A Preference for Overwhelming Battles

"We can't be too cruel."

After thinking for a moment, Lorna spoke.

If she wanted to kill Bullseye, it would be easy. She only had to throw the metal inside his body into disorder. She could even make Bullseye directly "explode."

But that was too bloody for Lorna.

"Then what are you planning to do?"

Elektra asked, her expression making it obvious that she wanted Bullseye dead, no matter the method.

She did not want to see Bullseye survive again.

After all, Elektra was not Batman. She would not watch her enemies keep jumping around in front of her again and again.

"Throw him into the sea."

Lorna planned to make an iron cage and sink Bullseye straight to the bottom of the ocean.

It was the same method Magneto had used against Wolverine.

The difference was that Bullseye did not have Wolverine's regenerative abilities. Faced with such an end, death was his only path.

Therefore, upon hearing such a cruel way to die, Bullseye, who had remained silent all along, protested.

"Can't you just kill me directly?"

That was the first thing Bullseye said.

He knew he could not survive. He only wanted a quicker death.

If he had been Elektra, he would not have tolerated someone who had repeatedly tried to assassinate him either.

So Bullseye had never expected to escape.

Especially after witnessing Lorna's strength, he had fallen straight into despair.

He stopped struggling.

"You don't get a choice."

Lorna smiled faintly and brought her hands together. An iron cage immediately formed around Bullseye, trapping him inside.

Then she threw the iron cage onto the car, and Elektra drove toward the shore with the cage in tow.

Although it was nighttime, their situation still drew plenty of attention.

Elektra could only speed up and run red lights like crazy, prepared to pay the fines later.

When they reached the shore, Lorna directly controlled the iron cage and threw it into the sea. She even made a point of confirming whether Bullseye was dead.

After returning to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Hawkeye Barton immediately reported Lorna's situation.

Even with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s capabilities, they had no idea who Lorna was.

S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated for a long time and could only create a file for her first.

A green-haired Mutant whose ability was to control steel or magnetic fields.

Beyond that, they found nothing.

That was normal. Lorna had been abandoned at birth and raised in an orphanage.

After leaving the orphanage, she had lived little better than a homeless person. Without a driver's license, she had no identification.

In the United States, driver's licenses and passports were essentially identification. Without them, you were undocumented.

That was Lorna's situation. She did not even have a stable residence, and she still did not have a driver's license.

Faced with this situation, S.H.I.E.L.D. was at a complete loss.

Even if they found the orphanage where Lorna had stayed, there was no way they could learn about her current circumstances.

Therefore, Nick Fury had no idea that Lorna had actually been hanging around with Ke Chen.

This matter could only be investigated slowly.

But S.H.I.E.L.D. did not place much importance on it.

There were simply too many Mutants in this world. S.H.I.E.L.D. clearly did not have the capacity to manage them all.

In reality, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s influence was not that great.

Because it was not the United States' favored child.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor had been the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Later, Howard Stark invited Peggy Carter to establish S.H.I.E.L.D., and its funding came from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Although the United States contributed a great deal of money, it was not the only benefactor. That meant S.H.I.E.L.D. was not its favored child.

The United States had a huge number of agencies, many of them far older. Take the FBI, which S.H.I.E.L.D. often impersonated—what even was S.H.I.E.L.D. during Hoover's era?

Even the CIA, established during postwar reconstruction, had existed far longer than S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s only advantage was perhaps that it had absorbed many Hydra members...

Elektra drove Lorna home, but she did not leave immediately.

Because Ke Chen had returned.

Over the past few days, Ke Chen had gone wild with Teleportation.

Back when he traveled, getting from the East Coast to the West Coast took six hours. Now it took only an instant.

Anyone who had experienced that kind of joy would understand.

At heart, he was someone who loved having fun. With a new ability that was not as conspicuous as Heat Vision, of course he had to experiment with it more.

Ke Chen had also figured something out: as long as he knew where he wanted to go, he could find a picture of the place and teleport there.

He would appear at the location shown in the picture, provided that the place actually existed in the world.

In short, it was a very useful ability.

But Ke Chen still felt that flying looked cooler.

Once flight speed reached the speed of light, there was no difference from Teleportation anyway.

After returning home, still exhilarated, he saw Lorna and Elektra wearing grave expressions.

"You're back."

Lorna carried the things she had bought into her room, while Elektra sat beside him.

"What happened?"

Seeing that neither of them looked happy, Ke Chen asked directly.

"Do you remember Bullseye? Kingpin's subordinate."

Elektra turned to look at him.

"Of course. Wasn't he dead?"

Ke Chen naturally remembered Bullseye. He had thought Kingpin would come looking for trouble.

But he had not.

Ke Chen had assumed Bullseye was not that important to Kingpin.

"He wasn't dead. Or rather... he came back from the dead."

Elektra said.

That surprised Ke Chen somewhat.

"Oh?"

"But Lorna already dealt with him. Lorna said his entire body was metal, so he was easy to counter."

"I see."

Ke Chen did not know the reason.

He did not know much about either Kingpin or Bullseye.

He only knew that Kingpin was very powerful, but no matter how powerful he was, he was still only human.

Even if this human could beat Spider-Man to death with a few punches, it was nothing remarkable.

Because the superheroes who dealt with Kingpin were not especially powerful either.

Daredevil from Hell's Kitchen, and New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man...

At this point, Ke Chen did not know whether Daredevil had made his debut yet. In any case, later on, he had already met Spider-Man, Peter Parker.

He had even recommended himself as Peter Parker's lawyer.

Thinking of that, Ke Chen immediately made up his mind.

He would completely eliminate the threat of Kingpin.

No matter how one looked at it, Kingpin was an absolute bastard.

Since he had not come looking for trouble before, Ke Chen had decided to let him off.

But now Kingpin had brought Bullseye back to life. Although Lorna had dealt with him completely,

they had killed his subordinate twice in a row. Naturally, the grudge had been formed.

Since the two sides were enemies, Ke Chen naturally intended to kill him.

In truth, Ke Chen simply did as he pleased. He had not wanted to deal with Kingpin before, but now he did. It was that simple.

But he did not tell Elektra.

Elektra was definitely no match for Kingpin. She would not be of much use, so he only needed to give her this surprise afterward.

It was not that he looked down on Elektra. There was simply no need for her to take the risk.

When Ke Chen dealt with enemies, he preferred to crush them directly. He did not like trading blows back and forth with them. That was idiotic behavior.

Although, strictly speaking, this would be his first time personally taking action against Kingpin.