So You Chose to Skip the Battle and Drive the Blade into the Heart!

Saving it was completely meaningless.

That was indeed the case.

Once Chen Tao and the others defeated The Batman Who Laughs, rescued the fleeing timeline, reclaimed the time he had stolen, and restored all of history to the normal state of the Prime Universe and its branching timelines, all of his so-called efforts to save this timeline would cease to exist.

This stretch of history would be just like Hero Day's erroneous timeline. It would be preserved at the upper end of the Over-Time Stream, becoming a story no one had ever known, and then—

One day, it would be completely forgotten.

But so-called salvation was meaning itself.

"All of the Black... has disappeared?"

The neither-living-nor-dead superhero known as Frankenstein stared blankly at the vast land before him.

"Yes. You can begin your new lives on this land..."

Well, this new life would vanish when Chen Tao returned this timeline from the state in which The Batman Who Laughs had stolen it and merged it back into the Prime Universe. This so-called new life would never arrive.

Everyone would be reset by history, then return to the now-empty Prime Universe timeline, back to their original positions and their former peaceful, warm daily lives.

The terror of The Rot was nothing more than a terrifying dream.

But at least... at least Chen Tao could still say that for now.

At least at this moment, the people gathered here were rejoicing. They celebrated that their history had been saved, celebrated everything, celebrated a beautiful future that did not exist.

Their joy and happiness at this moment were the meaning behind what Chen Tao had done.

We only raised our glasses while celebrating...

Never asking when the feast would end.

The past could not be recovered, and the future was too distant and