Chapter 114 · Extra 2
[Again, please note that this extra chapter has nothing to do with the main story. It is an irresponsible extra chapter of the if line.]
3.
The more the little Messiah thought about it, the sadder he became. An emotion that came from nowhere hit him, making the little Messiah, who was originally just a little sad and angry, feel real sadness, and tears fell all over the floor.
"Xiao Mi, are you crying?"
Dick's tears stopped abruptly. He felt the wet touch on his chest in a trance. He pulled his head off the little Messiah's shoulder and carefully observed the little Messiah's expression.
The little boy with short bob hair was crying breathlessly, his red eyes filled with tears.
Dick was stunned. The appearance of the little Messiah was too different from the Messiah in his memory. For a moment, he did not react and just let the little Messiah cry.
A huge force pushed Dick away. Those who push others will always be pushed away. Dick, who pushed Bruce away, was also pushed away by Bruce.
Bruce appeared in front of the little Messiah as quickly as if possessed by the Speed Force, and carefully wiped his tears, cherishing him as if he were a fragile gem.
"Don't cry, Messiah." Bruce gently held the little Messiah's face. "You are back, and we are all still alive."
The little Messiah shook his head heavily, tears rolling down his face as he blinked: "But, but..."
He choked and was stuck for a while, as if he had a lot to say to Bruce, but it seemed like he had nothing.
...I was only apart from Dad for a few minutes, why do I have so much to say to him?
Little Messiah couldn't understand his current behavior, from the words that were on the tip of his tongue but he couldn't say them, to the sadness that came from nowhere but made him cry.
Is it so sad that I can’t use my homework?
Little Messiah thought with tears in his eyes that it was the first time he knew that he loved homework so much that he could cry like this.
The little Messiah, so absorbed in his tears, didn't notice Dick's dazed expression. If it was the "Dick" the little Messiah knew, he would never have acted so strangely upon witnessing his tears.
After all, the Wayne family has long been accustomed to the fact that little Messiah is a little crybaby.
An inexplicable force made the little Messiah ignore the sense of incongruity and prevent him from imagining other possibilities, and he regarded Bruce and Dick as his closest family members now.
Bruce hid the complicated emotions in his eyes and said to the little Messiah who automatically snuggled into his arms: "I'll take you back to the manor."
"They all miss you."
Bruce didn't mention the other people's names, but just used vague personal pronouns. Dick, who had calmed down, noticed this keenly.
Dick suppressed the mixed emotions on his face. As the most emotional person present, he became strangely quiet and said nothing.
There was a subtle atmosphere between Bruce and Dick, but the slow-witted little Messiah didn't notice it at all. He just raised his arms and hugged Bruce's neck obediently.
Before little Messiah entered his rebellious phase and started acting like a cool guy, Bruce's arms had always been his favorite place, so after he let go of his idol image of being a cool adult, he habitually treated Bruce as his vehicle.
The little Messiah nudged Bruce: "Is Damian here too?"
Bruce was silent for a moment.
"Yes, he's here too." Bruce carried the little Messiah towards the elevator, "Jason... is here too."
"Jason?"
Little Messiah is a little strange. Jason is here too?
He thought that even ten years later, Jason would still be in the rebellious phase of running away from home.
Little Messiah exclaimed, "Jason actually went home on his own initiative? I thought he would only go home reluctantly if Ah Fu came to find him."
It’s amazing! It turns out Jason’s rebellious phase, which seems to have no end in sight, can actually end!
After a brief silence, Bruce said "hmm".
The little Messiah didn't notice Bruce's fleeting silence. He reached out a finger and poked Bruce's hard muscle, muttering softly, "Dad, you're so tense."
"Have you forgotten what it feels like to hold me?"
Bruce paused for a moment, and silently relaxed his tense muscles. He opened his mouth to say something to the little Messiah, but was interrupted by the little Messiah.
"Yeah, it's been ten years after all," Little Messiah muttered to himself. "Ten years have passed, so everything must be different. Damian might even be taller than me..."
The little Messiah shuddered with a chill.
No, he didn't want Damian to be taller than him. How could a younger brother be taller than his older brother? It was enough that Dick was the only one who brought shame to the family.
He had teased Dick many times about being taller than Jason... Now that they were in the same situation, the big bad Dick would definitely not miss the opportunity to tease him back!
The little Messiah shook his head violently, shaking the image of Dick's evil, laughing face out of his mind.
No, I must find a way to go back ten years.
Little Messiah secretly made up his mind, so that his Dad and the others wouldn't have to wait for him for ten years, his homework would be useful, and he wouldn't be laughed at by Dick.
If he grew up with Damian, he would definitely be taller than Damian! Little Messiah was so convinced.
The little Messiah himself did not realize that when he imagined Dick laughing at him, he did not even think about Dick himself who was right behind him, as if the Dick in his imagination and the Dick behind him were not the same person.
The atmosphere between Bruce and Dick becomes increasingly subtle, but the little Messiah remains unaware and is still imagining what Damian will look like ten years from now.
What will Damian, who is so short, look like when he grows up?
Little Messiah was curious.
4.
"Giant?!"
The little Messiah stared blankly at the mountain-like Damian, and almost thought he saw Bruce from another world who he had accidentally summoned before.
——The reason why Little Messiah was sure that this place was ten years later was because of this. His previous experience of accidentally summoning a giant Bruce made him assume that Bruce from another world would be different from his own Bruce in appearance or body shape.
