We stopped by a mart and bought a shovel.
"You got money?"
"Seriously, you came without any money?"
"I'm on an important mission to save the universe. You're an Avenger too, you should help!"
I was about to pay, but Deadpool kept putting things on the checkout counter. Snacks, drinks, alcohol, etc.
"Hey! Why are you buying this?"
I held up a bottle of coconut oil and shook it.
"My skin's getting bad, so I'm going to apply it."
"Then this?"
This time, I held up a condom and shook it.
"That's... in case things work out with my ex-girlfriend."
"This is crazy... Then, this!"
I picked up a squeaky chicken doll that makes a weird sound when pressed and asked.
"I just felt like I had to buy it."
"Unbelievable... To think you'd carry so much stuff while on the run. Put it all back!"
Then Deadpool, as if not wanting the chicken doll to be taken away, hugged it and said.
Squeak~ squeak!
"I can't give this up!"
It was ridiculous, but we only bought the chocolate bar, drink, shovel, and chicken doll.
We left the mart, operated the Tempad, opened a portal, and moved to the forest in North Dakota where Wolverine is buried. After walking a bit, I saw a pile of rocks with an X carved into a tree.
"Ha! Found it!"
Deadpool snatched the shovel I was carrying, tapped the rock pile, and said.
"See, here. Wolverine must be hibernating underground right now. Don't underestimate his healing factor's regenerative ability!"
I was dumbfounded by Deadpool's words.
"Seriously... 'Hibernating', sure."
Deadpool threw the squeaky chicken doll at me and said.
"Take good care of Squeaky!"
Then he started digging Wolverine's grave with the shovel. I sat on a fallen tree nearby, drank the canned coffee I bought at the mart, and watched. After digging for quite a while, a loud sound, loud enough for me to hear, was made.
Clang~!
"Bingo! I knew it... Ha... Yeah, of course..."
Deadpool seemed to have found Wolverine's corpse. It was obvious without looking. Seeing Wolverine's dead, rotting corpse, Deadpool seemed to have a reality check. After being quiet for a moment, he accepted the reality of Wolverine's death and vented his anger by striking Wolverine's corpse with the shovel.
"Damn it!"
Clang!
"You motherfucker!"
Clang!
"This fucking piece of shit!"
Clang!
"Our world is fucked~~~!!"
As if that didn't fully vent his anger, he even broke the shovel with his knee and threw it outside.
Thud!
"Shit~!"
Since he seemed to have calmed down a bit, I threw a can of coffee to Deadpool.
"Feeling better now?"
Deadpool took the canned coffee, lifted his mask slightly to drink, and said.
"Hoo... Yeah, but the world's destruction is still inevitable..."
Deadpool tried to climb out of the pit he dug, holding Wolverine's corpse.
"Hey, hey. Just leave that? He's a dead person resting. Isn't digging him up to check enough?"
At my words, Deadpool, perhaps feeling the same, just left the corpse there and came out alone. Maybe it's because I'm Korean, but messing with a dead person's corpse felt a bit much.
Deadpool seemed to be pondering something, and I reburied Wolverine. Thankfully, I had bought two shovels in advance, knowing this might happen. I recreated the X and placed it in front of the grave. Then I silently prayed for his peace for a moment.
"Jin, was it?"
"Yeah."
"You religious? Seemed like you were praying."
"I don't have a religion, but I believe in gods. And it wasn't a prayer, I was wishing for his peace."
My Leisure Life awakening was only possible because many gods gathered their power on Earth. Of course I have to believe.
"What's that. Believing in gods is the same as having a religion, isn't it?"
"There are some circumstances. Anyway, what now?"
"We have to find another Wolverine."
"Bringing another Wolverine probably won't work though..."
At my words, Deadpool got angry and said.
"How would you know! I can't just sit and watch the world disappear like this."
Deadpool seemed intent on trying everything possible. Well, if I were in Deadpool's position, I'd probably do the same.
Then orange portals opened nearby, and TVA agents came out of the portals, holding suppression batons, slowly approaching us. The leader who first kidnapped Deadpool to the TVA was also there. Probably agents led by that leader.
