Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics.

Chapter 21 The Auction Begins (Favorites! Read More!)

"Hey, if Master Bruce was here, he would definitely make the same choice as you."

Alfred sighed, instead of continuing to dissuade Dick, he quickly switched his role from Wayne butler to Bat-family assistant.

"Do you want to tell Director Gordon that the strange thief Kidd has sneaked into the auction venue? We can let the police conduct another screening of the people in the venue."

"No, we have no evidence to prove this to the police. Kaito Kidd pointed out my identity on the card, which means that only I can participate in this game."

Without even thinking about it, Dick turned down the offer to ask Gordon for help.

Saying that the Phantom Thief Kidd has sneaked in for no reason will only make the police doubt themselves, and the only thing they can prove is Kidd's card.

But the name on the card was Robin, not Dick, and unless someone else got the exact same card and more than one or two had it, Dick's secret identity would be revealed.

He couldn't change into a Robin uniform and ask, because he couldn't explain the origin of the card, and Dick had already foreseen the scene where the police would ask for his face to verify his identity when he saw him.

"If there is no police to assist in the inspection, how are you going to find Kaitou Kidd? The total number of people participating in the auction is close to 1000!"

Alfred asked puzzled.

"It doesn't matter, Batman and I have always been the police's foreign aid, and we haven't let the police become our own foreign aid. I can handle it alone, and... I have some clues about Kaitou Kidd's plan."

Dick shifted his gaze to the crowded place and narrowed his eyes to examine everyone.

"I really want to see what surprise Kidd is talking about."

"So what should we do now?"

Seeing that Dick seemed confident, Alfred asked.

"Of course doing what we're supposed to be doing—eating dinner."
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After a while, in the public toilet behind the venue.

Dean took off his original waiter disguise and put on a new one.

That's right, the waiter who ordered Alfred and Dick before was Dean pretending to be.

As for how he got into the auction venue, it started when Dean knocked out the chef trainee Tom.

Dean, who pretended to be Tom, first continued to do odd jobs in the back kitchen. No matter what the job was, as long as his colleagues didn't want to do it, he would take it on himself.

A newcomer who has just joined the job and has not yet adapted to the intensity of work works so hard, the result is obvious.

Dean soon became paralyzed from exhaustion, lying on the ground with difficulty even moving a finger, which made the other masters feel unbearable.

Especially when he kept calling Tom to take out the trash before, he thought it was because he irritated him by shouting at Tom, and now he was too embarrassed to call Tom even if the trash can was full.

Although they felt a little strange that Tom suddenly became so diligent, no one suspected that Tom was a fake.

Because all the staff in the kitchen have passed the identity verification of the police in advance, they have subconsciously determined that these colleagues are real.

And the back door is equipped with monitoring, as long as you don't take the initiative to leave the monitoring range, there is no possibility of accidents.

In addition, everyone is already very busy at work, and there is no extra time to think about it.

This is a kind of inertia in thinking, no one will doubt the person who has been proven, which is why Dean chose to pretend to be Tom.

After all, it is impossible to repeatedly verify everyone who has left their sight. Whether it is the person verifying or the person being verified will eventually be unable to carry out due to the irritability of one party or even both parties.

In short, in the eyes of all the staff in the kitchen, Tom's body has been overwhelmed, and if he continues, he may die suddenly.

It would be fine in ordinary times, but now is an extraordinary period, with so many big figures in the hotel, it is absolutely impossible to have an accident at this time.

Ever since, the tired and paralyzed "Tom" was changed positions, and came to the venue restaurant as an orderer and delivery person, which is commonly known as serving dishes.

The hotel's kitchen is not only on the first floor, but on every floor, but the kitchen on the first floor is the largest, while the kitchens on other floors are relatively smaller.

The work of the kitchen on the first floor is mainly to process and prefabricate the ingredients to a certain extent, and there are only a few dishes made from finished products.

Then the processed ingredients and pre-made dishes are transported to the kitchens on each floor through the staff elevator, and then the final meals on the table are made.

In this way, Dean was ordered to push a large cart of ingredients to the kitchen on the eighteenth floor, and then started serving the dishes.

It didn't take long for him to discover Dick and Alfred's arrival.

The collision with Vicki Weir, the dropped dinner plate, were all intentionally done by Dean in order to send that card to Dick.

After delivering the cards, Dean left the venue as soon as possible and changed his disguise.

He knew that when Dick saw the card, the suspicion would be locked on the waiter and Vicky Vail, and that if Dean continued to maintain his original disguise, it would be tantamount to being exposed.

Although this would lead to the inexplicable loss of a serving plate, there are a lot of staff in the restaurant, and they won't be able to find out for a while.

When they found out, the auction would probably have started a long time ago, so it wouldn't matter to Dean at that time.

Unless Dick mentioned that Kaito Kidd might be disguised as a waiter, Dean was sure that the former would never do it, and he couldn't, because that's the downside of a secret identity.

Looking at his watch, Dean smiled meaningfully.

"The auction is about to officially start. What do you think Robin will do? Will he be scared away because I revealed his identity—"

Dean asked as if talking to himself, and then turned his head to look at the rich man who was unconscious and tied up on the toilet.

"Mr. Gray Tad Ethan?"
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Not long after, the auction officially started.

The huge curtain between the auction place and the entertainment place finally unfolded, and nearly a thousand high-class people in the venue entered the auction place one after another, looking for seats on the rows of stepped seats.

There is obviously no name on the seat, but this group of people seems to follow some unspoken rules. Everyone does not sit randomly, but looks for a seat purposefully.

What row is it in?Left or right?Who is sitting next to me?
These seem to have been decided a long time ago, perhaps in their view, the seat is a symbol of status.

Even if there are more empty seats in the front row than in the back row, people who shouldn't sit in the front row can only obediently squeeze the back row.

However, no matter how distinguished people came in, the seats in the center of the first row were always empty.

Until Dick and Alfred arrived, the two naturally sat in the middle position, and no one dared to object.

Because they represent the uncrowned king of Gotham - Wayne.

(End of this chapter)