51 · Chapter 51
In the Batcave, the atmosphere was heavy as the news that the Messiah was Superman's son unfolded before Bruce.
Messiah inched closer to Bruce, gave him a cute smile, carefully held up a plate of cookies, and said flatteringly, "Dad, cookies."
Seeing Bruce take the cookie, Messiah breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Jason, who looked nervous, and nodded vigorously.
Bruce, who had been keeping a straight face, smiled. He picked up a cookie, took a bite, and commented, "It tastes good, Jason."
"Okay, as long as it tastes good." Jason said with a wandering look, "Dick needs me for something, so I'll be leaving first."
Jason shrank back, dragging Messiah with him as he ran away.
Unlike Messiah who called Bruce "Dad" on the first day of his adoption, Jason was very wary of Bruce. This wariness made Jason unconsciously stay away from Bruce and observe him in the dark like a little animal.
Bruce also gave Jason enough time to adapt and tried his best to keep Jason feeling safe.
As for Messiah, although he has always been close to Bruce, Bruce can realize that that closeness is only because he occupies the position of Messiah's "family", so Messiah will deliberately stay close to him.
This closeness was not mixed with much of Messiah's real emotions. Not only was it far inferior to Jason's, it was even inferior to the complex emotions Messiah sometimes revealed when he saw the image of Superman.
Until today, Bruce finally opened the hearts of Jason and Messiah.
Bruce sighed softly. He looked at the newspaper in front of him that said "Son of Superman" and felt a sharp pain on his forehead.
What is the relationship between Messiah and Superman? What is the reason for the strange connection between them... What is so good about Superman?
The jealous big bat thought indignantly.
"Messiah, do you like Superman too?" Dick excitedly chirped in Messiah's ear, "That's great, there's finally someone in this family who likes Superman as much as I do."
Bruce's air pressure has dropped.
Messiah hesitated: "Like... doesn't even count?"
Bruce's pressure returned.
Jason snorted, his eyes sparkling as he said, "Compared to that big, dumb guy Superman, Wonder Woman is better! Wonder Woman is brave and powerful, and she's my favorite superhero."
Bruce's pressure is low again.
"Although Supergirl is great, I still like Superman the most." Dick smiled and hugged Messiah. "On this point, Messiah and I are from the same country."
Bruce's pressure dropped even lower.
Messiah originally wanted to deny Dick's statement, but when he thought of the little things he had experienced with Superman in the previous world, he hesitated for a moment, but finally did not deny it.
Even though... Superman eventually became the Supreme Leader, he was also the first person he knew since he became conscious.
"If Superman had always been the Son of Tomorrow..." Messiah whispered, "I would have always liked him."
Messiah's words were a little vague, and Jason and Dick didn't understand what Messiah meant. They just thought Messiah was expressing his admiration for Superman.
"Wow," Dick exclaimed. "Son of Tomorrow, Messiah, you really like Superman."
Bruce's pressure dropped to the extreme.
The three little birds were training in the training room, chattering about Superman and Wonder Woman. None of them noticed that the big bat had already curled up into a dark ball.
Alfred watched the scene with a suppressed smile.
"Alfred," Bruce said darkly, "How many minutes is Clark late?"
Alfred picked up the empty plate in front of Bruce. Bruce had already eaten up the whole plate of cookies with a resentful look on his face. "You're not late. You and Mr. Clark have an appointment for a talk at 5 p.m., and it's only 4:30 now, Master Bruce."
Messiah, who was acting as a weight for Dick's push-ups, paused, almost causing Dick to fall to the ground.
Messiah ignored Dick's feigned cries of pain and unconsciously held his breath.
Superman... is coming?
Messiah subconsciously hugged the code in his arms tightly. He could hear Superman's regular breathing and heartbeat.
If there were people who could hear breathing and heartbeats, they would find that the Messiah had the same breathing and heartbeat sounds as Superman.
The Messiah does not need to breathe or have a beating heart to stay alive. Breathing and heartbeat are physiological activities he simulated, which later gradually became consistent with Superman.
This consensus has been maintained until now.
But Superman didn't realize this because he was blinded by the light.
Messiah doesn't want to see the Superman of this world anymore. Whenever he sees Superman, he always thinks of the Superman of the previous world.
But the last world is already in the past, and he has destroyed the world that was destined to be destroyed, bringing relief to Superman.
“…”
Messiah stared blankly at the legal clauses in the code. The densely packed words could no longer enter his mind. His mind was completely occupied by the figures of Superman and the Supreme Leader.
no.
