[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Robin rushed to Gordon before Batman. If he hadn't grabbed Gordon's collar on the spot, even Batman would have thought it was a prelude to interrogating the prisoner.

"Robin!" Not even Batman's warning stopped Robin.

"Why?" The young hero's anger couldn't be concealed even with a mask. If the last barrier between him and Gordon was removed, then Gordon would definitely see a pair of suppressed and tyrannical eyes, "Why was he released?" Gone? Don’t tell me the nonsense that the evidence is insufficient. Yes, we don’t have the chat records of him asking for nude｜｜photos with minors. But just the videos and photos on his computer hard drive, it’s a possession of minors The crime of sex｜｜love goods cannot be escaped, and I know with my knees that if he is allowed to go home, he will definitely have his certificate destroyed! Why? "

"Robin, that's enough! This is beyond Chief Gordon's control." Batman seldom reprimands Robin loudly outside. Usually, it only takes a stern look or a warning nasal voice to make Robin realize his weakness. Wrong, but at the moment Batman fears that even his own shouting won't stop the boy.

He knew that there was a deep darkness in Jason's heart, that he was irritable and had violent tendencies that sometimes appeared on criminals.It's all there—broken homes, bad parents, childhoods on the streets.This is almost the childhood copy and paste of all violent criminals. The trauma of childhood has a profound impact on people, and even Bruce himself is still suffering from the consequences of the trauma to this day.

Be Batman, fight crime, and don't let more kids suffer like he did.Some people may say that this is a noble ideal, but deep down Bruce knows that this is not healthy. He has seen Ah Fu give him distressed eyes from time to time, and the words: "Are you okay?" Not his body, but his mind.

He clearly knew this, but still led Jason on this road.

Watching Jason questioning Gordon, seeing his tense shoulders and clenched fists, watching Jason's suppressed anger, Bruce wondered for a moment if he had done something wrong.But this trace of doubt was also smothered by Batman, the case, now we must focus on the case.They have to make sure that Philip doesn't continue to hurt the young girl, that's the most important thing.

"Robin, apologize to Commissioner Gordon." Batman glared condescendingly at the angry young assistant, "He is not the target of your anger. The Commissioner has done his duty, we should thank him, not to him roar."

"It's okay, it's okay." Gordon waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind, "I knew this kid was a firecracker, and he would blow up at once. And to be honest, I don't blame him at all. Watching that guy swagger out The court was interviewed by the media, I am really glad that I took the medicine on time, otherwise I might have burst a blood vessel and was sent to the hospital on a stretcher."

"It's not fair!" Robin was still murmuring angrily. Gordon looked at the half-grown boy in front of him sympathetically. Children of this age should simply believe that justice must prevail. was punished, but Robin had to face the reality. Sometimes some people made mistakes, but they might not be punished accordingly.

Justice is not a vending machine. You throw evidence into the coin slot, and the result comes out with a bang: murder for life, tooth for tooth, eye for an eye.

But they really tried their best, every conscientious policeman in the GCPD, the prosecutors in the District Attorney's Office who sincerely pursue justice, and the judges sitting in the court who were not frightened or bought by Gotham's crimes.Even those journalists, freelance columnists and social service lawyers who are running for the truth, they all try their best to let the residents of this city sleep peacefully at night and walk on the road with confidence.

"Oh, I know, kid." Gordon reached out and rubbed Robin's head, "I'm as upset as you are, and I'm sorry."

Robin took several deep breaths in a row, looked up at Gordon, his tone was still depressed, but at least he didn't point to Gordon's nose and yell.It's an improvement.

"At least let me know why?"

Gordon took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose to try to soothe his eye sockets, which were starting to throb. He had a hunch that things were going to get ugly.

"Well...Philip's father, Jose Garzonas, is the ambassador of Borgata. So, as the ambassador's child, Philip also has diplomatic immunity. It means..."

"I know what diplomatic immunity is." Robin interrupted Gordon impatiently, in exchange for another warning look from Batman, "But isn't that only applicable to underage children? Philip has already At the age of 20, you should no longer be protected by your father's immunity, right?"

"We thought so at the beginning, but unfortunately, whether you are an adult is based on the laws of the country of origin of the person concerned, and according to the regulations of Bogata, you must be 21 years old to be a legal adult." Gordon disgusted He frowned, perhaps remembering Philip's fearless look when he was sent to the court, "The other party came prepared. What we can do is to assist the victim to file a civil claim against him, but even so... He didn't directly kill the poor girl, he can only start by distributing obscene materials to infringe the reputation of minors, and generally speaking, he won't get much compensation."

