Her Royal Highness the First Princess of Gotham

David didn't dwell on it for too long.

His attention was drawn to the bandage on Bruce's hand again, and David subconsciously asked:

"Did you break another sandbag?"

"Why have I never seen you take this necklace off?"

The voices of the two of them rang out at the same time.

They looked at each other.

And at the same time replied:

"Well, don't tell Ah Fu, I have quietly put on a new one."

"Because I never took it off."

As much as he wanted to tell him, Alfred wrote a tiny number on the bottom of each sandbag.

But David held back for now.

Just like the answer he gave, he always felt that Bruce was soft and easy to bully now.We should take the opportunity to bully for a while longer.

Bruce was a little discouraged by his answer, but he pulled himself together and asked curiously, "Is this necklace special? Can I have a look?"

"No."

David's attitude of refusal was tough, and he quickly suppressed his smile and stood up.

"No matter what, you must never look at this necklace."

"Ok."

Bruce's expression looked a little lost, but he didn't lose it for too long.Adhering to the spirit of "ask if you don't understand", he still asked: "Why? Is it important to you?"

unimportant.

David didn't know how to answer him.

The only purpose of this necklace is to cover the scars on the neck.

David also felt a little strange, he was never someone who cared about other people's eyes, why did he try to cover the scar around his neck?

He didn't pay attention to Bruce's meaning, and quickly left and returned to his room.

Then he took off the black leather necklace around his neck in front of the mirror.

The horrific scars that had nothing to cover them were exposed to the sun like this.

The uneven scars were stitched up with black thread.

Above the black line is his own human part.

Below the black line is a great demon crawling out of the abyss.

A masterpiece of a puppeteer, creating a disgusting monster.

Freaky experiment.

The lines that cannot be dismantled and the hideous scars remind him of the horrible and disgusting creation all the time.

He wouldn't let Bruce see these things anyway.

Picking up the necklace and hanging it around his neck again, he reached out.Her slender fingers pressed against the mirror, and her thin lips parted slightly.

He looked at himself in the mirror and mocked silently:

"monster."

"I know there are many things you don't want to talk about."

Red Robin, aka Timothy Drake, sat at the table, looking at the hooded girl who stared unblinkingly at the screen.

"But these things may be important to our mission, Raven. Why do 'you' and 'David' have a good relationship? And why does 'David' hate Batman, and what does Batman do to him? What have you done?"

"Is it important?"

Raven raised his hand, and gently stroked the cheek of the man on the huge screen with his fingers.

She lowered her head and narrowed her eyes, hiding the complex emotions that flashed in her eyes.

Raven turned off the screen, turned and walked to the window, looking at the scene outside the Tower of Titans.

It was just the two of them in the empty room.

Not all participating members of the project are in front of the screen all the time.

"I actually don't think David hated Bruce, he just needed an outlet. He's on the verge of breaking down all the time, David Dumacher."

"The owner of the surname Dumahe is none other than the puppeteer."

From just now, I feel that the name Dumach is somewhat familiar.Tim fumbled his chin in thought, "Dumach... ah, the freak surgeon hired by the Joker? He asked the surgeon to cut his face off and hang it on the wall in Arkham? Is it him? The puppeteer ..."

"Yes."

Raven looked back at him: "Dumach is a perverted criminal. He owns an isolated island, and built his paradise in that impenetrable fortress...it is also the hell for everyone on that island."

"Wait! Could it be what I imagined?"

"Maybe the Gotham Police Department still has his files, but most of them have been destroyed. What he did was too disgusting and terrifying. Dumacher is passionate about surgically modifying humans. He dismembers them and puts them back together."

"David..."

"David is one of his most successful works."

Raven sighed, and turned his head to look out the window: "In the beginning, it was just because Dumacher's 'work' lacked an albino. He bought Davide from his housekeeper Curtis with a lot of money. But Slowly but discovering David's difference...he's a miracle."

"So Dumach had a bolder idea. He commissioned a demon hunter to catch a demon——that demon was my brother, although I had never seen him. He had just escaped from Sangong's claws. Come out, in a very weakened state...Dumacher quickly put him on the operating table and decapitated him with a scalpel made of N-metal."

Raven closed his eyes and let out a long breath.

