novelraw Chapter 103 4.22 No. 2 (updated)
Chapter 103 4.22 No. 2 (updated)
"I won't do that. I've changed. Those confrontations with Mara back then... have become my history." Damian squeezed the space between his brows, put the knife in its sheath, and said in a low voice to Harry, "I thought about saving her, at that time three years ago, but she was snatched away by my grandfather in the end."
"After I left my mother and grandfather, I realized that besides the heir of the Assassin League and the grandson of Lei Xiao Aogu, I have more and more good identities." He squeezed Harry's shoulder, "Like this Like everyone else in this team, we all come from broken homes, and we are not defined by or enslaved by our kin and history. We walk our own paths.”*
"The same applies to you." He just hoped that Harley would no longer be affected by the scar, but he had promised his father not to bring up the subject, so he could only hint vaguely.
Seeing the girl nodded, he let go of her shoulders.
As for the "accident" of today's duel, the culprit was Joe, and Damian had always been aware of this subconsciously.But, isn't it because he hasn't found a chance to settle accounts with Joe today?
So, maybe for Harley, he unknowingly hit hard...
Why do you want to settle accounts with Joe?It's very simple - at a young age, you should study hard, focus on honing your skills, and not spend your mind on these messy relationships between men and women.
Think about how focused he was when he was 13 years old. Nowadays, children are becoming more and more unable to support the wall, even the son of Superman.
Yes, it is like that!
"Oh..." Joe, who didn't know that he had been targeted by Damian, was still expressing his disappointment with the result of the duel, "Can I join? I'll fight for Harry!" Joe shouted in the crowd speak out.
Tim wisely chose silence, minimizing his presence.
"Okay," Damian replied to Joe with an imperceptible glance at Tim.The child delivered it to the door by himself, so he can't blame others.
"Have you brought kryptonite?"
"What do you think?" Damian raised one eyebrow, asking this question knowingly.
Damian doesn't think he's targeting Joe at all, he swears.
"...then this can't be played," Joe pouted, "I'm 13 years old, well, I'm almost 13 years old, and I belong to the definition of a teenager! What excuse do you have to prevent me from joining the 'Teenage' Titans ?”
Joe bites the accent on every "teenager".
Xinghuo covered her mouth and smiled, bent down and rubbed Xiao Qiao's hair, "Damian doesn't count. You are 13 years old now, and you are a young boy. I decide. From today on, you will be a part of the Teen Titans." member."
"Of course, the premise is that your guardian must agree." Xinghuo finally emphasized.
Regardless of whether his Superman father agrees or not, Xiao Qiao is already floating happily at this time.
Damian snorted.
"What about Harley?" The Beast Boy pointed to the two brothers and sisters in the arena.
"Harry is fine too, this is a gift from Titan." Xinghuo flew into the arena, nodded to Harry, then looked at Damian, and the two began to compete silently.
"I still...don't participate." Harley looked at Starfire, then at Damian, in fact...she didn't seem to be that enthusiastic about joining the Teen Titans—if that's what Damian didn't want .
Besides, assisting Uncle Bruce was her original intention of becoming Robin.
Damian and Xinghuo turned their heads at the same time, staring at her with puzzled expressions.
"I'm already very busy. I spend most of the time in a hidden boarding school every year, so I can't do missions with you." Harry shrugged, "Besides, I haven't won yet."
There was a lightness on Damian's face, and Harry could see it.
"Then you have to train with me often, and I will change to a stick. We need to develop the most suitable combat mode for your special ability." Damie settled down and added, "You can also win if you change to a stick. not me."
"Of course." Harry tilted his head and admitted happily.
Damian opened his mouth and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Why are his cruel words softly dispelled every time he comes to Harley?
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Later, at dinner, Halle received Damian's freshly baked birthday present - presumably the result of two hours of fiddling in his room after they returned from Titan Tower.
This gift is - a set of lifelike move charts, which he designed for Harley; at the same time, it comes with an improved drawing of Robin's glove, the wrist of the glove, and in the future there will be a slender dark slot for the wand .It pops up automatically, and the button is designed at the crevice of the little finger, because it is generally not touched by normal hitting actions.
The inspiration should come from his gloves that can automatically eject the sharp blade.
"Here, is it me?" Harry asked in surprise, pointing to the character model on the move sheet.This little figure holding a short stick was really drawn as a girl, but with black hair.
"No..." Damian shook his head, grabbed the collar of his black T-shirt unnecessarily, and shrugged, "It's just a random female character I drew."
Harry blinked, looked at the picture again, and finally decided to put himself in it, because the little man's eyes were painted green.
Tonight's dinner is also Halle's 13th birthday party - a very small "party", just her, Grandpa Alfred and Damian.
It's far from being a "party," but she still decides to use the term—she's very, very satisfied with cake and family around her.
This is her "party".
The brothers and Uncle Bruce were busy, and she totally understood.Uncle Bruce is still on yet another Justice League mission in outer space; Red Hood and Red Robin are undercover; Nightwing is in Bludhaven on a big case.These are more important than her birthday.
But their gifts were still left in the mansion on time as in previous years.
