[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"Finally, 'Crazy'."

Matthew calmly looked at the "clown" standing in front of him.

He knew who he was, that he was here to meet him, and that he was the true creator of the clown.

crazy……

A member of the endless family.

The destructive impulse originating from the soul is a contradictory combination of rationality and irrationality.

He exists in the soul of every universe and every life. He was born with the birth of the first life in the universe, and will live on until the last touch of soul in the universe disappears completely.

"You don't seem at all surprised by my presence?"

"Crazy" borrowed the body of "Joker" and admired Matthew with great interest.

Matthew nodded and said, "I've seen 'Desire' before, and I've also stepped into the dreamland and passed by 'Sandman'. How could I be surprised by your appearance?"

"But you have been aware of my existence from the very beginning, and you have done countless preparations to meet me."

"Crazy" bit his nails, his pupils were like a kaleidoscope, flashing various emotions: "Matthew, do you like me?"

"do not like."

"Why don't you like it?"

“Crazy” looked at Matthew with innocent eyes: “Why don’t you like me?”

"Because you're irrational, because liking you means embracing madness, because..."

"Because you're afraid of seeing your true self that you've been hiding."

"Crazy" said coldly, poking Matthew's heart lightly with his finger: "You already realize who you are, don't you?"

"Aware of some, but not yet fully understood."

Matthew held the hand that "crazy" poked his heart, and said calmly and solemnly: "Why revive me?"

"Because you are our family, the endless family will never abandon or hurt family members."

"Crazy" said sincerely.

He even embraced Matthew with open arms, with both horror and affection in his eyes: "You disappeared, Daniel appeared, and everything in the world can still dream to its heart's content, enjoy the pain and happiness brought by dreams, and indulge in the reflection of reality In, never wake up. But Daniel will always be Daniel, Daniel is not you, not my favorite you—”

"So you asked Lucifer for help?"

"It's us, not me."

"Crazy" smiled slyly, and rubbed Matthew tenderly on his neck: "From the very beginning, we knew that it was Matthew who was resurrected by Lucifer, not Memphis, so we also treated you as much as possible to Matthew, after all, Only a very small part of your soul comes from Memphis, and most of the rest comes from Lucifer..."

"What did you say?! Most of my soul comes from Lucifer?"

Matthew was shocked by "crazy".

Although he vaguely guessed that he was inextricably related to the endless family and Lucifer, and maybe even related to the previous Sandman, he didn't expect the real situation to be like this——

"Daniel has become the new Sandman. Everything that belongs to the Sandman has been inherited by Daniel, but apart from the strength of the Sandman, there is also the source of 'Memphis' that constitutes the previous Sandman. These things that originally belonged to Memphis still belong to Memphis..."

Speaking of this, the eyes of "Crazy" flashed obvious sadness: "We accept Daniel because Daniel is Sandman, and Sandman is part of the endless family. But Daniel will always be Daniel, Daniel is not Memphis, and Daniel cannot be Memphis..."

"So you found Lucifer, through Lucifer's creation ability—"

"right……"

"Crazy" agreed with a smile, and asked Matthew: "Do you think it's crazy?"

"You are 'crazy', and 'crazy' is not crazy in doing anything."

Matthew said pretending to be calm, shouting in his heart to be grateful.

"Crazy" sensed Matthew's emotional changes, pushed him away suddenly, and laughed and said, "Do you really think that what I just told you is the truth? Everything that 'Crazy' said is crazy, believe it He might as well believe that jumping off a cliff won't kill him!"

"But--"

Matthew paused: "The feelings you showed just now are not completely fake."

"you--"

"I know that what you just said is half true and false. I may be the reincarnation of the soul fragment of Memphis, or maybe not. Only the feelings you inadvertently showed make me believe that you are not without feelings for me. There is indeed a thousand years of existence between me and the endless family. Inextricably linked."

Matthew stretched out his hand, and there was a magnificent fragment of a dream in his palm: "Perhaps, my true identity is a dream left by Memphis before it disappeared. You, who do not want to lose Memphis completely, have retained this dream by special means."

"Matthew...you..."

A rare sobriety flashed across the "crazy" eyes, and then, the eyes once again turned into a kaleidoscope-like mess.

He giggled and smeared his pretty cheeks madly like black paint: "You will never know the truth, because you are not the Him we are waiting for. In other words, the He we are waiting for will never come back, And we know all this, but we are still waiting obsessively! Crazy! Crazy! Everyone has fallen into madness! Only I am the only sane!"

