"Everyone, I think you may have misunderstood."
Russell was bound by ropes and hung upside down in midair. Looking utterly aggrieved, he said, "Actually, I'm a good person. Unfortunately, I was captured by a villain disguised as Batman. Forced by circumstance, I became his partner and suffered his bullying every day."
"..." xN
Silence fell. Dick and the others scoffed, picking up the equipment on the table and putting it on.
They were not blind. They had seen Russell and Bruce interacting with their own eyes. Clearly, Bruce was the one who suffered daily humiliation, forever swallowing his anger.
After hearing their teammates' account, Damian and Jason immediately looked at Russell warily.
"Don't say that. You only saw the surface. If I really were a bad guy, why would I tie myself up?"
As he spoke, Russell wriggled his tightly bound body, immediately drawing a furious curse.
It was Kate!
The woman had been overcome by lust and tried to take advantage of Barbara. Instead of gaining anything, she had lost everything—and Russell had taken advantage of her.
Indeed, no one would willingly tie themselves up. But once a hot-bodied beauty was added to the equation, it all made sense.
The evidence was irrefutable. Russell had no room to argue. Dick and the others had firmly branded him a villain—and a lecherous villain with painfully low intelligence.
"Bastards! What are you idiots standing around for? Get him... get me down!"
"Calm down. We're thinking of a way."
"That's right. We need to carefully consider how to get you down without untying the ropes."
"Damn it, you just want to laugh at me!"
"Hehehe..."
As they teased Kate, a gloomy laugh suddenly rang out. Before their eyes, Russell's entire body broke apart into black bats, dispersing the smoke in the warehouse