"Target One has left Target Two's house." Victor casually pretended to be on a phone call as he reported on his surveillance target to his superiors.
"Copy that. Keep monitoring." The reply came through his earpiece.
Meanwhile, Pain's main body and Konan sat on the top floor of the little attic, silently watching Victor monitor the short man.
Jiang Xiang's true body, meanwhile, sat in a recliner in the Antique Shop.
He remarked, "So Victor actually got sent to Cherry Blossom Country."
At that thought, Jiang Xiang suddenly recalled something. Hadn't all of Nick Fury's trusted subordinates been sent to regional branches?
Couldn't Nick Fury just sit still?
What was he up to now?
But Jiang Xiang wasn't concerned about such trivial matters.
He might as well plan how Pain would establish a nation and fight the Dark Dimension.
"Tony Stark, do you know just how many extraordinary incidents have happened around the world? S.H.I.E.L.D. has both the experience and the equipment to handle supernatural incidents." Nick Fury had come to see Tony Stark again.
Tony Stark's net worth had now multiplied.
The Stark Energy Group's market capitalization had easily surpassed twenty billion, even though Tony had yet to take the entire group public.
Once the interests involved had been properly divided and the group was fully listed, Tony's net worth and influence would multiply again.
"Handle supernatural incidents?" Tony picked up a glass of expensive red wine and said with a hint of mockery, "As far as I know, there have been nearly a hundred documented supernatural incidents over the past three months, including the uncanny phenomenon on Manchester's central thoroughfare and the killer who controlled elevators to murder people. The military's Supernatural Response Force resolved over thirty of them, FBI teams resolved over thirty, and the police