The Most Useless Bodyguard Appears

"This time, you made me lose everything I put in, and you even blew up the spacecraft that was supposed to be reusable in the original plan. So tell me, how exactly do you plan to make up for my losses?" The investor looked at Reed Richards, whose expression shifted slightly, and continued with a cold laugh.

"Well..." Hearing the investor's words, neither Reed Richards nor Ben Grimm knew what to say. After all, even if they could not be called completely penniless right now, they were barely getting by. If they really had to compensate the investor for his losses, that was impossible.

This had been a Space Program, after all. Even though Reed Richards had innovated and improved the technology in many areas, it had still cost an enormous amount of money. If that debt were placed on Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, even with Doom added in, and they tried to work it off in the normal way, they would not be able to pay it all back even if they worked hard for the rest of their lives!

"Mr. James, you should be aware of our situation..." Faced with James's questioning, Ben Grimm glanced at Reed Richards, whose face was bitter and who could not get a single word out, and sighed helplessly in his heart. He knew that without Doom, the social butterfly, present, he could only be the one to speak.

Never mind that when Ben Grimm had been snapping at Doom earlier, he had not seemed to take these debts seriously. Ben Grimm also knew that if the negotiation did not go smoothly, and they could not let Reed Richards bring out his proper value and use that brilliant mind of his to create wealth, then they probably would never be able to