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Cheerful Christmas songs are played all over the streets, and people with festive smiles on their faces take their children to shopping malls to buy ingredients for Christmas dinner and holiday gifts.

Merchants in the United States often hire a kind old man to dress up as Santa Claus and let the children sit on his lap for a group photo, and Santa Claus will warn the children to be a good child to receive Christmas presents, or else they will only get coals.

The atmosphere is so warm and warm, it is the first Christmas after two catastrophes on the verge of destruction of the earth, people cherish the good life more after the catastrophe, and the Christmas atmosphere is even more enthusiastic.

The white snowflakes also fell just right, there was no wind, the snowflakes fell slowly like soft cotton wool, and the snow was not too cold, but the world was white and picturesque.

Colorful lights are hung and Christmas trees are erected, and golden stars adorn the top of the tree, symbolizing people's good expectations for the new year.

In the plaza in front of New York's Rockefeller Center building, as in previous years, a giant Christmas tree was erected, and tourists and New Yorkers gathered here to enjoy the beauty that can only be seen once a year.

In the midst of the cheerful crowd, a lonely figure stepped on the snow, walking aimlessly in the snow.

It was a beautiful girl, dressed in a gray coat and with long blond hair. She is out of step with the joyful world, not infected by the festive atmosphere at all, and her plain expression hides a bit of loss and confusion.

The girl tightened the collar of her coat, and she was not afraid of the cold when her physical fitness reached the peak of human beings, but she felt the cold.

It was a kind of loneliness, a coldness that emanated from the inside out.

Stephanie was in a bad mood, and the festive atmosphere made her even more pathetic.

The first Christmas she woke up was the worst Christmas of her life, countless times worse than the one she had spent on the battlefield more than 70 years ago.

Captain America spent Christmas on the battlefield 70 years ago with his soldiers, perhaps without presents, without a Christmas tree, without food and family, but with his comrades-in-arms, who sang pitch-altered Christmas songs in rough voices, ate appetizing Spam luncheon meat and dark chocolate, and were full of hope that the Nazis would soon be defeated.

The atmosphere of that Christmas was warm and warm, and the conditions may be very simple, but it was really happy and nostalgic.

This Christmas Stephanie's original plan was to spend it with Nick Fury, not because she had any special relationship with Nick, but because Nick was also alone, not accompanied by family like others, which can be regarded as a group of poor people for warmth.

Among her colleagues, Stephanie has a good relationship with Hawkeye Barton and Falcon Sam, both of whom have a soldier's demeanor and have a good temper with Stephanie.

Barton had invited Stephanie to his home to spend Christmas with his family, but Stephanie refused, not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable by inserting herself into a warm family.

And Sam is going to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, and Stephanie certainly won't be a light bulb.

I thought that Nick, an old comrade-in-arms who had known each other since the Roaring Commando period, could spend such a special day with her, but I didn't expect Nick to officially date Ciel, and they would spend the first Christmas together after becoming a couple.

It's nothing to spend Christmas on her own, and Stephanie won't be lost to the point of wandering aimlessly, but a phone call this morning hit her hard.

Peggy Carter has passed away.

The woman she had loved died of a heart attack on Christmas morning, walking quickly and peacefully, without suffering.

Stephanie once visited Carter, who was on the sickbed, but she only showed her true identity to Carter as Nick's niece.

Looking at the white-haired Carter, who could still vaguely find a trace of the charm of the year from her old face, Stephanie's heart was like a knife, and she couldn't suppress her sadness.

After that time, she never went to the hospital again.

It's not because she dislikes Carter's old face, but every time she sees her weak and dying, Stephanie can't bear this sadness.

Stephanie thought she was mentally prepared, but she broke down when she received the news of Carter's death.

Strong soldiers don't cry, and the unexpressible grief torments Stephanie, who walks out of her house and wanders the streets.

However, at this sad moment, with no friends by her side and no one to talk to her, the girl's heart was like a boulder, and the hard edges and corners sharpened her increasingly fragile warrior heart.

More and more, she felt that she did not belong in this world.

I don't have any hobbies, and I don't know what I like to do or what I can do after I leave S.H.I.E.L.D.

When Sam joked with her, he suggested that she retire and become a wrestler or ultimate fighter, but she just smiled and covered up the past, which was a sharp irony to her.

Aside from a muscular body, or a pretty face, she doesn't even have any means of making a living in this new world.

Stephanie knew Sam was unintentional and didn't blame him, but the words stuck in her heart like a thorn.

Maybe combat is all she has, but even with that only specialty, she doesn't do it well.

In the battle against the Zetarians, in the face of the powerful General Guard, even the captain of the earth who has obtained magical abilities failed to lead the team to victory, and even suffered a lot of injuries because of protecting her teammates, if the commander had not mobilized the Iron Legion to form a battle formation, she might have died in that battle.

Due to her serious injuries, she had to be hospitalized to recuperate, and just when she was lying weakly on the hospital bed, she got the news that Director Luo Feng had thwarted the Hydra's conspiracy and uprooted the Hydra parasitic in S.H.I.E.L.D.

When she got the news, Stephanie was very happy, Hydra was her lifelong enemy, and it was definitely a great thing to be able to thwart Hydra's conspiracy to destroy the world.

However, after being happy, she regretted very much, regretting that she could not participate in this operation to exterminate Hydra, and she did not even receive any news in advance.

Could it be that Director Luo also thinks she is useless?

Won't let her participate in this kind of task?

Maybe I'm really useless and useless.

A useless person who doesn't belong to this world, that's how Stephanie now perceives herself.

It was getting dark, and the lights of thousands of homes in the city were lit up.

The girl came to Times Square, sat on a bench on the side of the street, watched the neon lights and electronic screens shine, looked at the happy crowd around her, and didn't know why, as strong as her, a tear flowed from the corner of her eye and slowly slipped down her cheek.

Snowflakes fall, and cold winds blow.

The tear was cold, and the scratches were like a scar on the face.