Gotham.
Weyne manor.
Bari, who was supposed to be sitting on the sofa, stood up nervously and paced back and forth in the living room.
Seeing his team's mascot's reaction,
Bruce, who was sitting leisurely on the sofa, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
He teased him, "Bari, you make me think that we're not going to a dinner party tonight, but to your wedding."
"Ahem …"
When he heard Bruce's words,
Bari almost choked on his own saliva.
He looked back at him.
He opened his mouth and said, "Don't joke around, Bruce."
He reached out and adjusted his tie, using this action to hide his nervousness.
He said,
"I'm just worried about whether Joker will show up tonight."
Barry didn't forget the reason why Bruce would hold this banquet tonight, nor did he forget the reason why they had invited Izu to this banquet.
When Bruce heard Bari's words, he glanced at him.
Of course, he was just worried about how dishonest Bari's words were.
It wasn't that he wasn't worried about Issou's safety.
But that wasn't the real reason why he was restless.
However, Bruce's personality wasn't like Diana and the others. If there were outsiders, he might hide it, but if there were no outsiders,
He naturally didn't need to maintain his public persona.
So even if he knew Bari was lying,
Bruce didn't tease him anymore.
Instead, he said, "Don't worry, Joker, he …"
But before Bruce could finish his sentence, the movement upstairs made Bari, who was facing him, suddenly turn his back to him.
Bruce: "…???"
Didn't he say that he was just worried about whether Joker would show up tonight?
However, Bari didn't know what Bruce was thinking. When he heard footsteps upstairs, he subconsciously looked up and saw Issou walking down the stairs.
The black-haired girl in a light green strapless dress walked down the stairs step by step with one hand holding the handrail and the other hand holding the hem of her dress. The sweet smile on her face and the soft smile hidden in her clear and clean eyes made Barry feel that with every step she took, he could feel the breath of spring one step closer to him.
Bruce, who was originally sitting on the sofa, stood up the moment Izu appeared. Seeing Barry standing there in a daze while looking at the black-haired girl without moving, he secretly shook his head in his heart. Then, he smiled and stepped forward.
Before Issou could walk down the stairs, Bruce went up to her and reached out his hand to her. He didn't forget to praise her, "Issou, you're really beautiful tonight."
The black-haired girl knew that Batman's real personality was not so frivolous, but she couldn't resist Bruce's playboy persona, so she wasn't surprised at all to hear his praise.
Although this was one of the standard playboy compliments, Issou was still quite happy to hear it. The smile on her face became even brighter. She put her hand in Bruce's and said, "According to the normal procedure, I should say thank you, but …"
At this point, the black-haired girl paused for a moment, causing Bruce to hold her hand and lead her down the stairs. At the same time, he cast a puzzled look at her. "But?"
Issou said, "But if you say that, do you think I'm not beautiful usually?"
Although the black-haired girl deliberately restrained the smile on her face when she said this, the smile hidden in her pair of beautiful eyes was simply impossible to ignore.
Bruce, who understood what Issou meant, couldn't help but laugh, but he still played along with her and said, "No, no, no, I mean, Issou, you always make me think you're beautiful enough, and then you'll appear even more beautiful in front of me."
"Pfft."
Hearing Bruce's words, Issou couldn't help but laugh. The smile on her face made her look even more beautiful.
Previously, the black-haired girl couldn't wait for Bruce to reveal his identity in front of her. This way, she wouldn't have to pretend that she didn't know that Bruce was Batman in the future.
After all, she now knew that Bari was The Flash, Diana was Wonder Woman, and Clark was Superman. She hadn't met the other members of the Justice League, but she knew that the three members of the Justice League were related to Bruce. She was always worried that she would inadvertently reveal her identity when interacting with them.
It was not that easy to fool Bruce. If that really happened, it wouldn't be someone else revealing their identity in front of her, but her identity would fly away like a butterfly.
But at this moment, she felt that it was fortunate that Bruce didn't reveal his identity in front of her. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to hear such sweet praises from him right now.
Issou curled her lips at Bruce and said, "Thank you."
Hearing this, Bruce looked at the black-haired girl with a smile on his lips, "Are you satisfied?"
Hearing the teasing in Bruce's tone, Issou wasn't angry. Just as she was about to say something, she quickly turned her head to avoid Bruce and sneezed.
