You observed Venom's white fangs very quietly for a while.

He continued to smile mischievously.

"… That," you finally said after a long time, "Can I kiss you on the cheek?"

The garbage alien, who was originally just joking, "…"

"Sure!"

… Well, it was cold.

Venom was proud as if he had won the jackpot.

You looked at him happily waving goodbye to you with a complicated expression. You always felt that he was not happy to be kissed by a girl, but more like he was deliberately angering your boyfriend to death.

Then he disappeared under Eddie's skin as quickly as he had appeared, and the drenched, battered, and haggard man reappeared in front of you.

You two looked at each other for a few seconds, and after a moment of silence, you wanted to speak at the same time, but Eddy suddenly raised his hand to cover your mouth.

"I know you have a lot of questions. Let's pause for a moment."

He lowered his eyelashes and didn't look at your eyes, but just looked at the wounds caused by various accidents and explosions on your body, "… Let me see you."

When you jumped off the container, your landing posture was not very good. You remember that you used your palm to support the ground.

Now your palm was gray, and the palm of your palm was oozing light yellow tissue fluid because of the skin damage, flowing along the joints to the slightly red and swollen wrist.

There were also a lot of small abrasions on your body, and your shoulder was still aching because of the recoil of the gun. The place on your back that was injured by Slaughter did not feel anything. The most serious was your right foot that was likely to have broken the bone.

You have never been so embarrassed, like a wounded soldier who had just returned from the front line.

But your confusion and anxiety caused by the kidnapping incident, the magical creature fight, the explosion incident, and the anger of Eddy hiding it from you, so many aggressive negative emotions superimposed together suddenly collapsed in front of the person who was checking the big and small wounds on your body without saying a word.

You could only see a half-healed bloodstain on Eddy's forehead, and his long eyelashes covering his eyes, and some white lips under his nose.

He didn't say a word, holding your wounded hand in front of his eyes, and after a long time, he stretched out his thumb and carefully touched the intact skin next to it.

He didn't speak, but he looked like he was about to cry.

"Eddy …"

Your anger and frustration had completely dissipated. Your original intention to question him calmly was also thrown to the back of your mind. What replaced it was a sudden surge of heartache and grievance.

It was just like a child who wanted to go home and complain to his parents after a big fight with his classmate, but the moment he saw his parents, he couldn't help but cry. Before he could even finish his name, his voice would tremble uncontrollably, and the rest of his words would turn into a useless sob.

"I'm fine. Don't look at me like that …" You cried as you spoke, and your vision became blurry all of a sudden. "Don't be sad. It's not your fault. You tried so hard …"

The tears in his eyes fell down in the blink of an eye. For a moment, you could see the terrible cuts and piercing wounds on his body.

"You're already like this … Does it hurt?"

Your voice trembled as you cried. You blinked hard, wanting to continue looking at him clearly, as if looking at him a few more times would make him recover faster. In fact, this only made you sadder. "It must be so painful … It hurts just looking at him.

You're such a good person … How could he do this to you? How could he do this to you? "

There was a piercing wound that was nearly a finger wide on his shoulder, a deep cut on his wrist, and the exposed bright red underwear could be seen everywhere on his body.

His gray sweater was soaked with sweat and blood, turning into mottled dark gray and dark red.

You wanted to hug him so much, but there were so many wounds that you didn't even dare to touch him.

Eddie Brock was prepared to be condemned by you. He thought about the best way to answer you over and over again. He even thought about what he would do if you wanted to break up with him … He just didn't expect you to be like this.

You were still covered in dirt and dirt, and your hands and feet were injured. Why did you worry about him first?

When you were alone, you could always bear a lot of things.

For example, losing your job again and again, or the inevitable conflict between professional ethics and the pressure of reality, or the self-blame of hurting someone close to you but forgetting to apologize.

When you were alone, even if the sky fell, you would only think, "Alas, it's not a big deal."

Now that you're crying because of his injuries and haggard appearance, he suddenly feels that the pain that he could originally endure is no longer something that can be ignored. It makes him want to sigh, but at the same time, he wants to hug you properly.

It was so embarrassing that even his breath became wet.

[So why did I come out to sing and dance?]

The stupid alien seed started to talk in his mind again. [So that you two can hug each other and cry?]

You were still crying.

You never knew that you could cry so much. Even if you couldn't see the blood and wounds on Eddy's body, as long as you thought of his sorry state, you felt that the heart in your chest had become a ball of wet cotton, and a little poke would make a lot of cold water run out.

However, you couldn't control your mouth and kept repeating incoherent words. Until Eddy took you into his arms and stroked your hair over and over again, you still couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

"What the hell is Venom, and why did it run to you?"

Because you were crying and hiccuping, you spoke intermittently. "Then you turned into a huge and tall thing … It was so scary."

"It's all Venom's fault," you lost your rationality and began to attack a wide range of targets indiscriminately, "It's so bad, how can it be like this, it's completely unreasonable …"

Venom: […]

"You hid it from me again, you even hid it from me … It's as if I would leave you if I knew.

But I really can't imagine what would happen to make me leave you. "

"… Cheating?"

"You wish," you cried, "I will let Venom bite your head off."

Venom: […]

Eddy gently touched your hair, and you finally realized that he had hugged you without knowing when. You were so scared that you held back half of your crying, "Don't you feel pain?

It hurts too much, let's put some distance between us — "

"No." Eddy pressed your head into his arms, "I want to hug you even if it hurts."

You did want to hug him too.

You wanted to put your arms around him, you wanted to be close to him, you wanted to smell the mint smell of the shower gel, and the sweet chocolate smell.

He looked fierce and not to be trifled with, but he was a sweetheart.

