It's already been four years since I entered Marvel. I started gaining immense fame as a young, handsome investor. I was occasionally invited to TV shows or received movie role offers, but I refused most of them. Still, I sometimes appeared in short commercials. I was featured in Time magazine and became the hottest person in the world.
As paparazzi began swarming in front of my house, I bought an island close to the mainland and built a house and a laboratory. I decided not to sell my existing house and to use it until the island house and lab were completed. Due to the annoying matters around me, I also hired lawyers and bodyguards.
While making energy bombs by infusing mana into metal balls delivered to my house, I asked Nano about the current scientific level.
"How does it compare to the world where Nano was created?"
[It is far behind. Considering nanotechnology, time machines, and space colonization, there is no comparison.]
"You saw the paper I showed you last time, right? Soon, a certain playboy will miniaturize an arc reactor. Can we do it too?"
[It is possible. However, judging by the structure of elements in this world, palladium is very inefficient. A new element needs to be created.]
"Oh! Really? Can we make it?"
[If funds and materials are sufficient, it can be created anytime.]
As expected, nanomachines were overpowered. They solved at once the problem of miniaturizing the arc reactor and the issue of Tony dying from palladium poisoning. First, it seemed I needed scientific knowledge myself to make things work, so I decided to use Nano to receive knowledge.
"Put the scientific knowledge Nano possesses into my head."
[It is impossible. No matter how much your intelligence surpasses that of a human, Master, receiving that much information at once could cause severe brain damage.]
"Then, if it's injected daily in amounts that aren't excessive, how long would it take?"
[Proceeding that way would take one month.]
"Then, please do it that way."
[Understood.]
As an enormous amount of knowledge suddenly began pouring into my mind, I got a headache. As Nano said, if I received it all at once, my head would probably explode.
"Ugh..."
I sat on the sofa, holding my aching head, and rested a bit. Perhaps due to the influence of [Healing Factor], it quickly subsided.
[For now, I have selected and input basic science and necessary knowledge.]
"Alright, thank you."
While acquiring knowledge and training daily like that, I invested a considerable amount of money to establish a home appliance company. It was to make big money by preempting the smartphone market. After purchasing and remodeling an existing factory and site that was about to go bankrupt, I started producing smartphones after three years. Thanks to Nano's help, there were no R&D costs, allowing me to make products cheaper and faster.
To appeal to the practicality and convenience of smartphones, I held explanatory sessions myself like Jobs-hyung in reality and did a lot of advertising, causing a smartphone craze that led to the initial stock being insufficient. Not just smartphones, I also made and sold sturdy, high-performance products like washing machines, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and TVs at reasonable prices.
When the company hit the jackpot, checks and attacks from other corporations came, but with hacking and Nano's help, I spread their corruption and weaknesses to the media, acquiring and merging necessary companies at cheap prices and letting unnecessary ones just go bankrupt.
I also began developing social network services like Facebook and TikTok, essential smartphone apps, and started earning enormous amounts of money. Now, with time running short due to company management and training, I created an artificial intelligence named 'Minerva' to run the company. Of course, I had to oversee important tasks myself.
Before I knew it, I had climbed to the top of the world's richest person ranking. It took five years to get here. In the meantime, as a result of training, I was able to achieve S-rank in [Swordsmanship] and [Throwing]. Now I could gradually understand the pinnacle of swordsmanship, and with throwing, I could hit the target accurately even with consecutive throws.
On my island decorated with state-of-the-art facilities, I drank coffee while looking at stock charts.
"Minerva!"
[Yes, Master]
"How is the Netflix project going?"
[It is smoothly gathering viewers. However, there are many opinions that content is lacking.]
"Is that so? Then, prepare collaborations with movie, anime, and comic companies, and also make a list of companies to acquire."
[Understood. Also, there is a 'Stark Industries' shareholders' meeting and party.]
"It's 2007 now, so there's about a year left until Iron Man 1. Anyway, I get it. Contact the New York house and have a car ready."
[Understood.]
I decided to attend the shareholders' meeting to build a rapport with Tony. I dressed well in a suit and teleported to New York. I had remodeled my existing New York house so that, except for one of my rooms, it could accommodate the lodging of secretaries and bodyguards. Of course, the entrance to my room was separate, so there was no chance of my teleportation being discovered.
With two bodyguards, I moved to the meeting venue in a luxury limousine. I also held a considerable amount of 'Stark Industries' shares, though not as much as Obadiah or Tony. Arriving at the meeting venue, as I got out of the car, numerous camera flashes went off, hurting my eyes.
"Oh~ Who do we have here, isn't this the hottest young gentleman these days!"
When I appeared at the meeting venue, Obadiah welcomed me warmly. I disliked this person because he was inherently sinister, but I didn't show it.
"Nice to meet you. Obadiah, it's my first time seeing you."
