Vol 7 Chapter 103: resonance
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DC Knight
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- 2022-01-03 12:41:19
In the apartment building, Ke Xue, who had fainted twice, woke up with his twin, the future sister from the third branch, woke up and looked at the sister who introduced herself by the name of Ke Lan, and from her again. The younger brother who emerged from the body, turned into a human-shaped demon in front of him? Ke Xue rolled his eyes again and was about to fall over.
"Why are you here again?" Seeing Ke Xue's double brace, Ke Lan couldn't help but vomit. It's just that I haven't finished speaking. Maybe it's because of the angle that he didn't find a good angle. Ke Xue, who fell with his head up, did not touch the pillow. On the contrary, he took a firm hold on the edge of the bed. The pain made Ke Xue wake up again.
"Oh! Hiss..." Ke Xue, who regained consciousness from pain, understood that everything he was seeing now was not a dream. He sighed and accepted the weird facts of his sister before him.
"Oh, can you tell me exactly what's going on, whether it's your appearance or what happened? If you don't mind, talk about yourself. I woke up this month and received too much information. It's so exciting."
Sitting there, the recovered Ke Xue was also helpless, especially looking at his abdomen, where there was originally his own Kamen Rider Transformation Drive, but now, all that is left for him is those The Pandora's Box brought from the future branch of the savior Kewen and the energy obtained on this current timeline are full of bottles.
"Don't look so pessimistic, brother, you have the aura of the son of the world, don't you do everything you want? It's okay." Seeing Ke Xue's sudden melancholy appearance, Ke Lan also hurriedly comforted. , And from her body, the younger brother Corgi, who had only the upper body spirit body, floated to the side with a face on his back, too lazy to listen to his sister's lines to comfort her brother.
"Son of the World? If I haven't been in a coma for a month, I think it's okay for you to say this, but now, you still don't use it to comfort me. Or talk about you, the third branch in the future? I, brother The future mother of the branch is Supergirl and Lena Luthor, so you are Zatana?" Ke Xue, who was sad and restored to peace, looked at the strange twin of Kelan and said uncertainly.
Because he couldn't imagine the combination of his father and the magic side, the descendants that were born were also so magical.
"Hmm, it's right, but it's not entirely right," Ke Lan nodded in response to Ke Xue's rhetorical question. Seeing Ke Xue's strange expression after responding, he quickly explained: " Don't get me wrong, I mean he and I were indeed born from the union of my father and Zatana's mother, but there was a problem with my mother. The two of us are now like this, one twin."
"I think it's that question. That's why Dad asked you to come to this correct timeline. How long have you been here?" Ke Xue didn't delve into this aspect and asked the next questions there.
"Oh, not long after the Apocalypse fully invaded the earth war, I came to the international free trade island as one of the event nodes of the new era, and then I have been watching everything secretly. Impulsive, I really don't want to meet you so soon." Kelan waved his hand there, helplessly said.
But Ke Xue caught a lot of important information in Kelan's words, narrowed his eyes and looked at Kelan.
"Wait a minute, you said you came during the war, but you showed up when I was impulsive, trying to stop me, because you know that even with me, the members of the Justice League who are currently in the handover state are not up to Keside’s opponent, that is to say, you know how things will develop next. Is the third branch from which you come from so far behind the turning point in the future? Conan and I are the big brothers you haven’t seen, right? Appear in the future turning point of that third branch?"
When Ke Xue calmed down, he also analyzed a lot of information from Kelan’s words. However, the more he analyzed, the more shocked Ke Xue was. The future turning points of his and Conan’s two branches are considered to be similar, one after the other. It exists in that Ke Wen chooses to go to the universe or not to go to the universe. Why is the third branch from which his sister comes from so far in the future, and even the appearance of himself and Conan appear in it. It shouldn’t be, the two of them are not branches. People of the future?
"This time I believe you were born to Lena. I can't tell you what the third branch is about in the future, but you are right. I do know the outcome of this incident, and I know the existence of you two, because in the future of the branch where I am, you and your eldest brother did not reveal their true identities, but the Kamen Rider Krypton who was born in Krypton and the Kamen who was born in this war. The Cavaliers Build appeared and helped Dad. After the incident was dealt with, you disappeared.
