Bat-Mite, I'm Blowing Up at You (It's My Birthday Today, Yay)

Silence. Dead silence.

After it was over, the two of them stood there like statues, neither knowing what to say.

While Chen Tao was fidgeting awkwardly, Wonder Woman stepped forward and completed that miraculous action. Bat-Mite, who had witnessed it all, let out a huge cheer.

Neither of them spoke or did anything else. They simply looked at each other in silence, savoring the lingering warmth on their lips.

Diana had heard Bat-Mite's assessment of Batman as a blank sheet of paper... and the other party had always acted exactly that way. She did not find it strange. After all, from the very first day she had known Batman, he had been like this—always resembling a cold machine and never considering such personal matters.

Diana knew Damian existed. Sometimes, she had wondered why Batman acted so slow-witted if he even had Damian.

She had once heard Alfred and Tim mention how Batman had seemed to become a completely different person one day. Now, after Bat-Mite had clearly known that this Batman had Damian yet still claimed he was a blank sheet of paper, it seemed that question had finally been answered.

However, none of that mattered to Diana. She had never known the Batman of the past, so she had never been as conflicted as Alfred or Jim Drake. From beginning to end, she had known only one Batman. And what this Batman was most likely to say at this moment was...

Sure enough, Chen Tao spoke.

"I can't. I can't do this. It could very well give me a weakness."

Diana nodded, then waved to Bat-Mite in the distance. "Come here for a moment."

Bat-Mite, who had caused all this and was now watching the show from the side, pointed at himself in confusion. He looked like a spectator