Hero Alliance International Company's underground Training Room.
Hawking removed his armor and placed the terrified Eddie in a chair.
"Eddie, tell me. What exactly happened?"
"It happened like this. O-old boss?"
Eddie, who had only just recovered a little, was about to explain the whole story to the idol he admired and felt most grateful toward when he suddenly saw Hawking's true face after the armor came off. He froze on the spot.
He had never imagined that the famous Super Hero who had once saved his ass—the God of War, Armor Hero, Golden Flash—was actually Hawking, his boss's boss, the man who had always controlled the Daily Bugle's news content.
"Don't be surprised. It's me. Hurry up and tell me what happened."
Hawking spoke up to remind him.
If Eddie had merely been an ordinary newspaper reporter, he naturally would not have been qualified to know Hawking's true identity.
But now that Eddie had been parasitized by Venom and would most likely be recruited into his company in the future, it was a different matter.
"Yes, boss. A few days ago, I..."
After coming back to his senses, Eddie immediately told Hawking everything that had happened at the Life Foundation.
Hawking's eyes lit up after hearing it.
"So it was that company."
When he had watched Venom's standalone film, he had learned that a company had discovered symbiotes in outer space and brought them back to Earth for research, hoping to cure all kinds of terminal illnesses by combining symbiotes with humans.
To that end, they had secretly lured homeless people from the streets, people no one cared about, into their labs for cruel human experiments. But every attempt had ended in failure.
After all, symbiotes could not perfectly bond with just any organism. If the host did not