65. Gwen: "Let's go to hell together!" (Part Three!)

Hawk never intended to keep secrets from Gwen.

At the very least, ever since they had defined their relationship, he had never hidden his abilities or anything else.

There should be no secrets between lovers.

This was his own belief, and at the same time, it was a lesson he had learned from seeing numerous male and female protagonists in the movies of his past life fall into misunderstandings due to concealment, resulting in irreversible consequences.

Just as he had said a moment before.

If you ask, I will answer.

So...

Hawk answered.

"Killing!"

"..."

Hearing Hawk's reply, the smile on Gwen's face involuntarily froze.

See, I told you, you wouldn't be happy.

Looking at the frozen expression on Gwen's face, Hawk smiled inwardly.

However, he felt neither disappointment nor discouragement.

Gwen was, after all, a person of both beauty and a kind heart.

After all, if he saw Gwen not only unshocked by his mention of murder, but actually looking pleased, it would be his turn to worry.

Hawk thought to himself.

At that moment, Gwen seemed to recover from her shock.

Her reaction also consisted of two words.

"Kill whom?"

"Hulk."

"Bruce Banner is back in New York City?"

"No."

"Then..."

"I received intelligence that he will spend his Christmas vacation in New Jersey."

Hawk laid everything out for Gwen without hiding a thing.

Hearing this, Gwen was momentarily stunned, then looked at Hawk, as if realizing something: "So these past few weekends, when you went to New Jersey, you were..."

Hawk smiled faintly. "Scouting the terrain, making battle preparations."

Forewarned is forearmed; going out to reconnoiter the surrounding terrain before battle and rehearsing the battle scenario in one's mind was essential.

He had already planned several contingency routes in his head for which direction the Hulk might flee if he tried to escape.

To put it in a nutshell.

This Christmas holiday, the Hulk had to die.

His sister Anya was waiting in hell for him to avenge her, and she had been waiting for this day for a very long time.

After killing the Hulk, the Abomination would be next.

Hawk was not in a great rush regarding the Abomination, because the Abomination could not run away. Ever since that night's massive battle, the Abomination had been detained and controlled by the military; even if he wanted to run, he couldn't.

He even knew where the Abomination was.

Right inside the military base in Quantico. The reason he hadn't gone that day was because things had to be done one step at a time.

First kill the Hulk, then kill the Abomination!

Hawk thought to himself.

The next second.

"I'm going with you."

"..."

Hawk snapped out of his thoughts and instinctively looked at Gwen.

He thought he had heard something just now, but he wasn't quite sure.

"What?"

"I said, I'm going with you."

Gwen looked at Hawk with a steady gaze, her tone equally firm and unyielding: "I am going with you."

Hawk simply chuckled.

He shook his head, finding it somewhat absurd.

"Gwen, I'm going to kill someone."

"I know, I'm going with you."

"..."

Hawk looked at Gwen, who was gazing straight back at him, opened his mouth, and then shook his head with a wry smile.

"Stop messing around."

"I'm serious. I'm going with you."

"Why?"

"If you're going to hell, I'm going with you."

"..."

Hearing these words, Hawk fell silent.

He looked at Gwen.

Gwen was looking back at him as well.

Their eyes met.

After a moment.

Hawk let out a chuckle and said to Gwen, "Are you worried I'll die?"

Gwen shook her head, keeping her eyes fixed unblinkingly on Hawk. "I don't know. But I do know I won't just sit around stupidly waiting in New York City."

That...

Was so very Gwen.

Hawk remained silent for a moment, then shook his head again.

"No."

"I'm not discussing this with you, Hawk. You know that if I want to find you, I will find you."

Gwen said this, looking at Hawk with a calm expression: "If you win, we come back together. If you die, I'll accompany you to hell."

At this point, Gwen seemed to recall something, let out a soft laugh, and smiled as she looked at Hawk: "Besides, from the moment I ran off to Maryland all by myself and found you deep inside the waterfall, I suppose we were destined to go to hell together anyway."

Go to hell together?

Watching Gwen speak of going to hell with such calm indifference, as if she were talking about drinking a glass of plain water, Hawk couldn't help but chuckle. "Do you think hell is somewhere you can just go whenever you want? To this day, I haven't even found the entr—"

Thinking Hawk was changing the subject, Gwen knitted her delicate brows.

"Hawk, I'm being serious."

"I'm serious too."

Seeing Gwen with her furrowed brows and solemn pretty face, Hawk sighed, then stood up from the edge of the bed, walked over to Gwen, and lowered his gaze to look at her as she sat in the study chair staring back at him.

The next second.

He took a deep breath.

Their eyes locked.

Hawk smiled as he looked at the girlfriend who had just declared she would go to hell with him, and nodded. "Alright, we'll go to hell together."

Sitting in the study chair, Gwen heard Hawk's reply, stood up to wrap her arms around him, her tense features breaking into a radiant smile as she embraced him and looked into his eyes.

"Alright, then make sure to hold onto me. I'm afraid I might get lost."

"Don't worry, I won't let go of you."

"Swear it. Swear it in Anya's name."

"..."

Hearing Gwen's words, the inexplicable emotion that had just filled the air instantly vanished. Hawk looked at her with an amused smile. "You certainly know how to handle me."

With a smile playing at the corners of her lips, Gwen shrugged, her hands resting around Hawk's waist as she tilted her head up to look at him, towering slightly over her, and said with a smile, "Clearly, Mr. Hawk, I do indeed know how to handle you, don't I?"

Looking at Gwen with her upturned lips, Hawk could not help but offer a wry smile.

"Yes, you certainly know how to handle me."

"Then swear the oath, Mr. Hawk."

"Do I really have to?"

"Of course."

Gwen smiled as she looked at Hawk. "Don't take me for a fool who hasn't watched movies. If you agree so readily now, who knows, you might end up knocking me unconscious when the time comes."

As expected.

You should never date someone with a high IQ.

Looking at his girlfriend, who was watching him with a smile in her eyes, Hawk sighed once more and looked at her earnestly.

"We go to hell together?"

"We go to hell together!"

"Fine."

Hawk took a deep breath, and under Gwen's watchful gaze, swore the oath in the name of his sister Anya. Then he shook his head and lowered his gaze to look at her.

"Are you satisfied now?"

"Pretty much, if you agree to one more request from me."

"What is it?"

Gwen wiped the smile from her face and looked at Hawk with utmost seriousness.

"I know you don't want to be a good person who helps others, and I'm not asking you to be a good person, but Hawk, please don't become a bad person. Try to be a kind person."

"Try to be a kind person who, no matter what, has a clear conscience."

"Can you do that?"

"..."