Chapter 258 Goodbye Hermione
After Katum's explanation, Bruce gradually understood the situation.
Under the influence of the intersection of celestial bodies, the relationship between wizards and Muggles is about to change visibly.
What's more, in addition to the world of "Supernatural", another world shrouded in fog and unknown may bring more variables.
It didn't look good, but Bruce was not one to shy away from confrontation.
He quickly adjusted his mindset and entered the long-lost Harry world with Katum.
……
The moment he entered Harry's world, the small leather bag on Katum's chest suddenly began to move, and then Harley flew out of it.
The Speed Force once again filled its body, and Harley regained his vitality.
It transformed into a red comet again.
"Don't take it to another world casually in the future."
Seeing Harley flying around in the sky with great excitement, Katoum said, "Without the Speed Force, it is not very happy every day."
Bruce nodded, agreeing with Katoom's suggestion.
At this moment in Harry's world, time stopped and everything was still.
The five metals need to be taken out of Bruce's body before everything can return to normal.
"Let's get started." Bruce said softly.
As soon as he thought about it, countless nanoparticles crawled onto his body and slowly assembled together to form a brand new Hellbat Armor.
Bruce then called upon Harley to become one with him and regain control of the speed force.
Red lightning danced, and Bruce disappeared from the spot. The next moment, he appeared at the door of Wu's Orphanage in 1991.
Ten-year-old Bruce and Katoom kept bickering, and their relationship at the time was somewhat tit-for-tat.
"Sorry to keep you waiting."
Bruce didn't hesitate, and his outstretched right hand began to vibrate violently. He quickly used his high-speed hand knife to reach into the body of his past self, then suddenly retracted it and took out five kinds of metals.
The world pressed the play button and the freeze-frame state disappeared completely. Bruce turned and walked away without letting anyone notice his presence.
In the time tunnel.
Bruce ran in it, he raised Thor's hammer, and drew on Wonder Woman's guardian power, which attached to the countless fragments of the hammer.
With a loud bang, the war hammer exploded, and fragments flew in all directions, passing through the time tunnel, entering one time node after another, and destroying countless possible paradox bats.
But after those fragments flew away, they never came back, which shows that the time remnants of the Paradox Bats are too many to be killed in a short period of time.
Bruce frowned and said, "Is Paradox Bat's fate so tough?"
"After all, he ran in the paradox cycle for a long, long time."
Katum said indifferently, "But it doesn't matter. We have plenty of energy to fight him. We are in an advantageous position now. It's only a matter of time before we kill all his clones. Well, let's leave the tunnel quickly to avoid attracting the time ghosts."
Bruce nodded, and in a blink of an eye he was back to his own timeline.
"For the last time!" Bruce took off his Hellbat armor, "This is the last time I travel through time."
Those who play with time will be played by time.
If it wasn't necessary to retrieve the metal, he wouldn't even want to cross this time.
"Really? I don't believe it."
Katoom flew out of Bruce's chest, "I really advise you not to make promises lightly, lest you fail to fulfill them in the future."
"I believe in my promise."
Bruce opened his palm, and the nanoparticles of the Hellbat Armor gathered in his hand, turning into a bat dart.
After putting away the bat dart, Bruce finally had the mind to observe the situation around him.
He was on the streets of London.
The time now is August 1994, several months ago when Bruce left Harry's world.
"This is probably the effect of the conjunction of celestial bodies."
Katum said, “After all, the world’s will needs to adjust to this change.”
"So that means I don't have to go through the third year again?"
Bruce thought this was a good idea. If he started again from the third year, it would feel like he was repeating a grade, which would make him feel inexplicably humiliated.
It's August now, and Bruce has never spent his summer vacation in the UK.
In the past, I used this time to go to other worlds.
"Let's go check on Hermione first."
As usual, Bruce first bought a bunch of gifts at the gift shop on the street, and then prepared to take a taxi to Granger's house with the gifts.
"Aren't you driving yourself?"
