The press conference venue was in an uproar. I had a press conference scheduled after Tony, but it just fizzled out and was passed over.
"I avoided a bothersome matter, so should I thank Tony?"
Then I got a call from the house on the island.
[Master, there is an intruder on the island. We have them restrained.]
"Is that so? Who is it?"
[Identity confirmation result: Name Natalia Alianovna Romanoff, Gender Female, Age 24, Affiliation SHIELD, Codename Black Widow.]
"Oh~ Show me on screen."
Looking at my smartphone, I saw Natasha, wearing the skintight agent outfit seen in the movies, either trying to escape or demanding to be let out, but she was banging hard on the prison door.
"Hahahaha~ This is interesting."
The current security level of the island is such that even Tony Stark couldn't hack it, and armed drones are constantly patrolling to protect the island. And important facilities can't even be entered without teleportation. Since Nano and I built it with technologies not present in Marvel, paying close attention, it's correct to view intrusion as practically impossible except by overwhelming force to smash and enter.
Seeing that Natasha came to our house, it seems my abilities were likely leaked to SHIELD due to the Iron Monger incident.
I told the bodyguards and secretaries to go back and used teleportation to return to the island.
"Minerva, connect me to talk with Natasha."
[Yes, Master.]
"Can you hear me? Ms. Natalia Alianovna Romanoff?"
"Are you Jin? How do you know my name? You should clearly be at the press conference right now…"
"You're intruding in someone's house and have a lot of questions?"
"Well, I'll be, this is a first. Hacking doesn't work at all, and as soon as I entered the island, drones rushed at me like a swarm, aiming their gun barrels and firing electric nets…"
"That was also lucky for you. If you had come from under the sea, you would have been shredded or roasted."
It wasn't an empty threat; it was true. Under the sea, drones with fast mobility are constantly monitoring, and even if you luckily reach the island, there are plenty of traps that fry you with immense high voltage.
"You're good at making grim remarks. Anyway, I didn't come to fight, so let me go."
"I'm not at the house right now, so please wait about 5 hours."
"You're telling me to wait 5 hours? I won't do anything, just let me go."
"How can I trust and let you go? Would you do that if you were in my position?"
"…No."
"Then wait quietly."
"Damn it!"
Thud!
As if she had no choice, Natasha irritably kicked the door and sat on the prison bed.
"Minerva"
[Yes, Master.]
"Play Baby Shark Song on loop in the prison."
[Understood.]
There is no mercy for trespassers.
After eating, exercising, and bathing at home, I checked the stocks. Certainly, since Tony held a press conference as Iron Man, Stark Industries' stock price was rising greatly. I couldn't do more now, but the money made so far from Stark Industries stock was simply enormous.
"I should give Tony another gift, right?"
Then I suddenly remembered Natasha locked up in the prison. Looking at the time, over an hour had passed beyond the promised time.
"Oops, it's been 6 hours. Well… does it matter? Minerva."
[Yes, Master]
"Turn off the Baby Shark Song in the prison now and connect."
[Understood.]
"I've arrived now. Have you been well?"
"Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo… No, not that… You damn crazy bastard! Let me out."
"Well, who told you to sneak in like a thief? If you want to meet, make a formal request."
This much seemed sufficient. She probably won't intrude on the island in this way again.
"I'll let you out first. If you go straight along the path, there will be a small boat at the dock, take it and go. If you do anything strange, next time it'll be 12 hours."
"I'm not coming back."
Natasha left in a huff on the small boat.
[Master, there are 5 unauthorized cameras installed on the island.]
As expected of Natasha. Even in that situation, she didn't give up and installed such things before leaving.
"Collect all cameras and hack them to plant the Baby Shark Virus."
The Baby Shark Virus is also a virus I made with care. Once infected, it can't be removed by anyone but me, and only the Baby Shark Song comes out of speakers or screens. And it infects all connected devices and networks, but to prevent excessive spread, it's designed to automatically stop infection after spreading to a certain scale.
[Understood.]
A few days later, I got a call from the house in New York. Someone was urgently looking for the Chairman, saying if they mention Natasha, he would know.
"Hahaha, finally making a formal request."
I teleported to the New York house. Arriving home, I saw Natasha sitting and waiting in the waiting room. This time, she wasn't wearing the skintight agent outfit like when she came to the house, but was well-dressed in a women's suit.
"You! Let's talk."
Natasha also spotted me, quickly approached, and said while glaring at me with an extremely angry face.
"If you don't want to be kicked out, please wait. I have work to do."
"It's urgent!"
"Do I look like such an idle person to you? The livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of employees depend on my hands. Including subcontractors, it's millions. Please wait."
The loud noise brought security guards and bodyguards, but I stopped them with a hand gesture.
"Give the young lady a cup of coffee or something."
I told the secretary and went into my room. Honestly, I had nothing to do. Except for major matters, Minerva handles everything. I covered my face, ate a burger in New York for the first time in a while, went to see the Statue of Liberty, ate dumplings in Chinatown, played to my heart's content, and returned after 3 hours.
Coming out of the room, I saw Natasha had hung her jacket on the chair, was sitting with crossed legs in her shirt, drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
"Our house coffee is delicious, right? It's the highest grade coffee produced at the Elida farm in Panama."
