AN: Time to say buhbye to these other timelines. Also I decided to add my own other timeline that I refer to as the "Uragiru IF" or the "Gluttony Route". It's more of a summary, so I apologize.

Now, here we go. ENJOY!

ARC Ten: Return to Life

Chapter One Hundred and Eight: Goodnight IFs

Here, we say goodnight.

A goodbye to them all.

A farewell to worlds within worlds.

Yes.

The Multiverse.

We will have to say good day. Au revoir. Adios.

Although it would continue moving forward, we must part ways with it.

So, Say Goodnight.

Say Goodbye.

Say Farewell.

TO THE WORLDS, OUTSIDE OUR OWN…

Goodnight, Natsuki Family.

He was running.

Running through the pitch black landscape that he found himself in.

The Batman searched around frantically, trying to call out...but his voice was gone, even when held his own neck, nothing came out. Soon he felt heat...turning around, he saw a little girl on fire, she was sobbing uncontrollably.

"Help me! Please help!"

"No!"

He tried swatting away the fire, but this hands made the fire worse and it engulfed her, while ignoring him completely.

"HELP ME! PLEASE!"

"P-PETRA!"

Petra soon fell back, the fire went out, and all that was left was a black smoldering skeleton, a burnt red ribbon on it's head.

As he tried to compose himself, countless other people appeared around him, all on fire. They all screamed at him, as he covered his ears and began to sweat and shiver.

"HELP US!" "HELP US!" "MOMMY!" "I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" "BATMAN-SAMA!" "HURRY! HELP US!" "HELP US!"

"NRAGGGHHHHHHH!"

Batman screamed as the fires went out, and all that was left was the entire Irlham Village burnt to the ground around him, nothing but charred skeletons at his feet. He soon gasped and held his chest, trying not to fall over. He then heard screams come from behind him, he looked back and saw it...Roswaal's Mansion.

He made a run for it; a frantic one.

"EMILIA! RAM! BEATRICE!"

He ran forward, only to see Beatrice stumble towards him, her body covered in daggers. He rushed to her, holding her tightly in his arms.

"Beatrice...hang on! I'll get you out of here-"

"-Why?"

"Beatrice?"

She looked up at him with tears pouring out of her eyes.

"Why did this happen, I suppose? Why…"

"Ah…"

"Why weren't you here-"

She erupted into a puddle of blood, covering him from head to toe.

"Why?"

He tried to scoop up all the blood, but it was fruitless, he could only smear it all over his face in a panicked state.

"WHY?! WHY DID THIS HAPPEN!?"

He then heard a crashing sound coming from the mansion, so he made a dash to it. As he charged into it, he found a section of the wall crushed and Ram buried underneath it. He ran over and removed the debris...but her body was badly mangled and she was losing the light in her eyes.

"No...Ram...NO PLEASE."

He cradled her into his arms, she looked up and gave a faint smile. She touched his cheek, before her strength left her, muttering one last thing.

"R...em…"

"Ram?...RAM?! RAM! RAM! NO!"

He shook her, but her lifeless eyes, were evident that she was gone. He laid her down as he held his head and tried to hold back any tears. Then he heard the shattering of glass; everything froze around him. He looked up and saw Puck, he began to break apart like glass.

"I trusted you."

"Puck, please! I didn't know! I swear to god, I-"

"-You...left us to die."

'NO! I DIDN'T! I WAS LOOKING FOR SUBARU AND REM! I DIDN'T-"

"-Damn you...Damn you to hel-"

Puck shattered like glass, the specks of ice floated around Batman, leaving him to watch on in horror.

Then, he heard footsteps behind him, he turned around and saw exactly who it was.

"E...Emilia…"

"Why did you abandon us?"

"No. NO! I WOULD NEVER!"

"Why did you leave us all to die?"

"I WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING! I SWEAR!"

"...You, Subaru, and Rem...I hate you."

"Emilia."

"I needed help! We all did!"

Her arm broke off like glass.

"I wanted you all to save me!"

"EMILIA!"

He legs followed and soon tears of blood flowed out of her mouth, just as blood squirted out of her mouth.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE US!?"

When she hit the floor, she erupted into a giant wave of blood, submerging Batman in it. He felt himself drowning in it, in the feverish tsunami of plasma, he couldn't see.

Then, the blood went away and Batman was able to breath again.

He felt the hard pavement under his hands and feet.

His blood soaked body analyzed the area around himself...he instantly knew where he was.

"Oh no...OH NO."

Crime Alley.

He then heard weeping behind himself, he slowly turned his head and saw them.

His parents.

"Why Bruce?"

Thomas and Martha were sobbing at the sight of their son, who also began to cry.

"Why son?"

They then moved away from him, in utter disgust.

"Why couldn't you save any of us?"

Soon he was surrounded by everyone...everyone who had died those fateful days, looking down at him with sheer disappointment.

Batman began breathing erratically...until he could only do one thing.

"URAGGggghhhhhHHHHHHHH!"

He screamed. A blood curdling one that sent him to the point of-

"GAH!"

Bruce flung himself up from his bed. He wiped the sweat off his face and beard breathing in and out. He then flinched when he felt a hand touch his shoulder, but relaxed...he knew who it was.

"Honey?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks."

Zarestia sat up from the bed and looked him over.

"Was it, that dream?"

"Sure was."

"It's been years since you've had that dream."

"I know. I guess, it's just my guilt, having one last strike at me."

She then scooted over and hugged him.

"I'm here you know?"

"Of course."

She then leaned over and kissed him, before it became a full on make out match between the two. They stopped as Bruce got up from bed, Tia looked at his muscular back and saw the deep scar he had on it. A wound from a little over a couple years ago, when he went to Lugnica to defeat Regulus, it succeeded, though it ended with the former Sin Archbishop killing himself to avoid imprisonment.

Remembering the day...

He was then thanked by the Empress of Lugnica, Priscilla Barielle and her knights, Aldebaran and Reinhard Van Astrea. In that throne room, was also a disheveled Julius. Even Batman had a difficult time looking at the retired knight, having given up on his duties due to the death of Anastasia and her entire camp at Pristella.

It was yet another tragedy that he had wanted to stop, but he was too absorbed at the time in his personal war against the Witch's Cult to prevent it.

"It has been quite some time since we last met, Batman."

"I know. There's been tasks here and there."

"Yes...all for an entirely different country."

His eyes told him everything, that he hated the man in front of him.

"A person with your power can where he pleases. Just like your friend-"

"-Watch it Julius."

"...Around a man like you, sure. Wouldn't want, something bad to happen to me or someone close."

Julius spat these harsh words...then left with his brother Joshua, who could only glare at the warrior.

Batman's armor was the same old Justice Armor, but now he had a custom longsword and shield, that was the same color scheme, with several belts and pouches covering his waist and chest. His white eyes caught sight of Reinhard...who would ask him later, about how Subaru was doing.

This only made Batman promise to Reinhard and everyone within earshot that the entirety of Lugnica would never know where he was, how he was doing, and would never see him again.

"BUT-"

"-He was abandoned when he needed all of you the most. I'll do everything in my power to keep him and the others safe. Especially from this kingdom."

"And that's a promise."

He remembered, a certain day in the back of his thoughts...

Before he went on his grand odyssey in search of Subaru and Rem...he was in the estate of Crusch Karsten, just after observing the aftermath of Reinhard destroying Puck, stopping his magic from spreading further into the capital. He asked her simply, if she would have helped Subaru if he had come for help.

"...Without any gain from it, I most likely wouldn't have."

"...WHAT?"

Batman stood up and stared at her, like he had heard the stupidest thing in the world.

"All those people...all those people's lives at stake and you would have left them to die, for monetary gain?!"

"It was Emilia's lack of power that led to this natural disaster-"

"-DO NOT FUCK WITH ME! Did you hear what just said!? She was just one person, even with a Great Spirit at her helm! And yet you thrusted this battle upon her, on Subaru, and by all happenstance, ME?!"

"I had other important matters that needed my attention at the time...Besides here you are, alive and well, even with the might I saw you use against Julius, you would not have been able to do anything. The massacre would have occurred, and you along with the others would have died. In some sense, wouldn't you find some fortune in the fact that you, and possibly, Rem and Subaru are still alive?"

Batman held his breath and looked around. Seeing Anastasia there with Julius, Reinhard and Felt also there...although he knew the Felt Party was out of town and couldn't help... the Hoshin Camp would have also wanted some political edge in helping. Thus swallowing a breath.

