Cyberpunk: From Dogville to Legend

Chapter 255 The Child's Victory (Part 2) [8K]

The sound of bricks and rubble collapsing rang out a second time in Ganbi.

For Arasaka, a benchmark industry, this has experienced two such repercussions in one year, and the losses will continue to grow.

However, Lin Yue didn't care about any of that.

After the shrapnel killed the soldier, he slowly shook off the clods of dirt from his body. Suzuki, who was next to him, seemed to want to pull Lin Yue to hide with him, but his shoulder was injured by a piece of rubble.

"grown ups…"

Lin Yue looked at the smoke-filled room, guessing that the company dogs who had tried to destroy him had probably already run away.

It doesn't matter... Ever since he came in here, he had sensed that something was wrong. There was no need for such a tense atmosphere to be during the coordination work, unless... he had to make a choice. Lin Yue knew clearly that he was being used. The person's cleverness lay in taking advantage of his distrust of the company at all times.

never mind…

Since we've already killed them all, the most important thing now is to break out of here.

As for those guys who were just rambling on at the conference table, trying to trap Lin Yue in a self-justification trap, they're all gone to heaven...

Lin Yue kicked aside the corpse at his feet, and the remaining soldiers surrounded him.

The samurai of Arasaka seemed to care a lot about loyalty, and were a bunch of complete gamblers. Lin Yue knew that Suzuki had used various conditions to make these people waver, but the real reason was that the subordinates' insubordination led these people to always uphold a worldview that was a mixture of loyalty and rebellion.

Be loyal to the Lord, yet hold a rebellious heart towards those above the Lord.

Life is a gamble, after all.

Lin Yue sometimes resents that the current timeline has completely changed, because it means that he has to follow his heart and make choices. Fortunately, he had prepared himself for this in advance.

"Security settings and topographic map sharing: be wary of the subnet devices in the Gumpi Building."

Lin Yue had fought similar encounters inside buildings more than once. He gave a brief order and received a strong response.

Lin Yue's intuition told him that Suzuki might not be fully aware of the security measures on this floor, since the existence of a bomb behind the wall wasn't something that could be figured out on the spot.

Amidst the dust, fluorescent green lasers darted about, and enemies emerged from behind the blasted breach in the wall, accompanied by the sound of rappelling...

Suzuki and Lin Yue exchanged a glance, both seeing anger and lingering fear in each other's eyes.

Is it an attempt to defeat Lady Rin?
Xintian——

Suzuki's first thought was what had happened to Arasaka Yorinobu that made the enemy so emboldened... No, not the enemy, but a group even more despicable than the enemy, traitors, betrayers who betrayed Rin-sama even before she was a man!
With his prosthetic body unable to function effectively, Lin Yue naturally wouldn't risk employing the same strategy he used to break through the Ganbi Building last time.

What he had to do was use this excellent network access bay to crush the enemy inside the dusty building!

As Lin Yue used the tactics of the Netherhound army to organize and command, Suzuki and the remaining security team split into two groups. The rest of the team was responsible for defending against enemies who might rush out from the rubble of the rear conference room at any time, while Lin Yue and Suzuki leaned against the blasted wall on the left and right, waiting for the search team to come.

Lin Yue pointed to his eyes.

Suzuki understood perfectly. On one hand, the enemy might have a prosthetic eye for locating the target, and on the other hand, he needed to pinpoint Rin's location—after all, Rin's prosthetic eye wasn't fully activated yet.

The blade rubbed against the cold-eyed samurai's fingers, and he charged out without making a sound.

It seems I misused Suzuki…

Someone like him, who comes from an elite Hokkaido background, is generally more suited to stealth and ambush warfare; direct confrontation would weaken his abilities!
At this moment, the soldiers on the other side could only see the smart weapon's locking mechanism occasionally appearing in the smoke and dust. Their frantic heartbeats and rapid adrenaline surges were testament to their fear...

"Please proceed in an orderly manner, samurai."

The voice of the net administrator, Konbi, was like that of a dead man, and the soldiers of the Arasaka Commando were all complaining about it.

"cheer--"

The leader was noticeably more composed, his gun held very steadily. With his extensive battlefield experience, he knew exactly where the enemies liked to hide.

"Moved!"

Someone's voice sounded like they were being choked.

