Chapter 83: Chapter 83 Aunt May’s Teachings
["Flint Marko, the real murderer of Uncle Ben... He was killed last night." Peter told Aunt May about Marko. ]
[After hearing Peter's words, Aunt May couldn't help but say "Oh my god!" and then asked Peter what happened. ]
["Spider-Man killed him!" Peter explained to her.]
["Spider-Man? I don't understand. Spider-Man doesn't kill people. What happened?" Aunt May looked incredulous. She knew Spider-Man never killed anyone.]
[Faced with Aunt May's question, Peter hesitated but couldn't explain it clearly. ]
["I thought you would think... he deserved it, right?" Peter said to Aunt May with a forced smile. ]
["I don't think we have the power to decide a person's life or death!" Aunt May said with her head down. She thought Peter asked Spider-Man to help him get revenge. ]
["But he killed Uncle Ben, Aunt May!" Peter looked at Aunt May in confusion. ]
["Ben was important to all of us," Aunt May said gently, her voice steady despite the emotion in her eyes. "But he wouldn't want us to carry hatred in our hearts. Hatred is like a poison, Peter—it consumes you until you become something unrecognizable."]
Harry looked at Aunt May's words in the screen and felt that she made a lot of sense. Himself in the screen was consumed by hatred, which was why he did what he did in the screen.
Today was the day he visited his dad. His dad Norman Osborn was tied to the bed and looked at Harry, "Don't blame Peter. He did nothing wrong. It's all my fault. I'm relieved to leave the company to you. You are my pride!"
Harry nodded and hugged his dad. His dad is still alive, which was the best reward for him. As he said when he lost his memory in the screen, he could give his life for Peter.
[On a bustling city street, Mary Jane exited a jazz bar. She had recently taken a job as a waitress and part-time singer to make ends meet after losing her Broadway role. The transition from stardom to service work had left her feeling adrift and disheartened.]
[Sitting on a public bench, she stared at her phone, Peter's name on the screen. Her thumb hovered over the call button before she hesitated and instead dialed Harry's number.]
[Harry was drawing at home. When he heard his cell phone ring, he walked over and picked it up. "Hello!"]
["Hey! Harry, Its me. MJ." Hearing Mary Jane's voice, Harry smiled and greeted her. ]
["I want to find someone to accompany me. Are you busy? Can I come to see you?"]
["Of course! Come over here!" Facing Mary Jane's question, Harry agreed without hesitation. ]
["Okay, are you sure I won't disturb you?"]
["Of course, I'm fine now, come over!" After getting a definite reply, Mary Jane hung up the phone and prepared to go find Harry. ]
["Bernard!" Harry shouted upstairs. ]
["What can I do for you, Master?" Bernard walked out of the room. ]
["We have guests coming to visit, could you please prepare some food?"]
["A guest?" Bernard gave him a puzzled look. ]
["Yes! A guest!" Harry confirmed. ]
[But Bernard still didn't quite understand, "Is it a guest or a 'guest'?"]
[Harry urged him unhappily, "Stop asking so many questions and go prepare the food!"]
["Right away, sir!" Bernard turned and walked out. Harry also shook his head slightly.]
"What does she mean? She find Harry instead of Peter?" Tony didn't quite understand Mary Jane's behavior.
"Maybe it's because she feels that it's hard for her to face Peter? She went from being a star to a bar singer, and this sense of disparity made her afraid to go find Spider-Man."
"It's also possible that their relationship has faded after the fight that day. At least Mary Jane's feelings for Peter Parker have faded."
Pepper was trying to guess Mary Jane's thoughts from a woman's perspective.
After Harry left, Norman looked at Mary Jane on the screen and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Harry liked Mary Jane too much. He didn't know why Harry liked her so much?
He had just advised Harry, but Harry felt that Mary Jane was not that bad. Norman didn't say anything more to avoid destroying their father-son relationship.
[Meanwhile, Peter sat in his rental room, torn between calling Mary Jane and confronting his growing guilt. He reached for the phone but hesitated, unable to find the right words. At that moment, his landlord, Mr. Dykovich, approached.]
["Hey! Mr. Dykovich!" Peter greeted him. ]
[Dykovich held an orange in his hand and asked, "Want an orange?" Peter declined his offer and apologized to him.]
["I'm sorry for what happened earlier. I shouldn't have complained so loudly about the door. There's nothing to be angry about."]
["It's okay! But if you feel uneasy, you can buy me a pizza sometime! How about today?" Dykovich smiled and asked Peter to buy him a pizza, and Peter agreed without hesitation.]
[Then Dykovich pointed to the phone and asked, "What's the problem with the phone?"]
[Peter shook his head, "No! I'm just... I'm thinking about what to say!"]
["If you're calling a woman, here's what you say," Dykovich advised with exaggerated confidence. "'You are an excellent woman, and I am an excellent man!' Simple!"]
[After hearing what he said, Peter didn't know what to say, so Dykovich reassured him.]
[Ursula greeted Peter from behind, and Peter responded enthusiastically. Dykovich turned around and told her that Peter was on the phone with a woman.]
[Ursula immediately said, "You're calling Mary Jane? I think that's great..." Ursula was interrupted by her father before she could finish her words.]
["What's it to you? Go, go…" He pushed Ursula into the room and encouraged Peter to call Mary Jane. Ursula also encouraged him before closing the door.]
[Peter picked up the phone again after being encouraged. Ursula forgot to say goodbye to Peter, so he opened the door again, said goodbye to him, and then closed the door again.]
Dykovich looked at his daughter and couldn't understand why she liked Peter Parker so much. She didn't know Peter Parker's identity. On the surface, he was just a poor boy who couldn't even pay the rent.
"Dad! You don't understand." Urarsu smiled at him, but she also knew that it was impossible for her and Peter to be together. The popular Spider-Man was not something she could have a future now.
Whenever she thought of this, she felt sad, but fortunately, if Peter was happy, she would be happy too.
She would watch every newspaper article about Spider-Man fighting criminals, but it was a pity that Peter would no longer live in their building.
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