Afterword: A Chance to See Godfather Again?

On a grassy field beside a lake and forest on the outskirts of New York stood a simple, unadorned two-story wooden villa.

Not many people knew that this had once been the home of Iron Man—Tony Stark.

Not long after Kyle died in battle following the war against Thanos and the Kitty Pryde incident, Howard Stark also passed away. Heartbroken and disillusioned, Tony Stark took off his Iron Man Armor, officially married Little Pepper Potts, and had a daughter half a year later—Morgan Karl.

Yes, daughter Morgan had not taken the Stark surname. Instead, she had taken the surname of her godfather, Kyle.

As Tony Stark put it, his godfather meant no less to him than his own father. And since his godfather had no children in his life, letting Morgan bear his surname was also a form of remembrance.

Howard Stark had approved of this long before his death. The Stark family had effectively joined the Karl family as early as World War II. Now that the Stark family name had faded away, it could not have been better for the Karl family to carry on.

At that moment.

Light snow was still falling outside the wooden villa, while the firewood in the fireplace crackled loudly.

Dressed in casual black clothes, his temples graying, Tony sat on the first-floor living room sofa, playing with a Steel Helmet alongside his little daughter Morgan. His wife, Little Pepper, was preparing lunch in the kitchen, and the entire home brimmed with warmth and happiness.

All of a sudden.

The doorbell rang at the villa's wooden front door. There was no Artificial Intelligence notification. Tony and little Morgan exchanged a glance and smiled. Then Tony picked her up and walked toward the entrance. "Let's see who'd come by at this hour."

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