Luxurious. As the daily residence of Stark Industries' president, the first impression this penthouse suite at the top of the tower gave was one of luxury.
Everything, whether furniture or appliances, was either high-tech equipment made by Machine Head himself or among the world's most expensive luxury goods. Even the blanket spread over the sofa was a handmade work by a Master, priced at three hundred thousand US Dollars.
Though it looked no different from an ordinary wool blanket, it was expensive. And to this room's owner, expensive meant good.
Only choosing what was expensive, never buying what was suitable—such was a certain rich man's warped value system.
Before Anton 'Nito' Stark became Machine Head, he had been the United States' largest arms dealer. He had money to burn.
His parents had died when he was young, and coupled with his genius-level scientific talent, it gradually shaped him into someone reckless and devoid of responsibility.
During a trip to Africa to sell weapons, he was bombed by shells produced by his own company. Eighty percent of his skin was burned, and some shrapnel even entered his heart.
After being miraculously saved, he seemed to become a different person. Not only did he withdraw from the military industry, but he also invented the Ark Reactor to attract the shrapnel. He became the Superhero Machine Head and later joined the Avengers.
But Multiverse Captain Krol had always felt that Nito had some psychological issues. He remained deeply fixated on his disfigurement and wore his armor nearly twenty-four hours a day, never revealing his true face even before his friends.
Whenever he encountered a handsome man, Iron Head's attitude would turn strange. He would speak with bizarre sarcasm, as if he were jealous.
But if anyone asked him what was wrong, he would