"Are you cold?"
Seeing this, Bruce frowned slightly. After helping Issou down the stairs, before he had time to do anything, he saw Bari, who was standing still in a daze, walk up with a coat in his hand. He said to the black-haired girl, "Put it on first, Issou."
With that said, Bari took the initiative to put it on Issou. He then looked down at her. With a little light makeup, she looked more beautiful and delicate than usual. Especially at this moment, when she looked at him with a smile, Bari felt a little hot on his face.
"Thank you, Bari."
"You're welcome."
Bari cleared his throat and then said, "Although Bruce has just said it, I still want to say —"
"Issou, you really look very beautiful tonight."
Hearing Bari's words, Issou's big black eyes sparkled. She smiled and said, "Bari, you look very handsome tonight too."
The black-haired girl's words were not flattery. Usually, Bari wore more casual clothes, which made him look like a young man who had just graduated from university.
But tonight, because he was going to attend a banquet, he wore a suit and tie, which made him look more mature than usual.
Hearing Issou's praise, Bari, as the person in question, smiled. However, Bruce heard this and raised one of his eyebrows slightly. He pretended to be unhappy and said, "Issou, compared to Bari, I also praised you. Why don't I see you praising me too?"
"Hmm."
Hearing Bruce's words, Issou pretended to ponder for two seconds before saying, "Maybe it's because you don't need to be praised, you're already very handsome?"
In fact, Issou felt that Bruce tonight was no different from the usual Bruce. After all, compared to Bari, he often showed up in a suit.
Hearing Issou's words, Bruce stretched out his hand and pointed at her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"I'll let you go this time."
Bruce smiled at Issou and then said, "It's about time, let's go."
Since Bruce said so, Issou and Bari did not have any objections and set off with him.
#
On the way to the hotel, Bari glanced at the things next to Issou and asked curiously, "What's that? Issou. "
Issou answered Bari, "I brought some snacks for Diana."
"Snacks?"
Bari knew that Bruce was worried that if she went directly to New York to pick up Issou and then came to Gotham for the banquet, the drive would be too long, so he specially invited her to Weyne Manor in advance.
However, Bari did not expect Issou to make snacks after arriving at Weyne Manor.
"Yes."
Issou nodded. "Ah Fu made me cookies at noon. I should return the favor and let Ah Fu try my cooking."
Alfred Pennyworth was the old butler who took care of Bruce when he grew up and was also Batman's most trusted person. However, to Issou, Ah Fu was a very gentlemanly and kind old man.
Hmm.
The cookies he made were also very delicious.
"Delicious, right?"
Bruce said to Issou in a coaxing tone, "Then Issou, are you sure you don't want to consider coming to Gotham? Ah Fu knows how to make more than one type of cookies. "
Although Issou did not know why Bruce was so insistent on her coming to Gotham, he could tell that he wanted to poach her again. However …
"Uhh, there's something I think I have to tell you, Bruce."
Issou said to Bruce in a seemingly apologetic but actually proud tone, "When I was making snacks at noon today, Ah Fu asked me if 'my Chinese restaurant' was still hiring."
Bruce, "…???"
"Pfft, hahahaha …"
Hearing Issou's words, Bari subconsciously looked up at Bruce and saw that his expression froze because of the black-haired girl's words.
Seeing this, Bari could not help but laugh. At this time, how could he remember that the person sitting across from him and being laughed at was the demon king of the Justice League? How could he remember that if he offended him, he would get even with him?
Now, Bari's mind was filled with — —
Bruce tried his best to poach Issou to Gotham and even dragged in the old butler Ah Fu (Ah Fu's cookies). Yes!
Issou did not agree to come to Gotham. Instead, Ah Fu wanted to go back to New York with Issou.
Bari, "…"
This was a double whammy, hahahaha.
If Bari was the only one laughing, then Bruce might have a way to deal with him, but even Issou was laughing so hard that he almost fell over. Bruce …
Bruce could only wait for them to finish laughing.
"Ahem."
After he was done laughing, Bari also came back to his senses. He noticed that Bruce was looking at him with a half-smile on his face, so he quickly changed the topic. "By the way, Issou, what did you make for Diana? Do I have a share? "
Hearing Barry's last sentence, Izu's cheeks were sore from all the laughing. She looked at Barry in a daze and asked, "Uh, didn't I prepare one for you too?"
