[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

Fortunately, he still explained to Alphonse what was going on with his ability to express himself as the CEO of Stark Industries—although he covered up some of the facts, he couldn't say that he planned to save the country from Egypt. Ermero II to inquire about the other party's news.

"...So, uh, that's it. My smart housekeeper found out that Mr. El-Melloi was still carrying a small amount of debt, and he was a little curious about the occult, so he wanted to ask someone... "

He stumbled while explaining, and felt a little guilty. Although he didn't do anything, after all, the kid named Sifen was still howling, and he was ridiculed mercilessly by his classmates.

Touchingly and nervously, Alphonse didn't seem to mind this too much, and this also began to make Stark feel a little uneasy, wondering whether the other party believed his own words, or had long been used to it. As for Tony Stark's character design - man, this kind of setting is not very suitable at certain moments.

Even the Clock Tower is off for Christmas.Many students went home to visit their relatives, and the headquarters of the Magic Association only left behind some magicians who had originally lived here.After getting the approval from Aziraphale and Crowley-although it is not known when but everyone is so rumored-, Tony Stark was also able to visit the outer area of ​​​​the magician's stronghold.

When he saw the self-discipline doll sweeping the floor with a mop for the first time, his jaw almost dropped from shock.

"What are these things driven by?!"

He looked at the scan report transmitted by the smart housekeeper to the phone in shock: "I saw that more than 90% of its composition is clay."

"Of course it is driven by magic power."

Alphonse glanced at the self-discipline doll, and the nuclear-powered wheelchair is a rare item here: "I can only show you here, and if I go inside, even if I take you in, I will be severely reprimanded by the law and politics department. It's rare to come here." Once in London, let's go around the neighborhood."

"We can go and see the department store your sister runs."

Tony shrugged and suggested, "I'm also curious about what kind of place the magician runs."

"There are many ways to attract customers."

The wheelchair walked slowly ahead, and there was a huge Christmas tree at the main entrance of the department store, and there was continuous music from inside.

The whole day passed quickly, but unfortunately the CEO of Stark Industries was always busy with business, he answered several calls in a row, although he pressed some less important ones, but he couldn't refuse Pepper—— Especially Pepper, who was supposed to be on holiday on Christmas Day but is still cleaning up the mess of buying Sivana Industries.

Otherwise, you will definitely face the wrath of this good girl when you return to New York.

The arrangement in Philadelphia also required Alphonse's attention. Several pieces of amber would be placed about one kilometer underground, and S.H.I.E.L.D. even dispatched several drilling machines for this.After Fury learned that the Seven Deadly Sins might cause harm to the world, he immediately requested the Department of Mysteries to fully cooperate with Alphonse's needs. In order to prevent Dr. Sivana from leaving Philadelphia, he insisted on compressing the progress until the end of Christmas. It will be able to close the network.

The Christmas dinner was arranged in a property of the Edelfelt family in London. Although his face was full of reluctance, Webb El-Melloi Velvet still sat at the dining table with a stomach ache.The lights lit by magic and the food stored in the imaginary space in advance were taken out one by one, and the dining table was quickly filled.

Alphonse and Tony Stark sat aside and played with their mobile phones. A video on Youtube had been refreshed to a terrifying number of hits. Under the monitoring reminder of the smart butler, they opened the video and found a young man in a red tights The person is in the middle of the video... performing a hoop of fire.

Tony:  …

Alphonse: ...

After all, they had just seen it not long ago, and they were all familiar with the lightning-shaped mark.

In the video, Billy Batson showed his muscles to the screen: "Hello everyone, I am a new star hero, super all-powerful and invincible. I will demonstrate my superpowers to everyone!"

Tony: "...what a weird name."

He felt like his rant was on fire: "And the content of the performance was like a circus animal showing off its talents."

"Probably the last Shazam's luck was really not very good."

Alphonse couldn't help but raise his forehead: "It seems that solving Sivana's problem is indeed imminent. The real age of the guy wearing this image will definitely not be older than that. You're right, it's really easier to fool young people."

Making Strange a occultist required a tough psychological struggle, but having an underage child inherit Shazam's powers went as smoothly as some magical girl manga from the Far East.

A hand reached out to Alphonse's face and set down a jewel case.Luvia Serenta blushed and looked at the sky and the earth but didn't look at him: "Brother... This is my latest achievement this year, so, just treat it as a Christmas gift, this is the order of the owner, you must be grateful Accept it!"

