Want to Be My Father-in-Law the Moment We Meet?

When Kingpin heard that Jack wanted to meet with him, he was dumbfounded. That S.H.I.E.L.D. hothead had wreaked havoc in Hell's Kitchen yesterday, arresting several thousand gang members and shutting down countless trading dens.

And now, at two in the morning the very next day, he wanted to meet with him?

Kid, what the hell are you trying to pull?

Been watching too many movies like Fast Strike?

Arrest a few thousand people, then think you can intimidate the underground emperor of New York, even the entire United States?

Would Kingpin agree to meet him?

Of course not!

Who the hell knew what that S.H.I.E.L.D. hothead was trying to do?

Besides... strictly speaking, Kingpin had connections with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s upper management as well.

So Kingpin called Pierce, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "higher-ups." As New York's underground emperor, he naturally knew the city's dark side like the back of his hand.

He knew that Pierce had once been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director, and back then, Pierce had invested in him when he was just starting out. That investment had quickly developed into a pleasant partnership, one that continued to this day.

So he told Pierce that Jack wanted to see him.

It was a favor to Pierce, letting his own people deal with their own problems.

The moment Pierce heard about it, he guessed that his lackey Jack must have gone crazy trying to earn merit and get promoted.

Five promotions in three years—although Hydra had helped behind the scenes, Jack's ability and perseverance were the greatest reasons he had risen to a middle-ranking position.

But if you wanted to keep getting promoted through difficult assignments, you could pick missions overseas...

Why did you have to keep fixating on New York?

Didn't you know Hydra had many operations in New York?

What if the flood washed into the Dragon King's temple? That would be rather awkward.

After all, even Kingpin was a strategic partner of S.H.I.E.L.D. What you were doing was a little excessive.

Of course, that idiot Kingpin thought he was working with S.H.I.E.L.D., when in reality he was working with Hydra, but...

In any case, this wouldn't do!

So Pierce summoned Jack to his home with a phone call.

As the first person during the infiltration period to meet the leader of their faction as a mid-level officer, Jack had broken Hydra's internal rules.

One had to understand that during Hydra's infiltration period, everyone fought wholeheartedly for S.H.I.E.L.D. Even if they accidentally found themselves openly opposed to their own people, they would not hesitate to strike with lethal force.

Jack's ability to lift the hammer was simply too extraordinary.

Therefore, when faced with such a special talent, Pierce had no way to dispose of a thorn like Jack. He still expected Jack to continue striving for Hydra's cause!

Thus, at seven o'clock in the morning on the day after the mass arrests in Hell's Kitchen, Jack arrived at a rural luxury estate near Newark beneath New York's morning glow. There, he met Pierce, who was drinking coffee and eating toast, along with Pierce's precious daughter—Jenny Pierce.

For some reason, something seemed wrong with this world. Among the Marvel characters Jack had met so far, an absurdly high proportion of them had daughters.

The elderly Agent Peggy Carter he had met two years ago had a daughter...

Then there was Luke Cage, who had recently gained some fame on the streets. He had just married Jessica Jones, and the two of them promptly had a daughter as well.

There was also some unknown, eighteenth-tier superhero who had a daughter.

Even Justin Hammer, who had gone toe-to-toe with Tony before the Senate Armed Services Committee not long ago, had a daughter!!!

Although Jack, as the person in charge of Manhattan District, New York City, could access any recorded data in all of New York City,

he still could not find any records on Hammer's daughter, so there remained a sliver of doubt as to whether that information was true.

But now that he saw Pierce really did have a daughter, he could not help but sigh at how terrifying the will of this vast universe was. Even Hydra's top boss had failed to produce a son.

Sure enough, everyone had plenty of little lovers from their past lives...

When Pierce saw Jack arrive, he did not warmly invite him to sit down and join them for breakfast. Instead, he left him standing off to the side, making Jack stew in unease for a while.

Big-shot Pierce wanted to put him in his place right here and now. Would Jack fall for that?

Of course not!

Ever since gaining the system, Jack had dared to slap Colonel Ross right in front of Fury. He was now in a state of restrained lawlessness.

So Jack's gaze landed on Jenny Pierce.

As he admired the beautiful mature woman's features, he could not help wondering why Jenny was here on a Monday morning.

Could it be that, because her biological father was Hydra's top boss, she still had not married even at thirty-five?

If that was the case...

Then this was seriously depressing...

Although Jack was not one of those people who believed women had to marry once they got older, a thirty-five-year-old American woman whose father was publicly S.H.I.E.L.D.'s former director could not possibly be at her father's villa on the third Monday of May unless she had fought with her husband.

Especially when Pierce and Jack were clearly about to have an in-depth discussion about recent events, Pierce would definitely have asked her to leave.

So what exactly had happened between her and Pierce?

Or perhaps she was one of them too...

While Jack looked at Jenny, Pierce was also glancing at Jack from the corner of his eye. In truth, he was extremely satisfied with Jack.

Young men with strength, perseverance, and initiative were not common.

Among Hydra's young talents, only Rumlow and Ward could compare with Jack.

Unfortunately, the former's fighting skills and perseverance were inferior to Jack's. As for the latter... recently, he had become Jack's fanboy. He had even stuck a large photo of Jack's face on the wall beside his bed, nearly angering his adoptive father Garrett to death.

So, in Hydra right now, Jack was the one and only man!

Since he was already one of a kind!

Then his treatment had to be one of a kind too!

After finishing his toast, Pierce wiped his mouth with a napkin and said frankly, "Jack, I know this may be a little unfair to you, but we Americans don't pay much attention to age when dating..."

As Jack listened to Pierce lay the groundwork for something, his face gradually turned pale.

He knew it!

Simply wanting to stop him from going hard in Hell's Kitchen did not require summoning him to Pierce's residence!

One phone call from Sitwell could have halted his operation!

So there was only one answer!

He! Alexander Pierce! Wanted to be his father-in-law!

Looking at Jenny, who was studying his body with the mature and composed gaze of a woman in her thirties, Jack felt worse than when those bastards had stabbed him in the back yesterday.

What the hell was this!

Your daughter couldn't get married, so you wanted him to take the blame?

If walking out that door now would not make all of Hydra turn against him and ultimately cause everything he had going in S.H.I.E.L.D. to collapse, Jack would have slammed the door in Pierce's face without a second thought.

But as Pierce said more and more, an idea gradually formed in Jack's mind.

"Being a scumbag seems like doing evil too."

"Getting it on with a female superhero or supervillain seems like a pretty good choice too."

"If I use this to gain some Evil Points..."

"Then I might make a killing."