The Protagonist

Silence. After Su Ming finished speaking, Loki could only remain silent.

His eyes kept darting about as he considered whether this was truly the truth. Sometimes, the things Deathstroke said carried a strong element of misdirection.

As though he feared someone might be watching.

Although Deathstroke did not directly converse with imaginary audiences like Deadpool did, he seemed to have similar symptoms. The difference was that he was accustomed to deceiving or concealing things, as if avoiding imaginary high-level "Monitors."

He did not talk to himself, nor did he try to communicate with so-called audiences, but he always concealed things from nonexistent observers, as though performing a magic trick.

Loki suspected this was a hereditary illness of the Wilson family, perhaps a form of delusion?

As he pondered, Deathstroke spoke again, his deep voice appearing beside Loki's ear.

"Have you ever considered that we're all paper people? Living on pages or in movies, controlled by invisible, intangible hands?"

Loki was now certain that this was indeed some sort of illness. Across the entire universe, only three people had ever said such things to him.

One was Deadpool. Whether in the past or the Future, he had always claimed to be an actor, that many people were watching his every move, and that he had to focus on his performance.

Sometimes, he would even suddenly disappear, claiming he was off to find the editor and revise the plot, adding more curvy female villains.

He regarded the whole world as a stage, with everyone merely acting. Nothing was real, and death simply meant collecting one's boxed lunch and exiting the stage.

That made him fearless in the face of life and death, reckless and willful. Powerful leading actors in a production never needed to care about what anyone else thought.

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