Michael spent about a second looking over the illustrious record of the Batman who had appeared before him. Then, together with Lucifer, he hauled him out of Heaven, one on each side. After throwing him onto the ground, they instantly retreated several meters, as though disposing of hazardous waste.
Bruce sat up from the ground, tilted his head back to look at them, and said, "Didn't you say all Angels in Heaven are brothers and sisters? Is this how you treat your brothers and sisters?"
Michael was still immersed in the train of thought he had just seen from this Batman. Only after quite a while did he lower his gaze to Bruce's face and ask incredulously, "You turn someone stronger than you into a Joker, then you become stronger too, then you turn someone even stronger into a Joker, and then..."
"Are you perhaps a little..." Michael took a deep breath, but his moral bottom line would not allow him to say anything insulting. Though he believed it to be true, he changed to a more tactful phrasing. "Don't you think your way of thinking is a little too broad?"
"But I succeeded, didn't I?" Bruce sat cross-legged on the ground, looking down at his hands. "Cain is the son of Adam and Eve, with the holiest bloodline in this world flowing through him. Lilith also gave him her blood, so his bloodline is purer and nobler than that of the other holy sons."
"I guessed that after he was transformed into a Joker, I would also gain a status corresponding to his in some sense. I just didn't expect it to take this form. But it proves my theory was correct. I really can strengthen myself this way."
Lucifer and Michael exchanged a look, and both understood the