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The Evil Witch's body froze.
Her hand was still suspended in mid-air, her mind completely blank. After the crazy and unwilling light in her eyes violently trembled a few times, it was gradually replaced by another emotion——
That was deep satisfaction and attachment.
She really didn't want much.
She just hoped that when she felt lonely, she could also have such a reliance, and nothing more.
"There is never anything absolutely fair in this World,"
Peter's voice sounded in her ear. That voice was gentle and steady, without the slightest hint of lecturing or accusation,
"I am very sorry that you suffered those pains, and I am very sorry that you lost your beloved, but I am destined to be unable to follow your wish and walk together with you."
The Evil Witch's shoulders began to tremble slightly.
Her hand clutching Peter's lapel gradually tightened, and then she buried her whole face into his shoulder socket. At first it was just silent sobbing, gradually turning into suppressed whimpering, and in the end, she couldn't help but burst into loud crying.
Even Wanda of this Universe could no longer maintain her anger. Watching that woman identical to herself crying heart-rendingly, her eye sockets also turned slightly red, her lips moved, and in the end, she didn't say anything.
Because she actually also knew the feeling of loss.
Although she still had Pietro and Peter, she had also experienced the pain of her parents passing away.
She knew how difficult it was to walk out of that emotion, and she could understand even more why the other party had become so crazy.
If one day she lost Peter, she would definitely become even more hysterical than the other party.
With Wanda, the person involved, acting like this, the other girls naturally felt moved to some extent as well.
Gwen, who had always been soft-hearted, couldn't help but suggest:
"Peter, why don't... you just give her a chance and accompany her for a little while every ten days or half a month?"
Hearing this, the others didn't have much reaction, but Captain America's version of Ms. Carter's eyes suddenly lit up. Looking at Carter and Steve of this Universe, she couldn't help but eagerly say:
"Then when he comes to our Universe, can you bring that great-butt boy along too?"
Hearing this, Carter couldn't help becoming a bit hesitant. She looked at Steve, then looked at Captain America Carter who looked exactly like her, and couldn't help secretly thinking in her heart:
"Me from a parallel Universe sleeping with my man, does this count as getting cuckolded?"
On the other side, the Evil Witch's look towards Peter also became expectant, clearly looking forward to Peter giving a response.
But Peter gently shook his head:
"This is a very dangerous operation. For a person to travel back and forth between two Universes for a long time, this behavior will seriously interfere with the timeline, and may even cause their Universe to collapse due to the generation of countless branch lines."
Hearing this, both the Evil Witch and Captain America Carter's complexions turned pale, and Gwen also showed a regretful expression.
She really wanted to do something for this tragic Evil Witch, but right now, it seemed they were truly powerless against this problem.
Seeing the Evil Witch's obviously dimming eyes, Peter hesitated for a moment before finally cupping her face and saying:
"Actually you know it too, right? What you need is not a Peter."
The Evil Witch raised her tear-filled eyes, looking at him blankly.
"What you need is just a spiritual sustenance," Peter continued, "an existence that can make you feel warmth, and make you feel the warmth of home."
The Evil Witch's lips moved, her voice so hoarse it was almost inaudible: "But except for Vision and you, there is no one else in this World who can give me this kind of feeling."
"No," Peter leaned down, approaching her ear, his voice so soft that only she could hear, "actually there is."
Both the Evil Witch and Captain America Carter subconsciously held their breath.
"I cannot go to your Universe to accompany you for a long time," Peter said, "And I also believe that meeting you once every ten days or half a month will not make you feel satisfied. Therefore, I have a bolder idea."
After a pause, he said:
"Perhaps... I can give you a baby that belongs to us."
The Evil Witch abruptly stopped crying.
She froze in place, her pupils dilating sharply, her heart seeming to skip a beat in that instant, and then starting to beat wildly.
Her gaze locked tightly onto Peter's face, as if trying to discern from his expression whether this sentence was just a momentary perfunctory remark or a serious promise.
"You... are you telling the truth?"
Tony, who had been watching the drama all along, couldn't help but speak up at this moment:
"Hey, buddy, is this supposed to be some kind of compliant operation? You going to her Universe to accompany her is just traveling back and forth, but now, you are directly creating a life that shouldn't have appeared in their Universe..."
Tony's words hadn't even finished when they came to an abrupt halt.
Because the angry Evil Witch directly used Chaos Magic to erase his mouth.
"Under normal circumstances, of course this is also a rule-violating operation," Peter explained.
"But the problem is, if I don't solve her problem, she will turn dark time and time again, invade other Universes time and time again, and cause disasters that shouldn't happen on the established timelines of other Universes time and time again.
In this case, giving her a child instead reduces the disasters that might occur in other Multiverses; this belongs to a benign branch."
Hearing him put it this way, everyone subconsciously nodded.
This was a very typical choice of the lesser of two evils, and indeed no matter how one thought about it, it was a more reasonable approach.
"I believe that after you have a baby of your own, you will naturally be able to find a new emotional sustenance. I also believe that even if you are alone, you can definitely take good care of the baby, right?"
Facing Peter's question, the Evil Witch first froze for a moment, then nodded heavily, and something subsequently appeared in her eyes.
That was no longer a highly aggressive desire for possession, but a softer, maternal glow.
She lowered her head to look at her flat lower abdomen, then raised her head to look at Peter again, and finally nodded vigorously.
"I can do it," her voice carried an unprecedented firmness, "I can take good care of the baby. As long as I can have a baby that belongs to us, that is already enough!"
"Hey, then I want one too. Just one baby, this actually isn't going too far, right?" Captain America Carter on the side immediately fought for herself.
Steve looked at Carter with a troubled expression. Carter's complexion was grim, but after a moment she finally nodded and agreed to this condition which was close to exploiting a bug.
Thus, with the assistance of Stephen Strange, the user of the Ope-Ope no Mi, the Evil Witch and Captain America Carter respectively obtained a seed of life belonging to Peter and Steve.
Wanda, as a Witch, could even directly sense the rhythmic feeling of a new life brewing within her body.
This made her unable to help happily covering her lower abdomen. All the madness and hostility on her face vanished into thin air, leaving only an incredible, soft smile unique to an expectant mother.
As the waking Little Spider activated the portal of the Spider-Society, the people of the Illuminati thus returned to their own Universe.
A looming major event thus ended with an anticlimax.
Looking at the Sentinel Rokudo beside him, and then looking at America, who was still standing foolishly in the courtyard and acting completely at a loss from beginning to end, Peter couldn't help smiling with satisfaction.
Although the ending was a bit anticlimactic, for himself, the harvest was quite abundant!