Chapter Summaries

Ririko and her allies helped Bruce defeat Bane with their combined powers, but Jerome’s ominous hotel invitation arrived at Ririko’s apartment afterward. The story left her facing a new mystery tied to Gotham Tower Hotel and Jerome.

• Bruce, Dick, Harvey, and Butch weakened Bane and drove him toward the guillotine while Ririko used her blood and Edward’s to summon giant hands that pinned Bane beneath its blade.
• An explosion collapsed the underground passage, and Batman escaped with Ririko and Robin before Oswald could attack him.
• Oswald announced that Gotham had classified the Riddler as an S-class criminal, while Ririko crossed five of seven Tomie Organization samples off her list.
• Ririko received an invitation to a trial stay at Gotham Tower Hotel, marked with a smiling face resembling Jerome’s grin.

Ririko went to a hotel expecting a date with Jerome, but discovered that Jeremiah had tricked her into meeting him. As Jeremiah held her, she noticed how much he resembled Jerome despite the system showing a different infatuation value.

• Hugo Strange reviewed Mr. Freeze’s successful modifications and agreed to prioritize Tommy Elliot’s experiments after Elizabeth Crown delivered an assignment from the Court of Owls.
• Ririko checked into a Gotham Tower Hotel suite using a voucher and asked whether Mr. Valeska had arrived.
• Ririko entered the bathroom and discovered Jeremiah, not Jerome, waiting for her.
• Ririko mocked Jeremiah and pulled away his towel, but he caught her wrist and pulled her into his embrace.
• Ririko noticed that Jeremiah’s strength and warmth felt just like Jerome’s, while the system showed Jeremiah’s infatuation value at 30/100.

Ririko stayed at the hotel so Jeremiah would reveal his bandaged left hand after three days, hoping to learn whether he was Jerome in disguise. She met Dick, who was investigating hotel jewelry thefts undercover, and he joined her for dinner, where he confronted Jeremiah.

• Ririko asked the system whether one character could have two identities, and it said she needed to raise another character's Infatuation Value above 60 to unlock the information.
• Jeremiah promised to show Ririko his bandaged left hand after three days if she stayed with him, and she agreed while threatening him if he broke his promise.
• Ririko visited the hotel's puppet exhibition, mocked a scarred puppet in a dollhouse, and the puppet turned to watch her leave.
• Ririko discovered Dick working undercover as a waiter to investigate jewelry thefts and offered to help lure out the thief by wearing her necklace.
• Jeremiah sat at Ririko's dinner table and claimed he had arranged to dine with her, prompting Dick to challenge him.

Ririko provoked Jeremiah during dinner, where a ventriloquist's puppet made an obscene threat before Arnold Wesker hurried away. Back in the suite, Ririko's necklace box fell mysteriously, and she challenged Jeremiah to give her a dozen necklaces as he stepped toward her.

• Ririko invited Dick to join her and Jeremiah at dinner, provoking Jeremiah's jealousy as they watched Arnold Wesker perform with Scarface.
• Ririko insulted the puppet act, and Scarface answered with an obscene threat; Arnold apologized and rushed offstage.
• Dick promised to patrol the hotel and protect Ririko before she returned to the suite with Jeremiah.
• Ririko denied being angry and mocked Jeremiah, then put her diamond necklace in its box before taking a bath.
• The jewelry box fell to the floor, and Ririko found Jeremiah at the desk; he claimed he could buy her a dozen necklaces.
• Ririko challenged Jeremiah to give her a dozen necklaces and prove what he had, and he stepped toward her.

Ririko and Jeremiah investigated strange noises in her hotel room, but a necklace disappeared while they were together. Dick began searching for a small thief as Ririko vowed to punish whoever had taken it.

• Jeremiah searched Ririko’s room, found no thief, kissed her, and left after she threatened to get Clark to kill him.
• Ririko heard something moving in her room, went to Jeremiah’s bed, and argued with him about whether a ghost was there.
• Jeremiah warned Ririko that something big would happen in Gotham and claimed he was the only one who could keep her safe.
• Ririko and Jeremiah heard a faint sound, found the suite empty, and discovered that her necklace was missing.
• Dick inspected the room, suspected a small thief had hidden in Ririko’s suitcase, and asked hotel security to screen guests and check entry records.

Ririko and Dick discovered that the Scarface Puppet could move on its own and was linked to the hotel’s jewelry thefts, but it escaped after Ririko put it in a washing machine and killed a cleaner. Ririko suspected Jeremiah had used her as bait and took Dick back to the suite, telling him to scream louder.

