[Zhongyingmei] How difficult is it to become a reliable adult

Dick doesn't know what Luthor gave to April, but as far as the current state is concerned, it is beneficial to April.

Epley's abilities shouldn't be able to distort reality.Controlling the brains of owls to perform circuses is possible, but fire hoops, unicycles, and motorcycles are not objects that can be conjured out of thin air.

Everyone, including Dick who later entered the underground base, should be in a large illusion.

The owner of the illusion, Ai Puli, does not know where she is hiding. She should have been afraid at the moment when she activated her ability, otherwise she would not have hidden so deeply in this dream dominated by her.

Dick took the lead in looking around the auditorium, and he opened his claws watching the performance one by one.

These claws just sit quietly in the stands, occasionally let out a laugh or two in response, and clap in unison at the climax of the show, even in the same rhythm and frequency.

But there was no little girl holding a Coke in the stands, kicking her calf to enjoy this funny show.

Dick went all the way from the stands to the stage, and turned over the stacked wooden boxes, which was the backstage of the show.

The last time he took Ai Puli to the circus show, he didn't take her to the backstage. She didn't know that the backstage was not connected to the auditorium, and could only enter and exit through the entrance and exit on the stage.

Those irregularities were made up for by April with her common sense.

Dick went through all kinds of performance props, opened the tangled costumes, and searched the animal cages one by one.

After making a full circle, he poked out from the curtain, and in front of him was a chaotic and noisy stage, where the noble and unruly members of the court were performing ridiculous and chaotic performances.

Dick looked up and suddenly realized something.

He was Grayson, and Aprile was Grayson.The Graysons are a flying family, and their safest place is not on the ground.

Like when he was a kid and he would hide in a tree when he was depressed, Aprily was up there, she was in the sky, on the trapeze jumping platform.

He pushed away the flaming man in the suit, slipped under the dignitaries flying out with a man and a motorcycle, and came to the tall support column in the center of the field.

When he stepped on the safety ladder, for a moment, Dick thought he was eight years old again.He went to a high altitude with the help of Mary and John, and the first thing he learned was how to fall safely.

Now, he would teach Aprily this trick, and no Grayson would be afraid of heights.

He climbed on the safety ladder.Five meters up, the commotion on the field became blurred.Ten meters up, the performing owls and the talons watching the show have become insignificant dots.

The top of this support column is invisible, and ten meters further up is the first diving platform.

This is the platform Dick used to practice before he was officially on the stage. It is a lot shorter than the one used by his parents when they performed.

April is not here.

There was a man half sitting on the edge of the terrace, waiting for Dick.

William Cobb, who was brought to the Harry Circus when he was a teenager, is famous for his superb knife throwing skills.This unique skill later became the cornerstone of his "Strongest Claw".

He named his son "Grey Son of Gotham", which is where "Grayson" comes from.

William stood up. In the narrow stands, great-grandfather and great-grandson looked at each other.

"You all have talents, and the court will be the best home for you." He held out his hand to Dick. "As long as you want to come back, boy, we will always accept you."

"She doesn't need your acceptance." Dick said coldly.

His anger had accumulated to the end, and he was about to break through the thin layer of tinfoil and explode.

He watched "Greyson's Beginning" calmly and indifferently.Harry's Circus was the origin of his life, where he learned his first good qualities.

This place remained in place for countless moments of his confusion, silently healing him—until he discovered that everything was false.

The kind and kind leader is fake, and the friends who are friendly and active are fake.

This is not Grayson's home, but their burial ground, where they struggle between life and death.

They don't love Dick, and the so-called "home" is just an excuse.

They just want to control his life and make him a sharp weapon for the court, a knife in hand.

Now, they find Aprily, a new and useful weapon, a little girl whose life has not yet begun.

"Our conversations don't always seem to go well." William held several throwing knives between his fingers, "You still can't understand us."

William said, "You and I have seen her ability. Such a monster will not be recognized by the world. Only the court is her place."

"She's not a monster."

Dick stepped on the last line of the platform, and he had no way out.

But he was no longer the little boy who fell from the sky and waited for someone to catch him.

He grew from being protected to being a protector.He has encountered a bad thing, and he wants to show Aprily a very good thing.

Because Dick Grayson isn't alone anymore, he's April Grayson's dad.

