A beautiful day always began in the early morning. The warm sunlight would always make one feel as if it was disturbing one's dreams. However, the early morning wind was always so pleasant that one could not help but want to indulge in it. This was the early morning, the time when the whole world was awakened. This was the most beautiful day of the day.
That was if one did not have nightmares.
Saber shook his head. He felt like he had a nightmare last night. There was a demon with fangs and claws on top of him, strangling him by the neck. That feeling was so real. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Catherine lying on top of his blanket, looking straight at him with two sparkling eyes.
Like a kitten, her eyes sparkled with an uncontrollable curiosity. Saber looked at the furnishings around him in confusion. That's right, this was his home in Gotham, his bedroom. Then the question was, why was this girl in his house?
"Catherine …"
"You're already a 16-year-old girl. You should be more reserved. You can't just come into my house like that." "You're a 16-year-old girl. You should be more reserved. You can't just come into my house like that."
Catherine straightened her body and put her hands on her waist. Her chubby little face was full of dissatisfaction.
"Yes, I'm 16, but so what? Are you naked, or am I naked? Are you no longer my brother when I'm an adult? Come on, Saber, you know that I don't like people like you who only have muscles in their brains … "
His words made Seber's head jump up in shock.
"Bang!"
The little girl covered her head and rolled off the bed. She let out a pitiful cry, as if she was not hit on the head with a finger, but had her hand chopped off. But in reality, Saber had only used his finger to tap on her head.
"Don't go overboard, you're getting more and more impudent."
He lifted the blanket. Due to Catherine's bad habit of "sneaking in at night", he always slept in his pajamas to avoid any misunderstandings. But in reality, Saber knew that this child was just curious about one thing.
He walked into the bathroom and prepared to wash up. Catherine ran outside the bathroom and slammed on the bathroom door, shouting loudly.
"Saber, are you really an alien?"
"Saber, what is it like in your world?"
"Seiber, do you use tentacles to communicate over there?"
"Say something! Alien Saber! Did you come to this world to conquer it? Wow! So cool! Go conquer the world, then I'll be the queen! Hahahahaha! "
The noise made Saber want to plug his ears with two earplugs. Yes, a week ago, Catherine also heard his conversation with Ancient One, but at her age, she obviously didn't know the theory of dimensions and parallel worlds, so she thought that Saber was an alien. However, she didn't hate Saber because of this, but she showed a very different attitude from ordinary people.
It was just like how she was very proud of the fact that Seiber was an alien. If it wasn't for the fact that she knew her priorities, she might have run to the streets and told everyone about it.
"Hey, my name is Catherine Anne Hawk, and my brother is an alien!"
In short, Catherine, a little girl whose worldview has been distorted since she was a child, was very curious about Saber's "past", but we all know that Saber didn't want to mention those memories at all, so he was annoyed by Catherine for a whole week, and with the passage of time, this girl's interest in this matter became more and more, which also gave Saber more and more headaches.
"Saber! Tell me! Did you come from the M17 nebula? Do all the people there have the face of a worm? "
Catherine sat cross-legged on the carpet, taking out her phone to play games while screaming and baring her teeth. After washing up, Saber came out with a dark face, grabbed Catherine's collar, opened the door, and threw her out. He closed the door, locked it, and leaned against the door, revealing a relaxed expression. When he turned around, he saw Catherine sitting on the sofa, glaring at him with a pair of dead fish eyes.
"You bullied me!"
The little girl's eyes were watery, and she pursed her lips, looking like she was about to cry. "I want to look for Pops! You all bullied me! You all didn't bring me out to play! Robin didn't bring me out, and you didn't bring me out either! Lewis and the others didn't bring me out! You all bullied me! "
"Oh?"
Saber looked at Catherine's performance with a cold face, and he waved his hand. "Do you want me to call Joker over and ask him to find Pops, and you can complain to him?"
Catherine's tears came back in a flash, and she looked at Saber angrily.
"You didn't tell me! I'll go to Kamar-Taj! I'm going to be Sorcerer Supreme's apprentice! "
She proudly stretched out her hand and pointed to her head. "Don't forget, Sister Ancient One told me that as long as I want to go, I can go immediately! When I learn magic, I'll come back and beat you up! "
"Sister?"
Saber sat on the sofa and looked at Catherine with a strange face. "She's 1176 years old, my silly sister, she can be your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. And don't joke around, it's not like you haven't been to Kamar-Taj … Three days ago, you went there and only stayed for less than two hours before running back. I don't believe that you can endure the loneliness of training and beat me up? With your attitude now, even if you learn for a hundred years, you won't be able to beat me! "
"How many times have you practiced martial arts in the past seven days? When I'm not in Gotham, have you gone crazy? No one can control you anymore, right? "
Saber got angrier as he spoke, and his left hand slammed on the glass table in front of him.
"How dare you go to Arkham Asylum alone! Don't you know that it's the center of hell that Joker has enveloped all of Gotham! Even the madman himself can't control the spirits that appear there. With your current strength, if you run into a stronger spirit, you won't be able to make it back alive! Don't you know?! If I didn't ask Sim to follow you, you would've run straight to the edge of hell! "
"Don't you know how many people in hell want to kill me? Don't you know that in their eyes, you're the best hostage?! "
"Catherine Anne Hawk!"
Saber looked at Catherine's nonchalant expression, and the anger in his heart surged. He shouted Catherine's name.
"Bang!"
The glass table in front of her shattered into pieces in an instant. The loud noise made Catherine calm down completely. The pair of eyes in front of her had completely turned into dark red eyes filled with magma-like flames. The substantial flames of hell were surging in Seber's eyes. It was a sign that his emotions had reached a certain level.
She knew that Saber was really angry.
