In that case, either he already better be working on it, or it's in Faite's hands. The only problem is, she wouldn't really be inclined to interfere (a few million deaths doesn't mean much in the course of millions of years of history) unless someone makes an effort to get her emotionally involved. Usually she keeps her distance.

...unless the Hooded Hood is active again. This does seem a bit like one of his plots, how the timing seems too convenient. Including the timing of Liu Xi Xian having fled the mansion earlier to visit Chiaki's home, which is just barely uptown enough to be outside the destruction zone, Hatman being elsewhere, CSFB! being near indestructible because of something set up much earlier, Lara annoying the Chronicler with the Manga Shoggoth, and most likely Anna being flame resistant and radiation proof. All that stuff happening at once, it might just be a Hooded Hood plot.



Nothing annoys Lara more than being treated like an idiot when she has valid questions. She expects that kind of behavior from a non-intelligent super-villain, who believes everyone is beneath him. And she had in mind to treat him accordingly, and stop him before he does any more damage. Nothing worse than a super-villain in a position of extreme power.

But the worse part is...(below)



...that he didn't do anything to improve that impression. That means Lara still believes an insane man runs things in the Parodyverse and will probably file away removing him from power on her to-do list. Fortunately right now she has more important and immediate tasks to attend to (unless the two goals manage to merge, then she'd be happy for that). She might even recruit the Shoggoth to help.

That is, unless the Chronicler finally does something to convince her that he's not really so dangerous and insane, or Lisa does.



Lara is more patient than most people the Shoggoth might encounter. She likes helping people learn, so she actually would try to explain it carefully (and without Liu Xi's "What the hell are you talking about? That's stupid."). The part that might cause problems is if the Shoggoth understands, and begins to think that means it must be female too (see below as to why that's funny).



In that case Lara might convince the Shoggoth to insist it's female next time it visits the Chronicler. It's even funnier with the note above.