The leader's face darkened. It was no wonder his subordinates were afraid... because before the mission, someone had told them about this guy's achievements. The higher-ups weren't stupid enough to send someone to their death without telling them who the enemy was. In such situations, it was even more important to inform the soldiers who they were fighting against!
Because the rewards are undoubtedly generous.

There will always be more people loyal to money than to their hearts.

"You guy!"

The soldiers providing flank cover were extremely dissatisfied with the guy whose voice sounded timid.

call!
In an instant, the world fell silent.

Smoke billowed up, revealing eyes filled with murderous intent. The scar at the corner of his eye resembled the mark of death, and the blade in his hand was the most effective way for a samurai to wield a sword during an assault!
That blade was so sharp that it could neatly slice through the milky white smoke!

Suzuki's brain-computer interface, the coupling components of the body and various prosthetics, are twisted to maximum power!
"ended."

The samurai, who was once considered hopeless and whose prosthetic body's endurance was described as "trash," stunned the five elite Arasaka commandos who were wielding smart weapons and whose expressions were obscured.

Suzuki guessed...they must be scared, right?

Wow!
"fight back!"

Guns spat fire, guided bullets twisting and curving, trying to penetrate the attacking figures from all directions, but—

"Wow!"

A sharp, agonizing scream.

"Ah…"

Death actually makes a sound!
And it was deafening!
The soldier stared in disbelief at his abdomen. His bulletproof vest, strong enough to withstand a single kinetic bullet strike, couldn't withstand the raw physical cuts. This was why the blade hadn't been abandoned in this era!

The blade slowly churned inside the creature's stomach, tearing its internal organs apart...

"You guy!"

However, Suzuki's calm face, which seemed indifferent to death, showed no emotional fluctuation!

snort!
Suzuki exerted his strength instantly, and the moment the blade was drawn from his body, his second slash had already reached the leader's armored mask.

And all of this happened in just one second!

When Suzuki's gaze quickly shifted and landed on the leader's helmet, which he had instinctively avoided earlier—

Pfft!

The sound of the SEA-WYS I operating boomed in Suzuki's ears!

The blade's strike naturally missed its mark...

"Hokkaido training method: Spread out! Suppress with firepower!"

The soldiers shouted loudly.

Gunshots and screams rang out at once!
Suzuki flashed back into the smoke like a demon, and at the same time threw a smoke bomb that exploded in a milky white color onto the ground. The samurai of Hokkaido all demanded to undergo a special trial.

That is to disable smart weapons.

It is well known that intelligent weapons are lethal against enemies hiding behind cover in open areas…

However, if the prosthetic eye has poor vision and relies on the smart connection, the crosshair frame may not lock onto a living target or may deviate too much, causing the attack to miss!
However, this squad leader's experience can only be described as shrewd; this is the only way to deal with a lone wolf.

Two fists can't fight four hands; in order to eliminate the target, the so-called samurai honor is a complete joke.

As he raised his gun and fired, the spent cartridges clattering out from the side. His prosthetic eye caught a slight tremor in the smart weapon's sights, accompanied by a visual disturbance...

Moreover, he discovered that several bullets were off target.

Strange things—

However, just as he subconsciously tried to ignore the phenomenon, his shoulder suddenly felt heavy.

His pupils dilated instantly.

At that moment, the soldier opposite him saw a strange scene: a pitch-black prosthetic hand slowly placed on the captain's shoulder. As the faint layer of smoke and dust thinned, two scarlet streams of light appeared behind him.

"It's a carrier of the Black Wall!!!"

The officer was no longer able to turn his head normally...

He swore he had never felt his neck so stiff before.

From the perspective of mechanical rotation:

The black of Arasaka's shoulder armor was nothing compared to the jet black of that guy's custom-made prosthetic body; it was as if an impenetrable death aura was gently clinging to his shoulder...

"Uh?"

Then, when he saw the young face that was completely different from the one in the legend, he heard the guy talking.

"Lend me your Arasaka Individual Soldier System. Take care, friend."

Why…

Didn't they say his prosthetic body was ruined?

What is this again?
He, who still harbored a slight sense of mockery for Suzuki, an elite from headquarters, who was willing to fight to the death for a useless vessel, now realized how terribly wrong he was.

This guy is really good.

The Arasaka Individual System is an intelligence transmission system adapted to various complex battlefields. Its low-level application is actually with trauma teams; the hovercraft roofs of these teams can use laser markings to lock onto any member inside a building.

