All right.
In simple terms...
Even though the World Forger had cut flesh and bled himself dry like this, deep down, I still hoped even more that history would move toward the ending where I achieved total victory.
I was Anti-Monitor. From the very beginning of this chess game with the World Forger, I had always held a trump card capable of changing everything.
A long time ago, from the farthest upstream reaches of the Over-Time Stream, I had begun laying out a plan to completely transform Batman Dragon into Anti-Monitor Bat.
The other side created Earth-15 to break out of this situation, which caught me off guard. But I took advantage of it instead and laid a trap for the World Forger.
I had been trying to force Batman Dragon...
As long as he was willing to return to before Earth-15 occurred and erase this enormous crisis that had spread across the entire DC Multiverse, I could also make use of the Multiverse's manifest destiny and flip the chessboard.
After all, neither the Multiverse nor the Over-Time Stream wanted Earth-15 to happen. That event had caused far too much damage to the Multiverse...
This plan was excellent. The only problem was that Batman Dragon had refused the entire time.
Sorry, if I could force him, I would certainly have wanted to force Batman Dragon to do it. But changing Earth-15 was [an action taken by a hero]. If I manipulated him into doing it, the Over-Time Stream's system would still identify it as a villain controlling a hero.
So I could only rack my brains and use the situation to pressure Batman Dragon into agreeing of his own accord, thereby activating my plan.
I had truly been longing for this for a very long time... but I had always