Where Did the Original Body Go Before the Transmigration? Chen Tao's Origin Story, Part Two: An Original Version
Where Did the Original Body Go Before the Transmigration? Chen Tao's Origin Story—Part Two—An Original Version
My name is Chen Tao.
Many, many years ago, I was still thin.
No, what I mean is... a long time ago, I was still Bruce Wayne.
Mother of the Multiverse Pepatua: ...?
She checked the facts upstream in the Over-Time Stream once more.
You're a ghost!
She saw with perfect clarity that at the moment Chen Tao's soul occupied the body of Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the Dark Multiverse, the original Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the Dark Multiverse, simply...
Huh!?
In an instant, Pepatua realized that Batman really had done as he wished: He had twisted the past of the Multiverse's Over-Time Stream. Or perhaps that past had always existed, and it wasn't actually a distortion?
No, it was purely the product of distortion, but it was also reality.
Batman Dragon had made all of this real. The soul of the original Bruce Wayne, the Batman of the Dark Multiverse, had existed only upstream in the Over-Time Stream, but at the point where Chen Tao's soul crossed over, the two souls had merged...
Or rather, according to Chen Tao's settings, the personality called "Chen Tao" was merely a secondary personality that Batman Bruce Wayne had deliberately created.
Then "Bruce Wayne" had deliberately destroyed himself.
That, at least, was the origin Pepatua had read so far.
"You actually..."
"I really can do it."
Meeting those golden eyes, Chen Tao said:
"Don't make a fuss. I'm..."
He lowered his eyes slightly and gave a faint chuckle.
"A man who cannot be defined."
In the history of the DC Multiverse, the person with the most origin stories was Hawkman, Carter Hall. He had been the reincarnation of an Egyptian prince, an alien police officer,