Late at night.
Inside the cell.
"Pietro, what do we do? His body seems to be getting colder and colder..."
Wanda knelt on the freezing floor, cradling Carl's upper body in her arms. Her pretty face was filled with despair.
He had been fine just moments ago. How had he passed out again after saying just one sentence?
Could his internal organs have been injured?
Across from her, Pietro slumped helplessly against the corner, both hands clutching his hair tightly.
After holding it in for a long while, he finally let out a pained growl.
"Give up, Wanda. Our friend... might be beyond saving."
"These Security Council bastards are no different from that damned arms dealer Tony Stark. They bring nothing but despair and death!!"
"If I really gain superpowers, the first thing I'll do is avenge—"
At that point, Pietro's gaze suddenly froze.
His voice stopped abruptly, as though someone had seized him by the throat.
Because he did not even know the name of the man who had been beaten to death trying to save his sister!
I'm... I'm sorry!!
The inexplicable fury and grief nearly set Pietro's chest ablaze.
Yet there was nowhere for the anger in his heart to go.
In the end, all he could do was yank even harder at his hair and hysterically roar a string of "F*ck"s at the outside of the cell!!!
"Why did this happen..."
"I didn't even get the chance to properly talk to him."
"God, please save him. As long as he lives, I'll do anything!!"
Watching a young, vibrant life seemingly die because of her, kind-hearted Wanda could no longer accept such a cruel reality.
Grief overwhelmed her.
She clutched Carl's head tightly in both hands and burst into tears.
For a time.
The entire cell was filled with sorrow.
However.
Just then.
A rather discordant voice suddenly rang out.
"Too... too tight. I can't breathe."
As his consciousness returned to his body, Carl immediately felt a wave of suffocation.
His head seemed to be tightly trapped within some vast, comfortable zone.
So he instinctively reached out, intending to push it away...
"Ahh!!!"
With a scream full of shock and embarrassed indignation, Wanda blushed and darted behind Pietro like a startled little deer.
"Bro, you're awake again... Huh, why did I say 'again'?"
Pietro was also startled by this sudden return from the dead.
"Cough, cough. Um... what happened to you two?"
Remembering what his hand had just done, Carl guiltily glanced at Wanda, who was peeking half her little head out from behind Pietro and secretly observing him.
There was no helping it.
The Scarlet Witch's wrath was a terrifying thing that even Director Thanos of the Cosmic Family Planning Commission could not endure!
Besides, Carl might need to cling to Wanda and Pietro in the future.
For now, he naturally had to get closer to them... and pay more attention to his image!
But from the looks of it, she did not seem angry?!
"Bro, don't you remember anything from earlier?"
"You had barely finished one sentence before falling unconscious again. We thought you..."
Pietro quickly explained the rough sequence of events.
It turned out.
After Carl's [Consciousness Body] entered the [Warp Dimension].
His body in the real world had directly fallen into an abnormal state of "loss of consciousness."
This had terrified the clueless Wanda and Pietro.
They had even mistaken his earlier awakening for a final flash before death!
So the siblings tried all kinds of first-aid methods, hoping to wake Carl again.
But without exception, every attempt ended in failure.
Only Wanda, still unwilling to give up, weakly held Carl in her arms and made one last effort with the little warmth of her body.
Hearing this.
Carl's heart warmed at once.
His favorability toward the siblings before him began to soar.
Especially toward the beautiful and kind-hearted Wanda.
Whether it was her looks, figure, devotion, or future potential, she stood alone at the top of the entire Marvel Universe!
To say nothing else.
In Avengers 3, she had single-handedly held off five-Stone Thanos!
And in Avengers 4, she had nearly torn apart unarmed Thanos with her bare hands!
Such an illustrious record made her far more deserving than Captain Marvel of the title "Marvel's Strongest Solo Female Hero"!
And a good woman like this, utterly devoted in love, capable of warming the bed, and someone whose thigh you could cling to for support—
In the entire Marvel Universe... no, in the entire American comics world, she was an exceedingly rare species.
Feeling the faint lingering fragrance between his lips and teeth, Carl really wanted to ask one more question: who exactly had given me mouth-to-mouth just now?!
But that little incident had also sounded an alarm for him.
Once his [Consciousness Body] left his body, his physical body would fall into a completely unconscious state.
Something like the legendary [soul leaving the body]?
Without proper preparation and protection, doing that was undoubtedly extremely dangerous.
It seemed he would need to choose the timing for entering the [Warp] more carefully in the future!
Besides that.
Carl also discovered that when he entered the [Warp] as a [Visitor], he was not affected by its characteristic of "having no concept of time."
Thus, he had avoided the tragedy of "one day in heaven, one year on earth"!
Perhaps this was the hidden privilege of a [Dimension Lord]?
Then, after checking himself over, Carl discovered that the injuries he had sustained earlier, as well as the bruising from the chest compressions during CPR—
Had all miraculously healed after he left the [Warp]!
For the moment, though, he could not determine whether this was the system's self-protection mechanism or an effect of the [Warp]!
But no matter what, it was a good thing.
"Are... are you okay?"
Just then, Wanda's timid voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Of course."
Carl flashed a sunny, boy-next-door smile and said half-jokingly:
"If I told you I'm actually a dimensional demon god, would you believe me?!"
Wanda was stunned for a moment, then covered her mouth and giggled. "Then you really are a very weak demon god!"
"..."
Carl's face immediately darkened.
But thinking about it, what she said did not seem wrong!
If they were talking purely about strength.
Even if Carl abandoned his physical body and became the [Dimension Lord] of Basketball Space.
Before Wanda's reality-altering [Chaos Magic], he would probably only be fit to get pinned to the ground and rubbed back and forth.
So what was wrong with her mocking him once?!!
At that thought.
Carl instantly lost interest in continuing the conversation and perfunctorily said, "It's almost dawn. We should get some rest while we can!"
Then he closed his eyes on his own and began thinking about what to do next.
"Um..."
Wanda looked nervously at Carl.
She seemed to want to say something else.
But seeing that he was ignoring her completely, she ultimately forced the words back down.
What do I do? He... he isn't angry with me, is he?
Wanda, Wanda, you really are so stupid. You should have just gone along with what he said.
Men care about their pride. Besides, he nearly died saving you. What would have been wrong with praising him as a powerful demon god?
Wasn't Pietro the same before? Like an idiot, always shouting about wanting to become the Flash from the comics?
Wanda blamed herself over and over in disappointment.
Perhaps because of the "hero saving the damsel" incident.
She cared especially deeply about this handsome man she had known for less than a day.
However.
Wanda and Pietro, who were about to receive the favor of the goddess of fate, had no idea.
Just how dangerous the human experiments arriving tomorrow would be for an ordinary, unremarkable person like Carl!
Soon, as drowsiness washed over her.
Wanda gave Carl one last glance, then leaned against her brother Pietro's shoulder and fell into a deep sleep!!!