"I understand then, Crusch Karsten."

"Hm?"

Both her and Ferris were quite surprised by his words.

"It would seem...talking to you people is a waste of time and effort."

"This world...is sick. Backwards. Barbaric. And hopelessly blind to the things it's supposed to be aiming towards. How is it in one month, I was able to clear away so much crime in the streets of the Capital all by myself, while ALL OF YOU WERE APATHETIC TO IT ALL?! Everyday the Witch's Cult is still around causing devastation and destruction, EVERYWHERE THEY GO?! And yet...all of you are here, plotting, planning, scheduling and strategizing for your victories at this Selection? Disregarding the ill deeds going on within your reach?! ...God almighty, I'm just wasting my breath, aren't I?"

Batman stood straight up and looked out the window.

"Where I'm from, I have no powers like the others around me. I can't fly, I don't have super strength, I can't shoot ice beams, nor can I read minds or shift gravity around myself. But I still fight, to save people."

"Because that is what I do. Help to make the world a better place. Yet, why then...WHY IS IT WITH SOMEONE LIKE REINHARD HERE, IS THE WITCH'S CULT STILL AROUND!? WHY IS THE WHITE WHALE, AND THE SIZABLE HARE STILL KILLING PEOPLE?! ALL THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DEMI-HUMANS, EVEN AFTER THE WAR ENDED YEARS AGO?! ALL OF THIS SHOULD HAVE ENDED! BUT IT DIDN'T! IT HAPPENED...It happened...because every last one of you here is selfish and stupid."

"Batman...watch what you say, about Crusch-sama!"

"It's true, either Crusch is being selfish...or like the others is blind to the tragedies happening around them. Oh I know, just a bunch of faceless people you don't even personally know die and it's just a few seconds at the table of, 'oh that's tragic', and right back to eating your dinner, to discuss your goals in this election."

He began making his way to the door. No one protested or tried to stop him, even Felt just stood in silence. But he stopped as he opened the door, looking back at Crusch, who sat there ever so diligently.

"...I know the Witch's Cult is moving north towards Gusteko."

"H-How did you figure that?"

"...The same way I know that you are focusing on the White Whale aren't you, Ms. Karsten?"

Crusch went wide eyed as this complete stranger, figured out what her secret goals were, even wilhelm was stunned at his accurate deductions.

"Crusch Karsten, good luck on the hunt and your obvious victory in the selection."

He was halfway through the door, before he stopped and turned around…

"But know this...everyone here could have done something to help, yet you chose not to. So did I. I'll be working on my own penance for being powerless in stopping my friends from dying. I will declare war on the Witch's Cult and dismantle them bit by bit no matter how long it takes. Leaving no stone unturned, no speck of dirt left for them to hide under and I will bring them to justice. The rest of you can continue your coincidentally important tasks then."

He then looked over to Crusch who was back to her composed expression.

"All those lives, could have been saved. And it's through that egregious inaction, that the wheels of Karma, I hope, turn against you all."

"..."

"Other then Felt and possibly Reinhard...NONE OF YOU WILL EVER SEE ME AGAIN. GOODBYE."

Time seemed to slow down as Batman exited out the door, closing it behind him.

Those parting words became something Cursch would think about, right before she along with Wilhelm and Ferris were erased by the White Whale.

Anastasia humphed at his words...only for them to come true when her entire camp, minus Mimi and Julius, were all killed in Scarecrow's attack on Pristella a year later.

Felt had her heart break as the door closed, and she never saw him again. Her last words were his name, right before she was killed by an explosion during the attack in Pristilla.

Truly, the wheels of karma began to turn.

He would refuse an offer of knighthood by King Priscilla, replying that Kararagi was now his home.

He would leave them, never returning to Lugnica formally again.

He continued his incursions against the slave and illegal drug smuggling that was occuring in the shadows along with Tia and Halibel. This was a bit of contention with Kararagi, on one hand, slavery was legal in the country, but on the other, any action against Batman would be futile...especially since his allies and himself made up the most powerful beings in the city state. The council would soon begin reflecting on what to do about the slave trade, lest more issues arise from it.

And how to handle the sudden surge of people marching and protesting for 'Civil Rights'.

Bruce looked at himself in the mirror, he had wrinkles forming on his forehead and the sides of his eyes, but still had some spry youth in him. He figured it may have been the mana in the atmosphere, still his hair had turned white and he now had a rugged beard. Still, he was ever watchful to his muscular figure and began doing handstand exercises. Tia went and grabbed some tea.

"Wait...Tia, where's Alzbeta?"

"Hehe, where do you think?"

"...Hahhhh, I wonder if she is wasting her time, trying to get with him?."

Tia went to a nearby table and smiled at her exercising partner.

"Didn't you say the same thing happened to Rem and Subaru? Look how they turned out."

"...Then again, I wonder if he's the right guy for her."

"Awwww, such a doting father."

"Knock it off."

Tia could only laugh at Bruce, as he grumbled away...preparing to go visit some friends on his day off.

Walking through the busy marketplace was a fairly tall man; sporting traditional garb for this country, his blue hair and scary looking blue eyes would catch anyone's attention.

"There goes dad again, dumping all the shopping on me."

Sure enough, carrying his groceries in one hand and holding onto his strap in another. On his back, attached to the strap, was a katana sword, used for only self defense purposes. He was then stopped by some women who were obviously flirting with him. All of them loved his blue hair and handsome complexions...only for the man to feel something behind him, quickly noticing the girls terrified expressions, and they apologized, leaving in a panic.

He sighed as he turned around and saw a familiar face.

"Hello Alzbeta."

"Ah! Rigel-kun! What a surprise. Didn't expect to see you here."

"I'll bet."

Rigel could only crack a smile as he saw his friend look up at him with a beaming smile. Her yellow colored kimono with pink flower designs on it, matched her pink hair with two buns, had her orange eyes reflect Rigel in them.

"Well let's go."

Rigel and Alzbeta walked side by side, every time they passed by a shop or a cafe of some kind, the owners would seem to wink or give thumbs up to them, making her smile cheerfully, while confusing Rigel. Alzbeta saw her chance and hugged his arm, making the young man flustered.

"So Rigel, how are things going for you at the academy?"

"G-Good, I should be able to land a job in a merchant chain very soon, maybe even the Riften Co. will hire me."

"Well he should! He's old friends with Subaru jii san."

"I'd like to gain a job based on my own merit though."

She nodded up to him, making him look away for a few seconds...only for her to calm down as he asked her how she was doing.

"Good, I'm getting a job with the local seamstress, going into the kimono making business. High end quality too."

"Ohhhh, maybe when I get reputable, I can help you get them on the market."

"I'd love that Rigel...love…"

She then stopped, making him do so as well.

"What's wrong?"

"...Rigel."

"Y-Yeah?"

"I...I want to say something so please listen to me carefully."

"O-Okay."

She then shifted herself and held his chest tenderly, looking timid for just a moment, before sinking her eyes to his.

"Rigel, we've known each other for a few years now. I know, you have a lot going for you, like taking care of your sisters and your studies. But do you think you'd have time...for me?"

"What do you-"

She stepped on her tippy toes and kissed him. He went wide eyed, before he suddenly began melting into the kiss, hugging her tenderly.

The nearby shopkeepers quietly cheered them on, seeing that these two childhood friends, finally got together in the end.

Now arriving at the Natsuki residence, they opened the door to find a adorable young girl with black hair and hazel eyes, wearing a cute orange kimono.

"Oh hey Spica."

"Hi Spica, long time no see!"

Spica beamed with joy and ran over to hug Alzbeta.

"Alzbeta nee san!"

"Hehe, a beautiful spirit has come to greet me!"

"Ha! How funny you can be!"

Rem made her way to the hall and welcomed them both with a hug.

"Rigel, did you get everything?"

"Yup, with this, dinner should be ready."

As they walked to the kitchen they saw a baby stroller, something Subaru also made in his spare time.

"How was she?"

"Ah, she's doing just fine Rigel. Not a peep out of her."

There rested a precious little baby girl in her alligator pajamas, her dark blue hair was well combed and her blue eyes were closed shut in a peaceful nap.

Rigel and Alzbeta could only smile at the newest member of the Natsuki Family, Meleph.

Subaru arrived later and noticed how Rigel was holding hands with Alzbeta.

"Rem do you see what I see?"

"Yes my love, it appears...I won the bet."

"Hahhh, even with bets my gorgeous wife beats me!"

