"Oh, right, there was something I forgot to tell you."
His optical eyes flickered, projecting a faint blue, invisible stream of data that formed a simple image.
"Over the past week, I've scanned life signs across all of New York and picked up a very unusual human in Queens."
"All his basic biological readings are those of an ordinary human. There are no traces of modification to his cellular sequence or genetic structure, but a microscopic biological force field has remained attached to the surface of his body."
"His force field also fluctuates, growing stronger and weaker. The greater his emotional fluctuations, the more active it becomes. Most likely, he only awakened this anomaly by accident recently and hasn't fully mastered it himself."
Tony looked up, puzzled. "There's a superhuman in New York I don't know about? S.H.I.E.L.D. never reported it."
Pepper looked surprised as well.
Only Rimuru's hand paused slightly as he held a piece of pork aorta in his chopsticks, understanding dawning in his eyes.
He didn't have to think twice.
The time, the place, the characteristics of the ability, the unstable state of awakening-all of them matched.
Queens. Peter Parker.
The teenager who had been bitten by a radioactive spider, had just gained spider powers, was still arguing with Uncle Ben, and was about to lose someone dear to him.
"It's probably an accidental, naturally occurring mutation, not alien modification, a Hydra experiment, or a magical enhancement. He's in a blind spot in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s surveillance, so it's normal they haven't found him," Rimuru explained casually, drawing his thoughts back.
Jazz nodded and added, "What's more, his biological force field can slightly interfere with my close-range detection radar. My basic scanning module can't penetrate his instinctive warning force field. That's a weakness of Cybertron's mass-produced models."
Hearing that,