Chapter 112: Salute, It's All Tribute!

Gan!

At the moment when he saw the old enemy transform into a Dark Decade armor with the phantom of eighteen knights, this was the first word that popped up in Kewen's mind, and it was very good! Although it is said that as the spokesperson selected by the will of the DC multiverse, the proper son of the plane, but this is a bit too much, and the knight series on my side is still thinking about how to combine the local forces of the DC universe to develop one by one, this side is good, directly brush you to the full level once, or a god costume!

"He, he's also Kamen Rider?" Li Jie, who was next to Ke Wen, that is, Laqi, after seeing the dark Decade armor transformed by his old enemy, also turned his head to look at Ke Wen, who was wearing magenta armor, and did not react for a while.

"If you want to say that, it's okay, after all, people have also transformed, and in terms of strength, they are about the same as us. Don't ask me why he's different from me, I really can't answer this question, damn the will of the universe, you don't do anything with people. ”

There are not many explanations that Ke Wen can give for the transformation operation of the old enemy, don't ask, ask is the will of the universe behind the back. As he spoke, he also rushed forward with an arrow step, and the knight card box on his belt also switched to sword blade mode in an instant, with a magenta sword light directly shining through the blade of the sword, slashing towards the old enemy.

Ke Wen's sudden outburst did not catch his old enemy by surprise, his figure was like a phantom, and he disappeared directly under the slash of Ke Wen's sword blade, and when he reappeared, he was already in another place. At the same time, a card also popped out of the drive around the waist of the old enemy, and was caught in his hand.

"Attack ride invisible, interesting skill, but what about this one?" As he spoke, the card in his hand disappeared, and at the same time, the knight's card box like Ke Wen opened, and a card flew out, inserted at the speed of light.

【Attack Ride Illusion! 】

As the sound effect sounded, the old enemies who distanced themselves from Ke Wen also turned into three at once, one switched the knight card box to sword mode, one switched it to shooting mode, and the last one was barehanded, the three were exactly the same, and the old enemies dressed in dark Decade armor walked towards Ke Wen and Li Jie.

"Senior, he seems to know all your skills, what do you say, you are carrying it here alone, and I will help Batman inside?" Glancing at the old enemy who used the doppelganger skill, and then looking back at the factory behind him where the battle had taken place, Li Jie couldn't tell if the guy in front of him wearing dark Decade armor could overturn his seniors.

"I don't think Batman needs our help over there, I just saw him on the armor, so, do me a favor, don't watch from the sidelines, come over and do justice two to one."

"Are you sure you want to fight here?"

Pointing to the factory behind him and the nearby buildings, Li Jie, who was ready for battle, said. For them, distance is not a problem, they can punch and kick them anywhere, they can fight from this so-called industrial area to the residential area in the city center, and then the trouble is big.

"Okay, I know what you're trying to say, aren't you quite relaxed if you don't see people, he's waiting for me to draw cards, but after so many rounds of performances, it's time for me to take my turn. In that case, let's try this combo. ”

After watching the rival who was divided into three without any movement, just walking in front of him casually, Ke Wen knew that people were waiting for him to make a move. Without further words, a skill card appeared in his hand, dialed, inserted, merged, and the sound effect sounded.

【Attack Ride The Game Area—Earth! 】

With the sound effects of different from the past, with Ke Wen, Li Jie and the old enemy as the boundary, the gray dimensional wall in the shape of a ring surrounded them, and the electronic special effects in the similar game field also used the enclosed gray dimensional wall as the material, with the contraction of the encirclement, Ke Wen and the others were completely surrounded, and the gray dimensional wall occupied their field of vision for a moment and then disappeared, and Li Jie and the old enemy also noticed that they were still facing each other in the Gotham Industrial Zone in the middle of the night just now, and their current location has nothing to do with Gotham.

The sky is shining, and the ground under your feet is real, but the surrounding scenery has been replaced by a steel city that no one is familiar with.