Since Issou knew that Diana would attend the banquet tonight, he specially prepared a share for her. How could he not prepare a share for his male companion, Bari?
"You also prepared a share for me?"
Bari just asked to change the topic, but he did not expect to get such an answer from Issou.
"Yeah."
Issou nodded and said, "Because Diana can't come to Weyne Manor sometimes, she will go to the hotel by herself. So I brought her share. Your share is in the kitchen."
The black-haired girl turned to look at Bruce and asked, "Bruce, didn't you tell Bari?"
Bari, "…!!!"
Obviously!
He did not!
"Bruce, you didn't tell me just now."
When Bari went to Weyne Manor, Issou was already upstairs changing and putting on makeup, and the old butler Alfred went to the hotel to greet the guests and control the situation on behalf of his young master. Only Bruce was left in the living room.
But he had been in the living room with Bruce for so long, and he did not tell him about the snacks at all.
When he heard Bari's words, Bruce spread his hands and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Bari, I forgot."
Bari, "…???"
Forgot?
Did he think he was that gullible?
Bari did not believe Bruce's words at all. When he thought about how he missed out on the snacks Issou made for him, he could not care less about Bruce's identity as the demon king. He silently glared at him — —
The great Batman!
How could he miss out on his snacks!?
It was simply insane to the point of making one's hair stand on end!
Bruce did not care about Bari's complaints at all. Instead, he said, "If we turn back now, we won't be able to make it in time. Unfortunately, Bari, you're not The Flash. Otherwise, you could run back by yourself."
Bari, who did want to run back to Weyne Manor to get his snacks, "…"
Wow.
He did it on purpose, right?
When Issou asked, the reason why Bari said that Bruce did not know that he was The Flash was to not expose Bruce's identity. Damn! Damn!
Bruce used this matter to prevent him from running back to get the snacks.
How infuriating.
Issou, who knew that Bruce was Batman and that Bruce was pretending not to know that Bari was The Flash, silently glanced at Bruce, who was smiling a little proudly, and then silently looked at the pitiful Bari. He silently felt sorry for him for three seconds.
Sigh.
No wonder Bari and Pietro got along so well. After all, mascots were both very popular and very easy to bully.
"By the way, Issou."
Bruce did not forget that Bari just laughed at him, so he did not feel sorry for him at all. Instead, he changed the topic. "Did you keep the snake with you?"
"Snake?"
Hearing Bruce suddenly mention it, Issou was stunned for a moment before he reacted. "Are you talking about Najini?"
"Yeah."
Bruce nodded and looked at Issou. "You said it could talk?"
Even though Bruce was proficient in various languages, he did not have a Snake accent and naturally could not understand Snake Language. Therefore, that day at "My Chinese Restaurant", Bruce could only understand Issou's words.
Hearing Bruce's question, Bari could not be bothered to be angry with him. Now that he was in front of Issou, he could not run back, but he could always find a chance to get back the snacks that belonged to him.
Seeing that Bari and Bruce were both looking at him, Issou did not intend to hide anything. He nodded and said, "Yes, Najini can indeed talk, uh …"
At this point, the black-haired girl paused and changed her words. "You should say I can listen, right? After all, many snakes can talk. "
"So Issou, do you know Snake Language?"
Bari looked at Issou. He was not like Bruce, who had done research on people and things (whether they were related to him or not). For example, he knew that there were wizards in the world, but he really did not know much about Lord Voldemort.
"Well, Lord Voldemort, my dad, said it's called Snake Accent," Issou said.
Izu said, "I heard him say that he could talk to snakes when he was very young."
And Najini was picked up by him when he was still in the orphanage.
"What about you?"
Bruce did not forget Issou's surprised look when he understood Najini's words. He asked, "Did you only find out that you could understand Snake Language the day before yesterday?"
"Well, I should say that I only found out that I really could understand Snake Language the day before yesterday."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Bruce and Bari looking at him curiously. Issou explained to them, "I had forgotten about it, but after my dad told me that I could speak Snake Accent, I remembered that when I was young, I accidentally bumped into a snake. I remember that I did hear it speak, but when I told my mom, she told me that it was a toy snake."
This incident happened when Issou was very young. If it was not for Najini's appearance, he would have forgotten about it long ago.
Bari looked at Issou and asked, "You just believed what your mom said?"
