Hero, you have crossed [Comprehensive Yingmei]

Lucas knew exactly what answer he wanted.He's shocked at how weak he is, but then he can't help feeling that it's okay.

——After all, most of his life has been influenced by his blood and his mother's education, Lucas has always refused to show weakness.The biggest revelation his mother gave him was: Weakness is death.So even in front of Hernan and Lucifer, Lucas rarely revealed his uneasiness.

Yeah, but that didn't mean he wasn't really uneasy.Lucas has always been aware that he is not a mentally strong man.He still hopes that he can be an ordinary human being, and still have his own emotions like ordinary human beings.

Unfortunately, he also knew that was impossible.He is no longer a 'person'.Although at this time he was still expecting Bruce Wayne to give him the answer he wanted - he hoped to use this man's mouth to affirm that he was still saved and could 'get better'... However, even Lucas himself All clear, can Bruce convince him?

No, impossible.too difficult.

It might be ridiculous.Considering he killed Brainiac early on and threatened Lex Luthor.He did things that are difficult for Superman to do! ...but Lucas still felt his mental frailty.After all he didn't want to die - how could he want to die?

But whenever he savors the joy that violence brought him, whenever his desire to dominate and conquer reaches a peak—and then disappears suddenly, he has to think of the fact again and again: he is heading towards Darkness, he is indulging in depravity.

And without a doubt.If he really indulged himself to become Darkseid, it would be forcing Hernan to solve him himself.

...This is not some idle worry.This is an obvious fact - not only did he make this agreement with Hernan, but he even mentioned this extremely sad possibility with Lucifer.Lucas never wanted to recall the expression of the former, while the latter was silent for a long time before beginning to smile again.

So stupid.

This is really too inexplicable fate, this is really too heavy a life with almost no possibility of reversal.

Lucas has always cherished and respected his two friends.Hernan was the first person who really bet on him with 'love'.They are both orphans, and they are both confused and supernatural beings with dark sides.Hernan was the first person who clearly expressed his cherished feelings to him. Lucas knew that Hernan 'loved' him as much as he loved his relatives and himself.

If Hernan's gentle blue eyes hadn't been on him, Lucas would have believed he would have fallen.

And Lucifer, the terrifying, narcissistic demon god who has everything...Lucas doesn't know why he really got the favor of the other party.The Demon King, who is the son of God, actually doesn't understand the feeling of 'love' at all.He has always been the proud son of heaven, even if he betrayed God, he has always been the most favored 'angel'.

Lucifer's expectation of him is that there is no expectation. Lucas knows that Lucifer can accept him in any form-even if he really becomes Darkseid, the other party will serve as his backing and ally before getting tired.

Lucas once considered himself lucky.He was just unlucky enough to draw a bad hand, but he never allowed himself to be completely defeated.He doesn't want to be that symbolic overlord, he doesn't want to be the master of violence and evil desire.

——But in the past year, Lucas has also felt more and more that the already powerful desires and feelings have become more uncontrollable.

... He seems to have to accept that maybe some people, some things...their existence itself is hopeless.

The sad young man lowered his head slightly, his delicate face was completely blocked by his golden hair.Bruce Wayne looked at him with some concern. The man who wanted to be Gotham's savior had already noticed the abnormality of the other party, but he still couldn't see the other party's expression clearly.

Of course Bruce couldn't guess that Lucas was almost overwhelmed.He who has not become a dark knight can't understand Lucas' despair—just today, just now, this self-deceiving young man threatened an evil god with a very happy attitude, but the content of the threat was to be on the opponent's side. The elder brother who killed the opponent in front of him, and a very great hero.

Bruce doesn't know any of this.

Bruce doesn't need to know that either.

"...Maybe what you said is not wrong, Lucas. If you only look at the big data, maybe it is what you said: Except for our family, not many people think that this city can 'get better'. "

Bruce's voice was quite gentle, and he was not irritated by Falcone's endless, provocative words.

On the contrary, Master Wayne lowered his cold blue eyes and looked extremely calm.Instead of trying to reassure his ally, who was clearly out of sorts, Bruce looked instead at the untouched cup of coffee that was emitting white steam.

