After finishing off her last opponent, Talia began clearing the battlefield, cutting off the Talons' heads one by one and digging the electrum out of the corpses' mouths.
She wanted to turn back and help Ra's al Ghul, too, but his combat experience far exceeded hers. If the two of them together could really have stood a chance against Bane, he would have called for Talia's support rather than covered her escape.
An assassin always observed the world from the calmest perspective. Once Talia understood this, she stopped agonizing over whether her father would live or die.
And Ra's al Ghul did not disappoint his daughter. Battered like a punching bag by Bane at full power, he lost this fight to the death without any suspense.
"What exactly were you thinking, turning your back on me to chase someone else?
"Turning your back on the battlefield is a fatal mistake, teacher. It seems you've underestimated me!"
Bane grabbed Ra's al Ghul by the hair and hauled the old man up before his eyes, his feet dangling off the ground.
By now, every bone in Ra's al Ghul's body had been pounded to powder. Blood spurted from all over him like water from old, leaking pipes.
He should have died long ago. Only the residual energy of the Lazarus Pit in his body kept him clinging to life.
"Bane, I never underestimated you. In my eyes, you were once the best candidate to succeed me in the League of Assassins-" Ra's al Ghul lifted his swollen eyelids and took one last look at his former disciple.
"I knew I couldn't possibly defeat you. That was why I turned my back on you."
"Why? This was a battle between the strong. You should have looked forward to it as much as I