Hydra...
Kraft knew that name all too well. America ran some kind of Captain America promotion every other day, after all, and as Captain America's enemies and unquestionable villains, Red Skull and his Hydra were widely known too.
Even someone like Kraft, who had little interest in Captain America, often heard the people around him discussing them.
"But weren't these guys wiped out back in World War II?"
"Hydra has a slogan: 'Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.' Clearly, they aren't that easy to get rid of. Besides, they weren't wiped out during World War II. Even afterward, countries spent quite a long time rooting out their remaining forces."
Angela spoke through his earpiece.
"Tch! That Captain America wasn't all that reliable..."
Kraft muttered under his breath. He knew how difficult it was to eradicate a large, fanatical organization, of course. He was simply taking his anger out on someone else-if Hydra had been cleaned out properly, he wouldn't have been captured and experimented on.
"Wait... so the Viper Gang was wiped out because of me?"
As the gunfire inside the Viper Gang's base gradually died down, Kraft suddenly put the pieces together.
"Hmm, this is starting to look like a time paradox... Don't tell me the person who attacked the Magia Gang back then and let Martin and me escape was also me?"
The Time Skateboard could only adjust the year, not the date, so Kraft had no idea what was happening with the Magia Gang right now. Besides, he'd been barely conscious throughout their escape and had no real memory of the exact date.
But according to the information Martin had extracted through interrogation, the Viper Gang's destruction and the attack on the Magia Gang had happened around the same time...
*So there's a