"Where's Jason?"

"Sulking in your room, do you want to see him?"

“... Nope."

Even the omnipotent Batman doesn't have a good way to deal with a grumpy imp. What's more, this has never been a project that Bruce is good at.

Now the only thing he can do is grab Black Mask as quickly as possible and lift Jason's ground.

"Maybe you should agree to Master Jason going out as Robin"

Alfred suggested that doing so would at least halve the child's anger.

Bruce thought for a moment and then shook his head and rejected Alfred's suggestion, protecting Jason's safety was just one of the reasons, and more importantly, Bruce hoped that he could take this opportunity to keep Jason away from this life soaked in violence for a while, and the rage engraved in Jason's bones is now more and more obvious and even shows signs of getting out of control.

"It's really not a good idea to have Batman as a life coach for children"

An environment full of criminal violence is really not good for a child's development, and it's good that Dick didn't grow crooked.

"What did you say?"

Bruce was talking to himself so low that Alfred had to ask again to make sure he wasn't overhearing anything important.

"No.. Nothing, optimistic about Jason"

"Yes, sir"

Alfred would only give Bruce some advice, and it was always Bruce who made the final decision.

Dressed in a Batman uniform, Bruce sits in front of the computer for the final sifting of information, and he gets the news that one of the guys who handled the body of Black Mask ran away because he was afraid, Black Mask was looking for him, and Batman and the police were also looking for him, as long as he could find this guy in front of Black Mask, he could become a tainted witness.

That guy wouldn't say no unless he wanted to be killed by Black Mask, and that's what he's been doing these days.

"Have you already found that shipment?"

Alfred didn't know that Bruce had changed the direction of the search temporarily, and thought he had found the Black Mask shipment.

Finding the shipment and using it to get Black Mask out of the box in order to capture and prosecute him was what Bruce had in mind in the first place.

But:

"There is no such shipment at all"

"What?"

"Black Mask was deceived, that's why all the people he sent to pick up the goods are missing, because there is no such shipment at all"

Bruce received important information from Talia that the Assassins had entrusted the Assassins with disposing of the guy's employer because he had been cheated out of a large sum of money, in the hundreds of millions, by the arms dealer on the pretext of an arms deal.

A search of all the criminal records related to that guy eventually proved that this guy was just a small arms dealer who was not in the middle of the stream, barely even an arms dealer could not reach, and was just a middleman between A and B. From this point of view, it is speculated that the shipment he might have promised to Black Mask does not exist at all.

Although I don't know what means this guy used to fool the cunning guy of Black Mask, there is no doubt that the person sent by Black Mask to pick up the goods is definitely empty-handed.

Black Mask's subordinates didn't get the goods, and this guy was killed by Talia halfway, with Black Mask's personality, he naturally wouldn't believe that his subordinates said that this batch of goods didn't exist, let alone believe that he would be so stupid.

What will happen to the black mask when they go back empty-handed, these guys know better than anyone else, so they just hid, this is the most conjecture in line with the current outcome.

“... I don't understand, Master Bruce, why do those people still need to hide if they don't have this batch at all? ”

"Because Black Mask won't believe it at all"

The screen popped up with the information Bruce needed, and he was now going to get moving. Picking up the helmet on the table and walking towards the Batmobile, he instructed again while still uneasy:

"Bullish on Jason"

"Okay, Master Bruce"

As the guiding lights in the Batmobile tunnel come on, a tire mark catches Bruce's attention.

Bruce stepped out of the Batmobile and studied the new rut in the tunnel.

“... Afu, is Jason still in the room? ”

"Master Jason? Exceptional"

Alfred wasn't sure what it was, only that Jason was still in the room at dinner.

"Did you see him when you went to bring him food?"

Bruce's gaze shifted from the rut to the cave where Robin's motorcycle was parked.

“.. No, Master Jason said he didn't want to eat it."

“... Then you put the food at his door, and you never saw any of them."

“... Yes"

Alfred also sensed a key part of the Bruce problem.

Bruce walked to the motorcycle parking space and opened the black dust cover first, and the following was not the Robin motorcycle that should have been parked here, but the bicycle that Clark had bought for Dick a long time ago, and the wooden sticks used to support the frame lost their support and scattered on the ground as Bruce moved.

Bruce turned decisively and walked towards the elevator, and Alfred hurried after him. The two of them came to the door of Jason's room, where the food Alfred had left on the floor untouched, and Bruce pushed the door open, and the room was empty, and Jason was completely absent.

