Chapter 63 - Spider Gwen

　　Mr. Negative, who was possessed by the symbiote, had no way of resisting Russell, and could only watch as Russell in his serum form grabbed his neck and lifted his entire body up.

　　After lifting Mr. Negative up, Russell releases the symbiotic possession from him and returns control of his body to Mr. Negative.

　　Before Mr. Negative could be happy, however, he felt an indescribable force.

　　The negative energy in his body quickly dissipated under the suppression of this inexplicable energy.

　　Upon discovering this, a look of horror appeared on Mr. Negative's face.

　　He begins to scramble, trying to get free of Russell's right hand.

　　But unfortunately, with the huge power gap, his struggles did not work at all as they should have.

　　At first, he resisted fiercely.

　　But it didn't take long for his face to turn a ghastly white.

　　Nope!

　　The superpowers he was so proud of disappeared!

　　While he didn't know exactly how Russell did it, he knew that without his powers he would lose everything he had now.

　　Mr. Negative Martin Lee was originally a bottom-feeder member of the smuggling syndicate, and had it not been for that one smuggling mishap, he would still be an insignificant little man.

　　Granted, his superpowers were acquired after a stowaway accident, but there's no denying that if that stowaway hadn't gone awry, he wouldn't have been captured by Hammerhead's Maggia Gang, much less become a test subject for that inhumane drug experiment.

　　Russell ignored a stone-faced Martin Lee.

　　After using the serum's extraordinary healing ability to cure Martin Lee's superpower and turn him back into an ordinary person, he didn't have any hesitation and gave his right hand a gentle twist.

　　Click!

　　The crisp sound of bones breaking rang out.

　　So much for the great Mr. Negative, Martin Lee.

　　Superheroes he dared to kill, super villains and whatnot, he certainly had even less mental burden.

　　Healing is healing, and getting killed is getting killed, which are two different things.

　　Curing Martin Lee was a test of the serum's extraordinary healing powers.

　　As for getting him killed, there are more reasons.

　　The first is to keep secret and eliminate other symbiotes from also evolving due to the negative energy.

　　Granted, the real venom hasn't appeared yet, and neither have the symbiotes such as Slaughter and Riot.

　　But hell knows when these symbiotes will pop up.

　　They may not have known that Mr. Negative's negative energy could help the symbiote mutate, but keeping Mr. Negative was always a hidden danger.

　　It's better to get him dead just to be safe.

　　Of course, aside from Mr. Negative's negative energy, there's another way to evolve venom into a serum, such as the Artificial Serum 2.0 developed by chemical tech giant Alchemy.

　　This isn't something to worry about though, Artificial Serum 2.0 isn't even a shadow right now.

　　To be precise, it's still a question whether Alchemy will even develop Artificial Serum 2.0.

　　Secondly, getting Mr. Negative killed would be a way to get rid of the people.

　　Mr. Negative Martin Lee's apparent identity as the philanthropist who built the homeless shelter FEAST is, ultimately, just a means he uses to clear his name.

　　Russell doesn't think he's a good guy just because he built a homeless shelter.

　　If that's considered a good guy, then Jin and is going to be more of a good guy than he is.

　　After all, Kim and spends more money on charity than he does every year.

　　After confirming that Mr. Negative was as dead as dead can be, Russell let go of his right hand and let the body drop to the cold floor.

　　Glancing at the suited, but lifeless Martin Lee, he turned to the direction of the water storage barrel and said slowly, "There's no point in hiding when you're here, is there!"

　　As he snapped Mr. Negative's neck, he sensed an unwelcome visitor to the roof.

　　Though the other man's movements were light, they were not hidden from his ears.

　　After he finished speaking, a superhero, no stranger to the people of New York, stepped out from behind the giant water storage barrel.

　　A female superhero, to be precise.

　　The black and white uniform that clung to her body perfectly outlined her curves.

　　The close-fitting uniform of white on top and black on the bottom not only gave a strong visual contrast, but also made those long, straight legs stand out.

　　It's a close-fitting uniform, but unlike other heroes' tights, it's one with a hood.

　　Spider Gwen!

　　The first second he saw the figure, Russell recognized her.

　　Of course, in the mouths of New Yorkers and the media, she is Spider-Woman, not Spider-Gwen.

　　Because his tongue was so long and flexible, he unconsciously licked his lips with his long tongue as he surveyed Gwen.

　　After seeing the monster-like Russell in front of him eyeballing himself, Gwen under her uniform frowned slightly.

　　She didn't know Russell, but she disliked the way Russell was sizing herself up right now.

　　As a superhero who's been out for four years, she's long since stopped being the naive high school girl she was.

　　Russell wasn't in his normal human form right now, but Gwen was keenly aware of the true thoughts in his eyes.

　　That's a not-so-healthy look!

　　She'd seen that look in a lot of men's eyes while fighting criminals and swinging spiders swiftly through high-rise buildings.

　　Not like those normal stares.

　　Those men who looked at her with that look usually focused their gaze on certain key areas.

　　Now Russell, like the men, was ogling certain key parts of her body with not-so-healthy eyes.

　　What's more, when Russell ogled her with that look, her spider-sense went off like an alarm clock gone wild.

　　After emerging from behind the water storage barrel, Gwen didn't speak, looking down at Russell.

　　Russell didn't say anything at this point either, silently admiring Gwen's perfect curves.

　　Gwen wasn't short, but she was still a little shorter than Diana, and looked like she was just over 5'7".

　　In addition to being shorter than Diana, she was not as well built as Diana.

　　Whether it's her bust, her curves, or her leg length, she's a few steps behind Diana.

　　But considering the age difference between her and Diana, it's only natural.

　　Diana was so thoroughly developed that there could be no secondary development.

　　But not Gwen, who hasn't even graduated from college yet and clearly has some room for improvement.

　　But it's hard to say exactly how far it will progress.

　　After a few minutes of just sizing each other up wide-eyed, Gwen finally spoke.

　　"What's your name?"

　　Instead of asking him why he killed Mr. Negative, Gwen asks directly about what Russell's name is.

　　"Serum!"

　　Russell didn't even think twice about giving himself a new moniker.

　　While Gwen seemed pretty friendly right now, he wasn't idiotic enough to tell Gwen his real name himself.

　　As for whether Gwen could find out who he really was later, that was for later.

　　Upon hearing his answer, Gwen glanced at Mr. Negative's body and said again, "You'd better take care of his body."

　　What Mr. Negative was, Gwen knew well.

　　While she rarely kills criminals in general, she's not one of those superheroes with political correctness on the brain.

　　She certainly doesn't actively kill criminals when she can do so without killing them.

　　But if a criminal did die in front of her, especially a super villain like Mr. Negative, she wouldn't have a clue about getting justice for the criminal.