Chapter 35: Marvel: Awakening the Cosmo at the Start, Chapter 17

Gwen looked at the stiff, surprised expression on Peter's face and could no longer hold it in.

"Peter, your acting is even worse than Hawk's."

"Ah, haha, hahaha..."

Peter's expression stiffened; he subconsciously scratched his head and laughed, then said goodbye to Hawk before walking off toward the school gate on his own.

Seeing this, Hawk prepared to leave as well.

He had to start his summer job at Oscorp Industries early tomorrow morning, so he planned to get to sleep early tonight.

Gwen blocked his path.

"You're acting strange, Hawk."

"Huh!"

Hawk was slightly taken aback.

Gwen knitted her brows, looking at Hawk with some curiosity: "Since when did you get so familiar with Peter? I've never seen you talk to him before."

To be precise, she had never seen Hawk chat with anyone at all.

Even when other classmates approached Hawk, he would dismiss them in a few words and continue doing his own thing, indifferent to others.

Furthermore, just like at the dance, at the beginning, there were female students who took the initiative to find Hawk and ask if he could be their date.

The result...

To use the words circulating among the female students.

"Hawk?"

"That guy is an iceberg, and a ten-thousand-year-old iceberg at that."

Other female students felt the same.

Gwen was no exception.

Gwen thought about the times she had approached Hawk; although he didn't show it, she could feel that Hawk seemed to have a resistance to talking to her.

But today?

Her intuition told her that the invisible sense of resistance Hawk had when speaking to her seemed to have vanished.

Gwen was very curious about this.

Hawk listened to Gwen's complaints and explained with a relaxed expression: "Peter and I aren't actually close. He came to find me because I happened to be there when Flash cornered him in the restroom last time, and 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 and revealed a faint smile: "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to; there's no need to lie."

Hearing this, Hawk thought for a moment, looked into Gwen's rather pretty eyes, and nodded.

"Fine, I don't want to say it."

"I'll find out on my own."

"Sure."

Hawk nodded and prepared to leave, but before he did, he thought for a moment and said to Gwen: "Investigate all you want, but don't get sucked in. I've heard that when a woman becomes curious about a man, that is the beginning of her downfall."

Gwen was finally certain that the invisible resistance Hawk previously held toward her had disappeared, but she scoffed on the surface.

"I don't think I'll get sucked in by a guy who finds it a struggle to even consider us friends."

She once again thought of the day she drove Hawk home, and the very reluctant expression on his face after she said they were friends.

No.

The resistance Hawk had toward her had already weakened at that time.

Gwen thought of the scene from that day again, and her heart stirred.

Hawk did not refute her; he just shrugged and lifted his feet to walk down the stairs.

"Goodbye, Gwen."

Gwen watched Hawk's departing back and called out: "I will find out your secret."

"Good luck!"

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 once she becomes curious was just something he said off the cuff.

However...

Before awakening his Cosmo, he probably wouldn't have said something like that.

Sitting in the last row of the school bus back to his new apartment, Hawk looked at the scenery flashing past the window and couldn't help but think to himself.

After all, for the Hawk before he awakened his Cosmo, love was a luxury.

A luxury that was out of his reach.

But after awakening his Cosmo?

How did that saying go?

Money is a man's courage.

Although Hawk still had no money, he had fists!

Power is fists.

Power is money.

By the same logic.

Having fists is equivalent to having money.

Therefore...

The past is the past.

The present is the present.

Now that he had awakened his Cosmo, he should have the qualifications to speak from a position of strength and say that he could possess love.

Hawk thought to himself.

Just then.

The image of Gwen looking into his eyes just now surfaced in his mind, and his heart couldn't help but twitch at that moment.

"Hiss!"

Hawk snapped to his senses, gasped, and subconsciously shook his head, casting this sudden thought to the back of his mind.

Nothing else.

The warning of the three great illusions of life was online again.

He was not Peter.

Peter would mistake a slight smile from Mary Jane as her liking him.

Hawk would not have such an illusion.

So...

Forget it.

Business comes first.

He was going to start his summer job at Oscorp Industries tomorrow, and then he would know if the thing in Dr. Connors' lab was the Gammanium he wanted.

If it was, that would be great.

Hawk had already made up his mind.

Once the key to forging the Cloth, "Gammanium," was confirmed, his next target would be Wakanda, which was rich in vibranium.

Still the same point.

If Wakanda was willing to hand over the vibranium he wanted, it would naturally be a happy ending for everyone.

But if Wakanda not only refused but even dared to strike back at him?

Heh.

Then he was sorry.

He.

Hawk.

Was not good with words.

But...

He knew a thing or two about fists and kicks!