Time Travel Again

The familiar soft bed, the familiar bouncy Simmons mattress, and that familiar Hilton Hotel perfume scent.

How many years ago was it when he last smelled it?

It felt just like a dream!

Well, it looks like I've time-traveled again?

Kino scrambled up from the bed in a daze; judging from the familiar Earth style around him, this was obviously a hotel suite.

Could he have transmigrated back to Earth?

Thump, thump, thump, thump, his heart beat with excitement.

Decades of time, everything felt just like yesterday...

Just as he was feeling emotional, an unfamiliar yet familiar voice drifted out.

Snap!

Snap!

There's someone in this suite... a woman?

Kino realized it instantly, and he walked toward the source of the sound.

It should be this bedroom.

The door was open, leaving a gap.

So he peeked inside, and then froze.

Holy crap.

A naked woman stood with her back to the floor-to-ceiling mirror, holding her phone and snapping pictures... of her back. Uh, strictly speaking, it should be--her butt.

Big and white!

And she was even a fair-skinned beauty!

Kino secretly muttered what a pity; it seemed this Western chick had just come out of the bath. If he had gotten out of bed a step earlier, he might have caught a picture of a beauty emerging from the water.

What a lamentable sigh!

Yet the next second he was dumbfounded; this woman looked very familiar!

Looking closer, wasn't this Scarlett Johansson?

Kino was so shocked he covered his mouth; did this mean he really had transmigrated back to Earth?

Also, this selfie scene in front of him felt oh-so familiar. He pondered for a moment, and his brain went "buzz" with even greater bewilderment. If he remembered correctly, wasn't this one of Scarlett's pictures from the "2014 Hollywood Ultimate Collector's Edition"?

Mind blown!

Of course, he wasn't shocked because he was seeing a "live version," but rather--

2014?

The photos were leaked in 2014, but when they were actually taken was uncertain; it could have been 2014, 2013, 2012, or even earlier.

And the time of his first transmigration was 2017.

In other words--on this timeline, two of him existed? Two Kinos? Uh, no, two Zhang Weis.

That was his Earth name from his first life.

What was this?

A time paradox? A space paradox?

Just like Yi Xiaochuan in The Myth, who traveled to the Qin Dynasty, yet ate the elixir of immortality... and lived all the way to modern times. In other words, during the time between Yi Xiaochuan's birth and his transmigration, another Yi Xiaochuan existed.

Likewise, Kino was the same way.

Thus he was completely messed up!

Yet just as he was messed up, his breathing also became violent and rapid, causing...

"Who's there?"

Scarlett noticed. She dropped her phone, grabbed a bath towel and wrapped it on simply, then with unusual agility snatched up a black object nearby.

After seeing that thing clearly, Kino couldn't help uttering a vulgarity: "Damn!"

A pistol?

The pitch-black muzzle was pointed right at him!

Oh my word!

Big stars carried guns?

Fine, it seemed legal for Americans to keep handguns privately!

There was no rule saying a big star couldn't have a gun.

Only, this reaction was a bit off, wasn't it?

You were a big star after all; shouldn't you be scared screaming when encountering such a "peeping" incident? Even if you had filmed The Avengers, Iron Man, or whatever, you weren't a warrior. Fine, even if you had a gun, the purpose of that thing was mostly just to scare "intruders"; directly going "bang, bang" and shooting like you were doing, what the hell!

And she was only wearing a bath towel—weren't you afraid it would drop and reveal something?

Well, it already had!

Not only that, but she also displayed extraordinary combat skills.

A flying kick!

An airborne spinning side kick!

Even close-quarters grappling...

Bang bang! Bang bang! Bang bang!—

While fighting in close quarters, she was also firing a handgun!

Good grief!

Was Scarlett Johansson this formidable?

She truly lived up to playing Black Widow, possessing remarkable agility!

Acting as an actress and giving herself the skills of an agent—there was no beating that.

Then he saw an eagle-shaped badge on the nearby table, and another storm of wind and lightning raged within his brain!

He gradually widened his eyes. "You... you aren't Scarlett Johansson, you... you're—Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff!"

"Just what kind of person are you?"

Scarlett's eyes flashed with a cold glint as she remained on careful guard. She saw how formidable the fellow before her was; he could dodge bullets at close range, which meant his physical skills far surpassed her own.

A formidable opponent!

She began to slowly back toward the bedroom door, preparing to call for reinforcements.

This Asian youth was not someone she could handle.

Crack! A bolt of lightning flashed, and Scarlett swayed and collapsed to the floor.

"You... a mutant!"

Kino did not waste words with her; he snatched up a pair of handcuffs from the side, cuffed her hands behind her back, and then tucked her under one arm, carried her into the room, and dumped her on the bed. He threw himself onto it as well, covering his eyes with one hand, his emotions difficult to calm.

The Marvel Universe!

This damned place was actually the Marvel Universe!

Crap!

This person wasn't Scarlett Johansson either, but Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff.

Damn it, he should have realized it sooner.

She was clearly quite a bit taller than the 160cm Scarlett Johansson.

Kino was over one meter eighty, and the woman before him wasn't much shorter—how could she possibly be the 160cm Scarlett? According to records, Black Widow Natasha stood at 170.5cm, and this height matched up.

So this really was the Marvel Universe, dammit?

"Fuck!" Kino cursed angrily.

His first life was as an Earthling, and in 2017 he transmigrated into the One Piece world (his second life), where he lived for six years before accidentally crossing over into the Fairy Tail world (third life) during a cultivation session.

Later, he defeated the Black Mage Zeref and the Black Dragon Acnologia. After acquiring Fairy Heart, Kino gained the super magic to control time and space.

With the help of Anna, the ancestor of the Fairy Tail heroine, he established the cross-world super magic Node Passage and returned to the One Piece world once again.

Years later, Kino was researching the Time-Space Gate—

It seemed another accident had occurred, and he had arrived in the Marvel world.

Damn it, this was a disaster-ridden world!

Countless supervillains were plotting to subvert it.

Mutants made a fuss about becoming terrorists, some green hulk would throw a tantrum and smash a city to pieces whenever he felt like it, and aliens would play a game called "invasion" on a whim.

Even humans were courting death in all sorts of creative ways.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was not only corroded into a sieve by Hydra, but also repeatedly sabotaged by its own people.

Stark ignored the red-card penalties from the Federal Aviation Administration, continuing to fly about as he pleased and occasionally crashing through a window or two.

Even though he possessed the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Phoenix-Phoenix Fruit, Armament Haki, Observation Haki, and Conqueror's Haki from One Piece, alongside countless Lost Magic from Fairy Tail, he still wouldn't dare call himself invincible.

Hmm?

Though for now, he should be Earth's top powerhouse, deserving of the title "Strongest on Earth."

Yet once things scaled up to a cosmic level, he might not be all that strong anymore.

Especially that punk Thanos—the guy snapped his fingers, and half the life in the entire universe vanished instantly. This disappearance didn't just happen on Earth; half of all life on every planet across the cosmos vanished just like that.

Just thinking about Thanos put Kino in a terrible state!

No way!

He had to stop him. Who knew if he would end up being "disappeared" himself?

He absolutely had to stop Thanos!