• Ririko found the Scarface Puppet in the garden and put it through a wash-and-dry cycle.
• Dick showed Ririko surveillance footage of the puppet moving through the hotel and said it was connected to the jewelry thefts.
• Ririko and Dick found the laundry room empty except for a dead cleaner, and Detective Bullock arrived to investigate.
• Ririko suspected Jeremiah had used her as bait to draw out the puppet and pulled Dick into the Penthouse Suite.
• Ririko told Dick to scream louder, leaving him flustered and confused.

Ririko, Dick, and Jeremiah discovered that the Scarface Puppet had been controlling ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and tracked it to the puppet exhibition. After Ririko baited it with insults, Jeremiah struck it with a fire axe, splitting its wooden body.

• Ririko and Dick tricked Jeremiah into entering their room, then confronted him about the puppet and her stolen necklace.
• Jeremiah led them to Arnold Wesker, who said the Scarface Puppet had helped him escape Blackgate Penitentiary and hypnotized him to steal jewels.
• Ririko realized the Scarface Puppet had replaced a valuable puppet at the exhibition, and the group went to the event hall.
• Jeremiah broke open the Dollhouse display case, and the Scarface Puppet insulted Ririko from the darkness.
• The Scarface Puppet lunged at Ririko, and Jeremiah swung a fire axe, splitting the puppet in two.

Ririko’s attempt to profit from the Scarface Puppet ended with her jewelry confiscated, while Jeremiah delivered the captured puppet to Philip Kane and entered the Kane Family. Later, Ririko saw a trending story about Bruce Wayne with a mysterious woman and planned to ask about it indirectly by suggesting a family vacation to Hokkaido.

• Dick and Jeremiah fought over the Scarface Puppet as Ririko pocketed jewelry from the smashed Dollhouse, but Bullock arrived and caught her trying to leave.
• At the police station, Arnold confessed to helping the Scarface Puppet escape Blackgate, while the police held him as a suspect and confiscated Ririko’s jewelry.
• Dick told Ririko that the exhibition repair costs had eaten into his reward, leaving him needing another job.
• Jeremiah delivered the half-puppet to Philip Kane, who welcomed him into the Kane Family.
• Ririko learned that the Elliott house had been emptied, then saw photos suggesting Bruce Wayne had been seen embracing a mysterious woman and decided to raise the matter while proposing a Hokkaido vacation.

Harvey showed Ririko evidence suggesting Bruce had committed a murder before appearing at the scene as Batman, but Bruce arrived before they could discuss it further. Bruce then shared his investigation into Tommy and the Court of Owls, leading Ririko to realize she may have disrupted the Court's plans by helping Penguin become mayor.

• Harvey showed Ririko surveillance photos that appeared to place Bruce at a murder scene, then said he would investigate and asked her to keep the evidence secret.
• Bruce arrived at Ririko's apartment, and Harvey hid his laptop before joining them in watching an archery competition.
• Bruce showed Ririko and Harvey a mask found at the Elliott house and said his uncle Philip suspected it was linked to the Court of Owls.
• Harvey described rumors that the Court of Owls secretly influenced powerful families and institutions, while Ririko and Harvey questioned how much power it really held.
• Ririko remembered that Penguin had become mayor after she dealt with Tetch, who had worked for Maroni and the Elliott family, and realized she had disrupted the Court of Owls' plans.

Bruce was arrested after a restaurant owner was stabbed, and Ririko suspected the Court of Owls had framed him. She warned Oswald that the organization might target him next, but he brushed off the threat and tried to persuade her to marry him.

• Bruce invited Harvey and Ririko to dinner at a restaurant he had booked entirely for them.
• After Bruce stepped outside to take a call, Ririko and Harvey heard a cry and found the restaurant's owner stabbed; a waitress accused Bruce of attacking him.
• Police arrested Bruce, while Alfred and a team of lawyers arrived to help; Harvey warned Ririko that the accusations against Bruce could keep him locked up.
• The next day, sensational headlines spread across Gotham, and Oswald celebrated the news, imagining that Ririko would marry him now that Bruce was in trouble.
• Ririko visited Oswald and warned him that the Court of Owls might come after him, but he dismissed the danger and proposed marriage again.
• Ririko teased Oswald about his wedding plans and asked him to double her credit card limit.

