Good. At least she hadn't told them.
Let me think. What name should I use?
Just as Lake was thinking this and preparing to come up with a fake name for himself—
After Vivian finished saying that, she immediately turned to Lake. "I didn't tell them your name. I told them your name was Thomas Wayne, the president of the overseas Umbrella Corporation. We met on the romantic Aegean Sea, and then you decided to come here to expand your business."
Lake looked up at Vivian.
Well, damn.
Lake realized something. It seemed that in parallel universes, he never had much of a chance to choose his own name. In Black Widow's parallel world, his doppelgänger was called Max.
And here?
Thomas?
Was my alias going to clash with "Wayne"?
Could the "Wayne" in question be the "Wayne" from fearsome indeed? If so, that did sort of make sense.
Wait.
As Lake was thinking this, he suddenly murmured the name Thomas Wayne. Then, feeling that something was off, he looked up at Vivian and pointed at himself. "Me? Thomas Wayne?"
Vivian nodded. "Yes. What's wrong? Don't you like it?"
"What about you?"
"Kane. Martha Kane."
"..."
Vivian looked at the now-silent Lake and blinked. "Is something wrong?"
Lake chuckled.
There were plenty of things wrong.
Those two fake names were already strange enough.
I'd just said I wanted to turn this city into Gotham, and now I've become Thomas Wayne, while Vivian has become Martha Kane. What the hell is this supposed to be?
I came here to end the world, not to play dress-up.
Lake looked at Vivian curiously. "How did you..."
Forget it.
Lake stopped halfway and waved his hand. He had originally wanted to ask Vivian how she had come up with that name.
But...
There were