How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

129. fisherman

Leonard thought he had made a name for himself in the rain of bullets at the speed of sound.

Puppet, as the name suggests, was a puppet (puppet). I wasn’t referring to the puppies who just escaped to live alone. The puppeteer holding the skein of thread knew that the stage would go like this, and he induced it to happen.

“These thugs!”

“Kill them all!”

The puppeteer didn’t care whether the kabuki or the yakuza won. It’s good if one of them fails, and even better if both fail. The implant body for the backdoor would flow into the shadows of White Town anyway, so I was aiming for killing two birds with one stone, no, killing three birds with one stone.

‘I should have spent 78 million credits, but I’ll have to pick up the cost.’

It didn’t matter who won, it was the same as the innocent solver duo who intervened in the three-way battle. The only difference was that no matter who won, it was dangerous.

Leonard raised his long sword and shot the Tiger Claw Gang with the ‘Army’, and with his free left hand he pulled out the ‘Air Force’ and shot the chrome-skinned Gang. They made several ‘suicide’ by saving their organs, but no one cared because they would die anyway if they didn’t shoot. Leonard kicked Max, who was the target, and hid him behind a cryostat, then rolled after him.

In the midst of gun and knife fire, both sides avoided damage to the cargo as much as possible. They, too, were well aware of the value of a premium body. It was fortunate for Leonard and his party.

“Mister Leonard! Get out!”

“how?”

“Please find a way!”

No matter how great Leonard was, he couldn’t wipe out two gangs by himself. No, to be honest, it was hard to handle at all.

Kabuki is superior in firepower, but there are many Yakuza gangs in numbers. At first, it was fiercely attached and the damage to both sides was great, but it was not easy to break the game after a certain degree of stalemate. It seems like it will take quite a while, but I didn’t have the confidence to last until then.

“What is the cause of the dispute?”

“Yes? What is the cause?”

Max’s gaze naturally turned to the cryostat.

“Destroy the cause.”

“What kind of childish line is that… Wow! Are you serious?”

Leonard raised the gun and fired at the wires and pipes connected to the cryostat. White steam spewed out of the cracked hole.

The battle didn’t stop with one shot, but as I continued to fire two, three, four, both the black suit gang and the bow tie gang stared at me.

“Me, me, those crazy bastards!”

“Not me! This guy did it!”

Max appealed for resentment, but it was not accepted. The implant body in that device was 70,000 or 80,000 credits each. An ordinary scavenger in Junk Town was a top-notch product that he couldn’t touch until he died. It feels like pouring billions of gold ingots into a flowing furnace. It was normal for normal people to turn their eyes away.

“Kill those bastards first!”

“Don’t let me shoot you! Block it with your body!”

Leonard fired his few remaining bullets into the lid of the cryostat next to him, then drew an army knife from his shoulder holster and poked it through the gap.

Leonard’s implants were also very high quality. It boasts an output that exceeds the standard, so let’s give it a try! Sounds and doors fell off. And a bizarre development was staged.

“Don’t move!”

Leonard grabbed the little girl from the cryostat and held the blade at an angle to her cervical spine. All three were silent at the embarrassing development.

“…What? Is it a hostage situation?”

From the outside, it looks like a despicable villain threatening a poor girl, but both the opponent and the situation were funny. The opponents are human trafficking gangs who are not envious of being mean, and the situation is a machine body that is not even alive in the first place.

It is only when memories are transmitted and synchronized to the implant brain that it becomes similar to ‘human’, and even that was a ‘dummy’ that was used as a tool if the original was separate. In other words, since he was not a person, he could not become a hostage.

“That madman! Are you kidding me!”

“Are these worth 70,000 credits?”

However, Leonard was sincere. In the first place, the hostage was not a body held in the hand. It is only a show for tension and realism that the content is brought out. Leonard glanced at the destroyed devices. Coolant was still leaking out.

“If you leave it as it is, it will malfunction after 30 minutes. The organs will dry out and become useless, and the implant brain will die.”

The gangsters couldn’t even count the number of bullets properly, but I guessed that it was a very big loss.

“If you keep fighting here, I will destroy these. Unlike their bosses, I don’t have a lot of greed. Well, if you want to stop it, stop it.”

At Leonard’s signal, the quick-witted Max turned the shotgun and pistol to the peripherals. One of the gang flinched and raised his gun, and Leonard burst the overload that he managed to finish uploading. The gang that was about to shoot screamed and woke up. It was a narrowly successful hack, but the surrounding gangs who didn’t know it were ‘Hexagon’ and ‘Leonard Walker’ and so on.

“But I don’t know if the other brothers will wait for me while they catch me.”

The gangsters in different outfits rolled their eyes. The troublesome thing about this situation is that it doesn’t end with just one Leonard being dealt with. I didn’t know what my former partner would do after crossing an irreversible river while arguing with Leonard.

Even the best solvers in Junk Town are only two, so it’s in order to clear out the menacing gang first, but in the meantime, the fixer is threatening to destroy the final target, the implant device.

