Chapter 293: Sinestro's Bad Luck

On a dim afternoon, Cat Getan's weak sunlight shone into the office through the gaps in the curtains. Schiller was lying on his office chair taking a nap. Victor, at the desk next to him, was reading a paper but was also dozing off with his head supported by one hand. Anna from the Math Department was already asleep on her desk.

The teaching work at Cat Getan University was very leisurely. Almost all teachers had the habit of taking a nap. Several teachers in the office next door had even bought lounge chairs directly. After Schiller gradually adapted to this slow-paced life, he would also choose to take a nap after lunch.

Just as he frowned, intending to turn over, suddenly, a violent scream, like boiling water, rang out over the entire Cat Getan City. Victor was startled awake directly. Schiller opened his eyes in a daze. He and Victor looked at each other, covered his eyes, and asked, "... What is she shouting?... Daddy?"

Instantly, Schiller sobered up. He paused on the chair, then stood up while supporting the armrest, walked to the window, adjusted his hair, looked toward Wei En Manor, and said to Victor, "Help me ask for leave; I have something to go out for."

"Did you forget? We don't have a principal now, not even an acting principal, so there's no need to ask for leave at all." Victor stretched and said, "Go ahead. It just so happens that your afternoon class is changed to my chemistry class; I still have two experiments to do."

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Schiller walked out of Cat Getan University. He originally wanted to fly to Wei En Manor in his gray mist form to take a look, but the gray ring he was wearing suddenly became a bit hot. Schiller followed the ring's guidance and arrived above the Earth in his gray mist form, discovering that a golden-yellow Power Battery was floating there.

Schiller circled the Power Battery twice, then stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "... Sure enough, it came. But it actually brought the Power Battery over too; this is an unexpected joy."

Soon, his figure disappeared. A few minutes later, Schiller's figure appeared again next to the yellow Power Battery above the Earth. However, this time, he was holding another yellow creature in his arms.

Pikachu, who had been plucked from his nap, was drooping his four short legs with sleepy eyes, struggling constantly in Schiller's arms. He said, "What exactly are you trying to do? Why did you bring me to this terrible world again?!"

Schiller held Pikachu's armpits with both hands, making him face the yellow Power Battery, and said, "Don't you always shout that you're hungry? I found you a good place to eat. Do you see that thing in front?"

Pikachu rubbed his eyes with his short hands, staring at the yellow-glowing Power Battery with one eye big and one eye small, then sighed with all his might and said, "I won't ask what this thing is, because I know it definitely has a complex background that you could ramble on about for two hours. I only have one question: why are you so sure I can eat here?"

"Because you are yellow."

"... And then?"

"It is also yellow."

Pikachu folded his arms with his two short hands like a human, his face full of question marks. Before he could question Schiller's illogical theory, Schiller explained, "Perhaps it sounds absurd, but I believe that in the mysterious world, color possesses very important symbolic significance. Mysterious items of the same color must have some correlation..."

Pikachu opened his mouth but didn't know how to refute. Schiller turned him around, made him face himself, continued to hold his armpits, looked into his eyes, and said to him, "If you're full, can you stop ruining my cakes, soda crackers, and coffee powder? You eat over ten pounds of cake a week. Is this reasonable?"

Pikachu waved his hand and said, "It's not just me; Peter also ate quite a bit..."

"Fine, I can indeed absorb external energy to convert into my own, and then use it to release skills. But I've never seen this thing that looks like a fire hydrant or the bottom half of a toilet. I'm not sure what I'll become after I absorb the energy inside it..."

"It doesn't matter. Don't you know me yet? I don't steal electricity for my own use, but to make others have no electricity to use..."

"Oh, you should have said so earlier. I'm familiar with this. Come on, throw me in."

Schiller did as he said and threw Pikachu into the entrance on top of the Power Battery. Perhaps due to Sinestro's modification, this Power Battery floating in the universe was larger than the one depicted in the comics in Schiller's memory, about half a person tall, and the opening on top was just enough for Pikachu to crawl in.

After Pikachu went in, like a tropical fish thrown into a fish tank, these two yellows almost merged into one. Before long, the light around the Power Battery began to slowly condense inward, then gathered more and more densely, until it completely contracted into the inner wall of the Power Battery. At the very center of the Power Battery, there was a dense little yellow dot like a sun, absorbing all the energy around it.

Then, the energy attached to the outer wall of the Power Battery also began to gradually disappear. The entire Power Battery began to slowly fade, and the highly concentrated yellow light energy gathered into a small cluster, becoming more and more dense in the central part, until it was completely absorbed by the figure with a tail and long ears in the middle of the Power Battery.

