Henry took the coin and examined it closely. Of course, he had not directly revealed what the coin truly was, but Scarlet Witch recognized it at a glance. "This is a human soul?"
"Yes. I've been looking for a way to free her, but my abilities are limited, and I have no one knowledgeable about magic to ask, so I kept putting it off until now."
"Can you tell me its story? The person you want to save can't be some unrelated passerby, can she?" Wanda Maximoff asked, deftly turning the coin over in her fingers.
"If you want to know, I don't mind." Henry then told her about how he had met Skye in the past and about the New York Sewer World, including Mephisto's appearance and how he had granted the Black girl's wish.
He left out the part where he had sent that demon home with a punch. That was not the point.
As she listened to this story from the past, Wanda Maximoff looked at Skye's back ahead of them. "Does she know about this?"
"I haven't told her yet. If I still can't find a good solution, I plan to tell her when she turns eighteen. Then she can decide whether to handle it herself or let me keep looking for a way."
Wanda Maximoff handed the coin back to Henry and asked, "How far do you want to go? Do you want to resurrect her?"
"Why would I resurrect her? That'd be terrifying. I just want her freed from Mephisto, not turned into that demon's slave or plaything."
"That request is much easier. I can't free her myself, but I can tell you how."
Sure enough, the answer he had failed to find after researching for so long was just an offhand remark to