[Western Crossover] The Nice Guy Next Door to the Bat-Family

The Dark Knight has been a little troubled lately. A new tenant has suddenly moved into the long-vacant house next door.

The new neighbor is a refined, scholarly-looking young man, all skinny arms and legs, gentle and polite. His entire aura is completely at odds with Gotham's oppressive darkness.

If he leaves him alone, this kind, utterly unsuspecting gentleman will probably end up dead in some dark corner without even knowing what happened.

Until one day, the Joker planted bombs all over the city and was about to press the detonator

His beautiful, kindhearted, delicate neighbor appeared out of nowhere, smashed the Joker over the head with a crowbar, and crushed the detonator under his shoe.

Blood spattered across the gentleman's face, like red plum blossoms blooming in snow.

He bent down, his rich, mellow voice like wine aged for a thousand years. “You planted bombs in my house, Joker?”

The crowbar rose high, then came crashing down once more.

A certain Bat: ...

A certain Bat: He drinks and smokes in private!!!

Joe Phil, the big shot who cleared the infinite-flow world 999 times and retired successfully.

After arriving in Gotham, faced with the excessively kind ordinary people around him, he did his best to restrain his darkness and disguise himself as a lamb to blend into the crowd. But every now and then, he would get the urge to enjoy some after-dinner entertainment.

Including, but not limited to, posing as a hacker online and arguing with the Little Red Bird;

pretending to be an ordinary passerby and walking past Big Red's crime-fighting scenes;

taking photos of Nightwing's famous butt in Bludhaven;

disguising himself as a supervillain and taking the little demon on a nighttime trip to Arkham...

Of course, his greatest achievement was casually passing a crime scene late one night and casually picking up a badly injured, near-death big Bat.

Wow!

Look, a genuine Gotham specialty!

[Blurb]

There are countless parallel universes. Could there be one where Gotham's darling still has his parents, grows up under their loving care, and is truly sunny, happy, and innocently naive?

After attending a party, the naive Gotham darling returns home. As soon as he steps inside, he sees a black bat monster clinging to the outside wall on the third floor of Wayne Manor, looking fierce enough to eat someone alive.

“Ah!”

With a short scream, Gotham's darling faints in fright.

Gotham's Dark Knight has just fought the big boss of Earth-3, only to be kicked into a parallel world by his opponent.

He searches his counterpart's Batcave for ages, then has no choice but to accept that this world's Wayne Manor doesn't have an underground base at all.

In this world, his parents are alive and well. He grew up happy, just turned twenty, and is slowly being introduced to the company's business with his parents' support.

Everything is so wonderful. In this world, a truly wholesome, pure, sunshiny version of him has come into being.

This is his other side.

“I'm staying here for a few nights.” The Dark Knight settles in while searching for a way back.

His counterpart pokes the black cat ears above his cowl and cheerfully says, “Meow~”

PS: Bat/Bruce selfcest. This story is also called Does Gotham's Darling Dream of a Dark, Dark Bat Monster?

Theme: Justice will never be defeated