[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

After half an hour.

Two teenagers and a child were sitting in a coffee shop.

The little ones happily ate strawberry cream cake, and the teenagers talked happily - at least they seemed to be having a good time.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Grayson, I misidentified you." Peter said apologetically, sitting upright.

"It's okay, at least you didn't mistake Ruby." Dick expressed his forgiveness very generously.

Ruby: ...?Why do you think Dick is a little bit weird?

"I think you two should have a good chat," Dick said. "I'll go somewhere else."

Peter stood up awkwardly: "That..."

After all, he can be regarded as a host, shouldn't he be a landlord or something?

"Oh, don't worry about him, just let him play by himself." Ruby gave Peter a hand and pulled him back to the sofa.

Dick winked at Ruby and left the coffee shop smiling.

"Peter!" Ruby watched Dick disappear, and then hugged Peter's neck, almost hanging on him, "I miss you to death!"

When Peter was hugged by the little girl like this, his face suddenly turned red, and he was at a loss for a while.

His inner villain screamed frantically: God, what's going on!The last time we met, I was a little starving ghost with a slime appearance, but today I became a little girl in human form!

Is the evolution of your symbionts so fast?

Peter took several deep breaths to calm his beating heart, he quickly hugged little Ruby who was lying on his body, and put her on his lap: "You... you're okay Say you want to kill me! You obviously have my contact information, but you disappeared for more than half a year and never contacted me!"

"Oh, it's because I'm too busy during this time..." Ruby's eyes fluttered with guilt.

"Would you like to talk about it?" Peter said.

"..." Ruby looked into Peter's eyes, hesitated for a while, and nodded after a while: "Okay."

After a pause, she said: "But you have to tell me what you have been busy with for the past six months!"

Peter nodded: "OK."

……

So for the next hour, Ruby sat numbly in front of the strawberry cream cake, listening to Peter tell the super chatty version of the Spider-Man story.

The story is divided into four main stages:

The first stage: the years when I was Spider-Man helping the neighbors wash the pots, wash the dishes, buy vegetables, and do good deeds without leaving a name.

The second stage: The spider is worried, why hasn't Ruby contacted me all this time, has she forgotten me...

The third stage: Mr. Stark is really a super nice guy!

Phase [-]: Oh my gosh, Ruby, don't you know how cool the Avengers are, I can't believe I'm already a part of them!

Ruby: Oh.

So the question that Peter struggled with in the early stage was "Why Ruby forgot me", and in the later stage it was "I forgot Ruby because of Mr. Stark", right?

Ruby felt like she had seen it all.

Peter didn't see Ruby's indifference at all, and he still talked about his experience during this period: "... Then, Mr. Stark tapped my shoulder with his hand and told me that I became a The Avenger is like a knight award, you know? I was so happy at the time, and I had to keep a serious expression. Well, looking back now, Mr. Stark must have seen through me long ago."

Ruby became curious: "Who is this Mr. Stark? I seem to have heard this name somewhere..."

Peter: "...Iron Man! The boss of Stark Industries!"

Ruby thought for a long time before remembering the handsome face she occasionally saw on TV: "Oh, yes, I remembered, he looks very rich!"

"Is the point about being rich?" Peter said dissatisfied.

Ruby blinked, "Really?"

Peter: ...

Peter: "It seems to be true."

A little rich woman who used to be poor but has become rich now, and an ordinary high school student who was once poor but is still poor, shed tears of bitterness and sweetness in a coffee shop by the roadside .

"After talking about mine, let's talk about yours." Peter said, "How did you become a human? Or, is this actually the body of a little girl you found?"

"Oh, that's a long story." Ruby said, "Let me briefly summarize, after leaving you, I went to the North Pole to visit the alien zoo, and then went to Los Angeles to experience hell Friendly diplomacy with the world, and later I went to Las Vegas to participate in a live performance of a large-scale exorcism performance, and by the way, I went to a strange illusion to chat with the big devil about life..."

Peter: "...?"

……What?

In the past six months, has your life been so colorful?

"After I came out of the illusion, I went to Gotham." Ruby continued, "Gotham is really a fun place! The people are outstanding, the people are simple, and even their richest man is very approachable and down-to-earth, and he is very considerate of the people. I was homeless and took me in."

"Homeless? Then why didn't you come to me!" Peter felt distressed when he heard the word "homeless".

"Because you're busy too. Look, you have to take exams and save the world with the Avengers. Isn't that more important than me?" Ruby said.

"That...that's very occasional. I don't spend all day taking exams and saving the world. Moreover, we can do these things together!" Peter said quickly.