"This feeling, it's really fake!" Feeling the temperature of the sun, Li Jie next to Ke Wen shouted there with a somewhat surprised tone, and similarly, the old enemy who was taken by Ke Wen to switch venues without moving was not surprised by Ke Wen's hand, on the contrary, he also enjoyed leaning against the wall on the side, soaking up the sun, "Ah, I didn't expect this trick." ”

Of course you can't think of it! For the admiration of the old enemy, Ke Wen also replied in his heart, if this combination of skills can also be used by the old enemy, then he will not struggle, just lie down and let the old enemy knead it round and flatten. As the spokesman of the will of the great universe, it is understandable to have the same knightly strength, armor as himself. After all, for the will of the DC multiverse, a knight's armor like this, with idealism as the main body and armor as the auxiliary, wants as much as he wants.

After all, there is a green lantern army in front of him that plays with technological weapons as idealism and no limits, and Kewen is not surprised, even if this old enemy can perfectly replicate his own exclusive final that has been born by combining with DC's native forces. Dark Decade, unexpectedly, and reasonably, the gift that you can get from Kamen Yashi can connect to the gray dimensional wall that is related to Kamen Rider and can travel freely.

If the old enemy can also perfectly replicate the gray dimensional wall, that is the unreasonable place, in every universe, there are always some things that cannot be reproduced, and the gray dimensional wall of the knight universe is like this. And this skill is also a trick that he uses to combine the game field and the dimensional wall in Ex-Aid. The game realm is Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, a skill that the knight opens when fighting a monster called a buggy.

Covering a wide area, in this realm of reality, you can fight as you like, and through some props placed in the game field, you can complete the cross-level confrontation of the enemy, of course, this game prop is to some extent something that can be used by both friends and foes. It's just that the game field is relatively brittle, it's okay in the Knight Universe, and there are only a few ceiling combat power, but in the DC Universe, there are too many ceiling combat power comparable to the original Kamen Rider Universe, and the significance of the game field in the DC Universe is not too big.

If people make a little more effort, the game field will have to be broken, and those game items that are used to strengthen themselves and cut off opponents will naturally be useless. So in the future, Ke Wen rarely uses the chicken rib skill in the game field, and at the same time, the gray dimensional wall he obtained from the door Yashi is the same.

The door Yashi uses this gray dimensional wall, the knight universe to string a string, not the knight universe, he can forcibly contact to string a string, and then prostitute in vain. His words, with the familiarity of the later abilities, are now barely able to walk the streets in the bright multiverse, so he thought, since the game field is too brittle, it can't withstand the battle between these heroes and criminals in the DC universe, and the dimensional wall can take himself through the bright multiverse.

Then why don't you combine them, although in the bright multiverse, including the main universe where you are now, there are only 52 that exist in the wisdom of life, but there are more deserted and inanimate universes, and you will turn one of them into a battle arena, and then erode and combine them by the game field. In that case, even if the avenue is worn out, the item buff bonus that should be given in the game field will not disappear.

Based on this idea, Kewen combined the game field with the gray dimensional wall to create a skill card that belongs to his own Decade armor. He called it a trap card!

"So, is your turn over, because next, it's time for us to compete with our hands." Just when Ke Wen recalled the ten years he spent on -10 Earth, he had been studying his armor and abilities, and his old enemies had enough of the sun, and the three doppelgangers, including the main body, spread their hands together, and countless cards lit up behind him, which all represented all the knight cards that the DC Multiverse Will had prostituted from Ke Wen in vain.

"Oh, hand speed is, don't worry, how to say it's almost forty years of craftsmanship, hand speed I think I'm still a little confident," said a stalk that only craftsmen understand, Ke Wen, who pulled out the clone card, also whispered to Li Jie on the side: "I'll hand it over to you with my bare hands, I'll deal with the remaining two, you remember, this territory is mine, and then there are a lot of props in it that I don't know where they are, and you can switch venues at will, change to places you think have an advantage, as for those props, you just need to get close, They will glow, he can't see it, you can see it, this is my hanging for you, and it is also a trap for him, there is only one chance to use it, you can take advantage of it. ”

"Ahhh This,Senior, where did you learn the Yu-Gi-Oh skills.,Print cards on the spot? ”

"Don't tell me anything at this time, okay, if you have this idea, why don't you want to think about why Batman can fight Superman, you have been strengthened by me, so hurry up!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Li Jie's shoulder, and threw Li Jie towards the bare-handed Dark Decade like throwing a stone, and he also inserted the clone card, splitting it into two, and at the same time inserting the two skill cards into the drive as fast as possible.

