No one cared where a child working in the kitchen had suddenly disappeared to. Or rather, everyone knew; they simply understood without saying it, because human lives were worthless.
Apart from Supervisor Marina shrieking madly in the kitchen that she had lost valuable property, the restaurant continued operating as usual.
All the restaurant employees knew Marina was also a thief. She would pocket silverware brought in by wealthy customers, claim that the child working in the kitchen had done it, and even viciously beat them in front of the customers. Most customers would magnanimously choose not to pursue the matter.
Rich people always had plenty of charity to spare. Marina knew that, and Bruce, once the richest billionaire in the world, knew it even better. So when he saw Marina dumping a body at the corner of this street, he knew the woman was looking for a scapegoat for crimes that might have offended the rich, because children were the best choice for winning a rich man's sympathy.
After another day, Bruce replaced a boy named Bin and became a kitchen helper. That very night, he found the woman's poorly concealed treasure trove, cleaned out its contents, and vanished without a trace.
His way of making money on the side could not exactly be called clever. He merely possessed the basic intelligence an adult who had transmigrated into a child ought to have, along with motivation born from the long-missed terror of failing an exam. Thus, Bruce earned his first pot of gold.
Melting down silverware was easy enough. The hard part was selling it as a child. Given Gotham's assumption that no one was a good person, if he revealed to anyone that he had a piece of silver, he would very likely be murdered and robbed.
Silver items