On the surface, Selina and Maggie are a pair of girlfriends with a good relationship.

But when he actually got in touch, Roy found that things were not as simple as they seemed.

Selina and Maggie get along more like mother and daughter than best friends.

Selina is a mature and stable mother, and Maggie is an innocent and naïve daughter.

If it weren't for the fact that Selina and Maggie were the same age, the way they got along would really make it easy to misunderstand that the two of them were mother and daughter.

After hearing Roy's inquiry, Selina fell silent.

Then, drink the whisky from the glass.

After a few seconds, she said slowly:

"Maggie and I have known each other for a long time."

"To be exact, we met when we were still in the orphanage."

"Because no family has ever been willing to adopt the two of us, we escaped from the orphanage together when we were thirteen years old."

"After leaving the orphanage, Maggie and I planned to support ourselves, but as you can see, Gotham is not a city where people can achieve their dreams, let alone two little girls with little abilities."

"To survive, Maggie and I started stealing."

"In the beginning, we were just petty thefts, and the money we stole was enough to sustain our daily lives."

"Later, a gang approached us and wanted us to join the gang and help them make money."

"Of course Maggie and I won't say yes, but we don't have much ability to resist."

"That was the first time we were going to leave Gotham."

"But we underestimated each other, and before we could leave, we were caught."

"Annoyed and angry, they planned to sell Maggie and me directly to the pimp, and it was at that time that Master he appeared."

Hearing this, a name quickly flashed through Roy's mind.

Armless Master!

In the DC Universe, the Armless Master is not a well-known character, and only appears in Catwoman's personal comics.

Roy doesn't know much about the armless master, only that Catwoman learned martial arts under the guidance of the armless master.

"And then?"

Roy asked.

"Master, he rescued Maggie and me, and planned to take me as an apprentice, saying that I had great potential and was very suitable to learn from him."

"At that time, I didn't promise Master, because Master was only willing to take me out of Gotham alone."

"Later, it was Maggie who convinced me."

"Maggie told me that she would also leave Gotham and go to the Met, and we agreed to see each other again after we were eighteen."

"I didn't think too much about it at the time, and left Gotham with Master."

"A few years later, I returned to Gotham and met Maggie."

"At that time, I learned that Maggie had never left Gotham."

"After I left, she wandered among all kinds of men, found boyfriends one after another, and lived on them."

"When I came back, I realized that she had been having a bad life in the past few years."

"All those boyfriends she had, they were all assholes."

"They didn't treat Maggie as a girlfriend at all, and they beat and abused Maggie whenever they were dissatisfied."

"Maggie also did a lot of illegal things under their threats."

"The day I found her, she was still being beaten by her so-called boyfriend."

"Just because she didn't steal enough money back, her boyfriend beat her like a punching bag."

"That day was the first time I killed ......"

At this point, Selina didn't go on.

However, she didn't need to go on.

If Roy couldn't understand why Selina would take care of Maggie like a daughter, he would be too stupid.

To put it simply, Selina thinks that Maggie's tragic experience is all caused by herself.

In her opinion, if she hadn't left the armless master, Maggie wouldn't have to rely on those men to live, and naturally she wouldn't have been abused and beaten by those men.

Although this is also Maggie's own choice of life, Selina still can't help it, feeling that she has abandoned Maggie.

"It's not your fault."

"Maggie lied to you back then, hoping that you would have a better future."

"As for what she experienced later, I can only say that it was her own choice, not your own cause."

Roy said slowly.

After Serena left with the armless master, Maggie was indeed miserable.

But that doesn't mean that's what Selina left did.

At the end of the day, it's just Maggie's own choice.

"I know what you said, but I still can't forgive myself."

"If I had thought about it a little more, I would have known that Maggie couldn't have gone to the Met."

"I can't get Master to leave with her, but I can ask Master to take Maggie to Metropolis or another city."

"Otherwise, I can also go with Master later and try to help Maggie arrange her future life as much as possible."

"But I didn't, I didn't think of it at the time, so I left the penniless Maggie alone in Gotham."

"I persuaded Maggie to get out of the orphanage, and if it weren't for me, Maggie would have stayed in the orphanage until she was eighteen."

"She could have stayed in the orphanage until she was eighteen years old, and I brought her out to go through that."

"It's all my fault!"

"It's me who is too self-righteous, it's me who overestimates myself!"

Selina said with a look of annoyance.

Roy didn't continue to persuade Selina, ordered a bottle of whiskey from the bartender, and poured a glass for Selina and himself.

He then took his bank card out of his jacket pocket and placed it in front of Selina.

"The money in it is the spiritual compensation given by Carmen."

