## Chapter 151 – (3)
Woo-oong.
The vehicle stopped with a strange, unfamiliar sound.
Since we were floating in the air, even the sound of stopping was unusual.
“Hmm…”
We arrived, but I was at a loss where to start.
I couldn’t just barge into the gang’s headquarters.
I wish they would just pick a fight with me.
First, I decided to walk around aimlessly.
If I saw anyone who looked like a gangster, I’d try to talk to them.
“Aish, I’m screwed.”
Three minutes into my walk.
I was already regretting my decision.
I had underestimated the cyberpunk fashion and hairstyles.
With the image of gangs I had in mind, I couldn’t distinguish between ordinary people and gangsters.
Even ordinary people carried weapons for self-defense, and some had huge dragon tattoos as a fashion statement.
At least in the city where I met Cyan, there weren’t many people who looked like this.
Just a little outside the city, and the scenery was completely different.
Then, the street became a little noisy.
“Look over there…”
“Hey, let’s go!”
People on the street looked behind me and hurried away as if fleeing.
Wondering what was going on, I turned around as well.
Then I saw a group of people moving in unison.
They were all coming out of one place.
The place suspected to be the gang’s base.
“…Gangsters.”
I could definitely tell when comparing them like this.
They had a different aura than ordinary people.
A cocky feeling, unique to those accustomed to violence.
I watched the group walking towards me, centered around a woman, with my arms crossed.
Could that woman be the one?
It was a short-haired woman with small tattoos.
I stared intently at her face, wondering if she was the woman I needed to capture, and she stopped abruptly as she passed in front of me.
“…I don’t recognize your face?”
“…Just visiting.”
“Visiting? Here?”
The woman answered with a playful voice, and the men following her burst into laughter.
“Hahaha! Visiting here?”
“You should have come up with a better excuse!”
I scratched my head, regretting my answer.
I should have had a more plausible response.
I made a mistake under the pressure of having to answer quickly.
Since it had come to this, it was a frontal breakthrough.
“So what?”
When I said that with a serious face and exuded killing intent, the laughter quickly subsided.
Everyone was startled and reached for their waistbands.
I was trying to avoid a fight if possible, but this situation was actually advantageous for me.
If we were this close, I could finish them off before they could pull out their weapons.
Then the woman slowly approached.
“Hey, why are you being like that?”
The woman’s hand touched my back.
Then she started stroking my back with her palm.
I looked at the woman at the strange touch, and she suddenly smirked.
“Hey, this one’s a normal?”
Normal.
In the original novel, it meant pure humans who hadn’t undergone body modifications.
They were often portrayed as weak in the novel.
As soon as I heard that, the guys chuckled and approached me.
On closer inspection, some of them seemed to have modified their arms, with subtle gaps in their arms.
Like prosthetic arms.
It seemed like the only normals here were me and the woman.
The gang members didn’t even bother to take out their weapons at the word “normal.”
I chuckled along with them, wondering how to deal with the approaching guys.
***
This is a dream.
There’s no way this could be happening otherwise.
“It’s definitely… a normal…”
When I touched the man’s back, nape, and shoulder line, it was smooth skin without any bumps.
The back, nape, and shoulders were essential body parts for body modification, so I could tell if someone was normal just by checking those areas.
That meant the man in front of me was a normal who hadn’t undergone body modification.
“I checked properly…”
But how was he capable of such movements?
I stared blankly at the scene unfolding before my eyes.
At first, the Viper gang members, like herself, swaggered towards him.
Then, the man stretched out his hand, grabbed the collar of the gang member in the front, and threw him against the wall.
Thud!
“Ugh…”
He must have hit the wall pretty hard because he couldn’t get up, groaning as soon as he hit the wall.
He was subdued in one hit.
“…What?”
That didn’t make sense.
To throw a gang member weighing over 100 kg, who had even undergone modifications, with one hand.
Even among the gang members who had modified their arms with mechanical arms, only a few could perform such a feat.
And that movement just now.
It was a clean movement that showed he was experienced in fighting.
Frankly speaking, he didn’t hesitate to attack people.
After that, the atmosphere of the gang members changed.
Although it was a bewildering sight.
They were also experienced in fighting.
“Hey, surround him!”
They had experience fighting other gangs with body modifications, so they all moved, playing their roles.