Suddenly, Pikachu's figure flickered and appeared directly outside the Power Battery. Schiller looked at his current state, narrowed his eyes, and said, "There seems to be some change..."

Pikachu looked at his own body. Now, his body had become translucent, and there were some starry lights connected together in the middle, as if he had become a type of star spirit.

Then, under Schiller's gaze, Pikachu began to grow larger and larger, until he expanded into a giant Pokémon dozens of meters tall, and his whole body began to emit dense yellow energy.

A thin line of energy connected him to the Power Battery, just like when Parallax became the entity of the Sinestro Corps back then. Pikachu produced a special link with the Power Battery and the power ring.

After Parallax went public through a shell company and reincarnated as an orderly creature, because Pikachu absorbed almost all the energy of the yellow Power Battery, he filled the vacancy of the yellow light entity and became the new entity of the Sinestro Corps.

The Source of Universal Fear, the Huang Guang Entity, the Gigantamax Pikachu, was born!

Soon, Pikachu's figure began to shrink again, and then gradually transformed into a solid entity, except that some yellow energy still faintly emerged around his fur. He began to be able to fly freely between the universe. He flew in front of Schiller and said to him, "This energy is quite powerful, but when I compressed them all into my body, I felt some inexplicable connections being built. What is that?"

Schiller, who watched the whole process, also understood that Pikachu seemed to have become the new entity of the Sinestro Corps. He briefly introduced the concepts related to power rings and light corps in the DC world to Pikachu. Pikachu rubbed his cheeks with his short hands and said, "Those people holding yellow power rings won't come to find me and ask me to go back with them to be a mascot, will they?"

"What are you afraid of? If they come, I'll take you to the other side." Schiller picked up Pikachu, sized him up, and said, "Compared to finding you to go back, I think they might... not really want you to appear in the Sinestro Corps."

"Why?"

Schiller recalled the style of Parallax in his mind, thought about the styles of other entities depicted in the comics, and then looked at Pikachu, who was almost fat into a ball because he ate too many cakes, and said, "Because, the styles are different, and they can't be forcibly merged."

Schiller held Pikachu and intended to return to Earth. Before leaving, he also took a look at the yellow Power Battery that had been sucked dry. That dense yellow color had completely dissipated, and the entire Power Battery appeared dim and old. It looked like it wouldn't recover for a long time.

At the same time, in Wei En Manor, looking at Batman who suddenly appeared behind Aisha, Sinestro didn't even think and fired a yellow ray of light.

Batman originally wanted to dodge directly, but Aisha was still by his side, so before dodging, he picked up Aisha and threw her to Dick. Just like that, his movements were a bit slower, and that yellow light hit his arm.

Then... nothing happened.

Batman turned his head and looked at his arm, then looked at Sinestro. Sinestro looked at Batman's arm, then looked at the ring on his hand. Both were stunned at the same time.

Sinestro didn't believe in evil and fired another yellow light at Batman. Batman still had no reaction. Sinestro continued to stubbornly urge the yellow light power, forming a huge ball of light, and smashed it toward Batman.

The naturally suspicious Batman didn't relax his vigilance because of Sinestro's previous ineffective attacks. He still rolled to dodge, only being grazed by the edge of that ball of light. But before that ball of light landed, it suddenly stopped, and then flew toward Batman.

Sinestro reached out and said, "... Wait!! Come back!!"

The speed of light was extremely fast. In an instant, the yellow ball of light merged into Batman's body. Then, one of his arms lit up with yellow light. And at this time, Sinestro, who was chasing the ball of light, happened to arrive. Batman didn't even think and threw a punch, and then...

Sinestro flew at least ten meters away.

Batman looked down at his fist glowing with yellow light, then looked at Sinestro, who was lying on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time. He suddenly understood something.

How could Sinestro, who climbed up from the ground, endure such an insult? After he climbed up, he looked down at the ring on his hand and found that the light was a bit dim. That was because the previous fight with Hal had almost exhausted the energy of the yellow power ring on his hand.

However, Sinestro wasn't panicked at all, because he had the foresight to bring the Power Battery to Earth. At this time, the yellow Power Battery should be floating above the Earth.

Sinestro reached out toward the sky, and then shouted sonorously, "Fear as the Source, Sinestro's Authority!"

"... Fear as the Source, Sinestro's Authority!"

"... Sinestro's Authority!"

"Authority! Authority!... Authority???"

Opposite, Batman, Dick, and Aisha stood in a row from tall to short, looking at the middle-aged man in a yellow tight-fitting suit opposite them, who was striking a strange pose with one hand on his hip and one hand pointing to the sky, repeating one sentence over and over.

