American manga: Batman after graduating from the madhouse

"Your mother's kiss...wait until I get back..." Arkham Knight fell to the ground and gasped. It was obvious that Harley's shot shocked him...

His original intention was not to let others interfere in the battle between him and Batman, but since Harley shot him first... that was it. He had no intention of giving himself another shot for the sake of fairness...

Harley happily rocked her colorful twin tails and snorted arrogantly. Looking at the middle finger raised by Arkham Knight, she silently praised her wit and then blew a kiss with "mua~" , jumped away and left.

Arkham Knight quickly took off a small spray can from his belt, and after briefly treating the wound, he looked at Batman, who had also treated the wound, "Although there are some minor accidents, it doesn't hurt the overall situation, right? Now, We’re back where we started.”

Arkham Knight's chest rose and fell slightly. He did not recover, but he still smiled and said, "Come on Batman, this will be your last chance."

Batman rushed over quickly, and the exoskeleton gave him strength that was not inferior to Bane, but Jason could no longer use venom.

Jason was beaten back again, but this time he caught the moment Batman retracted his fist and held Batman's wrist with his backhand.

Sting... A powerful electric current instantly passed through Batman's body. He targeted every criminal in Arkham Asylum, but he didn't guard against the dead Joker's tricks.

Batman fell to the ground in pain, and the powerful current even made him lose consciousness for a moment.

The Knight once again approached Batman.

"You shouldn't be soft-hearted, Arkham Knight. You should have killed him just now." The Joker appeared in his consciousness again, sitting on the rooftop with his legs splayed, still with his signature smile on his lips.

"Why are you looking at me in such surprise...Please, this is Batman's endgame. As his old friend, how could I miss this scene!"

"I have always dreamed of seeing this day, when Batman falls to the ground in pain, and the person who ends his legendary life will be his most beloved son! Hahaha, what a joke!"

"Actually, I was adopted."

"Don't interrupt me!" The clown's mouth twitched and he said viciously.

"You know... the story between me and him is too huge, so I hope our ending will not be mediocre. It will be epic and heartbreaking..." The clown said in an aria-like voice chant.

"Now, Arkham Knight, do what you're supposed to do! There's only one final obstacle left to cleansing Gotham. Stop talking nonsense like a boring villain in a third-rate cartoon!"

Arkham Knight looked at Batman silently, his eyes were so complicated, no one knew what he was thinking at this moment.

The batarang flew out amid the clown's wild laughter and Robin's frightened struggle, and shot towards...the empty rooftop?

"What are you doing! You actually want to kill me? A person living in your consciousness?" The clown appeared in another location, laughing.

"Are you crazy? Do you know what you are doing? It's just the last step! It's the last step away from our goal!" The clown crazily held his head and twisted his green hair.

In Tim's relieved eyes, Arkham Knight calmly said to himself in the air, "I don't need you to tell me what to do."

"Okay, okay, whatever you want... But don't blame me for not reminding you... Only the dead Batman won't tell you what to do." The clown said with a smile.

Arkham Knight immediately realized something and lowered his head suddenly. Batman had regained consciousness. He grabbed the knight's ankle and pulled hard. Arkham Knight fell to the ground with his head on the back.

Batman jumped up, sat on the knight's body, tore off his wings, and then punched his hood one after another.

The deformed metal mask was overwhelmed by the heavy blow and finally flew far away.

Batman looked at the young man with some bruises under the mask and blood on the corners of his mouth... His eyes were still as stubborn... just like the first night he met him.

Batman gasped, stood up and left the knight.

"You're Robin, Jason! You're not who he wants you to be."

"Robin? Don't you already have one?" Jason pouted in Tim's direction mockingly.

"It's not too late, we can fix this... you and me."

Batman reached out his hand to Jason, but Jason raised his gun to him.

After a long time, Jason finally put down his gun.

He just turned his back to Batman and walked towards the rooftop.

"What a beautiful city..." he sighed, looking at Gotham City, which was still bustling at night.

"You know what? Bruce. The Joker is a liar. But there is one thing he said that was right... He has completely changed something..."

The Arkham Knight slowly stretched out his other hand, opened his palm, and a crest lay quietly in his palm.

He actually stole the crest from Batman's belt!

"You see...the teachers at Arkham taught me more than just fighting skills..."

He smiled and tossed the crest to Batman.

"Remember? That joke.

In a lunatic asylum, there were two lunatics.One night they decided they no longer wanted to live in the asylum.They decide to run away!

Just like that, they climbed to the roof, and there, across the narrow gap, they saw the roofs of the city, stretching out in the moonlight, leading to freedom.

At this time, the first person jumped over easily.But his friend, his friend didn't dare to jump.You know, he was afraid of falling.So the first guy came up with an idea and said, "Hey! I'm bringing a flashlight! I'll use it to light up the gaps in the building. You can follow the light to me!"

But the second man shook his head.He said: "What do you think I am? A lunatic? You will turn off the flashlight when I am halfway there."

Of course Batman remembers... That was what his old enemy, the Joker, said to him, and it was also the only joke the Joker told that made him laugh. The two of them laughed like two madmen for a long time that night, and the two of them laughed straight. No waist, like a pair of close friends, like a pair of brothers.