“What do you want?”

The Yakuza, who didn’t have to worry too much, tried to negotiate. Leonard pulled the body of the girl in his arms and said.

“I can get out of here cleanly. Don’t worry about us, let’s see the decision on our own.”

The response to Leonard’s request was divided into two groups.

“Do you think you would believe that!”

“Do so.”

The Kabuki manager couldn’t save a fixer with top-secret information that would ruin the business, but Tigerclaw’s yakuza didn’t care about that.

Since Kabuki and Chuck were defeated, they could not be sold there, and if sold individually, their identities would not be revealed, so even if Leonard spread rumors, the effect was weak. In the first place, if Kabuki monopolized the implant body here, the deal with Tiger Claw would end, so there was no reason to hesitate. It was an interesting difference of opinion. Unless it’s the person involved in it.

“Max.”

Leonard propped up the girl’s body like a shield and moved slowly. The kabuki manager tried to block it, but the yakuza gang fiercely raised their swords, so they couldn’t act.

In this case, even if Kabuki killed the yakuza gang and took over the implant body, it was difficult to do business. Which guest will try to sync with the virus mass implant.

When the situation changed like this, no one shot or knifed. The animosity remained strong, but the reason to fight was gone. Yakuza took out a cigar and lit it.

“How about signing a new contract?”

“Your trust has already been broken.”

“It’s your responsibility, so there’s no point in arguing.”

Leonard left the warehouse after the conversation between the two tycoons. Max let out a deep sigh with a face that had endured for ten years.

“Go quickly. Quickly.”

Gangs are also gathered in the bunker passage, but they did not stop them as if they heard the communication with a brain chip. Or they seemed to have judged that they couldn’t stop the notorious Hexagon hacker. Either way, it was fortunate for Leonard and his party, who had few bullets left.

“Is it over now? Is it all over?”

“Can it be?”

Leonard and Max whispered as they quickened their pace. The cargo truck that was half-destroyed by the Kabuki gang and the chrome body cut to pieces by the Yakuza gang were seen one after another, so the speed naturally increased.

“It will only end when justice triumphs.”

“Where is justice in this town?”

It was a word that did not fit in a place where fixers, gangsters, pimps and henchmen gathered. When Max spoke again, Leonard’s eyes sparkled with golden light. After leaving the bunker, radio waves reached the satellite, enabling long-distance communication.

“What are you doing?”

Leonard changed his voice and spoke to ‘Justice’.

“Isn’t that the public security headquarters there? I have something to report about corporate terrorism.”

“…are you serious?”

Leonard smiled like a villain. Without justice, there should have been no winners. That was truly the right ending.

@Leonard and Max parked the Blue Bee about 1.5 km from the bunker and watched the situation leisurely.

I couldn’t imagine that the fixer would report it to the public security, so there was a lot of uproar. Intermittent gunshots were heard and explosions exploded, but it was a totally meaningless resistance. The merciless suppression took place because they were ignorant in matters related to companies. Max forgot that he had been brought back to life and put on a pitiful expression.

“You caught it right.”

“You wouldn’t fish for something like this.”

“I don’t mean that I caught it in that sense, but that’s true.”

Leonard widened his field of vision. War Machine was pulling out an implant device from the bunker. The unidentified terrorist group, the Kabuki parlor, and the Tiger Claw gang were all ruined. As the old saying goes, only fishermen were in good shape. After that, would it be about the fixer duo who pulled out their feet without greed?

“Is that a clam or a stork?”

Max glanced at the girl’s body in the back seat of Blue Bee. I know it’s a pure implant that hasn’t been installed, but it’s so elaborately made that it looks like a living person. Above all, being naked, it was a strong stimulus to the adolescent boy. Leonard, calm to that side, was thinking about something else.

“I was in a hurry, but I brought it out…”

Because the source was a problem, the handling was also a problem. If I left it to the twins, they would break it down and take care of it in moderation, but it was a waste of hard work to receive it ‘in moderation’.

“Do you want to write?”

“Eh?! Are you crazy?”

“why? Didn’t you whine all the time about wanting to get implants?”

“But that’s not it! It’s not for combat, and I’m not a man either, right? I am a real man to the core!”

I don’t agree with the real man part, but I had no intention of giving it in the first place.

“Well, I left it for too long, so I can’t use it as it is.”

“…What is it? Are you suggesting that you can’t even write?”

“Five? Did you have any thoughts?”

“Well, it’s just going to be stronger than your current body… I guess I just need to remodel a few places…”

It was a high-quality implant that was integrated from head to toe, so Tom was as good as me. Leonard agreed that minor tweaks could be made.

“Even if it’s not you, there’s one guy you can use.”

“uh? Really?”

Leonard started the blue rain. Today was a busy day in many ways. Orange Prison has new residents, high-performing public security agents dine together, the foundation work of the 18th-8th Avenue Hotel in Junk Town has been completed, and the original android, more human than human, has two legs.