Unlike other Eternals living on Earth.
Ajak didn’t choose to continue living on the spaceship like Makkari, nor did she beco a Bollywood superstar like Kingo.
She chose a lifestyle akin to self-imposed exile.
These years, Ajak has actually always been in the Federation, particularly in South Dakota, living as a rancher, accompanied by nature and animals, far from modern cities.
When Hawk brought Sesi to the farm, they happened to see Ajak dressed as a milker, walking out from the barn behind her.
Seeing Sesi, Ajak first smiled, then noticed Hawk beside her, montarily surprised, then regained her composure, and walked over very naturally.
"Mr. Phoenix."
"Chieftain Ajak."
Hawk and Ajak nodded to each other, then Hawk’s gaze fell on the freshly churned milk in Ajak’s basket, noticing her milking attire: "Chieftain Ajak shouldn’t be short on money, haven’t thought of hiring soone?"
Ajak smiled and nodded.
"I have."
"And then..."
"I thought of hiring soone tough-skinned."
Ajak smiled back: "But then I realized it’s unnecessary to keep them, let them perish under the will of heaven."
Listening to Ajak’s answer, Hawk raised a brow and then smiled genuinely.
"I’ve suddenly found myself liking you a bit, Chieftain Ajak."
"My honor."
Ajak gave a slight smile to this, then invited Hawk and Sesi to her private cabin on the ranch.
"Tea or coffee?"
"Tea!"
After settling onto the sofa, Hawk started to examine the layout of the two-story wooden house.
The layout was nothing special, just the arrangent a typical farmhouse would have.
But Hawk could sense a life lived here.
Every corner of this house was filled with signs of life. Hawk could see from these signs soone content with and enjoying a simple life.
Soon.
Ajak walked over carrying tea.
Hawk withdrew his gaze, accepted the tea, thanked her, and then looked into the cup.
"Eastern tea?"
"I might know you a bit better than Mr. Phoenix imagines."
Now also seated, Ajak continued to smile at Hawk.
Hawk chuckled at her words.
"Knowing is good. If my enemies were as inford as Chieftain Ajak, they wouldn’t have been annihilated by ."
"So people are overly optimistic, thinking they are exceptions, but they don’t realize, in regards to you, there are no exceptions."
"Haha!"
Listening to Ajak’s response, Hawk laughed again, then thought for a mont and said to Ajak: "Actually, there are exceptions."
Hearing this, Ajak was slightly taken aback, looking at Hawk.
In her understanding, almost, well, there was no "almost," any enemy facing Hawk, or attempting to, had already been wiped out to the last.
But now?
Hawk admitted soone survived his wrath?
This made Ajak, who had long since beco calm from her reclusive life, and even wasn’t surprised when seeing Hawk, feel a twinge of curiosity.
"May I ask who holds such honor?"
"phisto!"
"Lord of Hell."
Hearing the na Hawk ntioned, Ajak frowned: "Wasn’t he already by you..."
Hawk smiled slightly: "Yes, I scattered his bones and ashes, but I left his soul, and he’s been resurrected in another universe as the Lord of Hell there. By the way, it’s a universe you’re familiar with, since it’s where Icarus went."
Hearing this, Ajak’s curiosity vanished, turning into a serious deanor.
"Mr. Phoenix, Icarus’s actions..."
"I know."
Hawk imdiately interrupted Ajak’s words, smiling as he said: "On the way here, Sesi already told , and I’ve promised my sister to grant you rcy, so don’t worry, I didn’t co for that."
Hearing this, Ajak instinctively looked at Sesi sitting beside her.
Sesi nodded.
"Yes, Ajak, Mr. Phoenix has already forgiven us."
"Thank you."
Upon Sesi’s confirmation, Ajak didn’t hesitate and looked at Hawk: "Thank you for your rcy, Mr. Phoenix."
Though they hadn’t done anything against Hawk, technically speaking, they shouldn’t have brought death upon themselves.
But they were reasonable, and yet it was Hawk who set the terms.
As soone who understood Hawk, Ajak rembered one of his famous sayings very clearly.
Eliminate you, regardless of your actions!
So—
They couldn’t sit and await possible divine punishnt; they should actively seek a Divine Spirit’s forgiveness.