"Chairman Jin, please step aside for a moment. We'll finish this quickly and send you back to your original world."
Hearing that, I slightly distanced myself from Deadpool. Deadpool saw my action and said incredulously.
"Wow~ Really! I'm hurt. Think of the beautiful memories we shared together!"
Deadpool spouted nonsense again. We haven't even known each other for a day. What memories.
"Whoa~ I'm a pacifist, you know. I'll just protect Squeaky."
"You traitor!"
Squea~k! Squeak! Squeak!
Regardless, I pressed Squeaky as a substitute answer.
"Wade Wilson, the Time Variance Authority arrests you on numerous criminal charges! Surrender and you will be transported with proper decorum!"
"Can't die to these extras."
Deadpool drew the swords on his back.
"Last chance! Drop your weapon and surrender quietly!"
"Fuck you!"
With those words as the start, Deadpool rushed at the TVA agents, cutting throats with his swords and knocking away suppression batons, fighting hard. I sat back on the fallen tree and watched. Blood splattered everywhere, agents' arms, legs, and heads flew through the air, and their screams were heard.
Sslash~! Thud! Crack! Smack!
"Grah~! My arm!"
"Kehek!"
"Gurgle!"
"Gak!"
'Deadpool was originally a special forces operative, then dishonorably discharged and worked as a mercenary, right? He fights really well.'
Despite being outnumbered, the TVA agents were no match for Deadpool. More TVA agents came through portals in the middle, but only the body count increased.
When almost all were dealt with and only a few remained, the leader, unable to watch, shouted.
"Stop! Logan was a hero and the only decent thing Canada ever produced. You bastard who defiled such a man's grave!"
Hearing that, Deadpool, enraged, quickly threw his sword so the back of the blade touched the ground. The sword bounced off the ground and embedded itself in the unnamed leader's head, killing him instantly without even a scream.
Then Deadpool approached the leader who was standing dead with the sword in his head and said.
"Don't you dare say my country's name! And give me back my sword!"
As he pulled the sword from the leader's head and was about to finish off the few remaining agents, I stopped him.
"That's enough. They seem to have lost their will to fight. Just let them go."
I also spoke to the remaining agents.
"You don't intend to fight anymore, right?"
When I offered them a way out, the remaining agents shook their heads up and down frantically. When I gestured for them to go, they hesitated for a moment, opened a portal, and fled. Seeing that, Deadpool also shook the blood off his sword and sheathed it.
"What a noble gentleman! Even though you didn't do anything."
"We should save lives when we can. I'm a pacifist, remember?"
I threw Squeaky to Deadpool. Then Deadpool took Squeaky and tucked it into his belt at his side.
"I'm going to look for another Wolverine. You coming?"
"Yeah, I've got nothing to do here anyway."
Deadpool and I entered various dimensions and began searching for a Wolverine to replace the dead Wolverine in Deadpool's world.
The first was a very comic-accurate short Wolverine. Deadpool started mocking the short Wolverine.
"Look at this fluffy midget standing there? Good job! Kid, just like the comics..."
I covered Deadpool's mouth, who was making rude remarks. Then Deadpool hit my hand and said.
"Why?"
"Isn't that too rude to someone we're asking for help? Anyway, I'll apologize."
The comic-accurate Wolverine tried to pull out his claws and fight, but at my apology, he just sat back down and drank his drink. Deadpool looked at that Wolverine and said to me.
"Not him."
"Yeah, got it. Wait a sec."
I approached the small Wolverine and apologized once more.
"Sorry about that. My companion has a foul mouth. This is my apology."
I placed my hand on the small Wolverine's back and used [No-Action Transformation] to grow his height to that of a normal Wolverine. Then his shirt tore completely, and his pants split at the bottom like Hulk's.
"Kuh, what the hell..."
Wolverine looked at his body in surprise.
"My ability. If you don't like it, I can change you back."
At my words, Wolverine waved his hands hurriedly in refusal.
"No, no, thank you."
Hearing that, I went back to Deadpool. Deadpool looked at me in surprise and asked.
"How did you do that? The midget grew."
"My ability."