Alphonse opened the wooden box, and there was a delicate citrine pendulum inside.

"I can't help you with your next jobs..."

Luvia stumbled and said her congratulations: "But at least, I hope I can send you some good luck."

Alphonse smiled slightly: "It matches the color of the hair very well, thank you, Luvia."

"Who wants you to thank me!"

The young Patriarch retorted like a little animal whose hair had exploded, then turned and walked away quickly, stepping on slender high-heeled shoes.Alphonse laughed suddenly: "I haven't said a word in return... I will ask Mr. El-Melloi II to pass it on to me later."

This can be regarded as a necessary social interaction for magicians. Lord Gem's handwriting has always been a hot currency, including Atlantis, and Alphonse has prepared a lot of gems for maintaining contact, most of which endow some simple blessing of.

Tony Stark couldn't help pointing at himself with curled lips: "Then did you prepare a gift for me? It was agreed in advance that I have already placed your share in your room in the Avengers."

The blond jeweler has a face that is more delicate than a mural. He raised his hand and grabbed from the space that was suddenly opened, and found an ordinary-looking... pillow.

"Give you this."

Alphonse said, "Because it looks like you haven't used the sleep-aid gems I gave you."

Tony Stark suddenly felt a little guilty. He himself had a grudge against the gem magic product some time ago, and he always had the feeling of enjoying the false peace that the other party exchanged for silence and life, but he did not expect that such a All the details were actually seen by Alphonse, watching silently.

"Uh, I definitely don't have a problem with you, I just..."

He just watched for a long time and didn't know what to say. A magician is a simple creature who clenched his teeth on a room and would never waver in the slightest. A feeling of stuttering when speaking: "...just, I'm worried about you."

The jeweler nodded and didn't reply, just stuffed the pillow into Tony Stark's arms again.

"Okay, Al, I know you magicians' gifts are amazing, what is it? If you don't tell me what it is, I might not be able to sleep tonight."

"A pillow of angel down."

Alphonse replied honestly, "Aziraphale's down, so you won't lose sleep over it."

Tony: "...?"

He was dumbfounded and speechless. Alphonse is definitely a ruthless person. Even if he didn't work in the clothing industry, he knew what down is. It is usually the fluff that grows on the abdomen or the base of the feathers of animals, but the angel is Humanoid oh my god—Tony Stark doesn't even want to think about how these downs come from, after all, commercially speaking, the means of grabbing duck down or velvet on human bodies sounds like a scene from a horror movie .

Seeing the other party's unpredictable expression, Alphonse quickly explained: "This is the down from the feathers left over from seasonal moulting. They also gave me quills made of angel and devil feathers before. They write The spell can come with some tendentious special effects... You also know that they have lived for more than 6000 years and can save a lot every year. It is definitely not a small number in modern times, and it is not a big problem to make a pillow."

It's not like he asked for a quilt... If it was a quilt, Crowley would probably be on his way here with the knife by now.

Tony Stark: "..."

He still felt his head full of question marks.

But being confused, he still gratefully accepted the gift from the jeweler.Alphonse breathed a sigh of relief, and turned his attention back to the long table. Weber Velvet was cutting the cake with a cake knife as if resigned to his fate. During the annual festival, half a minute of leisure was stolen.

Gingerbread is stacked in a woven basket, exuding the unique aroma of baked goods.Tony Stark observed each other carefully. It is said that the long hair and the cigars with magic effects are the result of maintaining the level of magic power. Teacher, maybe he can understand some mysteries of astronomy.

It's just not now——Tony looked at the Christmas dishes in hand. The most famous businessman in New York has always been very confident. dragged from his fate.

With their own moods, different hands held glasses and clinked together in the middle of the long table.

"Merry Christmas."

After a whole holiday of people eating melons, Billy Bassant, a new hero who changed his name three times a day, finally had the same amount of views on Youtube as his old predecessor——"Spider-Man Embarrassment Video Compilation" ".

"Netizen 1: Hahahaha, this is really the source of my Christmas joy, I am almost paralyzed from laughing."

"Netizen 2: As we all know, videos cannot be posted, so everything that appears is true, and the same is true for muscular men jumping through fire hoops."

"Netizen 3: Ah! I know this place! The surrounding scenery is definitely Philadelphia. I went to college here, and I will never admit it!"

