Chapter 90 Chapter 90 Two Birds

"...I'm sorry, Dick." Li Hua frowned awkwardly. "It's so dark in this room without the lights on, and you were wearing black shoes, so I didn't notice."

"It's okay." Nightwing said, "By the way, have you told Batman what happened today?"

Li Hua: "No, do we still need to contact him? Everything has been resolved."

Batman is an elder after all, and a particularly serious dean-type elder. Unless it is necessary or Jason visits on his way to visit relatives, Li Hua will not take the initiative to communicate with Batman.

The same thing happened to Benjamin. After Batman scolded him for deserting the team, he secretly complained to them that Batman was simply a combat version of Azmis, but Batman had a better personality.

Jason's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he heard this, and he even blurted out the golden line: "Batman, good personality? Can those two words go together? Are you and I in the same Gotham?"

Among the three, the one who is closest to Batman is undoubtedly Jason, who is in the same household registration book with Batman.

Then Jason moved out. One of the reasons for moving out was that if he stayed with Batman for too long, they would definitely have quarrels, and they would have quarrels that would be huge. In order to prevent the lost father-son relationship from becoming a limited edition again, it would be better for everyone to keep a polite distance.

"No, no need." Nightwing was visibly relieved. "If possible, I'd like to ask you not to bring up this matter with him. Don't mention that you used fear gas on Desmond, okay? I'm not asking you to lie or hide it from him, but... just... don't bring it up, okay?"

"Sure." Li Hua agreed readily, his expression showing understanding without Nightwing explaining the reason. "I understand. Otherwise, given Batman's personality, he would definitely give a lot of precautions. I'll talk to Ben and Jason later."

"Thank you." Seeing Li Hua yawning and looking nonchalant, Ye Yi couldn't help but ask, "But aren't you really curious about why I made this request?"

But that was hidden from Batman. Wasn't Li Hua really curious about why? Or was he just using his ingenious conjecture to come up with some fantastical plot?

Li Hua: "What's so good about asking? Who doesn't have a little secret from their parents?"

"When I took my sister out to play before, she accidentally fell into a ditch and rolled around in the stinky mud. I took her home overnight and changed her into clean clothes. I also bribed her with two chocolates and ten yuan in New Year's money to tell my parents about it because I was afraid they would scold me."

Nightwing: "Did your parents find out in the end?"

Li Hua: "The dress my sister got dirty that day was her only pink dress. She loved it so much that she'd wear it every other day. A few nights later, when we were putting away the clothes, my dad noticed he hadn't seen the dress in a few days. He asked if she hadn't been wearing her favorite dress lately. My sister, chewing some chocolate, said the pink fairy dress had turned into a fairy and flown away... Do you think my parents noticed?"

Thinking of that scene, Ye Yi couldn't help but smile: "Then I guess your parents must have scolded you pretty badly, right?"

Li Hua: "No, I didn't know about this. When the above conversation took place, my mother was taking me to the hospital for an IV drip. I hid the dirty skirt in my room, and secretly ran to the bathroom at night to try to wash it clean with my hands, getting myself covered in cold water. The next day I had a fever. It was only after a long time that I overheard my mother talking about this with relatives that I learned the whole story."

After saying that, Li Hua patted Nightwing's shoulder in understanding: "In my opinion, what happened today is similar to that, so I fully understand why you don't want to tell your parents. After all, it's human nature not to want to be scolded by parents. Ben and Jason will definitely understand too, after all, we hired Deathstroke without telling Batman."

"What?" Nightwing realized that these three kids were actually quite capable. "Deathstroke? When did that happen?"

Li Hua: ...Mistake. Batman didn't tell Nightwing about this?

So Li Hua tried to save face: "I just hired Deathstroke to be a martial arts teacher for my [Dou] card. Batman actually knew about it. After all, Jason's identity hadn't been restored at that time, and he used Batman's card, but he acquiesced. So don't worry, the relationship between us and Deathstroke is just the most plastic monetary transaction, and we haven't been in contact since then."

"...Then I'll go back first. I have to go to work tomorrow. I'm sorry to disturb your rest. Good night, Li Hua."

Nightwing calculated the time when Jason got the bank card and found that they had most likely hired Deathstroke in Blüdhaven without telling him. He felt mixed emotions for a moment.

