Shamila's exclamation startled even Luca.
"It's me."
Luca hurriedly twisted the knob on the [Transformation Watch] to revert to his original appearance.
Shamila looked at the watch on Luca's wrist with astonishment, then sighed in relief, blaming herself for overreacting. She immediately said again:
"Master, that girl you brought back has woken up."
Luca looked at the clock on the side.
Only then did he realize that synthesizing two new items and testing the [Transformation Watch] had taken several hours. It was now close to midnight.
But after considering it, he said:
"Let's go, let's go check on her."
"How is she now?"
Hearing Luca's question, Shamila's expression was a bit strange, but she answered immediately.
"Baymax detected that her physical condition is stable, but her spirits seem a bit low."
Luca didn't think much of it and quickly went upstairs to the room where Gwen was.
But upon seeing her, he understood what Shamila meant by "spirits seem a bit low."
In the room, this suspected parallel-world Gwen was wrapped in bandages, sitting obediently on the bed.
However, her eyes were very dull, staring quietly ahead. Even when Luca entered the room, she didn't react at all.
Seeing her like this, Luca asked Baymax puzzledly.
"Baymax, what's her situation now?"
"Patient's injuries are stable. Neurotransmitter activity is currently low but still within the normal range. No severe sequelae," Baymax's mechanical voice replied quickly.
Luca stepped forward and stood in front of Gwen, momentarily unsure of how to start.
Ultimately, Luca chose to bring her back purely because of her identity as "Spider-Gwen."
Now even he didn't know what to do with her.
"Ahem, well, attacking you earlier was because I mistook you for a robber. Later, I found you didn't have a phone or ID on you. Now that you're awake, I can help contact your family to pick you up."
Although he said "contact your family to pick you up," Luca had already determined in his heart that she was a visitor from another world. Saying this now was just trying to get information out of her and see how this guy ended up in this world.
However, after hearing Luca's words, the girl in front of him just turned her head stiffly to look at Luca once, then turned back blankly, not saying a word throughout.
This... Haro didn't knock her brain silly, did he? That little thing is truly sinful!
While shifting blame in his head, seeing her lack of cooperation, Luca simply turned to Shamila.
"Auntie Shamila, please step outside for a moment."
Although a bit surprised, Shamila chose to obey and walked out of the room.
Before closing the door, she instructed softly.
"Master, I'll be waiting right outside. Call me anytime if there's any problem!"
Watching Shamila leave, Luca pulled a chair over and sat by the bed.
Looking at the still silent Gwen, he pondered for a moment before speaking again.
"Gwen Stacy?"
Although phrased as a question, Luca's eyes held unquestionable certainty.
Sure enough, upon hearing this name, Gwen, who looked half-dead, trembled slightly and turned quickly to look at Luca.
Her dull gaze was completely replaced by astonishment.
She asked in a trembling voice.
"You... you know me?!"
Hearing her finally speak, Luca felt he regained the rhythm and put his trademark smile back on his face.
He said briskly.
"Naturally I know you..."
Hearing this, the light in Gwen's eyes on the bed grew a bit stronger.
However, Luca's second half of the sentence seemed to plunge her back into the abyss.
"...We just met this afternoon."
As soon as these words came out, Gwen, who seemed to be expecting something, dimmed again.
This time she didn't choose to remain silent, but said calmly.
"I am not her..."
Although through this sentence, Gwen learned that another version of herself existed in this world, for her current situation, such news was useless.
In this world without Kingpin or the particle collider, she could die at any time due to the rejection of the parallel universe.
At this moment, the thought of giving up had risen in Gwen's heart.
But the next moment, Luca spoke again.
"Of course I know you aren't her. Tell me, how did you come to this world?"
Hearing this, Gwen, who was ready to wait for death quietly, immediately looked at Luca with astonishment and asked incredulously.
"You... you know I'm from another world?!!"
"Is it hard to guess?"
Luca put on a mysterious look, but thought to himself.
Why does this Gwen feel a bit dense?
Regardless of what Luca thought, in this back-and-forth, Gwen, whose emotions were somewhat out of control, was like grasping at the last straw. She only wanted to ask the boy in front of her who knew about the existence of parallel worlds if there was a way to help her return to her original world.
But Luca didn't choose to answer her question, only asking again.
"First tell me, how did you come to this world?"
Now Gwen didn't hide anything anymore. As if finding an outlet, she poured out her previous experiences completely like spilling beans from a bamboo tube.
Luca, familiar with the plot, finally had the answer to her origin.
According to Gwen's account and Luca's speculation summary.
This otherworld Gwen should have had a similar experience to the Ghost-Spider Gwen in the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
In this Gwen's original world, her good friend Peter Parker turned into the Lizard and died in a battle with her.
After that, Gwen had been living in self-blame and pain.
However, not long after, because Kingpin in another parallel universe wanted to retrieve his wife and son, he had his subordinates create a super particle collider capable of bringing people across time and space.
As a result, an accident occurred when the particle collider was activated.
Causing her and several "Spider-Men" from other worlds to cross over to that timeline.
In the end, several Spider-Men and Miles, who had just become the "little black spider," defeated Kingpin who created this chaos.
And used the particle collider created by Kingpin's subordinates to return to their original universes.
Hmm, normally, the plot should have developed like this.