Chapter 193 [Extra] Diverse Travel 1 [Extra]
"Dad, where is this place?"
Megan followed the Joker, jumping up and down while pulling at the tail of his suit. Even though she didn't get an answer from the Joker, it didn't stop her from looking around. Although this was still Gotham, it felt very different.
The clown allowed the child to behave impolitely. She wouldn't change no matter what he told her. Besides, it was just a small matter. She just had to stop pulling other people's suit tails. Megan was not standing in front of him, so she naturally couldn't see his pale face covered with gloom, which was more eerie and terrifying than ever before. In fact, he was also curious!
He was incredibly familiar with Gotham. When had the city suddenly changed? If such a drastic move had truly taken place, it would have been impossible to conceal it from him, especially with all the buildings now so old. So, he had a vague idea of what was quietly happening.
"This is Gotham, but perhaps not the Gotham you're familiar with," the Joker said slowly. He'd noticed something was amiss from the moment this incident occurred, but with Megan still by his side, his options were limited. Leaving Megan alone while he went to investigate? That was like handing Megan over to someone else. He also had to be careful not to completely destroy her value!
Moreover, the current situation does not allow him to do anything, after all, this accident happened too suddenly.
The Joker stood at the corner of an empty alley, revealing only half of his body, hiding Megan behind him tightly. He had a keen sense and undoubtedly noticed the hidden surveillance in the corner of the wall. He certainly knew who in the city had this bad habit, and the first to be affected was his old friend, the little bat.
If more than a decade has passed since his Gotham, wouldn't technology have advanced over time? And whether this is the future of his own timeline, or another universe where both Batman and the Joker are top comedians, Batman's control will only grow stronger as the Joker tirelessly delivers brutal and painful blows.
And his own whereabouts are likely to have been exposed, because when he appears under surveillance, Batman has plenty of ways to track him, but the Joker has already thought about the show that is about to be staged!
——No matter what, he should bring a little humor to the world, right?
Because he was slow to act, Megan tilted her head. This little bear was not only careless but also naughty. Since her father hadn't warned her, she was only curious about this strange Gotham and didn't delve into it any further. Instead, she wanted to play a joke on her father, so she let go of the clown's tailcoat and rushed towards him with her short legs.
She couldn't hide her thoughts, and anyone could sense the signs when she wanted to do something bad. The clown knew her too well and was waiting for her.
The clown's gaze was fixed on something, his arm slightly extended backwards. This was a sign with some obvious meaning, and almost immediately someone took action. However, at this moment, Megan appeared from behind the corner. Although the person who came in had already prepared to attack the clown, she did not expect a child to suddenly appear. The target of her rampage was the clown.
The man wearing a red hood suddenly jumped out from where the Joker was staring, holding a large-caliber pistol in one hand and a crowbar in the other. When he saw the "variable", he turned the muzzle of the gun from the Joker's head to the shoulder, but he did not hold back when he swung the crowbar at the Joker.
For him, it was like meeting his mortal enemy again. Coincidentally, the computer in the Batcave did not miss him when sending messages to all members, allowing him to rush over as quickly as possible. And when the Joker discovered him and wanted to take out his gadgets, he decisively chose to take the initiative.
But when there is a child here, his behavior has to change. First, don't shoot the enemy in the head in front of the child, and secondly -
The Red Hood's movements were swift and decisive, but was the Joker's physical skills inferior? He could sometimes fight Batman to a draw, even outmaneuvering him, and could this boy with a ridiculously large red head and a red bat printed on his chest be compared to his old friend?
In just a split second, the Joker recognized the master of this suddenly appearing character and what his identity might be. This knowledge made the smile on his face even wider, but his hideous and distorted face made it difficult to recognize anything unusual. When he dodged the bullets fired from the Red Hood's gun and dodged the crowbar sideways, it seemed that he was distracted and failed to grab the little girl behind him as a hostage.
He was a step too late, but the crowbar in Red Hood's hand did more than just hit. The curved end hooked directly onto the little girl's clothes and brought her behind him.
The Red Hood was vigilantly confronting the clown opposite him, and took the time to pay attention to the child hidden behind him. However, he did not expect that the little girl with curly black hair and two fluffy braids yelled at him: "Get out!" She looked obviously furious, and did not seem to be controlled by the clown. Her eyes were clear, and there was still unhappiness on her face. She kicked him on the calf angrily, and then ran towards the clown. During this time, the clown stood by and watched without any attack.
Red Hood didn't understand what the Joker was up to. He tried to stop the child, but heard her yelling at the Joker, "Daddy!"
Megan saw someone attacking her father. After the evil bear roared, he realized that the clown was watching the show and immediately became angry. He pushed away the hand of the strange adult and rushed to the clown. He grabbed the hem of his suit and gave him a hard headbutt. Then, still not satisfied, he continued to punch and kick him.
But what strength could such a small child have? She wasn't even professionally trained like Robin.
Megan knew she had no strength left, but she would lose her temper when she was unhappy. When she was out of breath from fighting, the Joker bent down, and under the Red Hood's vigilant gaze, he patted the child's back with extremely skillful movements to calm her down. As if he had completely forgotten that there was someone else here, he said to her, "You only get this angry when you're with me!"
