In the early morning, dim and hazy light shines on the dining table, and the soft sound of glass hitting silverware is particularly sweet. The tablecloth hangs smoothly from the table. Alfred puts down the last dish, and Bruce, who is sitting at the head seat,
Nodding to him, the old housekeeper turned and left with a pleased look.
Bruce is sitting at the head seat of the long dining table. Opposite him is Selina. To Selina's right is Dick, and next to Dick is Elsa. On the surface, this is a very harmonious breakfast for a family of four.
The scene, but after Bruce tapped the goblet with his fork to signal that dinner was ready, everything started to get crazy again.
Most children have a very strange habit, that is, when it is not meal time, they put everything into their mouths, but when it is meal time, they don't eat a bite as if they have a grudge against the food.
But fortunately, Elsa's appetite has always been very strong, or in other words, a little too strong. She likes to put everything into her mouth at any time and at any place.
With a "Kacha", a piece of the plate with the sandwich was bitten off. Dick, who was drinking water, spat out a mouthful of water and choked and coughed twice. He quickly turned around, patted Elsa on the back, and asked her to put it down.
Spit out the broken pieces of porcelain.
Dick hurriedly wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then said while gesturing: "No, Elsa, that's not part of the sandwich! It's a plate! It's cutlery, understand? You can't eat it... Wait! Put down that cup.
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"Kacha", the cup was bitten by Elsa, and the milk inside spilled all over Elsa. Dick covered his eyes, then took the towel from Alfred's hand and wiped the stains on her body.
The butler was always smiling and seemed to like this scene very much.
"Elsa, don't bite the tableware, don't cause trouble to Alfred." Bruce said, Alfred brought a new glass of milk and said: "Oh, it's okay, Master, you also drank it when you were a child.
It is normal to turn over the milk several times..."
Bruce opened his mouth. He really wanted to say spilling the milk and biting a gap in the milk glass, but they were two completely different things.
But the fighting power of Elsa's fangs is so amazing. Whether it is a ceramic plate, a glass milk glass, a fiber tablecloth or a wooden table, Katcha can bite off a large piece with one bite.
Dick taught Elsa how to hold a fork step by step, but Elsa picked up the fork and put it in her mouth, then "kacha". The head of the metal fork was bitten off. Dick stared at Elsa with wide eyes as she chewed the metal.
His fork felt like chewing gum. He looked down at his arm where the tooth mark had not faded and swallowed.
Elsa spit out the chewed fork. The poor fork had been chewed into a small shapeless piece of metal. After Dick threw it away, she asked Alfred for a new fork.
At this time, Aisha suddenly shouted: "Wow! Wow!!!"
Selina, who was dozing off, suddenly woke up. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Bruce, she is calling you..."
Bruce looked at Elsa, and Elsa stretched out her arms to him. Bruce could only put down the knife and fork, then walked to Elsa's seat, picked her up, and then asked Selina: "How do you know she is
What's the meaning?"
"Have you not noticed that Aisha is learning to speak recently?"
Selena held her head with one hand and looked very sleepy because she slept very late last night. She said: "You were not at home last night. I was playing with her blocks, and then she suddenly screamed like this. I can't handle it."
I understand what happened, but later I found out that she seemed to be looking for you..."
Bruce held Elsa a little further away in his arms, and then took a closer look. Elsa smiled at him with her fangs bared, and made an indistinct "wow" sound in her mouth. Dick turned around, and he
He listened carefully and said, "She seems to want to call me 'Daddy', but she just can't pronounce the letter 'P'."
Bruce carried Elsa to his seat and sat down. He forked a piece of sandwich with a fork and fed it to her. Elsa bit off the sandwich and the head of the fork in one bite. Bruce quickly asked him to spit it out, but Elsa chewed it twice.
He swallowed it directly. After swallowing, he looked at Bruce with wide eyes and an innocent expression on his face.
"Don't worry, she's fine." Selena took a sip of juice and said, "Didn't you realize that your daughter has many special abilities?"
"...What special ability?"
"Do you think a normal child can run at a speed of 120 miles in three seconds? Can he jump from the third floor without getting hurt? Can he still be alive and kicking after swallowing three blocks?"
"Obviously, Elsa has superpowers."
Bruce stared at Elsa in his arms, but Dick's eyes lit up. He looked at Bruce and asked: "Superpower??...Mr. Wayne, Elsa is your biological daughter, so you also..."
"I didn't." Bruce denied it directly, but Dick obviously didn't believe it. Children of this age yearn for the superpowers of heaven and earth. Looking at Dick's expression, you can tell that he really wants Bruce to perform a flying takeoff for him...
After hugging Aisha for a while, Bruce stood up again, put her back in place, then looked at Dick and asked him: "Where have you been recently? I wanted to ask you to go repair the car with me at noon yesterday, but Alf
Red told me that you and Elsa went out..."
"Oh..." Dick touched the knife and fork unnaturally and said, "I...I made some new friends."