"Silly dear, even if bets aren't your strong suit, you still are my darling Subaru-kun."

Subaru handed over the money and planted a loving kiss on her cheek. Rigel could only raise a fist at his parents, having learned they betted on his chances with her. Spica bursted out laughing much to Alzbeta's frank amusement.

"Humor me a bit dad, what did you bet on exactly?"

"Well, I bet with Rem that you two wouldn't go out until you were about in your thirties. Rem said it would be soon before that...a mother's intuition is a powerful thing."

"No matter how old you get...you still wind up being the Lord of Shitty Dads."

Subaru, now looking older than he did all those years ago went over to Rem and smiled, she had her hair rest on her husbands arm, smiling as well.

These two, saved from a tragedy years ago, were now making the most of their lives.

Just as they laughed a bit at Rigel's displeasure, Bruce, Tia and Halibel arrived shortly afterwards.

"Hey there!"

"Hal-san, good to see ya."

"Well it's been a busy month for me and Bruce, so I figured with our day off, we'd visit the fine folks here!"

Bruce and Halibel noticed Alzbeta hugging Rigel by the side tenderly. Bruce sighed loudly before turning his head to Rem.

"Alright, you win the bet."

"Hahaha."

Rigel and Alzbeta were stunned when they saw both Halibel and Bruce reluctantly hand over some money to Rem, who gave a smug smile.

"Poppa Bruce and Hal-san also betted?! What did you bet?!"

Halibel gave them a peace sign.

"I betted you two would elope and run away together like some romance novel Tia gave me."

"That's fantasy! Not real! Though it does romantic."

"Alz-chan is digging her own grave here."

"A-Anyways, Poppa! What did you bet?"

Bruce nodded.

"I betted that you two would never get together, that Rigel would not return your feelings and you'd end up with some rich businessman who didn't have scary eyes."

"POPPA!"

She pouted, seeing that he was really against them getting together, but she did know deep down, he wouldn't do anything to hinder their relationship.

"Hey Bruce-jii san, if I did say no...what would've happened to me?"

"...Anyways, let's head inside and see if we can help out for a bit."

"Terrifying! That misdirection is scary, Bruce jii-san!"

Rigel was internally grateful that he like Alzbeta enough that he accepted her as his girlfriend...otherwise, he feared what Bruce would have done to him.

"Oh, Tia, you didn't bet anything?"

"Nah, I figured you two would have a kid together already."

Rigel and Alzbeta's faces went tomato red, but not before Alzbeta looked at her boyfriend and smiled. THat very smile made Bruce grimace, only for Halibel to pat him on the back, just to calm him down.

"Besides, if Rigel said no to my little girl...well…"

"T-Tia-san?"

"...Oh, here Rem, let's see if my cooking skills have gone up."

"Holy crap, my heart nearly stopped there! Alzbeta, you have the scariest parents in all of Kararagi!"

Rigel looked pale as could be, with Halibel laughing and Alzbeta sighing at her parents harsh words for Rigel. She also wondered what would have befallen him, had he said no to her.

"Hey Alzbeta nee chan! Does this mean, you are my big sister for real?"

"In a way, yeah...I am your big sister!"

The two hugged each other as Rigel leaned against a wall. Smiling at the gathering around him, looking forward to the coming days ahead.

Soon everyone was finished eating and enjoying themselves in the living room...all the while Bruce and Subaru were outside looking up at the starry night sky.

"Subaru."

"Hm?"

"Thanks."

"Huh? Did I do something?"

"More than you realize."

"How confusing."

"...It's nothing I guess."

The two nodded to each other, before heading back inside, taking one last step...Bruce felt like there were four ladies watching his back...he turned around quickly. But no one was there.

"I know...it's not fair. But I won't let your lives end in vain."

He looked to the group of happy group inside of the house.

"I'll keep them safe, no matter what happens. I'll keep the world safe….Emilia. Ram. Petra. Beatrice. Even if the world forgets, we won't. And we will keep your strength with us. Thank you."

He closed the door behind himself, with a warm smile on his face.

Subaru entered through door and saw the party going on inside...and felt a memory come back to him. Of the day when he asked Rem to run away with him back at the Capital of Lugnica. He feared his frantic behavior would drive her away instead...but sure enough he did something, he felt was impossible to do at that moment.

"Rem...please, r-...no, please come with me."

"Subaru-kun?"

"I want you Rem."

"I need you. Only you. The person who cares for me the most, the one who is the bravest, who can cook up a storm...who is caring and methodical...who is the person I want to live with."

"...Wai-"

"-The person closest to my heart."

Rem seemed to melt at his words, making Subaru smile further as he positioned his hand to her.

He looked into her eyes, and she did the same to him.

"Rem...I want you."

"Rem…"

"Do you want me?"

"...Yes."

She finally took his hand and he pulled her into a hug. She quietly cried into his chest as he hid his own tears.

"Let's go Rem. Our life together...starts here."

And that day...they left their old lives behind.

"I wonder...if I said something else. If panicked more, would she have said no?"

He then saw Rem blow him a kiss from the living room while loving hugging their still resting baby, making him smile with passion.

"Nah. Thinking too much into it."

He was joined by Bruce, as the peaceful night of existence continued on.

And so, generations would come and go within the Wayne and Natsuki families. They would stay close and bring great change to the country of Kararagi, for many centuries to come.

A starry night sky, a town that looked ordinary in every way; the scenery of a family's ordinary life. With one side being quite extraordinary.

That common, irreplaceable happiness definitely existed in one corner of this vast new world.

There were things that were lost, things that were abandoned, places that were ran away from, memories that couldn't be forgotten even if they tried…

Despite having all these feelings, they would still live in this world that went on.

…And that was also a peaceful, as can be, ending for the loves of a lost boy, and a great hero, who both wandered into another world.

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Goodnight, Pride.

A smoldering mess of a building, the latest attack by an unknown sect created from the ashes of the destroyed Witch's Cult.

Reinhard stood there as the knight began retrieving the burnt corpses from the wreckage. He scowled at the sight, before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a single piece of paper. With it was a emblem a a claw holding a piercing red dragon's eye.

He flipped it over and it had a message on it.

It was the location and time of the disaster, he was unable to prevent.

"They're toying with me."

Reinhard angrily crumbled the piece of paper in hand, glaring as he did.

"The Superbia Phalanx."

In a bar near the border of Vollachia, sat a robed figure, the barkeep was cautious of him and several others that were there. It was obvious that this man and everyone else that was there, were all part of the same group, keeping other patrons on edge.

Sipping on his appa juice, the obvious ringleader was processing over the situation as his clawed arm, jet black in color, set down the mug. He fixed his long black hair, which stretched down to his shoulders in a ponytail. His single eye, looking like that of a starved animal glanced over to the barkeeper, his already terrifying eye didn't help with the edges of his face that were burned. Nor did the black bandage with intricate patterns, covering up his left eye, help much.

He then felt something, reaching into his pockets he pulled out a converging mirror.

"Hey, spill it."

"The attack went through, Reinhard didn't do anything."

"Hmph, he's getting rusty probably."

"Maybe has to do with our tests getting more frequent."

"I suppose so."

"Well...anyways, I better get going. Meet up spot?"

"17."

"Okay, see you Baru-san!"

"Catch you later, Ovidius."

Closing his mirror shut, he dropped some money on the table and got up, fixing the rings that adorned his normal hand.

"Thank you, we'll be off."

"Th-thanks, come again."

"...I doubt will we."

Subaru smirked at him, before fixing his magic robe, one that gave him protection against sneak attacks, as he flung open his cape with chains holding it in place, it could be seen he still had his dark colored tracksuit from his final battle in the Agol Tree and the Ray Gun from the other universe as well. With those memories fresh in his mind, he knew he was given a second chance at life. And he wouldn't waste it.

And with it, he would use his own intellectual might and cunning strategies to make Lugnica rise from the ashes he set forth, by putting Reinhard and Emilia to the test. He would attack this country again and again, putting their abilities to the breaking point, to prove that either they were capable of ruling and bettering the nation itself...or failing, and allowing Lugnica to be trampled over by the neighboring nations; he wanted to see if his earlier sacrifices were indeed worth it. And if they couldn't handle a single terrorist organization, then this country deserved to stomped out of existence.

Maira Vizard yawned as they exited outside into the sunny atmosphere.

"Where to now?"

"Back to Kararagi, near Banan, we gotta lay low for a bit, before we do another mission."

"...Elsa was right, you are quite the competent leader, who has interesting fun stuff to do."

