Chapter 12: Get Started
Jason thought he had a heart strong enough to cope with this miserable world. For as long as I can remember, I remember that the moody man would beat himself up inexplicably from time to time, and he would cry at the earliest, but I don't know when he never cried again.
Later, when he was older, he began to wander the streets, at first he stole some food, and then he stole some money, and when he met a drunk lying on the ground, he would not go up too politely to collect it, and if he was lucky, he could find some money, and the most valuable thing he touched was a drunkard's watch. He hates drunks. Sometimes I would go to the welfare home to get some food or something, but I would go back from time to time to see if the man was dead.
He had thought about his mother, his father was a very ordinary man with brown hair and black eyes, but his hair was red and his eyes were green, and he even wondered if he had been thrown on the street and picked up by this man.
But even so, he managed to grow up hard, in the lowest level of society in Gotham.
At first, I was occasionally caught and beaten for stealing, but then I was caught less and less....... Stealing the Batmobile's tires is probably the most exciting thing he's ever stolen in his life......
Jason thought he had a strong enough heart to face the malice of the world, and he really thought so, even if the stray kids occasionally gathered to talk about the Robin Bird that followed the bat.
Even if he happened to see the noisy Robin Bird next to the big black bat one night, he really didn't care much.
It's a robin bird that has become a spirit, you see the color and the chirping sound is almost the same, after all, it is definitely not an ordinary thing to follow the vampire.
He did think so when he bumped into Batman and Robin once in a while to clean up the criminals, and he never even doubted the identity of Batman and Robin's vampire and Robin's ornith. Until he discovers that Bruce is the vampire... Oh no, when it was Batman, he began to look forward to seeing the "bird" that was always with Batman.
He did see the bird as he wished... Then he heard the sound of his heart, which he had always thought to be very strong, as if it had been transformed into a fragile object made of a thin sheet of glass, and then made a sound of it falling apart.......................
That Robin bird has evolved into a bird of bliss.... From a tricolor Robin to a tricolor of bliss..... The thought swirled in Jason's head all night.
I even dreamed that I was surrounded by piles of birds of paradise showing off their beautiful feathers, and I was chirping at myself.......
So on this morning, before dawn, Jason sat on his bed, buried his face in the quilt at an eerie angle, trying to get himself up to sleep by driving the Robin Birds and Birds of Elysium, which had occupied his brain all night, out of his head..........
However, it was not until the morning sun penetrated the room through the cracks in the curtains that his efforts failed. So Jason had to walk to the restaurant with dark circles under his eyes that he hadn't slept well all night.
"Barbara, stop laughing!"
“.... Sorry, hahahaha"
"Barbara!"
"Good..... Burst.... Hahahaha"
Dick gives up on stopping Barbara's wild laughter, and keeps laughing when Barbara learns the reason for his fight with Jason last night.
“... Sorry, Dick... But...... Poof..."
"Forget it, why did Bruce suddenly call me back?"
Speaking of which, Jason is just an excuse, of course, the very unpleasant quarrel with Bruce when he left home is also a reason why Dick can't pull his face back, but Bruce will call him back, which is very alarming in itself, as far as he knows about this man, even if he is cornered, he will not ask for help. So it always made Dick feel that he was not trustworthy, and this was one of the conflicts between him and Bruce.
Bruce didn't take his eyes off the report Alfred had submitted to him, there was a very important shareholder meeting at 10 o'clock, and these documents were all he had to pass on.
"I suspect Himmler has something to do with the recent serial rape and murder of children"
Bruce took another sip of his coffee, pondering what to say, the case so far without even a clue.
Dick had heard about the serial case from Barbara, but there were too many suspicions and too few clues, and Jason's appearance was a breakthrough, but so far they had not found a way. Himmler is another rising star in the IT industry, and he has a relationship with many bigwigs in the political circles.
“.... I'm going to have more contact with Himmler recently, and it just so happens that Wayne and Pisk have a big cooperation project recently...."
Dick and Barbara looked at each other for a moment, and saw in each other's eyes the kind of helplessness they hadn't seen for a long time.
"I say Bruce, even though Bruce Wayne portrays the outside world as a playboy who loves charity, likes women, and is very fanatical about extreme sports, are you sure you want to add a pedophile to your name?"
