Phantom Kid in the American Comic World
8. Not 1412, but Kid

"Hey, did you guys hear about this ??"

"What do you hear?"

"Oh! So, you're talking about No. 1412..”

"That's right, the thief, 1412, he's so handsome!"

"Yes, I heard he can transform into the appearance of others at will, besides, he can do magic!"

"That's right, he can even fly."

       "God! Cool abis!"

"You all misunderstood me!"

In class, three young students are discussing the trendiest criminal, thief No. 1412. The name was spread because Gordon's fugitive command code was 1412.

The theft of the Adam's Star in Gotham is a timely event. It spread all over the street overnight. "Phantom Kid" became one of Gotham's most talked about topics.

However, as these students talked about it, a different voice emerged from a girl with brown-red hair.

“He is not “thief 1412”, his real name is Kid! Ghost Child!”

Next, the girl let out a cold snort, passed her classmates and sat down in the last row of the class. He took out his laptop from his bag and then started typing on the keyboard quickly, no one knew what he was doing.

“He's very strange. She sits alone in the last row in every class, she never participates in any party, and she only works with her computer all day.”

“Don't say that, Barbara is the number one computer genius in school. No wonder she has such a strange personality. Moreover, she is not alone.”.

After Barbara left, some people started whispering again.

"Hey, guys, it's not a good idea to talk in a bad way to the people behind them."

At this moment, Mathison appeared suddenly and said with a smile on her face.

"Look, who is this here? It turns out it was Mathison Fang.”

The boy who said Barbara was weird cried strangely.

“I have to admit that I was wrong before. Barbara is not alone. After all, he still has you as a knight to accompany him.”

“Quite, Kemper, I am not a knight.. I am just a witch.”.

"Yes, you are Mathison, of course, you are a witch."

Mathison stared into Kemper's eyes for a long time.

"Well, I give up, man, don't look at me with those eyes, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that Barbara was a freak."

"Is there anything else?"

"Actually yes!"

Kemper was stunned, "What else?"

"Remember this for me, this is Phantom Kid, not '1412 thief!'”

After leaving these words, Mathison left quietly and sat down next to Barbara.

“Do you think there's something wrong with those two? Why are they so obsessed with Kid? It is clearly written in the newspaper that the thief is No. 1412.”

"Who knows…"

As soon as Mathison sat down, she heard Barbara's voice.

“From all the video data, we can see that Phantom Kid has a lot of magic skills, surely you like it a lot.”

Barbara took it for granted. At this time, Mathison notices that the scene of "Phantom" stealing the Star of Adam has been played on Barbara's computer.

There were a lot of reporters back then, they were all present to film the first show of Phantom Kid. However, during the process, almost all of the videos were confiscated and blocked by the police. Only two or three pictures were taken.

   Barbara Gordon's full name is Barbara Gordon, Jim Gordon is her father. According to the plot, in the near future, Barbara will go to New York to study for a while, and then return to Gotham to become Batwoman and Oracle.

It just so happens that Mathison's house is on the same street as Gordon's. They have often played together since childhood, so Barbara and Mathison are actually childhood friends who grew up together.

   After Mathison moved in, her parents died prematurely. He had never even seen them, he still needed a normal school life. He could only perform magic openly in public. His ability to disguise and train other Phantom Kid skills was kept secret.

So anyone who knew Mathison thought that she was just a magic fan.

Barbara has an amazing talent for hacking. He has been very adept at computers since he was a child, and now has long surpassed his computer professor with a huge mastery gap, such that even the security of a GCPD web is not enough to stop it from hacking into it.

“I didn't pay much attention to Phantom Kid, so I didn't really know that he was a magician master.”

”...That's true, after all, we both know you can't hack the GCPD.” database

Mathison wiped the non-existent cold sweat off her forehead and said, “Is it really a good idea that you keep hacking the police database? If your father finds out about this, are you sure he'll actually arrest you and put you in jail?”

"It seems you care a lot about this Phantom Kid, I've never seen you this close to a villain before, haven't you?" Mathison asked with a satisfied expression on her face.

Suddenly, Barbara turned her head to look at Mathison and said, "Mathison, I. feel that this Phantom Kid is very strange."

"Any?"

"Well, he gave me a very familiar feeling, as if I'd seen him somewhere .. but I'm pretty sure I don't remember anyone like him."

All these words instantly shook Mathison's heart. After learning how to obtain the system reward, he was not afraid that his identity would be revealed. But, right now, his strength was too weak, not stronger than an ordinary person, it was better for him to ignore everything for now. 

  Such a situation was better to wait until he became an expert in Red Magic before he could completely ignore the regular police and military, and it didn't matter if he would be recognized then. 

"You may think too much about it."

Despite the emotional roller coaster she experienced, Mathison kept her poker face on, her expression not changing much from start to finish.

“Hee hee, that's right,” suddenly Barbara laughed sillyly, as if she had just remembered something funny, “You won't believe it, you know, there were times where I even wondered if Phantom Kid could be you.”

   “Then, I thought of you, often enjoying peeping at girls in the bathroom and filling women's lockers with toy snakes, I said to myself, 'how could you possibly be the thief of that classy and elegant man when you were always this brat!' ”

Barbara shut her mouth and laughed, as she began to recall the times Mathison caused such trouble.

”Barbara! That was years ago, don't go too far!”

Mathison inevitably faced embarrassment, especially when she felt the eyes in the classroom staring at her at the same time.

As for peeping into the girls' locker room? It was to observe the details of a woman's physiology for possible cross-dressing disguises later!

As for stuffing toy snakes? That's to practice her locking skills. If he didn't put anything there, he would be treated like a pervert. But ever since he did, people thought he was pranking!

He did many other things to hone his thief skills!

Mathison can't say anything.

Before she met Barbara, her impression of Oracle was that she was very knowledgeable and cool. In reality, he was knowledgeable, but only in front of his computer, and, most of the time, he was a rebellious and sarcastic person.

Just as Mathison tried to clarify herself, the lecturer entered the room, and everyone stopped talking.