She Was My Daughter

"I want to help your Godfather."

Hearing the woman outside, Kara was tempted.

She poked her head out from under the covers.

Kara's room was simply furnished. Aside from the basic comic books, there was hardly anything girly in it.

Li Ang had once tried to buy her dolls, but she thought they were childish.

Harley Quinn seemed to know she was tempted, so she continued, "Your Godfather has it rough. He earns money to support the family all by himself, and now that I'm here too, the pressure on him is even greater."

"You know that too!"

Kara couldn't help saying.

She didn't know why, but she just wanted to chase Harley Quinn away.

Harley Quinn wasn't offended. Instead, she laughed. "Wouldn't it be better if we helped him together? Three people working hard is more reliable than one person doing it alone."

Even though Kara knew Harley Quinn had ulterior motives, she still couldn't refuse.

She wanted to help her Godfather, too.

Kara was much more mature than other kids her age, so she naturally saw how hard Li Ang worked.

At first, Li Ang had no experience raising a daughter and made plenty of blunders. He put in a lot of effort, and whenever Kara thought about it, she felt warm inside.

"Click."

The bedroom door opened. Kara stepped out in her pajamas, her face almost expressionless. "What do we do?"

She was already quite tall, only a little shorter than Harley Quinn.

"Come with me."

Harley Quinn didn't explain. She simply turned and walked out.

Kara hesitated, changed her clothes, then followed.

Once outside, she finally had a chance to look at Harley Quinn's outfit. It wasn't like what she'd seen on TV before.

Harley Quinn used to wear an old-fashioned clown costume, like a performer in a circus.

But now...

She was still completely crazy, but somehow, she looked beautiful?

Perhaps sensing Kara's gaze, Harley Quinn shook her pigtails. "What do you think? Your Godfather helped redesign it."

Hearing that, Kara felt a little jealous. "What are we actually going to do?"

"You'll find out soon."

Harley Quinn giggled, refusing to give her a straight answer.

Next to Harley Quinn, who was skilled at manipulating and deceiving people, Kara was as innocent as a little rabbit.

If Harley Quinn had wanted to hurt her, a few words would have been all it took.

Luckily, Harley Quinn was overflowing with motherly affection right now and had no intention of harming Kara.

She simply thought it would be more fun to bring her along.

As for danger?

She didn't think there would be any.

She had brought a bodyguard.

"Harley, you're late."

A captivating, mature woman's voice rang out.

Then Kara felt something coil around her foot. Looking down, she saw a vine wrapped around it.

"What is this?"

Kara jumped in fright.

"Don't be scared, sweetheart."

Harley Quinn reassured her. "Ivy, let her go. She's my daughter!"

"What? Are you crazy? You really think of her as your daughter?"

Poison Ivy Pamela still couldn't understand. Then again, she'd never been able to make sense of Harley Quinn's thought process.

"Isn't it fun?" Harley Quinn giggled. "I never thought I'd become a mother, but now I have the chance, so of course I want to give it a try!"

That was Harley Quinn's reasoning.

But Kara wouldn't admit to being her daughter.

"Who's your daughter!"

Kara glared at her angrily. Her eyes suddenly felt a little itchy, but she didn't think much of it.

Harley Quinn didn't care whether she admitted it or not.

"Be good and don't cause trouble."

Poison Ivy released Kara with her plants.

She looked Kara over. The girl had blonde hair and blue eyes. Though she was still young, she was tall and lanky, and it was obvious she'd grow up to be a stunner.

No wonder Harley Quinn was so invested in her.

"Wait, that doesn't make sense."

Poison Ivy suddenly realized. "How could an East Asian man have a white girl?"

Kara's ancestry was pure as could be.

There wasn't a trace of mixed heritage.

Harley Quinn burst out laughing. "Because she's his goddaughter. You don't actually think he gave birth to her, do you?"

"By the way, Kara, where are your parents?"

Kara didn't want to answer.

She wouldn't reveal her identity to anyone.

Except her Godfather.

Fortunately, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Pamela didn't press her.

At last, the two of them got around to the "real business."

"Harley, do you know who sent those people after you?" Poison Ivy Pamela asked Harley Quinn.

Harley had gone to see her today so the two of them could deal with this together.

Having to constantly watch out for people trying to kill her wasn't Harley Quinn's style.

She was always the one hunting others down. Since when had things ever been turned on their head like this?

"I don't know."

Harley Quinn blew her bangs aside. "But I know one of them."

"Then this'll be easy. Let's go find him."

Poison Ivy Pamela held out a finger, and a vine immediately coiled around it.

"Wait, find what?"

By now, Kara could tell something was off.

She was going to be a Criminal Nemesis, a Law Enforcement Pioneer, Gotham's Good Neighbor. How could she take part in a crime?

"Sweetheart, we're going to get money, of course. We need money!"

"If we had money, Li Ang wouldn't have to work at the Iceberg Lounge every day. You know how dangerous it is there. It's Penguin's territory, and he's a Supervillain!"

Harley Quinn tried to scare Kara, but Kara might have been young, yet she wasn't stupid.

"So what does that have to do with anything?" Kara asked.

"Of course it has something to do with it."

Harley Quinn folded her arms, pressing her breasts together. "Do you know who the richest person in Gotham is?"

Hearing that, Kara naturally thought of the person she'd seen today.

"Bruce Wayne."

"That's right, but he's a good person. We don't rob good people."

Perhaps because her motherly affection was running high, Harley Quinn acted like a "Justice Pioneer" in front of Kara, not wanting Kara to see her as a villain.

"Besides Bruce Wayne, the richest people in Gotham City are the bad guys. They've done all kinds of terrible things to get their hands on money, so we might as well take it from them."

Harley Quinn spoke with righteous indignation. "Why should your Godfather work so hard and still be unable to make any money, while having to live with us in an old house?"

"Is that fair?"

Kara wasn't old enough to tell right from wrong. Harley Quinn had swayed her.

Just listening to Harley Quinn, she felt that it was unfair.

Criminals could get rich, while her Godfather worked tirelessly and still had hardly any money!

Harley Quinn gave Poison Ivy Pamela a look. Poison Ivy shook her head, lamenting that Kara had been so easily fooled.

Poison Ivy spoke up. "I've found him. Let's go."

This time, Kara didn't question her. Her mind was just a little muddled, and she urgently needed Li Ang to set her straight.

But unfortunately, her Godfather wasn't there.

So she simply followed the two women, who were like the Gotham Phantom. The two close friends led the way and climbed into Poison Ivy's car.