Batman grabbed Theodore's shoulders and snapped hooks out of his wrist.

The bat rope leaned slightly against the wall like a dragonfly, and the two of them flew over the high walls of the orphanage covered with glass ballast.

The whole set of movements is silky smooth without any sense of sluggishness, Theodore's usual action of climbing the wall is smooth enough, but compared to Batman, it is simply heaven and earth.

Theodore felt a flash in front of him, and the next second, he was already standing within the walls of the orphanage with both feet on the ground.

“……”

How this skill is exercised, the inside story simply can't be thought through.

Theodore felt that this vigilante gentleman must have done a lot of illegal trespasses in people's houses.

Batman let go of Theodore's shoulders, and it was hard to imagine that he was carrying a boy over a hundred pounds, as easily as if he were carrying a sandwich bun.

Theodore smoothed out his ripped clothes and looked at Batman with some surprise.

At the first moment, his gaze was discovered by Batman. The tall, muscular Dark Knight turned his face towards him, as if waiting for Theodore to speak.

"Uh, thank you for sending me back, and thank you for scratching one of my favorite coats." Theodore swallowed a little nervously, feeling his mouth start to lose its grip, "I mean, I thought you'd be holding on to my back collar." ”

On the helmet, two white spots representing the eyes seemed to be sweeping over the neckline of Theodore's T-shirt.

"You'll suffocate then."

"I won't...... Well, I'll choke, thank you for your thoughtfulness. Theodore touched his throat uncomfortably.

"You should go back, kid."

Batman's majestic figure is like a pillar of salt standing in the dark night, and he has the posture that he will not leave until he confirms Theodore's return to the house.

Theodore staggered a few steps towards the room, and couldn't help but look back.

His voice was a little slurred, and he said in a slurred voice, "Everything tonight is just a secret, right?" ”

"I mean...... I was just hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to go out and find something to eat, not to run away. You wouldn't tell Mr. Wayne about that, would you? ”

"You see, Mr. Wayne is usually so busy that he doesn't have to worry about such a trivial matter."

The Dark Knight fell silent and set his gaze on Theodore.

For a moment, Theodore almost thought that his whole being was seen through by Batman.

But in the end, the other party just nodded imperceptibly.

Whew-

Theodore breathed a sigh of relief and bowed his head slightly.

At this moment, Batman's long figure suddenly disappeared from his sight.

Theodore looked at the ground where Batman had once stood, and the cold night wind poured into his coat, causing the boy to shiver slightly.

He tightened the collar of his coat and slammed into the window, and before he could close it again, an excited head popped out of the upper floor.

"Theodore! You sneaked out and got caught by Batman, and I saw it all! ”

Jason, the boy who tried to get close to Wayne but was threatened by Theodore's eyes. He was leaning against the window, his eyes glinting with ill intentions.

"I hear you, you beg Batman not to talk about it." Jason smiled maliciously at Theodore, "It's okay, Batman doesn't say it, but I can say it." ”

Theodore looked up sharply, his eyes cold.

"You dare?!"

"Ha, you're afraid of Wayne knowing, aren't you? Worried about getting by daddy your pretty little fart. Share? ”

Theodore's fingers had silently pressed the window frame, and Xue Liang's sharp eyes seemed to split Jason head-on.

A sense of danger surged with him, and Jason slowly retracted his presumptuous smile and showed a flinching expression.

At this moment, Theodore suddenly lowered his eyes and smiled.

"Look at you, Jason." Theodore said softly, "It's so cold, why don't you close the window in the middle of the night?" ”

Jason jerked his head back, frantically trying to close the sash.

But before his fingers could reach the window, the other hand was already on his wrist without refusal.

Theodore was seen with his feet on the windowsill of his room, one hand grappling with the bulging window frame of the gray wall, and the other hand grabbing Jason's wrist.

Jason hurriedly took two steps back, but his body was dragged to a stagger.

Theodore climbed onto the edge of the other's window and emerged from the other's windowsill like a siege zombie.

With a click, Jason's wrist was dislocated. Theodori ignored it, and he jumped in on the window frame, knocking him to the ground, his knees firmly pressed against Jason's shoulders.

Before the other man could scream in pain, Theodore had already picked up the pillow at the head of the bed and shoved it into his mouth.

The noise woke up the boy in the same room suddenly, and as soon as someone sat up halfway through, Theodore threw a sentence in the face: "Sleep with you, don't be nosy." ”

“……”

It took two or three seconds to judge the current situation, and the other three boys lay down safely again, pulling the quilt over their ears.

- I asked that I was too asleep and didn't hear anything.

Being nosy is a good quality that every Gotham orphan should have.

Confirming that no one wanted to ventilate the news, Theodore bowed his head in satisfaction and patted Jason's peach-turned, tear-stained face lightly.

"What are you crying about, my dear, it's distressing that you're too ugly, so there's no fart. Can shares be sold? ”

"It's okay, listen to me. With your appearance, you can go out and claim that you are the illegitimate child of the Black Mask, and he will definitely believe you, and he doesn't even need to test his DNA. ”

"Mmmm

"Look at you, you're so happy that you're just screaming like an orangutan."

Theodore smiled fakely, his fingers tightened, and he grabbed Jason's throat.

He leaned over the boy, a grim smile twisted into the corners of his lips, and two thin lips pressed close to Jason's ear, close enough to clearly smell the strange mixture of tears and saliva.