At the same time that Ke Wen rushed towards his old enemy, the old enemy who was still in a lazy state just now also burst out, and like Ke Wen, he inserted two skill cards into the driver at the same time, and almost at the same moment, the sound effect sounded.

【Attack Ride Slash! 】

【Attack Ride Blast! 】

The sound effect was accompanied by two blades as tall as a skyscraper colliding in the air, and as the blades collided, the clouds were torn apart, and in the torn clouds, bits of light flickered. It was a series of meteors, meteors flying from both sides of the sky collided together, accompanied by the huge blades of the clash, making the sunny weather that was not bad just now instantly turned into an apocalyptic scene.

"Wow, senior, you're a little too big," the instantaneous change in the weather made Li Jie, who was fighting with his old enemy bare-handed at this time, couldn't help but spit out. Spit and complain, and the things that should be done did not stop, and he was thrown over by Ke Wendang as a throwing weapon, and he gave his old enemy a kick, and after pulling away the distance, he pressed the icon on his classified drive, representing hazardous garbage.

He also switched to the red hazardous garbage form with the dry garbage form as the basic form, and the huge arm guard on his right arm also indicated that he was in this form, and his contribution should not be underestimated.

"Kamen Rider Ride, hazardous garbage form, you're also on my record, let me see where your level is."

For the second Kamen Rider that appeared after Kewen, and the first Kamen Rider naturally bred by the DC universe, the old enemy also rushed forward with a little interest, and rushed up with his bare hands, as the two fought, the buff of the field switch was also launched at this moment, and the two warring people also disappeared into this steel city, leaving only the other two clones of the old enemy and the split Ke Wen to fight here.

The same thing happened in Gotham, when Cowen and Li Jie arrived to stop the old enemy, and Batman, who had been ready for a long time, was also fighting the twin undead in the warehouse. The Bat-enhanced armor makes up for Batman's lack of combat power, and with the defense brought by the armor and the function carried on the armor, the twin undead, who have become double weirdos, do not have an advantage in battle.

However, Batman and the twin undead also seemed to be restrained, and there were not too many high-intensity battles, and the battlefield was controlled by the two of them in the factory. After a fist and kick exchange, the whole factory felt like it had gone through a storm, with deformed steel, potholes everywhere, continuous flow from containers, wastewater mixed with chemical waste, or gases with a pungent smell in the factory.

The poor man who attracted Batman, the twin undead, the old enemy, Curvin, and Li Jie was lying on the ground. The force that Batman exerted on the darts, combined with his throwing skills, was enough to keep the poor man unconscious for hours, and these hours would probably be the last hours for him to sleep peacefully, and what his fate would depend on the outcome of the next battle in the two places.

Hidden in the darkness, the twin undead looked at the poor man who had gone through a bad day, Batman, who was lying on the ground at this time, and so did he. Three people born from the darkness return to the darkness and fight with the help of the darkness.

"Honestly, how did you find here, I'm confident in the setup during this time, you shouldn't know what I've done."

"Yes, I shouldn't have known, but we were all born out of darkness, and I'm Batman, and I know all too well how terrible a bad day can be for a person. Ever since we met, you've been telling me that as long as Batman exists, madmen like this will keep being born. But you seem to be getting one thing wrong. Batman's voice wafts through the dark factory, and as a fusion of two extremes that were also born of darkness, the twin undead did not discover where Batman really was.

"Oh, what did I get wrong?" The twin undead speak on behalf of the Joker's head.

While talking, he also released his own bat, looking for traces of Batman in the factory. Just as the twin undead try to stall for time and find out where Batman is through dialogue, above him, Batman, hidden in the dark, has already locked on to his prey. At the same time that the twin undead probes were looking for themselves, Batman's body also descended from the sky, and at the same time gave the answer to the question.

"I'm Batman, you're not!"

With a roar and bat-enhanced armor, Batman is charging up his arms and wants to destroy the twin undead with a single blow. With the blessing of the bat's enhanced armor, this punch is going to be solidified, and Wonder Woman will be dizzy for a while. And at this distance, the sudden burst of attacks, even the twin undead can't dodge, but he doesn't need to dodge.