"Well, life without a little spice, is just meaningless, right?"

She took his clawed hand and winked at him.

"It sure is."

Subaru simply stared up at her and sighed.

"Let's go."

Subaru and several of his Phalanx members began walking...their insidious intentions for this country, following them.

A sunny clear sky, a country that was burnt, broken and now being abused; the setting of a truly devastating existence.

That unflinching, all encompassing dread had now engulfed an entire kingdom and it's populace.

People died, things were destroyed, places were no more, associations and organizations that once were, faded into the ashes of yesterday….

But even then, the hubris within this individual would continue to spell doom for countless innocents, guilty and anyone caught in the middle.

…And that was also the grand scheme, of a lost boy, who was corrupted the moment he fell in love in another world.

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Goodnight, Brave Knight.

Beatrice closed her book in exhaustion, even for the little spirit, learning new things could be quite bothersome...especially something like this.

She set it down and made her way to the balcony of the building they were all residing in.

The Castle.

She could annoyingly hear Otto and Garfiel messing around in the other room, before Petra walked in. In the years since then, she has grown into a lovely young lady with long hair that stretched down to her hips, standing out more than her maid outfit.

"Hey Beatrice-chan, is there anything you need?"

"No no, I'm just going to converse with Subaru for a bit, I suppose. Oh, but do tell Emilia and Rem that we'll have a meeting in a few hours. So please let them know."

"Alright, see you then."

Beatrice nodded, as Petra did a courteous bow and exited the room. Beatrice made her way to the balcony and there...was Subaru. He was much taller, had two scars run across his mouth and now had a buzzed haircut, what's more, his hazel eyes were now purple, and almost seemed to glow.

Standing there in his usual grey colored Royal Guard uniform, he turned to see Beatrice and wave at her. She could see he was conversing with Cecilus, still the same as ever, minus the missing left arm.

Cecilus saw he had to go so he gave a handshake to Subaru and he left through a rift back home to Vollachia.

"Was it more conversations about the refugees, I suppose?"

"Well, it was more like, we needed to talk about what to expect with our new neighbors getting more comfortable."

"...True, since Brainiac's defeat, we've had a lot to worry about in the end."

"Ain't that the truth."

He looked down and saw how the city had returned to its normal state, but it wasn't so, for others...Priestella, Banan, Gladiator Island Ginunhive, and a few cities in Gusteko; were lost during the final battle, as were several other hundreds of other cities from beyond the stars, in the mad scientists collection. Subaru could also only mourn the deaths of friends such as Wilhelm and Meili. So many lives of course were lost in the insuing battle which had lasted two months. Brainiac took many lives both good and evil from this world.

Now, Brainiac's destroyed body was being housed and sometime studied near the Pleaadies Watchtower, hoping they could find a way to free the other worlds still trapped inside of his collection.

Subaru even found a way to combine some technology that latched onto himself, with his own magic, giving him the edge as Lugnica's second strongest swordsman.

Now eh took a depp breath as he took in the sights...especially that of the city just outside of the walls of the capital.

Large striking towers and crystal structures made up this freed city.

It was one of four freed cities given residence in Lugnica, while seven were given to Vollachia, five for Kararagi and six to Gusteko.

But this one was the most special of all.

Because-

"Ah, Natsuki Subaru!"

"Oh good morning Amara-san!"

"Good morning."

Floating down was a beautiful woman with yellow hair and blue eyes. She was the resident scientist of the resident Kryptonians of the city itself. Subaru was working with them to find a way to either take them back into their original universe, or find a way for the Kryptonians to find a way to create a new planet for them in the stars.

"Any luck?"

"No, our scientists are still trying to figure out how to manipulate the structure of these rock formations."

"Still, we can have some of our magic users help out."

"Well if it isn't too much trouble."

"No worries there...but please inform Alura-san to be a little more respectful around the normal populace passing through the area."

"Sure…"

She seemed downtrodden by it.

"Hm?"

"It's just, she is really about keeping the culture and aspects of Krypton safe, it's been years since anyone was able to stop Brainiac. We've been trapped there for years and years, but now it was this strange world that saved us!"

"Right, it was just we happened to come across you guys, so it's no big deal, plus if the whole, not getting into space thing works out, you can always stay here."

"Really?"

"Sure."

He winked at her, making the woman, blush a bit.

"Well, um, ahem. Just mostly wanted to say hi. So...see you then."

"Buh bye!"

She waved at him and flew off to her home, holding her cheeks, doing her best to hide away her blushing.

Subaru tilted his head when he noticed Beatrice crossing her arms at him.

"What?"

"Such a smooth talker, I suppose."

"That-"

"-Betty will inform Rem about this, I suppose. Excuse me."

"Huh?! Wait, Beako! Beatrice! HANG ON!"

Subaru chased after the scoffing girl, hoping he could avid conflict with Rem.

In Kandor City, Alura was speaking with several scientists about the probability of taking over the world with their newfound strength.

The answer was a resounding, NO.

With the magical abilities displayed in this world, it would be a bloody conflict and they had little technology left to even use for fighting. With magic being a weakness of theirs, and in a world that could use it, it was foolish to even think of such a thing. No to mention, Subaru was able to gain access to a literal mine's field of Kryptonite and utilizing Earth magic, they created more of it, creating swords and magical items with them as the key material, if they ever did do such a thing.

"We also have the other cities that are actually grateful to this world for saving them, if we did something aggressive, they would surely let them have their technology to fight against us."

"Then there is them...Natsuki Subaru, Reinhard Van Astrea, Cecilus Segmunt and Halibel. They carry Kryptonite weapons, and are masters of combat and magic. I'd say even our best warriors even with the yellow sun's energy, would be killed by them. Then, there is the matter of the Great Spirits-"

"-I see. Then...we are stuck."

"Yes, an impasse."

"We either have to go into space, or live with these people. But we can't use magic?"

"No I'm afraid. A Kryptonians 'Gate' is weak, even lower than that of a normal human. We use even one spell, and we could essentially die of mana poisoning."

Alura sighed loudly before Amara returned.

"How did it go?"

"Well in fact! Natsuki Subaru is willing to help us!"

"Hm? But he hardly know us at all."

"Well…"

Her cheeks turned bright pink as twiddled her fingers.

"He's a very kind individual...but I also sense power within him...power much like Reinhard's; a power that goes beyond a Kryptonians."

"...His magic, combined with Brainiac's technology and that little spirit girl that accompanies him."

"Ahuh, and the others with him...are our allies."

"Allies?! How can a human like-"

"-Because he saved us."

They all went quiet as they heard this.

"Subaru has asked for nothing in return, he has only done everything in his power to help us find a new home or integrate into this one."

"We cannot lose our culture-"

"-He says we don't have to. He told me he comes from another world as well."

"WHAT?"

"And with that, he says we can find peace...especially since he said he has sensed something else in the stars. Ominously circling around us."

They all looked to the stars, using their supervision…

"Indeed...something is out there."

"And he says we'll all have to work together to defend this world...to defend our home!"

"We can all work together, all of us! The people in this country will accept us, but only if we accept them! We can do this!"

The scientists around clapped their hands, much to Alura's dismay. It would seem, this young girl, Amara, was becoming something of a diplomat...and soon enough proud resident of this new world.

Together, she and Subaru would work on bridging the gap between this world and it's new cities, hoping that as they search for the peace they all want. Their world would become a force to be reckoned with.

All of this, for the brave knight who came from another world.

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Goodnight, Saia.

It was now thirty years later.

Natsuki Saia looked over to the hill. A hill where she had once plunged herself to death, in order to save those important to her. But now it was over. All the hardship was done.

Living in this growing village of Irlham, one would be surprised that this twelve thousand strong populace at one point was only a quarter of that. But with her guidance and help from the new ruling party of the Karsten party, she made it a hotbed within the country. She couldn't remember all too well what occured many years ago, but she did know it resulted in Roswaal and Rey's deaths. Still...with her newfound love with the two men in her life, Roy and Erick, she would fine solace in her newfound life.

Even if Erick barely aged at all, she still loved him.

Even if Roy was still at times, depressed at his brothers betrayal and death, she loved him.

As she sighed, Pax floated over and softly tapped her shoulder. Turning her head, her long black hair danced across the air. Leading with a happy smile, she could see the two children she had.

A silver hair young girl, named Emilia.

A blue haired girl, named Rem.

She smiled at the two of them.

They took her hands and led her back to the town they called home.

