Chapter 61 A Gentle Blade, Each Strike Deadly!
Chapter 61 A Gentle Blade, Each Strike Deadly!
Upon hearing this, Harry nodded, picked up a spoon, scooped a spoonful into his mouth, and his eyes widened instantly.
The smooth and creamy texture of the eggs and the sweet and sour flavor of the tomatoes exploded in his mouth, instantly awakening his taste buds, and he couldn't help but eat spoonful after spoonful.
Although the ingredients were extremely ordinary, and even in terms of taste, although Toby deliberately made it more to suit Westerners' sweet tastes, it was still only average compared to the world's delicacies that Harry, a top-tier rich kid, had tasted.
But it is precisely this ordinariness that makes this food so perfect for Harry's current low mood.
The sourness rekindled his lost appetite, while the sweetness healed his bitter heart.
As he ate, the sweet and sour taste, like Harry's life, brought tears to the eyes of this innocent child.
While stuffing rice into her mouth, she dripped tears onto the plate, making the dish even more flavorful.
After all, Harry is still just an eighteen-year-old kid...
Toby pushed a glass of warm lemonade toward Harry, gently stroking his hair, his tone softening:
"Harry, you know what? You and Peter are really alike..."
"After you left New York, Peter stayed at my house. He also went through a low period because he lost his parents and your only friend."
"Back then, when Peter was going through a rough patch and was being bullied at school, he would often come back to me crying like this."
"But the only difference between you two is that when Peter is bullied at school, he can come back to me and confide in me. He can hide behind me, and I can stand up for him and make sure no one dares to bully him anymore, so that everyone knows he has a powerful older brother."
"It's just that you don't have an older brother to protect you, so you have to bear everything on your own."
"So... if you don't mind, Harry, as Peter's best friend, and me as Peter's brother, you can also treat me like your own brother and confide everything to me..."
Toby's words, each one a depth charge, struck Harry like a bomb, sending ripples through his heart.
This caused Harry's pent-up bitterness to finally burst forth!
She poured out all the great sorrow, hardship, and pain she had experienced since returning to Toby.
As they talked, Harry became so engrossed that he not only poured out his grievances from the day, but also shared his past troubles with Toby.
For example, he really didn't want to study abroad, but his father, Norman Osborne, forced him to attend the Royal College of England, where he remains to this day.
For example, from childhood to adulthood, how little concern did his father show him? They would only video chat a few times a month, and when they did meet, his father would only ask about his academic progress and would not care at all about how he was doing in a foreign country.
Toby appears to be a gentle older brother, quietly listening to Harry's stories and occasionally offering him affirmation and comfort.
But in his heart, Toby had already made a pretty good guess about Harry's life based on the complaints Harry poured out to him, and had formulated a corresponding plan to control him.
That is... a gentle knife!
For a love-starved and naive child like Harry, nothing is more effective at controlling him than a gentle but deadly approach...
Aizen, this prosperous era is just as you wished...
According to Harry's account, Toby discovered that Harry, the heir to the Osborn family, seemed to know less than he had imagined, and his personality was also more naive than he had thought.
Harry knew absolutely nothing about the Osborn Corporation and the dirty dealings of his family.
Seeing Harry's hands trembling uncontrollably as he held the lemonade after his emotional outburst, Toby suddenly asked, "Harry, do you want to know the truth? Do you want revenge? Do you want... to gain power?"
"Huh?" Harry sniffed, looking at Toby in a daze.
Clearly, Toby hadn't expected to ask that question so suddenly.
But Harry then shook his head with a wry smile: "Thank you for your kindness, bro... Toby, but my situation is different from Peter's when he was bullied by the school bullies. It's much more complicated, and I don't want to involve you in it..."
Although they only spent a short hour together, Harry genuinely considered Toby one of his few friends, or even... a brother.
So although he was simple-minded, he knew how disgusting the board members of Osborn Corporation were, and therefore did not want to drag Toby into this mess.
Toby naturally understood Harry's meaning and shook his head slightly: "Of course I know that things about you aren't simple, even more so than you do, but do you think I'm that simple?"
Harry, confused, asked, "What do you mean?"
Toby didn't speak, but instead extended his right hand. To Harry's astonishment, a tube containing black liquid appeared in his palm as the symbiote churned.
Harry stared wide-eyed at the bubbling black liquid in the isolation tube: "What is this?"
"Symbiote, an alien species that can cure any disease and grant superhuman strength."
Toby placed the isolation tube on the table and said calmly, "So you understand now, Harry? What I just said wasn't just empty talk; it really will give you the power to know the truth and to seek revenge."
"And...it can also cure your genetic diseases."
Upon hearing this, Harry raised his trembling hands, which he could not stop, and looked at the black liquid isolation tube on the table, his eyes gradually becoming fiery.
He picked up the isolation tube and looked at the venom inside through the glass, both feeling the other's longing for him.
But Harry suppressed the urge and looked up nervously at Toby: "Something this precious, what price do I have to pay?"
Toby smiled slightly and gently shook his head: "A price? No, you won't have to pay any price..."
"If there has to be a price to pay, it's that you'll have to call me 'brother' from now on, just like Peter did."
Toby's words were like the last straw Harry clung to after falling off the cliff, a lifeline he held onto tightly and refused to let go!
Regardless of how Harry fell off the cliff, he had no other choice but to accept Toby's offer.
"Brother!" Harry nodded firmly to Toby, then resolutely opened the isolation tube, allowing the venom to climb onto his arm and enter his body.
This made Toby's lips curl into an even wider smile.
This tactic is called: the heaviest price is the one without any cost!
Once you're hooked on Venom, it's incredibly difficult to get rid of it...
Otherwise, if Venom is really that good, why didn't he give it to Ben and May, or to Peter and Gwen?
Because symbiotes are addictive, and the cost of using them is something that kind people like them cannot accept.
And Harry, once he puts on Venom, will have no choice but to obey him, whether he likes it or not, as long as he doesn't want to die or lose Venom!
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