Spider-Man...
No.
Spider-Man had finally come online.
Hawk watched Peter Parker's rapidly contracting pupils and could not help sighing inwardly.
The reason he had chosen to stand by in the shower room and had been indifferent to Peter on the school bus, aside from not wanting to interfere with a superhero's tragedy, was that he did not want his involvement to cause the original Spider-Man's debut to fail.
There were three versions of Spider-Man.
Hawk only liked the original Spider-Man before him, whose face bore an uncanny resemblance to Bully Maguire's.
As for The Amazing Spider-Man?
He had not liked it at first, but after Garfield acted out The Amazing Spider-Man 3 in real life, he had come to like it by association.
But Holland's Spider-Man?
Sorry.
Hawk simply could not bring himself to like him.
Put simply, Holland's Spider-Man liking a dark-skinned girl alone had sent Hawk's opinion of him straight into negative numbers.
So...
After sorting through his thoughts, Hawk looked at Peter Parker, who was staring blankly at him as if stunned, and greeted him first.
"Good afternoon, Peter."
"...Good afternoon."
Bully Maguire came back to his senses, his expression once again turning earnest and simple. After returning the greeting, he looked at Gwen sitting beside Hawk and greeted her as well. "Gwen."
Gwen had happened to see the moment Hawk and Peter locked eyes.
Although Gwen was somewhat suspicious, she quickly suppressed it and replied with a smile, "Good afternoon, Peter. I heard you made a fool of Flash yesterday."
At noon yesterday, Peter and Flash Thompson had caused a huge scene in the cafeteria.
Gwen had not been there, but she had heard from others that Peter had seemed like a different person and had left the bully Flash Thompson thoroughly humiliated.
Peter said nothing, merely scratching his head with a smile.
Gwen did not say anything more either. She simply made an encouraging gesture. "You should have fought back a long time ago. Keep it up, Peter."
Peter smiled even more sheepishly.
Once Mrs. Snow saw that everyone had arrived, she clapped her hands and urged Peter to take a seat. After Peter sat down on the sofa opposite Hawk and Gwen, she walked to her desk and picked up the three documents lying on it.
A moment later.
Mrs. Snow handed one of the documents to Gwen. "A vacation job offer from Osborn Bio-Industry—laboratory assistant for Dr. Connors."
Gwen's eyes lit up as she accepted the document from Mrs. Snow. "Thank you. Dr. Connors only told me yesterday that he would contact the school in the next few days. I didn't expect it to happen so quickly."
Even without this document, she could still have gone to Dr. Connors's laboratory.
But with it, the legitimacy of her future résumé would be easier to prove.
Mrs. Snow then looked at Hawk and Peter. "There are two more vacation job offers, but I wasn't sure which one you would prefer, so I called you to my office to choose for yourselves."
As Mrs. Snow spoke, she was just about to continue.
At that moment, Hawk came to his senses and raised his right hand, interrupting Mrs. Snow.
"Wait a moment, Mrs. Snow."
"What is it, Hawk?"
"I still don't quite understand why I was called here."
"..."
Mrs. Snow froze for a moment. Looking at Hawk's utterly confused expression, she could not help saying, "Did you forget our conversation in the office last month?"
Hawk blinked, recalling their routine one-on-one counselor meeting last month.
He remembered it had been a routine conversation.
Except...
Before he left last time, Mrs. Snow had asked about Hawk's plans for the vacation, such as whether he had found a summer job.
Hawk had said he had not found one for this year yet. Mrs. Snow had then said that if he needed help, she could try to find one for him.
He had not thought much of it and casually agreed.
After all, he really had not found a summer job for this year yet.
After recalling their conversation from last month, Hawk subconsciously drew a sharp breath.
Mrs. Snow laughed when she saw Hawk's expression change.
"Remember now?"
"I remember."
Hawk nodded.
Mrs. Snow laughed again, then brought the conversation back on track and waved the two documents in her hand. "One is another summer job offer from Osborn Industries, in the Bio-Electrical Power Department. They need a summer job worker to help organize materials. The other is from the Daily Bugle. They also happen to need a summer job worker."
Although neither job sounded particularly technical.
They really were not particularly technical.
But if you went looking on your own, whether it was Osborn or the Daily Bugle, they would tell you they were not hiring.
Because these were not simply two jobs—they were favors from Mrs. Snow.
In short.
Only by taking the documents currently in Mrs. Snow's hands to Osborn or the Daily Bugle could they get these Summer Jobs.
Peter Parker subconsciously looked at Hawk.
"Hawk, why don't you choose first?"
"I..."
Hawk came back to his senses and was just about to tell Mrs. Snow that he did not plan to take a summer job when he suddenly thought of something. The words reaching his lips were forcibly changed. "I'll go to Osborn."
He had just remembered Dr. Connors's paper on Gamma Rays that he had read in the library.
Perfect.
He had been considering whether to find an opportunity to meet Dr. Connors. Hadn't that opportunity just arrived?
Seeing that, Peter looked at Mrs. Snow. "Then I'll go to the Daily Bugle. I really like photography."
Naturally.
Not only did you like taking pictures, you liked taking selfies too. You even liked selling your own selfies to your own newspaper.
That was what Hawk thought as he listened to Peter.
Mrs. Snow did not care what the two were thinking. Once she saw that they had made their choices, she stopped wasting words and handed the two documents to Hawk and Peter before giving them instructions.
"Peter."
"Mm."
"When you go report to the Daily Bugle, say that you're looking for Mr. J. Jonah Jameson. Once you see Mr. James, just give him the document in your hand. He'll make arrangements."
"Okay."
"Hawk."
"Mrs. Snow."
"After you arrive at Osborn Bio-Industry, go to the Bio-Electrical Engineering Department and find an engineer named Max Dillon. I'll call their supervisor in advance."
"Okay."
Hearing that name, Hawk nodded without betraying any emotion.
Max Dillon?
Wasn't this guy the unremarkable engineer from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 who thought the entire world ignored him, fell into an Electric Eel Power Barrel, and later became Electro?
Forget it.
None of my business.
Hawk shook his head inwardly.
Compared to Electro and the like, he was far more interested in the Gamma Rays Dr. Connors was researching.
After all...
He had a feeling that the "Gamanion" he wanted to find was most likely connected to Dr. Connors's research.
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