"Wasn't it just because we didn't let him board the ship that time? Did he really have to drag all of us headfirst into Hell with him? That's way too petty, isn't it?!" Marvel Schiller complained. "And he threw us into the middle of a battlefield, then disappeared himself."
"You should be grateful that he took the most troublesome one away." Superego stood by the window as well, watching the chaos beneath the High Tower. He adjusted his glasses and said, "I told you long ago that he was one of the most mentally unstable traits. Still, it wasn't entirely his fault."
"Originally, I had not intended to split the trait of Pride in two. But I knew how dangerous this world was, and I understood that dealing with Batman might come at a cost. So I sent half of Pride to test the waters first. Sure enough, he was infected by the Joker Virus."
"There were already enough bizarre personalities at home, so one more Joker would not have mattered. But what surprised me was how quickly the transformation happened. I thought it would be a relatively long process, yet the fragment went wrong the moment it first met Batman."
"The other fragment was put to work without any treatment at all, so his mental state could hardly be called stable..." Superego shook his head. Marvel Schiller snorted and said, "I knew that from the first time he got back at me for breaking his umbrella."
"Come on, we're the same person. Who takes revenge on himself? I knew back then that he was definitely mentally ill!"
"Originally, the personality traits capable of surfacing and taking control of the body should have been the most stable ones, those best able to adapt to ordinary human society. Like you—you show