Damian lowered his head, looking at the stunned look on the little Messiah's face, and the excitement in his heart seemed to be mostly dissipated.
He couldn't call out the word "brother" to the tiny little Messiah, nor could he express the feelings he wanted to confide in Messiah.
and……
Damian looked at the little Messiah's red eyes, which were obviously from crying. He found it hard to believe that the brother who seemed so indestructible in his memory could have such a weak side.
"……Messiah."
Damian was silent for a long time before he called out the little Messiah's name.
The little Messiah stared blankly at the tall young man. The young man with dark brown skin had a stern expression and a scar between his eyebrows, as if he had been frowning all year round.
"Damian...?" Little Messiah was dazed. "How did you grow so tall..."
Damian fell even more silent as he listened to the little Messiah's soft tone.
Is this really his brother, the white tyrant who rules the earth single-handedly and judges all criminals?
The little brother slowly moved closer to Damian, stretched out his arm to measure the height difference between the two of them, and the chubby face was full of shock, and he exclaimed with his mouth wide open.
"So tall..." Little Messiah was about to feel dizzy from the height, "You really are so tall."
Damian couldn't bear it any longer. He silently reached out and pinched the soft flesh of the little Messiah's cheek, then quickly turned around and left like a flash.
He really couldn't imagine that the brother in his memory would become so cute... ahem, weak. He couldn't believe the theory that the little Messiah was the Messiah.
Damian decided to go to Bruce to find out the truth. He was more inclined to believe that the little Messiah was his brother's parallel world counterpart.
Has my father become so weak that he has to use his homologue as a substitute to comfort himself?
Damian's expression was extremely cold.
Little Messiah stared blankly at Damian's departing back, his mind full of the words "how could he only see Damian's thigh?"
Only up to the thigh, only up to the thigh, only up to the thigh...
The little Messiah collapsed, holding his head and screaming silently.
He really couldn't believe that Damian could grow so-- so tall!
Little Messiah still had some idea of what he would look like when he grew up. He was only 1cm taller than Dick. But when Damian stood next to Dick, he was almost a head taller than Dick...
I actually came to a parallel world. Just like there is a super-sized Bruce, there is also a parallel world with a super-sized Damian.
Otherwise, how could Damian, with his small nose, grow so tall!
The little Messiah took a deep breath, turned his head and looked at Dick who was guarding him, revealing a sharp look: "This is definitely a parallel world."
"I didn't come here ten years later, but went directly to a parallel world." The little Messiah said with such certainty.
Dick's smile faltered.
"Why do you think so, Xiao Mi?" Dick said softly, "This is your home. Bruce and I have been waiting for you to come home for a long time."
Dick trusts Bruce. He is the one who trusts Bruce the most and understands Bruce the best among all the Robins. Bruce will never mistake the Messiah.
He would never mistake the Messiah, ever.
——Why do you think so?
Little Messiah's eyes were wandering. He couldn't possibly say that it was because he couldn't accept Damian's height...
"Ahem, whatever the reason, I just know it." Little Messiah wasn't very righteous or confident, but his expression was firm. "Although you guys are familiar with them, there are still some differences between you and Dad and the others..."
It was because of that familiarity that the little Messiah mistakenly believed that he had arrived ten years later, but now that he thinks about it, this is actually the world he had experienced before, right?
Maybe the second one, or the third one?
The little Messiah speculated in his mind.
Because the young brain cannot process huge memories, especially those mixed with complex information - the Messiah in the past had super vision and super hearing that imitated Superman. Most of the memories were sealed deep in the little Messiah's mind, and gradually unsealed as he grew up.
So far, the little Messiah has only recalled the memories of the first world. After knowing that he, as the savior, had actually destroyed the world, he entered the rebellious period early and fell in love with the feeling of pretending to be a cool guy.
——After all, he is the destroyer of worlds, so of course he has to be cold and serious. Little Messiah thought so.
"No, Little Messi." Dick squatted down and looked at the little Messiah at eye level, his face showing extreme calmness. "You just forgot."
"You are my brother, you are family."
Little Messiah stared blankly at Dick. He had never seen this kind of expression on the big bad Dick before. He looked calm and composed, yet it seemed...
...crying.
"Don't worry, Bruce and I will find a way to restore your memory."
Dick winked at the little Messiah and smiled brightly: "Then you'll know that we are your family~"
He reached out and rubbed Little Messiah's head, ruffling Little Messiah's hair without making a sound, which in turn made Little Messiah's hair frizzle.
The little Messiah's attention was instantly diverted, and he covered his messy hair and glared at Dick.
"Don't touch my hair or my head!" the little Messiah said angrily. "Because you always do this, I..."
In order to save face, the little Messiah swallowed the second half of the sentence.
It's because they keep rubbing his head that he can't grow taller!
Little Messiah didn't believe that he was shorter than Damian - even in a parallel world, so he racked his brains to find an excuse for himself.
Legend has it that rubbing your head will prevent you from growing taller. This is definitely the reason why he couldn't grow taller than Damian.
The little Messiah looked at Dick's belly laughing and made a decision in his heart.
After returning home, he must rub Damian's head three times a day to prevent Damian from turning into a little giant!
【Author’s words】
Because the setting of the extra story is different from the main story, I tried my best to patch it. Believe me, I will get it right [sunglasses]
And thank you again to the little angels for the moonstones. I just used the moonstones to exchange for the character card of Alluka's book for a space on the image storage platform. I am very satisfied [hahaha][hahaha][hahaha]
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