[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

On the way to Gotham, Damian asked Talia: "Mother, why don't you send me to Todd?"

Talia looked out the window at the night, was silent for a long time, and replied: "He has already shouldered a lot for us."

Jason had nothing to do with her or Damian, and they were not Jason's responsibility, but the fact was that Talia dragged him into them, making the relationship between her, Jason, Bruce, and Damian complicated.

But there is no doubt that when facing the threat of Deathstroke, the detective who is related to Damian by blood is the one who has a greater obligation to protect Damian. Jason is living a good life now, studying hard, playing ball games, and doing justice with his apprentice.

Talia felt that she could handle the situation, so there was no need to put Jason in danger.

Damian was a smart child and he understood what his mother meant.

He snorted: "Admit it, between me and him, you prefer him more."

Talia looked unhappy: "Damian, you are different from Jason. You are my child and he is my lover. There is no need for you to compare yourself with him!"

And even though Damian doesn't remember, Jason was the one who brought him to the human world and gave him the power of the serum. If Jason knew that Damian was in danger, Talia had no doubt that he would protect Damian with his life.

So she definitely didn't want Damian to disrespect Jason.

Damian turned his head away, and the cabin fell into silence again.

For young Damian, facing the relationship between his mother and the man named Jason Todd was not an easy thing.

He didn't know what happened to him. To be fair, Todd was a rare strong man, and the adopted son of Damian's biological father. He had taught Damian and even carried him away from the top of the mountain to treat his injuries when Damian broke his wrist during mountain climbing training.

So it seems reasonable for Damian to want to be close to him. Although Todd cannot beat his father Batman, nor can he kill the murderer who killed him, and can be considered incompetent in a sense, Damian does not intend to look down on him.

But every time he saw Todd, Damian felt a little anxious, and even his heartbeat seemed to be unstable, which made him feel unable to control himself.

So after thinking for a long time, he thought that he might not be able to accept that Todd was both his brother and his mother's lover, so he subconsciously rejected Todd.

After a while, Damian asked his mother, "Where is Cassandra?"

Talia replied, "I asked her to take care of other things."

"Why let her wear that head? It was my Christmas present."

Thalia raised an eyebrow, "As I recall you were dismissive of that gift, kid, and Cassandra doesn't like it too hot, so is there anything wrong with letting her hold the head? Or do you enjoy playing with heads as much as Jason does?"

Damian turned his head away and remained silent again.

How could he admit that he liked the gift Todd gave him! And he was too lazy to fight with girls for things, so Cassandra could take the head if she wanted! He didn't want it!

For some reason, seeing Damian's awkward look, Talia thought of Jason again.

Isn't it amazing? Jason and Damian have no real blood relationship, and Damian has no memory of being raised by Jason, but some parts of his personality are surprisingly similar to Jason's.

Awkward, occasionally irritable, not afraid of killing, calm, rational, intelligent... and that kind of dangerous talent.

Talia didn't know if this was just a coincidence of fate.

Damian followed his mother to meet his father, Bruce Wayne, the protector of Gotham, the superhero Batman, who is also the richest man in Gotham and second on the US wealth list.

By the way, the first is Tony Stark, the third is Lex Luthor, and the fourth is Norman Osborn, but Talia once said that the actual fourth is Wilson Fisk (Kingpin), and Norman Osborn can only be considered fifth.

Oh, and his father wouldn't let him drive the Batmobile.

At that time Damian said: "I will drive."

Batman: "No."

Damian: "I know how to drive it."

Batman: "No."

Damian: “…”

My mother clearly said that Todd had driven the Batmobile and the Batplane, and Todd was not much older than me at that time! Why can't he do it?

Damian felt that his father was a little biased towards the useless Todd.

But he had promised his mother not to tell his father about Todd and not to leak Todd's information, so he could only hold his anger and go back to the Batcave with Batman.

It was a very empty underground base, but there were many interesting things inside, such as a huge coin, a huge clown card pasted on the wall, a huge mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, etc.

These should be the spoils his father obtained after defeating the enemy.

In addition to this, there is a row of uniforms.

But there was only one uniform that was special. Batman did not place that uniform alongside the other uniforms, but placed it alone in a display case. It was covered in dried blood and dust, and looked tattered, as if telling what a tragic death its owner had experienced.

Damian glanced at the uniform, then turned and walked to the row of normal-looking uniforms, pointing to the oldest one.

“This one looks a bit feminine.”

Ah Fu replied calmly, "Master Dick was still a little boy when he wore it."

Damian knew Dick was his cheap older brother, so he asked, "Where is he now?"

Alfu didn't answer, but took Damian to his room.

Wayne Manor has a luxury that matches the wealth of its owner. Whether it is the portraits hanging in the corridor or the antique vases in the corner, they all show the antiquity and heritage of this family.

Damian was used to living in the League of Assassins, and was used to the temperature and scorching sun of the Middle East. This place was a bit cold for him, but he was curious about it.

This is where Todd grew up. Here, he transformed from a penniless homeless child into a Robin that even his mother had high hopes for, and then left here forever.

Jason was the person Damian was most familiar with in this house. He wanted to go to Jason's room, but he didn't want to appear out of place.

So he simply got up in the middle of the night and walked around all the rooms until he walked into a room that was obviously not a study, but had an oversized bookshelf. In addition to books, there was a big tire strangely hanging on the bookshelf, and many medals were placed on it.

These medals were from figure skating competitions. Damian's mother collected all of Jason's competition videos, burned them into CDs, and kept them in the bottom drawer of her desk, taking them out to watch from time to time.

Damian watched once or twice. At that time, Todd was short and thin, and there was no sign that he would grow into a six-inch tall man in the future. He performed a fairly artistic performance, and a group of audiences threw bouquets of red roses and Paddington Bear dolls to him.

