The Netherworld is located within Hawk's Little Universe.
Every action within it, Hawk can see clearly; any soul's entry cannot escape Hawk's perception.
But since he made another deal with Mephisto yesterday...
Let's just say...
The sound of souls entering his Netherworld has barely ceased.
After all, Hawk had obtained jurisdiction over Death in the entire Western Hemisphere from Mephisto this time.
As everyone knows...
There are fewer Westerners for a certain reason; whether it's self-inflicted Deaths or various shootings, people are dying every moment.
The constant influx of souls made Hawk somewhat irritable, so he added a setting.
All souls, upon entering, go directly to the Netherworld Prison's First Prison, where the Blood Elves, temporarily managing the Netherworld Prison, will determine which Netherworld Prison they are cast into based on their actions in life.
This way, Hawk directly blocked out the continuous sounds of souls entering.
But he only blocked the Netherworld Prison.
The Pure Land of the Netherworld, and other parts of the Netherworld, were still within his perception.
And the soul currently, after entering the Netherworld, landed directly on the Pure Land.
There's only one possibility for such a soul.
His friends.
Hawk was initially a bit confused about who it was, but with a thought, the expression on his face froze.
"Anna!"
"...Yes, Anna."
Gwen, hearing Hawk's words, thought he was talking about something else here, her eyes lit up, and she nodded.
"HYDRA, only HYDRA has your..."
"Anna is dead."
Hawk interrupted Gwen.
Gwen was slightly stunned.
"Dead?"
"Yes, I'll go take a look."
Hawk responded, then said no more, closed his eyes, and his mind went straight into his Little Universe.
At this moment...
On the Pure Land of the Netherworld.
Anna, who had just arrived, like many recently deceased souls, looked around at everything with a somewhat dazed expression and eyes.
Blue sky.
White clouds.
Emerald green grass, and what seemed to be under the blue sky and white clouds, a pure White, sky-reaching staircase leading directly to the Netherworld Sanctuary, suspended in mid-air and filled with a 'divine' aura.
She was somewhat bewildered, looking around helplessly.
Anna tried hard to recall everything that had happened before.
She had received a message from Alexander Pierce, learning that Strucker had, through artificial synthesis, unauthorizedly extracted DNA information from Hawk's blood, synthesized gametes, and then, through artificial insemination, naturally given birth to a healthy baby girl with Hawk's bloodline.
Anna immediately realized that something big was about to happen, so as soon as she received the news, she rushed to Sokovia, attempting to resolve this huge problem that, though not yet erupted, would bring catastrophic disaster to their HYDRA once it did.
But she didn't dare to go directly and drown the baby girl.
Because... whether Hawk acknowledged this baby girl or not, she possessed Hawk's bloodline, and if so, how to deal with this baby girl, and what to do, could only be decided by Hawk.
So... Anna's idea was very simple: take the baby girl from Strucker, then properly settle her in an unknown small country, find a couple unrelated to anyone, let them raise the baby girl first, and then she would find an opportunity to tell Hawk.
The result!
The handling failed.
Just as she arrived in Sokovia, came to Strucker's HYDRA castle, and was about to take the baby girl from the red-haired lady, an accident occurred.
Brilliant Phoenix Fire roared out from the baby girl's cries.
She died.
No!
I... passed out.
Anna's eyes, with the recollection, gradually emerged from confusion.
She vaguely remembered that she hadn't died, but was in a dying state, put on life support. Just as she fell unconscious, she seemed to hear Alexander Pierce's angry roar at Strucker.
After that... she seemed to have slept for a very, very long time, and only just woke up, still in a daze, when she heard a somewhat deep, somewhat hoarse voice.
"Shit, not mine, you've come to the wrong place, you don't belong to Hell, go where you should go."
"..."
So, I still died?
But if this isn't Hell, where is this?
Anna finally recalled everything from her life, her eyes no longer confused, but still looking around with incomprehension at a World that seemed utterly unrelated to Hell.
This can't be Heaven, can it?
How could that be?
Do people like me deserve Heaven?
Anna gave a self-deprecating smile, thinking in her heart, then her peripheral vision caught sight of the Sanctuary, seemingly built in the sky, connected by nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pure White, jade-like steps.
From the Sanctuary, a Shadow seemed to walk out.
No.
Behind this White figure were two women in red.
It was Anya.
Anya, who initially thought it was her brother and was somewhat excited, arrived in front of Anna almost in the blink of an eye.
