How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

132. school

Leonard stared at the gang of his peers, who were so different from each other in what they looked like and did.

It would be a little touching if you came to ask for help for the health and safety of young children. You can see the long-extinct altruism in Junk Town.

“In White Town, we cannot investigate alone.”

“F, F, FAP intervened… Poetry, time is running out…”

Leonard let out a small sigh. That’s right, I wasn’t worried about the poor boy from the rich family in White Town. I was just worried that I might miss the bounty clue I had barely caught.

“Currently, the only clue left is the White Town kids who bought the electronic chips from the distributor. One of them has gone psycho, but the other kids have potential.”

With the public security investigating, it was only a matter of time before the electronic chip was retrieved. If the electronic chip was taken away – I never had it in the first place – everything went back to square one. No, there was a possibility that the Liberation Front would disappear if they knew that the public security had launched an investigation, so it was a retreat from the starting point.

“Specifically? Will it be over if I just find it?”

“Now it is.”

“You are too vague.”

When Leonard came out lukewarm, skinhead actively persuaded him.

“What kind of talent are rich kids who wouldn’t even go near Junk Town because of the smell of the gutter to get their hands on a psycho chip?”

“Hoo? One more leg?”

“I don’t know yet whether it will be one leg or ten legs.”

The vendor that sold the chips was the vendor found by the skinheads, but there would be an intermediate bridge that introduced the vendor. If you find that side, you can weave a new link. It’s because of the lack of popularity, but the fixer Jjambab didn’t go anywhere.

“So what?”

“Doesn’t Mr. Leonard have connections with the upper echelons of White Town? Are you from the public security?”

Since Leonard’s reputation was high, the evaluation was excessively high. Leonard responded honestly to the over-praise.

“Well, a little bit, but…”

When Leonard was smug, Max and Sigma shook their heads. Skinhead and Elia, who hadn’t seen it, asked for help.

“Do business with us. I will hand over information about immature children.”

“Find those guys, everyone, everyone, let’s grab their legs.”

Leonard thought for a moment. It was literally a very brief moment. He still owes money to the Liberation Front, but it was better than the 3,500 credits commission suggested by the broker.

@ Even if I took a break from work, the habit didn’t go anywhere. As usual, the weapon, vehicle, and body were meticulously maintained. Max gave a suspicious look as Leonard closed his shoulder holster and packed his tools for a living.

“Didn’t you say you were taking a break for a while? Who will oversee the interior?”

“It is just information. There is nothing difficult.”

“There are a lot of armaments for that kind of thing?”

The person himself claims that it is Yubimuhwan, but it sounded ominous.

“Do you have any real connections in White Town? Well, considering Mr. Leonard’s family, he seems to have ties to the federal government, but…”

“That’s too much of a burden.”

Nothing is free in this world, so Leonard’s request will go back to Gunn’Gun’s burden. If it was really important, I would confiscate my face and take care of myself, but I didn’t want to bend my pride over just this.

“Then what are you going to do? From what I’ve heard, they are the sons and daughters of high-ranking people in the company.”

Even kidnapping would result in public and private bounty. No, there was a psycho cyborg incident, so there was a high possibility that the public security had already been attached. The skinheads didn’t hit Help for nothing.

“I will use my personal connections.”

“Does Mr. Leonard have any connections in White Town?”

Leonard moved his finger from left to right once and made a brainchip call. Max looked at Leonard’s phone on the table.

– Aww! Who is this? Leonard Walker contacted me first! Is this going to happen in World War II?

I couldn’t hear the sound, but I could see the caller’s profile.

“Is that kite a ‘rattle’?”

Come to think of it, I wasn’t particularly proud of being in the family.

@’Rattle’ Joel Cooper was the best of the A-044 City Brokers. Since the office is located on 8th Avenue in White Town, there was no need to say how great it was.

“It’s a position I climbed up by doing all kinds of dirty work.”

There were also quite a few ‘dirty jobs’ that Leonard helped with. Like dealing with ‘Dirty Hancock’.

“No one is clean on this floor.”

Leonard turned off the engine and got out of the car. Rough wastelands, dirty junk towns and other clean parking lots greeted me.

-This is the high school where the richest people go to on 7th Avenue. The kid who became a psycho is also a student here.

Apart from the mood, the help of the ‘rattle’ was useful. Just by sharing the information of the psycho chip, the footsteps were greatly reduced.

-Don’t kids of that age often do bad things together in some kind of club? Drinking, smoking, drugging…

“Is that bad?”

Max asked in bewilderment. In Junk Town, drinking and smoking were healthy hobbies for the wealthy. Traditionally, if it was a bad thing, you had to stab a homeless person, steal an implant, or raid a store and steal something to hear ‘that’s a bit…’.

– It’s true that boasting about money is bad.

“Ah… I must be doing something bad to see you’re feeling bad.”

Leonard forced the mumbling Max to shut up and looked across the parking lot to the school.

Unlike the classic films, there were no facilities such as multi-purpose buildings, flower beds, or playgrounds. Quite a bit of education is done in the virtual space of the brain chip, and physical education is not recommended because implants are good, so the appearance was close to an ordinary corporate building.

