A Priest in Gotham: Starting Out by Taking In a Little Boy
Chapter 56

Harvey's struggle

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"Could it be Harley Quinn? Poison Ivy is quick on the uptake," Roland pondered.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked as he walked over.

"It's nothing, just some things that aren't suitable for children." Roland yawned. "Let's go back."

"What about these people?" Jason pointed to the people lying on the ground.

"They won't be able to get out of bed for at least a month, so just leave them be."

"Oh."

As the two walked back, they suddenly heard a passionate and rousing German.

"Es bleiben im Raum. Keitel, Jodl, Krebs und Burgdorf."

"Das war ein Befehl!"

"Der Angriff Steiner war ein Befehl..."

"Die gesamte Generalität ist nichts weiter als ein Haufen niederträchtiger, treuloser Feiglinge!"

"... This voice sounds familiar..." Roland felt increasingly uneasy as he listened. Although he didn't understand German at all, the infectious accent was already quite unsettling.

"Sounds like the head of state," Jason commented.

"No, I feel like I've heard that voice somewhere before..." Roland climbed over a courtyard wall and saw Harvey Dent with his hand raised at a 45-degree angle.

"What are you doing?" Roland nearly fell off the courtyard wall.

"Ah... I'm... rehearsing." Harvey was startled when Roland suddenly appeared.

"Rehearsal?" Roland was taken aback. "What are we performing? Blitzkrieg against Poland?"

"No, it's just a stage play..." Harvey wiped his sweat with a handkerchief.

"You still have time to act in a stage play?" Roland felt even more puzzled. In a place like Gotham City, where people are talented and resourceful, the work of the prosecutor's office is incredibly busy. Harvey usually barely has time to eat, so how could he have time for this now?

And is Harvey some kind of artsy person?

"Hmm... I haven't been too busy lately..." Harvey said after thinking for a moment.

"Oh." Roland nodded. "Are you busy later? How about we grab a bite at the Coffee where we first met?"

"I have other things to do later, so I won't go..." Harvey hadn't finished speaking when Roland struck him Heart-Piercing Elbow.

But strangely, his chest turned into a muddy substance that scattered and flowed onto the ground.

"Clayface, it's you." Roland shook the yellow substance off his hand with disgust. Although it looked like mud, it was actually liquefied human tissue.

Matt Hagen, one of the few villains in Gotham City with superpowers, was originally an actor who made a living based on his looks, but he was disfigured in a car accident.

This left him with no choice but to use Cream produced by Daggett Industries to restore his handsome appearance. However, the Cream's effects were inconsistent; if he didn't apply it regularly, Matt's face would turn into a mess.

Using the Cream, Duggart blackmailed Matt into doing many illegal things, including using Duggart's disguise products to impersonate Bruce Wayne and swindle money from the Wayne Enterprises from Lucius Fox.

However, the plan failed. Matt was forced to drink a large amount of disguise products by the two killers, Clean-Freak and Earbud, and his entire body was transformed into a monster made of mud-like substance.

However, his abilities are indeed very powerful. His body can transform into any shape of weapon, and he can be both flexible and rigid. He can also transform into anyone, is immune to all cold and hot weapons, and cannot be killed.

"Tell me, why are you impersonating Harvey?" Roland asked.

"I won't say anything!" Clayface's hand suddenly turned into an axe and swung it at Roland.

"That's not up to you." Roland delivered a powerful Roundhouse Kick in mid-air, shattering the axe, and then chopped Clayface in two with his other leg.

"It's no use." The Clayface coalesced again, its hands transforming into two Lobster Claw as it reached out to grab Roland.

"As expected, physical attacks were ineffective..." Roland ran forward, found a fire hydrant, quickly opened it, and then...

"There's no water in the fire hydrant again?" Roland couldn't help but curse, as the Clayface Lobster Claw reached out from behind him.

Roland leaped up to dodge Clayface's attack, and in the process, he also managed to shatter Mudface's body once.

While Clayface's abilities were troublesome, he had virtually no fighting skills and tried to escape after a few rounds of fighting with Roland.

"Trying to leave?" Roland's stomping foot made a thunderous sound on the concrete ground. His fist reached the limit of his body speed, smashing Clayface into a lump of mud, and then he slapped the mud ball against a high-voltage power line that had not yet been repaired.

"Ughhhhhhh..."

"Phew..." Roland looked at the trembling lump of mud and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just kidding, I'm not afraid of electricity." The Clayface flowed Sewers.

Roland immediately bit his finger and covered Clayface's body with Red Letters, but Clayface simply left the skin in place, and a thick clump of mud flowed into the Sewers.

"... This guy can really run." Roland felt a headache coming on, just like someone in the One Piece world who doesn't Haki seeing a Logia-type Devil Fruit user.

After thinking for a moment, Roland dialed Harvey's number. "Hey, Harvey, you're in trouble."

That night, Harvey, Gordon, Roland, and Batman gathered together, and the thugs who had committed the crime that day all felt like they were in a dream.

Just as he was about to commit a robbery, a Priest stared blankly at him, then Batman suddenly appeared out of nowhere and beat him up. Right after the beating, the Police took him away. The Priest even provided a testimony, and the District Attorney said he would handle the matter severely and quickly.

"So, someone's trying to assassinate Harvey?" The four quickly stirred up a storm among Gotham City's thugs, finished their work for the night, and chatted about Roland's experiences during the day.

"That's right, and the methods are the same as when I threatened the Penguin —blatant plagiarism!" Roland said indignantly.

"You're focusing on the wrong thing," Gordon coughed to remind him. "But you also threatened the Penguin?"

"Well, otherwise why do you think he would turn himself in?" Roland countered.

"That's how it happened..." Batman recounted what had occurred at the Iceberg Lounge.

"I didn't expect you to be so ruthless." Gordon and Harvey both looked at Roland.

Gordon asked, "Now that you've thought of this method, is there any way to deal with it?"

"Yes, I have two plans." Roland nodded. "The first plan is to use my previous method: edit together dirt on the mayor and his associates, and take them all down with us."

What about the second option?

"... That means letting the entertainment industry release some big gossip to overshadow the Harvey affair," Roland said, raising an eyebrow at Batman. "If that's the case, then it's up to you."

"Me?" Batman gave a bitter smile, touching his lower back. "I don't know if I can hold on."

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