"Ha ha, madam, sir, my name is Phil Coulson. I don't believe I've gotten your names yet." Coulson smiled warmly. Rather than comment on whether Skye's answer was right or wrong, he introduced himself.
"Skye. He's Saitama," Skye said coolly.
"Ms. Skye, Mr. Saitama. It's nice to meet you. So, could you tell me about your experience? How did you find Mr. Tony Stark?"
"Sorry, even if you are with the FBI, I don't think we're breaking the law by not telling you about this," Skye said coldly.
"Of course not. But cooperating with the relevant authorities is every citizen's duty, isn't it? Especially since this incident involves Mr. Tony Stark. I hope you'll understand." Coulson had been pleasant and amiable from start to finish, without the slightest hint of a temper. Even Skye found it hard to get angry with him.
Skye couldn't help frowning. She didn't want to say too much because she didn't want to expose Saitama or reveal too much. As an orphan who had never received much formal education and had spent her childhood living under other people's roofs, Skye had always felt that the world had too many dark corners. She believed that if Saitama's strength were exposed, it would attract plenty of people with bad intentions. She wanted to protect him—though, well, Saitama's strength seemed to make her protection completely unnecessary. Still, she wanted to do it.
Skye already considered Saitama family, someone dear to her. They hadn't known each other for very long, but sometimes people just clicked. Skye felt that she and Saitama were like that. Even though they hadn't spent much time together, she had truly come to think of him as family—the only family she had in the world.
She desperately wanted to find her biological parents, but the only reason she wanted to find them was to ask why they had left her behind, why they had abandoned her.
Whatever the reason, Skye wanted to know the answer. What that answer was didn't even matter.
After all, even though they were her biological parents, they had abandoned her for so many years. She wouldn't simply rush back to them and live happily ever after just because they gave her an explanation, no matter how eagerly they offered it.
Perhaps, if Saitama hadn't been around, Skye—who had always lacked familial affection—might have forgiven her parents and returned to them after hearing why they had been so quick to explain themselves. But that would only have been because she longed for family.
Now, though, this unexpected person, Saitama, had come along. She clicked with him so well that he had filled the void in her heart where family should have been.
To Skye, Saitama was probably like an older brother. So she wouldn't let anyone hurt him, even if it was only a possibility.
Saitama scratched his bald head beside her. He showed no sign of wanting to speak, leaving everything to Skye. He knew she was much better at handling things like this than he was. It was also a sign of his trust in her.
Coulson couldn't help frowning. Skye was more difficult to deal with than he'd expected. No matter what he said, she stuck to her story: they had just been lucky and happened to find Tony Stark. She wouldn't say anything else. She even said that if Coulson tried anything, she'd contact Tony Stark and have Stark Industries handle the matter.
Coulson was having trouble keeping a smile on his face.
Coulson glanced at Saitama again. The blank face, the lifeless eyes, and that conspicuous bald head made him look like some listless young man. And yet this listless young man was the one who had found Tony Stark.
If someone else had found Tony Stark, Coulson wouldn't have thought much of it. But he had seen Saitama before, this bald guy, and had even personally told Nick Fury that Saitama was an imitator of someone like Translucent—and a particularly nasty one at that. Yet now Saitama had managed to do something no one else had.
So, did this bald guy have any real strength or not?
Coulson scratched his head in frustration. It wouldn't be a problem if Saitama had no strength, but if he did, then it really would be a dereliction of duty on Coulson's part. As he thought about it, he found himself scratching harder. But when his gaze swept over Saitama's completely bald head again, his fingers froze. Without realizing it, his own hairline had receded quite a bit. If he kept scratching like that, he might end up as bald as Saitama.
Most people might not care that much about their hair. But the more their hairlines receded—or the more their hair thinned on top—the more they cared. Coulson was clearly one of those people.
"Well, all right, Ms. Skye, Mr. Saitama. Let's leave it here for today. I'll get in touch if I need anything else." Coulson saw that things were just about finished on Tony's end, and Tony was even about to leave. He quickly said goodbye to Saitama and Skye, then hurried after Tony.
By the way, some readers have said they really dislike the way I've written Skye. This came up twice: after the business card was sold, the money ended up in Skye's hands. The other time was after Tony was rescued, when the hundred million dollars went into Skye's bank account. Maybe it was the same reader both times.
First, I want to say that Saitama cares about money, but he also doesn't care about it. As long as he has enough to buy ingredients and things like that, he's perfectly satisfied. And as for the bank account, other than using Skye's account, does Saitama even have a bank account in this world? At the beginning, he was undocumented. Later, he got a Green Card, but would Saitama, given his personality, go out of his way to open a bank account?
After Skye got the money, did she ditch Saitama and keep it all for herself? No, right? In fact, the money from selling the business card was spent on Saitama, on the cost of getting him a Green Card. The rest of it went toward a good computer and a camper van that wasn't worth much.
In my writing, Skye's role is more or less that of a housekeeper. The money is in her hands, but if Saitama wanted it, she'd give it to him without hesitation. So why does this reader see Skye as a greedy, avaricious, and hateful woman?
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