"Batman, perhaps what you didn't know was that I had been watching you from the shadows for a very long time—far earlier than you imagined. It could be traced back to the day you first came to enroll at Gotham University."
Jonathan sat in a chair while Batman stood quietly in the doorway, neither taking a step forward nor responding to any of his remarks.
Yet Jonathan continued on his own. "On your first day here, Schiller and I both knew what kind of person you were. And so, we faced the same choice—leave, or stay?"
"The good Professor Schiller you know is the same kind of person I am. We are extraordinarily alike, yet different in certain ways."
"When you appeared on the Gotham University campus, we both realized something at the same time: a student with a personality like yours was bound to become our enemy."
Jonathan sighed. "Perhaps you know that I have been conducting cruel human experiments, but unfortunately, Schiller is no better than I am. I know he took my Fear Gas. So what else could he possibly use it for?"
"I suppose you have already experienced the power of Fear Gas. It was my masterpiece... Forget it, I'm getting sidetracked. Back to the point."
"We both knew that we should not have been doctors. We should have been lunatics in straitjackets, locked away in psychiatric hospitals. And you, Batman—you're the same. You are clearly a patient, yet you insist on imagining yourself as a doctor."
"People like that are extremely troublesome, especially when you're Bruce Wayne." Jonathan seemed utterly fearless as he directly exposed Batman's identity, but Batman was completely unmoved. He remained silent and offered no response whatsoever.
"I admit that in this respect, I am no match for Schiller. Because when I