Schiller thought to himself, With the way you keep popping up and going silent whenever you please, how could I not notice?
In fact, he had noticed something was off with the battle announcements when he fought those hounds.
At first, he guessed there were announcements when fighting Players but not ordinary monsters. Later, however, when he clashed with Players, there were sometimes no announcements, while fighting monsters triggered them instead.
Wasn't this battle commentary a little too arbitrary?
And ever since Pride had brought him here, Beyonder had been approached by Pride and was probably busy explaining himself, so he had gone silent for a while.
When he spoke again, his tone had changed completely. His style was nothing like before—so drastically different that it was practically begging people to notice.
And while Joker was still alive, he had been chased by reeds in the Underground Cave. Several Batmen had gotten poor dice results, and Main Universe Batman had even been severely injured. That should have been Joker's handiwork.
But afterward, the dice became black and gold, and no matter how they were rolled, they always resulted in Critical Failures. It looked like it should have been Joker's skill too, but Joker could only have one skill.
In other words, controlling the numbers rolled and changing the dice's color while forcing a Critical Failure should have been mutually exclusive. It was impossible for him to possess both at once.
Besides, that latter skill was absurdly overpowered. Even Greed, who could directly unleash wind blades, did not have that kind of destructive force. His blades could only cut someone in half at most, and after traveling a certain distance, they could only leave a shallow mark on a wall. Rather than magic, it was more like a support skill for