The black-haired girl heard this and spread her hands helplessly. "How would I know that my mom would lie to me?"
Seeing how Issou was often fooled by his own mother, it was obvious how easy it was to fool her when she was young.
Thinking about how she did not seem to have encountered a snake since she could remember, Issou suspected that it was her mother who did something.
Coubé, "…???"
Was she suspecting that she had spread Realgar Powder on her?
"But Najini was taken away by my dad."
Yi Su answered Brosnan's question. She thought about how Nagini had curled up on her dining table and whined that he would rather die than leave his little master when Voldemort was about to leave. The black-haired girl couldn't help but laugh.
She said, "Najini's body is too big. Although my dad has a way to make it smaller, I can't take care of it, so I could only ask my dad to take it back."
Although Najini was a cute little girl and would not be so scary when it was smaller, it was not Bart Meow (it did not need to be taken care of).
"Make it smaller?"
Hearing Issou's words, Bari could not help but ask, "Can their magic make things bigger?"
Hearing Bari's question, Issou glanced at him. "For example?"
"For example, Issou, the Chinese food you make."
Bari could not help but say, "If you can use magic to make a Chinese food bigger after you make it …"
Wow.
Just thinking about it made him excited.
"I haven't asked about this before."
Although Issou knew that his father, Lord Voldemort, was a wizard and knew a lot of magic, he really did not expect Bari to think of this. But …
The black-haired girl smiled at Bari. "I can help you ask next time."
"Uh, that's not necessary."
Thinking that Lord Voldemort was Issou's father, Bari touched his nose embarrassedly and said, "I'm just saying."
As soon as Bari finished speaking, the car they were in arrived at the entrance of the hotel where the banquet would be held tonight, so Issou swallowed the words he wanted to say.
After the waiter opened the car door, Bruce and Bari got out of the car one after another, and then the two of them reached out to Issou, who was still in the car.
Facing the two outstretched hands in front of him, Issou blinked. He wanted to be fair, but if he reached out to grab both of their hands, it would be inconvenient for him to get out of the car.
So the black-haired girl thought for a moment and stuffed the snack into Bruce's hand, then smiled and put her hand in Bari's hand. The next second, her hand was held by him.
"Issou, you're so unfair."
Looking down at the snack in his hand, Bruce glanced at Bari, who could not restrain the bright smile on his face, and could not help but say, "Are you willing to see me all alone in front of outsiders and the media?"
"Stop fooling around."
After Issou got out of the car with Bari's hand in his, she heard Bruce's words and smiled. "Tonight, I'm Bari's date, and your date …"
The black-haired girl said and motioned for them to look in front, then continued, "Is still waiting for you."
In fact, she was still waiting for him to confirm. After all, there was a wave of people who did not have a date! She was eyeing Bruce covetously! How's your beautiful lady?
Hearing Issou's words, Bruce could not help but laugh. He held the snack in one hand and curled his other hand slightly. After Issou held his hand, he said, "I regret it, I shouldn't have given you to Bari because he couldn't find a date."
On the other side, Bari, who was also held by Issou, heard Bruce's words, turned her head and raised one of her eyebrows slightly. "It's too late, Issou belongs to me tonight."
Issou, who was holding two superheroes on each side, could not help but laugh when he heard their words. "Hurry up and say a few more harsh words to satisfy my vanity."
Hearing Issou's words, Bari and Bruce could not say anything else. He immediately burst out laughing.
After entering the hotel, Issou suddenly remembered something. "By the way, why didn't you invite Tony to this banquet?"
"Forget it."
When Bruce heard Tony's name, a look of disdain appeared on his face. He said, "I don't want the reporters to ask me to hug him anymore."
For this reason, he deliberately held a "Gotham Banquet" instead of a "Tycoon Banquet". He really put in a lot of effort.
"Hahahaha."
Hearing Bruce's words, Issou could not help but think of the photo that was considered to be epoch-making. She said, "They probably want you and Tony to officially give out candy."
Bruce: "…???"
What the f * ck do you mean by officially giving out candy?
#
Bruce's appearance immediately attracted the attention of the guests at the banquet. Seeing that many people were walking towards Bruce, Issou and Bari quickly left.
Because Diana would appear later, Issou did not leave the snacks in the lounge. Instead, she carried them with her. She probably did not expect —
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