Just when Batman thought that his blow would have the effect he wanted, in fact, he did. The charged blow smashed into the Heavenly Spirit Cover of the two heads of the twin undead, which was fast and accurate, but the data fed back by the enhanced armor made Batman's charged blow deformed. Batman could feel that his punch did not seem to have smashed into the entity, but a ball of cotton, and the moment his fist touched the twin undead, the twin undead were like a piece of paper, which was easily broken by him.

How is this possible?! At the moment when he felt that his shot was missing, Batman only had this idea in his mind, from beginning to end, he had been watching the twin undead in the dark, if the twin undead really made any small moves, the detector on his bat reinforced armor could be detected.

After realizing that he was being put on a table, Batman did not panic, and with the help of deformed movements, he tried to use inertia to hide himself into the darkness again, but he was still one step too late. At the moment when his attack missed, a puff of smoke rose from the twin undead who were easily dispersed by him, and three boxes that he had not been able to detect before jumped out of the void in a triangular shape, just enveloping Batman.

In the box, a doll representing the Joker's smiling face pops out and spits out a puff of green smoke directly at Batman's location that does not cover his mouth and nose. Batman, who was hit in an instant, couldn't resist at all, and the actions that should have been completed completely lost coordination, and the whole person fell directly from mid-air and smashed to the ground. Fortunately, with the protection of the bat's reinforced armor, this fall that was enough to kill ordinary people did not damage Batman.

But for him, the gas that he inhaled into his mouth and nose was even more deadly, it was fear gas, a variant of fear gas that he had never been exposed to. He was supposed to be resistant to the scarecrow's fear gas, he only felt that he was back to the feeling he had when he was inhaled the fear gas for the first time, no, it was more serious than that, his consciousness and will knew very well that everything he saw now was an illusion, but his movements, his heart succumbed to this fear, and he couldn't even stand up with himself, he could only keep waving in front of the air on the ground, and then retreat.

At this time, Batman, everything he sees in his eyes is not real, because in Batman's vision at this time, he is not in the factory, nor is he Batman. He became his former self, the eleven-year-old boy who watched his parents get shot and killed in Crime Alley, and the scene was reincarnating in him again and again, immersing him in fear.

And the twin undead who disappeared in front of Batman just now also gathered together through the scattered bats and stood in front of Batman. Looking at Batman who was immersed in fear because of inhaling a large number of mutant fear gases at this time, the already terrifying appearance of the twin undead, the voice and appearance made Batman even more unable to believe what he saw now through the fear of poison gas.

"Oh, you're Batman, as if you're not, but in the deepest part of your heart, aren't you afraid of your own appearance, look at your current appearance, is it really Batman?"

The retreating Batman, his dilated pupils didn't notice the twin undead standing in front of him, and the fear coupled with the illusion in his heart made Batman fall into a bottomless abyss at this time. The words of the twin undead echoed in the Crime Alley constructed in his brain, and Batman himself was constantly living through what was called the worst day. His age is also changing.

There is the helplessness of watching my parents get shot in front of me as an eleven year old.

also has the first time to line up with the clown.,Because of the choice.,And watching his childhood sweetheart being blown up by the clown has no bones.,I can only stand in the ruins of the decline.。

And the corpse of Jason Todd who didn't arrive in time and could only hold his second adopted son wept in front of the old butler, crying about the despair of the clown taking another important person from his side.

"No, it's not true, Jason is alive!" I kept hypnotizing myself with words, trying to wake myself up from this boundless vision, but it was useless.

"Yes, Jason Todd is alive, but deep down in you, you know very well that as long as you are Batman, this will not stop, this time it is Jason Todd, and who will it be next, Tim Drake?"

The sound of the two heads of the twin undead mixing together sounded in Batman's ears, and with the sound of the twin undead, Batman, who was deeply mired, realized that he had come to another scene. In the dilapidated Titan Mansion, the third-generation Robin Tim, who was trained as his future successor, happened to be decapitated by an invisible black shadow, and his head rolled on the ground and stopped in front of Batman.

"No!"

"Or is it your eldest son, Dick Grayson?"

The scene changes again, it is still the dilapidated Titan Mansion, Dick in the Nightwing suit is grabbed by a tall black shadow, and the sharp bone piercing through the chest, killing him on the spot!

"No, don't!"

"Or is it Damian Wayne, Helena Wayne, who is really connected to you by blood?"

The picture changed again, and his children stood in front of them, and two red beams of light hit them, burning them to ashes.

