Steve Jones slowly nodded afterward, though his face still looked pale from the entire ordeal. Honestly, Rei couldn't even bla him. One mont the man was sitting comfortably inside his office reviewing paperwork and the next mont he got assaulted by what looked like a supernatural child assassin with magical contracts.
That would probably ruin anyone's evening.
Still… Rei wasn't particularly interested in Steve himself. Not really. The man was useful, yes. But one businessman alone ant very little in the grand sche of things. Influence mattered more than individuals.
And thus, after calming down slightly, Steve finally asked the obvious question.
"…What do you want from exactly?"
Rei quietly looked toward him afterward.
And honestly… the answer was pretty simple.
"Your company."
Steve visibly stiffened again.
"…What?"
"I don't need complete ownership," Rei clarified calmly while walking around the office casually. "That would be stupid, as you are already under my control. But I also love my luxury, which you can provide. I need influence."
Steve stared at him blankly because sohow hearing a ten-year-old child calmly discuss corporate manipulation like this felt infinitely more disturbing than the earlier magic. This was definitely not just a kid. He refused to believe it.
"You are going to invite the other major shareholders one by one over the next few months."
"…Invite?"
"Parties. Business dinners. Celebrations. I don't care." Rei shrugged lightly. "Find excuses."
And that was the beginning of it. He knew now what his master wanted to do and couldn't go against him either.
Over the next several months, Steve quietly began arranging etings exactly as instructed. Wealthy n loved networking anyway, so organizing small gatherings between major shareholders never looked suspicious.
The second shareholder got invited through a "private investnt discussion."
The third through so aningless corporate anniversary dinner.
The fourth through a security expansion proposal.
And one by one… Rei quietly collected them.
Transformation Jutsu helped imnsely.
Sotis he appeared as security staff. Sotis catering workers. Sotis random assistants nobody rembered afterward. He threatened them with power and also so jutsu. One even pointed his gun and shot at Rei.
Steve seeing it almost gave him a heart attack because he didn't know what would happen if Rei died, but then the body of Rei turned into a log of wood and what followed next was a brutal punch at the face on the man by Rei.
Later this terrible kid healed him too. That was the more jarring part for Steve.
And slowly… quietly… Allied Universal's upper structure began changing without the world realizing it. Well upper structure would be a stretch. It was just 6 people but that was enough.
Unlike many idiots in fiction who gained power and imdiately announced themselves dramatically to the world, Rei understood sothing very important. Visibility was dangerous.
Especially in the MCU.
The age of heroes was coming. He knew that. Within a few years the world itself would start changing rapidly. Public heroes. Superhuman incidents. Alien invasions eventually. Governnts panicking, blah blah blah...
Initially public would love heroes. Of course they would. People always loved saviors at first.
But Rei had watched enough fiction and enough reality itself to understand the eventual pattern. As they say… you either die a hero or live long enough to beco the villain. Jonathan Nolan, you genius.
Rei had absolutely no intention of becoming so public superhero idiot flying around in colorful pajamas while trusting governnts not to betray him eventually.
No thank you.
He preferred soft power too. Power to do propaganda. While Stark might be gullible and down right egoist refusing to manipulate public image of his, that didn't an his company was stupid.
His would go on to create clean energy, which would make the company not only wealthy but also a kind of power that no public would dare speak against. Rei wanted that kid of leverage. He had now around 1 year in this world left without ti flow, and he wanted to enjoy his ti before the third expected phase arrive.
The final secret eting itself happened late at night inside one of the company's private conference buildings. All six shareholders sat around the massive table silently while Rei himself sat calmly at the head despite looking absurdly out of place physically.
A ten-year-old child sitting at the head of a billion-dollar security company honestly looked ridiculous. And yet not a single adult inside the room dared question it anymore. Fear and control paid it's due.
"First thing," he said calmly, "Daniel Harris will be appointed as a board mber."
Several executives visibly looked surprised hearing that.
