"Sherlock???" Red Hood said in astonishment. "What was his mom thinking? Sherlock Holmes?! Was she serious???"
"If I remembered correctly, Hermes was the name of the God of Wisdom, right? Holmes sounded like some hero from Greek Mythology, but his name was Sherlock? It sounded..."
Nightwing frowned and pondered for a long time before finally commenting, "...a little like sprinkling popping candy on a wine-braised steak."
"He might as well have been called David." Red Robin hit the nail on the head.
"John would work too," Red Hood added.
Red Hood was the first to walk over to Batman. He wanted to see exactly what qualified this detective named Sherlock Holmes to be called "the greatest detective."
How great could he be? Greater than Batman?
Wait, why was the great Batman curled up in his study reading a novel while this world was in utter chaos?
Red Hood immediately shifted his gaze to Batman's face. The other two gathered around as well. They looked like they wanted to read the book, but they actually wanted to know why Batman was here.
So why was Batman here?
His main reason for not going to the new city was to preserve world peace, but there were actually plenty of other things he could do. Gotham had flown over intact, so he could have fought crime in Gotham as usual, but he had not gone.
Batman had plenty of reasons not to go. First of all, all the lunatics in Arkham Asylum had jumped down there.
If not for the barrier created by the Apokolips army, he would have had to worry about whether those lunatics would fly back in planes again. But now that the lockdown shield was in place, they could not come back even if they wanted to.
Those idiots