I'm the villain in Gotham

In the past two days, Bruce has been very busy in the company. The watchtower designed for the Justice League is being manufactured, and the large sum of money required for it has unsurprisingly attracted a lot of attention.Although Bruce incorporated them into the aerospace research budget, there were still doubts about this from the directors, and he had to come forward to solve them.

After the last meeting, it was already very late. Bruce was sorting out his materials and some documents that needed to be signed in the office. After finishing these, he had to go back to Wayne Manor quickly, otherwise he might miss the night patrol .

At this time, the new secretary assistant after the silent incident knocked on his door: "Mr. Wayne, the front desk said that there is a child downstairs holding your personal business card, and he said he has something to look for you."

"A child?" Bruce's first reaction was Dick, but this shouldn't be, Dick can call him directly, there is no need to go downstairs to the Wayne Building and notify him through the front desk.

He calmly became vigilant, smiled and said: "Then let him come up, I will wait for him in the reception room."

He carefully organized and stored all the things that needed to be kept secret, came to sit down on the sofa in the reception room outside the office, and fell into doubts and instinctive thinking about possible dangers.The steel-blue eyes fell silent, revealing a rational and chilling color.

The secretary assistant didn't keep him waiting for long. Bruce saw the boy coming out of the elevator through the fog and glass in the tea room.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank.

For a moment, the child seemed to pull him back to the previous timeline, his long past.His most rebellious, but equally loving son, they affirmed their love for each other in the quarrel, they cared and cared about each other, never changed by time and experience.

"Mr. Wayne is waiting for you there, just go over there." The secretary assistant's voice came from outside, and then the door was opened. Lane boy, overlapped with the child in front of him in his mind: "...Mr. Wayne?"

Realizing that his expression was too complicated and weird for a child he met for the first time, Bruce forced himself to restrain the emotions bursting out from the depths of his heart, and turned them into a gentle smile. Countless nostalgia and emotions were hidden in the slightly trembling pupils In the middle, the unfamiliar language reveals familiarity and unconscious tenderness: "Hello, nice to meet you."

He stood up, and to hide his unnaturalness, he looked at the locker beside him: "Would you like some juice?"

"No, thank you." The boy's face still looked a little suspicious, but he was smart enough not to show it: "Hi, Mr. Wayne, I'm Jason Todd, you can call me Jason .”

"Well, hello, Jay...Jason." Bruce paused for a moment, and then said, "Well...have we met somewhere?"

"Yes, Mr. Wayne," Jason handed him the suit jacket in his hand: "Maybe you forgot, but you and your friends rescued me a few years ago, and I saw it in the inside pocket Your business card."

and wallet.He added in his mind that it was this that kept him alive when the hunger and cold made life difficult, until the Wayne Enterprises Children's Assistance Program came along.

Wayne Enterprises, in conjunction with related charities, placed them in a boarding school that Wayne Enterprises itself financed and participated in.Ever since he came here, everything has become different. He no longer has to worry about survival. He will not go hungry or cold. The gangster who came out of nowhere snatched it away.

"Oh, yes, I remembered, it turned out to be you." Of course, Bruce couldn't forget. Before he recovered his memory, he was deeply impressed by the boy who dared to confront the ninjas of the League of Assassins with a crowbar, let alone After recovering memory.He smiled, and then asked in doubt: "Then why did you come to see me today...?"

Obviously, it's impossible to just return a piece of clothing and thank you, but Bruce really can't figure out why Jason, who has already had enough protection in his life, needs his help.Originally, he would send Jason to Mrs. Fay Gunn's boarding school, but after having the memory of the previous timeline, Batman immediately found evidence of the crime behind her and sealed off the boarding school. They also immediately arranged for the relevant departments of Wayne Enterprises to cooperate with relevant charities to start the child assistance plan that has been filed but has not yet been implemented.

Through surveillance, he watched children, big and small, being placed in the school that Wayne Enterprises had invested a large sum of money in, looking for the faces of his familiar children; when he saw the slight smile on the boy's face unconsciously At that moment, Batman was sitting in front of the Batcomputer, his tense body was extremely relaxed at that moment.

As if his existence was born for thousands of moments.

Afterwards Bruce was thinking about how he could "meet" Jason and be able to ask him if he chose to be his Robin again.Obviously, now Jason no longer needs to pry his Batmobile tires to make a living, and Bruce is not willing to break his current good life. How to appear in front of him justifiably has always been a headache for Bruce.

Now Jason stood in front of him abruptly, solving Bruce's problem by himself, but at the same time brought a new one——Bruce's steel-blue eyes condensed, and he began to wonder if Jason's new environment was a problem. Something he doesn't know yet.

"Yes, Mr. Wayne, I have something very important to tell you." Jason looked at him and said solemnly: "I want to meet Batman. I heard that you funded the Justice League, you must know him .”

This has almost proved Bruce's conjecture, he immediately frowned and asked, "Why?"

The boy purses his lips, as if unsure if he should tell Bruce about it here.

Bruce saw what he was thinking, stood up, and gave Jason a hand: "Come on, kid, come to my office."

Jason paused, and passed his hand over.The generous and gentle palm immediately held his, and the warm fingers with thin calluses instantly passed him the strength to support him, which made people feel very relieved.

Originally, Jason came to Bruce Wayne as a last resort. He wanted to solve the matter by himself, but failed, and finally had to choose to turn to the only person in the whole city he thought he could trust; It was too difficult to track down. As a last resort, Jason dug out the suit jacket of Bruce Wayne who had saved his life, and decided to use some external power.

