"What about me?" Doomsday Batman asked in a low voice.
He honestly did not think there was much he could do. With his current appearance, he could neither go to school nor work. Even helping out around the house would be difficult; he would probably break more things than he got done.
"Oh, of course. You have an important task." Thomas said, "I don't know how much you know about this universe, but the New Gotham real estate development project on the ground is currently in full swing."
"Considering that Sky Island Gotham already has sufficient living space per capita, and ordinary citizens probably do not have the time to travel frequently between the ground and the sky, the main direction for Gotham's ground-level real estate development is high-end housing and tourism."
"Your mother and I secured the three best plots near the beach. The developments are nearing completion, but you should know that business is like war. No one wants us making more money than they do, because that would mean they might be swallowed up by us in the future."
"Recently, your mother and I noticed some suspicious people behaving strangely, so we had no choice but to ask an old fox for help. Of course, your mother has never approved of it."
"That's because that guy is completely unreliable." Martha raised her voice again. "He swindled my cousin out of five hundred thousand in construction payments, and now he's even setting his sights on her daughter. That is absolutely unacceptable."
"All right, all right." Thomas soothed Martha and said, "As you can see, if we had a better choice, we would not want to rely on outsiders either."
"I said Dick and I could track them down and knock them out, but you wouldn't agree," Red Hood