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Chapter 578 Batman: Just call her Padraic, may she be safe and sound

"Later, he showed great concern, and his faithful steward learned of this and asked him what had happened."

Peter said slowly: "The butler used to be an amateur actor in London and also studied human nature. After listening to my friend's story, he came up with an idea."

After hearing this, Bruce suddenly felt that the professions of the characters in this story seemed so familiar.

"Afterwards, my friend took the butler to find the greedy store owner."

"He told the shop owner he would never give him any money again, and the shop owner said if he didn't get the money he would tell the police about my friend's break-in and theft."

Peter was silent for a moment, and then continued, "But my friend told him that he had called a policeman, so his loyal butler came on stage, disguised himself as a policeman, and followed him to the store."

"My friend told the butler pretending to be a policeman that the store owner had forged his name on a piece of paper and was blackmailing him. He hoped that the police could arrest the store owner and also charge him with overcharging customers."

Hearing this, Bruce smiled.

"Then the shop owner panicked and said that it was all a misunderstanding and that he had no intention of going against my friend. He would return all the extorted money and handed in the note as well. So everything ended there."

After listening to Peter's story, Bruce fell into deep thought.

After a while, he raised his head and looked at Peter, "Godfather, is this the end of this story?"

"Yes, that's the end. You can guess, Bruce, who is the friend in the story, who is the butler?"

Bruce, who found the story Peter was telling strangely familiar, suddenly had a flash of light in his mind.

Isn't that what the Godfather said?

"My friend is your father, and the butler—is Alfred."

Before Bruce could say anything, Peter revealed the answer to him.

"Is it my father?!"

Bruce froze in place when he heard that.

No wonder I felt a sense of déjà vu about this story; it turned out to be what happened to my father.

There is such an episode in my father's life?
The story Peter told Bruce was not made up, but was told to him by Alfred.

He just added some details.

"In the space of just one month, your father committed crimes of vandalism, trespassing and theft."

Peter coughed and told him, “Then he ignored the law, lied, framed, and even participated in fraud.”

"And all this was done to uphold his Hippocratic Oath - an oath he made before God, an oath that nearly tortured him to death."

"Bruce."

Peter looked at Bruce who was lost in thought, "In this story, you tell me who is the good guy and who is the bad guy."

Bruce didn't say anything. He covered his forehead and fell into deep thought.

"I don't know."

Bruce whispered.

Through his father's story, he seemed to have a completely different understanding of his oath and his significance in this city.

"Thank you, Godfather."

After a while, Bruce raised his head and looked at Peter with gratitude.

"I always get into trouble in life, most of which are caused by me. Thank you, Godfather, for enlightening me."

"You're not asking for trouble."

Peter stood up, patted Bruce on the shoulder and walked out of the Batcave.

"Anyway, it's best if you can think positively."

Bruce stared at Peter's back as he left, sat there for a while, and then stood up from his chair.

After leaving the Batcave, Bruce held the baby girl and returned to the place where Zu picked her up.

At this time, the two women who lost their children had not left yet.

Bruce appeared in front of the two of them holding a baby, which immediately startled them.

"You you are Batman?!"

"Yes, I'm Batman, this is your child, tell me, what are you willing to do to get this child?"

Seeing the baby recovered, the frail woman said excitedly: "Anything, anything that needs me to do, I will do it."

"how about you?"

Bruce turned his eyes to the plump woman.

The slightly stronger woman also looked excited, "I would do anything for him and more."

Bruce stood on the top of the ruined building and looked down at the two of them. "Then I decide that you will jointly take care of this child."

When they heard that they had to take care of the child together, they immediately refused.

"No, I can't trust her!"

"I don't trust him either!"

Bruce frowned as he glanced at the baby girl in his arms. "Just now you said you were willing to do anything for this baby!"

"Well, all I ask for is 'anything' is that you cooperate with each other for the sake of this child."

He took a deep breath and looked at the dark night. "Because in this land, this child needs two parents, not just one. When one of you goes to find food, the other can stay and take care of her. Do you agree?"