"Netizen 4: So this sand sculpture hero friend is from Philadelphia?"

……

"Netizen n: I was watching well, why is the video gone??"

Tony Stark turned off the phone: "Okay, Fury said don't make too much trouble about this matter, after this time, there will probably be more mature heroes to teach this newcomer magic girl what to do in normal times... … I have a tech show next month, so fix it fast.”

"Batman sent a message saying that he also saw this, and probably communicated with him. He intends to get in touch with this new hero in the future."

Alphonse also just finished a phone call: "The work interface is very clearly divided. I am only responsible for ensuring that the seven original sins disappear from the earth. It doesn't matter who is willing to be responsible for the subsequent things."

S.H.I.E.L.D. only pays this amount, every gem is very precious, there is no need to do extra worthless work.

After a hilarious and chaotic Christmas, things are back on track.There are still nearly two weeks of Christmas leave for ordinary people, but S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony Stark obviously don't have such ample leeway.

What's more, Philadelphia has been calm these days, and Strange threw out a scrawled diagnosis report from the portal with a sleepy expression, confirming that the magic fluctuations of the Seven Deadly Sins have never left Philadelphia.Alphonse held the stack of paper and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't read the words between the words. In the end, they relied on the smart butler's superb image recognition function.

"Relax Al, you know that guy was a doctor before, and doctors write cases like this."

Tony glanced at the fluttering English: "I guess he still needs to decipher the code when he reads it by himself."

At the same time, Billy Batson left school happily. He recently used his new strength to teach a lesson to the school bully who had been bullying his brother. The little bear made up his mind and decided to let the new brother/brother make his debut on the spot.

Although becoming an idol to save the whole family or something always feels like a girl group-like setting, but who can make trouble with money, his brother Freddy Freeman decided to broadcast Batson live next. The boulder was crushed on the chest, which was unanimously approved by the remaining brothers and sisters.

Billy Batson: "...?? Wait?"

There is something wrong with the development of this matter, he remembers what the old man told him when he gave him the power of Shazam... what...

As a result, before he could figure it out, he was surrounded by the remaining brothers and sisters and went to the unmanned warehouse where the video was shot before.With a Shazam, the 14-year-old Billy Batson disappeared and was replaced by a muscular young man.

The square a few hundred meters away is filled with crowds celebrating festivals.

Freeman wandered around looking for a piece of material suitable for "broken boulders", when he heard his little sister exclaim: "Brother, all the videos we uploaded to YouTube have been deleted!"

what?

Shazam turned his head quickly, against the light, a strange figure appeared in front of the factory gate.

"Got you."

The strange man said so.

In the backlight, Billy Batson couldn't see the expression of the other party clearly, but he could clearly recognize the other party's strange eyes with a cold light in his vision strengthened by magic power.

The boy in the form of Shazam rushed forward and hugged his sister in his arms. A beam of magic power shot out from the opponent's hand and landed on the place where his sister was standing, accompanied by the howling sound caused by the explosion. , There was an irregular large pit on the originally flat ground.

The young man glanced at the other party with lingering fear, protected his brothers and sisters behind him, and motioned them to find a place to escape.His heart was beating powerfully in his chest. He had never fought this kind of magician before, and most of the knowledge he knew came from novels like Dragon Quest.

Dr. Sivana approached the opponent step by step. The seven original sins inhabited his soul, giving him the magic eye that could see through all magic.As long as he killed the junior high school student in front of him under Shazam's skin, no one would be able to resist his power anymore.

He held up the scepter he took from the old wizard, and at the moment Sivana was about to launch an attack, a large piece of cement and broken bricks fell from the ceiling, and the golden-red battle suit appeared In front of everyone, Iron Man's streamlined shell cannot be mistaken, but no American citizen knows who this suit belongs to.

"--Got you."

Under the golden red mask, came the smiling voice of the mustache businessman

The dust gradually subsided, and Billy Batson, standing behind Iron Man, poked his head curiously, and found that the well-known hero and entrepreneur seemed to be holding something...

God, Iron Man flying in the sky with a wheelchair sounds a bit wrong no matter how you think about it, don't let him have too many strange associations, please.

He watched Iron Man slowly put the wheelchair on the ground, and then a clear male voice came from the owner of the wheelchair.

"Thaddeus Sivana, that's not a power you can master. If this continues, the Seven Deadly Sins will devour you."

"It's still too late for you to liberate them now."