Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

"This is Gotham Channel 7, I'm the host Recy White, and I'm broadcasting some news for you now."

"Recently, Kaito Kidd's announcement of the theft of the 'Hope Blue Diamond' has aroused heated discussions among the general public in Gotham. Yesterday was the day of Kidd's final announcement of action. I believe the audience in front of the screen is very curious about the outcome of this matter. "

"According to the side of the Orpheus Jewelry Exhibition Hall, the Kaitou Kidd was successfully intercepted by the police on the way to escape, and the stolen 'Hope Blue Diamond' was taken back. Although the Kaitou Kidd was still allowed to escape in the end, it was Gotham Police For the first time, the stolen item was successfully recovered from Kaitou Kidd, instead of being returned by Kaitou Kidd."

"Then, was Kaito Kidd's first defeat exactly as people imagined? An anonymous insider revealed to this station that Kaito Kidd hadn't planned to take away the 'Hope Blue Diamond' from the very beginning. The real purpose is to break the long-standing curse on the diamond, and what the police intercepted was not the real phantom thief Kidd, but just a puppet left by Kidd on purpose."

"As for the so-called breaking the curse, it refers to the literal meaning, or the legend of the curse that Kaito Kidd wants to tell people is just a marketing tactic, we don't know."

"The anonymous informant lacks empirical evidence, and its credibility is doubtful. The Gotham police have not revealed any inside information about this matter. Please judge for yourself what the truth is."

Gotham High School, Dean was lying on the table, bored watching the news program on his mobile phone.

When he came to the classroom, there were not many people in it, and there was plenty of time before class, so he watched the news.

Let me state first that the anonymous person is not Dean, and he doesn't know who disclosed the information to the media.

Maybe the media gave some money to a policeman who was there, or maybe someone else did it.

Whoever he is, it's not a bad thing anyway.

"...The last piece of news, it is said that a few days ago, in a certain block of Gotham's Upper West Side, several bizarre murders occurred. It was bloody, and many witnesses claimed to have seen huge bats at night, which is suspected to be the instigator of this case."

"Witnesses insisted that it was not Batman, but a real bat monster. However, apart from eyewitness testimony, there is no corresponding video or picture, and it is impossible to confirm whether the bat monster really exists."

"The response of the GCPD Upper West Division to this case is that there are no bat monsters in the world, and there are no people who have been sucked to death by bat monsters. At present, James Gordon, the director of the GCPD General Bureau, is investigating this case. I hope he will The real culprit can be caught as soon as possible.”

"Thank you for watching, today's episode..."

Before the host finished his concluding remarks, Dean swiped his phone and exited the playback interface.

"The huge bat monster that killed several people, does this kind of super-standard creature exist in Gotham? I thought Poison Girl and Killer Crocodile were typical representatives of Gotham's extraordinary villains."

After listening to the last piece of news, Dean thought to himself.

Since Dean doesn't know too much about the DC world, he has always held an attitude that he would rather believe in all the information that is like urban legends.

After all, before Batman became widely known, it was also circulated among the common people in the form of urban legends.

When Dean was first in middle school, the urban legend of 'sewer crocodile' was quite popular in Gotham, but few people believed it.

The whole school was talking about sewer crocodiles, and all kinds of jokes were too numerous to count, but Dean was the only one who took it seriously and avoided manhole covers when he walked during that time.

What happened later was very simple. The sewer crocodile really appeared. It was a super criminal called the killer crocodile. It looked like a humanoid crocodile monster.

Batman and Robin defeated Killer Croc when Robin was a kid.

Since the killer crocodile was arrested and imprisoned, those who made jokes about the sewer crocodile crazily never dared to say those words again.

Dean reckoned that it should be a similar situation this time.

As time went by, there were more and more people in the classroom.

"Hey... Dean..."

At this time, Dick walked into the classroom with his schoolbag on his back, came to his seat, and greeted Dean feebly.

I saw a pair of thick dark circles on Dick's face, tiredness written all over his face, and he still felt a little shaky when he stood up.

"Oh! What did you do yesterday?"

Seeing Dick like this, Dean couldn't help being surprised.

"I still want to ask you."

Dick looked at Dean with a displeased face, and asked, "We agreed to go to the exhibition together yesterday, and you went to expose Kaito Kidd's tricks. Where did you go?"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Dean asked puzzledly, "Didn't you call me early yesterday morning to tell me that Karina discovered the bug I put on her, it might be dangerous, and told me not to come?"

"What?"

Dick seemed to regain his energy all of a sudden, and subconsciously asked, "When did I tell you that?"

"Have you lost your memory? Here, see for yourself, I still have call records here."

Dean clicked a few times on his phone and showed it to Dick.

"The phone number xxxxxxx, the call time is 8:37 in the morning, this is indeed my phone number, but I remember that I didn't call at all during that time..."

Dick looked at the call records on Dean's mobile phone, and immediately took out his mobile phone and called up his own call records.

It turned out that at the same 8:37, there was a record that should have been displayed without a call record!

Dick's cell phone made a call he hadn't made, and he knew what it was all at once.

"Shet! Phantom Thief Kid!"

Soaring anger rose from Dick's heart, and his hands clenched into fists unconsciously.

Then Dean's voice poured down like a basin of cold water.

"Hey hey hey! Dick! What are you doing? If you try harder, the phone will explode!"

Dick woke up in an instant and stopped exerting himself.

At this time, there were already several cracks on the screen of his mobile phone, which broke Dick's heart.

Others think that being a child of the Wayne family must be fun and have endless pocket money, but only Dick himself knows best how 'picky' Bruce is.

You have to listen to Alfred to arrange housework, and you can get five dollars a week in pocket money.

Dick himself had so many girlfriends to date that this little money wasn't enough for anything.

In addition to the various equipment and vehicles necessary to be Robin, which can be reimbursed at will, most of the personal items that Dick needs in his daily life must be earned by himself by going out to work.

Seeing Dick's uncertain face, Dean was already smiling.

Since he dared to pretend to be himself, he must think that he really wanted to pretend to be 'Dean'.

There's no reason for 'Dean' to be at the show.

Taking his mobile phone from Dick was a piece of cake for Dean, and it only took him a minute and a half to crack the password of Dick's mobile phone.

In order to prevent Dick from being too busy to check the content of the call, Dean also used the voices of the two and the mobile phone to make a phone call with himself.