Jason, Li Hua, and Benjamin, how much have these three done in places he can see and cannot see?

Li Hua watched as Nightwing climbed out of the window again and helped close the curtains and the window. He couldn't help but ask the empty room, "So why did they go through the window instead of the door?"

…

"Are you done?"

Just as Dick closed Li Hua's window, he heard a male voice processed into an electronic sound by technology above his head. Looking up, he saw a young man with a bright red helmet squatting on the roof.

"You won't be able to sleep for long if you go back now, so why not take a leave and chat all night? Do you want to see our newly renovated balcony?"

"Don't make it sound so easy to ask for leave."

Dick said this, but he still climbed onto the roof and walked with Jason into the one-way glass room they had converted on the rooftop. He was amazed at the large skylight at the top of this small space that opened and closed automatically.

"Nice device. Did you three make this yourselves?"

"Just a random one."

Jason took off his hood, an irrepressible smile of pride on his face, and pulled a chair over for Dick.

"I don't believe you'd keep this a secret from Li Hua just because you were afraid Bruce would scold you. You're worried Bruce would know that the fear gas you administered killed someone, right? After all, that guy has always been like this, always taking on so much responsibility."

"No, that's also the reason." Dick sighed deeply, letting out what he had been holding in his heart for the past few days. "I'm really afraid that Bruce will be disappointed in me."

"...Are you serious?" Jason thought, as if he were hearing the Arabian Nights. "You, the Golden Boy, the first Robin, the eldest son of the Wayne family—are you worried that Batman will be disappointed in you?"

Are they filming some dramatic family variety show here and you stole my teleprompter?

"I'm not kidding, Jason," Dick said painfully. "You don't know... it wasn't just Rodran Desmond who died tonight. His mother also died of heart failure after hearing the tragic news about her son. And these two lives..."

"This is all Desmond's fault. If the giant hadn't killed Li Hua, he wouldn't have died. If he hadn't died, his mother wouldn't have died either. This has nothing to do with anyone else."

Jason interrupted Dick's unfinished words. He suddenly realized that the image of the talkative and lively elder brother in his impression was actually beginning to resemble Batman.

Although it is normal for a son to resemble his father, there is really no need for him to be good at self-blame!

"You told me earlier that I shouldn't think Bruce was too harsh or inhumane. Why are you now stuck in this cycle of doubt?"

Jason remembered that the elder brother in his memory last week was not so bitter and vengeful. Although he had conflicts with Bruce, he was as healthy as any young man in the rebellious and independent period. What was going on now?

Isn't it said that Bludhaven is prone to mental illness? Why is Dick's mental state so tense?

"Because the nature of the incident is different," Dick said. "I promised. I said I would take good care of you, but Li Hua almost died. Two people died in one night. The power vacuum created by the giant's death plunged the entire Blüdhaven into civil unrest... Even Tyler, a teenager who imitated me in killing people, showed up. How could he not be disappointed in me?"

Jason finally managed to find out who Taylor was from the corners of his memory.

He is a man who sends death sentences to those he considers evil in the name of "justice", and he also has the title of "Nue Wing", which has the same pronunciation as "Night Wing" but different characters.

One night when the F3 were on night patrol, they encountered Taylor almost beating a policeman who was undercover in the gang to death. After being stopped, he pretended to be innocent and said, "Then why didn't he say it?"

But the policeman said he was a good man at the beginning. Taylor was wrong. Otherwise, how did they notice it? Li Hua and Benjamin heard it!

Even the policeman was alone with Taylor because he wanted to rescue him because he was captured by the gang due to reckless actions.

If Benjamin hadn't been able to use his Kryptonian form to bring them from the apartment to the city center before he could change forms, and if Benjamin's Kryptonian form hadn't moved quickly enough, the unfortunate undercover police officer might not have survived.

Because Taylor had a name very similar to Nightwing's, and his words and deeds implied that he regarded Nightwing as a role model, so they simply took advantage of Benjamin's transformation time and brought Dick over from Nightwing's night patrol.

That night, Dick tried to persuade him to surrender in a gentle manner, but he turned around and attacked Dick, and left Dick to the pursuing gangsters, making faces while running away.

The despicable man was so despicable that even Jason, who had been hiding in the dark, was amazed. Then he jumped down to stop this scum of the world before Dick did, and broke several bones of this man before Dick dealt with the gangster. Benjamin and Li Hua had no intention of trying to stop the fight.