At the beginning, I didn’t know who these two real knights who appeared in the future history of the branch I belonged to were, until my dad sent us over and told us that there were two brothers from the future of the branch, and then through observation , I know that Build is you. Based on your situation, I probably understand that you are the child of Lena’s mother. Then who am I, Kamen Rider Sora, born on Krypton, do I need to ask? "
After listening, Ke Xue also understood that he and Conan were in Kelan. The third branch experienced by Keji brothers and sisters should have failed in the future. Otherwise, there would be no third branch in the future, but he did not expect the third branch. The future of this branch is serious enough to record the historical traces of him and Conan.
"So, in the future of your branch, Conan's mother and I are both dead, right."
"Yes, of course, our three branches will be caused by the father’s three choices in the future. It’s just that the time node leading to the future of the third branch has not yet arrived. I don’t need to explain this to you now, because we do. Not too much. The layout in advance does not have any effect. What we can do now is to intervene in the next event and let it have a few more abnormalities, so that when the third branch arrives at the future time node, we are here. There is greater certainty on the side."
"A few more abnormalities?" Ke Xue also asked in confusion.
"The first one is you, dumb brother, in the future of my branch, although both you and eldest brother have historical traces, there is no scene of fighting against Darkside as soon as Build comes on the stage, and it is also abandoned. After losing the transformation device, it should be the big brother next. Krypton Sky I was quite active in the fight against Darkside, but now that big brother is missing, it's not easy to say what will happen next."
Kelan was also talking about the current abnormal situation, and Ke Xuezai's expression changed a bit when his sister said that he had been abolished by Darkside's transforming device. He turned his head and looked at Nasino, who was under construction outside the window. Shi, also asked there, "So the best way for us now is to do nothing?"
"Eh... it's like this at the moment, it's best not to do anything, and brother, you really need to strengthen yourself, the son of the world is a halo, you have to be able to use it."
"Okay, don't educate me at this time. Don't you think I am not embarrassed enough? Uh...cough, brother, come here, don't always tell your sister, I am also your brother. "
Originally wanted to call Corgi, who pretended to be a ghost on the side, but thinking of the meaning of the name, Ke Xue also coughed to hide his embarrassment. Then he greeted him there. Speaking of it, his father’s naming skills are really bad. So, even if they are a few, how can they still be called Keji. And Corgi, who had shown a fierce look in front of Ke Xue before, also floated over reluctantly, and the three brothers and sisters were chatting about the future of each other's branch there.
At the same time, in the Titan Building on the outskirts of the city, Ke Wen was also sitting in front of the computer, playing with the steel frame in a loop of Darkside’s attack on Wayne Manor, and then knocked down a group of Justice League members and the new generation. The entire video of Batman killing Damian and taking him away. Although the steel frame did not join the battle at the time, the watchtower in space recorded all this.
Within a month, the wounds suffered in the battle against Darkside have been healed, but more often they need to heal their heart wounds. Of course, there are many things that need to be dealt with by them. As the biggest supporter in this war against the Apocalypse invasion of the earth, the Lantern Ring Legion suffered the most serious losses. Although this is where the duty lies, Hal, as a member of the Legion, must also assume the obligation to help the Lantern Ring Legion. Find new members.
Aquaman also needs to return to Atlantis to deal with matters that are in line with international standards, not to mention other cities, but also to help their own city rebuild. It can be said that each member has his own business to deal with. Including Ke Wen, what he is doing now is to look for the reason why Darkside is so powerful by repeatedly viewing this video. Of course, there are also three uninvited guests who appeared in this battle.
"Tsk, this is outrageous, Jonathan Jonathan plus a Kong Kenan, neither of them have played Darkside? Although one of these two guys is still growing, the other has matured. Let's face it, there are these thunder and lightning, when did Darkside play a thunder and lightning attack? Isn't he all Omega ray smeared for a set of seconds? What happened to this guy?"
Watching the video, Darkside captured the two in the two-person hurricane created by Jonathan Jonathan and Kong Ke, and the Omega rays continued to output. After directly hitting the two to death, there was basically no one of these superheroes left. It was his one-on-one enemy, and even if the last three giants cooperated with Ke Xue this future Build battle, it was Daxed who single-handedly suppressed it.
