Chapter Seventy-One: Exit
On the top floor of the Young Titan Building, in front of the floor-to-ceiling viewing window, Damian, dressed in a black dress, looked up at the starry sky, his eyes following a star in the sky that was not very bright, almost indistinguishable to the naked eye, but slowly moving.
That star was the watchtower station floating in outer space orbit, and Damien, whose senses had been strengthened by his true energy, could travel from the surface of the earth to that space station with his super vision like an eagle's eye.
Dick Grayson, who had changed back into his Nightwing suit, came to the window, stood beside Damian, and said to him as if he had made up his mind, "After this joint mission, I will leave the Teen Titan again and resume the Codename of Nightwing." I think I'm better suited to be a lone ranger...... The Young Titan is temporarily led by Starfire, and I ask you to help her more, and I will need you to take over the duties of captain one day in the future......"
Without thinking, Damian turned his back to him and interrupted, "After this joint mission, I will also leave the Young Titans. ”
Dick was stunned for a moment and said, "You obviously get along well with everyone and have gradually integrated into the team, I thought you were very interested in being the captain of the Young Titan, and you have the ability to lead everyone to victory, why did you leave?" ”
"My fake identity has been revealed." Damian said in a rather helpless tone: "According to the news from Ah Fu, Bruce began to investigate my true identity personally, and with his detection ability, he will soon be able to find out the truth." ”
"What's so bad about that? Now that he is exposed, he reveals his identity directly in front of him and officially becomes a new generation of Robin. ”
Dick Grayson said with a little annoyance, "You have proven your abilities in front of him, won his recognition, and he is even willing to lead the Justice League superheroes to support the plan you have made." He would be pleasantly surprised to know that you were his own son, wouldn't he? ”
"Huh?" Damian turned around, looked at Dick suspiciously, and asked, "Sounds like you're jealous?" Don't worry, I'm not going to inherit the identity of Batman, and when Bruce accidentally dies or disappears one day, I will support you to put on the Batsuit and become a new generation of Batman. ”
Instead of being calmed down, Dick's emotions became more agitated, and he said angrily, "Do you think I like to be the shadow of Batman? That shadow has been hanging over me for too long, and I have long wanted to get rid of him completely and find my own life! Since you are his own son, and you are more capable than me in every way, why don't you take on the responsibility that your bloodline is destined to bear? ”
"I've heard Alfred mention that Bruce once said that you were his most favored man, the one most likely to inherit his mantle, more like his son than his own son."
Damian didn't answer his question, but abruptly changed the subject: "But I've also heard Ah Fu mention that when you were my age, Bruce made you suffer a lot in order to train you, not only beating you fiercely, forcing you to eat dead rats to overcome your fear, and even driving you out of the manor and sending you back to the orphanage after you made a mistake. ”
Dick couldn't help but darken his face when he was dug up by Damian, turned his head and said irritably: "That's all in the past, Bruce was still young at that time, and I wasn't as talented as you, he was worried that I would die if I went out to fight criminals with insufficient training." ”
"You are obviously not his biological son, but under his influence and harsh training, you have become more and more like him."
Damian said to himself, "As tired as you are of being his sidekick and shadow, I believe that if something happens to Bruce, you will be the first to step up and put on the bat suit and be his replacement." His assimilation ability and influence and charisma are too strong, and once he stays by his side for a long time, no one can resist this almost memetic infection-like mental erosion. ”
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Dick said: "I and some other young people who are willing to follow Batman, respect him because he is doing the right thing, not brainwashed!" ”
Damian shrugged and said, "But I don't think he's right, the biggest difference between me and him is that I firmly believe that I have the right to take the lives of others, as long as the reason is right and the method is right, whoever I want to die, will die!" And he, even if he watched a madman kill a dozen children in front of him, he had to save the madman's life and hand that guy over to justice. ”
Dick remembered the puppet master, who he and Batman had seized the puppet master's secret base, where he saw the puppet master frantically killing and torturing young children, transforming a group of seven or eight-year-old children into cyborgs, even so Batman still did not kill the puppet master on the spot to avenge the group of children, and even stopped the puppet master when the talons belonging to the owl court punished the puppet master.
For this point, Dick also felt that Batman's principle of not killing seemed to be a bit too guarded, but Damian's words surprised him even more, he never expected that Batman's own son turned out to be a madman who firmly believed that he could control the lives of others, and there was a huge difference between the two concepts.
Damian said solemnly: "Bruce is a very patient and extremely resolute person, he can train a person like you who is not related to you to be the most like him, once he finds out that I, his own son, will definitely spare no effort to change my mind and mold me into a person like him." ”
Dick pondered, "You mean, are you worried that Batman will find out your true identity, and you will be caught by him for personal education, and you will have to accept the 'non-killing principle' that he imposed on you?" ”
Damian shook his head and said calmly, "No, I'm worried that he's too annoying, and I'll kill him if I can't help it." He has the principle of not killing, but I don't, if I am in a hurry, I will really kill him, but he can only endure not to be ruthless to me, and he has no chance of winning if he really fights! ”
Dick was speechless for a moment, silently saddened that Bruce could have such a rebel.
"Batman is too stubborn, not as sleek and compromising as me, I definitely can't convince him to leave me alone, for the sake of his life, I can only retreat for the time being and let this ignorant dad go."
Damian spread his hands and said, "Therefore, I had to choose to back down and leave the Young Titan to hide in a low-key manner, so that he could continue to find me." How about it, big brother Dick, little brother, am I very filial and considerate? ”
Dick shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Don't ask me, your Wayne family is worthy of being a top upper-class family, and it is really a father and son, and I really don't understand the dirt buns from an acrobat family." ”
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