And all Saia could think was…

"This is the life, I could only wish for."

But, that was what happened, when a young girl wandered into a parallel world, all those years ago…

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Goodnight, Disciples of Vainglory.

Reinhard Van Astrea, stood there, as the entirety of the city was nothing but rubble.

Knights corpses littered the streets, and nothing was living at this point except him, and his two adversaries.

He glared at this point. His blue eyes sharpening as he scratched his rugged red beard.

"Haven't you two done enough devastation?"

The two figures snickered at him.

One was a pale, yet lovely woman with jet black hair….wearing a black mask with horns and a red eye piece, showing anyone who her father was.

Next to her, was a man wearing a red armor with glowing crimson blood eyes. His armor had a symbol on it's chest, that of a creature, and a bolt of lightning across it. The wings on the side of his helmet, pointed up to a point, of looking like horns.

They were The Drowned and Red Death.

Also known as...the Children of Batman.

"Reinhard, we should really stop meeting like this. It almost ruins our relationship."

"I want no relations with bastard children of the Batman."

Her tone changed to anger as she glared at him, pointing her trident at him.

"Watch your tongue! Never speak of our father like that again!"

"Easy there sister, it's in his best interest to make us fumble our actions by insulting our father. Yet, his words as empty as his current status."

"...Yes, indeed."

She lowered her trident, only to spin it around rapidly...just then, Red Death dashed forward and dark bats shot out behind himself. The speed he exhibited was far beyond anything one can comprehend, with only someone of the Sword Saint or Great Sage's ability to keep up.

It was this speed that allowed him to kill Cecilus of Vollachia and Dimitri of Gusteko…

His punches met with Reinhard's sword, trading powerful blows between the two. Trees and downtrodden buildings were crushed by their strikes.

Drowned decided to intervene and shot out lightning from her trident, but Reinhard dodged it, and aimed a slice at her, only for her to block it with her weapon.

She stomped her foot onto the ground, and a large spike of ice tried to stab him. He simply kicked into pieces, but she smiled seeing this.

Red Death landed a punch on his cheek, making it crack like clay, but the Sword Saint slammed him away. He quickly got up and dusted himself off.

"I got it."

Drowned waved around some book they seemed to be looking for. She then stabbed her trident to the ground and a humongous wave appeared behind herself. Her name wasn't just some title, she was indeed able to summon waters, waves and tsunamis at will.

Her Divine Protection of Water made sure of that.

And it was with this power, that she flooded entire cities in Kararagi and Lugnica with ease. Getting rid of anything in their path.

As the waters swept up the city and Reinhard, Red Death ran across the waters and fired yang beams at him. The Sword Saint simply swept them away, but noticed too late...they were a distraction.

"Al Ermac."

A tear in space opened as Red Death opened it, their getaway. Reinhard charged across the waves trying to get them, but Drowned controlled the waters, just to fling corpses at Reinhard, to get away from him. He regretfully sliced them to bits...only to block eyebeams from Red Death, another sign of his amazing Divine Protection of Yang, allowing him to be a master of light magic.

This made it a success.

The two snickered at the Sword Saint as they made it through the tear, the Sword Saint could only dash hopelessly trying to catch up with them.

But they escaped. Reinhard jumped on top of a building, staring as the wave swept through the city of Flanders, taking carts, people and bits of houses with it...as it stopped and the waters disappeared. Reinhard slammed his fist to the ground, making the building crack in half.

"DAMN IT!"

He let them get away again.

For the third time, he let one of them get away unscathed.

The Sword Saint took some time to collect himself.

Then he jumped away, to report the attack, and the deaths that resulted from it.

Now, the two made it to their destination. A mansion within a illusionary hillside.

As they breached through the barrier, they nodded to their teacher, Deathstroke. He took the book from them, pointing to the main dining hall, letting them know they were wanted there.

As they made it through the doors, Red Death took off his helmet.

Showing off that he was a handsome young man with blue eyes and platinum hair; a single scar on his chin was the only sign of his rigorous training under his mother's watch.

Drowned took off her mask and eye piece. This helped reveal her own lovely indigo eyes, ones that could truly capture a man's attention. She smiled as she saw her dear family member step in.

"Hey there, did everything go well?"

"Other than that running into the Sword Saint, things went pretty easy."

Felix, wearing a traditional military navy blue outfit was smiling at them. She then patted both of them on the heads.

"Well if it's you two, even the Sword Saint can't even touch you."

"Heh, easy Felix. We're not thaaaat good."

"Oh please, with all the training Slade-san has put you two through I can only imagine how strong you two are."

She then sat down at the table twiddling his fingers.

"Just like your father."

Red Death then sat down as well.

"Yes. No one could ever truly surpass him."

Just then, a woman entered. She was so gorgeous, one would be instinctively cautious of her, due to it almost seemingly being a form of danger. Yet there she was.

Pandora. Their mother.

She made her way over and stood between her two children.

"My darling Dionysus."

Her daughter nodded to her words.

"My brave Prometheus."

He smiled up at her encouraging words.

"You both have done well today….my loves."

Her endearing smile, washed over them as they eerily did the same.

"Thank you mother."

And soon the rest of the Society came in, a odd, disturbing family of sorts.

Regulus sat with Crusch and their son, Apollo. His jade green hair and amber eyes, made him look almost like a snake with ill intentions.

Deathstroke nonchalantly sat across from them.

And with the rest of the members relaxing as well...the meeting would begin.

"Let us begin then."

Pandora could only giggle with her words, slow...enchanting words.

Within this world, a hero was corrupted by the disappearance of a young man. While that young man became a person of worth, lived a happy life and had a family...his happiness unknowingly led to this.

The deaths. The destruction. The cruel fates.

It was outside of his cortrol.

Still, the curse of the Batman spread far and wide through this parallel world. His vainglory infecting those he came into contact with...and the ill guided love he had, would continue t do so.

The terror of the Batman, and the legacy he'd leave behind, was almost...eternal.

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Goodnight, Purge King.

Here, this was a world very much like an original happening.

Subaru and Batman had made it to the roof of the mansion after Ram and Roswaal attacked them, suspecting them of being responsible for Rem's death.

Now, in the original timeline, Subaru leapt off the roof to his death to save everyone from the cruel fate that had occured.

BUT NOT HERE.

Instead, Subaru wanted to live.

With that action, Beatrice had saved Subaru and Batman from more damage, but the Batwing was destroyed by an attack from Roswaal. Leaving them no choice but to run away by foot.

Eventually, near a cliffside, Ram had caught up with the three and intended to kill every last one of them. During the scuffle, Batman had his chest sliced open by an attack by her, giving Ram a chance to begin choking out Subaru. She even went as far as to summon her horn to kill him...his vision becoming colorless, seeing only the rage in her eyes...pale pink.

Beatrice knocked her off and right into Batman, stabbing her shallowly on her forehead, severing the connection with the stubbed horn. In retaliation, she fired one final wind attack against him.

It split open his head viciously, Subaru could only scream out in horror, seeing half of his scalp fling around like a piece of cloth. He fell back, nearly off the cliff, but Subaru saved him by the skin of his teeth.

As one last act of help. Beatrice helped heal him, but even her skills in such a thing were not enough, to completely save him.

Because when he woke up…

"Where am I?"

"You're outside the mansion, near the place where we fought Ram. Thank god...thank god your alive, Batman-san!"

"...Um, quick question sir?"

"Sir?"

"...Who is BATMAN?"

Batman had lost his memory.

WIth that, Subaru, in some form of selfishness...decided to take advantage of that.

With Ram captured, and Emilia now dropping out of the Royal Selection entirely, Roswaal became a degenerate...making Puck, Subaru and Batman agree on getting Emilia away from the Sorcerer.

With enough time, Subaru and Batman gathered allies.

Cecilus Segmunt. Greatest Swordsman in Vollachia.

Halibel. Shinobi of Kararagi.

Deathstroke. The Master Assassin from Another World.

Together, these five made up the prominent members of Pleiades, a fast rising criminal organization. Within them, Subaru became known as the Purge King and Batman was the Shadow Nemesis. Together, with a simple flip of a coin, Subaru would sit in his makeshift throne, adorning black clothing provided to him by Halibel, an orange scarf from Cecilus and metal gauntlets from Deathstroke...he would decide the fate of anyone he saw fit.

Batman with his own outfit to set his role.

Wearing a trench-coat with his usual utility belt, he wore the same mask per usual...but this time, his eyes were bright orange, like the fires of hell and he had a metal half mask, with holes that also glowed ominously. His gloves were larger, in order holster more weapons.