"Alfred, who raised you?"

In Gotham on a rainy night, next to the Batmobile, criminals who had been subdued by Batman beat up the old butler Alfred, punching and kicking the old butler to death after being tortured.

"The one you love the most?"

In the war-torn alien battlefield, his three confidantes were in different places, and at the moment of death, their eyes were still looking at themselves.

"Who do you care about the most?"

The tattered Metropolis, where the body of steel fell, became a corpse that had lost its temperature.

"No !!"

Desperate voices came out of Batman's mouth, and one real and unmistakable illusion after another made him sink into it, going on the endless hell cycle over and over again. And the voices of the twin undead still rang in his ears.

"You know it's an illusion, but at the same time you know it's a reality that will happen in the future, it's all because of you, as long as you're still Batman, the curse that comes with this identity will be fulfilled, and you have to endure all this, you know how to get out, as long as you're not Batman, they can't live or die with you, don't you?"

Squatting next to Batman, on the twin undead, the ugly images of the bat head and the clown head fade away, revealing their original appearance, Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne of the flashpoint timeline. Batman's parents, they look at their son, who is sinking in illusions and tormented at this time, and use their own words to seduce him. The two of them became the Fallen Dark Knights for only one reason at the request of the Laughing Bat, and that was to get the son of the orthodox timeline to give up his identity as Batman.

As long as they can give up this identity, they can do any ruthless thing, and as for what the Laughing Bat will do to the main universe in the future, they don't care. As long as Batman is willing to give up his identity, then they have a way to send their son and their son's family out of the main universe, and have a normal life in other universes and live this life peacefully. At this time, they did not distort the thoughts in their hearts by the desire coin, but it was only temporary.

The premise is that Batman, who is tormented by fear gas at this time and whose subconscious is gradually collapsing, can respond to them and say the words of giving up on Batman himself. The fear gas inhaled by Batman, but the mutant poison gas carefully studied by the twin undead, can be aimed at the opponent's things physically and psychologically, and can modify the cognition of certain things from the opponent's subconscious, and now, as long as Batman in the illusion understands that he gives up Batman, he can get out of the illusion.

The moment his consciousness returns to reality, rooted in the depths of Batman's heart, that paranoia will be modified, and Batman will subconsciously do a series of things that are contrary to his identity. At this time, in fact, the twin undead were more nervous than Batman, and they were expecting Batman to say the sentence I give up, and they were looking forward to it for a full thirty years.

At this time, Batman, who is reincarnated in the illusion, is also experiencing over and over again what he is afraid of, everything that will become real, and his swinging movements have slowed down. And when the twin undead saw Batman's action, they understood that this was a precursor to the imminent collapse of Batman's subconscious.

"See, that's your life as a normal person, deep down in your heart, haven't you been longing for this kind of life, in a new environment, to meet better people, to play a better role, as a friend, as a father, as a husband, look at you now, you have lived up to your parents' expectations of you. Let's go over, no one will blame you for anything, you just need a better life, you deserve it~"

"You're saying I deserve it all, and that I can have it all after I've hurt so many people around me?" Batman, who was immersed in the illusion of Infernal Hell, also spoke up, asking tentatively.

"Of course you deserve it, and if you hurt them, you should compensate them even more, double the compensation. Forget Batman, you're Bruce Wayne, not Batman, it's time to take off this mask. ”

"Yes, I'm Bruce Wayne, not Batman, Batman is my mask, Bruce Wayne isn't, I deserve a better life, neither the city, nor anyone else, can blame me."

"Yes, that's it, you're Bruce Wayne!"

Batman's muttering excites the Twins that they succeed and their son can start over. It's just that the excitement of the twin undead has not yet reached his mind, but Batman, who was originally immersed in the Infernal Hell, turned his head sharply and looked at himself, and a deep voice also came out of his mouth, like an unwilling cry.

"But, I refuse!"

?!

The sudden turn of the gods did not slow down the twin undead, followed by a popping elbow blow, and the sound of broken eggs could be clearly heard in the factory, and the twin undead also let out a miserable howl and retreated directly from Batman's side. Batman, who succeeded in the sneak attack, also staggered to his feet, still unable to see what was in front of him, and his five senses were basically confused, and he didn't know whether he was standing at this time, but he was able to clearly capture the direction of the twin undead.

