I used to believe in science

When Batman finally took the material from Constantine, he heard the other party say, "You know, Natalie Hope and I kind of have a friendship, she's a good company."

Bruce hated it when he said it in such a nostalgic tone, but he didn't comment on it, just watched the other person roll up his sleeves a little bit, thinking about all the things Constantine had said to him before, in case he missed anything "Is this a call that must be heard by her?"

"Probably yes." Constantine put down all the sleeves, and then bit the cigarette pinned to his ear in his mouth and replied vaguely, "You know, part of her is an angel now, although I don't know how much the phoenix takes up. , but there are still some angels, this spell is used to enhance the voice of prayer to a specific angel, so she won't ignore it."

"She won't ignore, what if she doesn't respond?"

"Uh...then there's nothing you can do, people have the right not to answer the phone." Constantine shrugged helplessly, then ventured out and patted the dark knight's tense shoulders, "Dude, I think that's all Once, she will respond."

When Constantine left, Bruce returned home. In the Batcave, he asked Alfred to prepare a container for those magic materials.He took off his gloves, ignited and put all the materials into the container in strict order and steps, and then read the long and complicated Enochian language.

Nothing happened at first, and Bruce desperately thought it was useless, she might have left Earth, it was too late.

But after that long minute passed, he heard the flapping of wings behind him. Although it was only a soft sound, no one in despair would miss it.Bruce turned his head quickly, and saw Antoinette standing not far behind him, leaning against a test bench, looking around.

It wasn't until Bruce looked at her that she turned her head and said hello to him, "Hi, Bruce." The tone was relaxed, as if all the previous problems didn't exist, and they just met by chance in a restaurant.

"Netty." Bruce wasn't sure, but he chose the title anyway. They hadn't met face-to-face so casually since Antoinette became a phoenix, even though Alfred told him that Netty still retained her 'humanity'.But Batman was always skeptical.

He took off his helmet.

As he removed the mask and took off the voice changer, Antoinette raised one eyebrow, and she nodded until the familiar blue eyes on the familiar face met her, "That's right, I am Came here for that." She's here for Antoinette and Bruce's old friendship, not Batman.

"I'm afraid you've left."

"Why? Shouldn't you be the one who wants me to leave as soon as possible?"

"...No." Bruce lowered his head, staggered the handover eyes, his voice was low, but now Antoinette couldn't miss this.

"Then you're a fool," she snapped back.

It was Bruce's familiar tone, the Starks' usual tactic when they wished to push someone away.Now he kind of believed Alfred's words, "We will figure out a way to solve this."

"We're going to figure out a way to fix this." He said we're going to figure out a way, not that we hope

"What is the solution?" Antoinette tilted his head and sneered at this. "We all know that as long as I am in Phoenix, I will not look for other hosts, and Phoenix itself will guarantee that I will live forever."

"You really don't know, I hope Phoenix chooses me as the host, and I don't want it to be you?"

"..." Antoinette was silent for a while amidst such questions, and then said softly, "Why? Humans cannot control the Phoenix, and this is the best."

But that's you.

Antoinette used to be a behavioral analyst who studied the human heart, and now, those skills make her even more terrifying "If it's not me, who do you want? Bruce, what would you do to that host?"

"..." Bruce was speechless, everything in reality changed so fast that she was caught off guard, and he didn't even have time to think about it.

"That's the crux of the matter, Bruce." Antoinette still leaned there, without a single movement, looking at him with his head tilted, with a look of pity on his face, as if he was the miserable person "You can't accept anything getting out of control, So you can't accept the power you can't control, you can't accept me now, you can't accept that the phoenix is ​​already a part of me, even though you still like me. But you can't accept all of me."

"That perception clouded your judgment, Bruce."

"..." Bruce was silent, he couldn't deny Antoinette's statement.Intellectually, it is wrong to isolate a girl who originally belonged to the earth because of fear of power, but now even he is in chaos, and he can't blame other people for their extreme ideas.

"How did you find it?" This is a question that has troubled Bruce for a long time. When he was on the moon, everyone saw Antoinette's strange eyes. Based on their familiarity, he was 20% sure of her Lost in time, as the archangel said, she could never have regained [-] years of human emotion.

"When you prayed to find me, you and Tony, and some others, I realized that all I have here is you." Antoinette found Bruce's eyes, looking at the embarrassing embarrassment "Not on purpose, you're just too loud, Bruce."

She stood up straight and said, "I'm leaving, say goodbye to Tony for me."

"go by yourself."

"You know me, and you know Tony, tell me what happens when we meet now?"

Tony won't let you go.

Bruce thought in his heart, and Antoinette easily saw through him, and she flashed very close to Bruce in the next second, pressing one hand on the bat mark on the chest of his armor, and before he had any reaction, she turned slightly Lean forward.

The soft touch left in only a second, but Antoinette was still very close to him.

"How does it feel?" Her blue eyes could see the edge from deep to light at this extremely close distance. "The feeling of getting what I want most." Bruce's heartbeat accelerated when he realized what happened, and it was impossible to escape the hearing of the other party, so he said so.

What about you?

But he dared not ask, he was afraid of getting answers he didn't want to hear.

But when Antoinette backed away, he still reached out and grabbed her "I will find a way."

Batman doesn't make promises lightly, and once he says it, he's bound to keep it.

However, Antoinette did not respond, but just pulled his hand away.

After a soft voice, he was the only one left in the whole space, and that person was as if he had never been there without a trace.After a while Bruce puts his hand on the bat on his chest.

He remembered that a year ago, he also received a call from Antoinette in the Batcave. At that time, Antoinette sounded uneasy, hoping that he would help to find out her identity, but at the same time worried that the shocking truth would destroy them. between.

Ironically, that's when Bruce told her that no matter what happened, it wouldn't change their relationship.

Look now.

He thought, what did he miss.