Elizabeth Crown confronted Mayor Cobblepot and demanded that he resign, threatening to expose evidence of his crimes. Oswald refused to back down and ordered Butch to follow Elizabeth and prepare to strike against the Court of Owls.

• Butch announced Elizabeth Crown’s arrival, and Oswald let her into his office after she threatened to expose his private meeting with Ririko.
• Ririko asked Butch to help her listen in, and they overheard Elizabeth demand that Oswald step down as mayor.
• Elizabeth presented evidence of Iceberg Lounge money laundering and Oswald’s involvement in the deaths of Mrs. Cobblepot-Miranda and her three children.
• Elizabeth offered Oswald a comfortable life if he resigned, but he rejected her demand and told her to bring on the people she represented.
• Oswald called Butch and ordered him to follow Elizabeth, then told Butch to pass along that he would not back down; Ririko answered that she was waiting to see what he could do.

Ririko and Oswald tracked a woman from the Crown family to the Owlman Casino, where they heard that Batman had killed several people. Ririko found an impostor Batman in an alley, and he claimed that he was Bruce and that the Bruce in prison was fake.

• Oswald explained that he was having Butch track the Crown woman and watching the family's businesses while Ririko asked about the family.
• Butch reported that the woman had entered the Owlman Casino, so Oswald and Ririko went to the Harbor District.
• Butch told Oswald that Batman had appeared at the casino and killed several people, and Oswald headed inside while Ririko heard the Tomie Organization nearby.
• Ririko followed a man in a black cape into an alley and confronted him at gunpoint as the system identified him as Batman with an infatuation value of 16.
• The man told Ririko that he was Bruce and claimed that the Bruce in prison was an impostor.

Ririko confronted a Batman impostor who had Bruce Wayne’s exact face, then visited the real Bruce in police custody to tell him what happened. Bruce examined the impostor’s mask but could not explain the resemblance, leaving Ririko to suspect a twin or plastic surgery.

• Ririko restrained the fake Bruce with her hair, removed his mask, and watched him escape after discovering his face was identical to Bruce’s.
• Ririko tested Oswald’s identity, then went to the Police Station to visit Bruce and raise his infatuation value.
• Ririko used her allure to get past the detention officers and found Bruce in a special holding cell.
• Ririko told Bruce that an impostor wearing a bat suit had approached her, and she showed him the mask.
• Bruce identified the mask as inferior to his own equipment, while Ririko said the impostor’s face was real and suggested he might be Bruce’s twin or a plastic surgery patient.

Ririko reassured Bruce after he learned that someone was impersonating him and killing as Batman, then went to meet his uncle Philip Kane. The chapter ended with her discovering that Philip spoke to her through a robot because he was socially anxious.

• Bruce worried that an impostor who knew he was Batman had killed someone and could destroy public trust in him, while Ririko promised to prove his innocence.
• Bruce urged Ririko to contact his uncle Philip Kane, and they shared a tender farewell through the detention center glass.
• Harvey arrived at the Detention Center, saw Ririko and Bruce together through the glass, and quietly left without interrupting them.
• The next day, Ririko and Alfred went to Philip Kane's Security Systems Headquarters, where Alfred confirmed Ririko was authorized to enter but waited outside.
• Ririko met a red-headed robot that introduced itself as Philip Kane and explained that he was socially anxious.

Ririko questioned Philip about how to expose the impostor who had framed Bruce, and Philip proposed luring the impostor into committing another crime while Bruce remained in custody. He introduced his security consultant as Jeremiah Valeska, leaving Ririko annoyed by their past encounters.

• Ririko confronted Philip, who admitted he had been testing whether his robot could charm women.
• Philip told Ririko that the Court of Owls had repeatedly targeted the Wayne family and denied framing Bruce.
• Philip suggested drawing the impostor out to commit a crime while Bruce was in custody, which would clear Bruce of suspicion.
• Philip summoned his security consultant, Mr. Valeska, and Ririko recognized Jeremiah.
• Ririko refused Jeremiah's greeting and complained to Philip that Jeremiah was not decent, while Jeremiah teased her about their previous encounter.

Ririko and Jeremiah planned to protect Bruce during his transfer to court, then Jeremiah showed her the Kane Family’s facilities and revealed his interest in leading its mercenaries. When Ririko questioned whether he was Jerome, their confrontation turned into a kiss, leaving her determined to make him repay what he owed her regardless of his identity.

