“I’m back!
Mom Julia!
~~”
After slacking off on the road for a long time, and because it was too early and the sky hadn’t lit up in the U.S.
yet, Anna even took a detour to Wakanda, where she could get the Heart-Shaped Herb.
Then, after an hour-long flight from Wakanda to the U.S., Anna flew back to the home she lived in within this Marvel Universe.
And the first thing she did upon returning home was to run and flatter Mom Julia without stopping.
After all, her behavior of running to Afghanistan to set up a stall and trying to get familiar with big shots, if measured by the rigid standards of ordinary American parents, would be considered the behavior of a bad kid who stays out all night.
Because when she was chatting nonsense with Stark in Afghanistan during the day, in parallel time, it was pitch black at night here in Kansas, U.S.
Fortunately, the little family she lived in, including herself, the family of three were not ordinary people, so this fatal mistake, which would likely get her sent back to an orphanage in other foster families, was not a big deal in this home.
You have to know that the two owners who adopted her already knew about her Kryptonian Superpowers and her ‘alien’ background from the very first day.
After all, they were the ones on the scene who personally carried her home from that Kryptonian spaceship.
And these two people on the scene who had adopted Anna for 6 years were both formidable Espers, each better than the other!
It was precisely because both owners were Espers that Anna, the Transmigrator, had received superior Superpower education since she was young, which is why Anna was able to awaken her Kryptonian Superpowers at such a young age.
Otherwise, if she had really grown up like Clark Kent in the DC Universe, it would be good enough if Anna wasn’t bullied by other kids in elementary school now.
After all, Superman only discovered his Superpowers at age 9, saved his classmates from a school bus at 13, and sacrificed his adoptive father at 17…
Then this Kent-brand salted fish drifted until he was 33, when he finally got his Superman suit and learned to fly.
If Anna were like that, she’d be screwed.
Because by the time she learned to fly, the entire Marvel Universe would have been long gone.
It was also because the adults in the house were not ordinary people that Anna, this little kid, could get her ‘chores’ job, where she helped her mom on the farm and earned pocket money, with an annual income of about twenty thousand dollars.
Even as an Esper with a Man of Steel, what ordinary person would allow a 4-year-old kid like Anna to pull a plow weighing several tons on the farm?
And to do it for hundreds or thousands of acres?
Of course, it was precisely because this home was different from ordinary families.
The Marvel Universe was not exactly a peaceful World either.
Therefore, the two owners didn’t have many demands on Anna, other than being a bit strict on morals and values so she wouldn’t do evil just because she had Superpowers; they didn’t make demands like those self-righteous liberal saints.
Furthermore, regarding Anna’s daily behavior, things like nighttime curfews common in ordinary families, coming home right after school, and daily restrictions were much more relaxed.
Otherwise, if it were an ordinary American family.
Even if they knew she was an Esper, knowing their 6-year-old daughter stayed out all night and ran to the ‘extremely dangerous’ Afghanistan to cause trouble, they would definitely go crazy.
However~ although the family’s control over Anna was always very loose.
But since Anna had stayed out all night, upon returning, she couldn’t forget to flatter Mom, ask for instructions in the morning, and report in the evening.
So, the first thing the kid did upon opening the door was…
Plop!
~ She hugged the long legs of Mom Julia, who was cooking breakfast in the kitchen.
Afghanistan time is in the UTC+5 zone, while the Kansas state where Anna’s family lived is in the UTC-6 zone.
In other words, there was a full 13-hour time difference between the two places.
When Anna returned from Afghanistan, it was almost afternoon there.
Adding the time she spent lingering and killing time on the road.
So when she got home, it was just in time for Mom Julia to be preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
It was also because of the time difference that when Anna flew to the Afghan desert earlier, she opened her little recliner and slept under the peeping of the bald female sorcerer…
It was because it happened to be midnight in the U.S., exactly the sleep time set by her biological clock.
Just as expected.
~ Little Anna.
Where did your cape go?”
“Don’t you wear it every day and act all cocky?” “I remember you were fighting with Steve over its usage rights last night…”
This couldn’t help but make Mom Julia feel strange.
Because if one day Anna, this cocky little kid, wasn’t wearing that red cape to show off at home and school, it would really be too strange.
“Woof!
Woof!!” “Woof woof woof!!”
Then, Comrade Steve, who was squatting at Anna’s feet and had followed her into the house—the little golden Labrador dog raised by Mom Julia—started barking at her anxiously after seeing that the cape was gone from her body.
That clearly expressive dog face, with teary eyes, a look of anxiety mixed with expectation…
it was clearly the same question as Mom Julia’s.
— Pooper scooper, tell me, where did you put my cape?
Uh!
~ Alright!
If we really have to talk about it, in this house, Anna only had half the usage rights for that red cape.
Usually, the daytime belonged to her, and she could wear it to show off every day.
But at night, it was the exclusive property of the little golden Labrador—Comrade Steve, usually an essential holy object it used to wrap itself in to sleep in its doghouse at night.
In the dog’s heart, the importance of that cape was about the same as the holy shroud in the hearts of redneck believers…
Before leaving home yesterday, Anna seemed to have been arguing with Steve for the rights to the cape at home with the far-fetched excuse of ‘I’m going to Afghanistan now’, ‘It’s daytime in Afghanistan’, ‘As long as I’m in the Sun, the cape is mine’.
At that time, the person and the dog were making a huge fuss in front of Mom Julia for a good ten minutes…
As a result, now that she was home, she was immediately questioned by her mom and the dog.
But now, just thinking about this, Anna wanted to clutch her stomach and laugh wildly again.