A prince from a certain American comic book

“Boss.” Coulson, with his keen eyesight, noticed Ike inside the iron cage and immediately said to Fury beside him, “There’s someone here.”

Fury looked over.

When his gaze fell on Ike in the iron cage, a hint of confusion flashed in his eyes.

quite a while.

As the two entered, Coulson, who had only been an agent for less than a year and a half and still possessed such a warm heart, prepared to reach out and open the iron cage.

Fury stopped him abruptly and said in a deep voice, "Wait."

Coulson glanced at Allen, who appeared to be unconscious, then turned to Fury and said, "Boss, he's just a kid."

Yes.

Although Ike's lifespan is slightly longer than that of an average person, he is indeed fifteen years old and looks fifteen this year.

Therefore, Ike is indeed still considered a child.

Fury narrowed his eyes, staring at Ike in the iron cage, and said calmly, "Don't you find that strange?"

Coulson was taken aback.

Fury said in a deep voice, "Mutants hunt ordinary people for their appetite and to satisfy their twisted killing desires. So far, we have never found a survivor among the five waves of mutants we have eliminated. Why are there any here?"

Coulson turned to look at Ike, who was already bubbling from the corner of his mouth, and said, "Boss, we'll know once we wake this kid up, won't we?"

After Coulson finished speaking, he opened the iron cage and pulled out Ike, who was curled up inside.

Seeing this, Fury shook his head inwardly and then said, "Find out the child's identity."

Coulson looked at Ike, whose legs were still twitching, and nodded as he listened to his boss Fury's words.

He meant well, that's for sure.

But he's not an honest person who's easily fooled.

Three hours later.

Marion County Hospital

In a separate ward that was temporarily set aside.

On the hospital bed draped in a white sheet, Ike, now dressed in a patient gown and with his face wiped clean, lay quietly, breathing evenly and rhythmically, as if he had entered a deep sleep.

squeak.

The ward door opened.

Coulson followed in a nurse pushing a treatment cart.

Just then.

“Mr. George Washington in Ward 2 insists that you help him with his IV drip.”

"coming."

The young, beautiful, and fashionable nurse, known as Mi, who was pushing the treatment cart, turned around and said something. She then glanced at Coulson and Nick Fury, who had his arms crossed, in the ward before putting the treatment cart aside and walking out.

“Boss,” Coulson said, walking up to Fury, “we didn’t find a match in the fingerprint data, but we did find an eight-year-old file using Osborn Industries’ latest facial recognition system.”

As he spoke, Coulson handed Nick Fury the electronic printout he had just retrieved from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Fury took it and looked at it.

The electronic printout contained the missing person notice from eight years ago, which was created by the all-powerful Jerry the mouse.

Fury frowned slightly and said, "Disappeared eight years ago?"

Coulson looked at the rather handsome Ike, who had been dressed up on the hospital bed, and nodded.

"What about the records for the welfare home?"

"No."

"……what?"

Coulson looked at Fury and said, "The Marion County Welfare Home was closed by the county council seven years ago due to funding problems. The staff from that time have all been scattered throughout the country."

"What about the school?"

No, not at all.

"...Tell me about it."

"When the Marion County Welfare Home was still operating, the educational model adopted was family education, since this could save a lot of money."

"..."

Fury was silent for a moment, then looked up at Coulson and said expressionlessly, "So, besides this missing person notice, there's no other information that can directly prove this boy's identity?"

Coulson thought for a moment and then nodded.

quite a while.

Fury, who had been watching Ike sleep in the hospital bed, turned his gaze back to Coulson and said, "Make contact with the local child protection agency. We need to go back."

Coulson looked up and asked, "So soon?"

Fury nodded and said, "Yes, a Red Room agent has defected, and intelligence indicates that she is currently on our soil."

Red house?

kgb.

After regaining his composure, Coulson nodded quickly. Finally, after a year and a half of fighting mutants, they were finally about to enter the organization's normal operating procedures...

Fury smiled as he looked at the somewhat excited Coulson.

Young is so good.

Back when he first joined the bureau, his excitement seemed to rival that of Coulson.

After his initial excitement subsided, Coulson looked at Ike on the hospital bed and said, "Boss, what do you think the child protection agencies will do with him?"

Fury said expressionlessly, "After the child welfare agency completes the verification, they should send him to some kind of family support group."

Coulson frowned. "Foster families?"

Fury turned to look at Coulson and asked, "You want to adopt him?"

Coulson shook his head like a wave.

Fury chuckled and said, "The environment in foster homes might not even be as good as that in group families. They're all a bunch of people from the bottom of society trying to earn the government's monthly subsidy of a little over a thousand dollars."

Coulson: "..."

After half an hour.

Lying in the hospital bed, Ike didn't open his eyes until the invisible Jerry Mouse whispered something in his ear.

next second.

Ike, still lying down, moved his slightly sore limbs and asked Jerry the mouse crouching beside his head, "Are you sure those two guys really left?"

Jerry nodded very affirmatively.

Ordinary mice can sense their surroundings using their whiskers, but the all-powerful mouse from the Twin Mouse Galaxy can accurately determine the approximate environment of an ordinary small town through its unique scent sensing ability...

Ike nodded without a doubt, looked around but didn't see Talking Tom, and then asked Jerry, "Where's Talking Tom? Where did he go?"

Jerry the mouse, leaning on Ike's head with his legs crossed, patted his hands and said, "I'm hungry. I said I'd go find something to eat first."

Ekko: "..."

Chapter 006: Hello, Nun

One month later. (A Song of Ice and Fire Chinese version available at www.bHzw.cc)

A light green van, seemingly on the verge of being scrapped but still sturdy, carrying several young girls and a big boy, was driving on a road lined with yellow sand on both sides.

The dilapidated van made a muffled thud as it passed a cross-shaped iron railing by the roadside.

The shaking sound was very loud.

But the girls inside the car didn't seem worried at all about the possibility of the car suddenly exploding.

The little girls in the car were playing by themselves.

The older girls, on the other hand, were looking at the handsome young man sitting in the first row by the car door, leaning against the window, gazing at the scenery outside with his chin in his hand, seemingly bored.

As for the younger ones?

They folded paper into toys and played a game of "East, West, South, North".

"Linda, pick a number."

"……Four."

“Okay, let me see.” Janice, who was sitting in the back row behind Ike and wearing a light green dress, opened the paper marked with four and said, “You will make new friends soon.”

Linda, dressed in red, sat by the car window, watching the passing scenery with a hint of worry.

Sitting in the front row, Ike gazed at the scenery outside and sighed deeply in his heart.

What happened to the story of the prince's incognito visit?

That's exactly how it was written in the script.

A month ago, after the Child Welfare Bureau investigated and re-verified Ike's identity information, Ike should have requested a newly registered official file.

Having obtained the file, Ike originally planned to simply leave.

But as it turns out, putting on a show is important in any country.

So, for some reason, the Marion Police Department suddenly became Ike's savior, and even the governor of West Virginia made a special trip two weeks ago to visit Ike, who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder by a psychologist.

Yes.

Then, under the governor's warm care, for some unknown reason, Ike was suddenly and inexplicably adopted by a nun named Charlotte.

The reality and the plot of Ike's plan have completely deviated from the original story.

Ike originally planned to sneak away.

But just as he was about to set off, Jerry the Mouse sent a warning: a supernatural magician had appeared in Marion County.

And he's a dark sorcerer.