"Oh, anyway..." Ruby the scumbag changed the subject very decisively, "I lived in Gotham for a while."

"Then how did you become human?" Peter asked curiously.

"Didn't I chat with the big devil about life in that fantasy world?" Ruby started to activate Constantine's skills on a whim: running the train with his mouth full, "As soon as the big devil was happy, he taught me how to become a human." Skill."

——Actually, it’s not too bad. At least, Ruby’s credits for learning the skill of transmogrification can be regarded as provided by the Great Demon King.

"Then...then can you still possess yourself?" Peter asked.

Ruby stretched out her hand with a smile, and her hand twisted like a rubber in a wavy shape, which seemed strangely cute: "Would you like to try?"

Subconsciously, Peter reached out and grabbed Ruby's little paw and squeezed it.

Soft, like jelly.

This reminded him of the little slime that nestled on his stomach every morning when he lived with Ruby.

Exactly the same feel, exactly the same reassuring.

He looked down at the little girl sitting next to him, and she looked up at him.Her eyes reflected his figure and the sunlight. At that moment, it seemed that something warm and soft poured down from Peter's heart and fell into the bottom of his heart.

"Ruby," Peter said, "I really miss you."

He is still just a teenager, and his voice even has the immaturity of a teenager, but when he said this, his voice was a little low, as if something heavy was gently pressing on him. on his heart.

Ruby opened her eyes slightly.

After a while, a soft smile overflowed in her eyes.

"That's why I came to see you, Peter." She said, and pinched Peter's little paw with her hand instead: "Your muscles are stronger than before, you know when I first met you..."

Peter was already stunned when Ruby pinched his paw, and when he heard that Ruby wanted to expose him, he blushed and said in a panic, "Ru, Ruby! I'll go buy some more for you." food!"

But Ruby grabbed Peter, and said viciously, "Come on, let's recall the happy days before, isn't it good?"

Before Peter could say anything, they heard a sudden commotion outside.

Peter and Ruby subconsciously followed the sound.

They saw a concept white supercar more stylish than Nightwing's silver Lamborghini parked in front of the cafe.

The muscles of the supercar are exaggerated and beautiful, elegance and arrogance appear on it without any sense of incongruity, the streamlines are clean and neat, and the sound of the engine is deep and moving, which makes the whole body numb.

The automatic door moved back, and a figure walked out of the extremely luxurious compartment, standing under the bright sunlight.

He was wearing brown sunglasses and a tailor-made high-end suit. The silver strap on his wrist reflected the dazzling light in the sun.

A car like this, even if it appears in Manhattan, is enough to make people wonder, let alone appear in Queens, and there are two in succession.

No wonder passers-by are amazed by this.

However, the absolute protagonist in their eyes did not give them any look, even if it was a show off look. He just straightened the collar of his suit and pushed open the door of the coffee shop.

Peter has stood up from his seat.

"S, S, Mr. Stark!" He even stammered a little, "I didn't expect you to come, I mean, you didn't tell me..."

Tony took off his sunglasses, his eyes passed over Peter who was a little nervous, and fell straight on Ruby who was sitting next to Peter.

The little girl was holding a small spoon for eating the cake, her big eyes were shining, and she looked at him curiously.

But Tony could tell at a glance that the curiosity in those eyes might not compare to her desire for the sweet cake in front of her.

【Tony Stark (S-Class)】

Bewitching degree: 90%

Fit: 0%

……

Pretty.

beautiful.

Tony thought, he had never seen such a beautiful little girl, and he had never seen such a perfect creature.

The child just sat there quietly, looking up at him, those beautiful eyes were like the most flawless and bright gemstones, filled with good-natured curiosity, so clean, so pure.

Just a pair of eyes can make her glow so dazzlingly, not to mention the beautiful and cute little face that makes people unable to take their eyes off even though she is young.

So beautiful.

Physical beauty is only part of it.

What surprised Tony even more was her innate characteristics as a symbiont.

He'd just seen the kid's hand bent like it had no bones, like everything he knew about the symbiote, not to mention there was so much more he didn't know.

She is an almost undiscovered treasure.

She is too malleable.

She will have many uses, many, many uses.These uses will allow him to climb to the peak that no one can reach, and he will be trampled under his feet, and he can only look up to him as a mortal forever.

—he must have her.

So his eyes stayed on Ruby for a short half a second, and then turned to Peter with a smile.

"Good afternoon, kid." He said, his tone was as relaxed and cheerful as ever, "Why don't you introduce me?"