Bald Ancient One was staring with a strange expression at the two people who had emerged from the green Portal.
She naturally recognized the woman in the women's suit. Both her appearance and the fluctuations of her soul were almost identical to her own, and the unfamiliar boy had even blurted out something about "two Ancient Ones."
Was she a version of me from some Parallel World?
The Ancient One was certainly no stranger to Parallel Worlds. However, the ones she could access were all countless branches of the same river of time, and this unfamiliar boy had never appeared in any of them.
Still, visitors were guests, especially when one of them was herself from some Parallel World. Bald Ancient One waved a hand, and a tea table and three chairs appeared before her.
"Care to sit down for a cup?"
"We don't mind, but..." Hairy Ancient One pointed at the Chitauri flying all over the sky. "Isn't this a bit of a bad time?"
Despite saying that, the Ancient One with hair pulled out a chair and sat down, helping herself to a cup of tea and taking a gentle sip.
"Wow... so it's this point in time..."
Kraft sat down as well, picked up a teacup, and took a big gulp.
"Pfft! That's awful!"
Spitting out the tea, Kraft looked at Bald Ancient One with a pained expression.
"Why didn't you use those cooling tea leaves?"
"Cooling tea leaves?"
Bald Ancient One had no idea what Kraft meant and frowned in confusion.
"The kind you served me the second time."
"I'm sorry, but the me in this world doesn't know you."
Bald Ancient One glanced at her other self, roughly pieced together what had happened, and shook her head with a smile.
"...Huh?!"
Kraft froze for a