"Okay." You avoided his obvious wounds and hugged him gently, "Tell me if it hurts."

Eddy sighed, "I'm fine.

How are your ears now?

Are there any tinnitus? "

"It suddenly got better when Venom ran out …?

G？”

Eddy looked down at you, "Hmm?"

“?

G? "You were dumbfounded," We are standing? "

He blinked doubtfully, "Yes."

You carefully felt your right foot that stood on the ground as usual. It didn't shift your weight to the other side because of the pain, nor was it stiff and unusable. It was as if it had never been injured.

But you clearly remembered the crisp sound when you landed and the terrible pain when you ran, and even when Venom carried you over, it still hurt.

You tried to stomp your right foot.

You didn't feel anything.

You stomped harder.

… It was numb.

Eddy let go of you and squatted down to check your right foot. He observed it repeatedly for a long time and even pinched your bones and joints.

"When I jumped off the container," Eddy's eyes suddenly became stern when you said this. You had a reason to be angry with him, but instead you felt guilty, "I seemed to hurt my foot."

Eddie thought of what you did previously. "… I'll settle this with you in the future.

First, tell me how you got hurt. "

"Crack."

You said. Eddy's eyes immediately widened, and you immediately added, "But it seems to be an illusion. My foot is normal now. I can run and jump."

"Run and jump?" He was so angry that he laughed.

[Eddy.]

Venom suddenly emerged from his shoulder, and you were frightened again. Eddy frowned and looked at him.

[That coordinate is still in her body.]

"I remember you said that it was not a symbiotic body." Eddy's expression became cold, "Don't tell me to kill him —"

[Impossible, don't think about it.

No matter how tough his life is, he can't go from a finger-sized body to a complete body.]

Venom snorted as if he was bored, [And don't tell me that it will become a massacre.

Speaking of which, he used to be a part of me. Do I have even one thing in common with him?]

You were confused by the amount of information in their conversation, "What?"

Eddy and Venom stopped talking and looked at you together.

"Can you give me a good explanation?" You wanted to ask for a long time, "What are these?"

Venom chuckled as if he was up to no good. Eddy silently threatened him with his eyes. He pursed his lips for a moment before saying, "… In fact, Venom is a symbiotic body that was brought to earth by a carrier rocket from a comet.

Because it can't survive alone, it needs to be parasitized on the human body … "

"Parasitized?" You looked at him, "Parasite?"

[What!???]

You were startled by Venom's sudden outburst and burped, "I'm sorry."

Venom looked like he wanted to get angry, but he barely held it back.

[What are you looking at?]

He sneered and glanced at Eddy, changing the target of his attack, [You're the only one who doesn't know how to apologize!]

"Shut up, Venom."

Eddy pushed him away and explained to you again, "About a year ago, I found him in the Life Fund's laboratory and brought him out.

Since then, he would run out from time to time … as you saw just now.

We occasionally, uh, do some good deeds. "

"I also thought about throwing him away, but for some reason, Venom saved me, I … couldn't watch him die.

It's not a good thing to leave such a dangerous alien symbiotic body to others or to disclose it to society, so he stayed with me. "

"Massacre is also a symbiotic body, and he came to earth with the carrier rocket.

After he and Casatie became symbiotic, he left coordinates on your right hand, "Eddy's gaze fell on your hand," … a part of the symbiotic body, Massacre uses it to sense the location.

This morning, Venom tried to catch it, but he didn't succeed. "

"So my hand is as cold as ice?" You recalled and said, "And I had nightmares."

[Very good.]

Venom disappeared into Eddy's body, [Goodbye, both of you.]

"Yes, that feeling was really bad, Venom's body temperature was too low." Eddy sighed, as if recalling a bad memory.

Speaking of this, he suddenly opened your palm and looked at it, the skin there had mostly healed.

"Sure enough … Although the efficiency is very low, it does play a role in the symbiotic body's recovery."

Eddie breathed a sigh of relief because of your recovery, but his expression did not relax. "Previously, Venom said that he had beaten Slaughter up and asked him to hand over the coordinates himself … Now, it's not possible."

[I think you don't want your liver anymore.]

Eddy mocked mercilessly, "Who said that he wanted to cut 'that bastard' into pieces?"

"Don't quarrel." You pinched his face, "You've all worked hard."

"Don't praise him." Eddy pouted, "He can't be praised."

"What should we do now?"

You touched your back, the skin there that had been pierced before had also recovered, "This coordinate … Well …" You said awkwardly, "It helped me a lot …"

Eddy sighed deeply, "… I thought so too at the beginning." In the end, you were blamed.

[What can it do?]

Venom ran out from Eddy's shoulder again, and said sarcastically, [It's just a broken body, what can it do with me watching over it?]

"It … He asked me not to kill him." You remembered the conversation in the dream.

You looked at Eddy, and he looked back with a blank expression.

"Okay." He gave up, "… Got it.

We'll keep an eye on him, and once there's a problem, we'll catch him and deal with him immediately. "

Eddy was annoyed by Venom's nagging, "Venom asked me to tell you that it's not that he's not skilled, it's just that he can't catch the coordinates without waking you up. Now that you know everything, it's easy."

You squinted your eyes and smiled, shaking Eddy's hand.

"Don't shake it."

"I'm hungry." You whispered, "I want to eat something."

Eddy's eyes suddenly became alert, "… What do you want to eat?"

You were particularly tempted by the chocolate smell on his body. You probably started to feel hungry when your foot healed, and now you're so hungry that you want to eat everything, even if it's something you hate.

But of course, that doesn't include people!

What's with Eddy's look!

Although you really want to hug him and lick him.

"Anything is fine, as long as it's something I usually eat." You peeked into his pocket, "Sweetheart, do you have chocolate?"