Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

"I've been able to save myself and be saved several times... It wasn't supposed to come to this, but I don't know why, but it's just the way it is now - and it's turned my world upside down."

"Calm down." The lady was about to comfort him instinctively, but was surprised to find that Lucien did not explode with emotion.

He smiled wryly and calmly: "There are many times when I also wish I could shout out loud, explode... Shouting is a good way to vent, isn't it?"

"This could also be a problem with the frontal lobe or somewhere else. Your previous pathology may have affected your emotional outbursts."

Lucian listened to her and shook his head helplessly: "This is what I regret. If I had met you earlier, perhaps I would have deceived you from a practical perspective. I mean treatment... but it's too late now."

"I have done so much, killed so many people, I have opened another path that is opposite to the reality."

"What is the road?" I have to say that this doctor was a bit bold. She calmed herself down and asked.

"I don't know if you can understand." But Lucien still said: "It's like this, I have given them external explanations for these psychological problems."

"It's not psychological, it's not pathological...it's the reason why I'm like this."

"Depression is because my desires and fears are killed, anxiety is a crisis that follows me like a shadow and kills me, amnesia is someone else's calculation, and Truman syndrome is the fourth wall. I mean, there is really a narrative layer controlling me, and I am really fighting against the narrative layer."

“Perhaps you are also experiencing hallucinations,” the lady said.

But Lucian waved his hand: "It's too late. Let it be a delusion. I've already been logically consistent... I know it sounds ridiculous, but I have to say that I killed so many people and did so many evil things just to show the director team what it would be like if I became the final form they wanted to see."

"I want them to understand that no one wants to see me like that. If I end up like that, they will lose box office, ratings, sales, subscriptions, and people will insult and criticize me..."

"I mean, at this point, people who continue to watch definitely don't want to see a clown or a murderous villain... but they don't know that they don't want to see it, so I let them see what the consequences will be if I become like that as they wish."

“Then they understood how valuable I was.”

Lucian put his hat back on his head, stood up, and left: "Depression, anxiety, fantasy... none of them."

His gun was on the table. The doctor picked it up, swallowed, and aimed at Lucian's defenseless back.

It's loaded inside.

She pulled the trigger.

Chapter 153 The End and the Beginning

He had left the gun there on purpose, and he couldn't guarantee that the doctor wouldn't pick it up.

Zero percent and one hundred percent.

……

If he had not fired the gun, or if he had not killed him after firing the gun, then Lucian could be sure that he could live in this world as an ordinary person for a long time.

Regardless of whether or not he will be serving time for murder next.

If he were shot to death, Lucien would not die... His immortality is more like a law of causality.

His soul might leave his body and go to a new one, or time might go back and someone from another timeline might rescue him, or he might become something like the Lucian virus and spread to everyone present.

...This all shows one thing, the narrative has not given up the idea of ​​keeping him alive, or in other words, has not given up the idea of ​​letting him continue to be a clown.

It even got to the point where they couldn't tolerate him being away from Gotham, and away from the Joker and Batman for a day.

……

Although there was no gun in his pocket, his hand was still in it - there was candy wrapper in it, which made a rustling sound as he rubbed it.

Lucian walked out step by step, waiting for the bullet to be fired at any time.

one second...

Two seconds...

and then?

He turned the door handle.

He opened the door.

He walked out.

Nothing happened.

----

It succeeded, and the point of success was that the narrative layer found his story difficult to organize and wanted to stop there.

……

But in the story of the Broken Bat, there is perhaps an existence that we have all forgotten.

Fijinet, the god of time who is the only one who can travel between the dark and light universes, is quietly watching over the universe. This god is trying to get something unique or someone in the dark multiverse in order to get help in the upcoming crisis.

His eyes, which glowed blue and had a gem-like texture, were constantly watching the changes in the timeline of this universe.

Bane breaks Batman's back, and Batman chooses the Angel of Death as his successor. The Angel of Death defeats Batman and imprisons him, and rules Gotham after killing Bane.

