You Are an Empty Shell, Emperor Joker's Question, the World Forger's Unease

"Can't answer?"

"Time Trapper" saw that Batman had not answered him.

"Then let's change the question." He said, "You see, I traced the history of the past through the Over-Time Stream. At a certain point, you changed from a parallel-version Bruce Wayne in a classic Dark Multiverse into what you are now."

Then he said:

"Then... what about before that? No, no, I'm not talking about what you were like before that Bruce Wayne. I mean you. The newly born you. Human memories, behavior, and logic are inevitably influenced by the past. Past memories form the foundation of our personalities."

"Those pains, sorrows, and rages created Batman and granted him his power. So tell me, what was your past?"

There was no response.

Then he said, "Why don't we play a game?"

He waved a hand before Batman, and in an instant, he created a lifelike dummy.

It was Third Generation Robin Tim Drake.

Seeing the Batman before him, he immediately wore an expression of shock. Then, almost instinctively, he drew the two batons from behind his back and swung them at the "Time Trapper." In the next moment, he drifted through the air like fine sand, then transformed into Alfred's appearance before scattering again.

Bane, Joker, Scarecrow, and even a smaller Barbatos—one dummy after another was reconstructed beneath Fifth-Dimensional Power. They were merely shadow puppets, yet they were so real, at least to anyone who had not mastered Fifth-Dimensional Power.

These were nothing more than false creations, not living beings. But in the end, "Time Trapper" removed his cloak and pulled a rabbit out of it from thin air.

It was a real, living, pregnant doe rabbit.

He used Fifth-Dimensional Power to alter the rabbit, making it give birth at an accelerated rate. Then, the newborn rabbit was rapidly