Chapter 9: Attention that can't be ignored
Jason always felt like he had seen this man somewhere, or rather the man's hands, but he couldn't remember.
It's just a man's hand that has always been very ordinary, and under the effect of the high-definition camera, you can see the hairs on it.
Jason wondered why he felt the way he felt about a hand, and as far as he knew about himself, there should be nothing wrong with it like a hand fetish or a foot fetish.
But that strange familiarity has been with Jason throughout his training life.
While doing upper limb strength training, Jason looked at the bruises on his tense arms and unconsciously remembered the man's hand in his mind.
Ordinary men's hands, thick joints, some subtle scars, brown hair.... Very ordinary.. Nothing special.
I put down the dumbbells and went to the rings machine to train my limbs, and I did a vertical hover, still thinking about the strange hand, so much so that I almost twisted my arm because of the incorrect posture when I went down the bar.
"You have to be focused when you train"
A hand held him, successfully saving his twisted arm.
"Bruce? Are you done with the meeting? β
Jason wondered if Alfred was saying that Bruce had a very important meeting today.
"It's over, what were you thinking?"
As soon as Bruce came in, he noticed Jason's strange appearance, although Jason was doing training, it was obvious that his mind was not on training, so the training room was quite dangerous.
β.... Well... I don't know."
Jason couldn't explain why he cared so much about the man's hand.
"Don't know?"
β... Well... I don't know."
β... Let's do martial arts training today."
Seeing that Jason himself couldn't say anything, Bruce gave up on the question and said what today's training was about.
"Fighting?! Are you going to teach me? β
Since he became Robin, he has been doing basic training, after all, Jason is different from Dick and Barbara, he has no foundation at all, and this is the first time that Bruce has decided to teach him martial arts.
"Your basic training is almost complete, and your physical fitness indicators are up to standard, so I should teach you something further, after all, it's not enough to always rely on your experience as a street gangster."
"Yay! That's great! Where do we start? β
"Let's start with boxing today, and by the way, test the results of your upper body strength training"
βyes!β
Quickly putting on his armor, Jason stood on the training table with great interest.
"Attack casually, I'll see how powerful you are first"
Bruce also put on his armor, signaling that Jason was ready to attack him at any time.
"Huh? Isn't there a tester? β
That Jason played every day, and he believed that Bruce must know all about it.
"Actual combat is different from boxing, that can only be used as a basic reference, okay, hurry up and attack"
Jason slammed into the protective gear in Bruce's hand, punching and punching hard into the protective gear.
"Okay, stop, the strength is OK, but the angle of the arm is not"
After Jason threw a few punches, Bruce came to a simple conclusion.
"Angle?"
Jason threw another punch, and he didn't notice anything wrong with his angle.
"Your arms are too straight, especially the wrist part, and you need to buckle a certain curvature"
"Isn't it good to be straight? If it's straight, you can fight harder."
"The force is mutual, and now your strength is still very weak, so your wrist bones and joints can be loaded, but as you get older, the more the strength increases, the more the burden on the wrists and joints becomes greater in this overly straight posture, and it can be said that if your strength is strong enough, you can break your wrist bones."
β.... No wonder my wrist hurts for the past two days."
"Come Again"
Jason maintained a slight arc of his joints, repeating the tedious boxing training once again.
Bruce's guidance to Jason gradually spread from simple upper body guidance to full-body movement guidance, especially leg posture guidance during attacks.
Jason learned quickly, and soon his posture became very standard, and his punches became stronger and stronger.
When Jason's punch slammed into the protective gear on Bruce's hand, causing Bruce's arm to shake, Bruce knew Jason could finish the lesson.
"Okay, take a break"
"That's it?"
The intense exercise made Jason gasp and ask.
"If you want to be a professional boxer, you can still practice"
Bruce laughs and says that boxing training is just a foundation for them, and all they need is some very basic moves.
β.. Oh don't"
Jason didn't want to be a boxer at all.
"Then rest for a while, and teach you to dodge later"
β... Why not other ways to attack? β
After trying to swallow the saliva in his mouth, Jason asked rhetorically.
Bruce glanced at Jason, who was sitting on the ground resting, and from the first time he met Jason, Bruce noticed that Jason's personality was extremely aggressive, which was the biggest difference between him and Dick.
β......... You're not going to face the athletes you're fighting against, you're going to have a bunch of vicious guys who may have guns, cannons, or even something unknown, and dodging isn't just about dodging, it's an important condition for you to fight back."
β.. Okay"
Jason prefers to learn the set of actions when Bruce acts, a set of darts to release smoke, rush into the smoke and punch one over, and turn around and kick one away, that set of actions is really concise and fast without superfluous movements, Jason looks particularly handsome.
The break passed quickly, and Jason got up from the ground to notice that the joints of his arms were particularly sore.
"Is it okay?"
A somewhat awkward and concerned question came out of the mouth of the person next to him, much to Jason's surprise. According to Dick, Bruce is the kind of person who doesn't care too much about others, which is not accurate, and it should be said that he doesn't care too much about small things.
"Of course"
With this level of pain, Jason won't give in.
In the last training session, Jason was in charge of attacking, and in the next training session, Jason was still in charge of attacking, and Bruce used the actual combat to tell Jason how to dodge the attack, and how to counterattack while dodging the attack.
When Jason had memorized some of the basics, he switched to Bruce Attack.
"Use your diminutiveness to fight back"
Bruce reminded Jason with a left hook in the stomach.
β... I'll grow taller in the future."
Jason rubbed his stomach unhappily.
"That's later, use your advantage now"
Jason pouted and got up from the ground again, ready for Bruce's next attack, and just like that, Jason kept repeating the cycle of dodging, counterattacking, falling, and getting up before Bruce's attack........
Bruce, on the other hand, points out every time Jason fails, and then reminds Jason in the next attack.
"Gentlemen, it's time to eat"
Alfred is the time to appear, reminding two people who have no sense of time that it is time now.
"Ah Fu, is it so late?"
Bruce gasped slightly, and Jason was already lying on the floor and breathing heavily.
"Yes, are you going to dine here or go to a restaurant?"
"Go to the restaurant, Jason will clean up and finish his meal and get ready to go on patrol"
β... Well..."
I struggled to get up from the floor, rushed back to my room, took a shower, and sat down at the dining table on time.
Alfred brought the plate full of food to the table in front of Jason. Jason looked at Alfred's slightly aged hand and remembered the man's hand on the computer again.
"Master Jason, is there anything strange?"
Alfred asked strangely as he noticed that Jason had been staring at his hand.
β.... Not.... I'm just thinking, I think I've seen that hand somewhere."
Having said that, Jason knew that he had never just seen that hand, and that it must have impressed him somewhere, otherwise he wouldn't have been so attentive to that hand, and he wouldn't have even been deliberately negligent.
β... Which hand? β
Jason's words caught Bruce's attention.
"It's the X person in the video in that new folder on the bat computer..."
Jason was also surprised that Bruce had numbers for everyone in the video, but this person was the only one who used x.