The room looked very clean, as if the owner still lived here. There was a red guitar on the wall, the books on the bookshelf were all dust-free, and there was a funny Paddington Bear tissue box at the head of the bed.

Damian casually pulled out a book and opened it, and found a bookmark inside with a line of neat and elegant English handwriting on it.

【Havethecouragetodominatethetalentisaheroofhisownfate.】

Damian read out the words in Arabic: "A hero is one who has the courage to take charge of his own destiny."

He chuckled.

Even though Todd wrote these words, he was still powerless when the fate of death came.

But Jason also put a lot of notes in the books, recording his thoughts while reading. Some of them Damian thought were well-written and resonated with him, while others made Damian feel too naive.

But considering that Todd was only 15 years old at most when he wrote these things, his mother's vision was actually not bad for being able to have such thoughts at that age.

The only thing that surprised Damian was that there was an unopened book on the bookshelf, still wrapped in plastic. The title of the book was Brokeback Mountain.

Damian has no prejudice against the subject matter of this book, because in his opinion, love itself is a very strange thing, and the gender of the person in love has nothing to do with him.

Did he die before he could see it?

As he was thinking about this, he discovered that the third shelf of the bookshelf was almost entirely filled with British classical literature, among which Jane Austen's works occupied the most convenient position.

Seriously? Todd actually likes to read this kind of romance novel?

Damian took out "Pride and Prejudice" and opened it. He saw two sentences on the title page. The upper sentence was written by Todd, "Overcoming Pride and Prejudice", but the lower sentence did not look like Todd's handwriting. It can be seen that the author wrote it with great effort, but with a sense of inexplicable lightness.

He read slowly: "Waiting for the day to embrace you beyond life."

"Master Damian, do you like these books?"

Ah Fu's voice sounded from behind, and Damian tensed up all over. He didn't even notice when Ah Fu entered the room!

It seems that this old butler is not a simple person.

He turned around and replied expressionlessly: "Yes, it's good taste. Which adopted son of father does this room belong to?"

A hint of sadness flashed across Ah Fu's eyes.

"It's Master Jason's room. He loves reading."

Damian knew that Todd liked reading. When he was with his mother, he was either helping her with work or sitting aside reading a book with a calm expression, his eyes slightly lowered, and the lines of his profile smooth and handsome.

Sometimes he and his mother would sit back to back on the windowsill. His mother would lean on his shoulder and pinch his earlobe. Their black hair would spread on Todd's back. Todd would hold a book and chuckle and say "it's itchy". The dim sunset fell on them, as beautiful as a painting.

"Come on, Master Damian, you should go to bed, would you like a glass of milk?"

Damian put the book back in its place. "No."

The League of Assassins had trained Damian to adapt to different environments, and the Wayne family was much safer and more peaceful than the League of Assassins. Damian felt that he adapted quickly.

So he quickly began to inspect his territory, including visiting Wayne Group to check out the business he would inherit in the future, and going out at night to trouble the Assassin's League's informants in Gotham (who had betrayed him) and practice his skills at the same time.

However, just as he was about to successfully kill the traitor, a man grabbed his wrist.

"Devil cub, some things are better left to your parents."

Damian became anxious when he heard the voice.

Look, this is one of the things that annoys him the most about Todd. Even if he approaches him silently from behind and wants to control him, he just can't be on guard against Todd!

This guy's stealth ability is so good that it's abominable!

"Don't order me!"

He kicked back without looking back. Jason took two steps back and said sarcastically, "You don't think your short legs can hurt me, do you?"

Damian opened his mouth to curse, but saw that Jason was wearing a strange red hood.

Jason pressed the side of his hood, and the voice turned electronic: "Let me remind you, if you want to work for your father, you'd better abide by his justice. Don't cross the line and don't kill anyone."

"I don't need you to teach me!"

Damian rushed over with a knife in hand.

Jason: "..."

This naughty kid.

Damian has become much stronger than the last time Jason saw him. If Jason could knock him down with just one hand when he was a child, and could take him down with just a little effort half a year ago, then Damian is really hard to deal with now.

He is as strong as a bear and his reaction is as quick as a cat. This kid is truly a super human who has been enhanced by Super Soldier Serum 3.0 since birth.

Jason had cut many bloody wounds on his body with the samurai sword before he finally managed to hang Damian on the street lamp.

He took a breath, took off his hood and wiped the sweat off his face, feeling that the Domino mask was about to fall off due to the fierce battle.

But when he saw Damian's angry expression, Jason laughed again: "Xiao Bao Bao, it's too early for you to win against me."

Damian struggled and shouted, "Useless Tao... Red Hood, put me down quickly!"

The kid was pretty smart. He knew there were outsiders around and he couldn't call Jason by his real name.

Jason asked, "Where is your mother now?"

Damian angrily responded, "This is none of your business. Go back and study!"

Jason: "Forget it. I didn't expect you to give me any useful information anyway. I just came to see if you can adapt to a place outside the Middle East. Seeing you so lively, I was worrying too much."

He turned and walked away, with the naughty kid's shouting behind him.

"Who asked you to worry! Damn Tao... Red Hood! Put me down quickly!"

Jason waved with his back to him, then rode off on his motorcycle, not seeming to worry at all about whether Damian would be in danger while being tied up.

In fact, Nightwing arrived on the scene less than a minute after he left.

He looked at Damian and exclaimed, "Wow wow, when Oracle said that Red Hood would fight with a child, I didn't believe it. What's wrong these days? Boy, can I ask why Red Hood beat you up? He never attacks innocent people, especially children. Are you a mentally ill patient on the younger side?"

Damian now really felt that he was about to be pissed off to death by his father's two adopted sons.