This is to ensure that all personnel are present and that a timely response can be made to any emergencies.

However, Arasaka's method often involves creating a network based on a single soldier, which is largely unaffected by interference. But as long as data can be transmitted, it's a different story for Lin Yue, a man who has struggled to survive in the mire of the Black Wall...

It's just a series of light bulbs that can all burn out!

S.A.W. Stein...

Lin Yue's hand was firmly wedged into the structure of the Sianweistein. He knew where the thing's weakness was, and he didn't intend to delay any longer.

The terrified soldiers discovered that the leader who had just organized the counterattack was suddenly surrounded by bright red arcs of electricity, and he was howling in pain, as if he were enduring the greatest torture in the world.

Lin Yue knew that the rapid cracking of the black wall could no longer be as devastating as before, so he used the peak computing power at the moment the cracking interface appeared to stack the number of rapid cracks to more than five...

"Disconnect!"

This team, which had relatively good combat skills, had someone who immediately noticed their intentions!
"Ugh!"

The Suzuki blade, arriving from the side, pierced the opponent's neck. The blade then thrust out, and the electronic throat tube and a bunch of already damaged components, stained with short-circuited black smoke, fell to the ground, instantly spraying out a mist of blood.

"May I borrow your eyes?"

Lin Yue lowered his head slightly, and those massive amounts of data representing the destruction of everything instantly rushed into the link network of the individual combat system!
The soldier, whose skin had been peeled off by the red electric current, was now a humanoid scaffold, and all the Arasaka soldiers finally understood the horror of the Black Wall carrier mentioned in the mission briefing.

"My prosthetic body!"

[WARNING: Data corruption, overload]

If it were the old Lin Yue, such information would usually only appear on him, but now... these warnings, indicating that the network implant is about to be breached, are appearing in the eyes of the enemy.

"go to hell!"

Someone quickly threw down their gun and drew their knife, trying to rush in front of Lin Yue!

Suzuki watched as the afterimage of that guy, Sianwistan, left its mark, and at the same time, Lin Yue also broke through the individual soldier system!
Wow!
The crimson electric grid that instantly enveloped Lin Yue dispelled the gloom in the room, as if capillaries were intricately laid out throughout the building. Whenever the red and black data appearing in the artificial eyes, transformed into lightning, touched a person or device…

Just as the Grim Reaper's scythe had finished its harvest!

poof...

Corpses fell one after another. Suzuki stared at Rin opposite him, thinking that Lady Rin was once again risking her life for this attack.

However, the imagined situation of physical fragility did not occur. A strong, hot gust of air shot out from the back of the boss's neck, causing his dark hair to tremble.

Lin Yue shook his hand, and the scalding hot corpse fell to the ground.

Suzuki lowered his head slightly. "Let's go without delay, sir."

When they returned to the conference room and tried to leave through the automatic door, they only saw corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, and Suzuki's eyes immediately became alert.

The messy room was empty. The broken lights flickered on and off, and the automatic door, blocked by the corpse of the company employee Lin Yue had killed, kept opening and closing on its own.
The man Suzuki brought is dead…

Lin Yue realized that human nature is not always a good thing.

These samurai, who sought to seize the opportunity to overthrow their superiors, died by the sword of their desires.

That's not the end of it, the enemy is still there!

Lin Yue scanned the room with his prosthetic eye. If he wasn't mistaken, the Arasaka ninja that Xu Zhi had brought was the one who had completed the killing.

"Don't…"

Suzuki was about to stop Lin Yue from taking a step forward, but he took back his words and focused on defending against any possible attack.

It seemed that there was really no one left in the room. Lin Yue could not detect any place where enemies could hide—only fish were swimming quietly in the wall behind the conference table, which had been converted into an aquarium.

Lin Yue's gaze did not linger on it; instead, he turned and walked towards the door.

His peripheral vision locked onto the side, and the expected result arrived.

Sharp shards of glass from the bathtub, accompanied by slightly salty steam, swept in instantly!

Lin Yue simply held his arm horizontally, using his gorilla-like arm to block the view from the side—

Ding!
It's hard to imagine that this is the sound of a prosthetic body colliding with a blade!

Lin Yue's calm eyes shifted to the side, looking at the Arasaka ninja covered in wounds—

The guy's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly retreated!

