"Heh, anything's fine!"
The blonde young man nodded cheerfully, pulling out a delicate clay doll from his pocket and placing it in Uehara Naraku's pocket, laughing as he said, "Then let's rest here for a while, don't move around too much, or it might explode..."
"..."
Uehara Naraku hesitated and nodded.
The man slowly looked down at the doll in his pocket; it was a life-sized clay doll of the blonde young man. If he remembered correctly, wasn't this thing part of the C4 series?
One...
Enough to level a mountain!
Inside Stark Villa.
Just as Tony Stark was discreetly instructing Jarvis to activate the defense system, a red-haired boy took out a black envelope first, with a cloud design on it.
This pattern...
Seemed vaguely similar to the clothes these two people were wearing!
The two of them were definitely part of a mysterious organization, though it was unclear whether it was Hydra or some other group...
"We are Dawn of the Dawn."
"Mercenaries existing in the universe."
"In terms of this planet, we are humans from another star, perhaps not quite what you imagined, son of Howard Stark."
"No, no, no, for alien life, there's no such thing as too wondrous..."
Tony Stark shook his head slowly. Just from the first glance, he judged that there was something off about the red-haired boy. His body seemed to be made of some kind of wood!
Yet the red-haired boy's body contained rather strange abilities, and it even had a brain and consciousness. Was this some kind of super-intelligent mechanical life form?
Tony Stark couldn't help but start pondering how such a highly intelligent mechanical life form could be created?
At least it's certain...
This is indeed an alien!
Such a powerful artificial intelligence life form would absolutely not appear on Earth. The current level of technology couldn't possibly reach this, especially since these two had unusual abilities!
"Son of Howard Stark."
The red-haired boy noticed Tony's distraction and softly reminded him, slowly pushing the envelope on the table toward him, "This was left by your father, Howard Stark, asking us to observe the Tesseract in exchange for safeguarding it on his behalf."
"This is..."
"We haven't opened it."
The red-haired boy slowly shook his head, softly continuing, "To keep the contents of the letter confidential, the envelope was made by the teacher of our organization's leader."
"We haven't detected any energy from Howard Stark's body, it seems he ultimately didn't surpass the limits of human life."
"According to the agreement we made with Howard Stark, this letter should be returned to his son before the end of this year's time on this planet."
"However, our organization is currently facing some crisis that might lead to its downfall, so we can only give it to you at this time."
"..."
Tony Stark silently picked up the envelope.
Just as he was about to open it, the envelope suddenly fell off naturally, turning into an origami, flying and slowly burning into nothingness...
All that was left on the table was a letter.
"Well then, the agreement is fulfilled."
The red-haired boy nodded and stood up to leave.
The blonde young man's face seemed a bit unhappy, pouting slightly, and he turned to take a look at Tony Stark, seemingly wanting to chat a bit more.
The red-haired boy stopped him, intending to leave together.
Tony Stark glanced at the first few lines of the letter; his father Howard Stark indeed was very clear, introducing the Akatsuki group at the very start of the letter.
This is an organization worth trusting.
In some sense, Howard Stark's implication in the letter seemed to be to trust this group called Dawn of the Dawn more than the S.H.I.E.L.D. he created!
Of course, Tony Stark still had some doubts.
If after reading the entire letter, he might trust them a little, being still an Earthling, he must harbor various suspicions about the universe beyond Earth...
"Wait a moment."
Tony Stark suddenly spoke to stop them: "I might be speaking a bit presumptuously, but what crisis have you encountered?
Also... um... could we chat a bit more? After all, this is my first time seeing alien life. Is there anything I can help with?"
"That's not enough."
The red-haired boy slowly shook his head, calmly stating: "The ones annihilating us are the Chitauri, and even the armed forces of this planet are far from sufficient.
Howard Stark was once our friend, and as his son, you might also have a similarly adventurous mindset, but this is inadvisable.
I'm obliged to remind you not to study the energy of the Tesseract recklessly like your father, as it could bring an irresistible interstellar war disaster to this planet.
Because we inadvertently leaked the information of having observed the Tesseract, we've attracted a massive crisis threatening to topple our organization..."
"What is the Tesseract?"
Tony Stark slightly furrowed his eyebrows.
"You don't know?"
The red-haired boy's eyes showed a hint of puzzlement, slowly shaking his head, "If you don't know, just act like you know nothing—in this universe, the less you know, the longer you might live."
After saying that.
A gigantic white bird landed in front of them.
The red-haired boy and the blonde young man jumped onto the back of the white bird.
The blonde young man, who seemed noticeably more cheerful, waved at Tony Stark, cheerfully saying, "Hahaha, see you later! Remember to throw away the artwork I left, because in this world... art is an explosion!"