The passersby seemed to have no significant reaction to Dick's appearance, as if the Batman uniform he wore was just ordinary clothing, something they've grown accustomed to.
Bruce also took off his hood and wiped his face.
The day when Batman can live openly with his identity known, or rather, when the citizens of Gotham completely forget the fear Batman represents, that is what he desires.
He took the coffee brought by the waiter, generously tipped, and took a gentle sip. Indeed, the coffee from Alfred Sanatorium tastes exactly the same as Alfred's brew.
A smile appeared on his face as he leaned back against the chair with his eyes closed: "This taste is very nice."
Dick also smiled and nodded, his expression much more flexible after removing the mask: "Yes, I still remember you'd always ask Alfred if he added anything to the coffee, and he would only reply that it had 'justice' added when you'd drink it."
"Haha, that's right. Seeing you all living so well now, I feel at ease."
Batman happily picked up the cup and took a big sip, the topic of added ingredients in the coffee was just a subtle method to prevent someone from impersonating Alfred to poison him.
Just like everyone knows, the 'Chameleon' in Gotham is far too many.
Batman smilingly put down the cup and sighed under the warm sunlight.
He raised his head to see the sunlight filtering through the leaves, casting over the Bat insignia on his chest, he lightly rested his hand on the belt where something was vibrating.
.............
"It's different here than before."
At the same time, Diana was touring the new Paradise Island with Cassie, finding it entirely different from her memories.
Not to mention the former towering statues were gone; now only Hippolyte's statue remains, and Paradise Island was filled with warlocks and various magical races, as if the Magic Realm centers around it.
Cassie Sandmark, the daughter of Zeus, was just a sixteen-or-seventeen-year-old girl in their dimension, but evidently, she has now inherited all of Diana and Donna's combat skills and equipment, and is no longer young.
"It was you and your sisters who changed this place. After you all saved Earth, you discovered a rune and combined magic with technology to share it with the whole world, so now everyone lives well."
Cassie generously led Diana into the Queen's study and took a stack of magic scrolls from the table for her to see, suggesting she could learn too.
Diana nodded, but the unsettling feeling in her heart intensified, she lowered her head, casually flipping through the scrolls as if looking, but her mind was already elsewhere.
Perhaps others didn't know, but Diana was aware that in their dimension, the magic concept was in Deathstroke's hands; to use magic, everyone has to pay a price.
What rune could bypass the concept of Inverted Man? What could cause Deathstroke to ease his grip on the Magic Realm?
The affairs of the Magic Realm are resolved by the Magic Realm itself. This principle has been upheld by warlocks for thousands of years, not to mention in the era of the Pantheon Tribe where witchcraft was the representation of power and hierarchy, have people today really transcended class?
In her study and observation of humanity, Diana doesn't think so. She debuted before anyone in the Justice League and has seen human nature on the battlefields of the two world wars.
Moreover, would the gods really let go so easily? Hera and Zeus never understood the concept of equality.
Just as she planned to inquire more from Cassie, she suddenly felt a vibration at the back of her head.
It was the small disc formed by a drop of X Metal, given by Deathstroke earlier, used to block potential mental probing techniques, and he didn't take it back when they parted.
And Diana nearly forgot about it and inadvertently brought it here.
She immediately sensed something was wrong, the intuition and instinctive reaction of a warrior both told her something was amiss.
The Troublemaker said that all low-dimensional tools are inapplicable in higher dimensions, so why could X Metal still receive resonance from the Main Dimension here?
Unless... this dimension was also created by X Metal!
Diana discreetly exhaled, smiling as she nodded to Cassie: "This is really good stuff, but now I want to go to Gotham and see, have you improved your teleportation means?"
Cassie, unsuspecting, nodded with a smile: "True, Gotham in your era was the source of chaos, the starting point of darkness, now you'll be astonished to see it. As before, the Justice League's teleporter still covers the globe, still a sonic boom passage, the teleportation makes your ears buzz, but I can use magic."
As she spoke, Cassie snapped her fingers, and a golden Teleportation Gate instantly appeared in the room.
Diana placed down the scrolls, glanced once more through the window at the azure sea and golden sunlight, the white sails, the flying warlocks, no longer held any allure to her.
She felt the resonance caused by X Metal collision, and this world was utterly unreliable.
She believed the metal resonance was Deathstroke's warning to her. Although sometimes she wasn't as perceptive as Batman and Ron, with someone's reminder, she was stronger than Arthur.
"I'll go over and have a look, the new Batman should be Dick, right?" Diana, with a calm demeanor, approached the Teleportation Gate.
"Yes, you know how their Bat Clan is, only Dick showed some responsibility. Tim went to the United Kingdom to be a detective, Jason is still Jason, they couldn't become Batman."
Cassie stood on one side, easily explaining, seeming to approve of Dick as Batman.
