Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

"Come on, let's start the game. You start, what's your name?"

Vito shoved the euro into the face of the first thug.

The thug kept wriggling on the ground, cursing under his breath.

"Oh, sorry, my mistake, I forgot a crucial step."

Vito pulled out his knife and stabbed the thug's pain modifier, destroying it with one blow.

"Now, are you ready to answer my question?"

The thug was writhing in pain, but he kept cursing, and his words were transmitted to Vito's ears through a translator.

"You despicable bastard, you'll be torn to pieces by the Tiger Claw Gang! Your family will be coming after you one by one, and they're all dead!"

Vito directly destroyed the thug's synthetic lungs; his face slowly turned red, then purple, and finally black.

Just as the thug was about to send it, Vito restored his synthetic lung to normal operation.

"You've been eliminated. Wait for the notification. Take it easy for now. I'll bash you a couple more times later and see if you can still spew nonsense."

Vito walked up to the next person and stabbed the pain modifier to pieces with the same move.

"What about you? Want to play a game with me?"

The thug was sweating profusely from the pain, but he still gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Long live Tiger Claw!"

Vito scanned the thug.

"Hey, no wonder you're so confident, you're not pretending to have synthetic lungs, are you?"

Vito drew a little alcohol 2 and injected it into the thug's vein, then gave him a shot of a powerful stimulant. The thug rolled on the ground in pain, screaming in agony.

Vito then walked up to the third thug, pointed at his eye with a euro, and asked.

"Thirdly, I've lost two games and I don't want to lose a third. What about you? Do you want to play this game with me?"

The thug swallowed hard. He often participated in kidnapping and torturing others, but he had never seen a ruthless person like Vito. In his eyes, Vito was a terrifying interrogation master.

"I do!"

He was different from those two hotheads; he often tormented others himself, so he knew best how painful it was.

"Great! What's your name?"

My name is Ueno Hajime.

"Oh? And it's a genuine Japanese product? What's your position in the Tiger Claw Gang?"

"I... I'm just a button man, an outsider."

boom!

The euro bullet pierced Ueno's calf.

"Sorry, I misfired and didn't hear you clearly. Please say it again."

Ueno yelled.

"Aaaaaah! I'm a full member! My superior is Sasaki Narusei! This time it's for real, I'm not lying!"

"Okay, okay, Ueno-kun, one point for you. Oh wait, Ueno-kun, you can turn on the pain modifier now. I'll take care of the first tough guy first."

Vito then blackened the synthetic lung of the first thug who had just recovered.

"Aaaaaah! I don't have the pain modifier!"

Vito was a little embarrassed. He plugged Ueno's bleeding wound and then continued to ask questions.

"Are you aware that the Tiger Claw Gang has been kidnapping people lately?"

Ueno nodded vigorously.

"I know! I know! We kidnap people every day, especially women!"

Vito continued to use euros to hold off Ueno.

"Why are you tying them up?"

"We forced some people to become sex dolls, extorted money from their families, and even kidnapped some to film Mewtwo!"

"Let's talk about Mewtwo."

"Someone in the group supplies the Mewtwo for the shoot; sometimes it's props, sometimes it's a female character."

"Remember the Mox gang?"

"I don't know, I really don't know! I'm in charge of tying up drug addicts on the street, and most of the gang members are armed, so I don't dare touch them!"

Vito removed the gun from Ueno's eyes.

"Ueno-kun, you've won the game! Let's move on to the next person."

Vito restarted the first person's synthetic lung again, and then walked to the last person.

"And you? What's your name? Want to play games?"

"I, I, my name is Mukai Sakura, I'm willing to cooperate with you."

Sakura Mukai was terrified and stammered as she spoke.

"Very good. Do you have anything to add to Ueno-kun's answer? Hurry up, my time for answering is limited."

"Yes! Yes! I know who wants the stuff to photograph Mewtwo. His name is Jotaro Seihō. I once gave him a modified Gunpla!"

Vito frowned when he heard the name Jotaro Seifu. This was the second time he had heard the name before. Previously, Vito had only focused on the main quest and did not know much about the side characters of the Tiger Claw Gang.

Has he contacted you about ordering goods recently?

"He contacted my superior, and I heard he's been looking for that madman lately, you know, that square-headed guy."

"Oh? Did he find it?"

"No, no one in the gang has ever seen Diamondhead alive. He seems to have lost patience. I heard that the higher-ups really like watching his Mewtwo. He can't possibly keep waiting to catch Diamondhead. He must have gone to film something else."

Vito asked a few more questions, and Sakura Mukai answered them truthfully.

"Mukai-chan got the highest score of the round! Let's give her a round of applause!"

Everyone else was tied up, and only Vito's lonely applause and the screams of Tiger Claw Gang's number two member echoed across the wasteland.

boom!

Vito shot the Tiger Claw Gang's number two in the head, blowing his screams to an abrupt halt.

"Aren't you just being disruptive by screaming in the background while we're celebrating?"

Vito returned to the car, put on his disguise, and then went back to the three of them.

"You, the legendary breath-holding king, what's your name?"

Tiger Claw Gang Leader No. 1 had been tortured to the point of losing his temper, and he forced out a sound from his throat.

"My name is Hirata Shin."

Vito untied the three men from their bonds.

"Right now, Mukai-chan is in first place, Ueno-kun is second, and Hirata is third. Hirata, you better do your best! Now we're going to play our second game, called 'Don't Laugh.' You wouldn't pass the second level either. Now, enjoy the game!"

After saying that, Vito deactivated his facial disguise, revealing the iconic Night City night view screen of the blocky-headed figure.

The three survivors were horrified; the mercenary in front of them was none other than the infamous Square Head.

"Run! I'll start shooting from third place. The one who survives will win the grand prize!"

The three turned and ran, and Vito hacked Hirata Shin's synthetic lungs again.

Hirata Shin collapsed to the ground, now regretting having the synthetic lung installed, and also regretting listening to the bullshit orders from above to come and make things unpleasant for Stings.

boom!

Vito fired a shot right in front of Ueno, who was running wildly, startling him and causing him to speed up.

boom!

This time, Vito stopped toying with him and instead blew his head off.

He shouted as he watched Sakura Mukai run out of his pistol's range.

"Congratulations, Mukai-chan! Your reward is 2,400 euros, I'll transfer it to you right now!"

The Sany heavy machine gun on the vehicle popped out, and Vito, who had remotely connected the machine gun, aimed at Mukai Sakura and fired a short burst of ten rounds.

Sakura Mukai was smashed into a cloud of blood mist.