But Ke Wen also fast-forwarded the video to the scene where Ke Xue was affected by the aftermath of the battle, and he was untransformed. Seeing Ke Xue's face after he was untransformed, Ke Wen was taken aback at first, because he recognized what Ke Xue looked like. .
"Although you are all from your own family, I am still surprised that you will be the Kamen Rider Build native to the DC Universe. If that is the case, the other one that did not appear, I think it is also a Kamen Rider I know. Tsk, but it always feels a little weird." Ke Wen carefully looked at the appearance of Ke Xue after being beaten by Darkside at the beginning of his transformation, and then at the unlucky appearance of Ke Xue when he resisted Omega rays to help Batman prevent damage. .
The more I watched, the more Ke Wen felt something was wrong, his face was still the same, but Ke Wen felt as if he had seen it somewhere. Until Ke Wen switched back to the screen, the moment when Ke Lan turned to block Dakside's hand, the moment of darkness when the screen switched, also let Ke Wen see his appearance from the screen, between the electric light and the flint, he also subconsciously Standing up, watching Ke Xue's two real-faced scenes, I didn't know what to say for a while.
"This... isn't it, can't it, it doesn't make sense!" Doubt Sanlian uttered from Ke Wen, looking at the real Ke Xue in the two clips, Lena's appearance could not help but appeared in his mind, the more When I compare and contrast in my mind, I find that there is indeed such a similarity between the two. It is precisely because of such a similarity that Ke Wen is even more shocked. How is this possible? According to the current emotional development, it should not be like this. what.
For a while, Ke Wen flashed a series of emotional soap operas in his mind, and his expression directly turned into an old man’s cell phone on the subway, because he didn’t expect this to happen to him, especially when he was a normal person. It's even more outrageous.
While Ke Wen was stunned, Kara's voice came from behind him.
"Kewen."
A daily call made Ke Wen's hair stand up, holding his hands steady and not panicking, and turned off the computer according to his normal habit. Then he turned around and looked at Cara who came to find him with breakfast. He took Kara into his arms with a smile, and then looked at her after banging on her mouth.
"Why are you free? Isn't everyone busy during this time?"
"No matter how busy you are, you have to eat. I heard Victor say that you have been here for a week."
"It’s not that there’s no food to eat here. I can’t stay here. So many things have happened, and the strength of Darkside is too outrageous. It’s not that we can’t accept that he is so strong, but there must be some signs. It’s just me, but there are Jonathan Jonathan and Conquer, but we still lost. The situation was a complete defeat. The one-sided situation always made me feel as if the previous invasion of Darkside was just playing. He was serious. We are not opponents up, it's really outrageous, and I haven't figured out how he became so strong after watching it for a week."
Scratching his head, Ke Wen was also talking about his doubts. This is also the reason why he stayed in the Titan Tower for a week, but no one thought that the reason for Darkside's becoming stronger was not found. Now, this makes Cara at this moment feel somewhat empty.
"Then are your new powers in the performance of Apocalypse sure about Daxeder?"
"Uh...it’s hard to say. Although this thing is aimed at the day of destruction, it is a product of the Earth 3 universe. The day of destruction of the main universe is the most powerful. If Daxide really crushes it with absolute advantage If I suppress them, I can only say to remain undefeated, but to win, it is too difficult. By the way, you come to me and it's not just a simple breakfast."
With a guilty conscience and a guilty conscience, Ke Wen also seriously answered Carla’s question. He was not fishing this week. It was because of his understanding that he was so uncertain. If the strength of Darkside a month ago did not cheat, even If you still bring water, then I want to single-handedly hit the Apocalypse again and bring Damian's body back is a bit dreamy.
The release of the water has beaten a group of people like this, and the fellow who has repeatedly disrupted the situation and also dismantled a piece of the Apocalypse by the way, must not be put on the wall by Darkside as a specimen. Ke Wen felt uncomfortable when he thought of this. The change in expression is also obvious, and there is no idea to hide it in front of Kara.
"Are you still blaming yourself?"
"Should I not blame myself? I promised him in that illusion, but in the end, I still failed to fulfill my guarantee and let him lose his family and son again. If possible I really want to go to Apocalypse again, but reason tells me that to go now is to die. But sitting here, I can't do anything, and I'm waiting for death. Huh? You came here because of this?"
Halfway through, Ke Wen also noticed Kara's expression and asked rhetorically.
