Hal Raised the Crowbar and Brought It Down on Emperor Joker's Head: What Does It Have to Do with You?

Emperor Joker's behavior looked completely insane—because he really was insane.

But in truth, his goal had never changed:

He wanted to express the friendship between himself and Batman.

He did not want to accomplish anything specific. He merely wanted to express his emotions. Everything he did was driven by emotion, without the slightest bit of logic.

Trying to help Hal escape the Over-Time Stream was a way of setting Batman a difficult problem. Now that Hal's true body could not escape, Emperor Joker's attempt to support Batman as the spirit of the Crowbar was also stopped by him, once again giving Batman a difficult problem.

His position shifted with his emotions. Forget Hal—even Chen Tao could never completely understand what Emperor Joker was thinking at that exact moment.

"Calm down, calm down. Oh, right, yes, I have to stay calm like Batman and become a super-serious supervillain, hee hee hee..."

Emperor Joker muttered to himself like a man having a seizure. He did not immediately leap from his hiding place and bite Parallax Hal like a mad dog. This was not merely because, while possessed by Parallax, Parallax Hal could grow a mouthful of sharp fangs at any moment and bite back. The more important reason was:

He might not win the biting contest.

Besides, if Emperor Joker wanted to cause trouble, he had no need to use such an extreme method as confronting him head-on.

"Yes, that's right..." Emperor Joker murmured, the pupils of his black eyes flashing with a vicious light.

"Wow, I just thought of a wonderful plan. An absolutely marvelous burst of inspiration."

He paced back and forth through the void, muttering, "This will definitely be a joke second only to piranhas with smiling faces. Ha ha, hahahaha!"

His smile suddenly vanished, and his face became