"Oh, it looks like you're still dominated by the male side even if you're a combination of the two. I'm glad you still have that thing and can feel this pain. ”

"Hah, you can... Hey, you're naughty. On the twin undead, the head representing the clown spoke, and he also gasped before he spoke, "How could you possibly get rid of it." ”

"I didn't get rid of it, and now I'm still going back and forth in the Infernal Hell you've built for me. Giving up the identity of Batman, yes, deep down in my heart I have indeed been longing for this day to come, maybe never to come, but how I get out, I have the final say, not this way, and it shouldn't be this way, I have been a coward who escaped once, and I will not be a second time, and one of the mistakes you made was to talk too much nonsense with me, and you haven't disarmed me yet.

Now, I still don't know where you are, but my armor has already locked on you, and besides, there is no Batman in this earth, and when are you going to see it there! ”

"Huh?!"

The twin undead who recovered from the pain couldn't help but be stunned, and then, he heard the sound of the car engine starting in the factory, not only one, he also saw the owner of the engine sound, a mechanical car carrying a red belt in the air, the runway was generated in the air, and after several hits on the twin undead, knocking him out of a safe distance, it returned to Batman and buckled around his waist.

"I'm sorry, it takes some time to come from another space, it's not good enough to have the back door you opened, I have a general understanding of what's going on on your side, and then, let me drive."

The voice of AI Batman was also heard from the mechanical belt around Batman's waist, and by the way, the projection of AI Batman was also projected in front of Batman.

"Ah, you, why didn't I feel the slightest surprise?"

"Huh?!"

When the twin undead said this, AI Batman frowned, and he also sensed that things were not simple, but before he could think deeply, Batman's words interrupted him.

"Then, I'll leave it to you next, you're also Batman, my body, you can use it as you like!"

"Well, I've analyzed all the battle between you and him just now, and I have a general understanding, so let's get started."

"Hmm."

As Batman's spirit relaxed, Batman's head hung down as he stood there, concentrating on the Infernal Hell that the gas of fear had created in his brain. And the body controlled by the AI Batman also began to move. Twist the engine button of the Drive drive and the standby sound will sound.

"How could it possibly make you successful!"

The twin undead watched all of this and raised their hands, and silver desire cell coins flew out, trying to interrupt the transformation. However, this was useless, the effect of transforming into invincibility was activated, and countless runways appeared, blocking the attacks of the twin undead.

【Start Our Engine! 】

As AI Batman's self-dubbed sound effect sounds, the Bat-enhanced armor originally worn on Batman is also controlled by AI Batman and integrated with the Drive armor. A new, heavily metal-inspired Kamen Rider Drive speed model appears in front of the twin undead. After the metal pipes distributed around the armor turned black, it perfectly matched Batman's dark temperament, and the flames that came out from time to time made Batman look like a knight returning from hell at this time.

The drooping head slowly lifted, the headlight mask turned into white light, and the signal axe burst out of the void and held it in his hand, 'Beep~Tut!' Beep~Beep! The whistle made a dangerous noise, and he held the signal axe, looking at the twin undead.

"I'm feeling good now~"

In the game field, Earth, Kewen, who was fighting a fierce battle with his old enemy, stood there looking at the Kamen Rider Drive that flew away from the game field, and was silent for a while before sighing. Although the old enemy on the side didn't understand what was going on on Kewen's side, it was a good thing for him that Kewen didn't have a knight's belt.

"It seems that what you did couldn't even stand your belt, and you flew away, how can you say that, the belt of my belt, not my belt?"

Wiping the blade in his hand, Ke Wen was noncommittal to the sarcasm of his old enemy, and looked at the old enemy who was amused by what he said, and Ke Wen did not show any anger. I just silently took out the K-Touch and inserted the final form card.

"Ah, your boring jokes should have almost stopped, or do you think you're humorous? Joker, I mean, the third clown, right. ”

The old enemy, who was laughing at the belly, suddenly stopped moving, was silent for a while, and the head armor was removed, revealing the head hidden by the black robe, and then applauded.

"Oops, you found out."

As he spoke, he took off the black robe on his head, his pale face, blood-like red lips, and mixed hair colors all illustrated the true face of the so-called old enemy who was born by the will of the DC universe who fought with Kewen, and the third and the last clown in the DC universe at present!