Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

Lucian rarely had face-to-face combat with anyone, and rarely could he beat anyone in a face-to-face combat. The only people he could bully were the human stick bat and his sixty-year-old self.

But now, facing Zaven, he does have the upper hand.

Lucian didn't take many punches, but after a few moves, he knocked Zavin to the ground. "I thought you would improve, at least become stronger. After all, you killed Wilbur..."

Regretfully, "Now you lose, so why didn't you kill me at the beginning... Now it's your turn to die."

Compared to Zavin's mercy, Lucien had no such concept at all, but Zavin's next words successfully stopped him:

"Do you think I'm alone?"

This time it was Zavin's turn to taunt:

"...I'm standing here trying to kill you. How do you think I could hide it from the patrol officers outside and inside, and from your companions, when my martial arts skills haven't improved much?"

Zaven was pressed to the ground, the moonlight shining on his face, blurring his original features, leaving only those features on him that belonged to a clown - deep eye sockets, high nose bridge, cheekbones, chin, all colors were pale and green - the moonlight only left those features on his body that belonged to a clown.

He said, "The number of people who want to kill you is greater than the five people who volunteered to help me when I wanted to kill Riley, who hid the food! More than the ten people who secretly oppressed others, Dias! More than the hundred people who acted as your guards, Wilbur!"

"...Everyone is helping me! Everyone wants to kill you!"

As if in response to Zaven's words, the lights in the room suddenly lit up.

The glaring incandescent light made his eyes, which were used to darkness, squint involuntarily. After opening his eyes, Lucian saw the open door and the black gun barrels pointing at him from the door and window.

And behind the cold guns, there are layers of expressionless people.

……

Had Lucien anticipated all this?

Of course he expected that.

So are you surprised by this scene?

Of course he was surprised.

What is expected is that the situation will become increasingly difficult to reverse. More and more people will be resentful of this type of distribution and organization, and he will sooner or later be retaliated against.

The surprising thing was that Lucian didn't expect Zaven to be able to convince so many people in such a short time. This scum who was once just a gangster was much more capable than he imagined.

So Lucian just glanced at these people with disdain, but paid more attention to Zavin: "This is a big surprise to me."

Soft.

"Zavin, you showed me what Gotham is all about."

"So now, do you regret your actions?" Zaven said.

"What behavior?" Lucian feigned confusion. "Didn't I only promise two things at the beginning—that none of them would starve to death, and that they could see me often? I'm a trustworthy person, and I've done everything I promised. What behavior are you referring to?"

Turn a blind eye to everything.

"Did I ever say I wanted to make their lives better?" Lucien said, as if anticipating what Zaven was going to say.

Never said that.

Even about that incitement, Lucian only informed the court of its existence, and everything was just Zaven's wishful thinking - he never said that he was an enemy of anyone, nor did he ever say that he helped anyone.

"Then why are you accusing me of something I didn't do?"

why?

But before Zavin was ready to follow this line of thought, to think about it and thus criticize himself, he suddenly realized that he had raised his head straight, like a dying animal, with an indescribable expression on his face.

Zavin realized again.

He's using that damn tongue of his again!

……

"Ha!" Zaven gasped, as if he had no strength left, and his head fell back to the ground softly: "When will you tell me the truth?"

"Have I ever lied to you?" It was another question that could not be refuted.

But the more this happened, the more powerless and angry Zaven felt. He even lamented, "Am I just a joke to you?"

"No." This was a rare moment when Lucian expressed his clear attitude. But before Zaven could regain hope, he added, "You're worse than a joke."

……

Zaven couldn't understand... If, if Lucian showed weakness, Zaven would be willing to let him go and persuade those who wanted to kill Lucian to let him go as well.

If Lucien is willing to apologize, then Zaven is willing to forgive. If Lucien is sincere, then Zaven is willing to be a dog again.

But now it was Lucian who was forcing Zavin to kill him.

Knowing Zavin's threshold and bottom line clearly, he forced Zavin to kill him in anger.

……

Watching all this, there was another gaze, the Silent Bat, standing high above. Not long ago, Lucian had said to the Silent Bat, "I must die once."

