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Chapter 137 At home... It seems we have guests!

After that night battle on the streets of New York.

Besides making Tony Stark famous as Iron Man, S.H.I.E.L.D. also obtained the remains of the Iron Monger.

Originally, after obtaining the Iron Monger, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, which was hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D., thought they could use the Iron Monger's shell to reverse engineer the manufacturing technology of the massive war weapon that would dominate the battlefield.

Thus, this steel mech was mass-produced.

However... the facts told them that they were simply overthinking things.

Although they recreated a brand new, undamaged Iron Monger to scale, one-to-one, and equipped it with various weapons.

However, without the Arc Reactor as its energy core and the subsystems replicated from Jarvis, which provided such a high-performance operating system, this steel mech, weighing tens of tons and costing exorbitantly high prices, was essentially no different from a lump of scrap metal.

Having paid a huge price only to reap a pile of scrap metal, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hydra hiding within S.H.I.E.L.D., were naturally unwilling to accept this outcome.

Soon, some people attributed the missing core technology of the Iron Monger to its missing head.

and so.

Based on multiple analyses and investigations.

The "clown," who took the Iron Monger's head that day, quickly came into their sights.

Just then, Kingpin, who already had some cooperation with Hydra, approached them, willing to pay a high price to have Hydra deal with the troublesome Joker who had caused him to lose a lot of business in Hell's Kitchen and suffer heavy losses.

Hydra, which was already planning to deal with the Joker, readily accepted the money that had been offered to them.

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"Iron Monger's head?"

Recalling the Iron Monger in the video footage, so domineering and seemingly transformed into a weapon of war, a burning glint flashed in Locke Rumlow's eyes.

"I understand. I will bring back the Iron Monger's head."

"Of course, I have no doubt about it."

After a pause of one second, the figure in front of Crossbones said, "By the way, this Joker seems to possess supernatural abilities, so for this mission, I've also applied for temporary access to 'Winter Soldier' ​​for you. He will assist you in completing this mission."

Upon hearing that the mission would also be aided by the war weapon "Winter Soldier," Crossbones smiled slightly, feeling even more confident about the mission.

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Meanwhile, in the maid café, the clown Erin was playing with the [Crystal Eye] in his hand when a wicked smile flashed across his face, as if he had just thought of something.

Just then, his nose twitched, and then he sneezed several times.

"Achoo..."

Rubbing his slightly itchy nose, a hint of coldness gradually crept into the eyes of the clown Erin.

"Does this mean someone is plotting against me?"

With his powerful divination abilities and profound control over his facial muscles, the clown certainly wouldn't sneeze for no reason.

Aside from special cases like the common cold.

Every sneeze from the clown is actually a spiritual warning.

Fate, in the darkness, was silently reminding him.

"Interesting. Is that Kingpin? After being silent for so long, it's about time that guy made his move."

After putting the Cursed Scarecrow and the Crystal Eye into his pocket.

The clown Erin adjusted his black top hat and then casually returned to Hell's Kitchen.

Not long after entering Hell's Kitchen.

Erin's steps seemed to pause for a moment.

With a slight smile on his face, he adjusted his top hat and walked toward the side of the road.

Several tens of seconds later.

Two burly men glanced at Erin not far away, then silently followed.

A few minutes later.

As they passed a relatively quiet side road, Erin turned around and went straight into an alley.

Seeing this, the two men behind Erin quickened their pace and turned to walk into the alley.

Where are they?

"Where did it go?"

Looking at the blocked alleyway and the mess of garbage scattered all over the ground, the two men exchanged a glance.

Realizing something was wrong, they were about to leave the alley when a faint voice suddenly rang out above them.

"Hi, are you two looking for me?"

Upon hearing the sound from above, the two, as if facing a formidable enemy, instinctively looked up.

Before they could even look up, their vision was swallowed up by a series of dreamlike afterimages and a terrifying gaze that looked down upon all living beings from above.

[A dejected stare]

It instantly shattered their mental defenses.

The clown Erin loosened his grip on the legs of the vengeful lover and fell over their heads.

They removed an earphone from each of the two men's ears and crushed it forcefully.

Erin once again mobilized the power of the Mind Seal and inquired about the origins of the two.

He also casually started groping the two of them with one hand.

After searching through them, besides various identification documents with different names printed on them, Erin only found one photo of himself on each of them.

Erin tossed the stack of documents aside without even asking for them.

After all, these things are mostly fake, so even if Erin took them, they wouldn't be of much use to her.

As for the two photos of themselves in their possession, they were naturally destroyed on the spot.

After getting what he wanted from them, the clown Erin pointed a finger, and his pent-up resentment and passion, which had been burning with hunger, sacrificed the two people, body and soul.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Almost instantly, the two men who were following Erin were swallowed up by the thin threads of resentment and love, turning into ashes and disappearing before Erin's eyes.

"Destroying the body and covering up the evidence, that ability is quite convenient."

Just now, taking advantage of the moment when the "Desperate Gaze" broke down the opponent's mental defenses, Erin used hypnosis to obtain a lot of information from these two guys.

These two guys, who were carrying numerous fake documents, were not assassins hired by Kingpin, but rather agents sent by Hydra.

According to their explanation.

Their purpose in coming here was to kill the Joker and take back the Iron Monger's head from him.

With that thing, and relying on Hydra's technology, they will eventually be able to overcome all the problems with the Iron Monger and replicate that huge Iron Monger.

Who knows, they might become the next heroes, like Iron Man, piloting mechs.

"Ha, Hydra? Do they really think they're easy prey?"

Shaking his head, Erin the Clown walked to his makeshift dwelling, which had been burned down by smoke, and a slight smile crept onto his lips again.

"It seems we have guests at home!"

(End of this chapter)