"Sangong is not your father..." Tim was already in a state of shock, and he was even a little incoherent.

"True. But he killed and absorbed the power of all his children, which made him even stronger."

Raven seemed to be talking about things that had nothing to do with him: "There is no emotion between demons, and the strong eat the weak. Even blood relatives cannot escape the fate of being swallowed."

"So David has always been a gentle and stubborn person. Even though he is also a victim, he is full of guilt towards me. He must take responsibility as my brother."

Raven couldn't help laughing when he said this: "It's strange, isn't it? Demons don't have any feelings. I don't have any regrets about losing this 'brother', but David insists on being a qualified brother. I I have always looked up to him and David is my only big brother to me."

"Wait... So, this is Dumacher's experiment? How did he..."

"'Can the human mind dominate the demon's body?' This is Dumach's topic." Raven closed her eyes, she had a deep resistance to this topic.

"Why did David change his name to Dumacher?" Even though he couldn't bear the dislike of Dumacher, Tim still asked something unreasonable.

"He loathes himself as much as he loathes Dumacher."

Raven looked back at him: "As for why he hates Batman..."

"Probably because he waited for him in fear for ten years..."

Tim shook his head. "I don't understand."

Raven sighed and explained: "David and Bruce are indeed very good friends. Before they met, he had no friends. Because of albinism and other reasons, everyone was rejecting him. So in fact , Bruce saved him."

"It was he who picked up David."

"It was he who said he would protect him forever."

"...that wasn't Bruce's fault."

Tim tried to explain it to Bruce: "He was eight years old at the time, just a kid who had just lost his parents."

"Yeah, I know it wasn't Bruce's fault."

"Actually, 'David' told me that himself. He said he knew Bruce had done nothing wrong, but he couldn't help himself."

"Bruce might have a chance to save David, too. It's just that his parents died at the same time as David's disappearance. Guilt drove Bruce crazy to find his parents' killers, but never David whereabouts."

"It's impossible for him to find David." Tim shook his head, denying Raven's statement.

"No, it's actually very simple. All Bruce needs to do is to mention this missing friend to Selina, and he will get the answer from the catwoman who has always had a good relationship with him. Selina witnessed the transaction at the port , and even took down the puppeteer's license plate number. Then Bruce just needs to call 911, and the matter can be resolved."

"But he never mentioned his friend. To anyone, he could only find Joe Chill, the murderer of his parents. After the murderer was brought to justice, he devoted himself completely to the city of Gotham."

Tim was silent for a while before opening his mouth, his voice a little dry: "So David resents Bruce for not saving him?"

"Do not."

Raven looked out of the window in ecstasy, the sun was shining brightly outside the Tower of Titans:

"He resented Bruce for giving him hope."

"Sometimes I resent Bruce because of David."

Raven closed his eyes.

"You know...David always had the blue light ring of hope. Whether it was when he was brought to that island, when he saw the puppeteer's deformed experiments, when he was strapped to the operating table He watched and felt the cold scalpel cut his neck. He never gave up hope."

"Until finally, after 18 years of waiting, he snuffed out his hopes with his own hands."

"It's really ridiculous, isn't it? Obviously everyone knows that some promises are just words and cannot be fulfilled. But he stubbornly believes in this promise, and strives to live in fear and torture."

Raven smiled, but there was helplessness in his eyes: "The puppeteer's cruelty failed to erase his innocence. The reason why he miraculously survived was that he felt that he had to wait for Bruce, he had to wait until he realized Promises to himself. He can't let Bruce break every promise because of him."

"But the man he's been thinking about for 18 years, the one and only friend. A city full of crime, he's long since forgotten he exists."

"Wait a minute. David's crime isn't justified by anything he's been through. He's killed Bruce, so it's time for this to end?" Tim shook his head, no matter what.A crime is a crime, and no one can deny the sin committed, even if there is a great reason.

"He's already atoning. They're both atoning."

"David didn't kill Bruce, he relented. Bruce fell to his death, he could have saved himself. But he apologized to David with his life."

"Soul for soul."

Raven looked at Tim quietly, as if what she said was insignificant:

"Bruce's soul is in that gem."

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All the Davids in quotation marks in the text are the Davides of Raven World, that is, the one who sent David there.

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