The Batman Who Laughs gazed into the starry sky.
On this timeline, the galaxy had shattered and time had perished. Countless fragments of stars formed a ring like a meteor belt, drifting around Earth and the other galaxies.
It was a spectacular and beautiful sight, but its price had been destruction.
"You know, uh..." The Batman Who Laughs had originally wanted to affectionately call the Nameless Old Dragon by his name—not Bruce, but the name he knew. Yet in that instant, he suddenly forgot it. He not only forgot what the other man was called, but completely forgot that he had intended to call him by name.
The Batman Who Laughs himself did not realize that he was thinking while completely bypassing the other man's name.
In any case, he continued speaking.
"We've fought many times. Sometimes we lost, and sometimes we won. But this time, I don't seem to have any excuse to refuse, do I?"
The Batman Who Laughs turned to look at the Nameless Old Dragon.
What a strange feeling. For the first time ever, the interests of the two of them completely overlapped.
Neither the Nameless Old Dragon nor the Batman Who Laughs wanted any of the three—Empty Hand, Mother of the Multiverse, or Anti-Monitor—to win.
Both of them wanted all three sides to suffer mutual destruction.
Anti-Monitor could roll back to his position upstream in the Over-Time Stream, Perpetua could return to her Source Wall, and no one wanted Empty Hand meddling in anything within the DC Multiverse. His proper destination was to roll back to the outskirts of the DC Multiverse.
From another perspective, both of them also wanted the current DC Universe to return to peace and the current timeline to be erased.
The Nameless Old Dragon naturally wanted to restore peace to