"Tch, much better than me. On my 13th birthday, even my father didn't accompany me." Damian propped his forehead with his hands, and looked lazily at Harley who was helping Grandpa Alfred with dinner, "At that time , just me and Pennyworth. And a strawberry vanilla cake which I don't like. At least you still have me today."
"Among the presents, there was also a robin bird from my grandfather - in the box, dead."
Grandpa Afu concentrated on serving the thick soup without blinking his eyes, and replied lightly, "I remember, the original words of Master Damian three years ago were, 'At least I am very happy to have you by my company', and, 'Although strawberry and vanilla are not my favourites, they are delicious'."*
Damian pouted.
"I don't have a favorite, as long as it's cake, I like it." Harry sat down and looked at the birthday cake on the cooking table expectantly, "I like to try a new flavor every year, and this year's red velvet is sure to be very good Eat, Grandpa Fu."
"So, you're 13," Damian whispered to Harley as he cut the lamb chops, "this is the time in life when you turn into adulthood, and most of you feel embarrassed and confused because you don't know who you are. And you should..."*
"Stop," said Harry, holding out her hand, "don't give me lessons on my birthday, even though your lessons are very educational..."
"Not at all, Master Damian," Grandpa Afu interrupted, "13 years old, at most officially become a teenager."
"Tch—teenagers are worse..." Damian said to himself.
After dinner, of course it was time to unwrap the presents. Harry took the presents to the kitchen and unwrapped them with his family.
Everything was fine...until—it was Sister Barbara's.
Outside the box, there was a small card first, and Harry read aloud, "I know what it's like to be surrounded by a group of boys. There are some things they must not think of—yes, that's right, Ah Fu is also a boy."
Ah Fu raised his eyebrows at this definition while drinking tea.
And when Harry opened the box and took out a small piece of fabric, he never imagined that there were... seven girls' bras in the box... just the kind, the vest type, pink blue, pink and milky yellow... a bunch of.
This scene stunned the three people in the kitchen...
No one spoke.
"...Barbara, uh, very caring, I admit I didn't expect..." Ah Fu broke the awkward silence, he never raised a girl.
Damian's eyes wandered uncontrollably to the girl's... anyway, where these things should be worn,
But immediately looked at the ceiling again!Focus like you spotted a supervillain on a chandelier.
However, the call in his mind at this moment is: Hurry up and come to a random person, and smash him unconscious with a cake!
However, this was the first time he knew that girls' bras still look like this, and there are actually different age groups.
He thought they were all like the ones Spark left in Dick's room...
Lace... black, red... In short, there are very few fabrics.
For a while he felt like poking himself in the eye, and refused to go to Dick's room again.
Wait a minute! Shit!He doesn't need the knowledge of "bra classification" okay!
Where's the cake?Let him hit himself...
Both Harry and Damian blushed.
The kitchen once again fell into a weird and awkward silence, and even Ah Fu didn't know what to say.
"Well, I think Barbara Gordon is for you one day a week," Damian nodded solemnly, as if commenting on which Robin's action report, "The planning she showed in this gift is very impressive." People appreciate it."
Harry: "..."
Alfred: "..."
Damian wanted to bite off his tongue, who said he needed a review!
"I think the rest, uh, I'd better go back to my house and dismantle it."
"Very sensible." Damian blurted out.
Holding the gift, Harry slowly moved to the kitchen door, and then suddenly started running fast, as if Tom was chasing after him...
"Am I an unqualified grandpa?" Looking at Harry's back, Ah Fu put down his teacup, frowning in thought.
"You did your best, Pennyworth." Damian snorted, "No one blames you, women's things are too complicated. That kind of thing is divided into ages? It's as detailed as weapons classification. Who would know. "
The author has something to say:
*Damian's quote*, quoted from Rebirth's Teen Titans issue, rephrased.
*This article mainly follows the setting of the animated film, the leader of the Teen Titans is Starfire (Damian in Rebirth)
*The English TeenTitans of Teen Titans, the teen here must be the word for teenagers. Wikipedia says that the range of a teenager is 13 to 19 years old. (I won’t post the original text, it’s too bookish.) In the extraordinary twins, the reason why Damian didn’t let Joe join the teentitans was that Joe wasn’t considered a teenager.
That's why Damian in this chapter said to Harley that he has grown from a child to an adult (Mr. Mi thinks... an adult)
(Correcting a mistake I made before, my memory was mixed up, the boy Lightning who is now having an affair with Raven is Black Wally, not White Wally.)
*Ah, I finally understand why two little angels memed The Shining or Ready Player One in the comments of the last chapter!Just asked a friend to find out.It's because of the saying AllworkandnoplaymakesJackadullboy, the saying that all work and no play makes smart kids stupid.
But when I quoted this sentence, I really didn't think about the Shining (not to mention the Shining in the number one player, the part in the number one player is a tribute to the Shining)... I haven't seen the Shining (dare small, never watch horror movies), and most importantly, isn’t this sentence a very common English proverb?I remember the teacher said in high school English class that it is not the original of "The Shining"...
I searched Wikipedia, "Allwork and noplay makes Jackadullboy" is a proverb. It means that without timeoff from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. Theexact origins of the phrase remain unclear, though it was recorded as early as1659.