Why Are You Fighting? Why Are Both My Fists Beating Me Up?

Controlling Parallax Hal was no easy task.

Compared to Anti-Monitor, who could never truly break free of the Over-Time Stream and could only create avatars to indirectly influence its current timeline, stripping him of his free will was even more of a pipe dream.

Although Parallax Hal was currently lying on the ground, whenever Chen Tao or Barbatos raised or waved a hand, he would be blocked outside by a barrier made from their Dark Matter Universe Energy, unable even to hear what they were discussing in their little meeting--

But just because you could tie up a tiger and lock it in a cage did not mean you could make it act according to your orders like a beast tamer.

Therefore, in order to control Hal, Anti-Monitor Dragon proceeded in several stages.

First, he cooperated with Emperor Joker and captured Hal with his help, because he needed Emperor Joker to willingly use Fifth-Dimensional energy to modify Hal's body.

He had no interest whatsoever in Emperor Joker's boring game of choosing between fighting Batman and harming innocent civilians.

But for his own purposes, he could patiently play along with Joker, even tolerating a certain amount of conflict between the other's plans and his own. For example, that utterly useless William Hand. Emperor Joker had insisted on sparing his life. It was excruciatingly boring.

After that, he dealt with Emperor Joker and immediately arranged for Time Trapper to act, until he was able to prove the existence of World Forger to Barbatos.

To Barbatos, this was equivalent to a large-scale silencing effect. Even if Batman Dragon managed to reconcile with World Forger, it would still distract Barbatos.

While working with Emperor Joker, he had already planted a plan to control Parallax Hal. Joker had helped him turn Hal into a "bomb,"