Chapter 197 – Cyberpunk: Edgerunner (12)
A few days have passed since I started a relationship with Gloria.
Seojun met her several more times after that and hugged her.
Gradually, her reaction changed.
It was like watching a stray cat gradually becoming accustomed to human hands.
‘Lucy’s reactions are becoming more and more cute.’
Seojun knew.
Through her net running, she is watching her and Gloria’s love affair.
At first, I thought it would be fun, so I left it alone.
But she gradually began to think that she could eat it.
‘Operation to induce jealousy.’
Lucy already had a crush on him.
However, she was not showing it out loud, but starting with her relationship with Gloria, she began to gradually intrude on Seojun.
‘It was cute.’
The way he puts in effort even though he is not used to cuteness.
It’s so cute that I want to bite it.
However, unfortunately, Seojun had no intention of embracing her as she was.
‘I’m still too young.’
To be precise, the ‘original work’ has not yet been seen.
As I said before, Seojun likes the heroine’s past and future appearances, of course, but what he likes most is her appearance as it appeared in the original work.
Even the original version is at least 2–3 years older than it is now? I think I should eat more than that.
‘I’m sorry, but I’ll save it until then.’
I’m sorry Lucy, but this can’t be helped.
Well, when the time comes, I plan to make up for what I missed.
Anyway, for now.
Seojun visited Afterlife for his next request.
This bar, filled with cyberpunk’s unique and gloomy neon signs, was crowded with people as always.
“It’s been a while, B.”
“You are a log.”
Rogue, who was sitting at the bar table, waved his hand.
Seojun naturally went next to him.
“Would you like to order?”
The bartender asked.
Seojun thought for a moment and answered with a smile.
“Just what I always eat.”
“I understand.”
Shaka-
He turned his gaze away from the bartender who was starting the production and looked at Rogue.
“So, what kind of request is it that you called me directly?”
“It’s a place name. It’s a level of difficulty that’s too much for someone like me. Rather, there are a lot of guys in Night City who want to entrust you with requests, but it’s surprising.”
“That’s true too.”
“I put all the necessary information in the shard.”
She handed over the shard.
Seojun took it and immediately plugged it into the socket.
Information is displayed in his field of vision.
“Hmm. “I’m going to find something.”
Seojun muttered.
The client is an employee of ‘Kang Tao’, a Chinese megacorp.
The story is that a convoy transporting goods for an important company was attacked by Melstrom, and the goods were stolen.
The client hopes to get it back no matter what he does.
It would be nice if you could also take care of the Melstrom guys.
‘Is it Melstrom?’
Maelstrom
This is a gang that controls the Watson subdivision and the northern industrial subdivision.
Members of this gang are easily distinguished by their menacing facial features and hostile eye implants.
Melstrom gang members wear leather and chrome and prefer high-profile, high-profile cyberwear.
The conditions for joining are to undergo surgery to cut the optic nerve and to have Mellstrom’s unique prosthetic eye implant installed.
As these guys replace their healthy bodies with machines as much as possible, one-third of the gang members are known to be cyberpsychos.
And they are the most dangerous group among numerous gangs.
Not only is it not enough to go around killing just for fun, one of the main sources of income is contract murder.
Of course, other organizations also accept contract murder, but in the case of Melstrom, it is especially infamous because it literally dismembers its victims or makes use of them.
In addition, because they are fully armed with cyberware, their combat power is strong, and they compete for first or second place in the number of casualties with the Scavengers.
‘They say there’s no end to how many gangsters kill.’
Seojun asked after briefly massaging his chin.
“What are the compensation and conditions?”
“First, speaking of compensation, if the items are properly recovered, 50,000. As a bonus, if you take care of the Melstrom guys, you’ll get an additional 30,000.”
“And?”
“The conditions are as soon as possible. So, they said it would be good if it didn’t last longer than 3 days after acceptance. Of course, the item is in excellent condition. They say that if a problem arises, it will be deducted from the compensation.”
“Ha.”
Knock.
He knocked on the bar table.
Meanwhile, the bartender placed a cocktail in front of you.
Seojun drank it.
Soon he nodded.
“Good. I accept it.”
I was confident about this request.
Needless to say, force is a nag, and safely retrieving items is his specialty.
That’s right,
‘Because I have inventory.’
If you put it there, it’s game over.
Seojun emptied the cocktail in one go.
Rogue asked after seeing that.
“Looks like you’re leaving right away?”
“Okay. Because there is no need to waste time on it.”
“The client will like it.”
But.
She did what she said.
“Why don’t you wait a little bit? “I’m not doing this request alone.”
“What? What do you mean?”
Rogue shrugged his shoulders at Seojun who expressed doubt.
“Everyone in Night City knows that your achievements are legendary, but since this client has never experienced it first-hand, I think he wants to go safely. So additional crews moving in teams will be deployed.”
“… Under. “It’s absurd.”
Seojun’s expression changed to look as if he was dumbfounded.
That’s because he was already a giant in the industry with legendary achievements and a 100% request completion rate.
He entrusted the request to himself and then brought in another team.
“Tsk, anyway, those suit guys only choose to do things they don’t like.”
“I agree.”
“Huh, so where is the crew that will work with me?”
“Soon… Ah. “He’s coming over there at the right time.”
As soon as the log ended,
“Aaaaah!!!”
A high-pitched exclamation was heard.
When he turned his head in doubt, there was a little girl pointing at him with her eyes wide open.
‘Hmm? A familiar face somewhere… Ah.’
He observed the girl again.
Small body, loose jacket, white real skin, turquoise hair color twin tails, and red eye implants with pink pupils and light green irises.
There is only one person with that characteristic appearance, at least as far as Seojun knows.
That means, that girl is,
‘Rebecca.’
Edge Runner’s sub-heroine, Rebecca.
A character with a foul mouth that doesn’t match her cute appearance and small body, and when other characters only use one specific weapon, she brings out various types of firearms painted in her hair color and fires wildly while laughing like crazy.
‘In some ways, she was more popular than Lucy.’
While Lucy showed a frustrating side as the story progressed.
Rebecca has always been single-minded about David, and since she takes care of him and is there for him, it is only natural that her popularity rises.
‘There are other crew members too.’
Main, a huge giant, and his lover Dorio are crew members that David, the main character, worked on in Edge Runner.
It is said that the Edge Runner crew began activities before the start of the original work, so it seems that now was exactly that time.
‘… ‘Sasha is there too?’
A netrunner who worked in the previous crew of Lucy and Kiwi.
Sasha Yakovleva was also seen.
‘At first, I was annoyed because I was working with strange people, but then the story changes. I will get something better than money from this request.’
Grinning.
He drew a smile.
Rebecca
Sasha Yakovleva
