The window in the night was opened, and an unexpected figure appeared before him.
"You're Robin?"
Looking at Nightwing standing outside the window, Penguin's face showed a surprised expression.
He never expected him to appear here.
After all, to some extent, he was his enemy.
"I'm not Batman's Robin anymore. You can call me Nightwing."
Nightwing spoke his newly thought-of nickname.
"Nightwing?"
When Penguin saw it was his old adversary, his inner tension eased somewhat.
"A new title. So, you've broken free from the control of your elder, Batman, and chosen to become a superhero yourself?"
Penguin asked him teasingly, a half-smile on his face.
"That's not for you to worry about, but—"
Nightwing looked down at the window ledge he was standing on. "Are you just going to leave me out here, not invite me in?"
"If you come in, I'll have my subordinates come in immediately and shoot you full of holes."
"You won't do that."
Facing Penguin's fierce threat, Nightwing said, "I'm very sure."
"Why? We're clearly enemies!"
Penguin concealed his sinister expression and asked him.
"Because once you open fire and attract those military police, that would be big trouble for you."
Nightwing replied to him, "You fear him, you fear everything about him. All the criminals in Gotham City are terrified of him."
"I'm not a criminal."
Penguin said to him fiercely, "Don't define my actions with that term. In this man-eating swamp of a city, if you don't make yourself a little darker, you can't survive. So, don't call those whose bodies are stained with black mud criminals!"
"That's the difference in our understanding."
Nightwing said, stepping in from outside the window.
"The more easily polluted a swamp, the more precious are those who can see the light clearly. All crimes, especially those easily buried evils, the more admirable are those who persist in not committing evil!"
"Are you here to discuss crime with me, kid?"
Penguin asked him impatiently.
"Of course not. I have something more important to discuss with you."
Nightwing said to him, "It's about Homelander."
After staring at him for a while, Penguin's expression became a little strange.
He shook his head and said to him, "I don't want to talk about anything related to that man."
"Even if he turns the entire city into his reign of terror, even if he wipes you all out?"
Nightwing challenged Penguin.
"You know nothing."
Penguin took a step closer to him and said fiercely, "To say such things with just your own strength, how overconfident. Look at the fate of those smarter and stronger than you; their end was even more miserable than yours."
With veins bulging on his face, he said to Nightwing, "Even as we speak here, that man can hear our whispers. No secrets, no privacy, everything is under his mental control. To humans, he is a god! The only god on earth!"
Nightwing didn't expect such a strong reaction from him. After a moment of silence, he said, "Even a god, as long as he has weaknesses, is not invincible!"
"Ha!"
Penguin let out a sinister, unpleasant laugh. "If it were your boss, Batman, speaking, it might be possible. As for you, I wouldn't trust your abilities one bit. Look at what he's done; that man just lifted an entire city. If he wanted to, he could easily destroy Gotham! So—"
He sneered, saying to the increasingly grim-faced Nightwing, "If I were you, I'd run as far as possible. Just like Batman, he hasn't shown his face in a long time. Has he run away, or is he dead?"
Without answering Penguin's question about Batman's whereabouts, Nightwing composed himself and said to him, "So you intend to surrender? Those military police will probably come for you very soon. You, alone, are definitely no match for them."
"At least I won't end up in a situation more tragic than Death."
Penguin replied to him.
"For someone like you, being locked in a mental asylum for life is worse than being dead."
Nightwing took a step closer to him and said earnestly, "Listen, we can cooperate, as long as you stop trying to do those gang activities. I've contacted some people, many of whom are from the magical world. Believe me, there are many people in this world who are dissatisfied with the man whose name you refuse to speak."
"Cooperate?"
Penguin was stunned.
"Yes, cooperate, to jointly fight against him. Only by gathering enough strength can we possibly shake his rule."
A complex look appeared in Nightwing's eyes. "The power of resistance will grow from within Gotham City, then spread throughout America. I want everyone to see his true face."
"You must be crazy!"
Penguin muttered to Nightwing.
However, he also felt a sense of going crazy himself.
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