Then... Anya looked at Anna in front of her and blinked.
"Who are you?"
"Anna, you are..."
Anna subconsciously spoke, then looking at Anya's appearance, the image of Hawk's sister appeared in her mind, somewhat uncertain: "You are... Anya? Hawk's sister?"
Anya's eyes lit up at the words.
"You know my brother."
"Miss."
Anya's guard captain, the first female Blood Elf Keira, spoke: "Master said that any soul goes directly to the Netherworld Prison's First Prison; only souls related to Master and who are Master's friends will directly descend upon the Pure Land upon their first entry into the Netherworld."
Anna looked at the Blood Elf Keira who spoke, her eyes wide, then her gaze once again swept around.
"So this is..."
"My Netherworld!"
Hawk's voice rang in her ears, and then his figure silently appeared on the Pure Land.
Anya, seeing Hawk appear, her eyes lit up, and she immediately ran up to him.
"Brother."
"Hawk?!"
Anna also looked at the appearing Hawk, calling out in surprise.
Hawk, embracing his sister Anya, exchanged glances with Anna, whose expression was filled with shock and disbelief, and said with a smile: "Welcome to my Netherworld, Anna."
Anya, hugging Hawk, looked up at him: "Brother, this time, this big sister won't leave as soon as she arrives, like the last big sister, will she?"
Hawk was slightly stunned, looking at Anya?
"Last time?"
"The one who came for a while and then disappeared in Fire."
"..."
Hawk realized who Anya was talking about.
She was talking about Helen Stacy.
His future mother-in-law.
But... "Big sister?"
"No."
"That's your future aunt."
Hawk shook his head to correct Anya, then nodded: "Yes, Anna won't leave that quickly."
Anya, hearing this, smiled from the bottom of her heart.
Although the Pure Land was beautiful, very much like Heaven, and Hawk had even conjured Blood Elves to be her playmates.
But!
Anya found it difficult to talk to these Blood Elves who were so respectful to her, and they had never been to Earth.
Though Hell was bad, at least there were other souls there.
But Anya didn't tell Hawk these things, because she didn't want to trouble her brother.
So, Anya was very happy about Anna's arrival.
Not just because she had someone to talk to.
The most important point.
Anya felt that she could learn from Anna how much hardship her brother had endured for her over the years.
Although her brother said no, she didn't believe it.
Just like when she was twelve, and she was hospitalized again, if she hadn't found that report, her brother wouldn't have told her anything.
Her brother was the best brother in the whole World, always bearing everything alone, protecting her very well.
So Anya knew very well that her brother, to save her from Hell, must have suffered a lot in these short four years.
Her brother could choose not to say, but she couldn't pretend not to know anything.
That was wrong.
Anya thought silently in her heart, then looked at Anna standing in front of her, already somewhat eager to hear her brother's story from Anna's mouth.
Hawk also saw his sister's eager expression for the arrival of a new friend.
But not now.
After a while...
Hawk first sent his sister away, then led Anna to the edge of the River Styx.
Anna's gaze crossed the River Styx, looking at the eight great Netherworld Prisons shrouded in endless Death and despair, and she opened her mouth.
Hawk stood by, glanced at Anna, but said nothing.
Anna's gaze retracted from the eight great Netherworld Prisons on the other side of the River Styx, then she lowered her eyes.
"August 13, 2013."
"10:05 AM."
"Alexander Pierce urgently contacted me and told me something."
"Strucker, the leader in charge of European affairs, after obtaining your blood, used the latest artificial synthesis technology to extract your DNA information from the blood, and then artificially synthesized gametes."
"Afterward, artificial insemination was used, allowing a volunteer involved in the experiment to successfully give birth naturally to a baby with your bloodline."
"Alexander Pierce's voice was very angry at the time."
"I was also very angry."
"But among HYDRA leaders, although they belong to HYDRA, it's more like an alliance."
"This time, Alexander Pierce also only found out after receiving the news and contacted me immediately."
"I also immediately set off, rushing to Strucker's side."
"Strucker's castle is located in Sokovia, among the mountains, and then, I also saw the baby girl with your bloodline, and her mother."
"But just as I took the baby girl and was about to leave..."
"An accident happened."
"That baby girl suddenly erupted in brilliant flames, and before I passed out, I seemed to see a Fire Phoenix bathed in flames."
"After that..."
"I remember being urgently put on life support by Strucker, and then I fell into a very, very long period of unconsciousness."
"When I woke up again..."
"I was already here."
"..."
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