This Batman relearned all his combat with Halibel and Cecilus, through muscle memory how to fight again, but this time to kill. And he did. Every other criminal organization that went against Pleiades, had all its leaders and high ranking members….mysteriously turn up dead.

Now, it was the day that they launched the assault on Roswaal's Mansion.

Making their way through the guards and sudden appearance of Petelgeuse….they made quick work out of all of them, Subaru had anticipated the soul takeover ability Sloth had, especially since weeks prior he had Deathstroke torture someone named Ketty for information based on it. With Sloth unable to take his body, he was finished off by Halibel.

Sarah Remendis did her best to protect Roswaal, only to come face to face with Batman. They traded blows for a small while, with Sarah doing a masterful spinning strike against him...only for him to pull out his signature weapons, two bowie knives. He quickly and effortlessly sliced both of her arms off, before kicking her neck in, her muffled groans were then silenced with a stab to the head.

Batman sighed, he thought the girl was quite attractive…

"What a shame."

Roswaal was busy trying to fend off Cecilus and his lightning magic...before catching a glimpse at Batman.

"YOU!"

"Do I know you, Magrave?"

"HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR FACE HERE!?"

Batman dodged a wind strike he launched against him, giving Cecilus the chance of slicing him in half. As Roswaal crawled across the ground, dragging his organs with him...he stared up at the Batman who looked at him with nothing but pity. Roswaal did his best to try and do something to him...only for Batman to stomp on his head, killing him.

Batman entered an open room, finding a little girl with drilled hair and in an elegant dress on her knees, looking as if the world had come to an end for her. Subaru and Halibel were there as well.

"Kill me."

The little child asked this, Halibel raised his sword but a tap to his back stopped him.

"No man, I'll take care of this. It's a personal request I want to see fulfilled myself."

"Okay Su-San, if you say so."

He sheathed his sword, Subaru gave a glance to Batman who tossed him a bowie knife.

"I accept your request, Beatrice. Sleep now. It'll be fulfilled."

"Betty saved you two...now you've both come to finish me...how...how humorous, I suppose."

"...I suppose."

Subaru stabbed her in the head, making the little spirit burst into orbs of light, before fading into nothing. Soon enough, they walked out of the Forbidden Archive…

"Batman."

"Hm?"

"Burn it."

"Roger that."

He tossed a small bottle into the room, it erupted and began burning the room. As they walked into the hallway, there they saw her. A golden haired maid, whom Batman seemed to take a fancy to.

Subaru took out his coin and gave it a flip, he had it land in hand and checked it over.

"Live."

Deathstroke jumped through a door and stabbed her through the sides, before knocking her out with a powerful punch.

"Take her with us, we needed a maid for our base anyways. An act of mercy for this day of killing."

He turned his head and saw Emilia, she was trembling at the sight before her.

"Subaru..?"

"Emilia, I'm sorry to say, but you are coming with us."

Emilia shook her head in defiance, but Puck appeared and gave a harsh tone to his voice.

"Lia...this is for the best."

"P-Puck?"

"Doing this, will keep you safe."

Emilia didn't struggle as she walked out of the mansion with all of them. Deathstroke also informed Subaru that their mission in getting the Royal Selection Camps to fight each other was a success.

With his framing for the deaths of Schult, Felix Argyle, Old Man Rom and Joshua Juukulius, being placed on rival camps; the fighting was starting.

"Good, this way we can purge out the weak candidates and leave someone in charge that won't plunge this country into chaos. I'd like the end of the world to be put on hold for a while."

"Heh."

Subaru and the others had Batman open a tear in space, returning to their hideout at the border of Kararagi and Lugnica.

With the years passing, Batman and Subaru continued their killings.

Gorilla Grodd was killed by Cecilus and Halibel, his entire body burnt to a crisp.

Pamela was beheaded by Batman.

Scarecrow was cursed by Halibel, puking out his organs into a liquidy mess.

More and more.

Purged from this world.

Subaru kept Emilia in a locked white room, he would go in there to get lap pillows from Emilia, just to comfort him. And she could only smile and be happy when he visited...

Batman tried to get close to Frederica, now that she was working for Pleiades.

"Hey, Frederica-"

"-Get away from me."

"You simply disgust me, I've heard from Halibel-sama how many people you've killed and how you played a part in the deaths of Roswaal-sama and Beatrice-sama."

"We all did."

"And yet here you are, trying to entice me, flirt with me?"

"Is that so wrong?"

"...I hate you."

She glared furiously up at him, before he grabbed her supplies and marched off away from him.

Yet, she had to ask.

"Why do you stay with him?"

"...He's all I have. The only family I have, I feel like family is important. And if he desires to balance this world through death, then by all means I will do it for him."

"...You are fool, Batman."

She slammed the door behind herself, leaving Batman there to remove his mask, looking into a mirror and seeing his buzzed hair and scars littering his face, with one giant scar across his head.

"Who knows really?"

Time continued to pass...more deaths occured and Subaru continued to see the world as without color...only he could see Emilia's hollow purple eyes, Batman's burning hot eyes and of course, the hatred within Frederica's eyes. Anyone else...of whom he trusted them like Halibel, he would see their colors...those he distrusted were not, and even had their faces sometimes blurred out.

He continued using the coin...deciding the fates of countless people.

Until his organization had killed 132,592 people across the world. But they stood tall, all five leaders; composed on top of the mountain of corpses they left in this world.

Now Subaru was meeting with a merchant named Otto Suwen, trying t make a smuggling deal with him from permission by Russel Fellow. The meeting took place…

"So then, if there are any other things to discuss?"

"Hmmm...yeah, I'd say it was a pretty bad play on your part Suwen-san."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean the knights who've followed you here."

Otto froze in terror as Subaru played around with his sunken cheeks…

"You thought you could ambush us? How naive. With members like Deathstroke and Batman-san with me, you didn't think they wouldn't have a plan for this?"

Subaru then pulled out a coin, even Otto knew what this meant.

"I already decided the first wave of knights was going to die…"

Just then a tear in space opened up and out stepped Batman and Deathstroke, covered head to toe in blood.

They then tossed the heads of several prominent Royal Guards onto the table, plunging Otto into a panic.

"Subaru."

"Yes Deathstroke?"

"We also took the liberty of taking care of Russell Fellow and his wife."

"And how did you take care of them?"

"...We hung them."

"Well, I guess I'd expect nothing less for a traitor."

"Damn right."

Otto tried getting up, slowly drawing out a knife as he did, but Batman roughly sat him back down.

"Otto Suwen, you know what happens next don't you?"

"...Even I know about the dreadful rumors about the Batman."

"Then sit down and wait, fate'll decide what happens next."

Subaru gave the coin a flip, letting it land on his hand...and then-

"You...are dead."

Before Otto could even let out a yelp, scream or anything; Batman twisted his head all the way around. Otto's body fell forward, Subaru clapped his hands.

"Frederica, can you come here please?"

Once Frederica entered the room, she was horrified seeing the corpses in the room and the members covered in blood.

"Please clean up this mess."

"Y-Yes…"

"Also, I know it was you who leaked our hideout location to Lugnica. I'm not mad or anything, I saw this coming from a mile away."

"Hang on…"

"Now I've decided to spare you, because of how much I'm a gentle soul...but you might need some form of punishment."

He pulled out his coin once again.

"Decide, heads or tails."

"Wh-What?"

"Your little brother, your granny and the Sanctuary...decide."

Instantly, she knew what he meant.

She trembled and began sweating profusely...she panicked when she saw BAtman open a tear in space, one that led directly to the Sanctuary...he had to decide.

"T-Tails!"

"Let's see then."

Time seemed to slow down as the coin flipped in the air...then it landed and Subaru looked down at it. He smiled, sending a shiver down her very spine.

"Tails. Frederica, your family is safe."

He smirked, raggedly as he got up and finished his cup of tea.

"We have company right?"

"Yes, Halibel has confirmed a second wave is on the way...and they're being led by the Sword Saint."

"Hm, get Cecilus, I promised him he'd get a chance to fight Reinhard."

"Okay, and the rest of us?"

"...Deathstroke-san, kill the invading knights, if things get bothersome, make a run for it and meet with Halibel at the escape route. Batman-san, come with me."

"Okay...and Frederica?"

"Halibel."

Halibel suddenly popped into the room with a puff of smoke.

"Yup?"

"Take Frederica out of here."

