[Zongyingmi] What can I do, I am also desperate

"Sandra, long time no see."

The middle-aged man with glasses gave Sandra a warm hug. Although Sandra still had a warm smile, when she looked carefully, she could see that compared with the smile she had when she faced Emilia before, she Now the smile is a lot more alienated.

"Mr. Jeffrey, long time no see."

Sandra just hugged her vaguely, then let go of her hand quickly, and the pair of wings that had been raised high following the middle-aged man's movement just now were touched and exposed were drooped down again.The middle-aged man seemed a bit reluctant, but he didn't make any outrageous actions as if he was hindered by Damian's presence.He took the dalmatian and looked around the pet store, and asked familiarly, "Is Daphne not here today?"

"Well, Daphne is out now."

Sandra did not tell the guest Daphne's dynamics like she did to Emilia before, but just gave the other party a rather vague answer, and then reached out to take the dog leash from Jeffrey's hand.

Damian could see clearly holding Sanhua. When Sandra held the dog leash in his hand, the man deliberately grabbed the dog leash for a few seconds, then put his hand on the back of Sandra's hand and touched it. .As for Sandra, as if she didn't feel the strangeness at all, she withdrew her hand calmly, and walked towards the bathroom while leading the dog leash without any strangeness at all.

The way of the weak.

What San and Della said to him when they were taking care of Jasmine flashed in Damian's mind.The young boy lowered his eyelids, his slender and thick eyelashes drooping slightly, covering his sunken and deep green eyes.The thick greenness melted in those emerald-like eyes, and finally melted into the swamp-like depth of the eyes.

Jeffrey seems to be particularly jealous of Daphne. He also seems to be a regular customer of the pet shop. After recognizing Damian, he seemed a little surprised, and then walked around the other table in the pet shop a little restlessly, occasionally He also teases cats and dogs, turns his head frequently and keeps peeking at Damian secretly, as if hesitating whether to come up and strike up a conversation with Damian.

Titus obviously doesn't have such patience.The loyal Great Dane keenly sensed that another human being in the room was constantly looking at his little master, and vigilantly began to bark threateningly at the only man who was staying in the same space with Damian .

As a medium-sized dog, Dalmatian is not enough compared to a super-large dog like the Great Dane.In addition, the old housekeeper and Damian took good care of Titus, and the tall black Great Dane did not look as beautiful and friendly as a Dalmatian. The man who had been looking at Damian was startled. Jumping, he looked away in embarrassment and stared at the cats on the other side without saying a word.

Damian sneered in his heart, and patted Titus on the head, indicating that he could lie back down.The Great Dane, who was comforted by the owner, returned to the original place docilely, but none of the ears that stood upright on the top of the head after the ears were cut relaxed and watched the surroundings, as long as there is a little movement, the Great Dane will be vigilant gaze.

Jeffrey became more and more nervous in such a depressing environment, and thin beads of sweat began to ooze from his forehead.He took out a handkerchief from his arms and kept wiping his sweat. He tilted his head in embarrassment and didn't dare to look at Damian. His Dalmatian was also cleaned quite quickly, and it only took a few ten minutes. Sander Then La led the Dalmatians out of the bathroom.

Seeing Jeffrey rushing out the door almost in a panic, Sandra was in a good mood.Jeffrey told her several times overtly and secretly that he wanted to date her, but she refused all of them.When Daphne was around before, Daphne would help her to fend off this person, but Daphne always liked to touch her when she didn't pay attention to this person, she simply did not move much, just touched her hands and waist, otherwise even if she didn't want to If you bring trouble to Daphne, she will also find a time to hire some punks to put this guy in a sack and beat him up.

"Is this what you said, the way the weak survive?"

Damian tilted his head and watched Sandra squatting down to comfort the coquettish coal rolling at her feet. Sandra didn't need to turn her head to guess the disdain on his face.

"Would rather not live a life of dignity?"

"I know Gotham better than you," Sandra didn't look annoyed at all, she just stroked Coal's belly gently, then stood up with him in her arms, and faced Darwin with a smile. Mian, "For the weak, there is no option of dignity. You can only get more by being alive. I don't want to cause trouble for Daphne, and Jeffrey's behavior is within my tolerance, so I can pretend that I don't know. his conduct."

"If it's something I can afford to lose that could prevent a conflict or worse trouble, why would I cling to it?"

This is a fairly simple matter of trade-offs. Sandra learned to avoid being beaten and part of her food when she was in the orphanage. She also learned to give a little begging property and those who always Watching her beggars and bums co-exist with malicious intentions.

If she could protect herself by sacrificing some interests, then she wouldn't mind sacrificing some of her interests.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Come on, Sanhuaer, little fat man, Titus, let me comb your hair."

The remaining three guests will come in the afternoon, and Sandra simply waved to Sanhua who was at Damian's place. Titus hesitated for a moment, but soon ran towards Sandra wagging his tail cheerfully, and put his head into Sandra's palm affectionately, completely unaware that he just met Sandra today.

"titus!"

Damian didn't expect titus to betray so easily, so he yelled angrily, but titus tilted his head and looked at his master in puzzlement when he heard Damian's call, as if he didn't understand why Damian was angry.Sanhua, nestled in his arms, heard Sandra's call and abandoned the newly appointed cat climbing frame without hesitation, ran all the way to Sandra's feet and rubbed Sandra's ankle affectionately, and then got Received the treatment of being held in Sandra's arms.

Although the first thing she did after being picked up was to slap the coal lying in Sandra's arms.

