Chapter 6: Chance Encounters

The search for Red Hood reached an impasse, and Tim took the recordings obtained from Dick and analyzed them for a long time and determined that it was a purely electronic sound synthesized by a computer, rather than a product of a computerized transposition of the human voice, so the idea of analyzing the voiceprint by correcting the diacritic had to be declared bankrupt.

Brudhaven was the last of Red Hood's activities, and so far since then, the mysterious figure has completely disappeared as if it had evaporated from the world. Tim had wondered if this guy had been secretly killed by the Black Mask, but from their observations of these people, it was clear that this was not the case.

That guy may have just left Gotham, and so far no one has been able to prove that he was coming for Gotham. It's like he went to Bloomhaven, disposed of the assassin's guns, and then went somewhere else.

It's impossible for a vibrant Gotham to give anyone time to focus on one place, and the interlude-like guy is quickly ignored, and to make up for the loss of the "newcomer", Black Mask and the Penguin's recent actions have become more frequent.

The bounty list on the black web is still there, and the amount is still 4 million, but this time the requirements on the list have been changed from alive to alive and dead, and this time he has a name - Red Hood!

Tim stood on the roof and watched the guy below, and he received the news that Black Mask and Two-Face had a "small" deal this time. The deal involved drugs, as well as a number of heavy firearms.

It's not good news for these two guys to get together, and of course it's not good news for any criminal in Gotham to have a plurality.

What do they want to do? Encroachment on Gotham? That's a bit small, but if you don't make a big move, why are heavy firearms coming?

While Tim was thinking, there was a commotion in the crowd below, and the two protagonists he had been looking for finally appeared. The two-faced man wore his unique two-tone patchwork suit as always, standing out from the crowd. The two men seemed to be talking something, and then walked together towards the next room.

Tim stood in the shadows of the roof and watched carefully for a moment, deciding to go down and find out what their purpose was. I found a place where the light could not shine into the dead corner and went down to the ground, and got as close to this independent house as possible under the cover of darkness and containers. A blinding glow suddenly glowed from a previously dark glass on the second floor of the hut, which pointed Tim in the right direction.

Dodge a couple of minions guarding the door, Tim. Drake, now Robin, made his way to the roof, crouching directly above the lit window. When no one was looking, a bugging device was inserted into the window frame of the room through the crack in the window, and the sound of unstable dialogue mixed with noise came from the earpiece.

[The money has been transferred to the account?? 】

Black Mask's hoarse voice came from within.

[I want to see the goods first!] And your price is a little too high, which is not the same as what I said at the beginning]

The two-faced man's characteristic tone, accusing the Black Mask.

[Hmph.. That's the price of the last shipment, and it's completely different from this time.]

Black Mask paid no attention to the accusations of both sides.

[Then you give me the last batch of goods]

【..... Didn't I tell you that there was a problem with that batch of goods]

[Hmph! was actually given by a newcomer]

The two-faced tone was full of mockery, and Tim could imagine Black Mask's distorted face.

【... The price couldn't be lower, you know that guy has been a bit blocked lately]

In the end, Black Mask seems to compromise, and the guy in his mouth is Batman.

Because of the Red Hood, Batman has been conducting a deep investigation of Gotham recently, and the whereabouts of the Red Hood have found a lot of unexpected strongholds, including the Black Mask.

【.. Then let the coin decide, the front trade is established, and the back is no! 】

This is a unique habit of the two-faced man, who likes to toss a coin to make decisions no matter what he does. Tim sometimes wondered what would happen if he was not paying attention to his coins and swapped them for two identical coins.

However, this conversation also leads Tim to find an additional clue that the firearms taken by Red Hood's attack on Black Mask are likely to be for the Two-Faces. When tracking the shipment, Batman had planned to check with the buyer of the shipment to see if there was a possibility of a dispute with the buyer. However, it was never possible to find out who had purchased the goods from Black Mask.

From Penguin Man to Pig Noodles, they guessed everything they could think of but never found a suitable candidate. Now the question of who is the buyer has been solved, and now one more question arises, what is the purpose of asking for so many weapons on both sides?

There was a new movement among the people in the room, and the two seemed to have reached some kind of consensus on the deal, and they came together to open the hut. Tim hurriedly followed the two men, and in order to avoid being discovered, he had to keep as much distance as possible between himself and the two guys so as not to throw them away.

After following the cars Tim down the street, he became suspicious. The speed of the vehicle was not fast, he was not riding that Robin scooter, and it was not difficult to get rid of him; The second is to look at the familiar place in front of him, and Tim is sure that he is not a road idiot who looks the same everywhere, so the only conclusion is that they have come back around.

"Damn, did they make a deal in the car?"

Tim hated it, he was so careless, he should have bugged all those cars just now, and missed a good time. But he could only watch with hatred as the two cars stopped here for a short time, and the black mask got out of the car that the two of them had made together, and then got into the other car. After that, the two teams parted ways completely.

Just as Tim was about to put a tracker on one of the cars, he caught sight of a man out of the corner of his eye, causing all his movements to stop.

By the time he could react, the figure still had a two-faced man and a black mask in the car.

Tim jumped off the roof of the house and searched everywhere, if that wasn't his delusion, here he was, the Red Hood that had turned Gotham almost upside down, also observing the Black Mask and the Two-Face.

"Damn, where did you go?"

Tim pulled out his grappling gun and brought himself back to the rooftop, looking for the red shadow from a high vantage point.

“... Wrong? No, it can't be."

Looking at the empty alleyways, Tim decides to go back tonight, if Black Mask and Two-Faced are also targets for Red Hood, then he believes they will meet again soon.

After crossing a few aisles to the place where he had hidden his motorcycle, the engine car quickly left and headed for the nearest bat passage.....

Unbeknownst to Tim, after he left, the red hood he had been looking for came out of the shadows, staring in the direction he had left.