It sounds like an old father educating his rebellious daughter and complaining about her unfair treatment.
Yet, Red Hood, forced to watch from the sidelines, was baffled. What new trick had this deranged, chaotic lunatic come up with? A heartwarming family drama? But he wasn't so dull. Even if he'd controlled a child through brainwashing, he wouldn't have been so helpless and indulgent. In contrast to his own moodiness and unpredictable complexities, this child was remarkably easy to understand.
The angry little bear was just a little angry at first, but she didn't know what was going on, and suddenly she started crying, as if she had suffered a great injustice, and she couldn't stop crying at all.
When she just started crying, the Joker took out a handkerchief from the inside pocket of his suit and wiped her tears patiently and carefully. He also tried to comfort her. As for why she suddenly cried - it could only be because she saw the Joker being attacked, and her emotions fluctuated greatly, resulting in an unstable mental state, but he had a way to solve this small problem.
But Megan was already crying, so he could only let her vent her emotions first. He was full of patience and listened to Megan sobbing and saying to the boy wearing a red hood: "He's bad!" Her vocabulary only knew how to say that people were bad.
Then Megan turned around and yelled at the clown, "You're bad too!"
The clown tilted his head slightly. He didn't feel that the child in front of him had any deterrent power. He smiled and said, "You're right, kid, we are all bad people, but what is certain is that you are a good child." He patted Megan's shoulder and said, "You wanted to rush out to protect me at that time? God, this really touched me!"
Although the protection didn't work at all and was even a bit of a hindrance, she at least showed her attitude, so he used this to coax the child and easily coaxed her.
Megan had slowly stopped crying and she pulled the clown's hand holding the handkerchief to wipe her tears. However, her hair on her temples was still wet with tears, making her look disheveled and pitiful, with her eyes drooping as if she was hurt.
The clown asked, "You're not angry anymore? Then you should take your medicine."
The Joker has the absolute say on when and what medicine Megan should take, and Megan would not question it. But she searched her pockets and found that she had nothing. When she looked up at the Joker for help, he had already taken out a small medicine bottle from his pocket and poured out a pill. Megan obediently opened her mouth and waited for him to throw the pill in.
As for the Red Hood who was watching from the sidelines, he was very skeptical about the effectiveness of the small pill. However, he also saw that the child's mental condition was unstable. The slightest stimulation would cause mental abnormalities and lead to somatization. When she walked past him, her body trembled slightly. At that time, he thought it was fear, but seeing that she was obviously emotional, he made a judgment.
He watched the little girl swallow the pills. After a while, the panic and hurt in her eyes slowly faded away. The clown stood up, put a hand on her shoulder, and said to the person opposite in a strange tone: "Don't fight in front of children."
Why shouldn't we play games in front of children? Because it's bad for their mental health.
The Joker finally said this! This is so dramatic, right? It's a pity that he couldn't say this to the little bat in his own world, but when he unexpectedly came to this place and saw this big boy for the first time, he knew that this might not be the future of his world. If there is evidence, there is -
How could Robin not know Megan?
The Joker told a brilliant joke, but unfortunately no one applauded. However, he didn't really care. Now the atmosphere between the three of them was strangely peaceful. Megan had recovered. She saw the strange man wearing a red hood and asked the Joker, "Dad, who is he? Is he a bad guy? There is a bat on his chest." She remembered that Jason had complained to her that Batman especially liked to mark his things with bat marks.
She looked at the Red Hood with curiosity in her eyes. The hatred she had before had long since disappeared as her tears stopped. Now her eyes were filled with a clear emerald green. She was completely different from the Joker, or it was completely unexpected that she was the Joker's child. There was still innocence and childishness between her eyebrows, and she was still curious about the world.
The Joker answered her slowly, "According to your philosophy, he's not a bad guy. But he's not a bat, so I guess he's some expired can of canned food?" He was telling his incomprehensible joke again.
Megan ignored his strange words and gradually showed a little unhappy expression because she didn't understand. The Joker added for her: "Oh, I mean Robin."
Megan asked, "Does Robin have many roles?"
The clown smiled and said, "I don't know the answer to this question, but this one..."
"I guess he's the second Robin?"
He stared at the Red Hood with eyes filled with chaos and distortion. He had his own way of judging. Even if the little Robin who jumped around behind the bat grew up, he could still recognize this child from certain details or characteristics. Moreover, he was rarely wild and much more interesting than the previous Robin.
When Red Hood heard this, he could hardly suppress his hatred and anger. However, the clown in front of him was definitely not the clown in his world. It sounded like the other party's timeline had not yet reached the time when the second generation Robin died. Especially since he had a naive child with him, he could only delay time here, preferably until the old bat came. However, those bad and negative emotions eroded his heart and gradually burned his sanity.
He saw the unknown little girl's expression of understanding.
"Oh, he's Jason," the biased kid said with certainty, "so Jason is definitely not a bad guy."
Red Hood:?
The author has something to say:
A few minor revisions, probably just a change in wording.
This is the second extra chapter to persecute Red Hood (looking up at the sky)
The extra chapter has nothing to do with the main text~
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