Laughing Man left in a frantic hurry.
But he was still a step too late. When he returned to his base, all he found was devastation and a half-dead Robin King.
Laughing Man took one look and could tell that an earth-shattering battle of the century had taken place here. They had fought until even the laws of the universe had been ground away.
And if nothing unexpected had happened, the two combatants had been Robin King and the real Bruce.
It looked as though Robin King had been defending the base while Bruce had been attacking it, but there was one question: Why had Bruce attacked this place? How had he found it?
Laughing Man picked up the half-dead Robin King and only then realized that the body he was using was not his original one. It was some controlled Mad Robin, and his consciousness occupied that body.
Laughing Man woke Robin King up. He did not know whether he was seeing things, but he actually caught a trace of grievance on Robin King's face.
Laughing Man felt that Robin King was not the one who ought to have felt wronged right now.
Still, he got the whole story out of Robin King. In short—protect your property and beware telecom scams.
While Schiller led those Arkham criminals through Laughing Man's carefully directed production, Bruce had not been idle either.
Actually, he had been fairly idle at first. He had been discussing corporate culture with Robin King, from Barbatos's founding principles to his entrepreneurial journey, while also explaining the history of the universe as he had heard it from Barbatos.
But Schiller soon sent him a message, and Bruce let something slip—he accidentally brought up the matter of Laughing Man's contamination.
Of course, at the time, they did not know