With Dick's understanding of Bruce, he will definitely try to make Himmler think that he is his kind, and then Himmler will naturally invite him, so that he can infiltrate as Bruce..... But pedophilia......
"Bruce, I don't think it's a good idea, you know, because you adopted Dick, there have been rumors that you are a pedophile, although the matter was later resolved by the public relations department of Wayne Enterprises, but once the name is confirmed, it will be very difficult to take it off, plus you are now planning to adopt Jason..."
Barbara was on Dick's side, and she didn't think it would be a good idea for Bruce to infiltrate herself.
What Dick and Barbara said, Bruce also considered, and Alfred was equally opposed to his infiltration this time.
But he had searched all the houses in Himmler's name, but he had not been able to find a single place where the children were being held.
Jason had mentioned the helicopter, and considering Himmler's usual caution, Bruce thought that the place should have been built on some private island, and that if Himmler hadn't invited him, he wouldn't have had a chance to find out which island it was.
“.... Bruce. Wayne won't get involved that deeply, but at least we need to find where the target is, even if it's a rough idea."
They don't have any other way at the moment, the other party is very deep, if it weren't for Jason, basically no one would associate this kind of thing with the person who cares about children's charity. However, this case is too complicated, and the victims are all children, and they can't infiltrate it disguised as victims, so they can only disguise themselves as perverts.
Although for Bruce. Wayne's name may be damaged, but as long as he grasps it well, he can guide public opinion to 'Himmler heard that Bruce might have pedophilia and wanted him to join the gang, but Bruce simply thought that Himmler had another charitable intention for children and was deceived because of this'.
Bruce is still very confident in the huge diplomatic power of the Wayne Group, as long as he makes good use of the opportunity and creates some ambiguity in the language that can be understood on both sides, then it is enough to get out of the back.
“.... Why don't I start with Chris's guy and find a way to get in? ”
For the first time, Dick felt that it was not a good thing that he was growing too fast, and if he was still 14 years old, he could easily use the identity of the victim to sneak in.
Looks can be disguised, eye color can be replaced with contact lenses, but for heights that are too excessive... It's a little bit more difficult.........
"You're overage, it's impossible to be targeted"
A voice from the doorway rejected Dick's suggestion, and Jason stood in the doorway with a look on his face, "Stupid?" looked at him with an expression.
"Oh? If you object, do you want to go? ”
I don't know why Dick could always feel his hostility towards himself from Jason's words.
Jason did begin to let his guard down against them, and he no longer spoke in the polite novel lines, which was very gratifying to Alfred, but the side effects were also very troublesome. The real Jason is like a hedgehog with burrs all over his body, not to mention the strings of swear words that are brought out by accident, and the kind of light and irony between the lines is completely impossible to ignore.
Dick was always aroused by Jason's provocative language, whether intentional or unintentional, to arouse an inexplicable sense of competition.
"Hmm"
"Nope"
Bruce's objection directly overshadowed Jason's approval. Seeing the three of them looking at him together, he put down the newspaper in his hand.
"I don't want to get you into this world, Jason"
Bruce looked Jason in the eye, and it was his last choice to involve Dick in this kind of life at that time, which also made him regret it very much, but Jason is different from Dick, he is not so obsessed with hatred to drive him to become an alternative criminal, so Bruce does not want Jason to enter this kind of life as well...... At least until he came of age.
“... But you don't have any other candidates."
"Hmm... I think it's a good idea."
"Dick!"
"Don't say that, Bruce, it's best to be able to sneak in as a victim anyway, it will be direct access to the most core evidence, and as a victim will be taken directly to the place where we are looking for, which will save us a lot of trouble"
"Jason is untrained, too dangerous"
"Don't worry, I'll find a way to sneak in, too"
"They all say you're too old"
"Hey! I'm only 2 years older than you."
"But there's a problem, Jason ran away on his own, let him go back, okay?"
Barbara interrupts a few people's arguments and asks a crucial question, from which it is difficult to say how Jason will be treated when he returns.
“....... At most, it's a solitary cell, and they don't dare to do anything too out of the ordinary with the goods."
Jason wasn't worried about what would happen to him when he returned, he knew very well how these people treated the 'commodity'.
“.... Well, that's it, I'll figure out a way to get in from Chris. ”
“... It's said you're overage."
"Hey, a party like this will always need a special waiter, and it's not just the perverts and the victims."
“... Cut"