Katum took out a small car model from the feather. It was the Batmobile that he got from Vulcan.
In the MCU universe, Bruce never had the chance to drive it and complained about it several times.
"Wake up, we are back to modern society!" Bruce said helplessly, "I am only fourteen years old. It will be very troublesome if I am caught by the traffic police while driving."
"So you don't drive?" Katum asked.
"Of course not!"
"If you don't open it, I will!"
Katoom enlarged the Batmobile to fit Owl, a size that made the whole vehicle look a bit like a baby stroller.
The owl got in, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed into the sky.
Bruce watched him leave, and after a while, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He looked at the bags in his hands and suddenly realized that Katum had mentioned the Batmobile for no apparent reason just now because he wanted to find a chance to slip away and didn't want to help him move things!
Damn owl!
……
Returning to the Granger family's single-family apartment, Bruce felt a little touched for a moment.
It's been a while since I came back.
Now the fragments of Thor's hammer are constantly chasing Paradox Bat, and the original atmosphere of despair has been swept away.
Katum was standing on the mailbox at the door, obviously having been waiting for him for a long time.
"You are so slow." said the owl. "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
"Why haven't you died yet?" Bruce cursed, then walked to the door and rang the doorbell.
Dengdengdeng-
After a sound of footsteps, the door opened and Hermione appeared at the door. She was surprised to see Bruce.
"Bruce?"
Hermione said in surprise, "You went to America, why did you come back early?"
Hearing this, Bruce understood. It seemed that when the world consciousness was adjusting, it still made the same excuse for his absence.
Bruce smiled and said, "Because something happened, I came back early."
"I knew it!"
Hermione showed a look of understanding, "Is it because of the riots in New York? I was worried about you when I watched the news. Now you're back. It seems that you are not stupid. You know to run home when it rains. Don't stand there like an idiot. Come in!"
New York riots?
Bruce thought, what is going on?
Is it the impact of celestial conjunction?
He followed Hermione into the house and Katoom fluttered over and landed on Hermione's shoulder.
The owl said shamelessly: "Well, little Hermione, are you surprised to see me?" These words naturally turned into a series of cooing sounds in Hermione's ears.
Hermione turned her head and stared at Katoom for a long moment, then frowned and said to Bruce, "Is this Katoom?"
"It's the real deal," Bruce said.
"How come you've gained so much weight!" Hermione held Katum in her arms, feeling an unprecedented softness.
Bruce thought, that has nothing to do with him.
When they were in Marvel, Bruce had already noticed that Katum had gained weight, but no matter how he reminded him, Owl always had reasons to refute.
No matter how you look at it, there is only one thing: he is not fat, there is something wrong with Bruce himself.
And now when Hermione said this, Katum was stunned.
It seemed that reality came too suddenly and Owl was not prepared to face it at all.
"Am I really fat?" he confirmed to Bruce.
"I'm not sure." Bruce simply looked away and didn't meet Katum's gaze.
He has already said he is tired. Whether he is fat or not, Katum can experience it himself.
Seeing Bruce's expression, Owl suddenly felt like the sky was falling.
He...got fat?
The first person Hermione blamed for Katoom's change in size was Bruce.
"Can you please pay more attention next time?"
Hermione said angrily, "Katoom is just an owl. You made him so fat. He will get sick easily!"
"I advised him, but he didn't listen!" Bruce defended himself.
"You expect an owl to have self-control?"
Hermione just found it funny. She didn't know who Bruce learned this habit of quibbling from.
……
Bruce returned to his room and saw the familiar furnishings, which made him feel warm in his heart.
His aunt kept the place spotless, and Bruce cherished the feeling of being cared for.
Katoom stood on the bedside table with a dull expression, muttering to himself, still immersed in the fact that he had gained weight.
Bruce ignored him and sat down at the desk, spread out the newspaper he had just brought from downstairs, and started looking up the news about the New York riots.
He brought two newspapers, one was The Times from the Muggle world, and the other was The Daily Prophet from the wizarding world.
