Hawk looked astonished.
Gwen, on the other hand, fell silent as she watched Hawk's expression.
Fake.
Too fake.
Gwen couldn't help but genuinely remark.
"Your acting is so fake."
"Sorry."
Hawk shrugged: "I'm not a professional actor."
Yes.
Gwen had been outside for a while.
To be precise, she came over just as Peter was about to confront him, but stopped when she heard the commotion inside the gym.
Gwen thought Hawk and Peter wouldn't notice.
But...
After awakening his Little Universe, Hawk, who controlled his five senses, could hear not only Gwen's footsteps but also the sound of leaves falling behind the gym, if he wanted to.
Peter, with his Spider-Sense, was the same, not to mention that this version of Peter was a genuine Spider-Woman Peter who had undergone mutation.
It's just that Peter had probably only recently mutated and hadn't fully adapted yet, and Hawk's punch had just left Peter in shock.
But with Hawk's subtle reminder, Peter quickly reacted and caught the sound of Gwen's breathing outside the gym.
So the two tacitly chose to keep quiet.
See.
This was another reason Hawk liked the original Spider-Woman so much.
He had no comment on The Amazing Spider-Man.
But the tech Spider-Man?
Hehe.
Hawk had no doubt that if it were the tech Spider-Man, that guy probably wouldn't understand what he meant, and might even continue to babble on and on.
No.
It wasn't 'might not', it was 'definitely not'.
Hawk thought to himself.
Just then.
Peter also walked out from behind, then looked at Gwen outside, a surprised expression on his face: "Gwen, you haven't left yet?"
Gwen looked at Peter's stiff, surprised expression and finally couldn't hold back.
"Peter, your acting is even worse than Hawk's."
"Ah, haha, hahaha..."
Peter's expression froze, he subconsciously scratched his head and chuckled, then said goodbye to Hawk, and then walked towards the school gate on his own.
Seeing this, Hawk also prepared to leave.
He was going to Osborn Biological Industry for a summer job first thing tomorrow morning, so he planned to go to bed early tonight.
Gwen blocked his way.
"You're not right, Hawk."
"Ah!"
Hawk was slightly taken aback.
Gwen's willow-like brows furrowed, and she looked at Hawk with some curiosity: "When did you become so familiar with Peter? I never saw you talk to him before."
To be precise, she had never seen Hawk chat with anyone.
Even when other classmates sought Hawk out, Hawk would dismiss them with a few words and continue to do his own thing as he pleased.
Also, like at the dance, at first, there were female classmates who actively approached Hawk, asking if he could be their escort.
The result...
According to the rumors among the female students.
"Hawk?"
"That's a damn iceberg, and a damn perennial iceberg at that."
Other female classmates were like that.
Gwen was no exception.
Gwen thought about how sometimes when she approached Hawk, although he didn't show it, Gwen could feel that Hawk seemed to resist talking to her.
But today?
Her intuition told her that the invisible resistance Hawk had when talking to her now seemed to have disappeared.
Gwen was very curious about this.
Hawk, listening to Gwen's complaints, explained with a relaxed expression: "Peter and I are not familiar with each other. He came to find me because when Flash cornered him in the restroom last time, I happened to be there. He came to thank me for that."
Gwen listened to Hawk's explanation and fell silent once again.
After a while.
She looked into Hawk's eyes, a smile appearing on her face: "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to. There's no need to lie."
Hawk heard this, thought for a moment, and also looked into Gwen's somewhat beautiful eyes, nodding.
"Alright, I don't want to say."
"I'll find out myself."
"Okay."
Hawk nodded, ready to leave, but before he left, he thought for a moment and said to Gwen: "Investigate all you want, but don't fall in. I heard that when a woman becomes curious about a man, it's the beginning of her falling for him."
Gwen finally confirmed that Hawk's previous invisible resistance towards her had disappeared, but on the surface, she scoffed.
"I don't think I'll fall for a guy who barely even considers us friends."
She thought again of a few days ago when she walked Hawk home, and how he had such a reluctant expression on his face after she said they were friends.
No.
At that time, Hawk's resistance towards her had already weakened.
Gwen thought about the scene from that day again, and her heart stirred.
Hawk didn't refute, just shrugged, lifted his foot, and walked down the stairs.
"Goodbye, Gwen."
Gwen watched Hawk's departing back and called out: "I'll find out your secret."
"Go for it!"
Hawk waved his hand without looking back.
He didn't take this matter to heart.
What he had just said to Gwen about a woman falling for a man when she becomes curious about him was just a casual remark.
However...
Before awakening his Little Universe, he probably wouldn't have said something like that.
Hawk, sitting in the back row of the school bus back to his new apartment, looked at the scenery flashing past the window, and couldn't help but think to himself.
After all, for Hawk before awakening his Little Universe, love was a luxury.
And it was a luxury he could only dream of.
But after awakening his Little Universe?
How does that saying go?
Money is a man's courage.
Although Hawk was still poor now, he had his fist!
Power is fist.
Power is money.
Likewise.
Having a fist is equivalent to having money.
So...
The past is the past.
The present is the present.
Now that he had awakened his Little Universe, he should already have the qualification, from a position of strength, to say that he could have love.
Hawk thought to himself.
Just then.
The scene of Gwen looking into his eyes just now appeared in his mind, and then, his heart couldn't help but twitch at that moment.
"Hiss!"
Hawk reacted, taking a sharp breath, and subconsciously shook his head, casting this sudden thought aside.
Nothing else.
The three major illusions of life warning were online again.
He was not Peter.
Peter would mistakenly think Mary Jane liked him because she smiled at him.
Hawk would not have such an illusion.
So...
Forget it.
Business first.
He was going to Osborn Biological Industry for a summer job tomorrow, and then he would know if the stuff in Dr. Connors's lab was the gamma nium he wanted.
If it was, that would be great.
Hawk had already decided.
Once the crucial 'gamma nium' for forging saint cloth was confirmed, his next target would be Wakanda, which was rich in Vibranium.
It was still the same saying.
If Wakanda was willing to hand over the Vibranium he wanted, then it would naturally be a win-win situation.
But what if Wakanda not only refused to give it but even dared to retaliate against him?
Hehe.
Then he was sorry.
He.
Hawk.
Was not good with words.
But...
He knew a little bit of fighting!
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