Bruce is alone, his children don't want him around because he's suffocating them with his authority, the Justice League excluded him for exploding on a mission when they didn't follow the plan and it almost cost the lives of many people so they kick him off League missions and he doesn't have access like Batman to the Watchtower so he can fix his mental problems. The audacity of saying that just makes he want to lunge at someone and punch them in the face.
But he takes it very professionally and calmly, he distances himself from everyone and doesn't answer any of their calls, if they hate his paranoid attitude to prevent disasters so much (because that's what everyone wants, right?)
So he proposes to be what he was before Batman or Brucie, and that is to simply be Bruce.
Bruce begins to wander around the city (which for some strange reason has remained quiet, as if a beast had fallen asleep around him), revisits an old bakery he used to visit with his parents, and before he went abroad, has a very pleasant chat with a lady in the supermarket about why there is only one checkout open when there are a lot of people.
So he goes to the old basketball court where he and Ethan used to play when they were young, not knowing when he finds himself surrounded by people playing and laughing like they haven't been for a long time.
He dares to go to a bar alone, to enjoy the night and without having to do a Brucie act, he enjoys the party without overdoing it and finds an old classmate from medical school, they start chatting and go to his apartment to continue talking more comfortably and without so much noise in between, just the two of them and anecdotes to remember when they were studying together.
After those days he begins to reconnect with old friends from the galas, from abroad, and people he met in his adolescence in Gotham City.
He invites them to his house, because the mansion was never his home again after his parents died for dinner, to hang out and chat; he is surrounded by people at his table, which is crowded and noisy, but not because of arguments.
Bruce finally feels comfortable and loved, not for what it means to be Batman the knight of Gotham, or for the stupid things he does as Brucie; they simply accept him as Bruce, a conflicted man who tries not to choke on expressing how he feels (because he struggles to express that he needs help, that he needs company, and he doesn't know how to ask for it).
Because to them he is simply Bruce Wayne, not merely a rich man who lets Gotham City rot in crime, nor Batman, a hero who fights for justice, or one of the leaders of the Justice League; not a demanding mentor who seeks perfection so that they don't become like him; not a tactless father to his children; Bruce Wayne is not just a friend, a partner, a companion, he is simply a person who has also suffered in a world where they have wanted to devour him alive and take away everything that makes him who he is.
Because before being a hero or a father, he was simply Bruce Wayne.
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