Another Temporal Clue

Relying solely on nods and shakes of the head was far too inefficient, but letting Deadpool speak directly was not necessarily any more efficient.

Xiang Qian endured Deadpool's rambling, lewd, violent, crude style of speech and listened to him finish recounting the tangled grudge between himself, Death, and Thanos. Something that could have been explained in two sentences took that avocado a full quarter of an hour to get through, and he only stopped when police sirens could be heard in the distance.

If not for learning of the secret relationship between Thanos and Death from Deadpool—a crucial lead—Xiang Qian would truly have wanted to kill that avocado for good.

What did it matter how powerful his body's resurrection ability was? There was no shortage of dark magic capable of completely erasing a soul. Without a soul, what use was a pile of endlessly replicating rotten flesh? Feed?

Still, the exposed secret relationship between Thanos and Death genuinely put Xiang Qian on guard—this Thanos was naturally not Cable, whom Deadpool had been casually calling Thanos.

One was the mastermind behind the scenes, while the other was a simp who lashed out at others because he could not have what he wanted.

Considering that both sides would sooner or later become involved with him, and that they were enemies rather than friends who had already clashed with him several times, Xiang Qian had no choice but to consider whether the two had already joined forces—or even had further conspiracies in store.

With that thought, he had no time to keep interrogating Deadpool. He tossed Juggernaut, who had just had the cable pulled out and was still dazed, into his pocket dimension, then swiftly opened a portal back to the X-Mansion.

Colossus and Selene were simply left at the scene and had