Cara also lowered his head under Ke Wen's gaze, following the angle of Cara's head. The height difference just made Ke Wen see the scenery he should see. He raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look away. Kara's voice also spread. Come.
"Carl wants you to go to Gotham. Batman has locked himself up. No one can see him, not even Alfred, Helena, Dick. He is torturing himself, and you are there. Blame myself, I suddenly don’t want you to go, there is no need for two people to torture each other."
"It's okay, it's time to go. By the way, I don't need to cook my meal at night, and I don't think there is time to come back to eat, or if you live with your sister for a few days, I have to pull him out of the cave to come back."
He kissed Carla's forehead, and Ke Wen also ordered there. Kara also expressed understanding for Ke Wen's remarks and nodded, which can be regarded as a response to Ke Wen. It was just when Ke Wen left the meeting room that the expression on Cara's face converged, turned around, turned on the computer familiarly, and adjusted the video that Ke Wen watched before. He watched the screen twice as a real face against Da Cara's expression also became strange in the fragment of Kesaid.
"It's so kind of like, this is starting to be guilty. You really don't have the ability to lie at all." Sitting there, Kara was also complaining about Ke Wen's behavior. Although everything is normal, sometimes he behaves too much. Being normal is the biggest abnormality for girls. Ke Wen shouldn't be unfamiliar and intervene in the battle of Dakside in front of these primitive Kamen Riders. This is the biggest problem.
While complaining about Ke Wen, Kara also manipulated the computer for a while, and directly invaded the monitoring of the Ke Wen firm, and intercepted the footage of the two brothers Conan and Ke Xue who came to interview at that time. Then I took out my mobile phone from my pocket and looked at the pictures of myself, Lena and Zatana in the mobile phone. Then I looked at Conan and Ke Xue who took screenshots on the computer, standing on the Eiffel Tower, with the characters of Krypton engraved on it. Krypton Stars, I, the twin knights that Kelan and Corgi transformed in front of Darkside, have more interest on their faces.
"Don't say it, it's a bit like it, but mine will be one of you, most likely it will be you, but you are him, or the two of them, I want to have a son and a daughter." With a happy smile, Cara also stared at Conan's head, the Krypton Star I engraved with Krypton characters, and the pink armored knights twins in front of Darkside.
Ke Wen didn't know that his disguise had been seen through by Carla, and even the extent to which he thought it was deeper than himself. He only felt an inexplicable tremor when he passed through the blast tunnel. Passing through the blasting channel, I came to Gotham City, which was in a wasteful state. After looking back at the blasting channel, he left from this teleportation point.
In the third full-scale invasion war launched by Apocalypse against the earth, the worst-affected one was Gotham City. Because of the deliberate guidance of Darkside and the twin undead, Gotham has become an isolated city under the destruction of many demon-like demons and destruction demons, suffering from the torment of demon-like demons and destruction demons in the endless fireworks, if it weren't for Dak Said is in control, Gotham City is already in ruins, and there will not be a survivor.
Even now, with Wayne Enterprise taking the lead in leading the city’s reconstruction work, Ke Wen can also clearly feel that it should have been under the new Gotham City, and as the city is revitalized, he will slowly pay attention to the old Gotham City. The citizens of Gotham who have been forgotten by the times have the same dignity they had in the old days of Gotham. In the illusion of Desire Gotham, Ke Wen had already known that what trapped Batman at the time was the sickly paranoia and dependence of these Gotham citizens on Batman, besides himself.
This month, it was not that Ke Wen had never thought about going back to Gotham to deal with the desire Gotham created by the twins of the fallen dark knights and undead with the help of human hearts. It's just that after this series of things are processed, when Ke Wen returns to Gotham City again to find the twin undead troubles, whether he desires Gotham or the twin undead, they are all gone. Ke Wen also tried to enter one through the desire coin. In the body of the citizens of Gotham, there was no trace of desire for Gotham or twin undead.
And with Ke Wen coming this time, the mental health of these Gotham citizens also made Ke Wen have to pay attention to it. Even if Wayne Enterprise helps him rebuild his home, he was finally restrained and prepared to let time and happy time take it. The ecstasy that washed away came up again.
