Chapter 35

Gwen looked at the stiff, surprised expression on Peter's face and couldn't hold it in anymore.

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

"Ah, haha, hahaha..."

Peter's expression froze, he instinctively scratched his head and laughed, then said goodbye to Hawk, and walked 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 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 frowned, looking at Hawk with some curiosity: "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.

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

Also, 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 partner.

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 were like that.

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 current Hawk seemed to have lost that invisible sense of resistance when talking to her.

Gwen was very curious about this.

Hawk, listening to Gwen's complaints, explained in a relaxed tone: "Peter and I aren't actually close. He came to find me because I happened to be there last time Flash cornered him in the restroom, 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 a smile appeared on her face: "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 at Gwen's rather pretty eyes, and nodded.

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

"I'll find out for myself."

"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 trapped. I've heard that when a woman becomes curious about a man, that's the beginning of her downfall."

Gwen finally confirmed that the invisible resistance Hawk had toward her had disappeared, but she scoffed on the surface.

"I don't think I'll fall for a guy who finds it a struggle to even admit we're friends."

She thought back to a few days ago when she drove Hawk home, and after she said they were friends, the very reluctant expression that appeared on Hawk's face.

No.

Even back then, Hawk's resistance toward her had already weakened.

Gwen thought about that day's scene again, and her heart stirred.

Hawk didn't refute it, just shrugged and lifted his feet to walk down the stairs.

"Goodbye, Gwen."

Gwen watched Hawk's departing back and shouted: "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 just said to Gwen about a woman falling for a man when she gets curious was just something he said off the cuff.

However...

If it were before he awakened 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 passing by outside 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 does that saying go?

Money is a man's courage.

Although Hawk still has no money now, he has fists!

Power is fists.

Power is money.

By the same logic.

Having fists is equivalent to having money.

So...

The past is the past.

The present is the present.

Now that he has awakened his Cosmo, he should have the qualification to stand from a position of strength and say that he can possess love, right?

Hawk thought to himself.

Just then.

The image of Gwen looking at him earlier surfaced in his mind, and immediately after, his heart gave a slight twitch at that moment.

"Hiss!"

Hawk reacted, took a deep breath, instinctively shook his head, and threw this sudden thought to the back of his mind.

Nothing else.

The three great illusions of life warning went online again.

He is not Peter.

Peter would mistake Mary Jane's slight smile for her liking him.

Hawk wouldn't have such an illusion.

So...

Forget it.

Business first.

He's going to work his summer job at Oscorp tomorrow, and then he'll know if the things in Dr. Connors' lab are the Gamanium he wants.

If it is, that would be great.

Hawk had already made up his mind.

Once the key to forging the Cloth, "Gamanium," is confirmed, his next target is Wakanda, which is rich in Vibranium.

Still the same saying.

If Wakanda is willing to hand over the Vibranium he wants, naturally, everyone will be happy.

But if Wakanda not only refuses, but even dares to fight back against him?

Heh.

Then he's sorry.

He.

Hawk.

Is not good with words.

But...

He knows a thing or two about fists and kicks!