Robin was silent for a moment, then began to shake his head: "No. That's not right." He didn't know whether he was speaking to Gordon, or to himself, "It shouldn't be like this. Someone died because of him! And it turned out that Faye Lipu doesn’t even have to pay money?”

"Child..." Gordon looked as if he wanted to say something to comfort Robin, but all the words finally coalesced into a sigh.

"I've got to go back and see the lads, young men these days, always fish when no one's watching." Gordon made an excuse to get off the roof, leaving room for the Dark Knight and a frustrated little Robin, "so I said that I am opposed to letting children swim in this muddy water, really..."

***

"B, you can do it, right?" Robin looked up at Batman after Gordon left, with his last glimmer of hope, "How can we let him go like this? Welcome to rape of girls in Gotham! This is insane! Can't his country convict Philip?"

"It's very difficult. Borgatag's economy is almost entirely supported by the government, and the influence of drug lords in the country is even greater than that of the government. It can be said that their government system is just a show to cater to the mainstream world." Bat Xia's answer was like a slap on Robin's face.

"This is ridiculous!" Robin's suppressed emotions finally exploded in front of Batman, "We promised Gloria's family would help them! What happened? Smiling and waving in front of the camera, press conference, thank the court for the legal trial, and then end with I love Gotham City! Bah!"

Batman stands next to the bat signal light, like a cold black statue, watching Robin angrily curse Philip Garzonas and better be hit by a meteorite and sink Bogata for a full 5 minutes.

"Have you finished cursing?" Batman waited for Robin to start breathing heavily before speaking again, "Then we still have work to do, keep up, or go back to the Batcave to stand by."

Robin angrily followed Batman back to the Batmobile.He thought that the so-called work was probably routinely preventing robbery or theft. It wasn't that Robin didn't think these jobs were important, but that he really couldn't let go of the irritating result that Philip would not be convicted.

So when the Batmobile is parked in the alley near Philip's penthouse, Robin has no idea what's going on.Therefore, when Batman curled his mouth at him and showed an inscrutable smile, Robin rarely sat quietly waiting for the master to speak.

"I'd say it's difficult, but it's not impossible." Batman called up the personnel file of Jose Gazonas they had in their hands from the computer on the Batmobile.

"Hosse is apparently the ambassador of Borgata, but according to the current economic situation of that country, it can basically be assumed that he is the most powerful local drug tycoon. Expand his economic territory. Of course, this kind of thing cannot be put on the table, and must be kept low-key. Therefore, Philip did not directly reveal his father's identity and use diplomatic immunity at the beginning, but chose to use money to buy relationships .”

Robin's eyes widened with the information revealed by Batman bit by bit, and hope returned to the frustrated teenager bit by bit.

"Philip's privilege comes from his father, so as long as we have enough knowledge to allow the US government to ask Bogata to revoke Jose's judicial immunity, they can be kicked out of the country together. As long as they are caught Evidence of drug dealing in the US! Great! So he can never come back to harm people! So what do we do now?"

Batman flies up to the roof with the hook gun and begins to set up surveillance devices around Philip's apartment.

"Now, we wait."

wait.Robin hated that word.

He hated watching the obviously guilty villain partying every night, living a life of luxury and money, and there was nothing he could do but wait.

He hated squatting on the fire escape of the Cooper house, listening to Mrs. Cooper crying hysterically in the house, asking why the man who killed her daughter didn't go to jail, while Mr. Cooper and Jessica had to take turns comforting her, God knows those two didn't sound much better than Mrs. Cooper.

He hates that he dare not pass by the nightclub where Taylor works openly, because he is afraid that Taylor will be accused by the other party: "You promised to help her get justice, but you lied to me."

The resentment didn't lessen even when he tracked Philip to a run-down apartment and caught him red-handed doing a drug test for dear old dad.When he and Batman beat up Philip and sent him to the police station again, Robin didn't feel the joy of victory, which surprised even himself.

"It's all because of that little bitch, right? It's not because of the bitch at all, it's because of that little bitch, right!" Philip resented when he was pushed by the police and passed Batman and Robin questioning.

"Yes or no, you have to get out of our country." Robin didn't intend to save him any face. I'd be happy to arrange it for you."