"Forcing a masochist in Stockholm to crawl out is not as effective as the torturer's death. When I die, no matter how beautiful he paints me, at least he will leave sooner or later."

"Instead of the abuser being alive, even if he or she has done nothing, the patient will involuntarily brainwash themselves."

The Silent Bat then asked: "If that's the case, why do you still want to tame him?"

"Don't you think this is funny?"

"Don't you think it's funny that your dog bites its owner to death with tears in its eyes, and then spends the rest of its life in nostalgia, guilt, and hatred?"

……

The hazy girl under the moonlight finally stopped hiding her syphilis after it was revealed that she was covered in it. She showed off her extraordinary charm in an extremely charming manner... In people's disgusting and disgusting eyes, she was far more charming than any other prostitute.

……

The unusually quiet lair, surrounded by indifferent and apathetic people, Lucian almost laughed out loud: "God, Zaven - you did it, you succeeded in making them abandon me, and now these people belong to you."

He paused, as if realizing what kind of emotion Zavin expected him to express, and then he obeyed: "Everything I worked hard for was taken away by you... This is so sad."

In the empty environment, there were only false words in the silence. Zaven hoped that Lucien was really sad and angry, not now - Zaven actually felt that it was Lucien who was held hostage, and it was himself who was tied up.

He was so angry that he almost raved, saying to Lucien: "I will prove you wrong... I will become your nightmare!"

……

Zawen thought, this man is so vicious, how can he be killed so easily?

He should have let Lucian experience enough tragedy and absurdity, and then, mercifully, give him death.

This is how Zaven convinced himself.

……

So Lucian became a prisoner in his own lair.

This is really meaningless.

But he still hopes for a miracle to happen.

For example, a passionate young man disagrees with Zavin and decides to secretly deal with Lucien, and more people think so too, so they help each other in a relay, just like Zavin killed Wilbur with help.

That group will eventually choose someone else to kill Lucien.

They would abandon Zavin as they had abandoned Lucien.

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Lucien had to admit one thing - when he saw the clown born under his hands, when he began to say love to everyone.

When he stands on the moral high ground and can arouse other people's emotions just by wagging his tongue.

When he lifted Zaven's chin, he said softly:

"you're so beautiful."

when.

……

Lucien is going to love this.

Chapter 226: Joker: Year One

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Zaven will make everything better, he will do it - restore order, save more people directly or indirectly, and make everyone praise his merits.

Then stand on a moral high ground - higher than Lucian - to condemn his indifference and incompetence.

Zaven swore that he would do this. He even thought about what he would say at that time - to say that Lucian was hypocritical, vicious, and conceited... Zaven would pin all the charges, real or not, on him. He would spit on and humiliate Lucian, just as Lucian had done to him.

But not before he had done all this and humiliated Lucien.

I saw Lucian's body...

After Zaven left and the crowd dispersed, a bullet suddenly passed through the glass and hit Lucien in the forehead.

He died in such an absurd way.

……

Zaven looked around. The person who reported the news to him and the people who came after hearing the news gathered around him.

He asked, "Who killed him?"

The voice was indescribably hoarse, and he knew that among this group of people there must be the murderer, or someone who helped the murderer, or someone who saw the murder being committed.

But the next second after asking this question, Zaven figured it out - all of them were murderers.

This is the backlash after he failed to kill Lucian, the person he persuaded to do so.

The crowd was looking at Zaven. No one admitted, and no one denied. It was as quiet as if there was no one in the land, with only worm-like gazes.

Zawen looked at the people in front of him, feeling unfamiliar and his throat dry... At this moment, he was not thinking about revenge, but confusion, stunned, and then fear.

After glancing around, Zavin empathized with Lucian's feelings when they pointed their guns at him, and felt dizzy, but then he forced a smile: "Ha——"

"well done!"

……

"Cowards deserve to die!" I don't know where it came from, but it was the voice in the crowd. The fact that Lucian went out with others but only others died, and that Lucian was never injured even once, proved that Lucian must be the coward standing at the back in the battle.