Timothy Jackson Drake is not stupid, on the contrary, he thinks he is at least smarter than his brothers.

"Actually," Tim pointed out, "you don't really like me that much, Rosie."

He could see it.

Of course he could see it.

"Huh..." The blond girl's eyes wandered for a moment, then she smiled, "Then it doesn't matter if you refuse."

Even if this was said, she didn't seem too embarrassed. Tonight's meeting was relaxed and happy, not only because Tim dominated the atmosphere of the dinner, but also because Rosie was obviously more relaxed than in every previous meeting.

——She seems to have broken the shell that closed herself, trying to touch everything in the outside world.

"No, what I want to say is..." Tim finally held up the bouquet of blue roses, which originally only represented "best wishes". Bing has always been able to seize the most suitable opportunity in the battle, "I will make you like me."

"—Are you willing to accept my confession?"

Behind the blue rose is the boy's beautiful blue eyes. Rosie dared to bet that Bruce Wayne also used his beautiful blue eyes to capture so many beauties. Hearing the booing of other guests in the restaurant, she took it with her hand and suppressed a smile. Nod.

["Timothy Drake" fingerprints collected]

Rosie was actually quite curious about why Timothy liked her, but at this moment, a message from [Death Knell] popped up in the computer window.

Deathstroke finally completed the task and kidnapped Bruce Wayne to the agreed place.

And Bruce Wayne is the adoptive father of her new boyfriend.

Rosie: "..."

When she turned to look at Tim, he was staring at the phone, and they both looked up at the same time: "I..."

"There's something wrong with the company," Tim stood up hastily, with an apologetic expression, "I have to—"

"Go and do your work," Rosie tilted her head to indicate, "Merry has been waiting for me for a long time, she will accompany me back."

The two bid farewell in a hurry and went in opposite directions.

Not long after leaving, Tim went underground through the safe house to change into the uniform of Red Robin and then went to the pier. Before that, Afu had told Nightwing to change into the uniform of Batman to lure Deathstroke away.

He didn't know that after Rosie left the restaurant, she turned to the cafe next door, and hacked into the camera to monitor the pier.

She originally wanted to confirm that the death knell mission was completed and let him leave the pier so that he could rescue the innocent and implicated Wayne, but the monitoring showed that Gotham's local superheroes had already rushed to the scene. In theory——

"Deathstroke wasn't up to the task," Rosie shrugged, "and he was overtime."

Before sweeping the city, the vigilantes captured Death Knell's subordinates and rescued the son of the owner of the Celebration Company, and let Rosie know that Death Knell kidnapped a child in order to complete her mission. Then kill the boy smoothly.

Hiring him had been a mistake from the start, Rosie thought, and he hadn't done his job.

Seeing the wealthy Wayne being rescued in the surveillance, and "Batman" beating the death knell violently, Rosie wanted to cut the screen, but suddenly stopped——

[Facial recognition produces errors...]

[The detection shows that the current character does not match the face shape of "Batman". Do you want to update and overwrite the original data? 】

Rosie rubbed her chin and pressed [Save].

Is there more than one Batman?

That's right, the Gotham vigilante works year-round, and it's not impossible to use the shift system. Robin has changed several terms.

……

After tossing all night, the strongest mercenary, Deathstroke, was finally sent to Black Gate Prison. This was not the first time he was imprisoned, and the cell he lived in last time happened to be empty now.

"Nightwing" Dick Grayson is the eldest son of Batman, the first Robin, and he flew to the neighboring city of Brudhaven a long time ago. This time, in order to help conceal Bruce's identity, he hurried over from the neighboring city. At this time, it is impossible to return to Haven City overnight.

That being the case, there was no need to return to the Wayne Manor in the suburbs. He decided to live directly in the safe house in the city. When everyone else dispersed, Dick followed Tim back to his apartment in Gotham City.

"...I remember you also have your own safe house in Gotham," Tim hesitated when he opened the door, "Okay, what do you want to ask me?"

Dick shook the pizza in his hand, passed the owner of the room and put the hot pizza on the coffee table: "Don't be nervous, Tibao, I'm just curious... Are you in a good mood?"

In the family, Dick is probably the one who is the best at sensing other people's emotions, so he always has to act as a mediator.

——But no one can understand why he is always the one who gets dumped in love?

Tim sat on the sofa and took a moment to get his coffee cup: "You can think that... I completed the plan ahead of schedule that would take months to complete."

Dick was already unpacking the pizza boxes, and he was trying to find a can of iced Coke in his coffee-geek brother's freezer.

He casually asked, "The company's new plan?"

"No," Tim said deeply, "the relationship is confirmed."

Dick quickly caught the two cans of coffee that fell, and turned his head in a daze: "...with whom?"

This is too sudden, is it someone they all know?

Dick propped himself up on the table and sat down next to Tim in a backflip, which he did with ease, and Tim threw his head back, as if he was about to fall asleep just like that.

But Dick didn't let him go: "It's Stephanie, Helena, Bluebird? Could it be Cass? It can't be Barbara?"

—Barbara was Dick's first love.

Tim: "..."

"No," he could only say, "you don't know her."

"She has a...dangerous, powerful yet vulnerable quality," he muses. "I don't know how to help her, so I can't help but get close to her."

But to be honest, in the beginning, it was actually because Rosie defeated him on the Internet. Tim had to admit that he would be attracted to someone who was stronger than himself, so he went to the hotel to meet Rosie instead of Bruce. This is where it all started.

"..." Dick said in a weird voice, "Bruce also has dangerous, powerful yet vulnerable qualities, and after finding out that he has become more and more violent because of the loss of Jason, you became his Robin."

Tim looks like he's downed a ton of coffee in one gulp.

Dick: "Seriously, Tebow, you don't have an Electra complex, do you?"

"You're thinking too much, Dickie," Tim said, scratching his hair. "I don't know how it feels, but I think she needs me, and..."

Well, he gave up, and he couldn't figure out what really touched him, maybe Timothy Drake just had an excessive desire to help others, maybe he just saw the face and fell in love at first sight, maybe he was powerless And he feels guilty and even wants to make up for it. Maybe he faintly feels that "Rosie Spade" has secrets, and those secrets attract him... But Tim is sure that he can't lose himself to solve the mystery. Choose confession and pursuit, just because he likes that girl.

After finishing the pizza and listening to the ins and outs of their acquaintance, Dick shrugged: "Then will you tell her who you are as Red Robin?"

"Maybe," Tim snatched the last piece of pizza, "someday in the future, I will."

……

"I won't tell him who I am, there's no need to involve ordinary people in such a complicated matter," Rosie said to Seven of Spades, "and...maybe we will break up soon."

They returned to Newark in the early hours of the morning, because something happened at the underground base, and Rosie thought of mentioning a word to her freshly released "boyfriend" just before boarding the car, but the other party didn't reply, probably already asleep.

The Venus Industrial Zone was the same as when they left. Rosie and Magneto walked in front side by side. After entering the underground of the main building, they soon met the person who caused them to return early—the mutant Caliban.

This bald, albino, yellow-eyed mutant was a former 5 of Spades inmate at Lonely Island Prison. After the prison riot, he was "forced" to join S.H.I.E.L.D. In theory, he is working for S.H.I.E.L.D. on his own Ability to search for mutants.

Caliban escaped, however, and he brought dire news—

Inside S.H.I.E.L.D., there is Hydra!

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