T'Challa paid no attention to the polite farewell from the German administrative staff.
He walked along the sidewalk of Berlin's Avenue de France, shrouded in the shadows of buildings, toward a hotel near St. Hedwig's Cathedral. With every step, the anger in his heart rose higher, forcing him to clench his fists to suppress it. Given his special status—and the fact that his father, T'Chaka, had been the sole casualty at the Vienna conference—the German government had not made things difficult for him over his pursuit of Winter Soldier James Buchanan alongside Captain America Steve Rogers. Unlike Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, he had not been placed under house arrest in that building and stripped of all his equipment.
Yet a week had passed since James Buchanan had been captured, and Germany still refused to bring the Winter Soldier out of that building—whether it belonged to Germany or the United States, no one seemed to know—and hand him over to Wakanda for trial by the Wakandan government. Every time, the German Foreign Office politely expressed its difficulties. Every day, the answer he received from them was the same empty official nonsense: "Our deepest condolences, but we are powerless to help." They also stated that they absolutely could not release the serious criminals Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson.
T'Challa went to the Foreign Office every day to ask about the situation and request an interrogation of the Winter Soldier. Finally, the Foreign Minister who received him said that the Winter Soldier was extremely dangerous and required professionals to take part in the interrogation. Germany had hired a professional criminal psychologist from the United States to assist with the questioning. Until then, for safety reasons, no one was permitted to interrogate the Winter Soldier alone. But when T'Challa asked why the Winter