"Uh... He was indeed there at dinner."

"Yes, he was there at the time, but he ran out while I was eating, I'm afraid this is not the first time he's done this, it's a beautiful time difference, good boy!"

Bruce never thought that Jason would run away while he was at the manor, what the hell was he trying to do between his meal and Alfred's rounds? Isn't he worried that he will suddenly come to the ward rounds?

Bruce walked over and picked up the laptop that had been thrown on the bed, his eyebrows furrowed when he saw the contents.

"Can you know where Master Jason has gone?"

Seeing Bruce's expression, Alfred knew he had guessed Jason's whereabouts.

"Yes, I know, he's gone to see his father."

Bruce looked at the freeze-frame on the computer screen and said in an unpleasant tone.....

Jason was crouched on a roof across from Elsa's apartment, wearing his red Robin uniform, wearing a mask, and his hair was black, he was already taller and his voice was completely different from before, and the man had no reason to recognize him.

Jason took a deep breath, then pulled out his grappling gun and stepped onto his target's veranda.

The man in the room seemed to have just come out of the shower, his blue towel still wrapped around the protruding belly of beer, and he opened the refrigerator door while wiping his head.

"Where's the goods?"

The sudden sound behind him made the man quickly turn around, and a beer bottle flew in Jason's direction, Jason tilted his head, and the bottle flew past his hair and crashed into the wall behind him.

The man was stunned when he saw the comer, and Jason continued unconcernedly:

"If you don't want to fall into the hands of Black Mask, hand over the goods"

The man still looked at him in a daze and didn't answer, Jason frowned impatiently, and just as he was thinking about whether hanging the man out of the window could get a faster answer, the man finally spoke up, but the content of the voice was completely different from what Jason expected:

"Jason?"

Jason hadn't heard the hoarse voice that had been caused by excessive smoking and drinking for a long time, and he never thought he would hear it calling his name. For as long as I can remember, this man would only call him mongrel and trash, how ridiculous, Jason Todd still knew the name from other people's mouths.

"You've Got the Wrong Person"

Jason began to think about what to do if this guy really recognized himself, with his knowledge of men, he could definitely guess Batman's identity if he could recognize himself, Jason hid behind his back with an extra batarang, and his green eyes stared at the man in front of him through the goggles.

"Admit mistakes? Ha... Haha, who do you think I am? I'm your dad, you think you've grown a little taller, your voice has changed a little bit, and I can't recognize it? Even if you turn to ashes, I'll recognize you... Haha"

The man didn't care at all about Jason's denial, and even laughed arrogantly, as if Jason had said something particularly ridiculous.

"What are you doing here?"

When the man had laughed enough, he turned around and opened the refrigerator again, and asked as he took out a bottle of beer from inside.

"Goods of the Black Mask"

Jason didn't beat around the bush, he saw a pistol on the table right next to the refrigerator, and the batrang in his right hand was ready at any time.

"Humph! Where did the goods come from, that fool was deceived, by the way, you weren't fooled by Bruce. Did Wayne adopt? ”

The topic suddenly jumped to Bruce, and Jason's whole body went into a state of alert.

"Wait, if you're Robin, then wouldn't Batman be... Ha... Hahaha, that's big news."

Sure enough, I guessed, damn it, Jason just wanted to scold himself hard at the moment, he shouldn't have come. What now?

He couldn't let this man leave like that after knowing the truth, this man would definitely use this to blackmail Bruce even if he didn't sell his identity to someone who was very interested..... This man must die!

This is the first time Jason has murderous intentions towards a person, he knows that there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the future, especially from Bruce's side, and it is even likely that Bruce will break off his relationship, but at the moment he can't care about much, he is now full of only one thing - he must stop this man from telling Batman's identity.

The sound of the gun loading alerted Jason, who had been holding the batrang in his hand but failed to throw it after he could see the man's movements.

The man held the loaded gun, and the muzzle of the gun was not pointed at Jason but against his chin and said:

"Hey, boy! Your mother's name is Sheila Heywood, and she's still alive. She may be the worst woman in the world, but she's also a big beauty, and you look exactly like her, Jason."

The sound of gunfire drowned out the man's last voice, and looking at the lifeless corpse on the ground, Jason wasn't sure if he heard the man call his name again.