Another two days passed.
Hydra's last foothold on Earth was wiped out by the Men in Black.
Not just their "public" forces.
Even the deeply hidden artificial intelligence Zola, along with those scattered across the world attempting to revive Hydra's origin, The Hive—
Leon tracked them all down and had the girls behead them.
Now, even when Leon unleashed Super Hearing, he could no longer hear any real Hydra members plotting loudly.
Although plenty of people still called themselves Hydra while doing evil.
Those people were on the level of local police, not something Leon needed to worry about.
At this point, Hydra had been completely destroyed.
Leon and Tony had avenged their great hatred.
They had broken the blade that killed their loved ones and cut off the murderer's head. All their rage was buried in the earth alongside Hydra's corpse.
It was raining lightly in Los Angeles that day.
Tony and Leon stood side by side before Howard and his wife's graves, holding black long-handled umbrellas.
Moving in sync, they placed white bouquets beside the tombstones.
After a long silence, they each wiped the inscriptions on the gravestones before leaving the cemetery together.
Tony could no longer remember the last time he had visited their graves.
Leon, on the other hand, came every year.
He understood Tony.
Whenever Tony looked at Howard and his wife's gravestones, he felt guilty. He became angry at himself and felt unworthy to stand there.
But Tony had remained calm all day.
Leon felt that what he had said before was right.
Tony had indeed suddenly grown up this year.
Looking back from Tony's perspective, he had gone through far too much over the past seven months.
He had narrowly escaped death in Afghanistan.
After returning home, he had been betrayed by his