This is a room with a slightly sci-fi style, made of gray and white metal, with all kinds of daily necessities inside, and a tightly covered porthole, which looks like a single room on a luxury cruise ship.
But ordinary cruise ships obviously don't lock up guests.
"Ha~ Hey~ Is anyone there? Is this some kind of prank show? I have a meeting in half an hour, can I exit early?"
Joe Cole, who was wearing a business suit, was in an iron cage in the middle of the room, with a twisted expression, grabbing the railing and screaming:
"Listen, I will never cooperate with your performance, do you hear me? Never-"
Katcha, gas——
The metal door of the room slid open to the side, and then, a "non-smiling clown" wearing a long purple suit, dyed green hair, clown makeup on his face, but with the corners of his mouth turned down walked in.
"People who don't want to go along with the show aren't going to eat a cake that says 'Eat me' and be caged in," he said.
"What do you know?" Joe Cole stared: "This is a cake made by Batman himself! It's not Bruce, it's Batman! It's just a trap. Even if it's poisonous, I... Bah! You're talking nonsense! Batman doesn't know that.
Poison!"
"..." The Smiling Clown stared at him silently without saying a word.
"Hey, don't act cool there. We're both clowns. I know exactly what you're thinking," Joe Cole winked at him: "Are you thinking, 'If Batman and I took a step back, maybe things wouldn't be the same?'
Will it become what it is now'?"
"Even after knowing the facts of the 'Batman Multiverse', it's hard for me to imagine that the Joker and Batman would have such a harmonious relationship. Maybe it's because the basic logic of this universe is different." The Joker's tone did not waver.
But it does come with a bit of surprise.
"Harmony? No, no, no, you must have done something wrong," Joe Cole pressed his face against the cage: "Do you want to think about your relationship with your 'half-smiling clown'?"
"..." The corners of the Smiling Clown's mouth drooped more and more.
"Humph~ Let me tell you a fact, 'Batman and Joker' will be a set of antonyms that are always in a state of confrontation, such as killing and not killing, order and chaos, good and evil, guardian and destruction
The author, the question maker and the puzzle solver, etc., although the stories of each universe look different, it is roughly the same, right?" Joe Cole said proudly: "Just like you, you think you
It's Batman, but the 'half face' forces you to admit that you are the Joker."
"Unless 'my Batman' is resurrected, his goal will never be achieved." The Unsmiling Joker lowered his gaze slightly.
"Hehe, don't worry, if there is such a possibility, he will definitely try his best to stop it, otherwise he will have no meaning of existence." Qiao Cole laughed.
"Then what about you?" The Unsmiling Clown raised his eyes and stared at him: "What is your relationship with the Batman of this universe?"
"Always causing trouble to each other but unable to completely separate. They usually hate each other but can only cooperate when necessary. They like to dictate to each other according to their own ideas. More than once, they thought of killing each other directly." Qiao Cole removed his face from the cage
He moved away and spread his hands: "Look, it's no different from you, is it?"
"What I want is an answer." The Smiling Clown stared at him.
"Okay," Qiao Cole spread his hands: "Party A and Party B."
"..."
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stuck——angry——
"It seems like you guys get along well?"
The sliding door opened again, and a strong man wearing a blue tights and a red cape, with a red and gold S painted on his chest and a bat mask on his head walked in.
"Ha, 'Super Bat', I should have thought of it a long time ago," Qiao Cole held his chin: "No one can move me away with the cage except you. So, the one who came up with the idea should be that verbose old woman.
Already?"
"Of course, I can easily subdue you, but 'Bat Mother' is worried and must lock you up, and I..." Super Bat shrugged: "I'm not good at dealing with people like her."
"That's really rude. Am I the kind of person who causes havoc casually?" Joe Cole crossed his arms.
"Nevermind," Super Bat crossed the cage, walked to the closed porthole of the room, and then opened the mask: "We just don't give you the chance to cause trouble."
"What-" Joe Cole froze mid-sentence.
Outside the window, there are bright stars and a huge blue sphere that occupies more than half of the porthole area.
"You have entered the universe?! That stupid boy from the Kansas farm is coming?! Is my position going to be in jeopardy?!" He wailed incomprehensibly.
"Do you need me to remind you? Essentially, I am also Superman." Super Bat crossed his arms and showed off his biceps intentionally or unintentionally.
"Honestly, if you found yourself leaving the atmosphere on the 'Bat Space Shuttle', would you want to try to make it malfunction?" The Unlaughing Clown stared at Joe Cole: "This is what locks you up.
reason."
"I'm reporting this! This clown wants to cause destruction!" Joe Cole raised one hand to the roof and pointed at the clown who was not laughing.
"..." The corners of the Smiling Clown's mouth became droopier.
"[Bring him to the bridge,]" Bruce Wayne's voice came from the loudspeaker in the wall: "[If you insist on communicating with him, he can bombard you with trash talk all day long.]"
"I won't leave!" Qiao Cole sat down on the ground: "I am a stupid prisoner who has fallen into a stupid trap! I am not going anywhere!"
"..." Super Bat looked at the Unsmiling Clown: "Is he having a temper?"
"Huh, because Batman caught him when he didn't commit any crime, so if he doesn't give a reasonable explanation, he'll just stay here." The Laughing Clown snorted.
"[I found traces of the Court of Owls.]" Bruce said.
"What! Where? In space? Look at Uncle Joe Cole plucking all their hair and making them into obsolete feather dusters and throwing them into the warehouse to eat dust!" Joe Cole stood up suddenly.
"[In Blackgate Prison,]" Bruce continued: "[The old site where the 'Unsmiling Clown' and 'Half Smiley' fought, the same spatial ripples that appeared when the Court of Owls invaded Gotham appeared, and through these
Ripple’s tracking revealed that the nearest teleportation location is on the moon. In order to prevent problems before they happen, we decided to go and investigate.】"
"Ah? Uh..." Joe Cole looked like he didn't understand.
"[This exploration operation may take a long time, so I brought all the 'Batmans from Another World' with me. If you are left on Earth and cause trouble, others will not be able to deal with it," Bruce paused: "[
As for the 'half-smiling face', without the provocation target of 'non-smiling clown', there will be no dangerous behavior.】"
"Okay, since you apologize so sincerely, I will forgive you magnanimously," Joe Cole turned around with his hands on his hips and looked at Super Bat and the Unsmiling Clown: "Open the door! Lead the way!"
"Tsk." The Smiling Clown smacked his lips in dissatisfaction.