• Jeremiah proposed that Bruce’s impersonator would strike during Bruce’s transfer to court, and Philip and Ririko agreed to catch the attackers then.
• Ririko agreed to stay at the Kane Family’s facility overnight, called Alfred, and let Jeremiah show her around.
• Jeremiah explained that the Kane Family had secretly trained a powerful mercenary force and admitted he wanted to lead it.
• Ririko asked to see Jeremiah’s hand and questioned whether he was really Jerome, while Jeremiah challenged her to consider what she would do if he was.
• Jeremiah kissed Ririko, and she kissed him back while deciding to collect what he owed her, whatever his identity.

Ririko learned that Tommy Elliot had planted bombs in Bruce’s and Oswald’s vehicles and chose to save Oswald, while Jeremiah alerted the Bomb Squad. Bruce’s transport remained in danger, and Harvey Dent volunteered to meet it.

• Jeremiah described the security measures protecting Bruce as Ririko and Philip rode with him to the Police Station for Bruce’s hearing.
• Tommy called Ririko and threatened to detonate bombs in Bruce’s transport and Oswald’s car unless she chose which bomb to deactivate.
• Ririko chose Oswald’s car, and Jeremiah alerted the police Bomb Squad to the bomb in Bruce’s transport.
• Ririko warned Oswald not to stop his car and told him to escape through a window, prompting him to share a solemn moment with Butch.
• Jeremiah told Ririko that Harvey Dent had volunteered to meet Bruce, leaving her worried about Harvey.

Harvey rode with Bruce in the bomb-laden prisoner transport while Jeremiah and the Kane Family fought the attackers blocking the police rescue. Jeremiah targeted Hush, who escaped his wrecked saw car and confronted him face-to-face.

• Harvey climbed into the prisoner transport and took the wheel while two police officers escaped into his convertible, then reassured Bruce that they still had time.
• Jeremiah admitted that his goal was to catch the impostor rather than save Bruce, and Ririko challenged him as they followed the transport.
• Police vehicles arrived with tools to rescue Bruce, but an armored enemy convoy attacked and blocked their approach as the Kane Family vehicles surrounded it.
• A saw-equipped car cut a police SUV in half and exploded, leaving Harvey to continue driving with dwindling fuel and no backup.
• Jeremiah identified the saw car's driver as Hush, fired missiles and guns at him, and forced the car off the road.
• Hush jumped from the damaged car, landed in front of Jeremiah's vehicle, and cracked its windshield with a punch before Jeremiah challenged him to fight.

Ririko watched Harvey sacrifice himself to destroy the prison transport, then learned that Jeremiah and Jerome were two personalities of the same person and rejected Jeremiah. After Superman rescued Bruce and captured Hush, Ririko rushed into the woods to find them when she realized Bruce still needed to clear his name.

• Jeremiah fought Hush on the car roof while Philip drove Ririko after the prison transport, where Superman arrived and rescued Bruce.
• Harvey tossed Ririko his two-headed coin, then drove the transport into the woods, where it exploded; police subdued Hush's remaining men.
• Ririko discovered that Jeremiah and Jerome were two personalities of Jerome Valeska and told Jeremiah to leave her alone.
• Oswald told Ririko that Butch had driven a car into Gotham Harbor and that there had never been a bomb in it.
• Bruce asked Ririko about Superman, and she realized Superman and Hush had disappeared before rushing to find them in the woods.
• Clark emerged from the woods supporting Hush, with his uniform burned away by the explosion.

Ririko and Bruce captured Tommy Elliot after his own bomb disfigured him, and Harvey recovered as Bruce’s case ended. Bruce invited Clark Kent to a small celebration, where Clark arrived late after stopping an alien criminal on the way.

• Clark rescued Harvey and brought Hush to the transport van, where Bruce and Ririko discovered Tommy Elliot’s burned face matched Bruce’s.
• A system notification identified Tommy’s personas as Bruce Wayne’s impostor and Hush, with a 45% chance of becoming Two-Face.
• Bruce offered to make Clark a better suit, and Clark eagerly accepted because his salary barely covered Metropolis rent.
• Tommy refused to reveal his identity, so the police prosecuted him as a Bruce Wayne impersonator and sent him to Blackgate Penitentiary.
• Bruce, Ririko, Barbara, and Harvey gathered at Wayne Manor to celebrate the end of Bruce’s case and await Bruce’s new friend.
• Clark arrived late, explaining that he had stopped Photon Lord from recharging on an antenna tower, then blushed when Ririko asked where the alien had put the antenna.