Before Barty Crouch Jr. was accused by Karkaroff, he had been widely recognized as a good child. Not only did he excel academically, but he was also obedient. He had never been rebellious like Sirius Black, running away from home or getting up to other mischief.
Gotham's subway had no cameras. It was a world that existed both in the sunlight and in darkness. When the subway was packed, it was a public place, with countless eyes watching and cameras and other equipment recording everything.
But at midnight, there was no one else in the subway carriage besides the five of them. After that girl left, only Joker and the other three remained.
These "good children" no longer needed to put on an act in front of "adults."
Perhaps they were not monsters. They had merely had a terrible day. "Elites" like them had to work alongside people far beneath their standards, and their pride would not tolerate mediocrity. So they worked overtime, hoping for a chance at promotion, just as they had been top students at school, standing out among their peers.
They worked late, then had a few drinks together, complained a little, and played a "somewhat nasty" prank on a woman they did not know.
But the pressure did not vanish. Following the kicking-the-cat effect, they attacked Joker. They simply had not expected that the kitten would turn into a fierce tiger and cost them their lives.
They had not intended to kill Joker, and Joker had also had a terrible day. Even if it had been self-defense, he had gone too far. Not to mention that he had fired several more shots afterward.
Bruno believed that the universe was infinite and without edges, so naturally, it had no fixed and unchanging center.
Joker knew that he