1 How to Be Even More Unlucky

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On the outskirts of Gotham City, at a train station, a rather ordinary robbery took place.

The robber seemed inexperienced. Just a few steps beyond the camera’s range, he hastily pressed a gun against the young man’s lower back ahead of him. “Drop your backpack! Don’t try anything funny!”

The unlucky victim paused, instinctively wanting to turn around. This made the robber even more nervous, and the gun barrel jabbed sharply into the young man’s back. “Don’t move, don’t move!”

The unlucky victim—named Peter Parker, also known as Spider-Man—let out a heavy sigh.

He knew Gotham wasn’t safe, but seriously, this was his first time in Gotham! Robbing a newcomer from out of town—was that really the best idea?

Peter’s arrival in Gotham was something even he hadn’t anticipated.

He had long heard of Gotham’s notorious reputation. Compared to New York, Gotham seemed to need a friendly, helpful neighborhood hero even more. But Peter had been busy dealing with multiple world-shattering crises and couldn’t just abandon everything in New York to help out in Gotham, especially since he’d heard some vigilantes there were hostile to outsiders.

Under normal circumstances, Peter would have been attending Columbia University with his good friends Ned and Michelle, maintaining his secret identity as Spider-Man while continuing to be a good neighbor in New York. But fate was unpredictable. His true identity was exposed, followed by a multiverse crisis. Peter made a fatal mistake; his last remaining relative, Aunt May, died. All of his enemies from parallel universes were pulled into his own due to a flawed magic spell, putting the entire universe at risk of being shattered.

To protect his universe, Peter chose to be forgotten by everyone, including the villains about to be drawn in.

Peter successfully averted a world-ending catastrophe, but the cost was the complete erasure of any trace of his existence in New York.

Alone in New York, wandering like a living ghost, patrolling at night and working odd jobs to pay tuition, one day he received a letter and an email.

The letter was an acceptance notice from Gotham University, offering a full scholarship covering all tuition and living expenses for the three years he would spend there—except for housing, which he’d have to arrange himself.

The email contained the address for Wayne Manor, located on the outskirts of Gotham City, along with a message from a departed old friend, Tony Stark.

“If you have no other choice, go to Gotham for college. The Wayne family will be your host, kid.”

Peter knew that physical death wasn’t the end; only when no one remembered you did you truly cease to exist. After being forgotten by the world, Peter once questioned the meaning of his own existence. Later, he realized the biggest difference between himself and the dead was that he still helped old ladies cross the street.

He never expected that this truth could also be reversed. After being forgotten by all the living, the one who ultimately remembered him was someone who had passed away.

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