Philip's face was red, his nose expanded with the angry jet, and he looked like he could pounce on Robin at any time and tear him to pieces, making the policeman in charge of suppressing him subconsciously increase the force of pulling Philip.

"Hey, dead cop, according to the rules, can I make a phone call? I'm asking to exercise my right to make a phone call now!"

The police officer in charge of guarding Philip escorted him to the phone in annoyance, signaling that he could start making a call.

Philip took the receiver down, never taking his eyes off Robin and Batman, not even when pressing the number keys, indicating that he knew the phone number by heart.

"Hello, Mrs. Cooper."

Robin's face changed on the spot, he remembered what Jessica said, the person who threatened Gloria claimed that he knew all of Gloria's family members, friends and their contact information.

"How dare you!" Robin was about to rush up and beat Philip, but was stopped by Batman and other police officers. GCPD can turn a blind eye to the behavior of vigilantes, but this definitely does not mean that they will sit back and watch vigilantes inflict violence on prisoners in the police station.

Philip smiled and Mimi continued to enforce his right to call:

"It's a shame I didn't get a taste of your daughter, I was pretty sure I could make a good woman out of her."

Mrs. Cooper's mournful cry was clearly heard from the earpiece that Philip threw aside to the ears of every policeman present.Everyone looked at Philip like a knife, but he himself let the police lock him into the detention room without caring.Even when Philip's lawyer arrived at the scene a few minutes later, he was also met with cold violence from the police.

"Poor woman." Director Gordon hung up the phone and cut off Mrs. Cooper's crying, "I'm really glad that beast is going to go, with these drug deals and the evidence you brought up before, it should be It is enough for the country to declare a lifetime ban on him from entering the country."

"I'll go see Mrs. Cooper, she must be so sad right now." Robin tugged on Batman's cape, pleading beyond words.

Reaching out to those involved outside of the case is inconsistent with many of Batman's principles.But the mother's grief and pain made Bruce decide to make an exception.The pain of parents losing their children, Bruce looked at the teenager around him from the corner of his eyes, he couldn't imagine what it was like, and he also didn't want the day when he said "I understand" to the grieving parents.

Batman and Robin came to Cooper's apartment. Jason didn't even intend to use the hook gun, and rushed straight to the door to press the bell.

A dark object fell from the sky, and Jason could feel the thing brushing past the tip of his nose, and the air lifted his bangs.Then his feet began to be quickly covered by dark liquid, and the source of the liquid was a mass of twitching humanoid flesh.

Yes, meatloaf.

Limbs were tilted at unnatural angles, and white brains mixed with blood formed a pink river that spread across the sidewalk.A funny picture.

Jason didn't know how he left the scene. When he came back to his senses, he was already on the inspection table in the Batcave. Alfred flashed a flashlight in front of his eyes, forcing him to raise his hand to block the attack. A dazzling light.

Then he remembered that Mrs. Cooper had landed in front of him.died.

Afu gently led him back to the room, saying that Bruce would take care of the finishing touches.He also said that he would ask for leave from school tomorrow so that he could have a good rest.

Jason waited for Ah Fu's footsteps to disappear outside the door before he secretly opened the closet and found the spare Robin uniform.

He turned out the window, slipped out of the mansion, and headed towards his destination—Philip Garzonas was leaning against the railing on the balcony of his apartment, and commanded the servants to help him pack his luggage, cursing.Jason connected to the surveillance camera left by Batman before, and two policemen stood guard at the door of his apartment, waiting to escort him to the airport to catch the flight back home.

Taking advantage of Gazonas turning his back, Jason landed on the other side of the balcony. At the same time, he reached out and pulled the steel wire of the curtain so that the thick fabric blocked the view of other people in the room.

"Hello, Philip." Jason watched with satisfaction as Philip approached him with a panicked expression.

***

When Batman found Jason on the roof of Philip's apartment, he was looking down indifferently at the police cars gathered below, and the onlookers blocked by the cordon.

"Robin, what happened?" The standard Batman question.

"Oh, he fell." Jason heard himself answer coldly, "I think I appeared too suddenly, he was startled, and then fell."

Batman didn't say much about it, except for: "Meet me in the car."

Jason nodded meekly, and walked in the direction Batman pointed.

By coincidence, Jason added this sentence when he was about to jump off the roof: "He didn't twitch."

Batman didn't respond, whether he heard it or not.

Jason was surprised to find that he didn't care.