Chapter Twenty-Three: Growing Up Diary

Today Jason followed Bruce to Wayne Enterprises for a regular meeting, just like Dick said, that goose-plucked old fox has been trying to get rid of Bruce who always skips work. Wayne is looking for someone around him who can stay at the Wayne Enterprise when he skips work, and this time he has his eye on Jason and asks Bruce to take Jason to the Wayne Enterprise anyway.

Jason finally meets the legendary figure, who to his surprise is a black man, and laughs with snow-white teeth. Looks about the same age as Alfred.

"Hello Mr. Jason, I'm Lucius. Fox. At your service"

Lucius reached out and shook Jason's hand, looking at Jason's gaze gave Jason the illusion that he was going to be eaten alive.

Then there was a boring business routine, and Bruce did well today, at least not sleeping in the meeting, as Jason could tell from Lucius's smiling face.

And today finally let Jason meet Bruce. Wayne's third face.

All the time he has seen Bruce is only Gotham Baby and Batman's two faces, he thought that these two lives were enough to keep Bruce busy, and he never imagined that Bruce in the mall would be another face, reasoned analysis, clear thinking logic, anticipation of the future prospects of each proposal, refutation of those things that sound good, speculation about costs and profits, convinced everyone to say, and quickly passed the predetermined plan. Although Jason didn't understand the report data at all, and didn't understand why Bruce received applause for reducing his profit from 10% to 8%, it didn't prevent Jason from adding another reason to worship Bruce in his heart.

As soon as he got home, Jason rushed back to his room.

"Master Bruce, what did you do today?"

“? Just went to a meeting, what's wrong? ”

"No, I just think Master Jason seems to be very happy today"

Jason's past doomed Jason to be more mature than other children of his kind, but that couldn't hide Jason's childish nature. Alfred was sure that Jason's almost floating pace could see the excitement of a child.

Bruce also noticed Jason's anomaly, Jason always behaved very calmly, and such an obvious expression of emotion was a bit less like him.

"Who knows, maybe I'm in a hurry to take off that suit"

During the night watch, Bruce couldn't ignore the gaze stuck behind him, but every time he turned around, he could only see Jason watching intently, which made Bruce wonder if he was nervous. After thinking for a moment, Bruce focused his telescope on a sleek billboard opposite, and through the reflection of the billboard, Bruce did notice that Jason had been staring at him, but as soon as he turned around, Jason would look away.......

'Strange? What did I do today? ’

Jason's abnormality made Bruce feel strange, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong with his behavior today. Could it be that his conversation with Lucius made Jason hear? He didn't think he had misjudged, Jason, like Dick, was probably not interested in the mall, and he didn't have any talent for it, and Bruce didn't think about choosing an heir from among them or anything.

After the night watch, Jason dropped the phrase "I'm going back to sleep" as soon as he returned to the Batcave, and ran back to his room without looking back.

Alfred looked at Jason's back in surprise, in the past, Jason always went when Bruce was resting, and always seemed to be taking all the time to learn everything about Batman.

"What did you do?"

Alfred turned to ask Bruce, who was just as surprised as he was.

“... Nothing... I should...."

Saying that, Bruce turned on the security camera in Jason's room.

Because of Bruce's dual identity, all rooms at Wayne Manor are equipped with high-definition night vision cameras, but out of respect for personal privacy, cameras in inhabited rooms are usually not turned on. It was the first time since Jason had moved into the room that Bruce had turned on the room's camera in the face of Alfred's disapproving gaze.

Jason on camera changed his uniform, but instead of climbing into bed, he took out the evening suit and a box of hair wax from the cabinet that had been custom-made for him.

"Strange, doesn't Master Jason really like this thing?"

Alfred clearly remembers his extreme disgust with the wax when he helped Jason with his grooming, but Jason ran into the bathroom in a dress and with the wax in the surveillance footage. Bruce thought for a moment and turned on the bathroom security camera, unaware that Jason was looking at the bathroom mirror and smearing his hair wax with those that he had so disgusted, and then trying to make a hairstyle for it.

Jason's hair is stiff and usually left to be messily curled on his head, even if it is a hair wax, it is difficult to make the fried-up bristles become compliant, and the places that Jason has worked hard to fix will soon be warped again, so that he has to apply more hair wax to re-fix it.

"Strange? Does Master Jason have a crush on any lady? ”

Boys will inexplicably start to pay attention to dressing up, usually girls with a heart, but Bruce thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out which lady Jason showed interest in today at Wayne Enterprise.

Jason quickly fixed his hairstyle, and although the technique was a little rusty, and the wax was too much to make the hair look hard and uncomfortable, Alfred recognized it as Bruce's usual hairstyle for business occasions. He raised his eyebrows in surprise, and had a premonition of possibility in his heart.

"Maybe we should listen to what Master Jason is saying"

Alfred turned on the audio equipment for surveillance, and Jason finally got his hair in order and began to wrestle with the necessary accessories for the dress.

"Oh, I think I need to start teaching Master Jason how to tie a bow tie."

Watch Jason clumsily try to make an unformed bow tie, and then angrily take it apart and tie it again. After repeating this many times, Jason finally made a bow tie that satisfied him, but this bow tie was completely unorthodox in Alfred's eyes.

Then Jason began to look in the mirror to imitate Bruce's speech at the conference during the day, and his hoarse voice, which had just entered the voice change period, learned Bruce's accent to pass through the stereo, making Alfred smile slightly.

"Congratulations, Bruce. Wayne gained a fan, not Batman"

Alfred said with a smile as he reached out and manipulated the computer a few times to save this rare video.

“.... Batman is not Superman without fans, what to do with saving this? ”

In response to Bruce's rebuttal, Alfred didn't remind him of the Batman merchandise that was sold all over Gotham, and often sold out.

"Sir, although you have already brought a child, I think you still need to learn how to be a father, such as starting to learn to keep a diary of your children's growth, how about it?"

With Alfred's gentle smile, Bruce's finger on the delete button finally didn't press down, but instead manipulated it a few times, and then encrypted the video footage in multiple layers and put it in the lowest folder of the computer's storage space.

With Bruce's personality, Jason's growth diary certainly has no chance of taking shape, but Barbara still notices the extra folder in the bat computer. Although she is a top-notch hacker, it is not a good idea to unlock the Batcomputer's documents at random. In the end, Barbara chose to get the password of the folder from Alfred, and Barbara, who laughed until her abdominal muscles hurt after decryption, decided that she couldn't let her stomach ache alone, so Nightwing was getting ready to work at night, and suddenly received a video from Barbara, and after opening it inexplicably, she almost rolled off the roof with a smile, and Nightwing had much less strength to beat the villain that night.

And Jason, the protagonist of this video, knows nothing about it...................