N-A-A Chapter 38 is still about Iron Man...
Chapter 38 is still about Iron Man...
When Toby heard that Tony's two requests were so simple, he immediately felt that thinking for even a second longer would be disrespectful to those 5% of the shares, so he immediately agreed.
Kill one person and save two more, and you can get at least 5% of Stark Industries stock worth tens of billions. What's there to hesitate about!
This deal is absolutely amazing!
This directly transformed Toby's net worth from a small single-digit hundred million to a triple-digit hundred million!
Of course, even if he gets those 5% shares, he won't be foolish enough to cash them out immediately.
Unless Tony Stark himself dies, cashing out one's Stark Industries shares would always be the most foolish thing to do.
The best course of action is to stay at Stark Industries and wait for Tony to give him money to make more money!
Seeing that Toby readily agreed made Tony feel much more at ease.
While tens of billions of dollars is a lot, he can easily earn it back if he loses it.
But he only has this one life!
Especially after the Ten Rings kidnapping incident, Tony understood even more the importance of having a strong backup plan.
Otherwise, once you're tied up, there's absolutely no hope from outside, and you'll have to rely on yourself for everything!
And Toby, the extraordinary guy who was able to find himself in the vast desert before the military, was undoubtedly the most reliable backup plan!
So for Tony, using 5% of the shares to buy his and Pepper's future lives is really not expensive!
In fact, relatively speaking, he actually made a profit!
Tony's client status was upgraded from 500 million to 50 billion, so Toby's treatment of him naturally rose to the highest standard.
Toby not only kept providing Tony with blankets, water, food, and snacks on the drive back, but he also stepped on the gas pedal much more gently.
Tony and Ethan, who had been constantly getting beaten up in the cave, finally enjoyed a long-lost sense of home and quickly fell asleep in the smoothly moving car.
On the way back, because Toby had memorized the route he had taken, he deliberately avoided encountering any other local terrorist groups.
We drove until we reached the nearest airport in Afghanistan.
Kingpin's men, who had already made arrangements, immediately brought the three men three plane tickets and led them through a special channel. The three men didn't even go through security and boarded the plane through the back door.
After several transfers, the three successfully returned to the "peaceful" and "free" United States after three days, starting from the cave.
Actually, it can't be said that all three returned, because Dr. Ethan is actually from Afghanistan.
However, his home in Afghanistan had been destroyed by the Ten Rings, leaving him nowhere to go but to return to New York with them.
In Afghanistan, not only his home, but even his wife and daughters had long since died at the hands of the Ten Rings.
This left Tony in a state of extreme shock when he first learned of the news on the plane.
Because Ethan hadn't told him that in the cave.
Ethan was still in the cave, constantly encouraging himself and motivating himself to live on, for his family and for the people they loved, no matter what!
It was Ethan's constant encouragement that kept Tony, who didn't have many worries to begin with, from giving up hope.
In the end, you tell me that Ethan was actually the one who had completely lost hope in life?
Tony Stark at least still has Stark Industries, left to him by his father Howard Stark, and in order to continue his father's business, his life still has some hope.
But Ethan no longer even has a home...
Ethan also told Tony the truth on the plane.
He had indeed long since lost everything; his home, his family, and even his hometown had been completely destroyed.
And it was destroyed by Stark Industries missiles used by the Ten Rings.
When he first met Tony and was asked by the Ten Rings to perform the bullet removal surgery on Tony, he actually had a fleeting thought of killing Tony, the culprit.
But in the end, he gave up...
Because he understands that the fault never lies with the weapons, nor with their creators, but with the people who use them.
Even if it wasn't a Stark Industries missile that destroyed his hometown that day, it would have been missiles from other arms industries that fell and destroyed it.
Furthermore, Ethan believes that someone like Tony, who stands at the pinnacle of human wisdom, should not waste his talent on war, but should instead make a difference in changing the world.
That's why Ethan did everything he could to save Tony, and fabricated a white lie, pretending to be someone who gave Tony hope in his desperate situation and shared Tony's goal of escaping...
Until the very end, Ethan never even thought he would survive.
Instead, he planned to sacrifice his own life to give Tony a chance to live, while he himself would remain on the land where his wife and daughters were buried.
But Toby's arrival changed everything...
After hearing Ethan's truth, Tony remained in a daze until he got off the plane and set foot on New York soil again.
He felt no joy at escaping death; instead, he felt an even heavier weight on his shoulders...
He used to live a carefree life.
But two months ago, Ethan gave him an artificial heart in the cave, giving him a second life.
Now Ethan, with his words, has injected something heavy into this artificial heart...
And these things are called... responsibility!
As Ethan said, Tony Stark shouldn't just be an arms dealer, playboy, billionaire, genius scientist, and a cover girl-sleeping man; he can also be... a superhero who changes the world!
When Tony looked up again, the light in his eyes had changed; it had become brighter and more determined!
The two men, noticing Tony's change, had different expressions.
Ethan was relieved, relieved that he hadn't misjudged Tony, and relieved that his efforts hadn't been in vain.
Toby twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling somewhat helpless and speechless.
Indeed, no matter how vast the world is, the will of the universe is the greatest. Even with his own intervention and changes, Tony Stark ultimately followed the path of Iron Man!
However, while Tony's will to become Iron Man remained unchanged, it wasn't entirely without change either.
For example, this time when Tony returned, he didn't make a high-profile return like in the original story, holding a press conference as soon as he came back to announce to all the Rurima that their Shit King had returned.
Instead, he quietly returned to his seaside villa with Ethan and Toby without informing anyone.