[Batman] Esther

Chapter 19

Esther was covered with a black cloth over his eyes by the clown, his mouth was taped, his hands and feet were tied up, and he was taken to nowhere.

When she regained consciousness, she felt that the surroundings were very cold, and a strong cold wind hit her face and body.

"Prickly——" the tape on her mouth was torn off, and she heard the clown say in her ear: "Hi~~ Esther, are you awake? It seems so...but I can't help you right now. You take off your black cloth because I'm afraid you'll be freaked out when you see where you are now, lol..."

Esther tried to struggle but was quickly stopped by the Joker.

"Hey! Don't move around! You can listen carefully..." Esther carefully recognized the movement around him. Aren't many people with poor eyesight and good hearing?What she heard now with her eyes covered was much clearer than usual.

The temperature, the sound of the wind, the silence, and the unreal feeling under my feet. . .Could it be. . .

"Oh? It seems that you have already guessed it, right? Then stand up obediently and don't move around! Now that Batman is not here, it will be bad if you fall!" After seeing her expression, the clown said, "You But be careful, there are only a few pipes around here, if you move around, it will be... boom!"

The sudden increase in his voice startled Esther, and his whole body shook.

"Oh! I told you not to move around! Come on!" The clown looked down at the ground and picked up a stone, knelt down and drew a circle where Esther was standing, "Okay! I'll draw it for you, Just stand in this circle and don't move around! Haha..."

The unpleasant noise made by the contact between the stone and the steel plate was ravaging her ears, but the clown didn't care about it at all. It seemed that the louder the sound, the more excited he was!

Afterwards, the clown's voice gradually faded away. Esther stood still and didn't know whether to move or not, so he had to take a deep breath.After a while, he came back with some dogs. Hearing the barking of the dogs, Esther's legs trembled, and she was in the dark again. She was really terrified!

Seeing this, the clown took a rope and tied her hands to the movable steel pipe, and kept nagging: "What a trouble! But I can't kill you now, or this game won't be fun." It's gone! Oh~~ Please, trouble!...don't leave the circle with your feet! Here, here!" Then he moved her into the circle.

Esther didn't need to look at it, and of course she couldn't look at it, she knew that she was definitely standing in a very embarrassing posture now!Although the wrist is tied with a rope and the other end is still on the steel pipe, I am very grateful to the clown, because the barking of those dogs from time to time can scare her to the ground!It's good that she can still stand now!

I don't know how long I stood there, Esther was thirsty and hungry, and she was frightened by the cold wind. She didn't know how long she could last.In the dark, she was on the verge of falling asleep many times, but when she thought about her situation, how could she relax from her nervous tension!

The frequency of the dog's barking began to increase, as if someone had arrived here.The clown turned around and was very excited to see the person coming.

"Ah! You're finally here, I'm so touched."

"Where's Esther?" Bruce said in a low voice, trying to resist the urge to pounce on him and lecture him.

"Aha! Esther? You care so much about her, why don't you care about the lives of those two people at all?"

"...Where is Esther?" Bruce hesitated, but still said firmly.

Esther, who heard Batman's voice, knew he was coming to save her!She shouted loudly at the source of the sound: "Boo..." Just as she made a sound, she suddenly thought that Bruce didn't know that she already knew his identity, not to mention that there was a clown present, so she quickly changed her words: "... Batman! I'm here!"

Bruce saw that she was about to go over immediately. Of course the clown didn't give him a chance, and ordered, "Bite him."

While fighting against the vicious dog, Bruce was worried about Esther, coupled with the attack of the clown, unknowingly gained the upper hand.And Esther couldn't see the sound of fighting, and was overwhelmed with worry.

"This scene seems familiar!" The clown made a pleasant voice, and Esther realized that Bruce's situation was not good and couldn't help but yelled out.

"don't want--"

Bruce's situation is really bad. The eye receiver is affected and the system is restarting. As soon as he received the face picture, he was hit on the head by the clown!The whole person smashed through the glass and fell into the platform where Est was standing.

"Ah—" There was such a loud voice around her, accompanied by glass shards splashing on her body, no matter how strong she was, she couldn't control it, and subconsciously squatted down.

The clown walked up to Bruce, glanced at the embarrassed Bruce and then at Esther, stretched out his hand and pulled down the movable steel pipe tied with a rope, and put it on Bruce's neck, Esther was also brought to kneel on the ground.

"Esther..." Bruce called her name with difficulty.

She replied with a slight cry: "I'm fine...I'm fine...how are you?"

"...Uh...it's okay..." Seeing that her eyes were covered with a cloth, and she didn't want her to know what she was like, made her worried.

The clown looked excitedly at the two comforting each other, and rode on his body: "Wow~~ It's really touching! But pause for a moment! Otherwise, we'll miss the fireworks!"

"There won't be any fireworks!"

The clown didn't believe his words: "It's started!"

After waiting for a long time, he did not see the fireworks blooming on the sea as he wished, and the clown's face was a little ugly.

Bruce said to him, "What are you trying to prove? Everyone is as ugly as you deep down? You're all alone!"

"Nowadays I really can't rely on anyone, I have to do everything by myself, don't I?... It doesn't matter, I have two preparations."

Esther fumbled helplessly, but there was nothing she could do to help!

The clown took out the detonator and looked directly at Bruce, "...the world is full of wonders. Speaking of wonders, do you know how I got these scars?"

"I don't know, but I know how you got here!" Bruce struck out quickly, using the mechanism on his arm to hit the clown in the face, and then kicked him off.Get up and use the rope to pull him up again, hanging upside down in the air.

Bruce helped Esther up who was kneeling on the ground, took off the black cloth, and untied the rope.Esther threw himself into his arms and hugged him tightly: "I knew you would come to save me!" Then he took half a step back and looked at him from top to bottom, "Are you not injured?"

"It's okay, you..." Bruce's eyes fell on Esther's leg, which was a mess, stains and blood mixed together, it must have been pricked by glass shards when he knelt down just now!He frowned. Not surprisingly, there were also more or less scars on other places on his body, on his arms and wrists. . .

He stepped forward to confront the clown, but in Esther's eyes, what they said was becoming less and less intelligible, her eyes were becoming more and more blurred, she was suffering from hunger and cold, fright and fear, and her weak body could no longer hold on, letting Darkness engulfed her again. . .

With quick hands and quick eyes, Bruce hugged Esther's fallen body, stared at her tired face with distress and anxiety, and flew away. . .

All that was left behind was the non-stop laughter of the clown. . .

The author has something to say: So, the Dark Knight is over.Do you want to make a preview?If so, I'll post it in the comments

Forgive me for calling that stuff a movable steel pipe. My common sense is indeed different from ordinary people, so. . .Well, that's it, if anyone knows what it is called, please let me know, thank you. . .

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I know it's my fault to update so late, bow down to an Orz

This is my fourth day of daily updates, more than three days! !It's a miracle for me! !Because I usually can't stand it. .

Finally, I would like to thank Neutron+Chris, Gloria, especially Gloria, who is really free to translate, I really admire it! !