Barbara sat in her bulletproof wheelchair.

This lost and soulful girl was no longer the gentle and cheerful girl she was when she first met Mason.

She looked at the height of over thirty meters from the ground in front of her. In this destined noisy night, a gust of wind blew and lifted Barbara's red hair, making her involuntarily hug herself.

She felt cold.

Not only because she was only wearing pajamas, but also because of the heart-chilling pain caused by betrayal. It was like doing something terrible in a nightmare and then waking up to find that the nightmare had come true.

After waking up, she suddenly realized that she had no way out.

"Barbara, what are you doing? Come back!"

Gordon's panicked voice came from behind, and Barbara turned around to see her father and her boyfriend Grayson appearing on the rooftop.

Her three most important men in her life appeared, but...

"Don't come over!"

Barbara screamed.

The wheels of the wheelchair turned back, suspending almost half of her body. This scene immediately made Gordon stop in his tracks, and Nightwing behind him instinctively threw out a grappling hook to pull his girlfriend back.

But the flying grappling hook was knocked away by Barbara's combat stick.

She was also a former superhero, and she had also received training from Batman. Although she might not have the talent in combat as the "First Robin," she was not an ordinary person either.

"You all know, but you all kept silent! After bringing me here, each and every one of you chose silence."

The girl sitting in the wheelchair showed a complicated expression, smiling and crying at the same time. She said:

"I know that none of you want to reveal the truth, but the more you care about me, the more I feel unforgivable! I betrayed Batman!

I betrayed all of you!

It was me who blocked the distress signal of the Bat Network two days ago, nearly causing Bruce to die in Crime Alley. It was also me who helped them conceal the information about the 'Day of Reckoning.'

That person used my access code to enter the Bat Network.

Look at the burning Gotham. I personally participated in all the disasters tonight, and every drop of blood shed by the people who died tonight is on my hands.

I have turned myself into the kind of madman I hate the most...

The Joker's malicious joke has come true, Dad, and Grayson, I have become as ugly and insane as him."

"It's not your fault, Barbara. You were forced to do it!"

Grayson stepped forward, but Barbara pushed the wheelchair back again.

The sound of crumbling bricks falling to the ground made Nightwing's hands numb. Even though he could defeat a hundred criminals barehanded, he dared not further provoke his girlfriend.

He reached out his hands and said:

"I know it's not something you did willingly. I know what kind of person you are, and I know you wouldn't do something like that! Don't punish yourself for someone else's mistakes."

"I'm not forced, Grayson. I did it willingly."

Barbara broke down even more.

She screamed uncontrollably:

"When Jason appeared, when he asked me for help, I... I couldn't control myself. I could pretend well in front of you guys.

I could even deceive Bruce's inquiry.

But in front of Jason, I couldn't hide the darkness in my heart because he is just like me!

He has experienced the same things as me!

He showed me another possibility, and I fell into it hopelessly. I'm sorry, Dick, I made a mistake, I screwed up.

It's all my fault."

"Who did you just mention?"

Nightwing's eyes widened, tightly clenching his fists, and said incredulously:

"Jason? Jason Todd? Are you sure it's him? We all know he's already... That's impossible! It must be the plot of the League of Assassins.

You were deceived by them, we all know how cunning they are."

"He's alive. He crawled out of the grave and returned to Gotham to find Bruce and the Joker. He wants to complete two revenge missions in this city.

One is against the enemy.

The other is against the former family."

Barbara revealed everything she knew.

Her expression became numb and desperate. She covered her head and said:

"He hates the Joker for using his mother to lead him into a desperate situation and cruelly killing him, but the hatred burning more fiercely than the hatred for the Joker is for another person's actions.

After his death, the person he regarded as his father and mentor not only did not punish the killer but instead brought the Joker, who had committed numerous atrocities, back to Gotham and placed him in the safest asylum.

Just like when I was visited by Zhou Kuo'er with a gun on that desperate night.

That madman aimed at my spine and fired a shot.

He knew it wouldn't kill me, but it would make me and the people around me suffer for a lifetime.

When I lay on the hospital bed, I also fantasized about my father and my mentor bringing the person who hurt me to justice, but what I eventually got was another criminal in Arkham Asylum who was incredibly safe but would eventually escape...

