We sat at a table with Hammer, lightly drinking champagne and talking. Hammer boasted a lot about his company's weapons.
"Jin, our company made an incredible weapon this time. You'll be surprised when you see it. It's a small missile called 'Runaway Wife' that can blow up a bunker beneath a bunker. Come visit sometime, it'll be fun. You won't be able to resist increasing your investment."
'Is it okay to say that? Isn't that classified?'
It was absurd, but I just listened. Hammer probably wanted to show off because Tony was next to him. It was true that I was also investing in Hammer's company. Because the stock price of Hammer's company became dirt cheap due to the hearing incident. And in a little while, with the villain's help, the stock will rise. I planned to sell it all then.
"Was there ever a normal Hammer weapon?"
Tony, who was listening, sneered slightly and spoke as if mocking Hammer.
"Tony, this guy. Are you jealous that Jin is increasing his investment in our company lately?"
Hammer, with his shoulders puffed up from my investment, spoke differently from the original where he was like a cowering person. I wondered if I invested for nothing. Even though Obadiah's ideology was trash, his company management skills were good, but listening to Hammer's stories was endlessly frustrating.
"I'm going to the restroom for a bit. Jin, you should reconsider investing in Hammer's company."
Tony pretended to go to the restroom. He seemed to be going to participate in the race as per the original.
"Jin, you don't need to listen to Tony. If you join hands with me, sitting on a money cushion is just a matter of time, right?"
Even without Hammer's help, I was already sitting on a money cushion.
"I hope that's really true, Hammer."
While listening to Hammer boast about his company like that, Pepper spoke, seemingly worried about Tony being late.
"Tony is late."
"I hope he's not hitting on women somewhere... Hey! Isn't that Tony?"
Hammer said that when he saw Tony on the broadcast monitor, wearing racing gear and boarding an F1 car. Tony was boarding the F1 car in place of the original racer. It wasn't prearranged, so he seemed to be participating in the race on impulse. It's a team sponsored by Stark Industries, so it probably doesn't matter, but I wonder what kind of thunderbolt that is for the original racer.
At this time, Tony would have checked all substances on Earth to find a replacement for the highly addictive palladium. Since he couldn't find a replacement despite searching so hard, he seemed to be acting like that due to despair.
Watching Tony race surprisingly well after it started, I thought he must be truly gifted in machine development and tuning.
'Tony, do whatever you want. But you won't last long.'
During the race, one safety officer in an orange uniform slowly walked out to the center of the road during the competition. His upper clothing burned and disappeared, and an exoskeleton mechanical suit equipped with an arc reactor began to show.
When that safety officer spread his arms, whips came out from both hands, sparking with electricity and flames. As he struck down with that whip towards the racing car rushing at him, the racing car was sliced like tofu and split in two.
It was the spectacular entrance of Ivan Vanko, the main villain of Iron Man 2.
People watching that scene were all surprised, buzzing as they looked at the screen. Then Pepper spoke urgently.
"Tony is also racing! Tony is in danger!"
As Pepper hurriedly tried to go out, I stopped her.
"Let me go. Natasha, please look after Miss Pepper."
"Got it."
I ran to Tony's vehicle where Happy was guarding.
"Chairman Jin, is something wrong? There was a loud sound."
Happy seemed to not know the situation yet.
"Tony is in danger! There's a red bag Tony left with you, right?"
"Yes."
"Give it to me now!"
Since Happy knew Tony and I were close, he immediately handed over the Mark 5 in bag form. As soon as I received the bag from Happy, I moved to the race track.
When I arrived where Ivan Vanko was, the racing car Tony was driving was cut in half and stuck in the guardrail, and Ivan Vanko was swinging his whip at the fleeing Tony.
I took out the sword I had made in wand form from my inventory, quickly approached Ivan Vanko, cut off one side of his whip, and kicked Ivan Vanko away. The kicked Ivan Vanko crashed into the guardrail, bounced off, and rolled on the ground a few times.
"Tony! Catch this!"
I threw the bag on the ground and kicked it towards Tony.
"Perfect timing. Thanks! Jin."