"You sure about that Su-san?"

"Undoubtedly."

"Fine fine."

He grabbed her and they both escaped.

Soon they faced the large army that charged towards the hideout. Subaru pressed something on his gauntlet...causing several magic gems buried in front of the house to erupt, sending shrapnel flying out, killing and goring several knights.

Now the fight had started.

Cecilus was busy trading blows with Reinhard, while Deathstroke had to deal with Ricardo and Julius. Batman and Subaru were marching through the house, every time they ran into a knight, Batman would use his bowie knives to completely murder them. Batman then stomped his foot onto the ground and had yang spikes impale several knights...before he pushed Subaru and himself to another room… the spikes erupted killing several reinforcements. Marcos charged through a wall intending to kill of Batman. So he used Al Matar to infuse his fist with magic, he punched his sword into smithereens. Marcos turned to his Rock Armor, hoping to finish off the vile Shadow Nemesis. Only for Batman to infuse his bowie knives with magic and stabbed right into his head, his body flung forward, stopping the movement all together. Batman yanked out his knives and made it over to Subaru.

Right then, Deathstroke broke through the wall with Julius impaled by his electric staff and the bullet riddled body of Ricardo falling behind them. Deathstroke used the staff and electrocuted Julius before finishing him off with a tomahawk to the head, having half of his head begin sliding off to the side. He kicked him off his trusty weapons as he glanced back and saw Reinhard charging towards them, covered in wounds.

"Shit! Cecilus lost, it's my turn now! Subaru get the fuck out of here!"

Deathstroke charged forward and began battling Reinhard. Subaru saw this and something clicked.

"Batman-san, help me get to my study."

"...Is it her?"

"Yes. I need to see her."

Batman nodded and they made their way through the halls with Batman activating a metia that set adjacent halls ablaze. As they got closer and closer, they could hear the destruction going on behind them and the high pitched screams of knights set on fire, agonizing over the pain of their skin and muscles burning.

But Reinhard landed in front of them, causing every window nearby to break, it was quite clear he killed Deathstroke as well. He glared at the two.

"All the people you've killed! That...I've allowed to die by letting you two live!"

"...Honestly Reinhard, we lost count."

"...I didn't."

"You really are a friend, aren't you?"

Subaru's cold smile set Reinhard's anger ablaze, but he was then distracted by the arrival of Puck. Puck shot his ice spears at the Sword Saint who sliced them away with his Dragon Sword.

Seeing their chance, Subaru and Batman made a run for the other side, hoping to see their way through...only to run into Emilia. In her nightgown, covered in cuts from escaping her room. She smiled tearfully at them.

"Subaru. Batman-san. Where are you going?"

"Somewhere you don't need to follow."

"Whu?"

"It's over Emilia...look around us we're done. Reinhard is here, and I don't think a single one of us left can kill him."

"Wait...I can help...I know I can-"

Reinhard broke through a wall, covered in blood and wounds; aiming his sword to behead Subaru. Batman saw this, opening a tear in space and grabbing Subaru through it, saving him. Batman then pulled out his Frost Gun and fired it away, but Reinhard's aura broke apart the ice beam and shattered the gun into pieces. Batman then tossed a knife at him, but a sit changed trajectory away from the Sword Saint...a small magic gem at the end of the hilt caused a bright light to flash...a flashbang. Batman took the small chance and grabbed Subaru, but they were stopped by Emilia.

"Subaru! Please! Take me with you! I don't want to live without you!"

"But we'll die, Emilia."

"...I'll die with you."

"I'll die with you. Run away with you. Just you and me? Okay? YEAH?"

Subaru saw the light in Emilia's eyes fade...he couldn't believe a word she said. He made Batman gently push her aside, but just then...Reinhard madly dashed to them. Batman got his two bowie knives ready...only for Batman to have one of his hands sliced off by Reinhard. He sneered as he made a hand replace it, made entirely of Yang magic. He tried to punch Reinhard with it, but it was just blocked, while the floor around the two caved in.

Then Batman went wide eyed, so did Reinhard. They both looked and saw Reinhard, had successfully been stabbed behind by Emilia with a bowie knife.

"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry, but don't hurt Subaru."

Reinhard realized that because she had no intention of hurting him, she made it past all his Divine Protections and landed a blow on him. He kicked away Batman into a wall as he gave a gentle look to Emilia.

"It's okay Emilia...it's not such an...ag-"

Reinhard began losing balance, he lost his composure, making Emilia...worried for Subaru, but he slowly backed away as he then saw the impossible.

Reinhard fell forward and was unable to get up.

Emilia's unknowing sneak attack had actual been fatal.

Wasting no time, Batman formed a yang ball several times his size with the arm missing a hand and slammed it down on Reinhard, he let out a vicious roar as the blast destroyed the Sword Saint's body.

Emilia was covered head to toe in blood, and Batman was as well...but he was also missing his entire left arm, holding the stump at his shoulder with his other hand, blood pouring out of the hideous wound.

Batman walked away from the clearly broken Emilia as he helped Subaru get to his study. To a room only Subaru and himself knew about.

Batman guarded the room while Subaru entered...he stood there, firm as can be. Looking around, he saw more knights trying to reach them. But he stopped them.

He broke apart one knight's lower jaw and stabbed the other one in the eye with it. He then kicked a knight across the neck, separating the neck bone from the skull in sick display of anatomy. He then stole one of the knights swords, imbuing it with Yang Magic and shooting it forward, stabbing through two more knights who fell to the ground. He wouldn't let a single one of them get through without a fight. But soon after impaling one more knight through the neck, he noticed no more were coming. He panted and heaved as he spat blood from his mouth. He then entered the room, and sure enough he saw the secret entrance opened.

Inside his large bookshelf was a secret room known only to them. He entered and found Subaru...asleep...no...it was more than that.

He was dead.

His head resting on Ram's lap...she had finished him off. The old marks of the first time Ram tried to choke him to death were there, now mixed with fresh ones.

Ram.

Locked away in this room byu Subaru as some form of mercy. Keeping her chained to a wall with barely enough room to move around or even relieve herself. Her hair dragged down to her shoulders...she looked up with her now serpent like eyes.

"Batman...have you come to die as well?"

"Jiwald."

Batman aimed his fingers at her like a gun and shot her on the side of the neck, blood spraying out.

Then he saw a knight get behind him, so he turned around quickly and punched him through the stomach, but the loss of blood on his part made him slip, giving the unnamed knight a chance to hit him in the head with a baton, before passing away. Opening up his old wound.

The memories flooded back to Bruce Wayne in an instant.

He looked at his hand, which was covered in blood. And the brave and stoic Batman...broke down.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

He looked back, half his face drenched in blood.

"NO! RAM!"

He saw Ram and ran over to her, he held her in a gentle embrace even if it was only one armed, watching as the blood escaping her neck wound didn't stop. He kissed her forehead, remembering how he injured her all those years ago…

"Ram. I'm so sorry. Oh God, please...I am so sorry."

She then reached her hand up and felt the tears dripping down his cheeks.

Just as she knew Subaru hadn't killed Rem all those years ago...Bruce didn't want any of this to happen, it was outside of his control. Next to Subaru, he was the only one who was allowed to see her in the room...and she knew that he had forgotten his past, she would at times try to get him to help her escape, but his loyalty to Subaru wouldn't allow it. She even kissed him at one point, nothing. Spoke sweet things to him, nothing. She slept with him in that very prison, but nothing.

At that point, Ram unleashed a tirade of scathing words at him...only to hear two words from him she once again heard, only this time, a genuine feeling reached her.

"Love...you…"

Ram looked away.

She allowed her hand to feel his grieving face, before it slipped down.

"Fool…"

Her last words.

Bruce screamed out in pain.

Subaru was gone.

Ram was gone.

All of his friends, dead or fled.

Now he was truly alone, now drenched in the sins…

"Subaru…"

"...Emilia?"

"...Ram is here too?"

Emilia was also crying, looking down at the weeping Batman. She sat next to Batman and helped him set Ram down. She then gave him a big hug, still crying. Batman hugged back, feeling as if he had lost everything that made him, himself.

"Let's go."

"Huh?"

"Batman-san...let's go see Subaru."

"What are you-?"

An ice spear shot through Batman's back and through Emilia's chest.

"AGGGHHHH!"

"It's..augh, okay...okay…"

The ice melted away, and so, both fell to their sides, Batman clutching his wound...all the while Emilia crawled to Subaru and rested her head on his stomach.

