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As for forgiving one's enemies, forget it; that is God's business.
Ryan stated that he only wanted to send his enemies to meet God...
So, since they were young, Ryan had been instilling an idea in Peter: you can choose to be kind and choose not to make any decision when facing a problem, but you must never interfere with another person who has already made a choice.
Clearly, Ryan's psychological conditioning of Peter since childhood had been very successful.
Although Peter had already guessed what Ryan was going to do, he didn't speak up to stop him. Instead, he nodded in silence as usual, choosing to acquiesce to Ryan's choice.
Just like when Peter was bullied by school thugs as a child, Ryan would go to get revenge for him. Although Peter didn't agree, he never refused either.
And Gwen, it goes without saying.
With her clever mind, she had actually pieced together the basic sequence of events through the things Ryan said from the Underground Room to the game room.
Furthermore, compared to Peter just guessing that Ryan was going to kill someone, Gwen, as a witness who had personally seen Ryan kill before, was even more certain that Norman Osborn was 'in danger.'
However, she similarly had no intention of stopping Ryan.
Gwen was different from Peter's pure kindness. Because her father was Chief Stacy, although she had received a positive upbringing since childhood, she had seen far more of society's dark side than Peter had.
She knew that sometimes, enemies cannot be made kind through forgiveness alone.
On the contrary, the more you choose to kindly forgive and help the other party, the more the wicked will become emboldened and unscrupulous, causing you secondary harm!
For example, the time she was kidnapped two years ago—wasn't that caused because her father, Chief Stacy, had a moment of soft-heartedness and didn't empty his magazine into the criminal like other officers, but instead arrested him to give him another chance at a new life?
A small encounter that Gwens from other Universes had not experienced led this Universe's Gwen to have a completely different view on criminals.
Small crimes can be imprisoned.
But for killers, anyone has the right to kill them!
That was why she had fallen irredeemably in love with Ryan, this decisive Anti-hero who dared to do what her Police chief father did not!
That's right, this is a semi-darkened Gwen...
However, Gwen hid it very well, not letting anyone discover the 'psychological trauma' left behind after that kidnapping...
Seeing that Peter and Gwen had no objections to his words, Ryan was very satisfied and didn't plan to stay any longer.
Instead, he walked to the window, opened it, and said to Peter:
"Since there's no problem, you don't need to worry about what happens next. By the way, tell Ben and May for me that I won't be coming home for dinner tonight."
"Tonight?" Although Peter didn't intend to stop Ryan, he still scratched his head in confusion.
"But it's only afternoon. Are you planning to act now?"
Ryan glanced at Peter and gave a mysterious smile:
"Of course not. Spiders are nocturnal hunters; broad daylight isn't suitable for action. Most spiders prefer another activity during the day..."
"Huh? What activity?"
Peter was still scratching his head foolishly, but Gwen, who had already studied spider habits in detail after learning that Ryan's abilities were related to spiders, was already blushing.
Because most spiders have a daily routine exactly opposite to humans; they go out to hunt at night, so during the day, naturally... Swoosh——
A strand of Spider Silk shot over, pulling the blushing Gwen into Ryan's arms by the window.
Ryan held Gwen with one arm as he sat on the windowsill, smiling at Peter.
"Your extra training tonight is canceled because Gwen will be acting as Dr. Connors' assistant in your place."
"Now, Gwen will receive the new punishment for you."
After saying that, before Peter could react, Ryan had already swung away from the window on a strand of Spider Silk, carrying Gwen.
Only Peter was left behind, looking on with a face full of envy after he realized what was happening.
Then, Peter couldn't help but walk to the window and look toward the house next door, just in time to see Mary Jane watering flowers in the garden.
Mary Jane seemed to feel Peter's intense gaze as well; she looked up toward Peter and even smiled, waving at him.
This single action instantly hooked Peter, and he waved back at Mary Jane with a silly grin.
He wondered if he should also pursue his own girl, just like his cousin.
If Ryan knew, he would definitely say: No, Peter, we are different; I'm the one being pursued~
The same hotel as last time, the same overwhelming battle, and the same post-coital cigarette.
After Gwen fell asleep from exhaustion, Ryan stood on the balcony, smoking a cigarette while talking to Kingpin on the phone.
Calling Kingpin this time was, on one hand, because Kingpin had transferred Pepper's $50 million commission.
On the other hand, Ryan had asked Kingpin to help him look up the Structural Diagrams of Osborn Manor and the security situation within the estate.
Although the current Ryan was strong enough to steamroll his way into most places, he still needed to maintain a certain level of caution!
Ryan Parker never fought a battle he wasn't sure of winning!
Since he had already decided to send Norman Osborn to meet God, he had to be absolutely certain!
And Kingpin truly lived up to being the most well-connected man in New York; he didn't disappoint Ryan and quickly sent over the Structural Diagrams of Osborn Manor and information on the Security Team.
Kingpin had even thoughtfully marked the room where Norman Osborn was located in the Structural Diagrams, as well as the location of the hidden Safe Room within the room.
To this, Ryan could only remark: look at that, this is what you call professional!
And the reason Ryan went to such great lengths to personally kill Norman Osborn was naturally not just to avenge Peter.
The main reason was that the improved version of the lizard regeneration serum had now reached his expectations.
If he wanted to release it, Norman Osborn had to die!
After all, Dr. Connors' research patents were all under Norman's name!
Otherwise, if he released the regeneration serum and Norman turned around and sued for copyright to strip him of his ownership of the serum, wouldn't that be a disaster?
So, to avoid future trouble, Ryan intended to deal with Norman Osborn first.
And solving just Norman Osborn alone wasn't safe enough; Ryan had to take care of the entire Osborn Enterprises as well.
Otherwise, even if Norman Osborn died, his son, Harry Osborn, could inherit the ownership of the patents under his name.
However, Ryan didn't intend to kill Harry as well, because even if Harry died, those patents would most likely fall into the hands of other executives at Osborn Enterprises.
He couldn't exactly turn Osborn Enterprises into a bloodbath just for a patent, could he?
So he planned to use a different method: after dealing with that old fox Norman, he would control his naive son, Harry, from behind the scenes.
He not only wanted to get Dr. Connors' Patent Rights, but he also wanted to obtain the entire Osborn Enterprises through Harry!