"Nice to meet you. I'll mention it in the meeting hall later, but we're developing a tremendous weapon this time, so you can look forward to it."
After shaking hands with Obadiah like that and being guided, I entered the meeting hall. Obadiah kept chattering beside me as if urging me to invest. Just as I was getting annoyed, 'Tony Stark' approached us. Then Obadiah introduced Tony.
"Ah, here's my friend Tony Stark, our company's CEO and head of development."
"So you're 'Jin'. Honestly, I wasn't going to come, but I was curious since I heard you were coming. You're really annoyingly handsome."
"Ahem, I'll take that as a compliment. Anyway, nice to meet you. Tony Stark, first time meeting you. I'm Jin."
I shook hands with Tony like that. He seemed uninterested in investment or anything, talking only about the smartphone I made.
"You, the phone made by your company. The program and component layout are art. It's the first time I've seen a program and layout that raises performance this stably. Could I meet the engineer who made this phone?"
True to being an engineer. His interest was entirely in that.
"I made that."
"What? Really? Weren't you an economics major?"
Tony Stark said in surprise. According to my setup, that's how my information was known to the world.
"Being an economics major doesn't mean I can't make machines."
"Jin, come visit my house sometime. I think we'll get along and have a lot to talk about. You know the address?"
"Yes, sure."
Then Obadiah tapped Tony and my shoulders and said.
"Let's go in now. Building camaraderie is good, but the meeting is about to start."
We entered the meeting hall like that and were listening to Obadiah's speech.
"The Jericho missile project our company is preparing this time is blah blah---"
Zzzzz~!
Suddenly, a snoring sound came from beside me. Looking over, Tony Stark was sleeping, snoring. At that sound, the meeting hall fell silent, and the meeting was briefly halted.
"Hahaha~ It seems the CEO was tired from developing the missile."
Hahaha~
When Obadiah spoke sensibly, the people in the meeting hall laughed. Seeing this, it was clear that while his heart was black, he wasn't incompetent at running a company. After the meeting ended like that, during the after-party, Tony Stark brought over a pretty young lady from somewhere.
"Jin, make sure to come visit my house. There's lots of fun stuff too."
After saying that, he left with that lady. Tony was someone who finished after-parties with a bang too.
After that, returning home, since the [Raijin's Longsword] was too conspicuous, I obtained vibranium and made a sword in the form of a cane that could be easily carried. What surprised me here was that vibranium accepted mana several times better than iron, meaning if I made an energy bomb with vibranium, it could truly produce power equivalent to a nuclear bomb. However, regrettably, I couldn't experiment with it now because the cost was too high. Vibranium was really exorbitantly expensive. Making a nuke was actually cheaper.
"I should go to Wakanda later."
A few days passed like that, and I drove my registered 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 in the Marvel world to Malibu, where Tony's house is, to visit.
"Certainly, America has vast land, making driving enjoyable."
Driving smoothly on the straight, open road felt like it cleared everything inside. Driving excitedly like that, I arrived at Tony's house. When I rang the bell, Jarvis's voice came out.
[Mr. Tony Stark is not currently at home. Please visit again another time.]
I immediately checked with [Observation Haki] and sensed there was someone in the house.
"I was invited. I know you're home, so tell him 'Jin' is here."
[Understood.]
After waiting a bit, the door opened automatically. Entering the house, Tony was lying on the bed, and a blonde woman with a great figure was hurriedly putting on clothes. The situation was obvious. He must have picked up a woman somewhere yesterday and had fun at home.
"Have you been sleeping until now?"
"Haaam~ Yeah, Jin, you're here?"
Tony greeted while yawning, still lying on the bed.
"Here, have this for now. You too, miss."
I threw each of them a cheeseburger. And I placed two cans of Coke on the table.
"Is this a burger? I don't eat just any burger."
"Just try it first."
At my words, Tony reluctantly unwrapped the burger and took a bite.
"Uh... where did you get this? Why is it so delicious?"
"Really. This is my first time having such a delicious burger."
Tony and the woman admired the burger's taste. I also sat on a chair, eating a burger, and answered.
"I made that myself. And this is a gift."
I gifted a bottle of Dalmore 62-year-old.
"This is the limited edition Dalmore 62-year-old! I tried to get one but failed... It's good to have a rich friend."
Tony, the rich man, said something strange.
"Aren't you a billionaire too?"
"That's true, but your scale is different."
"I suppose so."
Him saying that left me speechless.
"Um... I'm a fan, could I get an autograph..."
The woman, who couldn't dress properly in her hurry and had her clothes messily draped, blushed and asked for an autograph, holding paper and a pen from who knows where. Hearing such a request from a woman who spent a wild night with Tony yesterday felt strange, but I took the pen and signed.
"Wow~ Thank you!"
The woman hopped up and down happily, holding my autograph. Watching that, Tony sighed.
"Really, women..."