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Chapter 65 Legacy
After Damian fell asleep, Harry waited for a while before leaving the nursing room, walking out of the Batcave and going upstairs into the main hall of the mansion.
It is almost dawn now, and they have survived the turbulent night. At this time, Sister Barbara has left Wayne Mansion and returned to her home-it is not difficult to imagine that Sergeant Gordon and all competent police officers must have Had an equally difficult night.
As soon as he entered the main hall, Harry heard the conversation between Grandpa Alfred and Brother Dick.
"You can't have the Justice League give a funeral, Master Richard."
Not only Dick and brother Tim, but even Harry was surprised. She held on to the door frame and stopped.
Hearing Ah Fu's words, Brother Dick stood up unconsciously.He had just showered, his hair was still dripping, and the shoulders of his white shirt were stained with water.
"What? I don't understand, Fu, the body and the uniform were brought back by Superman...and they wanted to give Bruce and Batman a decent memorial."
Even the telescoping man's wife had a funeral attended by almost all members of the Justice League. *This is their way of honoring heroes and families.
Alfred's tone was flat, but Dick could see more sadness in his eyes than his own.
"What do you think this... Batman's funeral, hosted by the Justice League, would be like?"
"An empty coffin carrying a cloak leading the way? Trailed by a procession half a mile long in tight uniform and armor?"*
"Superman was the first to speak, followed by Wonder Woman, and the people spontaneously held candles?"
Alfred closed his eyes and shook his head at Dick and Tim, "No, don't let them take everything from Batman... His work is not done; this uniform, this image, is his legacy... It must be passed on."
He looks up and sees Tim from Dick, "You understand?"
"I understand..." Dick replied softly after a long silence, "You are right...I will tell the Justice League, and they will do so."
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Batman can't have a funeral, and Uncle Bruce... actually can't... at least not while the "Batman is dead" news is going around.
But he can have a simple burial attended by those closest to him.
It was a bleak winter day, and the leaves were all gone.On the Wayne family cemetery, Harley was wearing a pure black coat, pushing Damian's wheelchair, watching these sporadic members who were allowed to attend the funeral by Grandpa Alfred—including Clark and Diana who took off their uniforms, and Oliver Quinn with his wife, Dinah, and Zatanna. *
That's everyone within the Justice League who could be in it.
The less people know, the easier it is to control the situation, Harry understands.
The only person who gave the speech was Brother Dick.Damian didn't want to talk, no one forced him.
"Batman is not dead," Dick said slowly, without preparing any speech, and gently exhaled white air in the cold wind, "I say this not as a hypocritical "spiritual mobilization"—— That, 'His spirit lives on with us' tone, I'm not that sentimental."
"What I want to express is that this world cannot clarify his death through funerals."
"Most of the general public, don't even know that Batman is human - because of his almost omnipotent mystical powers, they see him as a vampire, a demon, a ghost - we all know the rumors."
"This is the awe and fear that has been built up for many years. It is his legacy and must be respected. We must maintain this intangible achievement of his."
"To publicly acknowledge Batman's death is to shake everything he's built."
"For criminals, monsters, and those dedicated to evil, Batman must be immortal and must let them know—he's never far away."
Batman lives forever.
Brother Dick's words made Harry clenched the armrest of the wheelchair in his hand, while Damian in the wheelchair stared straight ahead with his back straight.
All the heroes who took off their uniforms looked sad; all Uncle Bruce's family members did not cry at this moment.
They need to keep breathing, they need to be strong.
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In the days that followed, when Damian lay dry in bed while Harley, with the help of his brother Jason, spent the night poring over the Gotham Criminal Files - a lot happened.
First, brothers Dick and Tim confirm that Uncle Bruce's body is a counterfeit—a clone made by Darkseid.
So the corpse passed the DNA test for Superman's supersight.
The reason why Dick was able to find out was that one day he suddenly fell into unrelieved grief, impulsively carried away the corpse with a few Gotham heroes, sneaked into the League of Assassins, and threw the corpse into the Lazarus Pool .
"Since the trash like Lei Xiaogu can be continuously regenerated through the pool, why can't Bruce have a second chance!" This is his reason.
But Bruce, who stood up from the pool, was extremely abnormal, and began to attack Dick and the others crazily, with deadly moves. Although the pool water would indeed make people crazy, Dick knew Bruce well, and he would never be so exaggerated.
"It's not Bruce..." Dick confirmed.
The Justice League then conducted research and believed that the real Bruce was affected by something called the "Omega Effect", traveled through time and space, and may be lost in time.
At the same time, Tim insists that Bruce left clues in the past, and he is going to find them, even if they travel all over the world.
After that, he set off to various countries in Europe, looking for traces that Harry and the others didn't understand.
Night in Gotham is thus reserved for Dick and Barbara's makeshift vigilante league -- and half-bad "Robin" Harley.
No matter how quickly Damian recovers, it is impossible to get up immediately, so he can only silently accept the reality that Harry took over Robin's cloak.
Dr. Leslie was amazed at how obediently he was taking his medicine and being checked, and he could see his efforts to get better soon.
Before leaving, brother Tim designed a brand new and more fitting uniform for her based on the one he had seen at a glance and his own uniform—of course it couldn’t be a skirt, nor would it be Dick’s first uniform. A set of leggy shorts.
Rather, it is similar to the Red Robin uniform, which is tightly wrapped from top to bottom-these days criminals have to guard against chemical attacks, and the skin should be avoided as much as possible.
At the same time, on the basis of taking into account the range of motion, thicker armor is added to the joints and chest.
The cloak was still necessary - despite Harry's protests that it was too pompous - it stopped bullets.
The overall uniform is still red and green, but the color is darker, and the material is also the latest Kevlar technology.
The portable weapon short sticks are designed to be tied to the outside of the legs, one on each side, and can also be combined to form a long stick when needed; one of the ends has a mechanism that can emerge a sharp blade. *
Damian on the hospital bed was not idle either. He designed the latest bow and arrow for Harley, and he thought it was definitely more advanced than Green Arrow's.Although Harry said that he probably wouldn't use it because it would be inconvenient to have too many weapons, Damian still made the real thing according to the drawings.
The author has something to say:
*The Funeral of the Telescoping Man's Wife, from "Identity Crisis." (Wall Crack recommends this big event, and there is a comic explanation of this event on station B. It is not long, and it is a self-contained and relatively independent story, which is more suitable for novices to enter the pit.)
*Funeral and Dick's words about the funeral are from the main issue of Batman after the cape battle, and rewrite the rhetoric (it took a lot of effort to find...I didn't expect such a tense plot in the main issue...Afu When answering the question of Superman and Wonder Woman asking whether they are good or not, the three pictures of "I'm not good, my child is dead"... I was crying when I saw it...)
In the magazine, only Clark, Diana, Oliver and Dinah were drawn at the funeral, Zatanna was added by me.
*Halley's new Robin uniform refers to the design of New 52 Earth 2 Catwoman and the master's daughter Helena Wayne, as well as some details of the master's own uniform. The short stick can shoot a knife, which refers to the red Robin weapon.