A Pleasant Partnership, Your Highness

Princess Shuri thought she had misheard and was utterly stunned.

She had guessed that Alice and Android 18 would seize the opportunity to make an outrageous demand, but she had never expected their demand to be this outrageous.

This was not a lion opening its jaws; this was a dinosaur opening its jaws!

The entire Vibranium Vein of Wakanda—they really dared to ask for it!

If anyone other than Alice and Android 18 had said that, she would have killed him on the spot.

Vibranium was the foundation of Wakanda's nationhood. Wakanda had developed to its current level entirely because of Vibranium.

At first, they had sold Vibranium to the outside world, accumulating immense wealth, then used that wealth to develop their technology.

That was how the glorious Wakanda of today had come to be, yet Android 18 and Alice now wanted to take away the Vibranium Veins of their entire nation.

How was that any different from taking their lives?

No matter how she looked at it, such a demand could never be accepted.

But if she refused, she did not dare imagine what Wakanda would suffer at the hands of these two women.

At that thought, despair could not help but appear in her eyes.

Even so, she still wanted to struggle one last time.

After all, she was the Black Panther's sister, and the pride of the Wong family still remained in her bones.

"Forgive my bluntness, but your demand is far too unreasonable. I cannot agree to it."

Android 18 was not angered by this. Alice merely brought up a document and projected it onto the wall.

"These are all the records of your cooperation with Ultron, including the usage logs of the Life Cradle. If I release these documents, do you know what the consequences