However, Suzuki's slide had already begun...

He raised his sword upwards with both hands in a sweeping motion, and the wounded enemy reacted too late, but still managed to take a step back. However, Suzuki, who had just launched a swift attack, slowly sheathed his sword...

Ding-dong!
The ninja dropped his knife and clutched his neck in disbelief; his throat and abdomen were completely slashed open by the blade.

Lin Yue reached out and grabbed Suzuki, who was trying to follow.

"Back off."

"If time is running out, then let's resolve this quickly."

Suzuki was pushed by Lin Yue, and in his field of vision, the upper floor began to collapse rapidly. The sound of Arasaka's fully automated mecha falling seemed to convey its heavy weight!

"Arasaka seems to really like having you make your entrance like this—old-fashioned and rigid, yet always scheming."

Lin Yue's bangs were lifted by the strong wind from the falling mecha!
He simply watched silently as the mech, placed there for his own defense, was deployed.

It moved!
Suzuki decisively stepped back; he trusted his superior almost 100%.

The mech's powerful firepower locked onto Lin Yue, and the moment he moved, Suzuki felt a chill run down his spine.

Is this even human?

Was S. A. Anwystein merely a burdensome toy in his eyes?
He didn't know... At this moment, all he saw was Rin with her stiff hands hanging down, nimbly and quickly approaching the mecha!
What to do?!

Suzuki unconsciously gripped the knife—

The next second, the mech sensed the opponent's rapid approach and raised its mechanical foot as if to crush the frail individual with one stomp!
boom!
Centered on Lin Yue, spiderweb-like cracks rapidly spread across the ground of the Ganbi Building, a structure of excellent structural strength.

Suzuki's first thought was that the human skeleton would definitely shatter into several pieces!

However, Lin Yue, with his head down, patiently resisted the mecha's hydraulic system—then slowly raised his head, seemingly mocking those who only dared to use these inanimate objects to block him.

"Close enough..."

Lin Yue's prosthetic eye began to exploit the weaknesses of each mech one by one, while Suzuki's pupils trembled as he watched the machine gradually lose its balance.

Is it...

Lin Yue suddenly freed his hand and quickly stomped on the thing's head. Then, under Suzuki's inhuman gaze, he coldly pulled out the human-computer interaction cable from his wrist and inserted it into the mecha core, which was capable of instantly overloading a hacker's brain and putting it into combat mode!
Sensing danger, the mech attempted to release an electromagnetic pulse to halt the enemy's advance.

However, even with his clothes and hair bulging from the electric shocks, Lin Yue continued to crack the ICE!

suddenly!

Lin Yue and the mecha stopped moving at the same time.

Suzuki's heart tightened, and he rushed towards Rin without regard for the danger!

As the mecha collapsed with a crash, Lin Yue lightly jumped onto the floor—

Suzuki quickly reached out and grabbed his arm, "Sir..."

Lin Yue's calm expression suddenly twitched, and he pressed his trembling hand to his head. "Ouch...it fucking hurts..."

Suzuki's tense expression instantly relaxed.

"Let me take you away!"

……

When the two hovercraft slowly emerged from the hangar of the Gum Pik Building, the sky was already pitch black.

Suzuki stared nervously out of the hovercar, and Lin Yue noticed his unnatural demeanor.

"what happened?"

Suzuki hesitated, "Even if you send a false signal from those two hovercrafts, we still have a 50% chance of being attacked..."

Lin Yue coughed and took out a cigarette.

"I know."

As the floating vehicle parking area slowly shrank, Lin Yue's gaze remained calm. "Let the Holy Sword fly towards the desolate hill."

"It's gambling anyway, if you lose, you lose."

Suzuki gritted his teeth—

What kind of time is this to be so nonchalant?

But what worries him even more is... Lady Rin betrayed Arasaka and abandoned Lady Yoriyuki! Will Adam's Hammer... come?

Just as he was about to remind Lin Yue, the airship's collision warning sounded without warning!
Above, an Osprey attack helicopter from Arasaka hovered, and then a machine-like creature suddenly plummeted down!

Lin Yue calmly instructed the AI ​​to complete the evasion—

Then!

With a violent crash, the black shadow that rose from the dust and smoke revealed a head covered in gruesome stitched wounds, its two bulging eyes gleaming red in the night.

Adam's Hammer!