"Whoa~ So you're an ability user. You should've said that sooner."
We went to meet the next Wolverine. The next Wolverine was in a city completely turned into a sea of fire, leaning against a wall resting, and he was missing an arm. Calling out to that Wolverine, Deadpool said.
"Hey! It's a total inferno here. Raising dragons?"
Deadpool approached that Wolverine and kept talking, so since I know the original, I just hid using invisibility. That Wolverine was 'Weapon X Wolverine', created as a killing machine, someone you can't reason with.
"As an anchor character, the face is just right..."
Before Deadpool finished speaking, Wolverine threw a punch and started mercilessly beating Deadpool, but when Deadpool showed no reaction, he just left. I canceled my invisibility, approached Deadpool, and slapped his cheek.
Slap! Slap!
"Hey, you okay?"
"Whoaak! Captain!"
Deadpool suddenly shouted 'Captain' and woke up.
"Not him either, it seems."
"Yeah..."
The next Wolverine we met was a vigilante Wolverine, aka Patch. Patch was gambling at a casino.
"Patch! Our world is about to disappear right now. So, I was wondering if you could hel... Gak!"
Wolverine Patch, perhaps annoyed at having his gambling interrupted, immediately pulled out his claws, stabbed them into Deadpool's head, and threw him to the floor.
"Hey! This is unbelievable. You treat people like this without even finding out the situation?"
"Want me to do the same to you?"
As Patch got up and tried to attack me too, I used the [Gravity Gravity Fruit] ability to press him down with gravity so he couldn't get up from the floor.
"Graah!"
Crack!
As Patch received pressure strong enough to crack the floor, he fell face down, unable to get up, and just screamed. I approached him, took out a staff from my inventory, hit Patch's buttocks, and spoke. That staff was also transformed into Adamantium.
"Manners!"
Thwack!
"Grah"
"Treating people!"
Thwack!
"Grah! Stop!"
"Like this!"
Thwack!
"Graah!"
"Got it?"
Thwack!
"Gruhk"
"Got it?"
Thwack!
"Grah! Got it. I got it!"
"Good. Tone down your personality from now on."
When I released the gravity, Wolverine Patch got up from the floor, gave me a dirty look, held his buttocks, limped, and left the casino. The people around, perhaps scared seeing that, had all run away.
I rolled over Deadpool, who was lying face down in a strange position, and slapped his cheek again to wake him up.
"Hey! Snap out of it."
Slap! Slap!
"Oofoo Avengers!"
Deadpool made a strange sound again and regained consciousness.
"Not him either, it seems."
"Yeah."
The next was a very muscular, large-framed Wolverine. That Wolverine was fixing a motorcycle and, as if he just finished, was touching the throttle, testing it.
Vroom~!
Seeing that cool appearance and thinking this was the one, he tapped my shoulder and said.
"This is it~ Oh yeah!"
Even I had to admit it was cool. His arm muscles bulged every time he twisted the throttle.
"Seems like we've finally found the right one. This is the complete Wolverine. But his back looks just like Henry..."
Wolverine slowly turned around and looked at Deadpool. Then Deadpool looked at that Wolverine in surprise and spoke. It was that actor who played Superman.
"Oh~ my god! Motherfucker! The 'Cavill-in' legend was true. On behalf of all humanity, that's perfect!"
I actually came along to see this too. I love Leisure Life.
"We'll treat you well. Just ignore those motherfuckers over there!"
"Just piss off."
This Wolverine also had an attitude.
"No! The fate of my universe..."
As that Wolverine was about to attack too, I hurriedly stopped him.
"Whoa whoa! Wait! Calm down for a sec, we're not here to fight. Deadpool, let's talk."
As I intervened and stopped Cavill-in, Cavill-in went back to his motorcycle. I immediately took Deadpool to the back and talked.
"He won't work."
"Why!? He's perfect. Look at those muscles. Isn't it awesome?"
"Appearance fee."
"Shit! Damn... He was perfect."
I honestly wanted to bring him too. But for the sake of the story, it couldn't be helped. Now that I know the Marvel multiverse is connected, next time for sure...