They swung weapons at the man, bumped into him, and tried to grab him to subdue him.
Each time, the man moved flexibly, easily overpowering them with strength, and repeatedly blocked their attacks.
He moved his legs faster than a man with motors attached to his legs, and threw punches more flamboyantly than an arm with a boxer’s tech chip implanted.
The situation didn’t change even when they took out their weapons.
Thwack! Thwack!
“Agh!”
Rather, they were beaten even more by the man, who seemed to get excited when he saw the weapons.
“W-Who are you…”
A normal who could fight like this? I’d never heard of such a thing.
The man strode towards her and grabbed her wrist.
“Let’s go somewhere for a bit, shall we?”
“Hehehe… Do you know who you’re grabbing the wrist of?”
One of the fallen gang members opened his mouth.
He was right.
She was the lover of Hornet, the real power behind the infamous Viper.
“Y-Yeah! If you touch me, Hornet won’t let you get away with this!”
No matter how strong a man was, he would shrink before the names of Viper and Hornet.
However, the man in front of her was different.
“Oh really? I found the right one then.”
Her mind stopped for a moment.
The fact that he said he found the right one meant he was looking for her from the start.
“Could it be…”
She realized.
She should have just stayed quiet.
Maybe he was a man who wanted revenge on Hornet.
There were many people who hated Hornet.
But there were hardly any men who confronted him head-on like this.
Well, almost none.
Occasionally, a man like this, with his reins cut loose, would appear.
A moth to a flame, rushing in for revenge regardless of the odds.
The man roughly pulled her arm and headed into a deserted alley.
Even she, who had lived in this area for quite a long time, didn’t know such a place existed.
“Do you have anything I can take a picture with?”
“…H-Here.”
Now, honorifics came out of her mouth automatically.
The gang members were down, and the names of Viper and Hornet didn’t work.
Moreover, she had been dragged to a deep alley where she couldn’t expect any help.
All she could do was try to please the man in front of her as much as possible.
She handed over her smartphone as carefully as possible.
The expression on the man’s face as he received the smartphone wasn’t good.
“What is this?”
“W-What’s wrong?”
Her heart felt like it was dropping at the man’s cold voice.
Why did he suddenly get upset?
Was it her attitude that was the problem?
Or did he not like the model of the smartphone?
“…This won’t do.”
“Eek…”
When the man frowned and spoke, she couldn’t help but let out a terrified voice.
The man held out the phone to her and said.
“Teach me how to use this.”
“Y-Yes? Ah, yes! I’ll teach you!”
She wondered for a moment what he was talking about.
Looking at his face, he didn’t seem that old, but he didn’t know how to use a smartphone.
Did he live in the mountains away from the city?
Such questions arose, but her mouth answered reflexively.
It wasn’t difficult to teach him.
The man really didn’t seem to know anything, reacting with amazement every time she taught him how to use the smartphone.
As soon as she taught him the basics, the man ordered her.
“Now, take off all your clothes and stand against the wall.”
“…What?”
“Hurry.”
“Y-Yes!”
She didn’t have the right to refuse anyway.
Her face flushed with shame, but it was fortunate that it was a deserted alley.
She quickly took off her clothes so as not to upset the man.
Even though her face flushed when she took off her underwear, she eventually took it off.
As she stood naked against the wall, the man took pictures of her.
Her body flinched every time she heard the explicit sound of the shutter clicking.
It was humiliating.
‘Let’s just endure it for now, and then take revenge later…’
“…”
She bit her lip tightly and endured.
She didn’t make a sound.
In case she might displease the man.
And after a long time, the filming seemed to be over.
“Want to see?”
The man approached her naked body, stroked her body, and showed her the pictures.
“T-This is…”
Her face turned red at the explicit sight.
She didn’t want to see it, but she kept looking.
It was the first time in her life that she had seen such lewd pictures of herself.
“I’ll take this phone.”
“No! A… It’s okay. Take it…”
She shouted for a moment, but endured it once again.
It wasn’t a suggestion, it was a notification.
Now that the man had said that, she had no choice but to give it to him.
Fortunately, it didn’t contain anything important.
…Except for the pictures of her body.
“…Just you wait…”
She glared at the man’s back as he left, vowing revenge, and hastily put on her clothes.
