Alright, there was no way he could stay calm right now. The video of Little Pepper kissing that other man kept lingering in his mind. The more he tried not to think about it, the clearer it became. How could he possibly calm down in a situation like this?
Someone had to tell him it was fake!
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Of course it’s real. Would your esteemed group owner send you a fake video or something?”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “In the future, you’ll marry Little Pepper and have a kid. But then, because of a crisis threatening the entire universe, you’ll sacrifice yourself to save everyone. So, Little Pepper becomes single again. That guy next to her is your future teammate.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “After you’re gone, he helps take care of Little Pepper, and over time, feelings develop. So… you know how it is.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “With a serious face.jpg“
Child of Nature: “…”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “I die? And then a teammate steals my girl?”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Are you kidding me? And a crisis threatening the whole universe?!”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Do you have any idea how tiny Earth is in the grand scheme of the universe? What use is a guy from Earth in a crisis that spans the entire cosmos?”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Besides, there’s no way I’d sacrifice myself for someone else. Don’t be ridiculous!”
Child of Nature: “No, that’s actually the one thing the group owner didn’t lie to you about.”
Child of Nature: “In the future, you really do sacrifice yourself to save the universe. And even before that, you fly a nuclear bomb into space, coming back from the brink of death.”
Child of Nature: “During the Thanos incident, you could have stayed out of it and lived your own life with Little Pepper. But in the end, you chose to get involved.”
Child of Nature: “That’s who you are, Tony Stark — Iron Man. A human body rivaling the gods.”
Child of Nature: “You are far greater than you think you are.”
Tony Stark fell silent. Even though he still didn’t want to believe it, the serious tone suggested they weren’t lying.
Was it true? Would he really sacrifice himself in the future to save others?
But a universe-threatening crisis… just how dangerous would something like that be?
Earth’s technology — even including himself — probably wouldn’t even be qualified to participate in a fight like that, right?
Wait a minute!
Tony suddenly thought of something.
If, according to them, he really was a character from some anime or movie, then a lot of logical problems just disappeared!
Because he was the main character, that’s why the war involved him.
Because he was on Earth, that’s why the war involved Earth.
Because this world was a work of fiction, that’s why a universe-threatening crisis would appear.
If that was the case, then it all made sense.
But why did that somehow make it even harder to accept?!
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “What about you guys? Don’t you find it hard to accept that you’re characters from some work?”
Dance King of the Uchiha: “Hmph. Only the weak-minded would find that hard to accept.”
Be My Son: “Ku la la la! So what if it’s a work of fiction? I’m very satisfied with my life right now.”
The Worst Evil Spirit: “After joining the chat group, does that question even really matter anymore? After learning about the future, are you really just going to walk straight into it without changing a single thing?”
Child of Nature: “Was the question you just asked part of the original author’s script?”
Turning Daigo into Soup: “Look at it another way: if those authors hadn’t created these stories, none of us would even exist.”
Turning Daigo into Soup: “Does thinking about it like that make it a little easier?”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “I feel like that somehow makes it even harder to accept.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Besides Meow, me, Bai Xuan, and you, do you think the others are happy with their original fates?”
Turning Daigo into Soup: “Uh…”
Madara Uchiha was betrayed and stabbed through the heart by his most trusted subordinate, Black Zetsu.
Whitebeard not only died, but the Whitebeard Pirates were also wiped out.
Invincible East basically died because of love.
Minato Namikaze died sealing the Nine-Tails, his wife died too, and his son grew up in hardship.
And Tokisaki Kurumi… don’t even get her started. She was still trying to kill the Original Spirit and change her own destiny.
Yeah… none of their fates were exactly happy…
The Released Glory: “Woof woof woof?”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Oh, I forgot about you.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “That Shiba Inu is also an exception.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “I think I get it, even if your way of comforting people is pretty unusual.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “So, @The Ordinary Group Owner, the thing with Little Pepper… that was fake, right?!”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Ahem. Well, the video might be fake, but in reality… who can say for sure?”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Not everyone is willing to stay single for their whole life, you know.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “…”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Is there a full version?”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Name your price. Even if cash isn’t good, you can trade for an equivalent value in gold or jewelry.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to offer other things, but wealth was the most useful.
For example, gold. Other jewelry or diamonds might be worthless in a different world, but gold would always hold decent value, no matter which world you were in.
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Eyes sparkling with greed.jpg“
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Bored.jpg“
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Never mind about the money. I’m way too weak right now. If someone targeted me, I’d be done for.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “How about you make me an AI similar to JARVIS?”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “On my end, technological progress has slowed to a crawl because of spiritual energy. Its existence has caused weird changes to a lot of scientific formulas. So technology hasn’t advanced at all — if anything, it’s regressed a bit.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “With JARVIS on the internet, I’d be totally unstoppable.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Oh, and don’t make JARVIS too honest. We do still have internet over here. Things like robbing the rich to help the poor… well, sometimes it just can’t be helped, right?”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “…You could just say that directly. Do I look like someone who’s that honest?”
Child of Nature: “Send one my way too. I’ll give you a spiritual energy cluster.”
Child of Nature: “It can roughly double an ordinary person’s physical abilities. It should patch up your weak body a bit.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “???”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “My body is perfectly healthy, alright! If it weren’t for those damn barks startling me today, she wouldn’t have been able to get out of bed until tomorrow afternoon.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Tell you what. Just mention anything else you want while you’re at it. And send me a few extra of those spiritual energy clusters.”
Lighthouse’s Richest Man: “Don’t get the wrong idea. It’s not that I need them. My physical condition is perfectly fine without them! I just think Little Pepper has been working a bit too hard lately, and I want to reward her.”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “…”
The Ordinary Group Owner: “Do you really think we’re going to believe that?”
