"Why are you looking for me?"
"Don't you have children?"
"Then you can't understand what I'm doing now."
"If you can't feel my grief, why do you keep coming to me?"
Wife… No… Undead, when Wanda opened her eyes.
Two dried tear marks were clearly visible at the corners.
Obviously, she had cried more than once during this period…
And the reason she sat cross-legged
was because a book floated in front of her.
That's right!
She had obtained the Book of the Damned, the Darkhold, from the witch Agatha Harkness!
In other words, this dreamwalking was in the middle of studying dark magic
when she received the call for astral projection.
"It seems you're much happier than me…"
Looking at the group around Wanda,
the eyes of Wanda's astral projection in the main cinematic universe showed a trace of envy.
But she quickly buried that envy deep within her heart.
Because what she needed more now…
were Billy and Tommy!
Her children!
"My Wanda really has it better than you, after all, here, Quicksilver isn't dead yet~"
"…"
Aron precisely twisted the knife.
Once again, he stabbed the Wanda version from the main cinematic universe.
Already eroded by the Darkhold's influence, she could barely hold herself back.
"Did you connect with me just to humiliate me!?"
The eyes of the Wanda from the main universe flickered red.
"Aron, when you speak two sentences, you say exactly what you shouldn't."
However, the Wanda beside Aron was genuinely worried about her counterpart from the parallel universe
and hurriedly begged Aron not to provoke the other.
At the same time, she gave her reasoning.
"That's right, Wanda…"
As soon as Wanda spoke, she felt a bit tense.
She had grown up, and this was the first time she'd addressed someone by her own name.
A strange but interesting feeling.
"Wanda, we contacted you hoping that you wouldn't lose yourself and repeat your mistakes."
"We all know your experience."
"But you know it yourself…"
"A human and a machine truly can't have children!"
Wanda couldn't understand why her other self in different universes would fall in love with a robot.
A robot, really!?
Isn't that too much!?
Still, her personality made her hold back and not mock the other side at that point.
Of course…
That sentence, that a human and a machine can't have children, wasn't without weight.
Essentially, it meant saying that her two sons were fake, imaginary, and didn't exist.
And for the Wanda from the main universe, who was already sinking into madness,
that was absolutely unbearable!
"Do you even know what motherhood is?"
"You still don't have children!"
The Wanda from the main universe, struck by a series of consecutive blows, couldn't take it anymore.
The search for her children had become an obsession in her heart.
She wouldn't allow anyone to interfere or give her orders.
"Oh, fine."
Seeing that persuasion was useless, Wanda sighed.
"I know how determined a mother can be when searching for her child."
"But that process can't be built on the blood of the innocent, so…"
"Please, stop chasing and killing America; she's under our protection now, and I don't want to hurt you."
Wanda's final tone became firm.
She sympathized with her counterpart from universe 199999,
but that didn't mean she agreed with her views.
Searching for your children, fine!
But you can't kill the innocent!
"Who?"
As soon as Wanda's words echoed,
the seeker Wanda from the main cinematic universe showed a confused expression.
"Who is America, and why am I chasing her?"
"Does it have anything to do with my search for my children?"
The Wanda from the main universe was very confused.
Her plan to find her children was still in its preparation phase.
She didn't even know the first step yet, how did chasing and killing suddenly come into it?
"You didn't do it?"
Everyone fell silent at once.
Then all eyes turned toward America.
"Didn't you say Wanda from universe 199999 was chasing you?"
"I said Wanda was chasing me!"
"I didn't say from which universe, you all look the same, I can't tell you apart."
America blinked her big, innocent eyes,
looking very wronged.
"And I don't even know the universe numbers,"
"let alone 199999."
After her words, everyone immediately understood that there had been a mix-up.
And the source of that mix-up… seemed to be Aron.
"Ahem~"
"I was misled by the movie's plot."
Aron lightly coughed.
Because of his preconceived image from the film's storyline,
when he heard Wanda being accused as the pursuer,
the first thing that came to his mind was the plot of Doctor Strange 2.
But he hadn't expected that in the neighboring main cinematic universe, the plot of Doctor Strange 2 hadn't officially begun yet.
Wanda had gone mad, that much was true!
But she hadn't taken action yet.
She was still in her cabin, diligently studying the forbidden arts from the Darkhold.
"Interesting…"
Aron immediately thought of a possibility.
Marvel-199999 is the main MCU cinematic universe.
And 199999-FL, where he is, is a derivative universe of the MCU's cinematic cosmos.
Therefore…
there must be more than one such derivative universe!
In the infinite multiverse, anything is possible!
"It seems we're dealing with an entirely new variant of Wanda."
Aron said half-jokingly.
And since the misunderstanding had been cleared up,
Wanda cut off the astral link with her version from the main cinematic universe.
"By the way, America, why was that Wanda you mentioned even chasing you?"
Aron realized he might have overlooked something important.
America had previously said…
The Wanda who hunted her had already mastered the ability to teleport across universes.
And that was the most important value of America herself.
"Since she can already teleport between universes,"
"then to her… you're actually useless."
Exactly!
"Useless!"
"That's why, as soon as we met, she wanted to kill me; she didn't even think about taking my powers."
America's answer confirmed it.
That made the situation even stranger.
What was the motive of that murderous Wanda?
Could it be that she was simply annoyed by the name 'America'?
"I… have an idea."
At that moment,
Diana, who had been quietly listening from the side, stood up.
She hadn't spoken before because she didn't know much about the Marvel universe, let alone the multiverse.
Your Marvel plot is really complicated,
she murmured to herself.
But she honestly voiced what she thought.
"Is there a possibility…"
"that the goal of that Wanda who's hunting America is to prevent another version of herself from gaining the ability to teleport through universes?"
Diana had listened for a long time and, based on the known clues, offered one possibility.
"She wants to be the only Wanda who can travel across parallel universes!"
"Or at least… the only one who can do it easily!"
Diana's hypothesis drew everyone's attention.
If it proved true, it meant the murderous Wanda had greater ambitions.
Because she was eliminating everything that could strengthen her competition!
"If that's the case, then it's a big problem…"
The Ancient One seemed to recall something.
Her expression changed.
"Have you ever seen the movie The One?"