Becoming a Phantom Thief from the World of American Comics

Barbara walked to a wall on the left side of the basement, stretched out her hand and stroked the wall, her eyes lost in thought.

"If I remember correctly, based on the structure and area of ​​the mansion, there should be a lot of space in this area."

Boom! Boom! Boom! bang bang!

Barbara pressed her ear to the wall and tapped a few times with one hand on the wall.

While knocking, she kept moving her position on the wall. When she knocked on a certain part, she suddenly heard the sound of knocking change.

"This voice is... really not right!"

At this moment, she dared to conclude that there was definitely a secret room hidden behind this wall.

Why would Dean have a secret room in his basement?

There was a strange light in Barbara's eyes, and she began to look for the switch to enter the secret room.

"The overall structure of this type of secret room is not complicated, and the switch for the entrance should not be located too far away."

She moved her body so that she was just parallel to the part where the strange sound was coming from, then reached out and continued to feel around the wall.

A few minutes passed like this.

Click!

Suddenly, Barbara's eyes lit up, and she felt as if her fingers touched some trigger mechanism at this moment, and there was an obvious mechanical sound.

As soon as he exerted force, the place where his hand was pressing sank into the wall completely.

Immediately afterwards, the wall in front of him began to vibrate slightly.

With a rumbling sound, the wall opened to both sides, revealing an opening just enough for a person to pass through. The space behind the passage was pitch black, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

"Tsk~ It's quite an old-fashioned setting, but it makes me feel much more relaxed."

Barbara looked at the entrance of the secret room in front of her, with a lack of interest expression.

"Let me see what secrets are hidden here... what!"

When Barbara walked into the secret room with a flashlight and saw the environment inside, her pupils shrank instantly.

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On the other side, Wayne Manor.

In the low-key and luxurious restaurant, Dean, Dick and Alfred sat at the dining table and enjoyed a sumptuous dinner.

Although the table was full of unnamed dishes, Dean still had a good time eating.

Needless to say, the meals of the rich are indeed different from those of normal people.

"How do you feel, Mr. Suston, and is the meal to your liking?"

Alfred asked with a smile.

"It's delicious. You are the best chef I have ever seen, Mr. Pennyworth. To be honest, I am wondering if I should also find a butler like you."

Dean exclaimed after wiping the corners of his mouth with a napkin.

"However, my family is not as big as Wayne Manor, and I can barely take care of it on my own."

"You are awsome, Mr. Suston." Alfred first responded modestly to Dean's compliment, and then said: "I don't want to interfere with your family affairs, but I want you to know that the housekeeper's The meaning of existence is not just to have an extra servant in the family to take care of the affairs."

"He can also be a trusted family member who is always there for you."

"I agree with you, Mr. Pennyworth. It is obvious that you are a trustworthy family member to the Wayne family."

Dean nodded and said, a thought suddenly came to his mind.

Maybe I should get a helper...

"I'm stuffed."

At this time, Dick next to him put down the knife and fork in his hand, looked at the other two and said.

"Have you finished eating? Dean, when can we start arranging magic teaching?"

"Dick, I know you're in a hurry, but take your time."

Dean had almost finished eating at this time, and also put down his knife and fork, and said to Dick seriously.

"Before I start teaching you, I still have a few questions for you, which will determine the kind of magic I will teach you and the final effect."

He said serious words on his mouth, but Dean was thinking about another thing in his heart.

"It's been almost three hours since school ended, but Dick didn't ask me any special questions. Now he is acting like a teenager who really wants to learn magic to get girls. Why don't you ask me Kaitou Kidd something related?"

I thought that Dick would slyly insinuate himself, and maybe even ask some sensitive questions on purpose to test his reaction.

The result was that everything was calm from the beginning to the end, and I didn't ask anything except learning magic.

Dean always felt something was weird.

"Could it be that he really just wants to learn magic? Impossible, absolutely impossible! This does not fit Robin's identity at all. He and Batgirl have already begun to doubt my identity, and it is absolutely impossible to do nothing..."

Thinking of this, Dean's heart suddenly moved, and he almost ignored the existence of Batgirl.

I thought it was just Dick who was testing himself, but now it seems that Dick's task is probably just to hold himself back.

Since Batgirl is not here, she can only go to one place.

At this point, Dean finally figured out the cause and effect.

"No wonder Dick invited me to Wayne Manor out of nowhere. It turned out that he wanted to distract me so that Batgirl could steal the house."

After thinking of this, Dean didn't feel panicked, because he had anticipated this situation a long time ago and had already made arrangements at home in advance.

"Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, can you see the truth behind the illusion?"

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At the same time, the Suston mansion, the underground secret room.

The entire secret room was not too big, and it was full of dust. Judging from the thickness of the dust, no one should have entered it for about half a year.

Most of the items placed inside are old furniture, such as wardrobes or dressing tables.

Apparently Dean had no use for a dresser.

When Barbara approached the dressing table, she found that there were no skin care products on it, but a black and white photo.

The photo shows a couple with the words "Dear Parents" written on it.

In addition to this photograph, there were several portraits of the Sustons on the walls of the Chamber of Secrets.

In an instant, Barbara's complexion became extremely complicated.

There was a bit of heaviness, a bit of relaxation, and a bit of guilt in his expression.

She knew what the old furniture and furnishings in the secret room were.

These are all relics left by the Sustons during their lifetime.

Barbara was not surprised that Dean built a secret room to store his parents' relics, because she had seen crazier existences than this.

As the saying goes, seeing things and thinking about people, if you put these relics in a bright place at home, it will easily bring back bad memories when you see them, and you will always be shrouded in the haze of your parents' death.

Dean put these items together in the secret room and came in to look at them once a year or every six months. There was nothing wrong with this, and it was a good thing for Dean's mental health.

"It seems that I really made a mistake. The Kaitou Kidd should not be Dean."

Barbara looked down at the footprints on the dusty floor and sighed.

"Now it's time to think about how to solve this problem..."