Who Is Qualified to Lift the Throne and Ascend to the Center of the Universe?

"History... is changing."

This was April 1938 on the Prime Universe timeline.

Doctor Manhattan, glowing with blue light, sat in a café in Metropolis. Everything was peaceful...

But from Doctor Manhattan's perspective, that was not the case.

The entire timeline was extremely unstable. The waiters, men, and women walking past him, the people coming and going in the streets, the blazing midday sun...

Everything was incredibly unstable.

Boom!

With a deafening crash, Criminal drove a small car. Under emergency braking, it struck a pedestrian in a white shirt, then skewed onto the sidewalk and smashed straight into a fire hydrant.

The street instantly descended into chaos. Some people screamed and ran toward the victim, who was already dead, while others dodged the rainwater spraying into the air from the shattered hydrant.

But in the next moment, everything restarted as if the scene had been rewound. The small car did not kill the pedestrian. Instead, one second before impact, it suddenly rose into the air, as though some invisible humanoid creature had lifted it up—Superman, perhaps...

But there was no Superman.

That image disappeared.

At that moment, history made another error.

In an instant, the entire world began to collapse. Countless people and objects shattered like shards of broken glass, and the whole world was reduced to a blank expanse. Then...

Then Doctor Manhattan heard the waitress's voice:

"Would you like something, sir? We have the best coffee here."

He redirected his attention to what was in front of him.

Doctor Manhattan could observe every moment on every timeline in the Over-Time Stream simultaneously.

He waved his hand, both dismissing the waitress and readjusting history.

Soon, the little green car appeared in the distance again. It was traveling at full speed.

Criminal was driving it—a nameless, insignificant character who had nevertheless