The two newspapers reported the same event, but the content they presented was completely different.
Regarding the riots in New York, the headline of the Times was "New York Riots: The Collapse of Urban Order and the Spread of Chaos", which described the causes and process of the riots, and finally attributed the cause of the riots to the long-standing racial conflicts.
This conclusion is also an old commonplace.
Bruce didn't believe the report at all, so he quickly opened the Daily Prophet again.
This time, there is another story behind the incident.
The turbulent vortex of the Muggle world and the mysterious beliefs of the vampire community
Vampire? Bruce frowned.
Of course there are vampires in Harry's world, just like werewolves, they are a kind of dark creature.
But unlike werewolves, vampires have no problem with intelligence. They have their own group society and their own order. They even make lollipops with their own flavors.
How could such a group of people be so ignorant of the seriousness of the matter as to riot in the Muggle world?
Bruce continued to browse the report -
“According to past knowledge, what vampires believe in is actually a philosophical system that combines the respect for the night, the awe of blood, and the profound exploration of the meaning of immortality.
"But recently, this belief seems to have taken shape, and a name called Cain has begun to be passed around among American vampire groups.
"We can't help but ask, are American vampires beginning to engage in idolatry?"
After that, there was some research, which was mostly about the record of Cain in the Bible, and then the phenomenon in Muggle literature that regarded Cain as the ancestor of vampires.
All in all, it's all speculation and there is no substantial conclusion.
Bruce turned around and wanted to ask Katum if there was a Cain in the world of evil forces.
But the owl was still in autism and had no time to answer his questions.
Bruce had no choice but to ask later.
In fact, the wizarding world was not careless and was very concerned about this matter. At the end of the report in the Daily Prophet, they said -
"The wizarding world will continue to pay close attention to the development of the situation in Muggle New York. After all, the stability of the Muggle world will, to a certain extent, affect the delicate balance between the wizarding world and the Muggle world."
Obviously, the vampire riots also made the magical world feel nervous.
"It won't be long before the wizards discover the problem."
Bruce closed the newspaper and thought to himself that there was at least a chance that the New York riot was related to the conjunction of celestial bodies.
I hope the American wizarding community can find more evidence sooner.
……
In the evening, Mrs. Granger prepared a sumptuous dinner to welcome Bruce back.
Bruce doesn't eat much and he still maintains a moderate lifestyle.
The only difference from the past was that there was another owl accompanying him to control himself.
"Katum, you've eaten enough today, don't eat any more!"
Hermione held the owl, forbidding him to continue trying to grab the meat pie on the table.
She seemed determined to help Katoom lose weight.
Katum was really depressed, but there was nothing he could do about it. He was also very concerned about his weight gain. At least it was the first time Bruce saw Katum so introverted.
Hermione's pet Crookshanks was sitting under the table, with the magic doll Muun on its back.
After Katum's return, Muen became suspicious and worried, fearing that Katum would find another excuse to beat her up.
But this is obviously an unnecessary worry.
Katum was not in the mood right now.
After dinner, Bruce and Katum returned to the room and took out a red rag.
"Are you ready?" Bruce asked.
"Stop talking nonsense and do it quickly!" Katum said listlessly.
The red rags in their hands are connected to a DC material world, and they can travel through it without being discovered by Barbatos.
That world is now in danger, and the Martian creatures created by the Wayne Council have begun to secretly replace the humans in it.
Even out of the most basic sense of justice, Bruce didn't want to sit idly by.
"Let's go then!"
Bruce extended his wand and chanted the Legilimency spell in reverse, allowing the red rag to receive his telepathic connection.
The red cloth responded quickly.
Bruce only felt a flash before his eyes, and the next second, he was standing in an unfamiliar city.
It is now night, the streets are busy with traffic, neon lights are flashing on both sides, and advertisements are playing on the huge screen.
This is clearly a developed modern city.
Bruce looked around, ready to figure out the most critical issue first.
Which DC world is this?
(End of this chapter)