After finishing speaking, "Crazy" jumped out of the window.

Matthew chased to the window sill, but he could only see the clown lying on the broken glass, and was frozen in time from the moment "crazy" appeared. It wasn't until "crazy" left the clown's body that he recovered from the stagnant state of time. Damian and Barbara who came over watched with strange eyes.

"Matthew, what are you looking at?" Damian asked.

Barbara glanced at the dying clown lying on the shards of glass, and asked angrily, "Do I need to call an ambulance? Although I think it would be better for this guy to die."

"Call an ambulance immediately," Matthew said. "As you said before, the Joker's death will not make Gotham better. On the contrary, it will unleash the real demon."

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"

Damian was utterly puzzled.

But in the end he honestly picked up his mobile phone and dialed the emergency number: "Is Gotham Central Hospital? This is the Arkham Mental Hospital, please send an ambulance over immediately. We have a patient who is dying...Of course, He's a criminal and his statement is important to us..."

After the brief explanation, Damian hung up the phone, jumped off the window sill, tested the clown's breath and heartbeat, and said speechlessly: "This guy is still alive! He's still alive with all his brains leaking out! There is a Dionysian factor in his body." Is the vitality of the guys so tenacious?"

"Batman also relies on the Dionysian factor to live until now..."

The clown opened his mouth and told Damian mockingly: "What an ironic fact, Gotham's justice and Gotham's criminals are all monsters created by Dionysus factors! And when you worship Batman's strength and perseverance , but I don’t want to admit that Dionysus factor is a part of me, and even more a part of him! Hahaha...hahaha—cough cough!”

In the middle of laughing, the clown was kicked in the lung by the angry Damian, and suddenly coughed up blood.

But even so, the Joker didn't forget to taunt Batman.

Breathing a little smoother, he started a new round of ridicule: "Whether it's Robin or Batgirl or Batman's pet, you members of the Bat Family are Gotham's nightmares like me, the difference is that I use Killing rules Gotham, you rule Gotham with fear, you guys..."

"To shut up!"

Damian couldn't stand it anymore, he stepped on the clown's heart, and threatened, "I can end your life with my toes now!"

"But you dare not, you never dare to do this to me, unless you stop being a good Robin to Batman."

The clown taunted Damian unscrupulously.

Damian's mood became irritable again, he clenched his fist and raised it high——

click!

The fist was held by Matthew.

"Can't……"

"why?"

Damian asked angrily: "Why not? He is insulting me and my family! Why can't I hit him!"

"Because Batman is on the scene soon."

Matthew let go of Damian's hand and pointed to a black spot not far away.

Seeing that his father was about to arrive, Damian immediately restrained his anger, and said kindly to the clown, "Wait a little longer, the ambulance will be here soon."

"Damian, you..."

Barbara was speechless for a while.

Damian turned around and gave her a hard look.

Barbara: "..."

At this time, Matthew walked up to the clown, bent down, leaned against his face, and said softly: "I spare your life not because I want to maintain my image in front of Batman, but because your body may be destroyed at any time." 'Madness' takes over so I can talk to 'Madness'."

"So...you..."

"So I won't kill you, I don't want to trouble myself."

After speaking, Matthew stood up straight, and together with Damian greeted the late Batman.

……

The clown is a "frequent visitor" to Gotham Central Hospital, and the medical staff have long been used to this tattered monster that can still survive tenaciously.

The doctors give first aid to the Joker in the operating room, and Matthew and Batman stand facing each other outside the operating room.

a long time--

Batman was the first to speak: "Barbara and Damian have already told me about your encounters in Arkham Asylum and the other world."

Matthew: "Tell me everything?"

"I've said everything I can think of, and the rest are things they can't remember."

Batman looked at Matthew with guarded eyes: "Thank you for saving them, but I still want to say that you are a dangerous existence, and you should leave Gotham as soon as possible."

"When things are over, I will naturally leave Gotham, even if it used to be my hometown."

"You are--"

"Well, I'm from Gotham, once."

Matthew looked up and looked into Batman's eyes: "Why didn't you kill the clown? Because of the principle of not killing? Or because you already knew that the clown couldn't be killed?"

"what are you saying?"

Batman's eyes suddenly became deep, and he looked at Matthew sharply.

Matthew opened his mouth and spit out the phrase: "Bacchanal factor."

