Marvel: I'm Hermione, from Hogwarts!

"Huh? If it's not you, then who is it?"

Pepper was a little surprised. If it wasn't an intelligence agency like SHIELD, who else would have this ability?

military?

If they had been reliable, Tony would never have been kidnapped in the first place.

Nick Fury pointed to Hermione who was still studying the crystal ball.

"she."

Pepper was stunned.

A little girl who was probably only eleven or twelve years old appeared in front of her.

And he's wearing a black robe. Is he cosplaying an evil wizard from some cartoon?

"You mean...she came to see Tony?"

Pepper looked at Nick Fury in disbelief.

"…How do I find it?"

Suspicion gradually appeared in her eyes.

"Use magic." Nick Fury remained calm.

Taking a deep breath, Pepper suppressed the urge to turn around and leave, and said coldly: "I don't have the heart to joke with you."

Nick Fury was a little helpless, but he could only patiently say: "It was her, her magic, or more precisely, her prophecy, that could find Stark."

"If you asked me to come here just to entertain me, then congratulations on your success. There is still so much work to do in the group. If there is nothing else, I will not accompany you."

Pepper's eyes were filled with disappointment as she turned and left.

Just as she was about to reach the door, it closed automatically with a bang.

Pepper turned around angrily, only to see the little girl dressed as a wizard pointing a small black stick at her.

"All fixed!"

The next second, she was frozen by an inexplicable force.

My thoughts were clearly clear, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't move at all, as if the pause button had been pressed on my whole body.

Chapter 22: The Future

Nick Fury saw this and said helplessly:

"Ms. Potts, we don't want this to happen, but if you want to find Stark, I suggest you listen to us."

You don't want Stark to be... Hermione added silently in her heart.

With a flick of her wand, Pepper broke the immobilization spell and regained her mobility, stumbling and almost falling.

But she didn't care about these little things at all. Instead, she took two steps at a time, came to Hermione, squatted down, hugged her arms, with expectation in her eyes.

"Kid… No, Miss Wizard, you have a way to find Tony right?"

Pepper accepted it very quickly.

Hermione nodded slowly and said, "Pretty sister, just stand here and don't move."

Pepper nodded repeatedly like a little chicken pecking at rice.

Several people looked at Hermione, only to find that she had closed her eyes at some point, with her wand pointed at the sky and gently circling, muttering some incomprehensible spell.

"Bala Bala, Maka Baka, Baka Baka, Maka Baka, Gunara, the Dark God..."

Colorful lights illuminate the room, and the starry sky is reflected on the ceiling.

The mysterious atmosphere and sense of ritual made them nervous. They stared intently at the venue, afraid of missing any changes.

A minute later, Hermione opened her eyes and looked at Pepper.

"All right."

"Ah? Is it okay now?" The four people present were a little confused.

They thought some strange images would appear, but in the end nothing happened and it was over.

"But... there's nothing on it." Pepper pointed at the crystal ball and couldn't help but ask.

Shouldn't it be just as they understand it, with some magic tricks and then the picture slowly emerging in the crystal ball?

Hermione saw what they were thinking and rolled her eyes.

"I was the one who performed the prophecy, not the crystal ball. I saw the future, so it must be in my mind. How could it have pictures?"

Several people were silent.

What should I do? It makes so much sense that I am speechless.

"Then this thing..."

Hermione was speechless: "What can you use to see the pictures in my mind? Of course I have to find a way to let you see them too!"

"That's why you need a crystal ball. Only it can withstand your magic and show you what you see!"

Natasha will answer the questions first.

"...No, actually a TV would be fine too, but I think a crystal ball is cooler."

Hermione lowered her head, put her two index fingers together, and scratched the ground with her toes, looking quite embarrassed.

Black braised egg: “…”

Natasha: "..."

Colson: "..."

Pepper: “…”

"So the crystal ball must be transparent and flawless because..."

"Well... because it looks good."

After that, Hermione seemed to be afraid that Fury would go back on his word, so she hugged the crystal ball and said, "I don't care. Anyway, this thing belongs to me."

So, I was defrauded of my funding? Fury's face froze.

He has been the director of SHIELD for so many years, and he has always been the one to defraud others of funds. This is the first time he has been defrauded of money.

Calm down, calm down... Nick Fury took a deep breath, suppressed the pain of spending money on an extremely expensive decoration, and silently remembered that she was just a child.

