"Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Under the Avengers' utterly stunned gazes, Future Tony, who had been lifeless and had stopped struggling, suddenly seemed to have recovered from suffocation. He took a deep breath, then inexplicably burst into wild laughter.
"Damn it!"
Steve Rogers slammed his hammer into the ground. "Has the Laughing Virus taken effect?!"
"Then Tony, wouldn't he..."
Rhodes did not dare say the rest.
There was no saving him.
He could not accept such an outcome, but there was nothing he could do.
All he could do was watch Tony as the "Laughing Virus" took effect, silently clenching his fists in unwillingness.
"Oh? It's finally begun."
Leon raised his brows and smiled, as if it were exactly as expected.
Among the countless futures he had seen, almost none of Future Tony's awakened abilities had been magnetic manipulation like Otsutsuki Tony's.
Even minor variables could affect the outcome of an ability awakening, and personal will also played an irreplaceable role.
Future Tony and Otsutsuki Tony had been in completely different states of mind when they injected the Superhuman Serum and awakened their abilities.
With Leon, his God of War little brother, protecting him, Otsutsuki Tony had suffered almost no setbacks. Most of the time, Otsutsuki Tony only took a few minor hits before Leon stepped in to finish things off.
But Future Tony's world had no Leon. Almost everything followed its original course. Without Leon to back him up, Future Tony's life had initially risen in spirals—there were small twists and turns, but he could always avert danger and overcome them.
Until Thanos, the tyrant who wanted to impose family planning on all life in the universe, appeared. Future Tony entered the darkest period of his life.
Thanos' body as a mutated Eternal was simply too powerful, and with