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It's been over 7 years since Ra's Al Ghul's heir , the only grandson of the leader of the Assassin League, Damian Wayne has come to live with his father, Bruce Wayne, known to some as
'Batman'.
Of course, the youngster wears a cape and chases after a villain like we seen in the news could be from none other than the Batman's own son...
The image of the heir of the Assassin's League in the eyes of the members of Justice League is the tiny, big-mouthed mice who don't know how to socialize.
..'Is that a demon spawn?'...'Has your son never been admitted to a reformatory school?' is a short but precise description of Damian Wayne, the son of a the dark knight....
But Damian Wayne at 17 years old is...tall and not as small as mice as before. His face was handsome and eloquent, like his father in almost every way. He probably only had emerald eyes that he inherited from his mother. He looks good because his face is modeled after the city's top playboy. Slim figure from hard exercise every day...He is the dream man for half of the girls in Gotham City. The heir of the wealthy patron of the town. But he himself has never had any dating news. Or doesn't have any friends at school. Because no matter how much he has grown, his unlikable personality will still remain the same...he might just be a little more friendly. Just a little more, really..
... A luxury black shuttle was parked in front of Gotham Academy, the city's leading school, and a slender figure of a business's heir stepped out of the vehicle. He was elegant from head to toe, both in his facial expressions and his walking. Just move a little and he'll be the talk of the school easily. Damian arrived at school on time and sat down at his usual seat. Carrying out the daily routine at school is boring like every day. But if there was anything new, it would probably be that there was a new student transferring in the middle of the semester... but Damian didn't pay much attention to the situation of the society around him. This is a school for rich people's children. Every once in a while there will be rich people's children who act like an idiot enough to have to transfer schools in the middle of the semester...The young boy picked up a book and read it quietly. Compose his own thoughts in his head while the new kid introduces herself in the front of the room with a clear British accent and loud cheers from everyone in the room.
"Alright, today there will be a scholarship student from England joining our class...don't forget to introduce our school to her. She came mid-term due to transportation issues and may not have been familiar with the culture here. We must remember to help her as well." The homeroom teacher's voice spoke softly, followed by the introduction of the new member...
"Celine Constantine" a sweet, seductive voice introduced herself briefly. Young Robin accidentally glanced at the owner of that name because he felt that her last name sounded strangely familiar to him... and when his eyes landed on the body of the new girl. He immediately understood why the other students were cheering so loudly...
..She had clear blue eyes that were so pale that they resembled gray when they reflected in the soft sunlight..Hair that was pitch black, beautifully wavy, stretching down to her back, slender, fragile figure. Her accent and demeanor were like those of an aristocrat straight from London.. that was the cause of the loud noise in the classroom from the boys whistling to the beautiful new girl.
Damian's eyes flickered back to the book as before... The things that teenagers of his age were superficially interested in were not what he cared in the slightest. Making friends or finding a date in school is a no-brainer to him. Actually, just setting foot in this school was ridiculous enough. Damian had a special trainer as a child and was able to find out all his knowledge from the computer in the Bat's Cave. School knowledge was completely unnecessary for him...
..He came to study here only because his father...
But the charming new girl was seated next to the heir of Wayne's Enterprises. She walked over and sat quietly beside him. Her face was impassive. There was no indication that she was friendly or outgoing, as evidenced by the way she ignored the greetings from all her classmates. And then the lesson started after the introduction of the new kid ended...Damian Wayne performed well in all subjects as usual. Both testing and answering questions from teachers, He was always at the top of his class without any doubts. The son of a genius trained to be perfect. Is there any reason why he might not study well?..
But the obsessive-compulsive disorder that is a byproduct of following Batman for so long has begun to surface in history classes. The young man couldn't help but notice that the new student sitting next to him had done the exercises in the book far ahead of the time the teacher had started teaching them.
Is she pedantic?... Or Is she just trying too hard?
A voice of doubt rose up in his head when his sharp emerald eyes caught sight of the young girl's slender hand writing an answer on the page of a book...and the answer was completely correct. As for the young woman, she also felt that there was a shadow figure staring at her and immediately turned to look at the tall young man sitting next to her by the window, but she could see that those emerald eyes were back focused on the board in front of them.
"At the end of class we will have a test to review your knowledge, kids..." The female teacher said absently after finishing teaching today's lesson amidst the clamor of high school students. Damian was still sitting expressionless like every day as he took the test into his hands and quickly began to do it... He finished about half an hour early and looked up from the test. It was found that most people in the room still did not complete their own tests.
..except for that girl again.
She had finished her test along with Damian and was resting her knees on the desk, twirling the pen in her hand, completely bored, before the teacher's voice gently rebuked her.
"Miss Constantine. Can you please put your leg down?"
"Please call me Celine" the voice answered as emotionless as the deadpan face. But the right knee was willing to go down for good. Damian glanced at the conversation for a moment before being caught again....But this time, their eyes met for more than a fraction of a second. She stared into Damian's eyes with a dull face that looked confident and arrogant, causing the boy to looking away before feeling annoyed at himself for doing that...
Why is he avoiding her eyes?..
As another half hour has passed. The test ended with the announcement of scores by handing out answer sheets. Damian no doubt got perfect scores, but what was surprising was the score of the new girl sitting next to him.
78/100?
It's not a bad score at all, but it's probably too low for someone who did the exercises until the end of the book and got everything correct.
Damian unknowingly stared at her's score before she immediately turned to look at him. And this time, it was him who couldn't avoid her big eyes.
"Is there a problem?" A sweet voice asked frankly. But she secretly sounded like she was trying to pickup a fight with him...it was a tone that made Damian feel strangely annoyed when he heard it. So when the bell rang for lunch time, The handsome young man then put on an expression of displeasure and immediately got up and walked towards the cafeteria, leaving the question hanging unanswered. But Celine Constantine didn't look as displeased as most people might if they encountered this kind of treatment from another person. She looked at Damian without any kind of frustrations before taking the steps get out of the room..
."..Don't mind him. He's always been like that."
..As soon as the female teacher walked out of the room, a gang of male teenagers who had been interested in the new girl since the first step she walked in gathered around the young girl. Damian standing in front of the door glanced at the scene for a moment and stopped his feet..
"..Yeah?" Celine replied indifferently for both to the gang of male students and to the classmate who kept staring at her intensely as well. She put her things into her bag and made to walk away , but was once again surrounded by the same gang of boys.
"Do you want to sitting with us on lunch time? We can take you on a school tour..."
A smile showing off his white teeth came from Thomas Bennett, a handsome American football star... and of course his reputation among girls wasn't that good either...He has a habit of keeping score with women. The beautiful-looking new kids who don't know that...they probably won't get passed him as well..
"Thank you, but I'm fine" The English girl answered in a calm voice with a numb expression on her face. She separated herself from the group of boys surrounding her and walked out the door at the back of the room immediately. Damian saw this and ignored the strangers' conversation as he went straight to his own locker as well..
..and that was the first time he met Celine Constantine. And many times later She will have things that make an assistant detective like him not be able to stop wondering and thinking about everything of her in his head...