Messiah slammed the Codex shut and decided to go out to avoid Superman's arrival, but just as he stood up, a red and blue figure floated into the Batcave.
Superman tiptoed off the ground, gathered his cape guiltily, raised his hand and greeted them: "Hi..."
Messiah paused and exchanged glances with Superman.
The next second, Dick felt something on his back and he almost sprained his waist.
The Messiah ran away.
The already extremely low air pressure in the Batcave made the situation even worse. Bruce looked at Superman, who had scared his child away, with an expressionless face. Superman looked up at the sky and down at the ground, but didn't dare to look at Bruce.
A hand suddenly appeared beside Bruce. Just as Bruce was about to speak, he was interrupted by the hand that suddenly appeared.
He held his forehead helplessly, watching the little hand sneak up on the chair, pull off the hood cloak on the chair, and then disappear again.
Bruce laughed unhappily, and Superman shuddered unconsciously.
"Forget it." Bruce's mood suddenly brightened, and the temperature around him instantly rose again, and even small flowers floated in the air. "Let's talk about the alliance's losses this month."
The Messiah was wrapped in the white hooded cape Bruce had prepared for him - a version with a bat logo printed on it. The hood covered his distinctive platinum-blond ombre hair and also covered his face.
This is the night watch uniform Bruce prepared for Messiah.
Messiah held the Codex, sat on the clouds, and stared blankly at the miniature of Gotham.
He listened to the heartbeats of Jason and Bruce. Under the regular heartbeats, his chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down.
Messiah exhaled lightly and began to look through the code in his hand again.
After catching the orphanage staff but not knowing how to deal with them properly, Messiah handed them over to the police, but he was still worried.
Messiah didn't trust the police, so he took the initiative to study the law, understand the corresponding punishments for the crimes, and judge whether the police's handling was fair.
—The Messiah believed only in himself.
Bruce has done his best to guide Messiah. He has taken Messiah to watch court trials, visit Blackgate Prison, and visit orphanages in Gotham and war-torn countries, hoping to awaken Messiah's sympathy and compassion for others, so that Messiah will no longer practice "lynching" and return the right to judge others to the law.
But Bruce hadn't anticipated that someone had already carved an indelible mark on the Messiah before him.
The Messiah has a way of thinking that is unique to him.
Bruce took him to observe the court trial and Blackgate Prison. What Messiah saw was not the effect of the law, but the police who accepted bribes to catch criminals and then let them go. The criminals who were imprisoned in Blackgate Prison by Bruce were released on bail. He saw that the law could not be implemented.
Bruce took him to the orphanage, and what Messiah saw was not the pitiful children, but the bullied children and the withheld resources. He saw injustice.
Bruce took him to the war-torn areas, and what Messiah saw was not the horror of killing, but the wanton strong and the suffering weak. He saw the wrongness of war.
"Superman..." Messiah murmured Superman's name.
After witnessing everything, Messiah began to understand the Superman of the previous world.
Messiah did not grow up in the direction Bruce wanted, but because Messiah behaved well, Bruce trusted Messiah as his child, and Messiah was willing to give in for Bruce, so Bruce did not realize this.
It wasn't until one day in the future, when the two of them broke up, that Bruce suddenly realized that he was wrong from the beginning.
Above the clouds, Messiah gradually immersed himself in the code. He looked intently at the legal clauses, equating each one of them with the crimes he had witnessed.
……not enough.
Messiah thought that this punishment was far from enough.
Killing someone means paying with one's life, which is a matter of course. In the regimes of the last century, the punishment for killing someone was far more severe than this.
"But Bruce likes this." Messiah's nails lightly scratched the words on the code, not knowing whether he was saying to himself or someone else, "You have to respect Bruce, he is family."
"Family is the most important thing, more important than anything else."
Messiah sighed softly. He looked at the words in the code, his mind full of the deeds of the regime in the previous world. After comparing it with everything he witnessed in this world, he couldn't bear to read it for a while.
"never mind."
Messiah closed the code, lowered his eyes slightly, and scanned the scene of Gotham under the clouds. Finally, he found two familiar figures somewhere in Gotham.
They were the two students who were punished by Messiah for bullying Jason.
Although there were many things in the code that Messiah disagreed with, Messiah did learn a lot from it.
Messiah realized that the punishment he had given to the two students was more about personal emotions than their mistakes.
He shouldn't let his personal emotions get the better of him.
Those two students were guilty of the Court of Owls? That was ridiculous.
The Messiah needed to put an end to his mistakes.
【Author’s words】
Crazy push plot——I push I push hard——
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