The Kari stick fended off the flying knife, and rubbed against William's machete to create dazzling sparks.Two pairs of eyes stared at one place with hatred.

All the accumulated emotions became an erupting volcano, burning everything in sight.

"She's not a monster, she's—my daughter!"

Anger gave Dick the upper hand in a contest of strength, and he pushed William off the platform with brute force.

William used throwing knives to hang himself on the edge of the platform in the fall, and he tried to hold himself up.

Dick stood in front of him. "This is her fantasy. You can't die. Of course, Talon can't die."

With a light kick, he kicked William's knife away, becoming the only person left on the rooftop.

He looked up, and the target was still farther away.He vaguely saw a huge shadow.

It was an elephant.

There are elephants in circuses, but an elephant in a trapeze show is a weird thing.

Dick and Aprily mentioned that he had an elephant friend in the circus.In the later Harry Circus full of enemies, this is rare.

So Ai Puli also classified this creature as safe.There she was, on the elephant's back.

The elephant stepped on the highest platform with a flexible and strange posture. Its huge body was three or four times larger than the platform.Dick climbed up with difficulty from the other direction.

Aprile is curled up on the back of an elephant, a sleeping kitten, curling itself up into a sphere.

She slept very restlessly, her brows were wrinkled and furrowed, and she curled up a little more from time to time.

Dick sat next to her, looked at it, and put his hand on her nose.

A few seconds later, the little girl who forgot to breathe through her mouth woke up in shock and anger.

She looked around and found the culprit, accusing angrily, "How can you pinch someone's nose while they are sleeping? Six-year-olds are more mature than you!"

"It's about why you can't breathe through your mouth," Dick said frankly, "newborn babies can breathe through their mouths."

Ai Puli said quietly, "Dad, you are so annoying. This must be the reason why you still have an empty house."

She got a steel finger from her dear father, and a small red spot appeared on her forehead, "You are not gentle at all, bad father."

Dick lifted her up and looked left and right to make sure there were no unnecessary wounds on her body.

He finally relaxed and put the girl firmly on the elephant's back.

"Everyone is here," he said to April. "You've been sleeping too long, and other people will be worried."

Ai Puli just remembered, "Where are Joe and Damian, are they okay?"

"Ah Fu is taking care of them." Dick looked around, looking for an exit that would allow them to leave, "When you go back, you have to thank them in person. How about I take you to the video game city?"

Speaking of "going back", April suddenly flinched.

She became less confident and retracted a chubby ball nervously.

"I, can I go back?" she asked carefully, "I caused you a lot of trouble, and besides, they said I was a little monster."

The child said sadly, "People like me in the anime are either the ultimate villain, or the former villain who finally cleans up the weak three points and surrenders."

Dick poked her on the forehead, this time paying attention to control, "You are so young, why do you have so many thoughts."

"In this family, there are guys who stuff heads in duffel bags, electronic monsters who can chase Batman all over the city when they were young, and little assassins who can fly airplanes and feed fish to the teacher at 1.3 meters. You mix among them, It couldn't be more normal."

Ai Puli was completely comforted, she thought about it for a moment, then nodded heavily, "You are right, Dad."

Dick spread his hands, "Yes, we are a strange family, so there will be all kinds of strange family members. You fit our family style very well."

April handed Dick her hand, and she whispered comfortingly, "I can't drive, I can't fly, I haven't stuffed a head in a duffel bag. I'm definitely not the last one in this family."

Dick took her hand and pulled her up, "Now, how do we get out?"

Ai Puli pointed down, and the stage and auditorium became invisible shadows in the distance, only the swirling wind was waiting for them.

"Jump down," April said, "and you can go back."

She asked Dick, "Are you afraid?"

Dick shrugged.At this moment, he began to shrink, and his handsome face became immature. The eight-year-old acrobatic starlet and Ai Puli stood hand in hand on the highest diving platform.

"Of course not," he said, his voice growing younger. "I've been waiting for this moment since I was born. Serious people go to their graves."

"Well, I'm scared," April admitted. "And your puns are really not funny."

"I'm sad," Dick said.

They held hands and jumped off the back of an elephant in the sky together.

Aprile tried to close her eyes, but Dick held her tight.The howling wind blew past their ears, and the father and daughter fell downward in the endless sky.

"Don't be afraid." He gave Aprily a big smile.

"I'll catch you, someone will catch us."