Some ruins quite far from the battlefield.
Chen Tao's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
At that moment, he had transformed into a gigantic dragon-shaped monster and was using his pitiful authority over the Cosmic Tuning Fork with all his might, twisting The Batman Who Laughs's wishes as much as possible.
The Batman Who Laughs had nearly crippled Time Trapper, then used a smooth little combo of facts and words that had almost completely broken Supreme Superboy's defenses.
Supreme Superboy looked very calm at that moment, but in fact...
He really was very calm.
All right, he was on the verge of going insane.
Anyone who had ever been angry knew that if someone stomped around, cursed, and smashed things, they probably still had some hope left for the object of their anger. But if they only felt deeply disappointed and could not even be bothered to get angry...
That was Supreme Superboy's current state.
When a patient with late-stage depression suddenly stopped having an episode and instead walked toward you with a foolish smile to greet you, it did not mean he was getting better. It meant he was going to tell everyone today that he loved them, then find a building and jump off it.
In short, The Batman Who Laughs was now using the Cosmic Tuning Fork's resonance to carry out his plan. He was merging Time Trapper's history with Supreme Superboy's, turning two related people into one, while Chen Tao had come along and stuck his oar in.
He intended to influence Time Trapper through the impact he had once had on the history of the Dark Multiverse's Superboy, thereby changing the outcome The Batman Who Laughs desired.
And so, a very interesting situation had arisen:
The Batman Who Laughs was using the [Time Trapper] timeline