Fortunately, they received it.
"However..."
Just as Ajak felt relieved, Hawk changed the topic, curiously looking at Ajak: "I’m curious, according to Sesi, the orders you received were to kidnap the people of West View Town to use them as leverage against by the Celestial God Team. Did they tell you where to transport these people?"
Ajak didn’t conceal anything.
"No."
"No?"
"Yes, Nezzar’s directives were only that."
Ajak spoke truthfully.
Nazel.
The Analyst.
He is responsible for processing and analyzing data in the Cosmos, calculating the developnt trajectory of civilizations and potential threats, and holds the title of Analyst within the Celestial God Team.
And Hawk is precisely the potential threat he has identified and needs to be eliminated.
When Hawk absorbed the Mutants Cosmos as part of his own, he already knew the na of this Celestial God Team mber, so upon hearing this, his expression didn’t change much.
But what surprised him was what Ajak said next.
"But later Sella also gave instructions."
"Sella?"
Hawk frowned slightly at the ntion of this Celestial’s na.
"Who is that?"
"Sella, responsible for creating new forms of life or modifying existing ones, such as creating Mutant races through genetic experints."
"Creation... Like you Eternals, and the Anomaly Race?"
"You forgot to ntion Icarus?"
"Right, him too."
Hawk recalled eting the newly evolved Icarus again in the Mutants Cosmos, nodded in acknowledgnt, and then shook his head with a smile: "So, this ti I’m not dealing with one Celestial, but two."
Goodness.
An upgrade, huh.
Challenging him one-on-one wasn’t working, so this ti they tead up.
He knew it.
No wonder his Sixth Sense suddenly urged caution when he was thinking about biding his ti.
Turns out, there was another sneaky rat lurking in the dark corners.
Hawk thought to himself, then snapped back to reality, looking at Ajak: "Sesi never told about this."
Sesi, standing nearby, quickly spoke up, "I had no idea about this either."
Ajak hurriedly added, "Mr. Phoenix, it wasn’t my intention to keep this from you; Nazel only contacted this morning."
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
"This morning?"
"Yes."
"What other instructions did he give you?"
"To stall you."
"What?"
Hawk’s sword-like eyebrows furrowed as he looked at Ajak: "To stall ?"
Ajak nodded.
"Yes, Nazel instructed us to use every ans necessary, even at the cost of our entire race’s destruction, to keep you occupied for so ti, preventing you from leaving this Cosmos."
"..."
Hawk listened to Ajak’s words, frowning, not speaking.
Those two sneaky rats plan to keep him on Earth for so ti?
For what?
Is the plan to have the Eternals stall him so that the Analyst Nazel can, over ti, erase the tracking mark left on him?
What are they thinking?
You’ve entangled with , and now you want to erase the consequences?
It’s possible.
Either I kill you, or you kill .
Trying to remove this entanglent with the passage of ti is simply wishful thinking.
Hawk thought to himself.
But if those two sneaky rats weren’t planning to use the Eternals to stall him to let Nazel erase his traces, then what for?
Hold on.
Two sneaky rats.
One is distracting him, fleeing across the Main Multiverse.
So what is the other sneaky rat, the one he didn’t know about until Ajak just ntioned, the one called Sella, known as the Creator in the Celestial God Team, doing?
Hawk’s mind turned, then he thought of a possibility and couldn’t help but snort a laugh: "They don’t think that by stalling for so ti, they’ll have enough ti to create a weapon that can kill , do they."
How could that be possible?
Ever heard a saying?
A creator cannot create sothing greater than themselves.
Similarly.
The Celestial God Team has personally intervened multiple tis and failed to kill him, so how can they rely on what they’ve created to kill Hawk, whom they themselves cannot kill?
But just as Hawk was silently pondering this.
Ajak unexpectedly nodded.
"Yes, Sella is indeed creating a weapon capable of killing you."
"..."
Hawk looked up, glancing at Ajak.
Ajak did not hide it: "When Sella and I were in communication, I once entered his consciousness, and there, in the consciousness transmission, I saw another version of you."
At that, Hawk furrowed his brow tightly.
"?"
"Yes."
Ajak nodded firmly, his expression sincere.
"It was you!"
"..."
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