On the one hand, he was worried about the citizens of Gotham. Ke Wen also came to the ruins of the ruined Wayne Manor. At this time, the Wayne Manor already has the outline of reconstruction, and the person in charge is rebuilding the Wayne Manor of his own boss according to the drawings. , Ke Wen took a look, and through the secret passage he had known before, he came to the underground, barely retaining part of the outline of the bat cave.
"Master Ke Wen, why are you here?" Before entering the bat cave, the old housekeeper Alfred's voice sounded, and then he walked out of the darkness with a sad face, and accompanied Alfred together. And Helena with red eyes.
"...You know why I came here, Alfred."
"But I don't think you can see him. Go back. He doesn't want to see anyone now, including us." Alfred shook his head at Ke Wen with a sad look. When it comes to sadness, there is nothing like this old man. All this experience is more comprehensible. And Helena just walked up to Ke Wen silently, held Ke Wen, and sobbed silently there.
Regarding the state of Alfred and Helena, Ke Wen couldn't say anything to cheer them up. He didn't have that position, and he couldn't empathize with him. He just stood there and released the magic that can soothe the emotions for the two people, so that the two people who have been tortured by Damian's death also slowly relax in each other's silent silence accompanied by sobbing. Mind, after holding Helena and Alfred to rest in the room, Ke Wen walked towards the depths of the bat cave.
Although the bat cave was basically bombed under the previous attack by Darkside, Batman’s placement in the safe house can definitely be called a neurosis, even if it’s a bat cave, it’s also covered under the bat cave. One, when the entire Gotham City needed to be renovated, Batman didn't leave Wayne Manor. On the contrary, he silently led the family into a deeper bat cave to recuperate.
Of course, not everyone is here. Like the third-generation Robin Tim Drake and the second-generation Robin Jason Todd, they chose to leave the sad place of Bat Cave and use them in their respective cities. Their own way to heal the psychological trauma of Damian's death for them. The other people who stayed in Gotham and stayed in the bat cave are using this to torture each other.
The lights are turned on. In the central hall of this set of bat caves, Dick sits alone in front of the display stand of his uniforms when he was Robin, looking at the styles of the uniforms he used to be Robin since his childhood. , The first shorts, the later trousers, the matching design, and the icon. It has only been a month since Dick's whole body is haggard, like an uncle who is close to the age of confusion, with a shaggy face on his face.
"You know, I always feel that everything I have experienced here is like yesterday. How long has it been that Luo Bing has been fourth on his own." The lights came on, and Dick knew that without looking back. It was Ke Wen who came over and said to himself.
"Time is a wonderful thing, it can always confuse our memory of the past."
"Yeah, just like Damian, when I first saw this little boy, I should be in the port with you. It took me a lot of effort."
With his back to Cowen, Dick also talked about that year. Ke Wen naturally knows what he is talking about, that is, when he first traveled to this DC multiverse with the new 52 as the main body, he wore the first set of knight armor-G3 given by the gas system, and followed the task given by the gas system. , Chasing a few underworld bosses to the port. Before he could finish the task, Damian, the bear kid, didn't know where he came out, and directly set a set of dart bomb K heads.
Then I was still teaching myself this guy who was a few years older than him in an old-fashioned tone. At that time, to Ke Wen, Damian was a bear kid. If I change to the real universe before crossing, I will give you all my head. Hit it crookedly. But he is the son of orthodox Batman, and he has been trained by the most elite of the Assassin League since he was young.
It wasn't until the guy Dick appeared and paid the price of multiple scratches all over his body that Damian, the bear kid, was hung from the street lamp with Asian bindings.
Thinking about it now, it really is as Dick said, as if it was yesterday. This time around, he can now single-handedly kill the Apocalypse to save people, and the father-son relationship between Dick and Batman has slowly eased, and everything is moving on a new track, even the events that have happened are not the same as before. It's the same, except that Damian, as in the past universe restart events, died in front of Batman, on the road to the new universe they needed to open up.
"Yeah, it's dazzling. A few years have passed."
"Yes, a few years have passed. The change that has brought us is that we already know that we are all in the cosmic cycle, and you are helping us to break this cycle. This is good, but it does not mean that in the past the universe In the cycle, Damian, who was once able to come back from the dead, will this time, here, become an established reality leading to a new direction?"
Turning around, Dick, who had turned himself into a decadent uncle in this month, just looked at Ke Wen, his eyes still sharp as before, and wanted to get an answer from Ke Wen.
