Become a Phantom Thief from the Comic World

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, Cassandra. Last time I had to hide my identity from you no matter what. Actually, it was because I was afraid. I was worried that you were sent by Batman to test me. After all, you and Barbara The relationship is so good.”

Dean smiled softly and said, that was indeed what he thought when Cassandra first came to the door.

"If Batman finds out that Kidd is Dean Thaston, then my life in Gotham will become very troublesome, but now..."

"I have fully believed that you are not a member of the Bat Family, so there is no need to force you to continue to hide my identity when you have already figured out my identity, and I can't hide it even if I want to."

Cassandra held her chin in her hands, her eyes lost in thought.

Dean revealed these secrets to her without any scruples. Wasn't he afraid that he would turn around and report to Batman or the GCPD?

Although Cassandra knew it was impossible for her to do such a thing, why did Dean give her so much trust?

"I know you are asking me so many questions. What you really want to ask is whether I regret my criminal behavior. If I do, how can I remedy it?"

"At least until now, I have never regretted my actions. I have never deliberately hurt anyone, nor have I done even one unforgivable evil act. Kaitou Kidd is indeed a criminal who deserves to be sentenced. , even I agree with this, but I still have a clear conscience.”

At this point, Dean shook his head slightly and said, "I can give you my answer, but that's just my answer. You may not get the answer you want."

Cassandra looked at Dean blankly, not knowing what she should "say".

At this moment, Dean suddenly looked solemn and said meaningfully: "Speaking of which, you left something very important in my house last time."

"?"

Cassandra was shocked when she heard this. Did she leave something behind at Dean's house?

How is this possible? There is absolutely nothing she can "miss"!

Suddenly, Cassandra's pupils shrank instantly.

Dean took out a slender black hair from nowhere, looked at her calmly and said, "You left a hair on the sofa."

"Cassandra, you don't know much about modern knowledge, but I think you should know what DNA testing is, right?"

Dean raised his hair, put it in front of Cassandra and looked at it carefully.

"You can find out a lot of information through a small hair. I'm sorry for prying into your privacy, but I already know your past."

Cassandra was shocked. She could see that Dean's implication was that he already knew his secret!

Dean already knows all about her past training under her father, David Cain, and the fact that she killed a man out of ignorance when she was nine years old.

Recalling the scene when Fazul's carotid artery was easily cut open with a knife of hers, and blood spattered on her face, regret, guilt, fear, worry... countless negative emotions filled her heart.

Cassandra's little face suddenly turned pale and messy.

With a flick of the brush, Cassandra stood up from the ground and was about to escape from here without any explanation.

However, before she could take a few steps, Dean grabbed her.

"It's no use trying to avoid the past!"

Dean snapped.

"Do you still want to continue living this muddled wandering life?"

Cassandra was struck by lightning when she heard this and stood there in shock.

"...No...I don't want to."

A trembling voice sounded.

Cassandra turned around, tears streaming down her face.

The voice just now came from her mouth.

There was a glimmer of surprise in Dean's eyes.

Cassandra actually spoke just now!

Although he only spoke very short words, each word was pronounced with an emphasis on the other, and his speech was rather strange, just like a baby who was just beginning to learn to speak, with obvious babbling.

But she did speak, Cassandra was not mute.

"it is as expected!"

This scene completely verified Dean's original guess. The reason why David Cain did not let his daughter Cassandra learn the language was definitely not as simple as wanting to train Cassandra into a killing machine.

Perhaps he deliberately prevented Cassandra from learning any language in order to train her skills, so that Cassandra was like a newborn baby and could not even speak.

Despite this, Cassandra was not a true mute, and her language center was not damaged. After studying languages ​​in the library for so long, she slowly began to speak.

However, it will take quite a long time before you can communicate with others like a normal person.

After stammering three or two words, Cassandra closed her mouth and said no more, but just raised her head silently in front of Dean.

"I know what you are thinking, Cassandra, but unfortunately, I cannot give you a direction for the future."

Seeing this, Dean immediately stretched out a finger and pointed it at Cassandra's heart. A soft touch came from his fingertips, but Dean didn't care and continued to speak solemnly.

"This is what you want to ask! Only you know where your future should go."

Cassandra lowered her head and looked at her heart.

"You killed someone, that's a fact, and you didn't know you were killing someone at the time, that's also a fact."

Dean continued, "Killing someone is a terrible thing. It's normal for you to feel uneasy and guilty about it, but you have to be clear that it's not entirely your fault. Don't put all the blame on yourself."

"David Cain trained you in the art of killing since you were a child, but he never taught you the essence of killing. You had no idea what you were doing when you killed Fazul."

"I know that saying this won't relieve the burden on your heart, but I still want to emphasize that the person who really killed Fazul was David Cain, and you are just a knife in David's hand! You must recognize this fact."

"Besides, I've looked into Fazul's background. He wasn't a good person either. He has caused countless deaths and ruined families. I'd even say he died a good death."

"Sometimes, doing bad things can also bring good results, of course, the prerequisite is that you need to be aware of the corresponding responsibility."

Such unorthodox remarks made Cassandra's heart suddenly become complicated. In her simple cognition, she only knew that killing was wrong, but Dean seemed to confirm the killings she committed when she was ignorant.

How can doing bad things have good results?

Is Dean a bad guy?

Cassandra looked Dean up and down with mixed feelings, and finally shook her head in her heart. She didn't think Dean was a bad person.

"You are confused right now. That's okay. I understand your feelings, Cassandra. So I have a suggestion..."