The genius of this joke is that it taps into Batman's thinking.

What is the first question you think about after hearing this joke?

Of these two mental patients, which one represents the Joker and which one represents Batman?

Batman thought for a while, and then understood the point of the Joker's joke:

Does it make any difference?Both of these people are insane.

The Joker wants to liberate Batman and Gordon, allowing them to escape from the oppression of reality and happily be a madman.

Batman wants to cure the Joker, free himself from madness, and become a good person.

These two ideas are illusory ideas of mental patients, just like walking out on the light. They also distrust each other and fight with each other.They both argue that they are the one who should save both parties.

But so what?Both of them are insane, and it is impossible to save them.

Of these two mental patients, one represents the Joker and the other represents Batman.This is where the joke is clever and ironic.

And Jason likes this sense of irony...

“At some point, I kept seeing that green-haired madman jumping around in front of my eyes, and he really convinced me for a while.

But I don't agree with his point of view.To be precise, it is the exact opposite of him. After all, what I personally hate most is actually quarreling with others. Naturally, I hate and even fear chaos and disorder, not to mention a madman who can cause panic in the whole city. .

"You all say that clowns drive me crazy...but I know that it is you who are crazy...it is this city."

"Only I can truly see that heroes' rescue is often the cause of chaos; only I can helplessly understand that justice can only save lives, and only destruction can save humanity; and only I can understand the difference between heroism and salvation. In the end, it is the biggest joke in itself, and all efforts are just a joke..."

"This is no joke, Jason! Come back, you can still be Batman..."

"After I slaughtered all of Arkham? Bruce, reality has no room for idealism."

He bent down and slowly placed the broken Bat helmet and wing equipment on the ground, and finally looked back at Batman, "This is really a crazy world!" He sighed.

"Maybe you are right, Bruce, Gotham belongs to Batman, and the Arkham Knight is just a madman..." He stood on the edge of the rooftop, his eyes like a confused child.

Batman has realized something, "No! Jason, don't do this!"

"Goodbye, Batman…goodbye, Bruce…goodbye…my father." Jason said with a smile.

Then he fell.

His body continued to fall, and the figure quickly disappeared into the night.

Batman rushed over and looked down, only to see a torn cloak slowly falling to the ground between the buildings.

It was... the first cape Bruce made for Jason when he was still Robin.

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[Newbie event: Sin City has been completed and rewards are being settled. 】

[Complete, accept mission 1/1, novice event is survival mission]

[Reward: Bat Mark*1 (a voucher for entering and exiting the Bat Cave, the bearer can use this mark to enter the Bat Cave shuttle world),]

[The Batcave is being upgraded...]

[The main world is returning...]

Jason walked into the Batcave tiredly, and Harley was sitting impatiently on a swivel chair blowing bubble gum.

"Sweetheart! You're finally back, let me hug you!" Seeing Jason approaching, Harley's eyes lit up, and she rushed over like a child seeing some fun toy.

"Oh, my sweetheart, who beat you like this, is it that bad bat?" Harley pretended to look at the wound on Jason's abdomen with a look of distress.

The Dionysian factor almost makes one immortal, but the sad thing is that its most powerful repair function can only be exerted when one is close to death...

Jason's injury happened to be at an embarrassing level of neither serious nor serious, so he could only endure the pain and watch the wound slowly heal.

Jason stared at Harley expressionlessly, his eyes seeming to say: "Who shot me? Why don't you have any idea in your mind..."

Harley laughed twice and muttered in a low voice: "Didn't you say you want to be fair?"

Jason pushed away Harley's hand around his waist in disgust, and glanced at the two indescribable things crowded on his body. Well, generally...

"Put away the Bat Family Mark I gave you, I don't have much left."

"You're in trouble, Jason." Watching Jason move past her towards the Batcave, Harley suddenly stopped smiling and shouted behind him.

"Why do you say that?" Jason stopped and asked calmly.

"As early as the first time you knocked down Batman, you could kill him! And as a member of the Court of Owls, you didn't use the killing skills taught by the claws at all! You didn't want to succeed at all! You were originally intended to be killed Batman defeated!”

"No, I didn't. It's Batman who is too strong." Jason denied it three times, and after saying that, he ignored Harley and left...

"You...lying Pinocchio! You still have the nerve to be Batman!" Harley stomped on the spot with enthusiasm...

Jason was silent. He slowly walked to the work table, reached out and wiped something. "No, I'm not Batman." He replied.

"You will be, Jason. Arkham Knight will be a different kind of Batman."

Jason said noncommittally, "Maybe..."

He turned and walked towards the depths of the Batcave, "I...Batman...heh."

He casually inserted a USB flash drive into the Batcave's built-in computer, and he still lied.

He sneaked into the Batcave not just to find the key to the last laugh, but all for this file [Tower of Babel Project].

Looking at one file after another on the screen, Jason laughed softly.

On his desk, a photo frame reflected a glimmer of light in the darkness. In the photo, Jason was smiling brightly with his arms around Bruce's neck.

(End of Volume [-]: Arkham Knight Rises)