I train Batman in a horror world

Chapter 76 Hunting Demons

"These runes will attract Shanks' attention, but they won't affect you in any way."

Zatana held a calligraphy brush and sketched Bruce's muscular upper body back and forth.

Before long, striking scarlet strokes were left behind.

"But you said that Shantos hunts through emotions, and you're certain of these marks."

"Zatana sighed. She understood what Bruce meant by what he hadn't finished saying."

She put down the brush dipped in red paint and quietly looked at Bruce.

"Listen, it does indeed hunt through emotions."

Zatana pointed to Bruce's heart.

"But you're empty here; the runes just make you stand out in its eyes," she said.

"Empty?" Bruce frowned.

"Yes, you haven't... I mean, you haven't even given yourself a healing process."

Zatana's eyes were filled with complex emotions as she said, "It shouldn't be like this, Bruce, it shouldn't be like this."

Bruce responded with silence.

the other side.

Talia, who had been listening in the background, was thoroughly enjoying the conversation.

She knew what the two men meant by their riddle-like statements.

The hole in Bruce's chest simply refers to the fact that his parents were shot and killed in an alley five years ago.

Talia never expected this.

Bruce didn't even have the thought of "healing"?

It seems I can put more effort into this area in the future...

As Talia pondered silently, the voice of Fol suddenly echoed in her mind.

"Don't you feel sorry for him?" Foul asked.

"What?! How did you end up in my head?! Get out of here!!!" Talia reacted agitatedly, but maintained her usual indifferent expression.

"Hey, why are you worrying about this? Just tell me if you think he's pitiful or not," Foul pressed.

"What's so pitiful about him? He's just a mental patient who can't get over it!" Talia sneered.

"No, he actually moved on," Fowler said.

"You've come out?" Talia didn't believe that explanation.

"But his stepping out wasn't a stepping out in the traditional sense; rather, he chose to integrate with them," Fore said.

Talia responded with a cold laugh, clearly not believing the claim.

In her opinion, Bruce was a problem child!

The other party chose to change themselves because of that tragedy, and all their actions were based on that tragedy.

Such people act with such goals in mind.

That's absolutely hilarious!

Similarly, Bruce, who was silent not far away, also responded to Zatana's words.

"I understand that, Zuckerberg."

Bruce said, "To outsiders, I still seem like that boy who didn't come out of the alley, and I don't feel any shame about it."

"I left, but I simply went to their side and stayed with them."

"Because I know clearly that if I let go of this, it means I have to let go of them completely."

"I won't allow myself to do that."

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Zatana couldn't help but reach out and stroke the other person's face, whispering, "Do you know that you didn't actually have to do all this?"

"It is necessary."

Bruce removed Zatana's hand from his face and placed it next to the unfinished rune markings on his body, gesturing for her to continue drawing and not stop.

Zatana silently complied.

"I will fight for the justice that all those I love in Gotham need."

Bruce said, "Shantorz is hurtful, and I can't tolerate it doing that."

Zatana remained silent, but her hands, which were drawing the rune markings, softened considerably.

Bruce actually had some things he didn't say.

That was what Falcone had said to him not long ago.

His parents had once saved Falcone's life.

How could they...?

A simple sentence shook Bruce's empty heart.

But at this very moment, a demon is about to wreak havoc on humanity.

In this situation, Bruce would absolutely not let this wavering idea affect him.

no way.

"I told you, he didn't emerge from his predicament as we thought."

"So what? Do you expect me to pity him?!"

No, not at all.

Foul simply plopped down on Talia's shoulder, silently watching his little bat.

There was a time when I even tried to lead the other person out of that alley.

I only found out later.

Bruce Wayne wasn't the boy who couldn't escape the alley; he experienced confusion, doubt, and was also immersed in the shadow of losing his parents.

But in the midst of it all, he found his own path to redemption.

He found the bat.

Then Fore said something that Talia only half understood: "I just think there are probably a lot of people like you who think he's just a psychologically traumatized psychopath."

"...I guess I misread it." Talia's attitude remained indifferent.

She admitted that her initial assessment of Bruce was indeed slightly flawed.

She believed Bruce was mentally ill.

In fact.

He's just a busybody idiot!

And this idiot.

He even defeated himself!

"Your opinion of him has changed, hasn't it?" Foul's voice echoed in Talia's mind once again.

"

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Although I don't want to admit it, I have to accept this fact.

"A little bit," she said.

"That's great! When you come of age, I'll bring him to you, and then you can give him a big, healthy son. I've already thought of a name: Damian Wayne!"

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Quiet.

The hotel room should have been quiet with a touch of melancholy.

But at a certain moment, a sharp, explosive sound suddenly erupted from the room, accompanied by Talia's voice!

"Get out of my head!!!!!!!!!"

At this moment, Talia didn't just shout these words in her mind; she shouted them out in front of Bruce and Zatanna.

Shouting wasn't enough; she raised her bound hands and slammed them down on Fowler!

Foul fled in panic, his expression one of utter terror.

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Zatana looked away, then asked疑惑地问道, "What did your bat do this time?"

Bruce narrowed his eyes. "Anyway, it's definitely not a good thing."

Talia suddenly felt that her emotions were particularly strange today.

He believes a large part of the reason is thanks to Bruce Wayne.

She once told her father that she would kill the other person with her own hands!

Today, Bruce has countless opportunities to kill himself.

But he didn't do that.

He changed to another method.

He chose to humiliate himself!

Talia could not tolerate this outcome.

immediately.

Talia's gaze met Bruce's.

She looked at him.

"I'm going to kill you, I swear, once I get the chance, I really will kill you!!!" she said.

"Psychiatric...mental disorder."

Upon hearing this, Bruce rolled his eyes and replied, then looked away from her.

Talia was so angry she was trembling.

A while later.

Zatana clapped her hands after inscribing all the rune marks on Bruce's body.

"It's all finished." Zatana's tone was a mix of relaxation and coldness.

she knows.

The completion of the drawing signifies that Bruce is about to encounter danger.

A slight mishap.

You could lose your life.

So what is it that I care about?

She thought to herself, then noticed Bruce slowly get up, walk to the window, turn his back to them, and gaze alone at the Gotham night view.

The floor-to-ceiling windows seemed to reflect Bruce Wayne's face, appearing and disappearing in the distance.

A few breaths later.

Bruce said.

"It's time to begin hunting this demon."

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