Twenty-eight years later, Toni and Damian defeated the Angel of Death and rescued Batman.

The rebels launched a general attack on the Angel of Death, but after the success, the Angel of Death was rescued by the Joker.

Toni left the resistance, and Damian imprisoned Batman and ruled Gotham.

The timeline is fluctuating, and the protagonist of the next story appears in Fijinet's observation.

The Joker used the Gotham masses to launch a rebellion against Damian and successfully killed Damian, Batman, and the Angel of Death.

After destroying Gotham, he came to Metropolis and started his life as an ordinary person.

……

In Fijianet's opinion, this is a demonstration of the possibility of a Joker in the dark multiverse destroying Gotham, and there is nothing special about it.

This was not the person he wanted who could play any role in the next crisis.

But before looking away to the next dark dimension, he noticed something unique about the Joker.

——Traces of Barbatos.

……

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lucien was sitting on the lawn of the mental hospital... The lady reported him, and he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and after his mental state was determined, he was put into the mental hospital.

He was wearing striped clothes, sitting cross-legged, holding a few blades of grass in his hands, and looking down at the ants walking past him.

As the sunlight shone on the small black creature, Lucian thought of a theory:

Ants are two-dimensional creatures and have no concept of volume, but they live in the world of three-dimensional creatures with the posture of two-dimensional creatures.

But looking at the barely perceptible shadow cast by the low figure, Lucien thought of the ending of One Hundred Years of Solitude:

"The first person in the family is tied to a tree, and the last person in the family is eaten by ants."

This is actually also a book about prophecy and fate, and the ending is revealed by prophecy before it happens.

Lucian didn't know why he thought of this, but the moment he looked up.

It looked like a humanoid creature made of gold and stone, with long conical objects on both sides of its head. His body was wrapped in blue cloth or armor, and strange eyes were looking at him.

Lucien heard him say, "I can give you the power to travel through time."

"The dark multiverse is very fragile. Can time travel be achieved in this universe?"

"Yes."

"What's the price?"

Lucian recognized Him - the God of Time Fijinet, the god who once gave Flash Wally the ability to repair the timeline, but at the cost of losing his emotions with humans and merging with the Mobius Chair.

"When you find a timeline that satisfies you, you will become my messenger, traveling through the dark multiverse to prevent the spread of pollution."

"……"salvation?

Logically, Lucian should have bargained or made a few sarcastic remarks.

Considering the current state of the universe, he is victorious to some extent... He is satisfied with ordinary people, even if they are ordinary people who will be stuck in a mental hospital for the next half of their lives.

"I want to ask, if I go back to the past, what form of existence will my former self and I take? Will we be two people, or one person?"

"You will exist at the same time as he does, just as you are now."

"What about my age? Or my physical features? Now or before?"

"Current form."

"...Okay." He said, "But I want you to cross the timeline and make this deal with me forty years from now."

"can."

……

Leaping over a forty-year timeline was not a difficult task for Fijianet.

So, at dusk forty years later, Lucian, with wrinkled skin and a sleepy look, saw him, smiled, and said to himself:

"I am very satisfied with the past 40 years. It has satisfied my addiction - the addiction of only having to think about eating, sleeping and living."

"Also give me some courage to make myself better."

----

This is after the Resistance rescues Batman from the Angel of Death.

That's when Lucien realized that the so-called Catwoman was actually Harley Quinn.

It was after -22 Joker spoke to him and told him what the core of his so-called worst day was.

Before he killed Harley Quinn and Ms. Taylor.

……

No one knows oneself better than oneself. Lucian can say that that was the time when he felt the most empty and confused. At that time, he was eager to find companions and a way to break through.

So urgent that he could transfer his feelings for young Bruce to Batman, and then be betrayed.

Now, Lucian travels to that time period with the help of Fijianet.

Killing the old clown...isn't that difficult. Just tell him your purpose, and this clown, who is already at the end of his strength, will voluntarily die.

He took on the identity of the old Joker, and then delivered a letter to "Lucian" through Arthur before "Lucian" killed Harley Quinn.