Batman opened his mouth. Before he could shout Alfred's name, the old butler had already appeared behind Batman. Batman hesitated a bit and said to him, "Otherwise... call Arkham Asylum. I think he seems... no, it's not 'seems,' he should be a mental patient..."

Sinestro, who couldn't call the yellow light energy for a long time, was also confused. He took his hand back and looked at the ring on his hand. The Sinestro Corps logo on it kept flashing, but it just couldn't connect to the Power Battery.

Although Sinestro was an alien, not every alien was a Kryptonian who could take off on the spot. All of Sinestro's superpowers came from the yellow power ring. Without yellow light energy, he had no way to escape Earth's gravitational circle.

Just then, Aisha swung her short legs and ran between Sinestro and Batman, who were confronting each other, then pointed a finger at Sinestro, turned her head to look at Batman, and shouted, "DADDY!! Wawa! Wa!!"

Batman moved his wrist. Sinestro took a step back and said, "Wait! You can't... I am..."

Before his words fell, accompanied by Aisha's excited clapping and screaming, a fist the size of a sandbag, flashing with yellow light, appeared in his field of vision.

Ten minutes later, Schiller landed on the lawn of Wei En Manor with a yellow-haired rat. He looked at Sinestro, who was lying on the lawn of Wei En Manor like a puddle of mud, bruised and swollen, and said to him, "Sinestro, right? Long time no see. Now, we can talk..."

A few more minutes later, in the basement of Wei En Manor, Batman was tying Sinestro to a chair. Schiller plucked Pikachu's tail out of Aisha's mouth. While letting Aisha spit out the mouse fur in her mouth, he said, "When I was in the dream before, the reason I let Parallax, who was hiding in the eggshell of the Laughing Egg, come in was because I wanted to use it to fish."

Batman heard this and sized up Sinestro, saying, "You did this just to trick him over?"

"That's right. Parallax is the entity of the Sinestro Corps. If he disappears, this Corps Commander will definitely come to find him himself."

After finally separating Aisha and Pikachu, Schiller walked over and sat opposite Sinestro. He said to Batman, "Aren't you curious about these so-called Lanterns and Light Corps?"

Batman didn't speak, but his attitude was tacit. And what Schiller didn't tell him was that he tricked Sinestro over for another reason.

Previously, Schiller miscalculated on the matter of the Laughing Egg because he didn't expect the Sinestro Corps to appear so early. And the reason he thought the Sinestro Corps hadn't appeared had to start with the origin story of the Sinestro Corps Commander, Sinestro.

In the comics, Sinestro was originally the most powerful Green Lantern in the Green Lantern Corps. He was hailed as the greatest Lantern ever. However, later, because he used the power of the green light to control his hometown without authorization, he was discovered by Hal. Eventually, the two broke up, and Sinestro defected from the Green Lantern Corps, letting the Weapon Master build him a yellow Power Battery and a yellow power ring, from then on becoming the Sinestro Corps Commander.

There is an important node in this story, which is the breakup between Sinestro and Hal. Only after the breakup did Sinestro go out to work alone.

But now Hal has only been a Green Lantern for a short time, just a fledgling newcomer, with no reputation in the Green Lantern Corps, and he doesn't know Sinestro at all, with no intersection. But the Sinestro Corps appeared ahead of schedule.

After such a miscalculation occurred, Schiller had been thinking about why this was.

If it's the butterfly effect, it doesn't make sense. Currently, the impact of Schiller's crossing is limited to Cat Getan. Even if it's big, it only affected the East Coast. Even if it's exaggerated, it only affected the Earth, and had no intersection with outer space, the universe, or the Green Lantern Corps.

Even if Schiller, this butterfly, flapped his wings, the storm couldn't have reached the Green Lantern Corps so quickly. That is to say, Sinestro's early defection had other hidden reasons.

Facing this uncertainty, Schiller's first reaction was naturally to nip it in the bud. But before that, he had to figure out why Sinestro became the Sinestro Corps Commander ahead of schedule.

Thus, when he saw Parallax wandering at the door of his Tower of Thought, he had an idea—as long as he could hold Parallax, he wouldn't be afraid that Sinestro wouldn't come. And it just so happened that Parallax was thinking about dumping the poor and stingy Sinestro and hugging Batman's thigh.

One person and one monster hit it off. Just like that, Parallax found himself a new daddy, Schiller fished the fish he wanted to fish, and Batman got an extra daughter. This wave was a triple win.

And the only loser, Sinestro, who was struggling in the chair, when he shifted his gaze from Batman to the front, he saw Schiller sitting behind the table and Aisha standing on the table, both revealing a smile that made his back feel cold. ===== CHAPTER 294 =====