Gotham's Spider-Man Has to Be a Paragon
Chapter 306

All three routes are covered, you know / A mass update celebration, plus one extra chapter

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The lock clicked softly.

Inside the office, Nadir was pushing a map toward Joker.

Jerusalem was circled in black at its center, with several roads into the city marked in different colors, stretching across the paper to the edge of the desk.

Joker idly held one corner of the map between two fingers, drawing smiley faces on it with his other hand.

As his partner, Nadir had just been about to reprimand Joker for his flippant attitude when the office door opened.

A black cape was the first thing Nadir saw. His right hand immediately reached beneath the desk, but his gun was only halfway out when a Batarang skimmed the desk's edge and struck his wrist.

The handgun fell from his grasp onto the carpet.

Joker looked up, grinning happily.

"Surprise!"

"..."

Born in a war-torn country, raised in a war-torn region, and having risen to lead terrorists amid the fighting, Nadir kicked a desk leg.

The heavy desk slid forward, sending the map and cups tumbling down.

Batman sidestepped it, his cape sweeping past a corner. Using it as cover, Nadir had already rushed toward the street-facing window, shielding his face with his arm as his shoulder shoved the curtains aside.

A Spider-Man hung upside down outside the glass.

The bright red-and-gold mask was barely a dozen centimeters away from him. Peter raised a hand in greeting.

"Good evening."

Webbing shot past Nadir's shoulder, first securing both window panels to the wall. Another strand stuck to the handgun on the floor and whisked it out of the office.

Before Nadir's foot reached the windowsill, he had turned toward the bookcase. He slapped a button hidden on its side, and the bookcase slid inward, revealing a narrow passage behind it.

There were no lights in the passage, but two

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