"Hang on Subaru...I'm coming...we're coming to see you...silly...Su-"

Batman had crawled over to Emilia and used the last of his waning strength to hold her hand. She grabbed it and smiled...Batman slowly saw everything begin to close around him. The shadows getting closer…

"I failed…"

His last words.

Emilia and Bruce died.

And just like that, the hideout became quiet. Not a single peep or sound was heard...but the fires engulfing sections of the house.

All life within these walls, at this moment, were drowned out.

Here, there was no love. No peace. No heroes. No evil. Nothing.

There was hatred. Killing. Battling. Spite. Anger. WRATH.

And lost in that wrath, a young boy had sent a great hero spiraling into the madness of it. Until, there was nothing left for either of them, nothing to hold onto to.

Even the violence they commited had been shattered, and it left them, empty handed...fate took them.

They lost their lives, here, in a distant world.

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Goodnight, Indulgence.

There was another world.

Lost to the Forgotten Conflict.

Here, Batman decided to speak with Subaru before returning to the Mansion, after the defeat of Petelgeuse and the White Whale.

He told him about Roswaal having a Gospel, enraged...Subaru decided they needed to take care of Roswaal. After returning to the mansion, they were told to take Emilia to the Sanctuary. Frederica was shocked when they refused, deciding to go by themselves.

Once there, they actually interrogated Roswaal, who simply played dumb, but was also upset by them not bringing Emilia. Once they revealed they both knew about the Gospel, Roswaal tried to explain himself, but Bruce wanted none of it. He took subaru out and they decided to both take the Trials.

Subaru failed.

Bruce was actually passing.

He faced his past with his son, and his parent's demise...deciding to be the bigger man and moving past it.

He faced the present, in which his Daian became the Batman after making a deal with a demon...he accepted it.

He saw the futures, ones where he killed, where he was betrayed or fell into the shadows of despair itself...he accepted it.

However, when he met with the Six Witches, he interrogated them on the specifics of the Sanctuary and the Book of Wonder. Echidna, in her fervor of explaining things, let slip to Batman that he could take Roswaal's gospel and create his own Book of Wonder. Realizing this, he knew he needed a great power source…

He rushed past the Witches and out of the Tomb's dream, met with Subaru and they made their plan. They had Subaru distract Ram and Garfiel, while Batman attacked Roswaal for his Book, breaking both of the sorcerer's arms. Retrieving the Book, he made it back to the Tomb, and using the power source of Echidna's body, to the point of evaporating it...he created his own Book of Wonder.

This was to give them power. To give them knowledge. So that they wouldn't lose someone like Rem, ever again.

But by doing this, the denizens of the Sanctuary still had the barrier up...they were now trapped inside it forever. Garfiel didn't seem to mind, he thanked them for their services and had them leave.

Roswaal, left without a book or his teacher, attacked Batman and Subaru. In the fight, Subaru activated Invisible Providence and punched him through the chest, killing him. Ram was now mindbroken, expressing unyielding love for Batman.

Finding Elsa, Deathstroke and Meili about to attack the mansion...Batman teleported them all in front of the Sizable Hare's path, killing all three of them.

Batman used the book to locate all the Sin Archbishops, for everyone in the country to begin wiping them out. And with more knowledge, he had Subaru become upgraded and able to use his the full power of his Authorities.

Subaru slowly accumulated all the Sin Archbishop powers and became a force to be reckoned with.

Subaru used his Authorities to help build a iron throne for Batman where he could place his Book on top of, feeding the information to him directly without having to open it. The throne floated around and changed his Batsuit to pitch black with blue lines coming off the Bat symbol.

Together, these two conquered Gorilla Grodd, killed Scarecrow, defeated the Sizable Hare and destroyed the Assassination Organization in Gusteko.

All the while, growing more and more distrustful of the people around them.

Subaru found out that he gained the ability to absorb Divine Protections from those he killed. Batman had him secretly kill people that had 'useful' Protections in order to better prepare themselves for conflict.

Eventually they conquered the Watchtower and brought Rem back...but she was shocked by the sights around her. Her lovely older sister, with longer hair and lifeless eyes...Emilia, looking quite weak, as if she no longer made decision for herself.

Julius was dead...he was fatally injured by Ley in Pristella, and secretly finished off by Subaru, obtaining the Divine Protection of Spirits. Beatrice was there as well, only looking bereft of spirit, as she was merely contracted with Subaru, and nothing more.

Subaru was there with his new dark armor with yellow pieces and pads, and a red utility belt. He had a single scar run across his face, from a battle with Regulus.

Batman sat on his throne, which this time, had large arachnid legs that moved around for him, but also defended the throne, when he would jump off to fight.

When outside the tower, Rem was terrified to see an army of little girls there, they all looked the same.

They were an entire army of Lewes Meyer's but these ones had white hair and red eyes, holding their own staffs...creations of Batman after he learned how to create artificial spirits. Also there was a large dragon like beast, another artificial spirit. One that killed all the other Great Spirits save for Puck, who was coerced into helping them.

Eventually, Rem learned about everything...including the current invasion of Vollachia by Batman and Subaru's forces, intedning to get rid of the threat of this kingdom...but in reality, they wanted to get rid of their own personal threats to their power and even have Subaru absorb more Divine Protections.

Thirst for power.

Hunger for control.

These two saw no difference in who lived and who died…

Batman and Subaru had anyone and everyone they cared for imprisoned within the Miload Mansion, including Linnea Helena and Felt. They said it was to keep them safe...but now they had their doubts. Ram sired a child with Bruce, a pink haired, blue eyed girl named Luna.

Soon enough, they used their power to have the Council cancel the Royal Selection, this led to a humongous battle against the two. Leading to an eventual surrender and fall to their authority. Even Reinhard was unable to do anything, and reluctantly swore his sword for them.

Years later, Volcanica eventually stepped in, only for both Subaru and Batman to devise a plan in killing him...it worked, but resulted in the destruction of Vollachia itself, wiping out all life along with Volcanica.

Subaru now gained the ability to control all Ground Dragons and Batman absorbed the mana from Volcanica. Six years later...they had their plans to free Satella, in order to kill her and take her powers.

Rem organized a plan to stand in their way, resulting in another war against them, their former friends...THE MAD TITANS.

In the fighting, Subaru accidentally killed Rem; losing his mind at this point and realizing he lost his focus in his misguided path to power, with his Return by Death only able to take him to after he killed her...he asked Batman to kill him. He obliged, destroying Subaru down to the last speck.

With everyone in the battle dead, minus Priscilla, Wilhelm, Reinhard and Emilia left battling Batman...Ram and Luna sacrificed themselves to save Bruce from Wilhelm's sneak attack, enraged... Batman set him on fire, killing him. Batman tried to escape, but a transformed Puck tired to stop him. Batman poisoned the mana in the atmosphere weakening Puck long enough for him to transform back to his chibi form, then Batman crushed his neck, killing him. Emilia had her mind broken, and stumbled away from the fight.

Reinhard traded blows with Batman, only for him to damage the throne and it exploded vaporizing the two of them. In his last moments, Batman wondered what he did wrong...then realized he fell into sin by desiring more power than he needed.

"I just wanted to save…"

Priscilla could only fall to his knees as he saw the crater where the two opponents stood.

Later, Emilia, who had become the Prime Subject of this reality, was killed by Warlock Batman, ending this universe for good.

Here, good intentions were corrupted. With the darkness in their hearts and the shallowness of their bitter intentions...the world was plunged into an unfortunate end. A fate that these two men had actually tried to prevent, but instead foolishly were responsible for. Quite the outcome.

A sinful desire to obtain, steal and break powers before them, had led to this. All with a few words…

"We cannot trust him."

And like that, this parallel dimension, was undone.

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Now, it's time.

Whether meeting with an ending of peace or love.

Or an ending filled with sadness and despair.

It was over.

To fall into Slothfulness and save one person, but bring new life and happiness to their newfound home.

To crumble from ill based Pride and try to one up a hero, plunging the world into suffering.

To obtain knighthood and the strength that came with it, becoming a symbol of heroism.

To be corrupted by a witch and allowing their very own children to spread sadness and death in their place.

To only understand wrath itself, and become devoid of mercy, purging the world of the life.

To become broken by the hunger of power, even if it was to protect the ones you love.

These worlds...exist or existed.

Now it was time to say it again.

Sayonara.

So long.

Good luck.

Take care…

Goodnight.

Now, it was time to return to the main world, and see time slowly march forward...