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

"Of course, before."

Lucien really wanted to smoke a cigarette, but in the end he just took it out and played with it in his hand without lighting it. However, his expression seemed as if he had already inhaled the nicotine into his lungs... a little intoxicated and dreamy.

He suddenly changed the subject:

"Why can -22 have hope of returning to a positive direction in the end?"

The voice was vague and soft, as if in a dream:

"Because they swore not to hurt each other... because Batman and the Joker reconciled. No, that's not the case. The Joker is dead. The key point of the plot is dead. There will be no Batman killing the Joker again... Without the cause of birth, there will naturally be no evil result."

Licking his teeth, Lucian smiled at Batman and said, "Then the same logic applies. Now, all we need to do is let the universe know that you are Batman... and Batman won't turn evil, and he won't turn evil because of what happened to Jochel. Then we can return to the right path."

"Your goal will succeed, your ideal will be realized... You will be happy, Bruce, as long as you don't turn evil because of Jochel."

……

He said: "All it takes is Jochel to disappear...all it takes is my death."

"Sorry, I forgot. I can't die...so what's needed is my departure."

"As long as I'm out of here, as long as Batman can't kill Jochel...your universe is safe."

Lucian looked at Bruce's body and said, "I can even use the restrictions of the curse to attract Barbatos' attention when you upgrade... You will succeed."

……

It's raining in Gotham tonight, fine and dense, like a spider web, sticky and dense.

……

"But I really thought I would be a hero, Batman, the righteous man who saves the world."

He bit the sponge and let it leak out... There was no taste of tobacco without lighting it, it was just a meaningless release based on habit.

Bruce didn't know what to say. Perhaps his silence was another kind of answer? Comfort? Companion?

"I want to give a monologue now—don't interrupt me." Lucian said, "This is what I must say before I leave."

"You think I'm sad, Bruce? You think I'm sad to be leaving here, to be out before dawn?"

"Or do you think I'm just a tool, completely failing to realize my own initiative, and that I'd be sad if I couldn't become a villain or a hero?"

"I'm not sad, I'm not heartbroken about this..." He said this with a somewhat sorrowful expression: "I remember there was an animated film - 'The Villain's Fairy Tale'."

Lucian is good at looking back, avoiding direct emotional expression and using metaphors or analogies, so he says:

"It's a movie that interprets a fairy tale from the perspective of a villain... If the world I belong to is a movie, and I am the unfortunate protagonist, then the name of the movie should be called - "Tool Hero Movie"

"I should be sad about my fate."

……

But is he sad?

As mentioned before, he has no desires or fears, no goals of his own, and can only be a sucker fish attached to large fish.

He doesn't feel sad about it.

……

"It's just that I've lived here for nearly twenty years... I'm a little reluctant to leave." He just said.

"I just feel like what I'm doing is meaningless." Lucian listed everything he had: "Owl, Claws, the League of Assassins, the Lazarus Pool, the Green Lantern Ring, the Speed ​​Force, even the feelings between you and me... None of these are meaningful."

"What's important here isn't Batman, it's not the Joker... it's Jocher, the one who killed your parents, it's me."

This is the key point.

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"…We're leaving, right?"

Once again standing in the rift between time and space, Lucien heard the Flash say.

"...Wait a minute, can you smoke in the Speed ​​Force space?"

"Hey! I finally figured it out! You said you wouldn't smoke when Batman was around, but you started smoking as soon as he left!"

"...He's just a child who's only recently reached adulthood. It's not good for him to pick up such a habit."

……

The theory actually worked, with some special kinetic energy... they could no longer observe -32.

They observed black bats.

...Barbatos.

"Run! Run! Little Flash! Run again!"

……

He escaped again, Lucian completely surrendering his body to the Flash, his mind still in -32, the universe whose name he only learned at the end.

Just like the revolving lantern after death, he thought of the hand that patted Bruce's shoulder in the alley, the gun he gave him, the four bullets, a rose, the blood and flesh in the desert, and the clock tower where Batman was born...

Finally he thought about the moment he killed Batman.

The bullet passed through Bruce's throat, and blood splattered...

Lucien didn't have any special feelings about killing, but when he saw Bruce gradually losing his vital signs, he felt emptiness, sadness, depression, and... a pleasure close to orgasm.

End of Chapter

Why can't Batman rebel if he's so awesome? He was able to organize a resistance army in a world ruled by Superman and succeeded, so why can't he win the rebellion?

Just make it.

But you definitely can’t write it, because if you write it it’s gone.

……

I originally reserved two chapters for the ending... but in the end I decided to finish it in one go.

I must say that this chapter is not as well written as the previous one.

Anyway, it's finished.

How about it?

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The protagonist in the next volume will fall in love, so be careful.

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Because the protagonist is positioned as an ordinary person, I won’t give him too much power until he is no longer ordinary... "I am Superman" "I don't eat beef".

Therefore, he will make some small sacrifices, be a little naive, but generally have positive emotions.

But then he would experience what he called his "worst day yet."

During this time, his immortality and hallucination abilities would disappear, leaving him in a normal or even psychotic state.

I don't know if he will really become a lunatic. (Maybe when he becomes a lunatic I will give up the psychological description)

……

Also, I am very clear about my level. I can't write big scenes. I won't play if my combat power exceeds that of the Claw (and what does the Joker with maximum combat power want to do), so I focus more on the description of the psychological level, such as the secondary development of the brain.

The next world is the only copy with an outline, and the outline survived... It's a bit strange to run naked for so long.

Chapter 99 "Anorexia"

Sunset, tide, beach, wooden chairs.

A figure wearing a lady's hat sits in the picture, eternal and timeless.

You exchanged hallucinations, memories, and immortality for the chance to become an ordinary person.

……

A dim light shone through the cheap curtains onto the bed. The sleeping person fluttered his eyelashes, then opened his eyes and sat up.

"It's this dream again."

Lucian took out a notebook from under his pillow, unscrewed the pen, and wrote on it:

"On January 1, I saw Him again... I really should go to the hospital to see if I have a mental or physical illness."

Then he looked back at the previous records... starting from January 1st:

"A strange dream and strange words."

January 1nd “I dreamt about it again.”

January 1rd "I can't enter this scene, and I can't see what the people inside look like...but it's very familiar."

...until now.

Having the same dream for nearly a month completely aroused his curiosity.

"I need to see a psychiatrist."

……

There were quite a lot of people in the hospital, all showing signs of bleeding, amputations, and bullet wounds... most likely a gunfight had broken out somewhere.

But fortunately, there weren't many people in the psychological clinic.

After registering, Lucien sat in a chair and waited quietly - there were two people in front of him.

"Uh, hello."

After a while, a thin white man came and sat next to Lucien.

"Are you also suffering from anorexia nervosa?" the white man said. "It looks much worse than mine."

"...Sorry, I just have a digestive problem." Lucian looked at him.

Thin, weak, a little timid and uneasy, he stopped talking after learning that it was not the same symptoms.