Not because they wanted to disagree. The contracts already prevented that aningfully.
But because the request itself sounded… small. Thus nobody objected.
"Shares will be distributed accordingly," Rei continued calmly. "Enough for him to maintain influence long-term." This was his solution of living a luxury life. He was a man who had lived a good life before, and just like everyone else he wanted vacations and living a good life.
It was a bit selfish but could anyone bla him. He lived the last 9 years without a mobile. Let the man have so thrills and pleasure of good life.
One executive cautiously adjusted his glasses afterward.
"…Understood."
"Second." Rei continued. "The company will begin strategic investnts into several erging technology companies."
Now that genuinely confused them.
Because Allied Universal specialized in security infrastructure, not speculative tech investnts.
Still, one older shareholder carefully asked the obvious question.
"…Which companies?"
Rei calmly slid a paper across the table afterward.
The nas written there imdiately made several executives frown slightly.
Youtube.
Apple expansion.
Amazon. (Specially the Web Services)
Spotify.
And several other early-stage technological investnts. Silence filled the room briefly afterward. Because honestly… hearing a ten-year-old child calmly recomnd long-term technological portfolio expansion sounded surreal even without the magical slavery contracts involved.
"…These are risky investnts," one executive admitted carefully.
Rei looked toward him afterward.
And honestly… seeing cold adult businessn nervously explaining market risks to a child who literally controlled their free will remained slightly amusing.
"Do it anyway."
"…Yes." None of them understood it.
To them these looked like speculative technological gambles from an absurdly intelligent but strange child.
What they didn't understand however… was timing.
Rei already knew where the world was heading. Not perfectly, obviously. The MCU tiline itself changed constantly and he fully expected butterfly effects eventually. He was even surprised to see so nas that were there in his previous real life. But then again, this wasn't DC where the city nas were different. Marvel Universe was almost a copy of their real world, so this was fine.
Even if it failed, it wouldn't be a huge loss. Because the upheaval of Stark Industries was coming and he was going to ride it.
But technology? Human dependency on digital infrastructure? Those trends were inevitable.
And thus, while the executives quietly finalized the future investnt strategies under Rei's direction, none of them fully realized what was happening.
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Rei handled the MCU casually now. They have moved to a bigger ho now since Daniel was appointed as one of the board mber [A/N : I am sorry I don't understand business managent acutely, so if you think it sounds wrong, you can point it out].
He appointed a manager at the gun range and Daniel now, feeling as if his value would go down, had started learning business managent and even enrolled into a course. He didn't want to see himself useless in front of Rei. Or else, now Rei might actually get rid of him.
Murder would be too easy for Rei to hide now.
Now he was enjoying life with his parents and Naruto world. He attended the Academy regularly, trained with Naruto sotis, helped his mother occasionally with dical exercises and pretended to be a mostly normal child. Though internally, he honestly wasn't even sure what counted as normal anymore.
The MCU and Naruto worlds were slowly blending together inside his head. Still, life went on.
One afternoon during class, Iruka Umino suddenly decided to do sothing different from the usual lessons. Instead of chakra theory or kunai handling, he stood at the front of the classroom holding several sheets of paper while looking unusually thoughtful.
"Alright everyone," Iruka spoke calmly. "Today I want you all to answer a question honestly."
Imdiately half the classroom looked suspicious. The other half stopped listening entirely.
"What question?" Naruto Uzumaki asked loudly while balancing his chair dangerously backward.
Iruka smiled slightly afterward.
"If tomorrow was the end of the world…" he began slowly, "…what would you do? Or maybe… with whom would you want to spend your final day?"
Silence filled the classroom for a few monts afterward.
Honestly, that was unexpectedly philosophical for an Academy teacher. Rei almost respected it. Well almost. Asking this question to these kids whose mind hadn't experienced the real world was absurd. But then again there were people like Kakashi and Itachi.
So how could he bla Iruka.
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