Although he was saved by this man, it is difficult for a boy from the intriguing crime alley to trust a man who was born in the upper class and spends his life all day long.But now he gradually let go of his defenses because of the temperature from the man's palm, perhaps because of the inconspicuous thin calluses on his fingers - something that shouldn't appear on a rich second generation gave him a sense of familiarity and intimacy feel.

Bruce pulled Jason to his office, closed the door behind him, and then swiped his card to lock it: "Wayne Enterprises' security procedures are very high-tech, I guarantee that no one else will hear what you say except me."

He motioned Jason to sit on the sofa beside him, and the smile on his lips implied encouragement: "Now, can you tell me?"

Jason sat down: "Well, the reason I need to find Batman is..." He became serious: "I found that some of the children living in the school disappeared."

Bruce froze: "What?"

"Not only disappeared, but..." Jason rubbed his toes: "They disappeared at night and came back during the day, acting as usual. I have tried to ask them, but no one has ever left Impressive room."

This sounds a bit strange, Bruce frowned: "But how do you know?"

Jason said: "One night I saw the boy in the next room come out of the room, wearing pajamas and slippers, walking outside, I called him from behind, but he didn't respond, and when I asked the next day, he had no impression at all. After that, I started to observe and found that more than one person had this situation, they came out of the room together at a certain time in the middle of the night, lined up one by one, and walked outside."

Bruce asks, "So they left school?"

"No," Jason shook his head: "They lifted the manhole cover and entered the sewer. I tried to follow in, but they disappeared after a while, and I lost track of them."

That doesn't sound good, Bruce thought, nodding to Jason: "I see, I'll tell Batman about this, be careful yourself, and leave it alone."

Jason frowned: "He will need my help."

"He won't," Bruce said, then glanced at the boy and smiled meaningfully: "If you want to help, at least you have to know how to hide your identity first, exposing yourself is really not a safe move. "

He told Jason to pay attention to safety, then stood up and asked, "It's late now, I'm afraid Batman will act tonight, do you want to go back to Wayne Manor with me?"

"No," Jason shook his head: "I will roll my name before going to bed, I don't want to attract attention."

Bruce had to send him out of the office and press the elevator button for him.

The moment before stepping into the elevator, the boy turned his head: "You will help them, won't you?"

Bruce whispered, "I swear."

……

"So our purpose tonight is to investigate what villains have appeared in this school," Dick had already changed into his Robin uniform, stood beside Batman's chair, and followed him to look at the information displayed on the bat computer: " That boy said those kids disappeared in the sewer, do we have to stick with them?"

"It's better to use a locator just in case."

"Okay," Robin crossed his arms, looked at Batman and paused for a while: "Seriously, Bruce, I think you sounded different when you mentioned that boy, and you don't want him to be your Assistant? Like me?"

Batman's fingers stopped typing on the keyboard.

He belatedly realized that Dick had been in the house for less than a year, and if he found a new assistant so quickly, even if it was Dick, it might not be a good thing for him to accept.

Batman was silent for a while, allowing himself to say in a calm tone: "Dick, I do think so, but it doesn't mean..."

"But it doesn't mean you think I'm not good enough or anything, it's just that you see potential in that boy and think he needs a home, right?" Before Batman could say anything, Dick He finished speaking for him directly: "Please, Bruce, you speak as if I'm jealous of something. Although I don't care about it at all, but--what I care about may be different from what you think, that is... You don't have any obsession with being a father, do you? Just because I usually only call you by your first name, you don't think it's very enjoyable?"

Batman: "..."

Batman took a deep breath, "Indeed."

"Ha, then I have to... wait, what are you talking about???" Robin stared at him dumbfounded. It wasn't until a smile appeared in those steel blue eyes that he realized that he had been fooled. A: "Hey, you lied to me!"

"By 'really' I mean your speculation about my opinion of Jason," Batman resumed his serious expression: "I think he has the potential to be my sidekick, and, yes, I do think he needs to." A father."

"And that doesn't mean I don't love you, in fact," Batman pauses before forcing himself to continue, "You mean just as much to me."

"Wow, oh..." Robin was dumbfounded: "You can even say such a thing for him? Now I'm really jealous."

Batman: "...Dick."

"Ha, just kidding." Robin laughed: "Anyway, no matter how many assistants you have, I'm the one at the beginning. We are eternally energetic duo. This will never change, will it?"

A smile appeared on the corner of Batman's mouth: "That's right."

They finished the last bit of preparation, then hopped in the Batmobile and started their daily night rounds.When it was almost the time Jason said, the two assigned the unfinished night patrol task to Erberist, and drove to the boarding school by themselves.

They squatted on the roof of the building, watching the children come out of the dormitory in a daze. The two leaders removed the manhole cover leading to the sewer, and then climbed down one by one.

Batman flung out a bat locator, which stuck directly to the bottom of the last kid's foot.

"Is there a signal?" Robin leaned over to see the flashing red dot on Batman's arm armor: "Okay, we are next..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed another figure appeared in the shadows downstairs: "Is that a lonely person?"

Batman suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

The next moment, the child looked around, and when he found no one, he walked out of the shadows and walked towards the closed manhole cover.

Batman and Robin looked at the large red plastic bucket on his head, probably the kind used for playing with sand on the beach, and fell silent together.

Robin: "...don't tell me that's the new assistant you chose."

Batman: "..."

Batman: "..."