No one could figure out who the Nightwing Dick Grayson appearing in The Batman Who Laughs' mental world actually was.
To put it rationally, this Nightwing should have been the amalgamation of all The Batman Who Laughs' memories of Dick Grayson in the past, a personality created entirely from The Batman Who Laughs' memories of the real Nightwing.
The Nightwing The Batman Who Laughs had once truly possessed.
But... was that really true?
Could it really be stated with certainty?
Could it really be stated with certainty that the Nightwing before them was nothing more than an illusion of the past, rather than a chance to start over?
The Batman Who Laughs, who had calculated everything, could he have calculated today's scene?
The Batman Who Laughs couldn't, but his heart had long since turned to iron.
Even when killing the entire Bat Family, he had laughed wildly the whole time.
The distance between Bruce and The Batman Who Laughs was only one glass of water.
That day, Bruce, who was about to be transformed, began to realize that he might be unable to stop The Batman Who Laughs from arriving. Therefore, he tried to summon the entire Bat Family to stop him. He already had a plan to fight The Batman Who Laughs. Even if that plan ended with his death, Batman always had a plan.
He had already made preparations. Every member of the Bat Family would return to the Batcave, or so he thought. But halfway through that thought, he got up to drink a glass of water. After he finished drinking, he... he was transformed.
The Bruce Wayne of the past vanished without a trace. An evil personality was born within him. The history of the Over-Time Stream was reshaped at that moment, stretching toward that terrifying