"New friend, who is it?"
"Well..." Dick hesitated for a moment, as if he couldn't speak.
Although he knows that Bruce is not an ordinary person, he still doesn't know that he is Batman. In his eyes, Bruce is just a super rich old man from the South Side. He doesn't know whether Bruce will be like other rich people from the South Side.
, I hate those poor people in the East End.
But Dick and Jason had a good time. On the one hand, it was because they were close in age and there were always more topics to talk about among peers. On the other hand, his background was not very good, like Wayne Manor.
The magnificent environment made him uncomfortable and a little reserved. On the contrary, Jason's shabby underground base made him feel more relaxed.
But he couldn't say this to Bruce, because he could stay in Gotham now only because of Bruce. He knew that he didn't have the ability to wander the streets of Gotham alone like Jason.
After a few days of getting familiar with each other, Dick knew that if he wanted to thrive in Gotham, he would not be able to survive in martial arts alone. Moreover, because of his young age, he was not very good at martial arts and lacked practical experience in street fighting.
Dick was afraid that if he spoke out, Bruce would make him break off all friendships with his friends. Dick didn't want to do this because he thought that street life was very interesting. Not only could he hone his skills, but he could also see all kinds of things.
All kinds of very interesting things.
For example, just yesterday, the Curly Tail Gang led by Jason had a fight with the Red Mouth Gang on Hongzui Street. Although the street fights of these teenage gangs are small, they have all the internal organs. They not only need to gather intelligence in advance, survey the terrain, and prepare weapons
, organize the manpower, and even divide it into different arms, some people look out, some people fight, some people stay behind, etc.
In short, in the society of Gotham children, the bloody and cruel side of the adult gangs is reduced, because these children cannot get any powerful weapons, and fights rarely endanger life, but those exciting, wild and
The beauty of violence is retained, which can easily attract little boys of Dick's age.
But Dick knew that this group of rich people definitely didn't think so. They would rather have their children learn some piano, violin, ballet, etiquette, etc.
As soon as he thought of this, Bruce said to Dick: "Since I adopted you, I have to be responsible for you. I have already told Alfred that starting from tomorrow, you will go to the boarding school in the north, where is
The best boarding school in Gotham, both in terms of hardware and teaching staff, is among the best, and the courses there are also very rich, such as Latin, ballet, harp, etc..."
Dick looked at Selina as if asking for help. Selina shook her head and made a helpless expression.
Dick sighed. Originally, he thought Bruce adopted him just to find a nanny for his biological daughter, but now it seems that he might as well find a nanny.
During this chat, Bruce finished his breakfast. He wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "I'm going out later and won't be back until tonight. Alfred will prepare lunch and dinner for you."
With that said, he left the dining table. Selina stretched out and looked a little sleepy. She also left the dining table and went upstairs to catch up on her sleep. Dick sat there and sighed, then picked up Aisha and said to him:
"Let's go, I'll take you out to play. My good days will be over in two days, and you won't be able to see me anymore."
Elsa seemed unable to understand what Dick was worried about. She kept screaming, and it could be heard from the tone and frequency of her screams that she was trying very hard to imitate human language.
Dick simply taught her: "'Papa', you should pronounce it like this, purse your lips, and then make a soft sound of 'P'..."
"This word means father, which is Mr. Wayne. He is your father, so you have to call him 'papa', but if you grow up a little bit, you have to call him papa or father."
"This word is a word used by children, but in fact these words all mean dad. It's just that one is a colloquial term for the baby, one is a spoken term, and the other is a written term. Of course, the same is true for the words for grandparents...
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Aisha, who had been practicing her pronunciation just now, was stunned on the spot.
Originally, language is a unique function of creatures on the order side. Chaos creatures have no need for this kind of thing at all. They are born unique and have no tribe. They do not need to communicate or understand each other. They are born in chaos and will eventually return to chaos. Everything has
Nothing logical will appear in their world.
And when a creature of chaos suddenly transforms into a creature of order, it is difficult enough to understand the meaning of the existence of language itself, and it is even more difficult to learn pronunciation, tones, words, and grammar.
The parallax monster transformed into a little girl. Before she could figure out how to pronounce the simplest word, Dick told her that there were endless words in the world waiting for her to learn, which really gave the monster a headache.
Not wanting to listen to Dick talking anymore, Elsa broke away from his arms and ran out. As soon as she ran onto the lawn, she felt a somewhat familiar force approaching.
Aisha was stunned for a moment, looked up at the sky, and vaguely saw two figures, one yellow and one green, colliding together.
She tried hard to turn her brain and think for a while, then swung her short legs and ran back into the house, where she bumped into Dick who was about to chase him out.
Elsa waved her arms and shouted at him, but Dick couldn't understand what she was going to say. Elsa imitated Dick and covered her forehead in distress.
She kept saying "ah ah ah", and it seemed that she was just a little closer to saying the pronunciation.