"Don't be sad, little bird," Sandra smiled at Damian as if she had succeeded in a prank, "You will get used to this treatment."

After all, this was the treatment she received when she first entered the pet shop.

But now, for these guys, her status is already faintly above Daphne.

Damian glared at Sandra angrily, and all the animals scattered in the pet shop began to gather towards Sandra, no matter their size or breed, they began to invite favors and act like a baby to Sandra.And Sandra is obviously used to such scenes, she easily got away from a group of frantically flicking tails, brushed the fur of the parrots flying towards her a few times, and then quickly slipped in with the cat and the dog. the bathroom.

It was almost noon when Sandra took care of these little ancestors, combed and massaged them one by one, and cleaned up the pet shop with flying dog hair, cat hair and bird hair again.

"Are you going back by yourself or will I take you back later? I'm going to order takeaway now, will you eat with me?"

Sandra took out her mobile phone and saw that it was getting late. If she didn't eat, she estimated that the first customer who made an appointment in the afternoon would be coming, so she quickly asked Damian while ordering takeaway.

">tt<, I'm not a brat who needs your care."

Somewhat displeased that Sandra treated him like a child, but for the sake of the pets, Damian still didn't care about Sandra.

Sandra ordered a Chinese takeaway while thinking that being a teenager is not a kid, and then went to the kitchen to cut some fruit and serve it out as a treat for herself.

"Eat what you want, the fruits are all fresh."

She opened the chair and sat down, picked up a piece of apple with a toothpick and put it in her mouth.Du Ge flapped his wings and landed on her lap and looked at her eagerly. Sandra forked another piece of dragon fruit and fed it to Du Ge.

Damian squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then condescended to eat some fruit Sandra had cut, and then asked, "Why can't the two people who came here just now see the change in you, but I can?"

"I'm still wondering when you're going to ask me that question."

The strawberry juice was squeezed out with the churning of the lips and teeth, and slid down the throat into the stomach. Sandra fiddled and combed Dugo's feathers, and replied lazily with lowered eyes: "When I come I put a magic spell on the entrance of the pet shop. Anyone who enters this shop can only see my original human appearance. Only a few of you can see my current appearance. I accidentally used the invisible spell hurt them."

"Why did you refuse your father's help when you were hurt that night?"

Although Damian also knows what to do so that the other party will not notice that he has taken the information, but most of the time he doesn't bother to do it. He either directly gets the information he wants, or directly asks what he wants. The answer he got, and this time he also chose to ask Sandra directly instead of beating around the bush.

Sandra froze for a moment.She was actually a little unconscious because of the curse that night. When Damian said this, she thought about it carefully before remembering that this kind of thing had indeed happened, and then slumped in the chair, biting a toothpick and touching her chin. Thinking, explained this way: "It's not that I refuse Batman's help... How should I put it, after Dugo opened up some of my memories about magic, I also have some new understanding of my own abilities."

"Well... let's divide me into a separate race. My race has the ability to make contracts with others. Generally, we don't use it lightly, because it seems to be a very important ceremony. But once we bear it, we can't bear it. Whether it is a curse or pain or some kind of mental damage, once the damage exceeds the threshold we can bear, out of instinct, we will mark any intelligent creature that touches us first to share the damage , so as to control the overflow damage to a range we can bear."

"And this contract is for life. Once Batman is marked by me at that time, half of the curse on me will be shared with him. And not only this time, all future injuries that exceed my threshold will be apportioned to him. However, as a two-way contract, he can also use part of my abilities, but the magic part still needs to be learned by himself."

Sandra scratched her hair, and the ear wings that were attached to the hair were faintly revealed with her movements, like a pair of shy birds hidden in her long hair: "I can I don’t want to make a contract with Batman. If you want to meet me at that time without being marked by me, you only need to be separated by enough distance, no matter how thick it is, at least three layers.”

"Didn't Drake say you adored your father?"

"Worship is worship, but it's not ordinary worship." Sandra laughed, a soft and reverent reddish brown flowed from the back of her hazel-colored colored contact lenses, her eyes froze little by little with casual teasing into serious shape.

"You've only been around Batman for a few years. I guess you're not a native of Gotham." Although he knew Damian's identity early on, even if he didn't know, Damian's aura is not from Gotham. Given to him, Sandra can still distinguish this, just like most people can tell which is a foreigner and which is a local on the street.

"You don't know Gotham well enough, you don't know Batman enough, and you don't know us well enough."

"For me, for Gotham, Batman and Gotham Knights are not just objects that rebellious teenagers and girls want to imitate and chase, violate dogma and ignore the law."

"He is faith."

"How can I be able to drag the gods I believe in into the mud?"

Damian does not really understand the "bat complex" of Gotham people.Although he has put on the robe of Robin and fought with Batman against the most evil, powerful and twisted dark side of Gotham for two or three years, he has never sucked Gotham mixed with drugs from the beginning. Juicy Milk grew up in Gotham.His understanding of the city and the people in this city is far inferior to any native Gothamite.

Because of his mother's request, his respect for his father, and his competitive spirit, he put on the colorful feathers of a "robin", but in the final analysis, he is not a "robin" hatched from this city .

He never got to know Gotham, nor did he get to know Gotham people.Even if he yearned to become Batman, it was only to inherit the honor that belonged to his father, which must belong to him in the end, instead of sacrificing himself in the dark bat suit for the sake of the city like Bruce Wayne under.

But at this moment, watching Sandra and listening to what she said, he suddenly had an urge to learn more about Gotham.

Now he especially wants to know what kind of existence Gotham is to give birth to an existence like his father.