Natasha glared at me and said.
"I drank five cups while waiting. It was tasty but…"
"I don't have much time, so I'll give you 30 minutes, Ms. Natasha. So what brings you here?"
"The Baby Shark Virus, it's your doing, right? Quickly give me the vaccine! Because of that, my standing has gotten weird."
"Oho, if you get fired, contact me. I'll hire you as a secretary or bodyguard. Of course, I'll give you the highest salary in the industry."
This also wasn't an empty offer. Natasha deserved that much. A Pepper Potts who can shoot well and knows martial arts is the best as a secretary. And she's also a beauty.
"Don't joke and just give me the vaccine!"
"I'm not joking. Anyway, there is no vaccine for that."
"Wha, what did you say?"
Natasha asked again in surprise.
"Really? You're not lying?"
"That's right. However, there is a way to remove it."
"What is it?"
"Type 'I love Baby Shark' on the infected computer and press enter, then the music stops. And then, using a microphone, sing the 'Baby Shark Song' correctly 10 times, and the virus disappears from that computer. However, you must maintain the pitch and rhythm well and it must be done with a human voice."
Natasha looked at me with disbelief and said.
"Wow… you really… are beyond belief. Damn it!"
Thus, Natasha got angry, gathered her jacket, and was about to leave in a hurry, but I called her again.
"Ms. Natasha, take some coffee with you."
I offered Natasha a pack of the coffee beans she was drinking earlier. She must have liked the taste, as Natasha came back to me, snatched the pack of beans, and turned and left without a word. Such a fun and amusing thing hadn't happened in a long time. Natasha's actions were also cute. A week passed and I went to Tony's house to hang out for the first time in a while. Tony was playing music loudly and making Iron Man Mark 4 in the basement.
"Jin, long time no see."
"Good to see you. Seeing you making this, you've been making it since morning without eating again, right?"
"Ooh~ How did you know? Impressive!"
"It's obvious."
I took out a burger and a cola and tossed them over. Tony now naturally caught the burger, unwrapped it, and started eating.
"Wow! Really… truly the best burger. I couldn't find this taste anywhere else. Tell me the recipe."
"No. You have to eat it occasionally for that delicious taste to last long."
"Really, how stingy."
Honestly, I couldn't tell her what I didn't know myself. Would it be reproducible if I raised the [Cooking] ability to EX? While Tony was eating the burger, I sat beside him and fixed the software. There wasn't much different from Mark 3, so there wasn't much to fix.
"Tony, about the arc reactor. Palladium causes poisoning and is dangerous. It would be good to look into other materials."
"Yeah, I know. I'm worried about that too. I'm experimenting with various materials. I should get an answer soon."
I could solve this problem right now, but the conclusion was that it's better to leave the major flow as is. It's not that the problem couldn't be solved.
"Oh right! You said you'd tell me about your card-throwing ability?"
"Alright, let's go upstairs."
We went up to the living room upstairs.
"Don't be too surprised."
"Got it."
I opened a portal to another island I had bought earlier to use as a training ground. As the [Mystic Arts] ability developed into [Mana Mystic Arts], there was no problem using magic without a sling ring.
"Whoa~ What's this."
"Come in. It's a training island I bought."
I went out first, and Tony, finding the portal fascinating, went in and out repeatedly.
"Jin! This is so amazing? It doesn't make sense with the common sense I know."
"Don't go back and forth in the middle too much. If the portal disappears while you're in the middle, your body will be cut."
"Gasp! Got it."
At my warning, Tony stopped going back and forth and crossed over to the island. The island is a somewhat large island with just a few small log cabins to rest in and a few palm trees. It's not a low island that would be completely swallowed by waves if a typhoon came, but an island with a certain height.
"This is my ability."
I took out a card, moved it freely, and then sent it flying toward the sea.
Boom!
The card that flew like that hit the surface of the sea and exploded, causing a water pillar to rise.
"Whoa! Cool! How does it work?"
"If I put the energy in my body into an object, I can move that object like telekinesis and turn it into a bomb. And I can also do this."
I teleported behind Tony and tapped his shoulder. Startled, he said.
"No, how is this possible?"
"Tony, in this world, there are many people with special abilities. I'm also one of them."
"You mean there are more people like you?"
"Yes. Some just hide because it would be troublesome if known, and in cases where the ability is too dangerous, government agencies block information so people won't fall into chaos, so people don't know well."
"So is it innate? Or acquired?"
"That varies case by case. Innate people inherit it from parents who had special abilities from birth, or are born through drugs and DNA manipulation. Acquired people are mostly those who accidentally gained abilities in laboratories and those created by the government. There are more besides that, but they're mostly similar. That's all I know."
"Wait a minute, I think I just heard something incredible? Created by the government?"
Tony still didn't seem to know that his father, Howard Stark, was also involved in that work.
"Have you heard of the Super Soldier Serum?"
"No, I don't know."
"Tony, during World War II, it wasn't just that Nazis and America were zealous about weapons development. They also competed to create Super Soldiers with super strength and tireless stamina. And one of the results is Captain America."
"I see…"
It seemed there would be no problem even if I spoke this much.
"Let's go back now."
"Yeah, my head is buzzing from hearing too many shocking stories today. I need a cup of coffee."
We returned to Tony's house.