Neither living nor dead — conscious echoes of eternity.
The librarian warned him:
If you go back, time will break again.
"Let it break," Bruce replied. "I know where to fix it."
The magic of the sands, woven by Circe and Medea, enveloped him.
The light reversed.
The runes of the end turned.
And then… he came back.
The Return
One year and six months earlier.
In the same cave, the same smell of ozone and iron.
The heroes prepared for the council that would set off the catastrophe.
Bruce wouldn't be a part of that.
Bruce stood motionless, his finger raised, his gaze distant.
I saw the future burning behind my eyes.
Through the death of those who were now smiling.
Silence.
Then he simply said:
I'm going on vacation.
His colleagues stared at him, astonished.
Vacation? Now?
I have six women to meet. And a promise to keep.
The Encounter with the Witches and the Goddesses
The following night, he went down into the cave.
The energy vibrated.
One by one, the portals opened:
Circe, the sorceress who had cursed him.
Medea, she who killed and was reborn.
The Dragon Woman, ancient fury now in human form.
The two alien princesses, heirs to lost stars.
And the Cthulhian priestess , with eyes like the deep sea.
When they saw him, there was no hatred?
Just recognition.
"You're back," Circe said.
"And for the first time, I know what to do," Bruce replied.
Let's travel together, so that none of this ever happens again.
They hugged.
Then the world trembled.
But in the shadows, the powerless man was weaving another plan—a plan involving witches, goddesses, and monsters.
The dragon breathed inside him.
When the time came, for the first time, he hesitated.
We can no longer die, because there is no death; we can no longer live, because there is no life.
"I accumulate the energy because there's no way to explode from the pressure anymore, to travel back in time, and after accumulating energy, to make it perfect," Zariel said.
"Without that, we don't need the ceremony," Batman said.
Even though it was where they found a weapon that was a human woman, in addition to the chases through the stars, what didn't solve the problems was all the repetition, where the waves of all the speeches always came.
Even if they left everything in the hands of their fellow heroes , these are things that repeat themselves over time, with speeches for the future in a series of meetings, with everything destined to go wrong, leading to the path where everything went wrong, without them succeeding, they even arrived at the ceremony .
Even if it was so that, according to the sycophant, just because her friend was an alien whose powers come from the sun, it doesn't mean that, in reality, he was the chosen one when he arrived at the ceremony .
When they are tricked, the ceremony goes wrong, and they are unable to reach the conclusion to save everyone.
When Bruce escapes, magic takes him to the end of time, to that region outside of time where he is transported to an end-of-time reality, where magic did not have death.
In which they all had no chaos, there was nothing, the great book, the dimension outside of time, brought him to the librarian , he discovered it was too late, he was the chosen one, in reality, he discovered the secret of time, the secret of everything, he would return after all the adventures with the help of the dragon entity , he was neither alive nor dead, he needed a body, the entity needed not to be felt.
Since they united their minds, in this reality, without bodies, without life, there is only the knowledge of time. He had already tried all the previous alternatives in dialogues , tried to convince them, but it didn't work. The conversation with the entity, before the end of everything, he would return to the goddesses and demons who helped them, both with their sacrifices.
He somehow realized that his colleagues needed the witch Circe's help, even against her will, and the witch helped them with magic that would practically reset things to 1 year and 6 months before they returned to the cave before their departure . In this magic, his bodies traveled back in time, 1 year and 6 months before everything began. He returned enveloped in magic, in the sands, with his mind still imbued with everything that happened at that time.
They would argue with each other about how everything would go wrong. He stopped, pointing his finger upwards, his mind returning. He wouldn't repeat the whole problem; he would meet with them, his colleagues who knew nothing about it.
Following the return to the past, they became concerned by the fact that he stopped, remained silent with his finger raised, looking at everyone, they said, I'm leaving here, I'm going on vacation for a year and six months.
Now that I have six women to find, I'm going to travel, he thought to himself. They were stubborn, they would never understand, nor would they, they knew, their minds, they should find her, he didn't need to know that he had returned in time, to his mind of 1 year and 6 months in the past, he needed to find her in his cave, his lair, which was under his mansion, with the living weapon he knew, Circe, Medea, with Wonder Woman's old enemy, the dragon woman.
It was in a moment in time, when everything changed, the other woman who helped him, a descendant of a race related to the Kryptonians, two alien princesses, the woman who looked humanoid, like someone from the Cthulhu race, then he said, I'm going.
That's how they were leaving there, when everyone expected him to argue, he had plans, but first he wanted to talk to them, the dragon-like girl.
Since it all started with his adventure, he exhausted all other alternatives, which didn't work, in which their conversations, where they understood each other in a conversation, her enemy was now his ally, no more, he had half an hour, so he went, left there, ignoring everyone's pleas, and took the transport.
He descended towards the border between the two cities, which he traversed on foot, until he ignored villains, classics, friends, pretending not to see them, ignoring everyone, as if he were traveling in his mind, ignoring them as if they didn't even call him by that name.
Then, transporting himself and not caring about anyone , he ignored everyone, from people and friends to the crimes that were happening. Everyone was worried, even his villains, whom he passed by and did nothing, until he reached the cave, entering it, and they appeared one by one.
Still, it was when they embraced, it worked, they said, let's travel to save everyone, they said, kissing, the friendship, long past, transformed into love and affection, there were no more fights, no more wars, just a plan.
When everyone tried to convince him to stay, to talk, to find out what was happening, he didn't want to talk.
I'm just going to take a vacation; I'm going to travel. – He said.
Bruce scheduled a meeting at the company that afternoon.
He was having coffee; this would be the harbinger of the end. Around 4 pm, all the dead would return to life. He needed to leave before he saw Alfred alive, before he gave up, as his butler asked. He was filled with rage; he would leave and spend this time reflecting, preventing them from dying again as sacrifices to the great beast.
- I'm going to travel to transform Gotham into a multinational company, opening several divisions and headquarters around Brazil. I'll be traveling for a year so I can organize things in other countries and other sectors.
He had to move frequently , changing identities, using ghost accounts, altering identities, changing events, using his data, using accounts with other false names, going out and of course maintaining appearances, having fun.
Tsuki Miki Delphos, the great hero of the Warriors Society, an organization he founded in one of the cities he traveled to and made its headquarters, upon returning from a mission to rescue the multiverse, before everyone else, at that moment when he was reflecting on his life, he was kidnapped by an ancient villain, a deity, but instead of killing him, he was sent on a journey to various parts of the multiverse across various worlds.
Against all odds, he returned, but not before discovering the greatest secrets of the dark creatures. As president of a company that managed a city, he had an idea.
So, that's how he started formulating plans, knowing the future, so nobody needed to know about his secrets.