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Jason feels that his body has been a little strange lately.

"hiss!"

There was another cramping pain in his calf. This was the third time he had cramps today. The first time he had cramps, he almost fell from the air. It was so sudden without warning that Jason had to stop. Stop training and wait for the throbbing pain to pass by itself.

"Master Jason, what's the matter?"

When Alfred walked into the training room with a cup of hot milk, he found that Jason was not training as usual, but sat on the ground in a daze and asked worriedly.

"Oh it's all right……"

Jason rubbed his throbbing calf indiscriminately, took the milk handed over by Alfred and drank it.Alfred was considerate and didn't continue to ask. Boys of this age always have a lot of things on their minds.

Jason thought the incident would pass soon, but the pain showed no signs of subsiding, instead it became more and more serious.After being woken up one night by an ant-like itching from the crevice of his knee, Jason thought he might need a checkup.

"Report it to me!"

As soon as Jason got off the medical examination table, he couldn't wait to see his health report.

"Oh, Master Jason, please don't be in such a hurry, the report will take some time to type out"

Alfred was surprised by Jason's behavior. He had never cared about this kind of routine medical report before, and Bruce would definitely tell him if it was abnormal.

Jason squatted next to the printer, carefully looking at his medical report.

The heartbeat is faster than ordinary people, the hormones are a little high, the body fat ratio is relatively low, and the weight is thin, everything else is normal.

"Is there anything that bothers you?"

Seeing Jason staring at the report so seriously, Alfred asked curiously.

"...no...no...nothing"

Everything was normal in the Batcave's physical examination report, and the school's routine physical examination report also concluded that everything was normal.But the uncomfortable pain in the bone crevice did not intend to weaken in the slightest.Jason frowned and stared at the paper report in his hand, wishing he could make a hole in it.

"What's up with him?"

The back of Jason leaving in a daze caught Bruce's attention.

"Boys at this age are always a little sentimental, maybe they are worried that they will not grow taller."

Alfred, who raised Bruce and Dick, speaks with authority.

"...It should be soon. The report shows that the male hormone level in Jason's body has started to rise, and he should have almost entered the development period."

Jason's age has always been a mystery, because he is too thin. Even if he suffered from severe malnutrition due to an abnormal diet, Jason's body is still too thin compared to his peers.

Bruce very much suspected that Jason's birthday registered in the official database was written casually by his irresponsible father.However, through the testing of the most advanced instruments in the Batcave, although there is no way to accurately determine the date of birth to the day, the time difference between him and Dick by about two and a half years should not be too outrageous.From this point of view, the time when the man registered at the beginning did not deviate too much.

"Oh, then I should start to need to prepare new clothes for Master Jason."

Jason didn't know anything about the conversation between the two in the Batcave. He was sitting in his room searching the Internet for all the information about joint pain.

"Hope it's not some troublesome bug"

With the help of the advanced and developed network, all the cases of internal pain of the calcaneal head were quickly listed.

Gout, certainly not.It hurts but not to the point where I can't walk.Moreover, in the case of gout, the urea content in the blood test should suggest something, but his blood tests were all normal.

Arthritis, considering that I used to wear very little and lived in a cold room, this is slightly more likely.But isn't Dick more likely to have this disease than him?That guy ran around with bare legs when he was a kid.

Jason looked at the information fed back by the computer with a headache.Each one was somewhat similar to his leg pain, but not exactly the same.

Finally, his eyes settled on a paper on early bone cancer.

Bone cancer is the most terrifying and serious of all bone diseases. Not to mention the extremely low survival rate, the pain is also quite great.Moreover, once this disease is discovered, it is basically late, and the early symptoms vary from person to person, but some people's early symptoms are joint pain...especially at night...

"...No way..."

Probably not. Jason kept denying this possibility. If he had this disease, it would be impossible for Bruce to detect it during his routine physical examination, and he didn't feel any similar lumps on his knees. thing.

Jason's hands subconsciously touched his knee to make sure that he didn't touch anything else from it.

"Master Jason?"

Alfred knocked on the door, waking Jason who was in a daze.

"Oh, it's patrol time"

Jason belatedly realized that it was past patrol time, and hurriedly ran from the room to the Batcave.

Alfred felt a little uneasy that Jason would forget the patrol time. Seeing the computer that Jason hadn't turned off in time, he hesitated but walked over.After seeing what's on your computer:

"Oh, my god"

Tonight's night patrol did not go well for Jason. The occasional throbbing pain in his calf and the constant pain in his knee made him unable to concentrate.In addition, after reading those messages, Jason's mind was filled with irritability, and because of his irritability, he became extremely ruthless.

"Robin!"

Batman's voice awakened Jason's rationality like a basin of ice water in winter, and Jason realized that the little bastard who was grabbed and beaten by him was completely speechless.

"what happened?"

Bruce knew the ruthlessness in Jason's bones, from the unconscious words and behaviors in daily life, that kind of thing always seeped out of Jason intentionally or unintentionally.Whether that was something that Jason was born with, or whether his later life carved this characteristic into the boy's bone marrow, he didn't know.

But Jason's display of this trait so nakedly today still aroused Bruce's concern.

Glancing at the stunned bastard, Jason stopped his actions, lowered his head and didn't have the slightest intention to say anything.

The two of them were silent all the way until the Batmobile returned to its parking space in the cave.

Alfred walked over and saw Jason who had been silent with his head down and asked worriedly:

"Is there something wrong with Master Jason?"

"……No"

"I saw what you watched again, please don't look at me like that, you didn't turn off your phone"

Alfred's words also caught Bruce's attention. Jason's performance today can be described as irritable, not like him at all.

"what happened?"

"Master Jason is going through all about knee and bone ailments"

Hearing what Alfred said, Bruce turned his head to look at Jason, and asked as slowly as possible:

"What's wrong?"

"...knee pain"

Jason pouted and said.

Hearing what Jason said, Bruce and Alfred exchanged glances and asked again:

"How long has it been hurting?"

"Just a few days"

"Very serious"

"Um"

"How serious?"

“Woke up sore at night”

"Are there any other symptoms?"

"Still having cramps"

Hearing what Jason said, Bruce raised his eyebrows, reached out and rubbed Jason's head and said:

"Don't worry, it's a good thing, but just in case I'll give you a checkup"

"Good thing?"

Jason didn't understand why pain was a good thing.

"When everyone is in the growth period, their height will grow suddenly. This requires bones, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles to grow in a large amount in a short period of time, which will cause pain, although everyone's pain is different. , but will feel pain, we call this phenomenon growing pains”

Jason couldn't digest what Bruce had explained to him.

"Congratulations, Master Jason, you will grow taller from now on"

Alfred looked at Jason who was stunned, and gave him the final answer.