"That means half of it is yours."

"I don't judge whether you're right or wrong to take care of Maggie like this, but from my point of view, you can't shelter Maggie for the rest of your life."

"If I were you, I would help Maggie set up a trust fund and transfer a sum of money to Maggie every month as a living fund."

"As for what Maggie's path will go next, it should be up to her to decide, not for you to take care of her all the time."

"This is my personal advice, whether you want to do it or not, let Maggie start her life again, you decide."

Looking at the bank card in front of her, Selina quickly thought about it.

It's not that she hasn't considered letting Maggie live alone, but she still can't worry about Maggie.

She is afraid that without her own care, Maggie will relive her miserable life.

Little by little, time passed.

When Roy drank half a bottle of whiskey alone, Selina said slowly:

"I don't know much about trust funds."

"I don't understand either, but I know that professional matters have to be handled by professionals."

"Although the security in Gotham is a little worse, as long as the money is sufficient, it is not a problem to hire professionals in this area."

Roy said slowly.

After hearing Roy's words, Selina fell silent again.

After more than a dozen seconds, she continued:

"Is this your suggestion, can I leave it to you?"

"Yes."

Roy nodded back.

"Thank you!"

Selina said slowly.

"You're welcome."

While there was still time, Roy left the hotel with Selina.

The Trust Fund sounds lofty, but it is not cumbersome to deal with.

Just find a suitable trust company, or law firm, and then entrust the matter to the other party.

In Gotham, to establish a stable and reliable trust fund, of course, it is necessary to entrust the trust company under the Wayne Group.

Once you've found the trust company owned by the Wayne Group, the next thing is simple.

Make Maggie the beneficiary of the trust property, choose the duration of the trust and the purpose of the trust.

Sign a trust contract with the trust company, transfer personal property to the trust company, set up a trust account, and entrust the account management to the trust company.

The whole process doesn't even take half an hour.

Because Roy is still a black household, he can only be entrusted by Selina.

As for the contract signature or something, of course, it can only be signed by Selina.

After dealing with these, there are still 100 million dollars in bank cards deposited this morning, and there are only more than 40 million dollars left.

Although it had shrunk by more than half, Roy didn't take it to heart at all.

Not only that, after leaving the trust company, he also transferred 20 million from the remaining more than 40 million US dollars to Selena's other bank card.

Selina wanted to refuse.

But considering that neither she nor Maggie had any property in their names, she still accepted it.

The trust fund will only transfer tens of thousands of dollars to Maggie every month as living expenses.

This money is only enough to sustain Maggie's daily life.

If she wants Maggie to have no worries at all, Selina at least needs to give Maggie a house.

Have a fixed residence and have a stable source of income.

Only then will Maggie be able to start her life again.

Back at the hotel, Roy returned to the presidential suite alone.

As for what Serena was going to tell Maggie, it was Serena's own business.

Time flies.

Night falls.

Roy, who had finished his practice, picked up the phone in his bedroom and dialed Serena's number.

After dealing with the trust fund matter, Selina, who was in a good mood, asked him what he planned next.

Knowing that Roy is planning to meet with Batman tonight, Selina offers to come with him.

According to Selina, she had dealt with Batman before, and if she was there, she would have ensured that the two of them wouldn't fight as soon as they met.

Although Roy didn't think it was a big deal to fight, he agreed to Serena and decided to take her with him.

After the phone was connected, Roy told Selina about the time of departure.

Then, I called the room service number and asked the hotel to deliver the dinner to the room.

Ten o'clock in the evening.

Roy and Selina, dressed in Catwoman's uniform, leave the hotel.

Roy had planned to go directly to Wayne Manor to find Batman.

But after thinking about it for a while, it's better to leave some secrets for Batman.

After all, Batman cares a lot about who he really is.

The roof of the Gotham Police Station.

Roy turns on the projector lamp that Gordon used to summon Batman.

PS: Thank you Quasar for your 5000 starting coins tip, thank you for your support!

By the way, I would like to report on the results of February.

Up to now, the collection is 20114, the high order is 4810, the average order is 2083, and the chase is 101.

Collections, high orders, and average orders have risen a lot, and the pursuit of blood has collapsed.

But this is normal, after all, the later writing collapsed, and after the plot of the founding of the mutant state, many readers abandoned the book.

After talking about the results, let's talk about the February update.

A total of 245659 words were updated in February, and on average, 8,773 words were updated every day.

Although there is no guarantee of four updates per day as said on the 1st, the number of updated words is not less, but the number of chapters is less.

Well, let's not talk about the rest, thank you for your support, thank you!

(End of chapter)