Lin Yue glanced at Arasaka's strongest fighter behind him, who was making a choice between the two departing floating vehicles, and tightened his grip on the cigarette butt in his hand.

Whoosh whoosh!
Adam the Dragon Knight had miniature missiles on his shoulder, and he gave orders to both hovercrafts almost without hesitation, although the Holy Sword side launched more missiles.

The hovercar released decoy flares, and the moment Lin Yue's hovercar engine was hit, he held down Suzuki, who was trying to fight back at a height that could kill any one of them.

"It has three engines, it can fly, and it will chase after that holy sword."

Sitting on the V-shaped hovercar, Lin Yue seemed tired, leaning back in his seat and smoking a cigarette in the unstable flight.

Sure enough, the osprey lowered its rope, and Adam Hammer, looking at the hovercar, grabbed the rope.

What he was looking at was not actually the Holy Sword.

"I know where you are... little guy, let's continue playing later!"

His voice sounded like a gurgling electronic sound effect, exuding a terrifying, manic, and warlike quality.

……
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"Bastard!"

The documents on the desk, along with an exquisite piece of art, a pair of optical glasses, and a cell phone, were all pushed to the ground!
Yoriyuki Arasaka was like a defeated tiger; it had been a long time since anyone had seen the current CEO of Arasaka so furious.

His hands were on his hips, his purple silk corporate shirt crumpled under his fingers, and on the large screen in the distance, Arasaka Yoru no Shiro's assets, stock price, and various other information were being reported in detail.

"A bunch of good-for-nothings! You let a clueless former soldier of the Ghost Hounds abscond with a huge amount of assets and even killed my men! You are all sinners of Arakawa!"

The crowd, trembling with fear, watched the Eagle Brand leader on the electronic screen. No one dared to speak, and no one wanted to speak.

Explanations are futile at this point, but many remain unconvinced.

If I hadn't trusted that guy so much...

After a long silence.

Lai Xuan, staring at the bustling view outside the floor-to-ceiling window, breathed heavily.

"No...no! I am the sinner!"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

At this critical juncture, if Saburo were to completely strip Lai Xuan of his authority because of this matter, we would all be doomed!

Xu Zhi spoke up at this point. Since his superior had already given him a way out, he felt it was necessary to say something.

"This is not your problem, Lord Lai Xuan."

Xu Zhi didn't know why, but he actually defended Lin first, saying, "Someone stirred up trouble on the table. I guess Lin was probably forced to betray them under those conditions."

"After all, we are currently lacking in confidence within the organization, and after all, you... have more important things to do."

Lai Xuan finally stopped his frightening breathing.

Many people suspected that the young master had bipolar disorder, but Xu Zhi had actually seen the guy's calm demeanor and never believed that his leader was a muddle-headed guy.

"Now, it's all too late."

Lai Xuan raised his head weakly, "I have to accept my defeat on the other side of the ocean."

Xu Zhi gritted his teeth. He knew this wasn't the time to shift the blame. As long as Lin was alive, he had to find a way.

"Send Adam to search Night City, and Arasaka can use the excuse that the company's assets are under espionage investigation to block NID's logistics subsidiary, and then..."

No one wants to destroy such a weapon.

The problem is, it's out of control.

However, Lai Hsuan seemed dejected. "When I was little, my father told me...you and your mother are very similar, very similar...I always thought it was a compliment, a sign of affection for me."

Xu Zhi was interrupted, but he dared not provoke Lai Xuan at this critical juncture, so everyone could only listen to Lai Xuan tell his story.

"However, my father told me that I would never succeed. What the company needed was a keen sense of smell, intuition, and strong execution! Utter obedience!"

"Instead of a kind person who is wise but indecisive."

Lai Xuan slumped into a chair, rubbing his face with both hands.

"I've lost enough, do I have to keep losing?!"

Xu Zhi's astonished and anxious face completely relaxed. "The matter of Dogtown is something that Lord Arasaka has his own considerations—you have not lost. No one can control people's hearts. You think too highly of Rin. Everyone has moments when they cannot resist temptation."

The other Night City hawks fell silent, a sense of shared sorrow for the fallen.

They didn't die at the conference table, but are they going to die in the big purge after Saburo Arasaka takes back his authority... Seriously, that's terrible!
"Is it…"

Lai Xuan's beard looked much more disheveled.

