Chapter 285: Morning at Wayne Manor

In the early morning, the dim and hazy light sprinkled on the dining table. The light sound of glass hitting silverware was particularly pleasant. The tablecloth fell smoothly from the table. Alfred put down the last meal. Bruce, who was sitting at the main seat, nodded to him. The old butler turned around and left with a gratified look.

Bruce sat at the main seat of the long dining table. Opposite him was Selina. On Selina's right was Dick, and next to Dick was Aisha. On the surface, this was a very harmonious breakfast scene for a family of four, but after Bruce knocked the goblet with a fork to signal the start of the meal, it became chaotic 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 seem to have a grudge against food and don't eat a single bite.

But fortunately, Aisha's appetite has always been very strong, or a little too strong. She likes to put everything into her mouth at any time and any place.

With a "crack", a piece of the plate with the sandwich was bitten off. Dick, who was drinking water, spit out a mouthful of water and coughed twice. He turned around and patted Elsa on the back, asking her to spit out the broken porcelain.

Dick hurriedly wiped his mouth with a napkin, and then gestured and said: "No, Elsa, that's not part of the sandwich! It's a plate! It's tableware, understand? You can't eat it... Wait! Put down the cup!"

With a "crack", the cup was also bitten by Elsa, and the milk inside spilled all over Elsa. Dick covered his eyes, then took the towel from Alfred and wiped the stains on her body. The old butler was smiling all the time, and seemed to like this scene very much.

"Elsa, don't bite the tableware, don't cause trouble for Alfred." Bruce said, and Alfred brought a new glass of milk and said, "Oh, it's okay, master, you spilled milk several times when you were a child, this is normal..."

Bruce opened his mouth, he really wanted to say that spilling milk and biting a hole in the milk cup are two completely different things.

But the fighting power of Elsa's sharp teeth is so amazing that no matter whether it is a ceramic plate, a glass milk cup, a fiber tablecloth or a wooden table, she can bite off a large piece with a snap.

Dick taught Elsa how to use a fork, but Elsa picked up the fork and put it in her mouth, and then "snap". The head of the metal fork was bitten off. Dick stared at Elsa with wide eyes. She chewed the metal fork like chewing gum. He looked down at his arm where the tooth marks had not faded yet and swallowed his saliva.

Elsa spit out the fork she had chewed. The poor fork had been chewed into a small piece of metal that could not be seen in any shape. Dick threw it away. Then he asked Alfred to get a new fork. At this moment, Elsa suddenly shouted: "Wow! Wow!!!"

Selena, who was dozing off, suddenly woke up. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Bruce, she is calling you..."

Bruce looked at Elsa. Elsa stretched out her arms to him. Bruce could only put down the knife and fork, then walked to Elsa's seat and picked her up. Then he asked Selena: "How do you know what she means?"

"Didn't you notice that Elsa is learning to speak recently?"

Selena supported 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 played with her building blocks, and then she suddenly shouted like this. I I didn't understand what was going on, but later I found out that she seemed to want to find you..."

Bruce held Aisha in his arms a little further away, and then observed carefully. Aisha grinned at him with her sharp teeth, and made an unclear "wa wa" sound. Dick turned around, listened carefully and said: "She seemed to want to call 'Dad', but she couldn't pronounce the letter 'P'."

Bruce held Aisha to his own seat and took a sandwich with a fork to feed her. Aisha bit off the sandwich and the fork head in one bite. Bruce hurriedly asked him to spit it out, but Aisha chewed it twice and swallowed it directly. After swallowing it, she stared at Bruce with big eyes, with an innocent expression on her face.

"Don't worry, she's fine." Selina took a sip of juice and said, "Didn't you find that your daughter has many special abilities?"

"...What special abilities?"

"Do you think a normal child can run at a speed of 120 miles per hour in three seconds? Can he jump from the third floor without any injury, and swallow three building blocks and still be alive and kicking?"

"Obviously, Aisha has superpowers."

Bruce stared at Aisha in his arms, but Dick's eyes lit up. He looked at Bruce and asked, "Superpowers??...Mr. Wayne, Aisha is your biological daughter, so you also..."

"I don't." Bruce denied it directly, but Dick obviously didn't believe it. Children of this age are extremely yearning for superpowers. Looking at Dick's expression, you can tell that he really wants Bruce to show him a take-off on the spot...

After holding Aisha for a while, Bruce got up again, put her back in her place, and then looked at Dick and asked him, "Where have you been recently? Yesterday at noon, I wanted to find you to go to fix the car with me, but Alfred told me that you and Aisha went out..."

