Although he had little clue what he was doing, the pressure that a higher life-form like Pharaoh Akhenaten exerted upon lower life-forms was real, objectively existent, and not subject to individual will.
Fear gripped his gallbladder like a giant hand and squeezed hard! Baldy was so scared he was practically about to wet himself! As someone whose willpower was effectively negative, he simply could not withstand the might of the Heart of the Universe.
His teeth kept chattering, and he muttered as if delirious, "Five seconds, just hold on for five seconds... Why aren't these five seconds over yet?!"
He endured one five-second interval, then another, and another...
Even Doctor Doom was astonished by his extraordinary courage. It was as though the great demon king had met this bald man for the first time; he had never expected him to possess an iron will like Captain America's.
Little did he know that Baldy could keep forcing himself onward because he was used to it.
As a super weakling with considerable self-awareness, he spent every day around Daisy and Hela, with all sorts of super-dangerous situations constantly occurring nearby. Adventures that ordinary people could scarcely imagine in an entire lifetime were routine for him. Fear was the norm; trembling in terror at a glance or a movement was nothing unusual.
He had been terrified at first. Of course, he was still terrified now, but once one encountered such emotions every day, one's mindset naturally became calmer. Even he did not realize that his tolerance for external fear had actually become quite high.
He had never told anyone that working with these great demons for so long had already pushed his heart beyond its limits, and his body "not working" was merely the outward manifestation of his heart failing.
After Pepper and