Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

"Dick, I really don't understand why you are becoming so emotional now? I know you believe that Dean is not Kaitou Kidd, and I don't want Kaitou Kidd to be your friend, but I believe it can't prove Dean's innocence!"

Barbara's serious words reached Dick's ears.

"Today is the last day. As long as Dean is still at home when Kaito Kidd acts, that is the best way to prove his innocence. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

"Not only with Dean, but even the daily night watch you are getting more and more emotional, which is not a good thing, have you ever wondered what will happen if Batman comes back and sees you in this state think?"

Barbara said seriously.

"A few months ago, when you persuaded Batman to give me a second chance, it wasn't like this. What happened to you? Did you get stimulated by the two defeats against Kaitou Kidd?"

"..."

Dick was silent for a moment, then replied, "I...I just couldn't help thinking, maybe we could do it another way."

"Batman is used to treating everything in front of him with a skeptical attitude, so he asked us to do the same, like Dean, do we really have a solid basis to accuse him of Kaitou Kidd? Not just relying on a near-intuition Doubts?"

"No, we didn't! No motive, no evidence, no witnesses, no clues, but under such circumstances, we sneaked into his house as a matter of course, and even installed surveillance in his house! We seem to think that wantonly violating others Privacy is right, as long as the results are right!"

"Is it really right to do this?"

Dick looked up at the ceiling, not so much to Barbara, but to himself.

Barbara froze. She hadn't expected Dick to say these words.

"I used to regard Batman's words as the truth, and I tried my best to imitate his words and deeds, but as time went by, I don't know why, I felt more and more... I seemed to be living in Batman. in the shadows."

Dick recalls, "You know I was involved in creating the Teen Titans, but you never imagined what kind of mentality I was in when I first met the Titans."

"Donna greeted me first, then Wally came to shake my hand, Roy made a joke about my name, Garth was quiet but warm-hearted, I will never forget the sincere smiles on their faces. "

"But what have I done? On the surface, I played wildly with them and made troubles together, but secretly I was always thinking about how to defeat them, using their weakness of character and trust in me."

Dick shook his head and smiled wryly, "Because that's the task Batman entrusted to me, and that day happened to be my fourteenth birthday."

"During the days of being with the Titans, I suddenly discovered that being a vigilante can be sunny even with the head covered. I am increasingly doubting whether Batman's approach is correct... I, I know I am wrong, but I just couldn't help myself."

Listening to Dick's narration, Barbara didn't know what to say for a while.

"No, maybe you're right, Dick, but this is Gotham, and we're not like them."

Finally, Barbara sighed.

"Um."

Dick hummed lightly.

"In short, when today's matter is over, I will go and get back the monitor at Dean's house. As for the conflict of ideas between you and Batman, I don't want to be involved at all."

Barbara said so.

"no problem."

After finishing speaking, the two ended the call at the same time, concentrating on the task in front of them.

In view of the current interpretation of the notice letter, Kaito Kidd's target "Dragon Egg Ruby Necklace" is stored on the top floor of the Central Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, while his appearance location is the Jungle Exhibition Hall next to the Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall.

So Dick and Barbara decided to split up. The former is responsible for protecting the necklace, while the latter is trying to stop Kaitou Kidd on the way.

In their view, Dick's identity as Robin has been exposed in front of Kidd the Phantom Thief, and asking him to stay in the jungle pavilion might force Kidd to change his plan and start with other pavilions.

The Kaitou Kidd does not know Barbara, but is a better candidate.

At the same time, in the smoking room of the cultural relics exhibition hall.

A man with a sullen face had a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He took out a matchbox from his pocket and struck a match.

With a bang, the match ignited.

The strange thing is that the man didn't use a match to light his cigarette, but just stared at the swaying flame on the match in a daze.

Waiting for the flame to go out, he lit the next match, and continued to stare at the flame in a daze, repeating this action over and over again.

Everyone who came here to smoke looked at him strangely, but no one went up to talk to him.

Few even dared to come within two meters of this man.

This is obviously a person with an abnormal mind. In Gotham, you can provoke anyone you want, but it is best not to provoke such a person.

In the jungle pavilion, Barbara glanced vigilantly at every passerby. Everyone present might be the disguise of Kaitou Kidd, and she couldn't miss any detail.

Once anyone was found to be acting suspiciously, Barbara would go over and question him.

She is now a temporary adviser to the GCPD, and although her tenure is only one day, she is able to freely exercise her investigative powers during this period.

Without this layer of identity, Barbara would not be able to interrogate suspicious people face to face as soon as she found a suspicious person. After all, not everyone has an unreasonable detective aura.

And she can't let Batgirl get too public.

Besides Barbara, Gordon is also here.

On the one hand, he was very worried about his daughter's safety. On the other hand, after the "Pink Dream" incident, Gordon realized that it was not enough to just stay in the monitoring center to command.

The Phantom Thief Kidd may repeat his tricks to mislead them, so Gordon decided to go to the front line and arrest him at the location where the Phantom Thief Kidd appeared.

In this way, the time passed little by little, and soon it was close to ten o'clock in the evening.

At this moment, Barbara suddenly felt the phone vibrate in her pocket.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, took out her phone and opened it.

I saw Dean's bedroom displayed on the screen.

Judging from the picture, Dean should have just walked into the bedroom, already wearing pajamas.

At the same time he held a book in his hand, a rather remarkable book.

"Blueprint for the Future Development of Computer Technology", the author is Will Magnus, a top scientist at Star Lab, who is rumored to be researching and creating artificial intelligence life forms.

This book can be regarded as the most cutting-edge ideas and concepts in the computer industry, and it is almost impossible for normal people to understand it. Even Barbara felt that many of the contents of this book were too obscure.

Barbara is not surprised why Dean, a magician, reads hard-core books related to computer science, well, in fact, she is very surprised or even unable to understand, but she is used to it.

Because Dean had been reading the book since the first day she spied on him.