Listening to Batman's serious words, the two women looked at each other, and finally nodded in agreement.

"I am willing."

"I am willing too." Bruce nodded, walked down from the ruins, and said to the two: "Now, put your hands on my arms and swear."

"Take an oath to me, and as God is my witness, if you break it you will be eternally damned."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

After a moment's hesitation, the two men reached out and joined Bruce's hands.

"I swear to take good care of this baby."

"I swear so."

After the two women finished their vows, Bruce handed the baby girl to one of them and said, "Take good care of her, and take good care of each other, otherwise you will not be able to survive."

After taking a look at the sleeping baby girl, Bruce turned and left.

"and many more!"

Bruce was about to leave when the woman called him.

"Batman, can you give her a name?"

The thin woman looked at him expectantly.

"Name?"

Bruce bowed his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Let her last name be Padrick. Let her live with this name. I hope she can have that person's wisdom and love for the world."

"Hoohoo!"

Raising his bat cape, Bruce shot out the hook gun in his hand, lifting himself off the spot and swinging into the air.

"Padraic?"

The two looked at each other.

The thin woman looked at the baby girl in her arms with a doting face, "I'm Gina, short for Genevieve."

Another plump woman said, "I'm Catherine Jesse. How about we call her Gina Catherine Padrick?"

"Well, that's a good name. Let's call our baby that."

Gina held the baby girl in her arms, looked up in the direction Batman disappeared, and said, "He might be able to be Batman, but he has no idea how to take care of a baby."

Katherine Jesse echoed, "Yes, I think so too, but maybe he knows a thing or two about human nature."

three days later.

Peter leaves Gotham with his family.

Gotham has been lifted from lockdown, and aid supplies are beginning to be delivered to the city.

Although there is still a long way to go before Gotham can be rebuilt, it has already become a completely different "hell" from the beginning.

Bruce transformed into Batman to fight criminals. During this period, Azusa and others sent many criminals, such as the Penguin and the Crocodile, Killer Frost and Two-Face, to the mental hospital.

There were no troublesome forces in the remaining territory, so Peter and his group returned to the farm.

Raven and the other three had been on leave from Hogwarts for quite a long time, and Headmaster Dumbledore probably couldn't help but send him a letter to inquire about the situation.

Padraic Farm.

Riven, who hadn't been home for a long time, threw herself on the sofa as soon as she returned to the farm.

"Home is still the best."

Falling on the sofa and squinting her eyes comfortably, she couldn't help but speak.

"You should go to school, Raven."

Peter looked at his daughter rolling on the sofa and said to her.

"Dad, the environment in Gotham is too depressing. I need to rest at home and cleanse my mind."

Riven said she needed to heal.

"Besides, Dad, I miss you so much. I haven't seen you for a few days. I want to be with you."

Riven got down from the sofa and said seriously.

"Really? What did you go through in Gotham that would make you feel depressed?"

Peter asked her.

"That's a long story."

Raven told Tom about what happened to her and Tom, about a young man who wanted to become a murderer and go to Blackgate Prison.

After listening to her story, Peter nodded and asked her, "So, do you also think that's what I want you to see?"

"No!"

Raven shook her head, "Afterwards we went to Robinson Park, which is Poison Ivy's territory."

Ruiwen said with mixed feelings: "She made me realize that even in an environment without order, there are still good people."

"She was not as keen on expanding her territory as other villains, but turned it into a home for orphans. She adopted a group of children who lost their parents in the earthquake and provided them with food, clothes and shelter."

"Dad, you said she was a villain, and you put her in jail before, but in that environment, she became a good person."

Listening to Raven's words, Peter nodded and said, "Yes, she may have been a bad person before, but there, her nature as a woman overwhelmed her environmentalism. At this moment, she is the de facto mother of these children, not 'Poison Ivy'."

Peter was about to say something else when he heard a voice behind him.

"Dad, there's something wrong."

(End of this chapter)