One punch.
One punch.
Another punch.
Standing beneath the waterfall, Hawke used his bare body to resist the scouring of the water, resolutely throwing punches despite the resistance.
Each time he threw a punch, the water in contact with his fist would pause for less than a second.
But not enough!
He didn't want the waterfall to stop for his punch.
He wanted the waterfall to tremble under his fist, even to flow backward.
Hawke felt his demands weren't high.
After all, this waterfall wasn't Mount Lu. If compared to Mount Lu, it probably wasn't even a tenth as majestic.
So, was it too much?
It wasn't.
But clearly, his thought still angered the waterfall before him.
What kind of level do you think you are to make me flow backward?
Do you think you're Poseidon?
Even Poseidon, the Sea King, couldn't interfere.
He's the Sea King; how could he possibly control my freshwater waterfall?
So the waterfall was enraged. Under Hawke's relentless punches, the water's flow accelerated at a visible rate.
Hawke, sensing the waterfall's growing fury, remained expressionless.
But in his cosmos, on the fully illuminated Phoenix constellation, a fiery phoenix slowly emerged.
He made his decision.
He would leave whenever the waterfall reversed its flow.
Although there were only a few days left before school started,it didn't matter .
As he'd said before, he was an orphan.
Even if he didn't go to school after the semester started, probably no one would care about him.
But that was fine.
No one cared about him, and he had no one he needed to care about.
So Hawke's eyes burned with fierce fighting spirit.
"Come on!"
The waterfall was utterly enraged, and the water flow became even more rapid and violent at Hawke's provocation.
"Boom!"
"...Thunder?"
Gwen, who had just entered the nature reserve at the very edge of Cunningham Falls Nature Reserve, north of Hawke's location, heard the distant rumbling and instinctively looked up.
But the dense, ancient trees blocked out the sky, with only sunlight filtering through the leaves.
The dappled light added an eerie touch to the already tranquil forest.
Seeing that she couldn't see the sky, Gwen looked away.
Wearing a conspicuous white windbreaker and outdoor shoes, Gwen took out her phone, turned on the screen, and looked at the location map that appeared.
There, two points of light, though far apart, were faintly visible on the screen.
One showed Gwen's current location.
The other Gwen took a deep breath, gripped the trekking poles she had bought after arriving in Sermonte yesterday afternoon, gave herself a pep talk, and started walking towards the other point of light.
At first, Gwen thought Hawke's phone had simply been stolen and didn't think much of it.
After all, she was busy with her summer job.
But the next day, when Dr. Connors suddenly asked if she had given Hawke the gift, Gwen felt something was off, so she went to Hawke's new apartment after work.
The envelope she had placed on the sofa was still there, untouched.
For some reason, Gwen suddenly felt a pang of panic.
She immediately called her father, George, hoping he could find Hawke through the NYPD.
George didn't think much of it at first, but seeing Gwen's worried expression, he thought for a moment and then contacted his colleagues at the Queens Precinct.
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His jurisdiction was in Manhattan. Investigating a missing person case outside the Queens precinct was possible, but he should at least inform his colleagues there.
The result was the same: no such person.
Hawke seemed to have vanished into thin air.
Furthermore, Hawke had no credit cards, no driver's license, and his phone was either stolen or dead, making him even more untraceable.
To put it bluntly, Hawke was like a transparent person living in modern society.
No family.
No social circle.
Not even a single friend. Even after opening a case, his colleagues at the Queens precinct didn't know where to begin their investigation.
No one could provide information on where Hawke was last seen, and even when they asked some of Hawke's classmates, no one cared or inquired about what had happened to him.
Uh except for Gwen.
Until the day before yesterday, George, who had just returned home, looked at his daughter who had been coming home later than him these past few days, searching for Hawke's whereabouts.
Finally, he couldn't help but ask the question he'd been wanting to ask: "Gwen, have you fallen for this Hawke?" Gwen, who had just returned from a cemetery in Queens, was taken aback by George's question, then gave an answer.
"Dad, Hawke and I are just friends."
"..."
By the time George came to his senses, Gwen had already run upstairs.
George blinked, unable to resist looking at his wife, Helen, who had been standing silently to the side.
"Friends? Do you believe that?"
"Whether I believe it or not is unimportant."
Helen, always a devoted wife and mother, smiled as Gwen went upstairs, then said to George, "But I know you can't keep your daughter."
George was stunned.
Back in her room, Gwen threw herself onto the bed, thinking about Hawke, who had been missing for over ten days.
Just as she was feeling a strange mix of emotions, her phone suddenly rang.
Gwen casually turned it on and glanced at it.
The next second,she abruptly sat up in bed.
This wasn't spam; it was another login notification from an unknown location sent to her phone account.
Gwen quickly clicked the link.
This time, the signal wasn't just a general range, but pinpointed to a specific location:
Cunningham Falls National Park, Maryland, beneath a waterfall.
This was why Gwen was there.
Soon,as the sound of the rushing water grew closer, Gwen, though already drenched in sweat, became increasingly alert and quickened her pace.
Meanwhile, beneath the waterfall,after Hawke threw his 9,999th punch, he withdrew his fist, and as he threw his final punch, the phoenix phantom behind him seemed almost tangible.
The next second,Hawke unleashed his 10,000th punch, and the phoenix phantom behind him spread its wings and soared into the sky!
"Chirp!"
"Reverse the flow!"
"Boom!"
The waterfall before him was no longer a cascading torrent, but a raging dragon raising its head, a reversed river of heaven!
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
But an incredibly clear voice pierced through the frozen time, appearing in Hawke's ears.
The voice.
Clear.
Trembling.
"Hawk!!"
"..."
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