I haven't been a big brother for many years

"Enough." Ryan put his hand on David's shoulder, preventing him from continuing: "Enough."

He didn't think it was necessary for David to go any further.

David's strange pair of ice blue and fiery red eyes flashed obvious helplessness, he moved his Adam's apple as if to say something, but in the end he just pursed his lips in dissatisfaction, and pulled Batman towards him. Take a step back.

Laughing wildly and lowering his head, the color of his eyes remained unchanged, watching Ryan's movements.

There was neither hatred nor sympathy in the red eyes.Those eyes are calm like a lake.Ryan frowned, obviously unable to understand what he was doing: "Is Ryan Black really that important to you?"

He couldn't figure it out.

Obviously, before Bruce met him, someone loved him, and he lived well.

Kuang Xiao didn't speak, he understood Ryan's meaning, but just smiled.

Bruce seemed to suddenly realize something, and couldn't help but clenched his hands tightly.

Ryan glanced over the lock lying on the ground without any trace of damage, the lock that was handcuffed to his knee just now, and only stayed on the combination lock on it for a moment before returning to his wildly laughing face: "The combination..."

He tried many passwords.

Six numbers, 100 million possibilities.

He had to guess without the aid of a computer, but he thought it was probably a date.

So Ryan tried his own birthday, Bruce's birthday, Martha Wayne's birthday, Dick's birthday, Jason's birthday, the dates of the Waynes' deaths, the date of the founding of the United States, the date of the founding of Gotham...he Tried many times to no avail.

Until he started losing dates that still had some impressions in his mind but weren't that important to Manlaugh.

Until the end, the date of the code to open the code lock was the day he first met Bruce Wayne.

But he didn't understand what this day meant to Bruce. Whether he met him or not, Bruce at that time was happy and carefree.He should be the only one who should remember that day.

"He said that was the happiest day of his life." Kuang Xiao took off the headband made of dark metal in a daze, and the pair of eyes that should have been blue like the 800-meter deep sea were now covered with bloodshot eyes, looking hideously like The evil spirit crawling out of the abyss.

"Over and over again, I ask myself if I did something wrong. If I hadn't been with him, if I hadn't been Batman, if I'd killed the Joker before then." The confusion that the devil doesn't have: "Sometimes when I think about him, I even regret that I didn't become a laughing man sooner... a clown in a Batman cape."

"At least I can make him laugh and make him have more happy days."

"I can do everything for him, as long as he is still alive." A weak female voice suddenly sounded from them, and her voice overlapped with wild laughter.

David immediately looked at the source of the sound vigilantly, but involuntarily put down the weapon in his hand.

Brucie, who was wet from top to bottom, was kneeling on the ground leaning on the wall, her beautiful curly black hair hanging down her shoulders, sticking to her fair neck like seaweed.She covered the bleeding wound on her abdomen with one hand, but raised her head and showed a gentle smile.

Her blue eyes stared blankly into the air, and she murmured: "As long as he is still alive."

"Barbatos promised us that if the main world is destroyed, the Dark Multiverse will restart and usher in a happy ending." The maniac laughing voice was calm, but the deep voice obviously suppressed a lot of deep emotions.

Now this misty hope has been shattered forever like a hydrogen balloon flying into the sky.He glanced at his bruised companion, and then turned his gaze back to Ryan.

"But it's okay, I'm very satisfied to see you." Kuang Xiao smiled gently, and the white gauze skirt overlapped with the figure in his memory.

David frowned, and his expression was full of complexity: "You...you know it's impossible. Barbatos is using you."

The maniacal smile remained the same, but he didn't answer him. He kept his head down, and only the white shadow remained in his bloodshot eyes.

The gentle smile on Brucey's face also remained unchanged: "Even so, I want to try."

Of course they know that's impossible, anyway, they're Batmen from different worlds.Such a clumsy lie can be seen at a glance.

But what if?What if it was possible?

They are unwilling to give up that one-in-a-billion possibility.

Bruce's expression was also a little complicated.

What about him?

If he doesn't have Ryan...

He was unwilling and did not dare to continue thinking about it.

Ryan lowered his eyes, his slender silver-white eyelashes half covered the complex emotions in the pair of scarlet agates.He sighed, turned around to pick up the bouquet that fell on the ground, and picked out a white rose from the middle with his long, bony fingers.

An unremoved rose thorn scratched his finger, Ryan's expression remained unchanged, and he wiped the bright red on the soft petals, and he gently folded off the thorn.

Laughing maniacally, watching his movements, watching him squatting halfway in front of Brucey, inserting the white rose dyed red in her hair.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid he's never coming back. But I know him and I know Ryan Black."

Ryan looked at her with crimson eyes, which were exactly the same as her Ryan.His hand gently caressed her cheek, and printed a gentle kiss on the top of her hair.Brucey was in a daze, as if his Lion had returned.

