Little Bruce used his tentacles to lift Robin King's body onto a nearby table, then turned to Schiller and asked, "What do you want to do? Open up his skull? Maybe we could start with the eye sockets..."
Schiller understood. He was tactfully asking whether they should perform a lobotomy on Robin King, but Schiller knew it would not work. The editor who had created Robin King had said it outright: this guy was a teenage version of the Laughing Man. His power did not come from his physical condition, but from higher-level settings. So even if they tampered with his brain, it would be difficult to turn him directly into an idiot.
"Take the box off his belt first." Schiller looked at the box on the front of Robin King's belt and said, "There seem to be a lot of gadgets inside. See if there's anything you can use, and give the rest to the other Robins."
Little Bruce did not stand on ceremony. He had had his eye on Robin King for quite some time, so he naturally knew just how formidable the other boy's ability to pull out the right gadget from his belt at any moment was. He wanted to see what the deal was with this belt.
After unfastening the belt and removing the box, Little Bruce looked somewhat disappointed, because he found that he could not open it.
That was not particularly surprising. If there really were extremely powerful gadgets inside, Robin King certainly would not have left them unprotected. Little Bruce tried both his tentacles and Nyarlathotep's energy, but neither had any effect on the box attached to the belt.
Schiller was more concerned with Robin King's body. After examining it briefly, he found that Robin King's skin had been corroded, most likely