Catherine curled up her legs and hugged her calves. She leaned against the sofa and buried her head in her chest. Tears flowed down her cheeks. She wasn't completely lying to Saber. She missed the Christian Villa. Her dad, Kevin, Robin, and Saber were all there. The year when she was still in school was one of the few happy memories she had left.
However, ever since Saber went missing, her dad died of illness, and Gotham changed, everything changed. The Devil Gang's influence grew, and she became a real princess. However, her happiness was gone. When Saber came back, he was busy dealing with the things that troubled him. He didn't have time to accompany her. Her age determined that she couldn't face everything with a mature attitude. She just wanted to get Saber's attention again.
What about Saber?
Saber had good intentions. He didn't want Catherine to be involved in his troubles, especially now that the opponents they were facing were getting more and more difficult to deal with. If a little girl like Catherine got involved, she would be eaten by those beasts until not even her bones were left.
This was where the problem lay. Both of them were doing it for the good of each other, but it led to this awkward situation.
"Creak"
The door of the room was pushed open. Plaice, who was wearing a black and white dress, walked into the room with a cold expression. She was holding a broom and a trash can in her hands. She silently cleaned up the pile of glass shards between the two of them, and then walked out indifferently.
This girl was actually the biggest change in Christian's villa. After Saber set her free, she disappeared for two days. She returned to the ditch near Christian's villa with injuries all over her body. Then, she was rescued by Catherine, Emma, and Clarice who went camping. After that, she lived silently in the villa with an unknown identity.
No one knew what she had experienced, but no one cared. It seemed that everyone had tacitly acknowledged Plaice's existence and even knew her name.
Dorothy, a very feminine name.
"Bang"
The sound of Dorothy closing the door woke up Saber, who was smoking silently. He clenched the cigarette in his hand into a ball. When he released it, only a pile of ashes was left on the ground. His voice was a little hoarse.
"You want to know about my past, right? Girl … "
Catherine suddenly raised her head with tears in her eyes. Saber leaned on the sofa, and his voice was so dark that it seemed to come from a distant hell.
"Then I'll tell you … But you have to promise me that you will protect yourself. Don't let us worry anymore. You know very well what Ancient One asked me to do. Facing such an opponent, I really … really can't leave a weakness that can be caught."
"Am I really that weak?"
Catherine sniffled and said with an unconvinced look, "Emma and Clariska can't beat me even if they work together!"
"Hehe …"
Saber shook his head, "You can go and fight with Alanak and the others and you will know. In my battlefield, people like them can only be used as cannon fodder. This is why I don't allow you and them to join my battle privately. As long as you are not careful, you will lose the most precious thing. I can't bear to lose you … especially you. Catherine, you will never know what you, Robin, Pops, and Kevin mean to me."
"Me, I'm from Earth, really, not an alien … Earth in another dimension. It's the same as here. The terrain and civilization are the same, but the countries are different. I come from the most powerful country on Earth … It's a place full of glory and greatness. My identity … I'm a weapon."
"The sharpest kind!"
Saber lit a cigar, and in the smoke, he glanced at Catherine and showed a creepy smile. The kind of twisted expression that was clearly smiling, but there was only indifference in his eyes, which made Catherine couldn't help but hug the pillow in her arms.
"There are no messy abilities there, no Mutants, no Wizards, no SHIELD, maybe there are aliens, but our level of civilization can't explore there. Life there is actually quite good, but it's not as wonderful as this world. Because there are no superpowers, the situation in the world is generally stable, because there, nuclear bombs are the most powerful deterrent. Under the policy of nuclear bondage, that world has maintained peace for nearly a hundred years."
"What about you?"
This answer obviously made Catherine very dissatisfied. She threw away the pillow, ran to Saber's side, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with you? What's the matter with your identity? What's your weapon? "
"Weapon? Weapons are a knife, a sword, a gun … When I'm hiding in the scabbard, I'm no different from an ordinary person. When my country needs me, I'll draw the sharp blade out of the scabbard and cut everything in front of me! "
Saber took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"No family, no feelings, no life, no entertainment, no … life, only missions, only missions. When there are no missions, I'm no different from death … As for my identity …"
The corner of his mouth showed a trace of pride that he had never shown before.
"I'm the guardian of the people in the dark. No one knows of my achievements, no one remembers my name, but this is the way the world is. Most people need to live a stable life, so it's up to us to bear the darkness for them. If there's anything similar between the two worlds, it can only be said that our world also has a" Heavenly Sword Array ", and I'm the best warrior in that" Heavenly Sword Array "…"
He reached out and stroked the little girl's head and said softly,
"I've never regretted that kind of life. That's where the true glory lies, but in the past, I'm already dead. I've been loyal to my duty until the last moment … So now, I'm living for myself … for all of you."
The little girl might not understand what Saber's words meant, but it didn't stop her from feeling the sadness that overflowed from Saber's body. She reached out and hugged Saber, putting her head on Saber's shoulder. The atmosphere was extremely quiet, until a few minutes later, she whispered,
"So … This is the reason why you and Plum are together? Because of the same profession? "
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, the little girl hugged her head and angrily jumped to another sofa. She glared fiercely at Saber.
"Don't think that I don't know those things about you! Saber Hawk! If you dare hit me again! I'll go and beat Plum up, she can't beat me now! "
The expression on Saber's face was extremely strange. In the end, he sighed deeply.
"Forget it, do what you want, but don't forget what you promised me. If there's no need, don't leave Gotham. Joker's hell can help you escape death, but it won't work every time. If one of you dies … I'll go crazy."
He stood up, and a simple sandalwood fan appeared in his hand. Saber smiled at Catherine.
"Also … Don't compare me to Plum and the others … To be honest, when it comes to special agents, they're far inferior to me …"
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