Merlin squeezed the metal into a ball and put it in his pocket. He stood on this quiet hillside, and Demian stood beside him. The child took off his mask and breathed the air in the darkness. He enjoyed the battle before, but now he looked a little depressed.

"We joined forces to rescue your father. You proved that you could fight better than Bruce. Successfully, he owed you a favor. Why did you still show this expression?"

Merlin said to Demian:

"Let me guess it's because of Jason Todd?"

"No."

Damien denied:

"It has nothing to do with that stupid boy."

"Did you smell it?"

Merlin sniffed and suddenly said to Damien:

"That sour smell."

"What?"

Damian turned his head and looked at Merlin, who shrugged at him:

"You're jealous of Jason, right? You think he's snatching your place."

"I'm not so naive!"

Damien hugged her arms, twisted her face, and said indifferently:

"Jason is just a fool. Although he is weak, he is a timid temper who cares about it. Sooner or later, he will kill himself because of this."

"But he followed Bruce, like his son, admiring Bruce, like a child admiring his father, trusting Bruce absolutely and obeying him."

Merlin whispered:

"It must be great to be able to trust someone so unreservedly. Damian, but Jason's position should have been yours."

"I don't care."

Damien snorted:

"I don't want anyone who loves you."

"Okay, you guys."

Merlin squatted down and looked at Demian, he said:

"This should be the family business of your Wayne family. I shouldn't interfere, but Talia asks me to take good care of you, so I will take care of you, no more or less. Listen to me, you can't get along with Bruce, not because you are born to be in conflict, and there is no hatred between your father and son."

"You are just too strange and long to be close, but you have inherited the character of Bruce. Neither of you are the kind of people who will take the initiative to say 'love'. This is normal. Not everyone talks about love every day."

"But he is your father, and no matter whether Jason is here or not, he can't change this fact. I think that the child is probably jealous of you. The big reason for his argument with you is because he thinks you don't know how to cherish me. I mean, you should learn to change your rampant personality, just like getting along with Ah Fu, learning to get along with your father."

"Why did I change?"

Damian looked at Merlin and said seriously:

"Why wasn't Bruce adapting to me? It took him almost 2 years to train Dick Grayson to be Robin. After Grayson left him, he found Jason again. He taught him, he took care of him, he protected him but he never did that for me!"

"Yes, he didn't know my existence, I didn't blame him, but when I got home on the first day, he didn't even give me a 'welcome' or a hug!"

"He just told me that my grandfather was a bad guy and told me not to learn from him. He asked me to stay at Wayne Manor and asked me to live in a way that I was not used to. I had no father since I was a child, so what? I can still live alone! And I can live more freely and better!"

Damien gritted her teeth and said:

"I don't need a father! I don't need a father like Bruce!"

This child's words silenced Merlin.

Sure enough, he shouldn't have intervened in this matter from the beginning. There were too many factors mixed in the father-son relationship between Damian and Bruce. Neither Damian nor Bruce were the kind of people who would take the initiative to change. This was not a trouble that Merlin could solve.

And looking at Merlin's silence, Damian suddenly said:

"You and my mother met earlier than she and Bruce. Why didn't you pursue her at that time? I think we are better matched than me and Bruce."

"Come on."

Merlin said:

"Not everyone can accept a woman like your mother."

He stood up and looked at Demian.

A moment later, he took something out of his pocket and put it into Demian's hand. It was an alchemy product, like a pendant, but there was another vague raven mark on the pendant.

"What's this?"

Damian played with the metal pendant, and he looked at Merlin, who said to him:

"I made a microphone some time ago, you can treat it as a magical phone, but it is safer and communication will not be tracked unless you use it in front of a great wizard, but I guess you won't be so reckless."

"I won't be with you all the time, Damian, actually, I might be leaving Gotham soon."

Merlin said to Demian:

"You are right. We are really aligned. I don't have many friends, but I think you are one. Listen to me, go back and have a good talk with Bruce. Believe me, he loves you."

"I think the reason why he is cold to you is probably because he is afraid that you will encounter the same childhood as him. He knows how dangerous the job he is. He is afraid that after you fall in love with him, he will disappear in your life in a very cruel and abrupt way, and leave you alone and live alone again."

Merlin stroked Demian's hair, his voice softer:

"Bruce, he is doing a job that can only be supported by ideals and beliefs. He thinks he is indestructible, but he is actually very fragile. He just started a horrible nightmare. He now needs a pillar that is firmer than beliefs."
Chapter completed!