Somewhere in the desolate outback of Australia.
The deep blue sky was completely cloudless. The blazing sun poured down its rays, scorching the earth.
A sturdy, middle-aged Asian man wearing pink clothes and an apron carried an unconscious woman in white with blond hair, striding toward a thatched hut in the distance.
Just then, a dark shadow dropped from the sky, and Hao Shuai appeared behind the middle-aged Asian man.
Hearing the noise, the middle-aged man stopped and turned to look at Hao Shuai.
"You—"
The middle-aged Asian man had only just begun to speak when Hao Shuai loudly cut him off. "You sneaky-looking brute! You dare abduct a woman in broad daylight? This is outrageous!"
"Wait—sir, you've got it wrong."
"She's my wife. She's sick—"
The middle-aged Asian man—Gilgamesh of the Eternals—hurriedly tried to explain.
"An explanation is just a cover-up. On behalf of Fubao Le, I hereby announce that you, Gilgamesh, are under arrest!" Hao Shuai said with a stern face, spouting nonsense with a straight face.
Of course, he knew what the relationship between the two of them was.
The blond woman in white was probably Thena, the Valkyrie of the Eternals, and she really was Gilgamesh's wife.
The Eternals were a race created by the Celestials, and they had lived for millions of years.
Over that time, they had helped the Celestials bring about many Emergence events, destroying numerous living planets in the process.
Afterward, though, the Celestials always wiped the Eternals' memories, restoring them to factory settings.
Thena was something of an exception. Thousands of years ago, she suddenly recovered her old memories, developing what was known as "Mahd Wy'ry"—in layman's terms, a split personality!
Her muddled memories made it impossible for Thena to tell friend from foe, so she attacked anyone nearby.
Thena had