As soon as Tony received the bag, he immediately put on the Iron Man Mark 5. This scene is considered one of the iconic scenes of putting on the Iron Man suit. The sight of the bag transforming into the Iron Man suit and being put on Tony with a 'click-click-click' sound was such an iconic scene that men who like mecha would have no choice but to cheer.
I would have been greatly moved if I saw it for the first time, but unfortunately, having helped make it, I had seen it a few times, so I was less moved. And Mark 5 was functionally simple compared to the dressing scene. Made for portability, it had no special armament other than the repulsor beam.
Thus, Tony finished putting on Mark 5, and Ivan Vanko, who seemed to have been briefly knocked out, shook his head as if trying to regain consciousness and got up. When Ivan got up and tried to attack Tony, Tony tried to fire a repulsor beam, but Ivan struck the hand trying to fire the repulsor beam with his whip, spun around once, and immediately wrapped his whip around Tony's neck.
Zzzt! Zzzt!
As the whip began to dig in, damaging the Iron Man suit, I tried to help urgently, but Tony gestured to stop as if telling me not to come. Tony grabbed the whip wrapped around his neck with his hand, wrapped it around his body, approached Ivan, punched Ivan in the abdomen, and performed a judo throw.
Crash!
Ivan spun greatly in the air and fell to the ground. Perhaps the impact was great, as Ivan could no longer get up. Tony approached the fallen Ivan and finished by tearing out the arc reactor attached to Ivan's exoskeleton mechanical suit.
After a while, police and safety officers came in and began to drag Ivan Vanko away by holding both his arms to take him into custody. As he was being dragged away, Ivan shouted loudly at Tony.
"Hahaha! You lost! You're the one who lost, Stark!"
Frankly speaking, I could have dealt with Ivan Vanko right from the start here, but the reasons I didn't were that I was leaving the big picture as is, and thanks to Ivan Vanko, Hammer's company's stock would rise greatly.
'You have to earn what you can earn.'
We moved to the police station, gave a simple statement about what had happened, and went to meet the imprisoned Ivan Vanko. Pepper strongly objected, saying it was dangerous, but Tony said it was okay and went alone into the room where Ivan Vanko was.
Ivan Vanko is the son of Soviet physicist 'Anton Vanko', who researched the arc reactor together with Tony Stark's father, 'Howard Stark'. Anton Vanko and Howard Stark disagreed over how to use the arc reactor, and Howard Stark, worried that Anton Vanko would misuse the arc reactor, exiled him to the Soviet Union. At that time, Ivan Vanko was also exiled together, and because of this, he harbored a desire for revenge against the Stark family.
Inside, Tony and Ivan were probably exchanging such stories.
After leaving the police station like that, we returned to the hotel, stayed overnight, and the next day, boarded the private jet to return. I was reading a newspaper, and Natasha sitting right in front of me was staring at me intently.
"Hey! Mister Chairman, what on earth is your identity?"
Natasha, who saw my performance yesterday, asked curiously.
"Just your rich boss."
"That's absurd. Saying you're just a rich boss after kicking away a person armed with strange machinery like that..."
"Natasha, I don't know if you know, but there are many people with various abilities in the world. Didn't you hear from Nick Fury?"
"The Director doesn't tell me much either."
"I see."
"So, aren't you going to tell me?"
"Yeah, as long as SHIELD's influence remains, it's hard to tell you. After some time passes, you'll naturally know without me telling you."
I didn't really want to hide it, but it was obvious that if SHIELD, which has various problems, found out, it would be incredibly bothersome, so I had no intention of telling them yet.
"Damn it, fine."
"And I got a call that I found a house. It's being remodeled, so from tomorrow, the secretaries and bodyguards are going to Disneyland as a group to have fun. Of course, expenses are free, so don't worry."
"It's a good workplace, huh."
The next day, I took the bodyguards and secretaries to Disneyland, had fun for three days, and returned to New York. Seeing Natasha wearing a Minnie Mouse t-shirt and headband made me laugh automatically, but she seemed to have really enjoyed it properly. Of course, I enjoyed it too.
