fell to the ground.

At this moment, I finally noticed her face.

I should have remembered that face, but for a long time, I had forgotten what she looked like...... The woman...... It's my mother!

And lying on the ground, the man whose suit had been completely dyed red...... He's my father!

"This ...... This ......"

I seem to have fallen into a state of incomprehension, and since I put on this cloak, I have praised myself as a person of great spiritual strength, and I think that there is nothing in this world that can shake my heart.

However, at this moment, I became so small that I could only watch the child pressing towards my mother step by step, but I couldn't even move a finger.

Finally......

"I hate you ......"

The boy uttered the last words.

And then - "Bang! A gunshot almost exploded in my head, and I buzzed to see my mother, once again lying in a pool of blood.

"! It's an illusion! I must have been contained, Mad Hatter? Or did I inhale the scarecrow's poison gas? "I desperately told myself that it was all fake, that it was all unreal.

However...... That's when ......

Slowly, the child turned his head and looked at me.

In the night of Gotham, the last bit of my sanity was taken away from me by him, because I saw his face...... No...... More precisely, that's my face.

A face that should be lively and innocent, childish, but extremely gloomy, such a look should not appear on the face of an eight-year-old child at all.

"You're running away from ......"

Suddenly, the kid spoke.

"You...... Who are you. I roared.

However, the kid completely ignored my words.

"You're a murderer, and when you were eight years old, you killed your parents...... There was no robbery at all, it was just a fictional incident made up by the Wayne Consortium in order to eliminate the impact of this incident, and you, as if you were deceiving yourself, took this fictional statement as a reality......"

"Nope! No! You're lying! Damn, what the hell is this new brainwashing trick! I won't be fooled! It's all fake! ”

I continued to roar.

And the kid slowly raised the gun in his hand.

"yes, it's all fake, so you should be ...... See if it's real. ”

As he spoke, a hot bullet easily broke through my bat mask and burrowed into my head.