"Yes, very few people are willing to talk about it openly. People who live here don't even feel that there is anything very wrong with this city anymore, and everyone is even used to all kinds of madness here. There are depraved cops, traffickers - Poisonous kids, too-young procuresses. There's everything here that people don't want to look straight at."

"...I would ask my dad when I was a kid, I would ask him 'what went wrong'. I thought at the time that if I could fix the root cause, everything would be back to normal. My Home, my city, can become as healthy and normal as any other place."

He smiled a bit at this point.Bruce looked up, and he looked back at Lucas.He still couldn't see the other party's face clearly, but instinctively felt that the other party should be listening to him carefully.

... This made Mr. Wayne feel a little funny for no reason.He looked at the empty glass in Lucas's hand, and inexplicably remembered the bored blond boy back then.

What did the other party see here?They might actually be more alike than he thought... They both had too much affection, too much hope for this city.They are all watching and looking at the phantom buried deep in their hearts, and they are all staring at their hometown.

But one of them was hopeful, one-

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"But now like I told you before, I don't feel that way anymore. It's never about one person, one group. I have to admit that there's a problem in Gotham - as you said, There's something wrong with his source."

"It's the people of Gotham that make up Gotham, and it's the people of Gotham who no longer believe or hope that the city will get better. How powerful people are—maybe not many people realize it, It's 'we' who are making the city worse."

"This kind of badness has no boundaries, this kind of badness has no boundaries. This kind of depravity makes Batman's existence taken for granted - a crazy city needs a crazy vigilante. What could be better than a goth vampire How about Gotham?"

Lucas subconsciously squeezed the cup in his hand.There was a crackling sound that was difficult for the human ear to catch, and he realized that he probably cracked a teacup that was probably an antique.

But he didn't make a sound.Unknowingly... maybe Bruce's attitude is too gentle and too serious - this is very different from the enthusiasm when he induced Lucas to help him before - in short, Lucas has fallen into the topic that the other party is gradually developing .

...he was a man who needed too much to catch on to that sliver of hope.Just like how he 'caught' Hernan firmly back then, Lucas has realized that he has to catch Wayne and eat Wayne.

... He needs to eat the other party's hopes, he must integrate into the other party's ideals.

This time, he would never hand over his overly heavy fate to the other party - he had already witnessed Hernan's heartbreak for him.He no longer needs more people to move their minds for him - this time Lucas wants to try to move for the fate of others.

And if he wanted to help someone, who better than Bruce Wayne?

"but."

"...But I don't, and I can't, ignore those who are still fighting for Gotham and still wanting this city to be better-James Gordon, Harvey Dent, Lou Hughes Fox... Over the years, I have seen many people who sincerely want to help my father and are still on the front line wanting to change this city. They still have hope,

We still hope—"

"As long as there is even a sliver of hope, as long as there is even a sliver of possibility, I can't find a reason to give up! I admit that human nature is difficult to change, but I always think that it is because people dare not expect a better version of themselves, a better self. good life.

"There are a lot of people who have given up hope, and I want them to think of a better version of themselves—"

Bruce's voice is a little louder.But soon, as if afraid to startle the other person, he lowered his voice again.

His voice is really nice.It seemed to be a kind of charming, low-key but not depressing comfort.

"My father once told you that he would never give up on Gotham as long as he is still alive; I have made a similar oath to you before... I know this kind of promise is actually very fragile, people are always changing, Maybe one day I'll regret it too."

Bruce hardly hesitated.He reached out to hold Lucas's shoulder, and quite courageously made physical contact with him.

His palm is very warm - it's not an illusion, Bruce has been holding the cup of coffee after all - the warmth almost makes Lucas shiver.

For no apparent reason, he really felt at peace.Unprecedented, infinitely close to a blank calm.He even had a slight, subtle shame.

...He is so powerful, yet so cowardly.Lucas never had an 'ideal', and Lucas never even planned a future for himself.Ever since he killed his mother, he has been muddling along.Lucas has been escaping all the time, but he doesn't know what he wants to escape from.

......... Now that I think about it, it may be the responsibility.

And when Bruce finally finished speaking, Lucas finally raised his head.

"But I prefer to believe that I can persevere, I prefer to believe that I can change my city...I will give everything to this, time, life, soul, I believe that I can bring a better world."