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"Master Bruce, what are your plans for Master Jason?"

The child trafficking case seems to have come to an end, at least the remaining things are all the police's work, but the crimes in Gotham will not come to an end just because one case is solved.

Batman will never stop, sitting in front of the computer as before, continuing to track the Scarecrow and new cases.

Alfred was standing next to him with a plate of snacks, and asked a question abruptly when he was concentrating on analyzing the clues at hand.

"what?"

"Let me remind you, the decision to send Master Jason to boarding school was because he didn't know your identity. Master Bruce"

Alfred's words successfully drew Bruce's gaze away from the screen.

Donating Dick to this dangerous life was something Bruce had always regretted, but there was no other way, and he saw his vengeful self in the eyes of the kid.He knew that if he didn't give Dick a lead and a way, the kid would run off on his own.Let a nine-year-old child go to a gangster with a certain power for revenge, the result is obvious, he can't watch that child die so he adopts Dick and trains him to be Robin.

He was glad that Dick had overcome his hatred and did not choose selfishness, but at the same time he completely cut off the possibility that Dick should have stayed away from this dangerous life.

"Ah Fu, I don't want to involve a child in this kind of life..."

"Master Bruce, you seem to have misunderstood what I mean. What I mean is that you still plan to have a relationship with Master Jason only as a patron? Or do you plan to adopt Master Jason?"

Alfred didn't give Bruce any chance to escape, and directly said what he meant completely.

"...stay away from me, he can grow up more safely"

"After he knew your identity?"

"Afu"

"I think Master Jason will completely teach you how to be a father"

Alfred rarely interferes with Bruce's decisions, but he also has his stubbornness and ideas about certain matters.

The arrival of Dick did make Bruce's life a little more popular. He began to try to learn how to communicate normally with others, not the kind of Gotham baby communication.They are father and son in name, but the small age gap makes them look more like a pair of brothers with a big age gap.

They will have conflicts, like the conflicts between ordinary people, they will quarrel and reconcile.

Dick will run away from home because of Bruce's stubbornness, and Bruce will be troubled by Dick's rebellion, just like ordinary people.

That was an experience that Alfred couldn't give Bruce, so he sincerely thanked Dick for coming.But there was one thing Dick couldn't hand over to Bruce, and that was letting go of the hatred.

Dick, like Bruce, was full of hatred for crime, and this hatred became the original motivation for them to deal with crime in Gotham.Unlike Jason, even if he was treated like this by his biological father, his attitude towards him was only disgust rather than hatred.

Alfred hopes to convince Bruce to adopt Jason, and he has a hunch that the boy can bring Bruce a new attitude to life.

From Jason's attitude, Alfred knew that he wanted to be the new Robin very much. That kid's ability to pretend to trust people was too low, and that kind of expectant attitude was so obvious that it could infect others. , is still a child after all...

Alfred knew Bruce's concerns. He blamed himself after Dick was injured, so he forbade Dick to be Robin, and this was also the trigger for Dick to run away from home...

He also doesn't want a child to be involved in this kind of life again, but he selfishly hopes that having an ordinary child can help Bruce find everything an ordinary person should have...

"...Jason's father is still alive..."

"You know I'm not talking about that again"

This issue was put on hold, and Alfred could only give Bruce some opinions, and the final decision was always in Bruce's hands...

Jason was walking aimlessly in the corridor with a cigarette in his mouth. Alfred's question made him unable to focus on reading a book all day today.

Sometimes Jason would lie on his own bed, feeling unreal about everything in front of him, so unreal that he couldn't sleep, feeling that once he fell asleep and opened his eyes again, he would return to the pile of tattered papers in the box...

He didn't belong here, unlike Dick, who was officially adopted by Bruce, but he wasn't.He was just picked up by Bruce with good intentions, and he was occasionally involved in the case that Bruce was investigating, that's all...

"...too greedy...becoming the adopted son of the richest man in Gotham..."

Jason sat casually on the window sill in the living room, watching the snowflakes outside flick ash into the paper bag in his hand, feeling ridiculous at his inexplicable delusion.

"Bruce? I heard you wanted Jason to be Robin?"

Barbara's voice came from the corridor, and the female-specific high-pitched voice easily penetrated the thick wooden door and entered the living room.

"Not Robin"

"...I'm not against it, but whether it's Robin or whatever, I honestly don't think it's a good idea"

Jason lay on the door and listened to the conversation outside.

"...Bruce, listen to me, I have no other meaning nor discriminate against Jason's background, but you have to know that red hair and green eyes are too conspicuous, you can't hide Jason's existence for too long, nowhere The absent paparazzi can easily find out that there will be another boy next to you. You have to know that you are a celebrity. At least half of the paparazzi in Gotham live on your news. Gotham baby is adopted again A little boy with red hair and green eyes appeared, and a new Robin with red hair and green eyes appeared next to Batman. Anyone with a little brain would associate the two, not to mention that Jason still smokes. Such a strong smell of smoke is easy to detect, I don't think it's a good idea for him to be Robin..."

"I...I could dye my hair"

Before Barbara finished speaking, Jason pushed open the door of the living room and hurriedly retorted.When he found that the eyes of the two people were focused on the cigarette on his right hand at the same time, y hurriedly added:

"I will also quit smoking... oh..."

Bruce looked at Jason who was busy snuffing out the half-smoked cigarette, left a sentence of "I'll wait and see" and then turned and left, leaving Jason standing there in a daze thinking about the meaning of this sentence.

"Then boy, let me see your perseverance, huh~"

Barbara walked over, slapped Jason on the thin shoulder, and followed Bruce's pace after leaving this sentence.

"……Ha ha……"