"I know the Dionysian factor, the clown has the Dionysian factor in his body, and I also have the Dionysian factor in my body."

"But you already knew that the clown had the Dionysian factor long before the clown was infected with the Dionysian factor, and even if you knew that the clown had the Dionysian factor, you could survive no matter what extreme circumstances, you still didn't kill the clown ,Why?"

"because--"

"Because you know killing the Joker won't make Gotham better, it will unleash something much scarier."

"Yes……"

Batman nodded, with helplessness in his eyes: "The clown is a monster created by Gotham's hundreds of years of evil, but the clown is not the only creation in Gotham. If I kill the clown, Gotham will release more monsters."

"No, it's not like that, that's not what you're really worried about—"

Matthew looked at Batman delicately, and poked his forehead lightly with his finger: "The thing you're really afraid of is hidden here."

"The things I'm really afraid of..."

"Yes, you've been afraid of something. You're afraid that after the clown is killed by you, that thing will transfer into your body."

Matthew smiled brightly and spoke dark words: "His name is 'Crazy'."

"What did you say!"

Damian on the side couldn't hold back, and reached out to grab Matthew's neck: "If you talk nonsense again, I'll cut your neck off!"

"Am I talking nonsense, he knows better than me."

Matthew looked at Batman, emphasizing every word.

Batman's eyes flicked heavy.

He patted Damian on the shoulder and said: "Yes, Matthew is right. I don't kill the clown not only because I have the principle of not killing the clown, but also because after killing the clown, I will be occupied by madness and become a new Gotham Nightmare—”

"Dad! What nonsense are you talking about? How could this kind of thing...be..."

"And yet you have believed all this, have you not?"

Batman said mockingly: "Damian, you are my child and my student. You know that what I just said is true. I didn't lie. I have no chance of turning back."

"dad……"

Damian let go of Matthew, with tears in the corners of his eyes: "I don't believe it! I don't believe it! Fate or something is all nonsense!"

"is it?"

Matthew asked Damian with a wry smile: "Do you really think fate is a joke?"

"I--"

"When did you find out there was such a connection between the clown and me?"

Batman spoke up, saving Damian from embarrassment.

Matthew: "I don't know exactly when. By the time I realized this, I was already convinced that you and the clown are both "crazy" followers. The difference is that he chose to embrace "crazy" , You try your best to resist the corrosion of 'crazy' and maintain your last rationality.

Not killing is your last resort against 'crazy', and the laughing bat from the parallel world is the possible you after 'crazy' wins. "

"Yeah, I don't want to be a Laugh, even though Laugh is my future."

Batman resolutely said to Matthew: "I will do everything possible to resist the future of being a laughing man, even if such a future cannot be avoided!"

"Dad, you—"

"Laughter is a wrong future, a future that absolutely cannot exist!" Batman said firmly.

When Damian heard this, he inevitably showed a painful expression.

Batman comforted: "Restraining desires is part of growing up, and I'm just fulfilling my adult obligations by doing so."

"But--"

"Trust me, these are what adults should do."

"I……"

Damian turned his head away so Batman couldn't see his tears.

At this moment, the clown's operation is over, and the medical staff pushes this Gotham nightmare out of the operating room expressionlessly.

He had already woken up and looked at Batman ferociously: "I didn't expect... I didn't expect that you would... Will... Are you here to confirm my death or my survival?"

"Compared to explaining to you my motivation for coming here, I'm more curious about why you woke up so quickly?" Batman bluntly said, "Are you afraid that someone in the hospital will kill you while you are unconscious?"

"It's not surprising when a sinful bastard like me dies and who kills me."

The clown raised his hand wrapped with an IV, trying to touch Batman's cheek: "But I just want to die in your hands. Before you kill me, I refuse to die!"

"you--"

"I love you and hate you at the same time, I want to curse you and love you with my soul."

The clown repeated the crazy sentence dreamily: "Batman, you are my nightmare and my succubus. In order to achieve the ultimate dream of dying in your hands, I will continue to work hard to live until you end my life with your own hands. ..."

"Why are you so persistent?"

Batman asked: "Why must I die? I don't love you, and I never wanted to love you."

"But I love you, I love you, I want to die in your hands, I..."

"You're just completely dominated by madness."

Matthew said coldly, sticking to the clown's ear: "You know why you fell in love with Batman, you even hate this fate, you are eager to end such a ridiculous life, that's why you tell Batman over and over again, you love Batman." He, your dream is to die in his hands."