"Oh? What about Damian?" Diana paused at the Teleportation Gate.
"He inherited the Assassin Alliance, but soon went mad from using Lazarus' Spring. Such madness is hard to reverse without killing, so he's still undergoing treatment."
Diana was taken aback, then offered a smile: "Okay, I understand now, I'll go have a look at how Gotham is."
............
Similar to their situation, Barry and John were invited by Bai Woli and White Lantern John to visit Star Laboratory in Midtown to see how they use technological methods to shape parallel worlds.
Bai Woli claimed they fully mastered Divine Speed, saying it's as simple as plugging in an appliance, creating a Multiverse is also no trouble.
He even said anytime they could return to the past, meet Barry's mother, and have a meal or something.
This raised Barry's suspicion; he isn't naïve.
Regardless of whether Divine Speed is that easy to master, regarding Flashpoint World, he had gone there with Deathstroke and brought back Thomas Wayne, after which that world collapsed.
Woli said he saw Barry's mother himself? Flashpoint World is gone, where did he see her?
If they could really shape a Multiverse, then why not directly resurrect people? Why repeat a mistake Barry had made?
Barry also finally realized, though he still seemed cheerful, but found the behavior of this dimension now somewhat like someone manipulating the timeline with old tricks.
Like telecom fraud or scam prize messages, it's all outdated scams, which he has seen enough in Divine Speed.
And John? He also noticed something amiss, although wearing a Green Lantern Hero uniform, on his finger there were two rings, a Green Lantern Ring and an Invisible Light!
When he became an Invisible Light Lantern Demon, he was knocked unconscious by Deathstroke, upon waking he found the Invisible Light Ring couldn't be taken off, like a tattoo imprinted on his finger.
Even if Eclipse Star goes extinct, other Lantern Demons all die, he would become the new Lantern Furnace, continuing to pass down this dark Power of Creation from Invisible Light.
This is both a curse and a mission, a burden he cannot shed.
Then where did the old version of him put the Invisible Light Ring?
.................
Meanwhile, Ron and Hawk Woman arrived at Black Hawk Island, receiving hospitality from their future selves and children, witnessed Earth's transportation ship launch towards Mars.
Indeed, countless Green Martians were resurrected through genetic technology, now flocking home after work.
Working on Earth during the day, going home to Mars in the evening, seemed just ordinary.
The old Ron and Hawk Woman shared many sweet memories, as well as current shining achievements of the Justice League, not just Green Martians, but all kind-hearted aliens in the cosmos were resurrected by the Justice League.
Now the entire cosmos revolves around Earth, everyone is living happily.
Ron's gaze was fixed on their future son with Hawk Woman, the child named Sean, who always looked at them somewhat timidly.
Perhaps from the child's perspective, seeing another pair of younger parents versions felt incomprehensible.
But Ron's doubts lie elsewhere.
Due to the appearance of a series of impostors like Fake Deathstroke, Fake Barbara, Fake Copperhead, everything Ron looks at now seems fake.
Sure enough, not even a few hours have passed, he doesn't forget so easily.
Though initially in the so-called Sixth Dimension stunned by all these things unable to think calmly, but now, Ron's mind has normalized.
The issue lies in the child.
Ron himself is a Green Martian, undoubtedly, has green skin, non-sugary. But this Sean kid is also a little bald with green skin, no problem.
However, the child has a pair of white wings on his back, which isn't right.
Kendra is the reincarnation of Xiara, and several generations above was the queen Tui Aya of Egyptian Pharaoh Hufu.
They merely picked up the spacecraft from Sena Gang that crashed in Egypt, obtaining N Metal, and used this zero-gravity metal to craft wings, gaining the ability to fly.
Ron doesn't quite understand the detailed process of reincarnation, but the Justice League member's physical data, there are medical reports in the Hall of Justice.
Kendra Saunders is 100% pure human, born in Detroit.
During the Barbatos invasion event, she awakened memories of her past life and retrieved the wings of N Metal, fixed on the back through the uniform, works like Hawkman's harness principle.
She is completely different from those aliens from Sena Gang who inherently grow wings and can fly.
So the question arises, how did a Green Martian and a pure human produce a mixed-blood child with white wings?
Even if there's a way to bypass the reproductive isolation between Martians and humans, Kendra has no reason to abandon her human identity, transform herself into a Sena Gang person.
Since arriving at the Court of Justice, Ron has been pondering this problem but cannot convince himself despite hypothesizing many possibilities.
Although everything seems beautiful in front of him, he has already determined it's a deception, a dream, just like when Kendra decided to use herself to fill the Origin Wall, a dream Ron prepared for her.
He still wears a smile, but secretly has strategized with Kendra through psychic ability, pretending to know nothing, using smiles to disarm the opponent and then...
Quickly regroup with Batman.
All of them need to escape here and settle accounts with the Troublemaker.