"Let me hear you talk about me or Wayne again...... Jason, even if you look like a two-faced man on both sides, I'm sure you're selling your ass. Equity. ”

"Remember my warning."

The words fell, but Theodore still refused to retract.

He continued to choke for two or three seconds, until the other party's eyes had begun to roll, then he let go of his hand, sneered, and threw Jason casually.

Jason, who was the survivor of the catastrophe, clutched his throat and began to cough desperately.

Theodore shook his wrist, and the back of his right hand and arm were covered in blood that Jason had just scratched.

"Look at your masterpiece." Theodore shook his arm in front of Jason and smiled mockingly.

"Next time you're jealous, you can say it directly, baby, I didn't know you were so spicy."

Jason didn't dare to move, but the look in his eyes looked like he wanted to drown Theodore alive in a barrel of chemical waste.

Theodore sneered disdainfully, flipped back downstairs along the windowsill, and re-entered his room.

He relaxed his back and threw himself on the bed, his wild expression finally dissipating, revealing a dark haze that could not be erased under the background.

The scarred right hand was covered in Sior's eyes, trembling slightly.

He admits that he did get a little out of control just now.

But Jason deserved it.

Theodore rolled over and covered his head with the quilt. In a place where no one is looking, he curls up into a shrimp in a distraught.

There will be other ways.

Let him think that there must be other ways.

***

At noon the next day, Bruce Wayne's luxury car parked at the entrance of the orphanage.

The butler with a British demeanor bent down and pulled the car door, and the handsome and tall man stepped out of the car and straightened up, revealing smiling eyes that were like the blue waters of the Aegean Sea under the sunny sun.

He first noticed Theodore in the crowd and, with a friendly smile, extended his hand to the boy.

"Come on, my child."

“……”

Theodore tugged at the corners of his mouth with a smile on his face, and walked numbly with an expression full of new fathers who had just died.

"Here you are, Mr. Wayne."

The man patted him on the shoulder a little reproachfully: "Call me Bruce." ”

“…… Hehe, Bruce. ”

The other party didn't seem to hear the hypocrisy in Theodore's voice, stood beside Theodore, and waved enthusiastically to everyone in the orphanage.

"Is there a friend you'd like to say goodbye to, you can talk to him again – of course, if you miss it, we'll come back every once in a while to visit."

"No, sir."

Theodore also waved perfunctorily to the crowd.

As soon as he raised his arm, Bruce saw the scratch on his right hand that had begun to heal.

"What's going on?"

Batman was pretty sure that when they ate the Bat burger together last night, Theodore didn't have the blood on his hands.

From the direction of force application, these scars should be......

Theodore glanced back and forth a few times, his eyes on Jason, who was hiding in the crowd, and threw him a fierce and threatening look.

- "Remember what I said". He gave Jason a lip sync.

Raising his head, Theodore smiled at Bruce.

"I've got a friend of mine who is spicy, well, you know......"

Bruce: "......"

No, he doesn't understand.

Is there any strange magic in this child?

How come the number of times I see Batman or Bruce Wayne, the topic will deviate from this kind of thing?

And, Batman is very sure that he just saw that "very spicy" "friend" with a clear handprint on his neck that is not covered.

Considering that the time of the incident was last night, judging by the color of the traces, Theodore showed no mercy, as if he was going to strangle the other party.

Patting the boy on the shoulder who lied without blinking, Bruce pretended not to notice anything, and walked side by side with the other party in the direction of the luxury car.

He even winked intimately, and spoke in an intimate and natural tone, as if he was facing a friend on an equal footing.

"It's too early for you, kid - it looks like it's time for me to restrain myself for the next few days, and not let them say I'm setting a bad example for my own children!"

The two pairs of blue eyes looked at each other, also reflecting the handsome figure with black hair and blue eyes.

The next second, Theodore bent his eyes and smiled embarrassedly.

He had to laugh at it.

If you don't hide it with a smile, the swear in Theodore's eyes will come out of the box.

- Of course you will be restrained, and of course you don't have to date so many beauties anymore.

- because you've found a new toy, it's fucking innocent me!

"Get in the car, kid."

Bruce smiled and looked in the direction of the butler, "By the way, let me introduce you, this is our butler, Alfred." ”

Theodore: "!! ”

Suddenly, it was as if a thunderbolt had been struck from head to toe.

Heaven and earth are turned upside down, the wind and clouds change color, and the world becomes a large building block, which is reassembled before Theodore's eyes.

"I'm sorry, Al...... Ahh ”

"'Alfred,' Master Theo."

The tall and thin butler stroked his chest with one hand and bowed to Theodore: "The English name may indeed be a bit tongue-twisting, and Lord Bruce couldn't pronounce it well when he was a child." ”

Bruce's eyes welled up with nostalgia, and his tone became softer.

"If you don't feel comfortable, you can just call him Ah Fu...... What's wrong, why did you suddenly put on this expression? ”

Theodore: "......"

I saw that the boy's face was blue and green, green and black, as if someone had just stuffed a ghost into his mouth.

"Hehe, no need. Mr. Alfred, right? It's okay, I can read it. ”

Theodore is dead today, that is, jumping off the Wayne Tower, even if Batman breaks every bone in his body, he will not care about a butler with a serious temperament, shiny head, with a British accent, full of British style, and his real name is Alfred!

Someone, help.

Who can tell Theodore what kind of nightmare this is!!