Time Miko

"Hey! Is that kid Bart there?"

Green Lantern's angry voice echoed in the Tower of Titans.

"Bart? Didn't see him today"

Red Robin stopped watering the potted flowers in front of him, and turned his head strangely to look at the man with a gloating expression.

"what happened?"

Connor also came out of the dormitory when he heard the voice, looking strangely at this Green Lantern who usually doesn't appear in Titan Tower.

"Ah...it's okay, Bart had a quarrel with Barry a few days ago, but he lost his temper and didn't go back for a few days. Barry asked me to take a look. It's rare that you can grow flowers."

I saw Red Robin and several empty flower pots in front of him, and some flower buds had already emerged in one of the flower pots.

"Is this researching Poison Ivy's new plant?"

Watch as each pot is labeled with temperature, humidity, and soil composition.

"No, these are flowers brought out from the independent space made by Antana. I also brought some soil out, but after testing, there is no difference from ordinary ones, so I tried to cultivate them with various components of soil, but until now So far, there are only a few buds emerging from this one flowerpot..."

What Red Robin said was a little decadent. Although he guessed that artificially cultivating those flowers would definitely not be an easy task, he never thought that it would be so difficult. Many days have passed. According to the normal physiological conditions of a plant Look, the flowers that don't germinate are probably dead.

"Oh? The flowers of Antana..."

With the existence of Bart, the little speaker, the place where Red Robin and Superboy stayed in the year of disappearance has long been known to everyone, especially the girls, who are particularly yearning to see it... .

"Have you considered watering them with" Antana's bath water or something? "

Carefully turn over the slightly raised soil, and see the tender stem buds below.

"Speaking of which, what does this flower look like?"

In the computer that Red Robin and the others brought back, the photos of flowers that were stored in it seemed to be formatted, and they were completely lost. Even using data restoration software was useless. If it wasn’t for Red Robin, they could indeed see However, he even wondered if Connor forgot to take a picture.

"Well... how should I put it? It looks a bit like a butterfly from the front, but it looks like a girl's skirt rolled up when she dances from the side. It's about this big, with three stamens, one of which is very big, a bit like a drop-shaped crystal, But as the flowering period fades, the crystal will gradually become a rhombus and grow into a seed, that’s how it is.”

Red Robin shows Green Lantern an unplanted flower seed from his pocket.

Green Lantern looked at the flower that was exactly the same as the crystal and said after a long time:

"You said this thing is in the shape of a drop before the flower fades?"

"Um"

"Then, what about that flower? The petals are very thin. When the light passes through, it will refract different colors according to the angle."

"yes"

"At night, when there is no sunlight, the largest water droplet in the center of the flower will glow softly, like a small lamp that can change color?"

The Green Lantern's words aroused Red Robin's curiosity. Of course, Connor didn't deliberately hide that part of the world, so it's not surprising that the appearance of the flower is known, but if he remembers correctly, Connor probably didn't mention the kind of flower that would appear at night. How did the Green Lantern know about emitting different colors of light?

Tim turned his head suspiciously, only to get Connor shaking his head in a daze.

The small actions of the two did not attract the attention of Green Lantern at all. At this moment, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. He thought that kind of thing was extinct.

"Um, are you okay?"

Connor looked at the Green Lantern who had been lowering his head and asked worriedly.

"Fuck! It's Esti, the Flower of Time!"

A name that popped out of Green Lantern's mouth after a long time made Connor and Tim even more puzzled.

"Well...how should I put it? It is said that this flower is of the same level as the nebula tree. The nebula tree is rooted in the chaos that is the source of space birth; and Esti is a flower that grows on both sides of the long river of time. The nebula tree is a probe to detect the anomalies in space, and Esther is a lamp used to guide the flow of time and space. But the latter are just legends.”

After the Green Lantern finished explaining, he closed his mouth and didn't know what he was thinking.

"...but have you ever seen this flower?"

Red Robin asked uncertainly, but just now Green Lantern mentioned that he thought Ersty was extinct, which means that he should have seen it before, in this world.

"Well...you know Mogao, right?"

For the name of the Green Lantern, Red Robin has of course heard that a planet with self-will is not a very common thing.

"Mogao has always been very generous to us. Whenever the fruit on his body reaches maturity, we can go up to pick it and eat it. But there is a small island in Mogao that we are absolutely not allowed to go up to. The area is extremely small. , it’s just a garden and a big tree above”

"...that flower is Ersty?"

The answer that Red Robin guessed was affirmed by Green Lantern.

"But I always thought that those were just myths and legends. This flower may be the remnant of an ancient species... Wait a minute, did you just say that the flower grew seeds after it withered?"

Green Lantern suddenly remembered a question belatedly.

"Yes?"

Both Red Robin and Superboy felt strange about Green Lantern's strange question. Isn't it normal for flowers to grow seeds after they wither?

"...I haven't seen that flower thank you since I met Mogao, no matter how strong the wind is blowing above Mogao, I haven't seen that flower thank you."

"...Is it just that they look alike?"

"Impossible, there is only one family of flowers that look so Mary Sue."

Green Lantern was silent for a moment and then said:

"Or the legend is not false, it is probably true, because Esther is the lamp responsible for guiding the time, so they will absorb the time that deviates from the disorder and then spend the result... I always thought it was just a legend That's all"

"...But there is no disordered time in that world, our time is completely synchronized with the earth's time"

Even if the legend is true, where did the chaotic time come from to make such a large sea of ​​flowers wither?

"...no, Connor, it might be"

Tim thought for a while, then said with a serious expression:

"Our understanding of time and space is still only based on our common sense, but Antana has subverted our perception of space more than once, and this time I am afraid it is our perception of time. If we assume , memory is the brain's record of events at time nodes, so disordered memory means..."

".. out of order events or...... out of time??!! That's why you..."

"...I'm afraid it is. My sanity recovered so quickly, without any sequelae... This is probably the result of Ersty's time correction"

After Red Robin came back, Batman has used various methods to conduct a physical examination on him, and he himself is also testing himself in various ways. He has no amnesia, even if he is very unwilling to recall it, but the clown treats him He clearly remembered everything he did and every word he said, but he didn't go crazy again, but all of this can only be guesswork.

"Well, little red bird, do you have any extra seeds?"

"Yes? What's the matter?"

"Can you give me some? In the last invasion, Mogao was also severely damaged, and the small island was also cut off. It is very depressed."

"Of course, but I left most of it for Batman to study, and that's all I have left here."

"That's enough. Speaking of which, why are you two alone in Titan Tower today? Where are the others?"

"Everyone went out to play"

Seeing Connor walking around with Tim as a matter of course, Hal turned his head aside and let out a meaningful smile:

"Go out to play??"