Why can the Joker live safely in his cell after harming so many people?

What gives him the right?"

Barbara tightened the armrests of the wheelchair and stared at the silent Grayson, then looked at her father kneeling in despair on the ground.

She knew that the words she said would hurt them.

But the pain buried in her heart had to be spoken on this farewell night.

As a testament or a warning.

"Bruce! You coward! It's now. Are you still afraid to face us?"

Barbara screamed.

She knew that Batman was hiding in the shadows somewhere on this rooftop. She shouted:

"My paralysis and Jason's death are not enough for you to bring that maniac to justice! Sometimes I really doubt if those ridiculous rumors are true!

Are you really playing an endless deadly game with those maniacs in Gotham!

And the cost of your game is people like us.

I'm not afraid of the Joker!

I have already stepped out of the shadow he gave me, and I won't waste the rest of my life hating a malicious maniac!

But your shadow has always enveloped me.

You should have protected us.

But you didn't.

After we were hurt, you should have given those who hurt us the punishment they deserved.

But you still didn't.

Not only did you not do it yourself, you also prevented others from doing it. How many times have you saved the Joker from his attacks?

Why?

Just because he's a pitiful maniac who wants to set the whole world on fire? Or because he's pitiful?..

Aren't we pitiful?"

By this point, Barbara's voice had become hoarse. She screamed in a frenzy, and her hair flew in the night wind.

She gasped for breath and whispered:

"It's not a strong will that can overcome nightmares. I have come out of the nightmares brought by the Joker, but I can't escape the nightmare called Batman.

Your no-killing rule made me admire you enough to be willing to follow you, but I know that Batman's soaring in the night comes at a price.

Jason and I are the price.

I regret helping him.

Not because he hurt you, but because I broke the oath I made under your cape. I involved innocent people in this revenge.

I made a mistake.

So I should

accept the punishment for it."

Barbara turned the wheelchair to bring herself closer to the deadly height of over thirty meters behind her.

In this final farewell, the gentle girl's face was full of tears as she said to her father and her boyfriend:

"I'm sorry, I have disappointed you."

"No!"

Gordon went crazy and rushed towards the edge of the rooftop, but Barbara had already fallen along with the wheelchair.

The terrifying experience of almost losing his daughter completely drove the commissioner insane. He punched Nightwing's cheek as hard as he could, then rushed out at the fastest speed of his life and jumped down without hesitation, trying to catch his daughter.

Faster than him was a silent figure rushing out of the shadows.

Master caught the flying claw but was knocked away by Barbara with her combat stick. He fell even faster to catch her wheelchair, but Barbara was obviously prepared.

A violent explosion erupted in the wheelchair.

Not only did it obstruct Batman's vision, but the explosive force also made Barbara, who wanted to atone for her sins, fall even faster.

Her only regret was her father, but when she saw the angry Gordon being grabbed by the disheveled Batman and pulled towards the rooftop, her final regret was also smoothed out.

She closed her eyes.

Took a deep breath, preparing to return to the embrace of Mother Earth.

"Whoosh"

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A pair of strong arms caught her at the critical moment, just at a height of less than five meters from the ground.

Kite Man, who flew over, held the struggling Barbara in his arms and evaded the grappling hooks thrown by Catwoman and Mason at the same time, barely avoiding the menacing vertical scrap metal below.

The two of them fell together and landed on the ground in a disheveled manner, but Barbara pushed away the person who saved her. She pulled out a hidden dagger from her hand and fiercely stabbed it towards her own neck.

"Crack"

Catwoman's whip struck like a venomous snake, leaving a deep blood mark on the girl's wrist, and the scorching bullet flew past, grazing her face and knocking the dagger away.

Mason held a double-barreled shotgun, with smoke still emanating from the barrel.

He was extremely grateful for his talent of "Quick Draw" at this moment. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to stop Barbara Gordon, who was determined to die.

"Why did you save me? Can't you let me die? Mason! I hate you!"

Barbara was on the verge of collapse.

She had prepared several ways to end her life tonight, but they were all disrupted. She struggled and screamed in pain in Catwoman's arms.

But Mason didn't indulge her.