"So I know what he wants to say to you. I'm sorry, silly girl, please love yourself instead of him."

Bruce didn't know why he couldn't control the corners of his raised lips. He strode towards Ryan, stretched out his hand and shook his fingers: "Let's go."

He didn't have to think about that, he was lucky.

What could be luckier than being in love with each other and both being in this world well?Bruce figured he had enough.

Lane nodded at him, turned around and asked Brucey one last question: "Did I say I love you?"

"Yes." Brucey couldn't help laughing, she bent her eyes: "You said it."

Laughing eyes followed the figures of the two until they disappeared around the corner.He moved the corners of his lips, and looked at the blood-stained white rose again.

He couldn't help laughing too: the white rose was as beautiful as he imagined.

David looked at the silent Batman beside him, and sighed in his heart. He really hated the various stories that happened between them the most.Only once in a while a few can get real happiness.The rest live forever in the shadow of loss.

"I can send you back." David took a step forward, raised his head and said to Kuangxiao.It's just that he seems prone to enormous sympathy for these "Batmen" and "Ryans."

At this moment, Batman suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes: "There is one thing I must tell you, David."

David turned his head back, raised his eyebrows and looked at him suspiciously: "What?"

"Besides you, I love Alfred, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian and Stephanie. I don't want to hurt anyone."

"I know, so what?" David lowered his head slightly, meeting those cobalt blue eyes.

"So." Those cobalt blue eyes were full of seriousness: "If you want to leave, kill me first."

Although the words were inexplicable, David understood what he meant.

He is actually afraid that if one day he leaves or dies, he will become a laughing man, become one of these nightmare Batmen, and go to extremes.

"Fool." David was almost laughed at by him, and he put his arms around Batman's waist: "No one can kill me, not even time. My life is very long, long enough to be with me You will become an old man in peace and stability, and you will die of old age naturally."

"God." Bruce laughed, and he couldn't help but pat David's arm: "You really can't talk."

He thought that David would say some affectionate words to comfort him, and he thought of the answer for him, such as: "Don't worry, baby, I will grow old with you." Such beautiful words.

"...You really ask so much, no wonder you don't have a girlfriend yet, old bat."

"Ah, is that so? Isn't there enough people pursuing me? Or is Damian's mother you?"

Brussie looked at the two of them inexplicably quarreling with a dazed expression.

...

"Want something to eat?" Bruce raised his hand and touched his cheek, thinking maybe something to distract Ryan.

"I want to eat you." Ryan buried his head in his shoulder, but couldn't help laughing first: "I'm fine, Bruce."

"That's good." Bruce breathed a sigh of relief.

"I just..." Ryan sighed softly: "Do you remember the rope I taught you to tie?"

"Sailor Knot." Bruce raised his eyebrows, it was a long time ago, when they were young: "What's wrong?"

"You should know more than that one way of knotting."

"yeah."

"You also know that I can untie a sailor's knot, and only that kind of knot?" Ryan looked up into his eyes.

"yep." It's like when Ryan taught him how to skateboard, he first taught him how to jump off the skateboard.When Ryan taught him how to tie a sailor knot, he first chose to teach him how to untie it.

"The sailor's knot is tied on my hand by the laughing man." That's why he can quickly untie the ribbon tied around his wrist: "He wants me to go."

"I know..." Bruce replied, touching the soft hair on the top of his head.

"You know?" Ryan's eyes flashed with surprise.

"Yes, I know." Bruce took a deep breath. "He... we never wanted you to die. In fact, he wanted me to save you."

Ryan was silent for a moment, hesitating to speak again: "I always thought that if I die, you will forget me. You are strong enough, the pain will only belong to the dead. You still have people who love you, and they will accompany you to cheer up, I I thought you would only be sad for a while and then forget about me, and continue to live happily in the future when I am not around."

"I can't." Bruce looked at him seriously: "I'm more vulnerable than anyone to you."

Ryan couldn't help smiling: "Okay, okay. I will protect you, Mr. Wayne."

"Are you willing? If I forget you." Bruce ignored his smile. He felt that what he was discussing with Ryan was a very serious issue.

Ryan's easing smile froze on his face, he took a deep breath, and finally buried his face in Bruce's chest: "How could you be willing? Thinking of you will forget my existence and everything about me. My My heart hurts like being thrown into a washing machine full of nails. But I just want you to live happily."

"That's really... so painful." Bruce patted him on the back reassuringly: "I will never forget to love you, in fact, just your name is enough for me to love you forever."

"And, Ryan." Bruce lowered his head and pressed his forehead against his, the tenderness in his eyes was about to overflow: "There is only one way for me to live happily, and that is for you to live happily. "