"Hehehe..." Hermione stroked the crystal ball and seemed to like it very much.

The black-brined egg's face became darker and darker.

"Wait a minute, let me get what I saw out of my mind first."

Hermione decided to quit while she was ahead, pointed the wand at her temple, slowly pulled out several glowing threads, and thrust them towards the crystal ball.

The light threads were like willow catkins floating in the air, falling on the surface of the crystal ball and actually melting directly into it.

The next second, the crystal ball emitted a bright light, like the light of a mobile phone being turned on.

Pictures emerged one after another.

Seeing that all the pictures were about her, even though there was no sound, Pepper couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed. She always felt like her privacy was being peeped at in public.

Most importantly, she was sure she had never experienced this before.

Prophecy... Is this what will happen in the future?

The others looked at the scene that was beyond their comprehension and had different thoughts.

"Tony, I see Tony!"

Suddenly, Pepper exclaimed.

Everyone cheered up.

In one of the pictures, Pepper was wearing a white women's suit, standing at the airport, looking anxious, as if she was waiting for someone.

Then the camera turned and a figure came down from the plane opposite. One of his hands was bandaged and he seemed to be injured, but he looked in good spirits.

It was Tony Stark.

Although they were just scattered fragments, they were enough for them to analyze the situation.

"Does this mean..."

Pepper looked at Hermione with a questioning look, as if wanting her confirmation.

Hermione nodded, and didn't make any more jokes at this time: "Don't worry, this guy is fine. Or even if he is in trouble now, he will be out of danger in the end and be successfully rescued."

“Because this is the future!”

Hermione opened her arms in a gesture of embracing the sun.

Very second-rate.

But no one paid attention to her actions at this moment. After they felt relieved, they were then filled with intense shock and horror.

Originally, the other magic of this wizard lady was barely within the scope of understanding of Nick Fury and others, but when this "prophecy" came out, he could no longer sit still.

Predict the future!

It doesn't sound very lethal, but in a way, this is the most terrifying ability.

If it had this capability, what intelligence would SHIELD not have?

It’s a pity that only wizards have this ability. No matter how powerful Hermione is, she is not a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. after all.

If SHIELD could also have its own wizards... Thinking of this, Nick Fury's body shook, and an idea grew in his mind.

There was a hint of heat in the look he gave Hermione, as if he was a weird uncle staring at the little girl, which made Hermione feel creepy.

Of course there is no such thing as prophecy.

Even if there was, it was not something Hermione could grasp right now.

She simply extracted some scenes from her previous life's "Iron Man" from her memory and projected them.

It sounds advanced, but it's actually just the most basic application of Legilimency.

There is no way. Legilimency is one of the most advanced magics, and one of the few combination magics. It includes memory retrieval, development, invasion (Legitimacy), mind reading, disguise, Occlumency and other applications. The library only has books on memory retrieval and development.

【Legendary Mind (Incomplete): Appearance】

[Extract a part of your own memory and project it onto a reflective prop. ]

There isn't even a level.

However, even such a simple application is enough to fool those people from SHIELD.

After all, it is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the movie scenes are, to a certain extent, their true future.

Pepper, who was a little happy just now, seemed to have thought of something and became worried again: "That's what we said, but what should we do now?"

They just knew that Tony would be rescued in the end, but they didn't know what to do to save him.

"Do whatever you should do, and pretend that what happened today didn't happen." Hermione suddenly said, "Especially don't rely on knowing the future to do something you shouldn't do, or something you should have done but didn't do because the future is already determined."

"Never let the prophecy affect reality." She looked serious, in contrast to her usual lively appearance.

"You must know that the future...is not set in stone!"

Chapter 23: Miserable Suffering

“Only when the prediction has less correlation with reality, the future is more fixed and what we see is more accurate.”

Although Hermione's words sounded a bit weird, everyone present was no ordinary person and they understood what she meant immediately.

The moment the future is known, it has already changed.

Therefore, we should try our best to maintain the original future direction to ensure that the desired results in certain things remain unchanged.

"That is to say, SHIELD just needs to follow the normal search and rescue method for Stark. Don't do anything unnecessary, but don't slack off either."

Fury's thinking was clear: "This way, we will be able to find Stark's clues normally, notify the military to rescue him normally, and finally rescue him successfully."

To sum up, do what you need to do and pretend nothing happened.