Dean looked into Cassandra's eyes and asked, "Do you want to try to do something bad with me first?"

Under Dean's gaze, Cassandra nodded thoughtfully.

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"I think I've made myself clear, Batman. I don't know the whereabouts of the boss, oh, now the former boss."

In Gotham, at the Iceberg Club, Okielvi sat in his office chair with a kind smile on his face.

In front of him, a tall black figure stood like an abyss, it was Batman.

"You seem glad that Cobblepot is in trouble, Ignatius Okielwe."

Batman said meaningfully.

"Happy? No, actually my heart is filled with sadness, but you have to know that if a leader cries all the time, the team will definitely fail."

Okielwe sighed pretentiously and said, "Before he left, the boss asked me to take charge of the situation. I can't let him down."

Batman looked at him deeply and did not go into the issue of the Penguin, but asked about another more important matter.

"There are clues that the murderer who spread the human-bat virus is closely related to the Iceberg Club. I need an explanation... or a name."

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Okielwe's face suddenly changed, and he said solemnly: "Batman, don't say anything without evidence."

"You are the protector of this city. I respect you from the bottom of my heart, so I will tell you the truth if you have any questions, but——"

Okielvey's face darkened, and he said righteously: "This does not mean that you can make groundless accusations against us! The people in the Iceberg Club are all good citizens. I will never allow you to wrongly accuse them!"

"Your injury heals quickly."

Batman said suddenly.

"what?"

Okielwe was puzzled.

Before he could react, Batman suddenly jumped up, grabbed Okielwe's head and pressed it on the table.

The force was so great that when Okielwe's forehead hit the table, there was a dull thud.

"I know that it was the Penguin gang that kidnapped Francine Langstone and used it to threaten Kurt to get the original formula of the human-bat serum from him. Are you trying to say that you knew nothing about this?"

Batman pressed Okielvey firmly on the table with one hand, then leaned over to whisper in his ear.

"I need an explanation! Or a name!"

Boom!

Batman grabbed Okielwe's head again and pressed it hard on the table again.

"I...I really don't know...what are you talking about...who is Francine?"

Okielwe, his face pressed against the table, spoke with difficulty, but he still insisted that he was ignorant.

Batman stared at him for a moment, then dropped his hand.

Okielwe had just a chance to catch his breath before Batman's hand reached out again.

Chapter 213 Another person wants to kill Kaitou Kidd

Seeing Batman reaching out again, O'Kilwe thought he was going to do something to him, and he was so scared that he closed his eyes.

But the pain he imagined didn't appear, and Batman's eerie and hoarse voice rang in his ears.

"Tell me, who is this person?"

O'Kilwe cautiously opened one eye, only to see Batman holding a photo in his hand.

The photo shows a man wearing a mask, with only the upper half of his face exposed and his complete appearance unclear.

The shooting angle is from a bird's-eye view. It doesn't look like a normal shooting angle at all. Instead, it looks like it was captured by a monitor.

Apparently, this was the kidnapper who went to Arkham Asylum to threaten Kurt Langstone.

"Again, I need a name!"

Batman's eyes were fierce and his tone was full of threats.

"Okay, let me tell you! Let me tell you! This man's name is Tom. He is a newcomer who joined the Iceberg Club as a bartender two months ago. I only know this much, and I don't know anything else."

O'Kilwe quickly raised his hands to hold his head and said hastily.

"You were Penguin's second-in-command and the bartender at the Iceberg Club who went to Arkham Asylum a month ago, and you want me to believe you don't know about it?"

Batman's tone was cold, and he fiercely grabbed O'Kilwe's collar, lifting his whole body and feet up in the air like a chicken.

"Wait! Batman, listen to me! Some things are not as simple as you think!"

As if he was afraid of being beaten by Batman, O'Kilwe danced with a horrified expression and kept shouting at the same time.

"It's true that Tom is a little bartender, but he's not within my jurisdiction!"

Batman narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly: "I'm listening."

O'Kilwe sighed and said: "Batman, you have to know that although I am Cobot's secretary and the nominal deputy of the Penguin Gang, I am actually not popular in the gang because I My qualifications are too young, and many older members don’t like me.”

"The person who brought Tom into the gang was Mr. Mosaic. You must be familiar with him, and he is exactly one of the people with the worst relationship with me. Of course, he can't report to me when and where Tom went and did what he did. !”

Mr. Mosaic…

Batman is certainly no stranger to this man, because he was the first super criminal to cooperate with the Penguin, and was once a strong enemy of Batman in his early years.

Mr. Mosaic, like Penguin, has no superpowers. He has that title just because his face is so ugly that it looks like he has Mosaic.

It is worth mentioning that the Tom who was brought into the Iceberg Club by Mr. Mosaic was actually the young waiter who was knocked unconscious by Dean and disguised as him.

After the "Pink Dream" incident, the Gotham International Hotel blamed Tom for Kidd's invasion, so he was fired and completely lost his job.

Later, by chance, Tom somehow got involved with Mr. Mosaic and jumped from the hotel kitchen waiter to the Iceberg Club bartender.

"Do you still remember Luck and Graytard who were arrested a few months ago? They are also very close to Mosaic, and they all look down on me who was suddenly promoted by the boss."

Batman did not doubt what O'Kilvi said. Although Batman had not returned to Gotham when the two of them were imprisoned, Batman also investigated the details of Kidd's past cases while studying them. Read it again.

O'Kilwe's position in the Penguin Gang is indeed very delicate. It can be said that if the Penguin hadn't promoted him, according to the normal promotion process, O'Kilwe would have been just an insignificant peripheral leader.