After having fun like that and resting for a day, from the next day, I was busy with training the crew of the aerial resort ship 'Lakshmi' and advertising. As a few days passed, I got a call from Tony.
"Jin, we're having a party at my house tonight, want to come?"
"Today I have a party with the 'Lakshmi' crew. I might be late."
"Oh? Then it doesn't matter if you're late, come anytime."
"Got it."
As scheduled, that evening, I was having a party for the 'Lakshmi' crew who had trained hard during that period, both as a celebration and for the ship's well-being.
"Thank you for your hard work training all this time. A toast to the ship and crew's well-being!"
"Cheers!"
"We've prepared lots of delicious food and good drinks, so I hope you drink and enjoy to your heart's content today."
"Wow~ Chairman is the best!"
Then I got a call from Pepper. Pepper spoke in an urgent voice.
"Jin! Come quickly and stop Tony and Rhodey."
"Miss Pepper, what's wrong?"
"They're fighting wearing Iron Man suits."
From Pepper's call, I also heard the sound of something breaking.
"Understood. I'll go right now."
I told the Lakshmi's captains and secretaries to take care, teleported near Tony's house, and ran there. Pepper and Happy were outside the house, and the situation seemed to have already ended, as the house was quiet as a mouse. Pepper was making a pained expression as if she had a headache, continuously touching her forehead.
"I'll go see Tony, so why don't you rest for today."
"Sigh... Jin, by any chance, is there a secretary position available there? I really want to quit."
Unlike the original, perhaps because I gave him the palladium poisoning alleviator, he didn't seem to have handed over the CEO position to Pepper yet.
"Happy."
"Yes, Chairman."
"Take Miss Pepper home. I'll talk to him."
"Understood."
I saw off Pepper and Happy and went inside Tony's house. The house was completely wrecked. The sink and fireplace were all smashed, and the walls and ceiling were full of holes. And the windows were all gone, with only traces left of where they flew off to. Tony was sleeping next to the broken fireplace, wearing the Iron Man suit.
"What a mess."
That day, I stayed up all night at Tony's house making energy bombs. Thanks to my abilities, I had no problem even after not sleeping for several days. The next day around 9, Tony woke up.
"Ugh... some coffee."
I took out a cup of coffee I had made and stored in my inventory and handed it to Tony.
"Here, coffee."
"Huh? It's Jin. When did you come?"
"Yesterday. And I had Happy send Pepper home."
"I see."
Tony took off the Iron Man helmet, drank the coffee I handed him, and spoke.
"Jin, I attached an arc reactor to survive, and now it's killing me with poisoning. Isn't that ironic?"
"Seeing you like this, I guess you didn't find a replacement substance."
"Sigh... yeah."
"Do you like donuts?"
"Love them to death!"
"Let's go, I'll buy you some."
When Tony and I went to the house entrance, the newly purchased and maintained 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 was visible. I had taken it out from my inventory last night.
"Hey! This isn't the car you always lent me, is it?"
"I got it with difficulty. It's a gift. Take it."
I threw the Mustang's keys to Tony. After receiving the keys, Tony bowed his head and stayed still for a while, then raised his head and spoke.
"Sigh... Jin! You have a talent for moving people. I'll buy the donuts."
I gave it to him to cheer him up a bit, but seeing him so moved, Tony's stress from palladium poisoning must have been no small matter.
"Okay. But can you drive in the suit?"
"Of course. Who made it? It allows delicate power control."
Thus, we moved to the donut shop in the Mustang.
"Tony, about what I said earlier, did you cry?"
Tony quickly turned up the music volume.
"What? I can't hear well!"
Tony's reaction made me laugh slightly, but I let it pass.
When we arrived at the donut shop, the employees saw us and were very surprised, stuttering, but fortunately, we could buy donuts safely. It was fortunate there weren't many customers.
"Jin, about the company, you run it. I'm going to rest a bit."
"Isn't that giving up too quickly?"
Then Nick Fury opened the donut shop door and entered.
"The information I heard was strange. Seeing Jin here too."
"Oh~ Motherf-cker brother, long time no see!"
"Can you stop with that motherf-cker?"
"Ahem... okay."