Kingpin: Go pour Toby some tea, don't let him get thirsty

And to make sure Norman would not survive even after mutating without a head, Toby went up and gave Norman one extra kick to each side of the chest.

Two kicks to the torso, one to the head—even immortals would shake their heads at that.

It was just a pity that Norman Osborn of this universe had regrettably logged off before becoming the fully evolved Green Goblin.

And now that the killing was done, arson naturally had to follow.

After all, killing and arson went hand in hand.

While clearing out the security team at Osborn Manor earlier, he had happened to find where they stored their weapons cache.

Weapons were fire too, more or less.

So, after tossing all the innocent servants he had previously knocked unconscious out of the manor, Toby began planting C4 throughout the estate.

After placing the mutated Norman's corpse among the pile of security guards' bodies, he swung away on his webbing and detonated the C4 inside the manor.

Amid the flames, Toby swung away in style.

As for what came next, Toby did not need to worry about it.

Other than Peter and Gwen, no one should know that he had done this.

After all, he had the manor's layout and security deployment plans, so he avoided every camera along the way. He had also ambushed those servants from behind when knocking them out.

And he had even blown up the manor's surveillance room. It could be said that nothing could go wrong.

Even if the police investigated, at most they would find Norman's mutated corpse, the security team's corpses, and Osborn Manor reduced to rubble.

In the end, those useless American cops would probably conclude that the mutated Norman and the security team had slaughtered each other before perishing together.

The senior executives of Osborn Enterprises, who had long been waiting for Norman to die, would only add fuel to the fire, turning something that was not Norman's fault into something that was.

After all, that would give the board a better excuse to kick the Osborn Family out of Osborn Enterprises.

It was an old American corporate tradition: the board kicking out the chairman.

Tony of Stark Industries and Harry of Osborn Enterprises had both gone through that kind of bullshit.

With all those factors combined, Toby was not worried in the slightest that anyone would suspect him.

However, after finishing the job, Toby did not go straight home or return to the hotel to find the sleeping Gwen. Instead, he went to Fisk Tower.

This time, Toby did not take the elevator. He climbed directly through a window to Kingpin's office on the top floor.

After he knocked on the glass a few times from outside, Kingpin came over and opened the window for him.

Once Toby came inside, Kingpin smiled and asked, "Poison Spider, what brings you here?"

Hearing that, Toby looked the Kingpin before him up and down, then frowned. "Where's your boss?"

Kingpin froze for a moment, then spread his hands in understanding.

"Just as the boss said, there was no way we could hide it from you. May I ask how you discovered that I wasn't the boss himself?"

Toby pointed disdainfully at his face. "First, Kingpin never calls me Poison Spider."

"Second, you're too fat. More than ninety percent of Kingpin's body, including his face, is muscle. Your face is full of goddamn fat!"

"So tell me, where's your boss?"

"So that's how it is. There's nothing I can do about that, after all. I don't have the boss's talent for training..." The Kingpin double sighed, then respectfully lowered his head and explained, "As for the boss, a troublesome gang recently came to Hell's Kitchen. His men couldn't handle them, and you were busy, so the boss personally took people to deal with them..."

"A gang troublesome enough for Kingpin to deal with personally?" Toby narrowed his eyes and asked curiously, "What are they called?"

The Kingpin double had no intention of hiding anything and honestly replied, "They call themselves The Hand. They're the parent organization of the Neon Gang, and they came to Hell's Kitchen over the Neon Gang being wiped out last time..."

Toby raised an eyebrow at that.

"The Hand? And they came over the Neon Gang being wiped out? So this does involve me after all. Tch..."

He remembered that when he had helped Kingpin wipe out the Neon Gang last time, Okamoto Reiichi, the Neon Gang's leader, had indeed said that he was one of The Hand.

He just had not taken it to heart at the time. He only cared about taking money and getting the job done; he did not care about the identity of the people being dealt with.

As long as the money was enough, he would even take out the president for you!

As for The Hand, it was not exactly that strong.

But calling it weak would not be accurate either.

After all, The Hand's ninja assassin network was spread across the entire world, and ninjas were Japanese things that fought as underhandedly as possible. Getting tangled up with them would be quite troublesome...

Seemingly noticing Toby's concerns, the Kingpin double hurriedly explained, "Please rest assured, Mr. Poison Spider. The boss said that he was the one who hired you for that matter. He'll handle The Hand himself and absolutely won't let this implicate you or your family in any way!"

The Kingpin double spoke those words with complete sincerity.

Because what kind of person did Kingpin fear Toby becoming most?

Not a killer like Poison Spider, who killed without batting an eye...

Instead, he was Poison Spider with absolutely nothing left to worry about!

Poison Spider, who killed without batting an eye—at least money could still blind him...

But Poison Spider, with nothing to lose and no more "feelings," might no longer care about money...

So if anyone in this world cared more about Ben and May than Toby and Peter did, it had to be Kingpin.

Because he knew that once Ben and May died, that merciless Poison Spider would immediately become a mad spider that bit anyone he saw!

Especially someone like Kingpin, who knew Toby's true identity. Once Ben and May died, he would absolutely be Toby's first suspect—and the first to suffer the backlash!

So, when he had first seen Toby sitting brazenly in his office without even wearing a mask, clearly having no intention of hiding his identity from him...

Kingpin had known that Toby's parents were no longer just Toby's parents—they were also Kingpin's saviors!

Toby was a double-edged sword that had to be handled with caution!

That was why he had instructed his stand-in that if Toby came, he should tell him not to worry about The Hand.

However, Toby himself had not been too concerned. Hearing that Kingpin would handle it, he stopped paying attention to the matter.

He had not come here over Kingpin's nonsense, but because he had something important to do.

"Let me use your boss's computer."

Toby was not asking. He was merely informing him.

Without caring whether Kingpin's stand-in agreed, he sat down in Kingpin's chair, turned on Kingpin's computer, and skillfully entered the password to access the desktop.

Kingpin's stand-in was completely dumbfounded. Even he, the stand-in, did not know Kingpin's computer password!

After all, that computer contained far too many shady dealings of the Kingpin Group!

Kingpin's stand-in was frantic, but he did not dare stop Toby directly.

He could only walk into a corner, take out his phone, and secretly call the real Kingpin.

But after Kingpin answered and learned what had happened, he merely calmly told his stand-in to make Toby some tea and not let him get thirsty while using the computer.

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