Tony Stark had disappeared.
The news quickly reached the military, then spread throughout the entire United States.
The American media immediately erupted into an uproar, Stark Industries’ stock began to plummet, and the weapons industry was thrown into turmoil.
Meanwhile, while the military was frantically searching everywhere for the missing Tony, he was actually sitting comfortably at the terrorist group’s base, enjoying a cup of coffee.
“Mr.
Tony Stark, I apologize.
I truly had no idea that the target we attacked was you, the great Mr.
Tony Stark.”
“If we had known that person was you, we certainly wouldn’t have acted that way.”
Sitting across the table was a bearded man who spoke to Tony with a friendly smile, appearing extremely amiable.
Of course, he wasn’t speaking English.
A bespectacled man sitting beside him was translating his words for Tony.
“And?
You want to kidnap me and demand a ransom?”
Sipping his coffee, Tony asked the bearded man in a relaxed tone, as though he didn’t care about the situation he was in at all.
“No.
If that person weren’t you, Mr.
Stark, I might indeed have demanded a ransom.
But the person we’ve captured is the great Mr.
Stark, the world’s largest arms manufacturer, the most ruthless executioner.
So I want you to help me make the Jericho Missile.”
He pulled a photograph from inside his jacket, placed it on the table, and pushed it toward Tony.
“This one.”
The bespectacled man translated his words for Tony.
Tony glanced at the photograph for a moment and recognized it as the latest weapon he had just demonstrated to the U.S.
military not long ago.
He immediately put down his cup and shook his head.
“I refuse!”
The very next moment, several men lifted Tony from his chair and plunged him into a barrel of water.
They dunked him in and out repeatedly until he was nearly drowned.
“I agree!”
As a result, Tony was locked inside a cave and began making combat equipment for the terrorist group.
Staring at the weapons filling the cave, Tony’s face was filled with anger.
After all, every single one of these weapons had been manufactured by Stark Industries.
He couldn’t understand how weapons produced by his own company had ended up in the hands of a terrorist group.
“Mr.
Stark, what are you thinking about?”
The sudden whisper of a human voice beside his ear nearly scared Tony to death, because the sentence had been spoken in English.
“Oh, shit!
You scared the hell out of me!
Don’t you know you’re not supposed to suddenly talk to someone from behind!”
Cursing as he turned around to look at the person behind him, Tony saw Lancelot wearing full-body armor.
His eyes immediately widened in shock.
“You!”
“Yes, it’s me.”
“No, I mean, it’s actually YOU!!”
“Yes, that’s what I mean too.
It’s me.”
“Damn it, where did you come from?!
No, where did you disappear to before?
You suddenly pushed me out, then you suddenly vanished, and now you’ve suddenly appeared here.”
“Are you in league with the terrorists!?
Of course!
They knew my route, so there must be a spy!
You’re in league with the terrorists, aren’t you!?
That’s it!
There’s no mistake!”
Tony stared at him furiously as he shouted, making Lancelot shake his head helplessly.
“No, Mr.
Stark.
I am not a terrorist.
I am a knight, a very honest and righteous knight.
When I pushed you out back then, I wasn’t trying to harm you.
I was trying to help you.”
“Help me?
You call telling me to stand directly in front of a rocket and take it head-on helping me?”
Tony pointed at his own head.
His hair appeared noticeably thinner, especially in the middle, where it looked as though it had been scorched.
“Do you know that I was hit directly in the face by a rocket?!
Even now, just thinking about what happened makes me feel like I’m going insane!”
“That was a rocket, a rocket manufactured by my own company, powerful enough to blow a military jeep apart!
And I took it head-on with my body!
Most of my hair was burned off!”
“But you weren’t injured at all, were you, Mr.
Stark?
At the time, I had already strengthened all of your clothing.”
Lancelot spread his hands as he explained.
“Not even the Devil would know what the hell you meant by ‘strengthened’ when you said that!”
“I thought I was absolutely going to die back then!”
“Besides, I wasn’t hit by just one rocket!”
“One rocket couldn’t kill me, so those brainless bastards even fired a second and third rocket at me!
I took three rockets in total!
I blocked them with my FACE!
And all of that happened because you pushed me out!”
Pointing at his own face, Tony’s eyes widened as he became even more agitated.
“But you’re perfectly healthy now.
Other than having slightly less hair, there isn’t anything else wrong with you, is there?”
“I…”
Tony, who was still furious, wanted to argue, but he found that Lancelot actually had a point.
Even though Lancelot had pushed him out and he had taken three rockets directly to the face, aside from the issue with his hair, he truly hadn’t suffered even the slightest injury.
“That doesn’t make it okay!
If you hadn’t pushed me out, they wouldn’t have captured me, and I wouldn’t have to be forced to make weapons for them now!”
Because based on the situation at the time, he had actually been capable of saving Tony.
By strengthening Tony’s clothes into a Noble Phantasm, blocking the bullets would have been no problem at all.
As long as he took Tony away from there, the terrorists would have had no way to stop them.
Yet Lancelot hadn’t done that.
Instead, he had pushed Tony out and handed him over to the terrorists.
The terrorists only recognized Tony after bombarding him with three rockets in succession.
Otherwise, Tony might have had to endure several more rockets.
“Regarding that, I apologize.
But at the time, I couldn’t take you away, so I could only make sure that you weren’t injured.”
Although it went somewhat against his conscience, in order to carry out Amakusa’s orders and complete the mission, Lancelot could only lie without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
“Wait a second.
Where did you disappear to back then?
After pushing me out, you suddenly vanished just like that, exactly the same way you suddenly appeared.
How can you even do that?”
“And how did you get in here?
There are three people outside carrying weapons.
If you say you’re not a terrorist, I wouldn’t believe you even if I died!”
“That is very easy for me.”
Lancelot took one step backward.
Then, right before Tony’s eyes, his body transformed into countless points of light and disappeared.
Tony stared wide-eyed at the spot where Lancelot had been standing moments ago.
He remained stunned for quite some time before reaching out and waving his hand through the empty air in front of him, confirming that nothing was blocking his hand.
He blinked his eyes and even rubbed them.
“Oh, shit!
Did I really just see ghost?!”
*BANG!*
The cave door opened.
Several terrorists entered while carrying their weapons.
Seeing Tony standing there in a daze, they were somewhat puzzled, but they said nothing.
Their leader was still the same bearded man from before.
He pushed the skinny, bespectacled translator beside him forward.
“From now on, hurry up and make the weapons for me.
He will be your assistant.
Once you make the Jericho Missile for me, I will release you!”
Although Tony had not suffered any injuries, Yinsen still came over to Tony’s side.
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