"It's Peter, right?"
"..."
During physics class.
Hawke glanced at the words on the small piece of paper pushed in front of him, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Gwen sitting next to him.
Gwen gestured towards the small piece of paper in front of Hawke.
Hawke smiled, noncommittally returning the small piece of paper to Gwen.
He made no comment.
Gwen guessing was one thing, his nodding was another.
It was the same thing.
The Spider-Man hadn't betrayed him, so naturally he wouldn't betray Peter.
Soon.
After class.
Gwen, carrying her books, walked with Hawke towards the lockers in the hallway, wondering if Spider-Man was Peter.
She felt it was definitely Peter.
After all, Hawke's network of connections was too simple, and considering that Peter had previously been a weakling at school, only to suddenly rise to prominence,most classmates thought it might be because Peter had been training with Hawke.
This was also the origin of the rumor that Peter might be Hawke's only friend.
Others might not know, but Gwen did.
However, precisely because Gwen knew that Peter hadn't become stronger by training with Hawke, she hesitated to be certain.
It was because something was too simple.
It was like a struggling student and a top student doing a problem at the same time.
The struggling student would see the same problem, think, "Wow, I know this one, choose A," and fill in the answer without thinking.
But the top student, looking at the almost obvious answer, might start to think. "
This problem… could there be a trap?"
That was Gwen's situation.
She was most likely certain that Spider-Man was indeed Peter, but whether it was true or not, she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, so she couldn't say for sure.
A while later,Hawke opened his locker, put his physics book inside, and then took out his shoulder bag.
"I'm going to Mrs. Snow's office."
"Okay."
Gwen had already taken her backpack from her locker and nodded.
"Then I'll wait for you at the library."
Hawke hummed in agreement, slung his shoulder bag over his shoulder, and headed towards Mrs. Snow's office.
The weekend was tomorrow and the day after.
But the 10th is a Monday, so if he wanted to take the day off, he had to ask for it today.
Otherwise, asking for it next Monday would be the same as acting first and asking for permission later.
Gwen headed towards the library.
Tomorrow was the weekend, and also the day of the twelfth-grade prom.
She needed to confirm all the details with the prom organizing committee before school ended today.
After all, she wasn't the type to attend the prom.
However, Gwen was the type who didn't care about studying more than the prom, but because she was the year assistant, she was still responsible for the prom's arrangements even if she didn't participate.
Now that she was with Hawke, although she hadn't said anything, she still wanted to attend the prom with him if possible.
She just didn't know if Hawke would agree.
Maybe, perhaps, he would?
Gwen thought uncertainly.
Just as Hawke and Gwen temporarily split up in the break hallway, one heading towards the office building and the other towards the library.
Underground.
In the filthy, stinking, sewage-filled sewers, accompanied by a gradually clearing hissing sound like a lizard, a massive lizard-like monster, like a master swimmer, darted through the sewage pipes, then with a whoosh, leaped out and landed at the crossroads of the interconnected underground pipe network.
"Midtown High School!"
"Gwen Stacy."
"Capture her, use her to blackmail Hawke!"
*Splat!*
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At this moment, Dr. Lizard, seemingly completely transformed into a lizard-man, rolled his compound eyes and flicked his scarlet tongue.
The words, whispered like a demon's, were branded into his mind.
Soon,Dr. Lizard, standing at the crossroads of underground pipes, seemed to have sensed something.
The next second,with a roar, Dr. Lizard darted into another underground pipe like a streak of light, landing on all fours like a real reptile, rapidly moving along the sewer pipe towards the student restroom of Midtown High School.
A ninth-grade student, newly enrolled this year, was squatting on the toilet playing on his phone.
Suddenly ,the ninth-grade student, whose face had developed many freckles due to puberty, sensed something was wrong.
The ground seemed to be trembling.
And an unknown chill was now slapping against his buttocks from below.
The ninth-grade student was somewhat bewildered.
"What's going on?"
"Earthquake..."
"Boom!"
Just as the ninth-grade student was wondering if an earthquake was coming, a powerful force surged from below, unexpectedly throwing him and the toilet into the air.
Thud.
The student, along with the toilet, was slammed out of the stall and landed on the ground, dumbfounded.
The other students in the restroom also froze, watching their classmate being launched out of the stall like a cannonball.
But they quickly reacted.
Before their eyes, the floor was tearing apart, now that the stall door was gone.
Then, a green claw gripped the floor tiles, spitting out a spark.
The next second.
Hiss!
Dr. Lizard, emerging from beneath the toilet floor, stood firm, spread his arms, and hissed as if announcing his arrival.
"Sizzle!"
"Huh?"
Peter, who had just finished his chemistry class and returned to the rest corridor to retrieve his backpack, suddenly noticed his arms, where the hairs on his arms were standing on end.
Before he could react, several screams shattered the relaxed atmosphere of the rest corridor.
"Ah!"
"God, a lizard man!"
"Run!"
"Waaah, Mom, I don't want to go to school!"
The bathroom door was suddenly pushed open, and the students who had been in the bathroom ran towards Peter in terror, shouting warnings to the others.
Behind them followed a student whose pants were pulled up in fright.
He didn't seem to notice that his pants weren't properly pulled up.
Clearly,he was terrified and would probably be too scared to go to the bathroom alone for a long time afterward.
Just as the other students' eyes fell on the students running out of the bathroom,a loud crash resounded .
The bathroom wall shattered.
Dr. Lizard instantly appeared in the other students' sight.
"Thank you!"
"Lizard man!"
"..."
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