As Dick said, Damian’s death is not the first time. Similar events have occurred in the past, but at that time the entire DC universe’s will can be restarted at any time due to a major event, which means even Damian’s death. It has become an established fact, but after the universe restarts, this established fact will be covered, and it will be reborn as a superman, descending on the earth and beginning to compose the relevant history of the entire DC multiverse.
But this time is different. As the event of Superman's return to the ordinary takes longer, the traces of the superheroes of the generation centered on Superman in the will of the universe will become more and more shallow. Ke Wen is the second origin of the universe. The influence of the calendar began to deepen, that is to say, once Damian’s death becomes an established fact, even if the universe restarts again in the distant future, it will start with a certain time node of the birth of Ke Wen’s calendar. Try again to break this new cycle.
Following the trajectory of this established fact, Damian will die again.
This is what Dick is worried about. Death cannot be avoided, but the established fact of constantly repeating his own death in the repeated cycles of the universe is too much for Damian and for their bat family.
Kewen looked at Dick's eyes and opened his mouth, trying to give a guarantee, but in the end he still didn't say the answer Dick wanted.
"I don't know, but if we just do nothing and let time heal everything, then I still want to do something, even if it will bring results that I can't think of."
Seeing Ke Wen’s insistence, Dick didn’t say anything, he just sighed, and sat on the ground decadently, leaning on the display stand behind him, belonging to Damian, and belonging to Robin’s group. He also said there: "I won't stop you from doing what you want, but don't take it for granted that he can think like me. He knows these relationships better than me. Because of this, he is more painful than all of us."
With that said, Ke Wen also followed Dick’s gaze. On the edge of the central hall, a closed door stood there, without thinking about it, to understand that this was the prison where Batman kept himself in it this month. , Eat and drink in it, but for Batman who has escaped from the illusion, everything that happened to him is too heavy and too desperate, from despair to hope, and then from hope to despair, between the ups and downs, It is Batman's will that rivals the gods, and Ke Wen can't guarantee that the current Batman is still in the previous state.
Standing at the door, Ke Wen couldn't say anything, because everything that happened made him lose the confidence to talk to Batman. No wonder Alfred would persuade himself to leave, because he knew that he had nothing to say even if he walked in front of Batman. The raised hand didn't fall, and Ke Wen gave up and sat down directly in front of the door cross-legged, waiting for Batman to open the door by himself.
At the same time, in the apartment where Ke Xue recuperates in the city of Nacino, Ke Xue also learned about some of the future events that happened in the third branch, including the incident that Ke Wen went to Batman at this time.
"So Damian will be resurrected?"
"Brother, why are you so concerned about this topic?" Seeing Ke Xue's worried look, Kelan from the third branch of the future is also very curious. As for his twin brother, who exists in a spiritual situation, he was temporarily caught She closed the small black room. Under the condition of not changing his body, Ke Ji, as a child, can't do anything, but has been making trouble there. It is better to be locked in her body and listen to her chat with Ke Xue.
"I just think he worked very hard. He finally changed himself and wanted to get his father's recognition, but in the end he died for his father. But you didn't stop me from dealing with Darkside, nor did you stop Darkside. Said took away his body, does it mean that he will be resurrected?"
"You know the result and you tell me so much, but also, with the emergence of you and your eldest brother as variables, now I can't say the result anymore. UU read www.uukanshu.com just watched it, and it hasn't reached us yet. When you intervene."
Just when Ke Xue, the two brothers and sisters of Ke Lan were talking there, in the bat cave on the ground floor, in the room where Batman closed himself. He just sat there, and he heard clearly about the conversation between Cowen and Dick outside, but he didn’t want to respond. He just looked at a blank sheet of paper in front of him, that was the only thing he found. Damian left something for himself.
This is a letter from Damian to him. There is not much content on the letter, and all the content is condensed into the last paragraph.
······Father, you and my mother give me different meanings. Mother gave me life and brought me to this world, but you gave me the meaning of survival.
—Your son, Damian Wayne
Reading this letter from Damian to himself over and over again, Batman’s body and mind were overwhelmed by grief, and with Batman’s grief, behind him, an Ω symbol loomed, and outside this symbol, It is a larger, more complex and mysterious pattern that echoes the distressed Batman at this time.
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