Batwoman held Water God's Spear and led the group, along with the trapped Toxic Plant, toward the massive tree at the center.
"You want to know every personality's secret. Do you think the key to breaking this situation lies within them?" Charles asked.
"That is a perfectly reasonable deduction," Batman replied. "The simplest, most straightforward reasoning an ordinary person—someone without psychic abilities—would make."
"What exactly is simple about that?" Charles muttered.
"Everything in this world exists for a reason. Even if they do not obey the physical laws of the real world, they must still follow causality," Batman said. "Causes produce results. It is the most fundamental rule of the universe."
"Many things have already happened before they appear to happen. You see these personalities as the causes of some disaster, but in truth, they are the results of many earlier disasters."
"If you treat them as causes and stamp them out in their infancy to prevent disaster, then the true causes that created these personalities will simply keep producing more of them without end."
Charles frowned deeply. Batman had hit the nail on the head. The most troublesome problem facing the psychic strike team was that killing these terrifying Superpower User personalities was already extremely difficult, yet David himself had said that more Superpower Users were continuously emerging from within him.
No one knew where they came from or where they were going. No one knew how to eliminate them completely, nor did anyone know how to stop David's mind from producing more personalities that could bring disaster.
But Batman had offered an illuminating perspective. What they needed to solve was not these personalities, but the deeper things that had caused them to exist.
Once the poisonous cloud dispersed, travel became much easier. When they reached the base of