"Oh..." Dick touched his knife and fork unnaturally and said, "I... I met some new friends."

"New friends, who are they?"

"Well..." Dick hesitated for a moment, and seemed to be unable to say it.

Although he knew that Bruce was not an ordinary person, he didn't know that he was Batman yet. In his eyes, Bruce was just a super rich old man in the South District. He didn't know whether Bruce would hate the poor people in the East District like other rich people in the South District.

But Dick and Jason got along well. On the one hand, it was because they were of similar age and there were always more topics among peers. On the other hand, his background was not very good. He was not used to the magnificent environment of Wayne Manor and felt a little restrained. On the contrary, Jason's shabby underground base made him feel more relaxed.

But he couldn't tell Bruce this, because he could stay in Gotham now, entirely because of Bruce. He knew that he didn't have the ability to venture into the streets of Gotham alone like Jason.

After a few days of familiarity, Dick knew that if he wanted to survive in Gotham, it was not enough to just have martial arts skills. Moreover, because he was young, his martial arts skills were not very good, and he lacked practical experience in street fights.

Dick was afraid that if he told Bruce, Bruce would make him break up with that group of friends. Dick did not want to do this because he thought that kind of street life was very interesting. Not only could he hone his skills, but he could also see 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 Red Mouth Street. Although these young gangs were small, they had everything they needed to do in street fights. Not only did they have to gather intelligence, scout the terrain, prepare weapons, and organize manpower in advance, but they also had to be divided into different arms. Some people looked out, some fought, and some covered the rear, etc.

In short, in the society of Gotham children, the bloody and cruel side of adult gangs has been reduced, because these children can't get any powerful weapons, and fighting rarely endangers their lives, but the beauty of excitement, wildness and violence has been retained, which can easily attract the little boy of Dick's age.

But Dick knows that these rich people definitely don't think so. They prefer their children to learn piano, violin, ballet, etiquette and so on.

Just thinking of this, Bruce said to Dick: "Since I adopted you, I have to be responsible for you. I have told Alfred that starting tomorrow, you will go to the boarding school in the north. It is the best boarding school in Gotham. Whether it is hardware conditions or teaching staff, it is one of the best. There are also rich courses there, such as Latin, ballet, harp, etc...."

Dick looked at Selina with a look of help. Selina shook her head and made a helpless expression.

Dick sighed. He originally thought that Bruce adopted him just to find a nanny for his biological daughter, but now it seems that it is better to find a nanny.

During this conversation, Bruce finished his breakfast. He wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "I will go out later and will probably be back in the evening. Alfred will prepare lunch and dinner for you."

He left the table. Selina stretched and looked a little sleepy. She also left the 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 see me anymore."

Aisha didn't seem to understand what Dick was worried about. She kept screaming. From the tone and frequency of her screams, it can be heard that she was trying very hard to imitate human language.

Dick simply taught her: "'Papa', pronounce it like this, purse your lips and then make a light 'P' sound..."

"This word means father, that is, Mr. Wayne, he is your father, so you should call him 'papa', but if you grow up a little bit, you should call him dad or father."

"This word is used by children, but in fact these words all mean dad, but one is a baby's oral name, one is a spoken name, and one is a written name. Of course, the words for grandparents are also like this..."

Aisha, who was still practicing pronunciation just now, was stunned on the spot.

Originally. Language is a function unique to order-side creatures. Chaotic creatures do not need this kind of thing at all. They are born unique, have no tribe, do not need to communicate, and do not need to understand each other. They are born in chaos and will eventually return to chaos. All logical things will not appear in their world.

And when a chaotic creature suddenly turns into an order creature, it is difficult enough to understand the meaning of the existence of language itself, and learning pronunciation, intonation, words, and grammar is even more difficult.

The parallax monster transformed into a little girl hadn't figured out how to pronounce the simplest word before 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's nagging anymore, Aisha broke free from his arms and ran out. As soon as she ran to the lawn, she felt a familiar force approaching.

Aisha was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the sky and vaguely saw two figures, one yellow and one green, colliding with each other.

She tried to think for a while, then swung her short legs and ran back to the house, bumping into Dick who was just about to chase her out.

Aisha waved her arms and yelled at him, but Dick didn't understand what she was saying at all. Aisha imitated Dick and covered her forehead in distress.

She kept saying "Ahhh", as if she was just a little bit away from saying that pronunciation.