The reason why Li Hua and Benjamin didn't go up and join in the fight was simply because they were afraid that Taylor would be beaten to death because his health was too thin. After all, Jason was professional in beating people but not killing or crippling them, so as not to affect Jason's performance.

Later, Dick told me that the Bruder Police Department discovered that Taylor had committed more than one murder... or rather, a brutal massacre, in the name of "justice" against "people he considered evil."

The key point is that this was not found out by the Bruced Police Department themselves. Dick used his identity as a police officer to question him patiently. As soon as he started to persuade him, Taylor proudly confessed all the "righteous deeds" he had done.

This included, but was not limited to, writing letters of denunciation to gangs, having his own father, who was a thief but actually an informant for the police, murdered to silence him, dragging people to death with a car, and tying people to railroad tracks...

His methods were appalling, and anyone could see that Taylor was nothing more than a madman who killed people in the name of "justice."

Li Hua even commented sharply: "This person is like going back to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, like the Crusades and witchcraft trials, to give atrocities a glorious and righteous name. Satan would give way to him, and capitalists would have tattoos of their anthropomorphic creatures on their bodies."

When Dick mentioned the anthropomorphic creature, Jason roughly understood why his eldest brother was in such a mental state.

Dick wasn't hit hard by the incident that happened today... or yesterday. Instead, he had been accumulating pressure bit by bit long before. The situation in Blüdhaven exacerbated his mental stress. The incident with Desmond and his mother was just the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The antisocial psychosis in Gotham is obvious, while the antisocial psychosis in Blüdhaven is hidden. You have no idea how many such lunatics there are in this city, nor do you know whether such lunatics have already reached the top of the power structure in Blüdhaven.

The police in Gotham are reliable partners, and the police in Blüdhaven...

He is also a partner that giants and gangsters can rely on.

In this situation, one can imagine the work pressure on Dick, who works double time morning and night, but Dick always pretends that nothing is wrong.

Dick had been holding back these emotions and words for a long time. He couldn't tell Tim, who was younger than him, because he didn't want his younger brother to think that the big brother he relied on was unreliable, and he couldn't tell Bruce either.

Today, Li Hua happened to open up a little, and Jason, who also realized that staying with Bruce for a long time would lead to a quarrel and moved to Blüdhaven, happened to talk to him. And... he might... really need an audience to listen to his emotions.

Dick couldn't stop talking once the long-suppressed words were revealed. "He had his back broken by Bane, and his body and mind were both broken. He didn't even call me back to help when he needed help the most. He even asked the Angel of Death to cover for him without calling me. You saw it the last time I went home. He didn't even want to tell me the reason. If this isn't disappointment in me, what is it?"

Jason: “Uh…”

How can I comfort him? Bruce didn’t tell me at that time!

...Although Bruce seemed unable to tell, after all, he had no magical talent and could not perform psychic operations.

And the more Jason listened, the more familiar Dick's logic seemed to him.

If we change the key words, isn't this his psychological activity after resurrection?

Could it be that what Robin inherited was not only his adoptive father and title, but also his inner knot and the logic behind the knot?

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The author has something to say:

Nue Wing Tyler is not the Tyler in Batman Beyond, but just has the same name. In the original work, Nue Wing Tyler beat to death the FBI agent who sacrificed himself to save Nightwing and him. The above conversations really happened in the original work. The only difference is that the policeman really died in the original work.

Let me give you a brief summary of the original dialogue:

Nightwing: You killed him!

Taylor: So what?

Nightwing; he's an FBI agent!

Taylor: Huh?

Taylor: Why didn't he say it?

I was furious when I saw this. A few minutes ago, this agent was telling Taylor that he was a good person because they made a mistake. He beat the guy to death with a smile, and now Nightwing came over and lied and shifted the blame.

At that time, Ye Yi kindly advised him to surrender himself, but he said, "Why?"

Moreover, after Nightwing confronted the villain in order to save him (Nightwing was still in a short-term weak state at that time), he took advantage of Nightwing's temporary lack of strength and ran away without looking back, making a face and saying "I don't want it!"

Afterwards, Nightwing handed him over to the police. He smugly told his dead police colleagues that he was doing justice, and he was sent to prison and still held a grudge against Nightwing...

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【Catch the bug twice】