-Anyway, the new naughty thing the club did is a psycho chip. Let’s imitate what the tough guys do and look cool, let’s play.

“Wow, are you out of your mind?”

-That age is hard to be sane. It’s good to feel superior with one insignificant experience.

Max, who was of that age, had nothing to say. Leonard put aside the noise and got to the point.

“Where did you get that information from?”

-The public security agent in charge of this case is my friend.

“Friends made by debt?”

– You know I only have friends like that. It is a friend made as a sound business partner.

It means a friend who vomits information and convenience if you stab him with credit. The rattle took a moment to catch its breath and spoke again.

-There is no doubt because it matches the information you brought.

“How did you get permission for the tangent?”

– Parents are the most polarized in this kind of thing. What do you think you would do if your son got entangled with a terrorist organization?

“A bodyguard?”

-right! And it’s Joel Cooper’s job to arrange for the skilful mercenaries operating in White Town.

Indeed, the title of the best broker was not a waste. Thanks to this, I was able to approach the target legally without being noticed.

“You’re not going to be a real bodyguard, are you?”

“If you solve the psycho problem, it’s the same as providing security.”

Max agreed with a chuckle. However, it was necessary to doubt a little that this place was a school. There were more mercenaries with ferocious implants than students with youthful faces.

‘Leonard Walker?’

‘Did they even hire a professional fixer?’

More than Leonard and Max were surprised, the mercenaries who came earlier were also surprised. Leonard’s reputation was slightly higher than Leonard thought, so he immediately recognized any mercenary enough to be hired by a businessman. Leonard was flattered for a moment, but he did not forget his original mission.

“Where are you going?”

“That way. Is it like him?”

Those many mercenaries weren’t bodyguards for a potential psychotic student. It was just that psycho cyborgs appeared at school and were mercenaries recklessly hired by worried parents. There are only a few students with psycho chips, and only a few solvers know about them. Leonard compared the profile pictured with the target he saw in real time and then moved on.

“Miss Olivia?”

She was a 17-year-old female student with implants on most of her body except for her face. Like the daughter of a wealthy family, she was expensive in many ways.

“A bodyguard?”

“Not yet, but hopefully it won’t continue.”

“What is your answer?”

Leonard looked around. It was a student lounge decorated like a cafe, but it was quite crowded with a bodyguard coming in. Since the gaze is not focused on one place, it was better to have a secret conversation than a dark place.

“Aren’t you a friend of David, who died this time?”

“…okay.”

“I heard that friend traded some illegal chips…”

It may be the cause of your late night sleeplessness. Indeed, a sharp response came back.

“Are you interrogating me now?”

“No way. We’re not even public security agents.”

Student Olivia saw the other side to the plural of ‘we’. Max waved shyly. I expected to be able to get rid of the wariness with the cuteness of the younger.

“What is it, something like a dented bun?”

Max wasn’t angry. Because they don’t know what a bun is. Leonard swallowed a laugh through a clearing of his throat and continued.

“That thing is the cause of the psycho cyborg.”

“It can’t be! I said it was okay up to three times!”

He was a student who knew expensive buns but did not know the world. He meekly confessed to having a psycho chip.

“Where is there such a thing in unverified junk food? If you’re not lucky, it will explode in one shot.”

The facial skin was clearly living body skin. It seemed that he needed an implant as soon as the blood was draining.

“If the public security starts an investigation in earnest, it will be a headache in many ways. Your parents won’t like it either.”

“I-I don’t know that!”

“Don’t do that, listen carefully. Because I want to help him.”

At this point, you might have noticed that Leonard wasn’t a bodyguard, but as if he had a lot of heartache, he went straight over as he was induced.

“I already threw away that chip. I didn’t even want to have such an unpleasant thing in the first place.”

“Destroy evidence, clever. But the person who sold the chips remembers.”

“Well, the deal was made by David. I just added a little credit.”

“Then the credit record will remain intact. Do you want to be called into public security?”

“Nope! Then I can’t go to school because I’m embarrassed!”

It was not that she was afraid of punishment, but that she was afraid of her face, so she was indeed a rich girl.

“There is a fixer to avoid such an unfortunate incident.”

Student Olivia rolled her eyeballs left and right. Since the implant is high-end, the auditory module will be high-end as well. Words such as ‘Leonard Walker’, ‘Junk Town’, and ‘Fixer’ have already been received.

“How are you going to help?”

“It’s not that simple. You just have to shut up everyone who knows about it.”

“You mean kill?”

Student Olivia exclaimed in surprise. The gaze of the table next to us went this way. Leonard lowered his voice even further.

“That’s okay…but you can just erase the memory peacefully.”

“ah…”

Student Olivia made a sad face. Murderous perch is in better shape. He was a prospective entrepreneur with a promising future.

“Tell him who arranged the psycho chip. Including the time and place we met. Then I’ll clean it up for you today.”

Looking at the expression, it has already passed. Leonard got what he wanted and became a little more greedy.

“The cost is a lump sum.”

Since this request was not an official one, this amount of additional income was acceptable.