The next day, morning.
Clean sunlight spilled over Manhattan, New York.
"Mr. Menken! Is the newly emerged superhero Mr. Water, a director of your company?"
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"Did Osborne master the same high-tech combat suit technology as Stark?"
"Will you share this technology with the government and the military?"
...
At the entrance of the Osborne Building, Menken, who stepped out of a luxury car, was instantly surrounded by a large group of reporters, who began interviewing him with their cameras and microphones.
Menken didn't answer. He simply had his bodyguards push away the annoying reporters before entering the Osborne Building, heading straight for Shimizu's office.
"Water, what you did last night was really..."
Menken wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead with a tissue and sat down opposite Shimizu.
"Really what?"
Shimizu took a sip of coffee and asked.
"Really great!"
Menken said excitedly.
"You deliberately let those reporters photograph you in the battle armor? You're something else! The media outside is going crazy now! This is simply a perfect PR marketing strategy. From the opening of the stock market today until now, the company's stock price has soared all the way to nearly the peak it reached when Norman was still around!"
Menken clenched his fists, his eyes shining as he looked at Shimizu, as if he were looking at a gold mine.
"Aren't you going to ask me if this technology can mass-produce battle suits and cooperate with the military to make big money?"
Shimizu reached out and took an empty cup from the side, placing it in front of Menken.
"Tea or coffee?"
"Coffee is fine. You know, I've been bombarded with phone calls since the news came out at five in the morning. There were calls from the military, from partners, and from other directors of our company. Most importantly, I wanted to call you, but you turned off your phone, so I could only contact your butler, Jorge, to find out you were here. I just needed some coffee to perk me up."
Menken scratched his head and complained, but judging from his expression and tone, his excitement hadn't subsided.
"Because I knew I would only receive more calls, so I turned it off from the start. Also, the coffee machine has freshly brewed coffee, still hot."
Shimizu pointed to the coffee machine.
Menken got up to get coffee, almost falling because he was too excited and moved too quickly.
"I guess you, like Stark, are unwilling to hand over this technology. But as a shareholder of the company, I certainly hope you are willing to take it out for cooperation, but I know even better that with this technology, you can completely break away from the company and work alone, which would be Osborne's greatest loss, so I won't force you."
Menken said to Shimizu while getting coffee.
"I didn't expect you to be so understanding."
Shimizu said in surprise.
"The last person who wasn't understanding was Obadiah, and now the grass next to his grave is probably already up to my waist. The biggest difference between him and me is that I know what's what. I followed Norman for twenty years, and I know how to strive for the greatest benefit with the least amount of loss.
Most importantly, I know that following capable people is the way to make big money."
Menken took a sip of coffee, shrugged, and then his eyes lit up.
"What kind of coffee is this?"
"Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. I added a little vanilla bean and honey."
"Next time, I have to have my assistant change the coffee in my office to this as well. Also, you have to tell me something, right? I have to deal with those other people."
"I indeed don't have Stark's energy technology. I'm only researching graphene batteries now. Even if I develop a finished product, it's still worlds apart compared to his cold fusion reactor. The real energy is actually myself."
Shimizu snapped his fingers at Menken and released a little electric spark with his Lightning Release.
"Not really."
Shimizu had already thought of an explanation.
"That was a year ago. It was a rainy day, and I was conducting an experiment with Teacher Norman in his private laboratory. As a result, due to the weather, the light bulb broke, so I climbed up the ladder to fix it."
"And then, at this moment, a ball lightning struck me from outside the window. I fell into a pool, and in the pool was Teacher Norman's experimental project, an electric eel that had undergone genetic modification. Also falling into the pool with me were dozens of chemical reagents from the shelves."
Shimizu told a mutated event that combined the Flash and Electro.
There is no mistake, one head, one first, one inside, one capacity, one existence, one look!
Adaptation is not random fabrication. Combining the origins of a superhero and a supervillain together sounds very convincing in this world where superheroes truly exist.
"In an open-air environment, the probability of a person being struck by lightning is one in 600,000, and it's even lower indoors. Ball lightning is only likely to appear in millions of lightning strikes. This one in trillions of things just happened to me.
Fortunately, Teacher Norman rescued me with a first-aid device at the time."
Shimizu said earnestly, talking nonsense.
Anyway, Norman is already dead, so he can make up stories as he pleases.
"Then you mean... this accidental experiment cannot be replicated?"
Menken asked.
"Yes, afterwards, Teacher Norman secretly conducted many experiments trying to repeat it. Whether it was million-volt level voltage or the chemical reagents from that day, we replicated them, but we still couldn't succeed."
"That mutated electric eel... I remember the company seems to have such a project."
Menken recalled.
"The key to the problem may indeed be the electric eel, but the mutation of each electric eel is different, and the electric eel that helped me mutate was charred by the ball lightning that night, and even DNA could not be extracted, and even cloning could not be cloned.
Afterwards, Teacher Norman also tested my genes and found that there were no changes compared to before, so he believed that this experiment could neither be replicated nor help treat his genetic disease, so after studying it for a while, he stopped caring.
As for the battle armor, it was developed by myself in order to better control my own energy."
Shimizu said flawlessly.
But Menken believed that the probability of such a coincidental thing happening in the world was extremely low.
But since Shimizu said so, it means that he has cleaned up everything related to the matter, and others will not be able to find out anything.
In that case, what difference does it make whether it's true or false?
"I will hold a press conference in the afternoon to give a response to the outside world as much as possible, and by the way, mobilize Osborne's relationships from all walks of life to help you mediate, but you also know that even Stark has handed over a set of Iron Man armor, if you don't take out something...\n"
