Crack~
A crisp snap of bone rang out. The hand gripping Wu Chen's collar fell limp, releasing him.
Bald John immediately began to wail. "Ah! My hand! My wrist is broken!! Aaaah!!!"
Wu Chen still didn't let go. He kept a tight grip on Bald John's right hand, giving everyone, including Peter Parker, a clear view.
The expressions of the onlookers changed at once.
Bald John would never play along with an act for a handsome guy like this, so the bones in his hand really had been crushed!
Gasp!
Who was this handsome blond? He had crushed the bones in Bald John's hand with his bare hands. Just how strong did he have to be?
Some of the onlookers quietly slipped away.
Surviving in the harsh environment of Hell's Kitchen required not only the necessary fighting strength but also a keen eye.
You had to know who you could afford to provoke and who you couldn't.
If you provoked someone you shouldn't, you might very well die without ever knowing how.
Clearly, anyone who could crush the bones in a person's hand with his bare hands was no pushover, whoever this handsome blond was.
Some people who felt the matter had nothing to do with them left.
Of course, others left because they feared the handsome blond would settle accounts later and deal with everyone who had just laughed at him.
It wasn't impossible.
The thugs of Hell's Kitchen judged him by their own standards and came to that conclusion.
Of course, even more people chose to stay and watch.
Their thinking was simple: no matter how strong this blond kid was, could he really take on a whole crowd by himself?
Ignoring the crowd's reactions, Wu Chen glanced at little Peter, then continued squeezing Bald John's wrist.
Crack!
This time, it broke completely.
His broken hand hung limply from his wrist. There was no wound, but the broken area was badly swollen. That alone showed what Minato Namikaze was capable of.
Breaking a person's bones without breaking the skin wasn't something that could be done with strength alone. It also required some technique.
The technique Wu Chen used was one from the memories of Minato Namikaze that he had received, one Konoha used when interrogating prisoners.
Now it seemed the technique wasn't just useful for interrogating prisoners. It also worked well for intimidating ordinary people.
"Aaaaah!!" Bald John clutched his hand and rolled on the ground in pain. Little Peter jumped back several steps in fright.
Wu Chen stepped forward and rested a hand on Peter's head. "Don't be afraid, kid," he said gently. "Can you tell me your name?"
Since he needed to find someone to trigger a 'mission' anyway, he might as well find someone he liked.
He quite liked the kid in front of him. Even if the boy had nothing to pay him for a mission, it was still better than working for those bastards.
So Wu Chen wanted this kid to be his employer and give him a mission.
"I... I'm Peter Parker!" Though a little frightened by what he had just seen, little Peter still gave his name.
This big brother doesn't seem to be a completely good person...
Wu Chen raised an eyebrow. He took a close look at little Peter's face and confirmed that this was the future Spider-Man.
He really hadn't expected to run into a superhero while casually looking for a 'random mission.'
Though he was only a future superhero.
Still, Spider-Man was quite likable, and Wu Chen had no intention of changing what he had decided because of Peter Parker's future identity.
Seeing Peter Parker's expression, Wu Chen guessed what he was thinking and said, "Little Peter, how do you think bad people should be treated?"
To the ten-or-so-year-old Peter Parker, bad people were those who bullied others.
So, drawing on his own experience, he came up with an answer. "Persuade them to stop bullying people."
"But what if you can't persuade them?" Wu Chen pointed at Bald John, who was lying on the ground wailing. "There will always be some people you can't persuade with words. What would you do then?"
Little Peter fell into thought. After a moment, he said, "I'd run away, really far away, so he couldn't find me~"
Running away was shameful, but it worked.
That was how most people felt when faced with a bad guy, and there was nothing wrong with it.
But Wu Chen said, "Running away won't solve the problem. You can run, but what about the others? If you ran away and your friend got bullied by a bad guy because of it, what would you do?"
This was another tricky question, but the young Spider-Man still gave it serious thought. "I'd want to come back and beat up the bad guy so he'd run away, but I might not be able to do that."
"Suppose you could."
"Then I'd definitely come back and beat up the bad guy so he'd run away!" Peter Parker said firmly.
"Very good! That's great!" Wu Chen gently patted Spider-Man's head. "When dealing with bad people, if you don't want to kill them, you have to beat them until they're scared, so they'll never dare do anything bad again."
"Different bad people can endure different amounts, though."
"Take this bald guy, for example. He's the type who bullies the weak and fears the strong. Even if I lectured him today, he'd go right back to bullying other people another day."
"So I chose to confiscate the tool he uses to do it, leaving him unable to bully anyone ever again."