"Oh? And this is...?"
Su Ming looked at the Demon Captain with his cap pulled low and knowingly asked the obvious.
"Have you lost your mind, Silver Duke? Isn't this our Captain America, Colonel Steve Rogers?"
Tony watched as Su Ming kept sizing Steve up.
His face was filled with surprise.
"Oh... is that so?"
Su Ming casually glanced at the wide-eyed Tony Stark.
"Sorry, but I suddenly seem unable to recognize our household-name Captain..."
The Demon Captain did not know how to respond.
He did not understand Steve's personality or habits, nor did he know anything about his history with Tony and the others.
He only knew that the guy testing him before him was the insect he had nearly crushed into dust on Ego's Planet.
Though he was filled with contempt, he could only remain silent for now.
Inside the narrow military elevator, the atmosphere suddenly froze.
Tony Stark was still surprised by Su Ming's sudden appearance.
But Su Ming's gaze, like a scalpel, remained fixed on "Steve Rogers."
"Cap, didn't you recognize that the person in front of us... is our mysterious special guest?"
Tony raised a brow, trying to ease the inexplicable tension.
The captain remained silent.
But Su Ming paid Tony no attention at all. He stared at "Steve,"
A cold curve lifting at the corner of his mouth.
"Not bad acting. You even copied that perky ass perfectly.
Unfortunately, the 'scent' on you...
...I could smell that disgusting Chaos and Greed even across a timeline."
The righteous expression on "Steve's" face instantly stiffened.
A nearly imperceptible darkness flashed deep within his eyes.
He said in a low voice, "I don't understand what you're talking about, sir. We have an important mission right now."
Tony froze. "Wait, sir? This is clearly—"
"An important mission? Helping