"you……"

"You know why I say that."

After finishing speaking, Matthew closed the clown's eyes forcefully: "Your wound is bleeding, you should lie down and have a good rest."

"you!"

The clown's bad mood was made even worse by Matthew's words.

But he couldn't refute Matthew, because what Matthew said was all the truth, his feelings for Batman were so complicated that he didn't know whether he was loving or hating, or neither, Just irreparable pain and despair.

"Crazy...crazy..."

The clown murmured and closed his eyes.

……

After returning the clown to the ward, Matthew prepares to leave.

Batman caught up with Matthew at this moment: "Have you seen 'crazy'?"

"Yes, I've seen 'madness', and I don't want 'madness' transferred to someone else, so I stopped Damian from killing the Joker."

"Then you're 'crazy'..."

"I hate crazy!"

Matthew said: "Different from your hatred, my hatred of madness is derived from instinctive disgust."

"why?"

Batman asked: "Everything has a crazy side, even for me, sometimes it is difficult to refuse the temptation of madness. Why can you not have any intersection with madness?"

"because……"

Matthew smiled and said, "Konstantin has something to do with me, let's go first."

After speaking, cast space magic to escape.

……

Constantine did have something to do with Matthew, but the problem was with Gabriel.

"Teresa suddenly fell ill and could die at any moment."

After explaining, the two rushed to the operating room where Mother Teresa was rescued.

Gabriel was also present, and said to Matthew and Constantine with an aggrieved expression, "I swear this has nothing to do with me. I am the one who least wants Teresa to have an accident."

"You mean, Matthew and I want something to happen to Teresa?"

Konstantin habitually took out the cigarette case, and didn't remember that this was a hospital until he put the cigarettes in his hands, so he had to throw the cigarettes into the trash can beside him: "Tell me, what's going on? Why did she suddenly have a heart attack?"

"because……"

Gabriel glanced at Matthew, making sure that the latter would not turn his face suddenly like Constantine, and then explained in a low voice: "Hell sent again to think that the fallen angels are going to take Teresa away, I abide by the agreement with you , Trying my best to stop him, I didn't expect that hell sent two fallen angels this time. While I was fighting with Mads, another bastard walked around Teresa's room... By the time I rushed back, most of her soul was already gone If you leave your body, you may die at any time."

"Maze?"

Matthew narrowed his eyes: "Are you sure the fallen angel sent to take Teresa's soul is Mads?"

"I have dealt with Mize for at least 1000 years, and it is impossible to admit my mistake. The fallen angel blocking me is indeed Mize."

"But Mads..."

Matthew pondered for a moment, and explained to John Constantine: "Maze is the queen of hell, a monarch-level demon."

Hearing this, Constantine also showed a puzzled expression: "Monarch-level demons are usually equal in status. There is no such thing as a monarch-level demon giving orders to another monarch-level demon. They usually only obey the road. Sifa's orders."

"Yes……"

"But with Lucifer's identity and indifference, there is no need to suddenly send Metz to take Teresa's soul away. He can kill Teresa directly, or..."

Constantine looked puzzled.

Maze's appearance seriously exceeded his expectations.

Matthew was equally confused.

He asked Gabriel, "Who are the two fallen angels who are blocking you, one is Metz, and the other is?"

"Uriel, one of my brothers, was killed by Lucifer a long time ago..." Gabriel said, "Of course, like all angels created by the Supreme God himself, Uriel cannot be completely killed die, even if it was Lucifer who killed him."

"Uriel resurrected?"

"After being killed by Lucifer, Uriel was resurrected as a fallen angel and stayed in hell, obeying Lucifer's orders."

Gabriel explained with a melancholy expression, using facial micro-expressions to convey to Matthew a conclusion that Matthew was unwilling to accept.

The mastermind behind the whole thing is probably——

"No! This is not true, it cannot be Lucifer!"

Matthew, who was unwilling to accept Gabriel's hint, objected fiercely: "If Lucifer wants to kill me or deal with me, just do it directly. There is no need to prepare so many calculations and strategies!"

"But now all known clues point to Lucifer. Besides Lucifer, who else can command Uriel and Metz at the same time? Drive all the gods at will?"

Gabriel looked at Matthew sympathetically: "Whether you want to accept it or not, you are just like us, Lucifer's toy."