Just as Xu Zhi was trying to persuade Lai Xuan to come up with a solution to mitigate the losses of the Night City branch, the door slowly opened.

Some hawkish members' faces instantly turned ashen, and they wanted to log off immediately!

But they all knew that the lord knew every single person present who had communicated with Lai Xuan; no one could escape...

Saburo Arasaka strolled leisurely to the conference table, much like a father who had just woken up and was visiting his child's study to ask if his studies were going well.

Lai Xuan rubbed his hands on the sides of his head, his eyes wide as he stared at the ground, his wooden clogs on the floor.

he…

Fear?
Saburo suddenly stopped in his tracks, quietly looking at the documents scattered on the ground and the glasses beside him.

Someone seemed to hear a sigh coming from the man who had sat atop the peak of Arakasa for nearly a century…

Saburo was about to bend down to pick up his glasses when the maid tried to help him, but he stopped her.

When he walked up to Lai Xuan, supporting himself on his knees and holding his shattered glasses, his arrogant son raised his head and looked at his father quietly.

Saburo put the glasses on the child's face.

"Can you see it clearly?"

He asked two questions.

Lai Xuan was stunned for a long time, then gently shook his head, "Now... I can no longer see my father clearly."

Saburo had one hand behind his back and the other on Lai Xuan's head. "I said before that the rules of the game in this world are fixed, only the paths to achieve the goal are different."

"If you want to overturn the rules, you must bear the cost of the rules being altered..."

“When feeding subordinates and driving soldiers, kindness is an unnecessary element.”

Saburo gently stroked the child's hair.

He seemed to have seen through many truths and the hearts of many people.

"Birds of a feather flock together. I like that proverb from ancient China: 'Hounds gathered together for mutual benefit will sooner or later turn on you for the same reason. Hunger is the key to keeping them alert.'"

"Understand?"

Lai Xuan closed his eyes in despair.

"Father, what should I do?"

Saburo looked at his rebellious child, who seemed to overlap with the child named Rei from his memories.

A wise person whose pride has been broken is the one who is fit to be an emperor who can protect the country.

This is Saburo Arasaka's understanding.

"Are you really helpless?"

Saburo asked this question.

Lai Xuan nodded. "This is a major fault. My failure... I have brought shame upon Arakawa."

Saburo fell silent.

He stroked the child's head intermittently and sighed a second time.

“Michiko said she likes living in Tokyo. I originally wanted her to go back to Night City, but perhaps she’s getting old… and is starting to spoil her granddaughter and children. Let her stay here for a while.”

"Lai Xuan, stand up."

Lai Xuan stood up obediently, his hands hanging at his sides.

"Then let's get our products into the market properly. That way, a small, disloyal company will be like an ant that can be easily defeated. If a hundred people can't kill it, then a thousand will..."

"If a thousand men can't kill him, then ten thousand will!"

Keep up the good work!

Lai Xuan's gaze froze completely.

For the first time, Saburo seemed to see tears in the child's eyes through his cloudy eyes—the best response to his parents' kindness and love.

"Father…"

Saburo Arasaka seemed to smile. He turned around and quietly looked at the "hawks" on the screen, whose expressions varied—that's what Hua Zi seemed to call them.

He understood that his son's authority had crumbled in this defeat.

"Please continue to serve Arakawa."

Saburo's wooden clogs faded into the distance.

Xu Zhi was the last to log off the network. He seemed puzzled, more incredulous, and ultimately disappointed.

"Mr. Lai Hsuan, please take good care of your health."

Lai Xuan's voice drifted over.

"Let the Tiger Claw Gang cause trouble for that traitor. As long as it causes losses, anything is acceptable!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhi's disappointment deepened. He nodded slightly and hung up the phone.

Lai Xuan slowly placed his hands on the table. In the quiet office, where you could hear a pin drop, he made a sound like crying, which then turned into laughter, followed by maniacal laughter.

He didn't say anything, but there were tears on his laughing face.

Lai Xuan knew one thing better than anyone: that guy who was called indecisive like his mother; the child who faced failure in every "homework" his father assigned; the child who was once rejected and got nothing... won.

It was a complete and utter victory.

“I’ve won the first step, Father.”

Lai Xuan silently recited the words in his mind, his fingers tracing the logo of the Arasaka Soul Protection Project...

……

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(End of this chapter)