"Ugh—!"
Natasha, who had looked full of happiness just a moment ago, began to question life. Her beautiful face wrinkled up instantly.
"What on earth is this?!" She had never eaten anything so bizarre in her life.
"Bear with it, just swallow it."
It was only because Natasha had undergone professional training that she was able to eat the entire fruit.
Well... actually, Peter had originally intended to tell her that she only needed to take one bite. But by the time he remembered, Natasha had already eaten more than half of it, so he swallowed his words.
When Natasha finished the entire Devil Fruit, she gasped heavily as if surviving a disaster. Her eyes were red, and while looking at Peter with a resentful gaze, she wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth with some difficulty. Anyone who didn't know better would think Peter had fed her some other strange thing...
"Are you sure this is something humans can eat?"
Just as Natasha asked Peter with lingering fear, wondering if she should take some anti-diarrhea medicine later, her body suddenly underwent a change.
First were her hands. A layer of silver-white, fluffy fur appeared on the backs of her originally fair hands, and her nails became sharp and long, gleaming with a cold metallic luster.
Right after were her ears. A pair of furry wolf ears pricked up from among her red curls, twitching flexibly the moment they surfaced, as if capturing the surrounding sounds.
Then came a larger and fluffier tail.
"This..." Natasha looked down at her hands, then turned her head to look at the tail wagging uncontrollably behind her, completely stunned.
How cute~
Peter admired Natasha's beast-girl form, feeling quite excited. Black Widow's already excellent figure, combined with these wolf ears and tail, brought a complete sense of contrast.
"Don't panic, this is the hybrid form of the Devil Fruit." Peter reached out to touch the wolf's ears on her head. "What you gained is the Zoan Type, Mythical Beast, Model: Okami. Simply put, it's a kind of ice-attribute divine beast."
Hearing Peter say this, Natasha indeed felt as if an extra energy had appeared inside her body. She instinctively opened her mouth and breathed out, releasing a blast of frost breath. The breath landed on the nightstand, instantly freezing a thick layer of ice over its surface.
Natasha tried to aim her sharp claws at the nightstand and swiped. The nightstand was immediately sliced into pieces.
This coldness, this power... Natasha couldn't help but widen her mouth in surprise. This was just too exaggerated!
"Can I... can I still change back in the future?" Natasha suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask with a stutter.
"Of course you can!" Peter touched Natasha's wolf tail, reluctant to let go. "You just need to concentrate, imagine your form, and you can freely switch among human, beast, and hybrid forms."
Natasha closed her eyes skeptically. About a few seconds later, the wolf ears and tail slowly disappeared, and the fur on the backs of her hands gradually faded away, returning her to her previous appearance.
However, perhaps due to the influence of the cold energy, the tips of her originally fiery red long hair gradually turned an ice-blue color, making it look as if she had specially gotten a gradient dye job.
Peter couldn't help but reach out to help tuck the stray hairs on her forehead away: "It looks pretty good."
Natasha rolled her eyes at him, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but tilt upward...
For the next hour or so, Peter kept teaching Natasha how to control the Devil Fruit power. Natasha adjusted to her body's changes quickly because of this, and couldn't help but marvel:
"It's truly powerful, but controlling it is much harder than I imagined."
"Take your time, developing a fruit is a major project that builds up over days and years. In the future, if you can develop it to the point of fruit awakening, it will be even more incredible.
By then, your physical stats might be even tougher than those Asgardians," Peter said, then turned the small watch on his wrist, switching to the symbiote form he hadn't used in a long time.
"Next up is the standard battle suit that everyone in the family gets."
As Peter spoke, he controlled his body to forcefully split off a small portion, which merged into Natasha's body. Before long, it formed a symbiote battle suit on her. Perhaps influenced by the Okami inside her, Natasha's suit was also white and blue.
Feeling the power inside her body that had multiplied by who knows how many times, Natasha's expression became incredibly complex for a moment.
"Aren't you... giving too much?"
For Natasha, who had always been accompanied by loneliness and didn't know what care felt like, Peter had directly filled up the part she lacked the most.
"It's not much," Peter's tone was casual, but the words he spoke made Natasha's nose turn sour. "Since you are already my woman, I naturally won't let my woman face any threats."
At this, he paused and added another sentence: "By the way, there's one more thing."
"What thing?"
"The Red Room."
Hearing those three words, Natasha's body tensed up instantly. Noticing her reaction, Peter couldn't help but pull her trembling body into his arms, comforting her softly:
"Don't worry, I'll handle it for you. In the future, I won't let anyone threaten you."
Speaking of which, Peter had been planning to take action against the Red Room quite early on.
It was just that many things happened later, and because the people of the Red Room couldn't come looking for trouble since Natasha's chip had already been destroyed by Peter, he had gradually pushed this matter to the back of his mind. It wasn't until today, when he confirmed his relationship with her, that he remembered it again.
Come to think of it, the female spies of the Red Room were definitely great hands at being bodyguards, if nothing else.
Additionally, using them to monitor the high-level officials of America was also very suitable, to prevent these people from secretly making trouble against him or his family and friends in the future.
He might collect them all under his command when the time came and give them a new organizational name. Like the Black Rose or something...
On the other side, hearing Peter's words, Natasha remained silent for a long time. The Red Room was the deepest thorn in her heart.
That place destroyed her childhood, took away her right to be a mother, and trained her into a ruthless killing machine. It wasn't that she hadn't thought about going back to settle scores, but the forces involved behind the Red Room were too many and too deep; she couldn't move it with her strength alone.
Now, Peter said he would help her. Not just try, not just do his best, but directly handle it for her!
"Do you know how much trouble the Red Room is?" Natasha's voice was a bit tight.
"Can it be more trouble than Laufey, or more trouble than the Rainbow Bridge that almost pierced through Earth?"
Natasha was instantly choked up. Only at this moment did she truly realize what a powerful reliance she had found.
"Thank you," Natasha couldn't help but say.
"What silly words are you saying~" Peter rubbed her head, then used the Horse Talisman on her.
Natasha: ...
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