The young man stepped forward and squatted down, slapping the former Batgirl twice, leaving her stunned in place.

"Are you crazy enough now? Do you know that your nonsense has delayed us for at least twenty minutes!"

He asked coldly:

"I thought you were smart enough to find a more appropriate way to resolve this conflict, but I didn't expect you to choose the most foolish one.

I don't know if Jason Todd arranged it.

But if he did, you almost became the spiritual dagger that stabbed the hearts of those who care about you again. Do you know what consequences your death would have caused?

If Gordon, Bruce, and Grayson witnessed their loved ones die in front of them because of their own reasons before they set off to save Gotham, I can't imagine what kind of monsters the Bat Family would become tonight.

Do you really want to see a super lunatic who breaks all rules and combines Batman's intelligence with the Joker's madness being born in the burning Gotham?

Do you really want that?

I think you wouldn't have such a crazy idea, right?"

"Whoosh"

Batman and Nightwing landed one after another.

Grayson rushed up silently and took Barbara Gordon from Catwoman's arms. No matter how she struggled, the infatuated young man firmly held his girlfriend in his arms.

He had almost lost her just now.

Everything that happened tonight

will be remembered by Grayson for the rest of his life.

"Let's leave."

Barbara sobbed and hugged her boyfriend tightly. She pleaded:

"After you save Gotham, let's leave. It doesn't matter where we go, I'm really tired, Grayson, I'm really exhausted."

"Aren't you going to say anything?"

Catwoman wiped her eyes and turned to glare at the instigator of all this.

Batman maintained his usual cold attitude, Master remained silent, but as he turned to leave, Mason could clearly feel that this man's back seemed to have bent slightly.

Another heavy debt pressed on his already wounded soul, and what was even more fatal was that there was another responsibility in front of him that he could not escape.

"Jason Todd will kill Zhou Kuo'er. He will kill him in front of you, that's his plan!"

Mason shouted at his back:

"The Red Hood is definitely in Arkham now. That guy doesn't care about the League of Assassins' actions or the life and death of Gotham. He's here for you, and he will be waiting for you there.

The Joker will also be waiting for you there.

What will you do?"

"I don't know."

Master replied hoarsely:

"But I have to go, even if it's a trap."

"You will only make things worse if you go like this."

Mason shook his head and said:

"You might even sacrifice yourself there. Jason is forcing you to make a choice, either to break your bottom line and let him kill the Joker, or to save the Joker while losing him again.

The revenge of a child hurt by his father is so terrifying.

And no matter which one you choose, Batman will die tonight... Look, this is why I refused to become Robin.

Just witnessing the family conflicts of the Bat Family is chilling, but luckily, you still have Mason to help you in this mess."

"Ah woo!"

Kite Man, who was by the young man's side, suddenly screamed. Just now, his boss unexpectedly pulled out a few strands of his hair without warning.

Mason held the hair in front of his eyes.

He squinted and said:

"Give me another twenty minutes, maybe I can provide you with a new perspective."

Master did not refuse.

He just disappeared into the shadows with a desolate pace. Catwoman caught up with him. She knew that the man needed her company now.

Mason glanced at Nightwing, who was holding Barbara tightly behind him.

He said softly:

"Are you sure you can still act in your current state?"

"I can."

Nightwing held his trembling girlfriend tightly and said coldly:

"All this has only fueled the fire in my heart. I feel great in my current state. I can't help but want to have a good discussion with my 'brother.'

About how he manipulated Barbara, about how he used my loved one to hurt us."

"Don't go, Grayson."

Barbara pleaded:

"Jason is no longer the person you knew. He scares me. Don't go, let Bruce handle all this. It's his debt to Jason."

"What about you?"

Mason said:

"What about the debts Batman owes you?"

"I don't care anymore."

Barbara closed her swollen eyes and said softly:

"I have seen the consequences of revenge. I should spend the rest of my life in prison. I am no longer a member of the Bat Family.

It's better this way.

Those pain and shadows can finally leave me."

"You think too beautifully!"

Mason looked Barbara Gordon up and down, shaking his head and said:

"You will have a chance to repay the blood debt you owe this city, Barbara. Just wait patiently, there will always be an opportunity."