Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"This is Gotham Channel 7. I'm host Recy White, and I have some news for you now."

"Recently, Kidd's trailer of stealing the 'Hope Blue Diamond' has aroused heated discussions among Gotham people. Yesterday was the day of Kidd's final trailer. I believe the audience in front of the screen is very curious about the outcome of this matter. "

"According to the Orpheum Jewelry Exhibition Hall, Phantom Thief Kidd was successfully intercepted by the police while escaping, and the stolen 'Hope Blue Diamond' was recaptured. Although Phantom Thief Kidd was still allowed to escape in the end, it was the Gotham Police who For the first time, the stolen items were successfully recovered from Kaitou Kidd, instead of being returned by Kaitou Kidd on his own initiative.”

"So whether Kaitou Kidd's first defeat was what people imagined? An anonymous insider revealed to this station that in fact Kaitou Kidd did not intend to take away the 'Hope Blue Diamond' from the beginning. He The real purpose was to break the long-standing curse on the diamond, and what the police intercepted was not the real Kaitou Kidd, but just a doll that Kidd deliberately left behind."

"We don't know whether the so-called breaking of the curse is literal, or whether Kaito Kidd wants to tell people that the legend of the 'Hope Blue Diamond' curse is just a marketing ploy."

"The anonymous tip lacks substantiation and its credibility is questionable. The Gotham police did not disclose any inside information on this matter. Please judge for yourself what the truth is."

In Gotham High School, Dean was lying on the table, boredly watching the news program on his phone.

When he came to the classroom, there were not many people in it, and there was plenty of time before class, so he watched the news.

Let me state first that the anonymous person is not Dean, and he does not know who disclosed the information to the media.

It may be that the media gave some money to a policeman who was at the scene, or it may be someone else who did it.

Whoever he is, it's not a bad thing.

"...The last piece of news, it is said that several bizarre murders occurred in a certain neighborhood on Gotham's Upper West Side a few days ago. The death of the deceased was extremely horrific, as if they had been sucked dry by a vampire from mythology and legend. It was bloody, and many witnesses claimed to have seen huge bats at night, and they were suspected to be the initiators of this case.”

"Witnesses insist that it was not Batman, but a real bat monster. However, apart from eyewitness testimonies, no corresponding videos or pictures have been released yet, so it is impossible to confirm whether the bat monster really exists."

"The response of the GCPD Upper West Branch to this case is that there are no bat monsters in the world, and there are no people who have been sucked to death by bat monsters. Currently, GCPD Chief James Gordon is investigating the case and hopes that he will The real culprit can be caught as soon as possible.”

"Thank you everyone for watching, today's episode..."

Before the host finished his concluding remarks, Dean swiped his phone to exit the playback interface.

"The giant bat monster that killed several people, is there such a super creature in Gotham? I thought Toxic Lady and Killer Croc were the typical representatives of Gotham's super villains."

After hearing the last piece of news, Dean thought to himself.

Since Dean's understanding of the DC world is not very deep, he has always held an attitude of preferring to believe all information that is like urban legends.

After all, before Batman became widely known, he was also circulated among the civilian public in the form of urban legends.

When Dean was in high school, the urban legend of the 'sewer crocodile' was quite popular in Gotham, but few people really believed it.

The whole school was talking about sewer crocodiles, and there were countless jokes. Only Dean took it seriously. During that time, he deliberately avoided the manhole covers when walking.

What happened later was very simple. The sewer crocodile really appeared. It was a super criminal called Killer Crocodile. It looked like a humanoid crocodile monster. It was said that he was a human suffering from atavism.

Batman and Robin defeated Killer Croc when Robin was just a little kid.

Since Killer Croc was arrested and imprisoned, those who made crazy jokes about sewer crocodiles no longer dare to mention those original words.

Dean estimated that this time it would be a similar situation.

As time goes by, there are more and more people in the classroom.

"Hey...Dean..."

At this time, Dick walked into the classroom with his schoolbag on his back, came to his seat, and weakly greeted Dean.

I saw a pair of thick dark circles on Dick's face, fatigue written all over his face, and he felt a little shaky when he stood up.

"Oh! What did you do yesterday?"

Dean couldn't help but be surprised when he saw Dick's appearance.

"I still want to ask you."

Dick looked at Dean with an unhappy expression and asked, "We agreed to go to the exhibition together yesterday, and you were going to expose Kaitou Kidd's tactics, but where did you go?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Dean asked in confusion, "Didn't you call me early yesterday morning and tell me that Kylena found the bug I put on her and it might be dangerous, and told me not to come?"

"what?"

Dick seemed to be energized for a moment, and asked subconsciously: "When did I tell you this?"

"Have you lost your memory? Well, see for yourself, I still have call records here."

Dean clicked a few times on his phone and showed it to Dick.

"Call number xxxxxxx, call time 8:37 am. This is indeed my phone number, but I don't remember making any calls during that time..."

Dick looked at the call history on Dean's phone, and immediately took out his own phone and pulled up his own call history.

It turned out that at the same time of 8:37, there was actually a call record that should not have been displayed!

Dick's cell phone made a call that he had never made before, and at this moment he suddenly understood what was going on.

"Shet! Kaitou Kidd!"

Soaring anger surged from Dick's heart, and his hands clenched his fists unconsciously.

Then Dean's voice dropped like a bucket of cold water.

"Hey hey hey! Dick! What are you doing? If you force the phone any harder, you will crush it!"

Dick woke up instantly and quickly stopped exerting himself.

At this time, there were several cracks on the screen of his mobile phone, which made Dick heartbroken.

Others thought it would be fun to be a Wayne child, with endless pocket money to spend, but only Dick himself knew best how 'stiff' Bruce was.

You had to listen to Alfred's chores and get an allowance of five dollars a week.

Dick himself had so many girlfriends to date that this little money was not enough to do anything.

In addition to the various equipment and vehicles that are necessary to be Robin, which can be reimbursed at will, most of the personal items that Dick needs in daily life must be earned by working out on his own.

Looking at Dick's uncertain expression, Dean was already smiling in his heart.

Since he dares to pretend to be himself, he must base his thinking on the fact that he really wants to pretend to be 'Dean'.

There's no reason for 'Dean' to show up at the show.

Taking Dick's cell phone away from him was a piece of cake for Dean. It only took him a minute and a half to crack the password on Dick's cell phone.

In order to prevent Dick from having to check the content of the call, Dean also made a call to himself using their voices and mobile phones respectively.