From Gotham to Night City, my infamy is known to all.

Her beautiful eyes narrowed, and her voice turned cold.

Lucy revealed her rebellious side, and her feigned weakness and pitifulness vanished.

Like a hedgehog with its whole body covered in sharp quills.

Her attitude and tone actually piqued Leo's interest.

The charm of a thorny rose lies at least half in its thorns; the real pleasure comes from the process of slowly softening and removing them one by one.

After eating too much soft food, it seems nice to eat something hard occasionally to chew on.

Leo carefully chose his words and chuckled, "Of course I can control you, because I'm the warden, and you're just a lowly prisoner I caught. Do you understand?"

Lucy understands, but she's not happy!

Regardless of whether she was happy or not, Li Ao made arrangements on his own:

“You are now a tainted witness under my protection, and I expect… no, I demand that you disclose all the information about Arasaka in detail. Considering that I am quite busy, you should communicate with Junpaku, who is the hacker currently monitoring you.”

"whispering sound…"

Lucy complained softly; this was her last act of defiance.

Just then, V, who had been quietly observing, suddenly interjected, "It's 7:30, you should go to school."

“That’s true…” Leo realized this as well. “Ah, this is troublesome. Anyway, let me arrange a place for you to stay first.”

He knew V wouldn't let Lucy stay in the house, so he turned his attention to other people.

Vera… the blonde mom is indeed the best choice; her maternal aura is a natural remedy for all kinds of children who lack love. The problem is, her little room has been turned into a weapons workshop and is uninhabitable.

Panan... well, that's fine too. She's straightforward and easy to get along with. But she's the newest member of the team and the weakest, so she doesn't seem very reliable.

Sasha…she volunteered to raise her hand!

"Let Lucy stay with me! My little room is still empty, it can fit one more person. Besides, I have a hacker base station there, and Lucy is a hacker too, so it's perfect for her!"

Leo hesitated, mainly because—he and Sasha had just gotten together, and with Lucy in the room, wouldn't she be a third wheel…

but,

This is indeed the most reasonable arrangement.

Let's be patient for now, and adjust slowly after we take Taipingzhou...

"Alright, here's a new task for you: keep an eye on Lucy and make sure she doesn't sneak off."

"Leave it to me! I'm a specialized hacker!"

Sasha looked at Lucy smugly, as if she had her cornered.

Lucy returned the gaze, and gradually discerned something from Sasha: "Cat Element, specialized hacker, are you an agent trained by Dangerous Girl?"

“He’s a detective! A detective with an anime/manga style!” Sasha retorted.

This is the tone set by Michiko Arakasaka, the founder of Dangerous Girls. Although Sasha has never met the founder in person, she still admires her.

Who wouldn't love a cute, cool, and powerful older sister!

Lucy didn't comment on her words, but she did become more wary of her. Hackers from that organization were all experts in infiltration and tracking.

It seems his days as a prisoner will continue for some time.

She decided to lie low for now, and wait for the other party to lower their guard and reveal a weakness before she seized the opportunity to escape!

V keenly sensed her intentions, but well... let her run away if she wants; she'd love to have one less person in the team.

Not only would it easily attract Arasaka's attention, but the things Leo said to her always felt a bit strange, like they weren't things he should say to a "prisoner".

Leo, oblivious to the undercurrents among the women, happily stood up:

"I'm going to change into my school uniform. V will take me. Sasha can accompany Lucy to her old place to move during the day since she's free. With Pure White keeping an eye on her, she won't be able to run away!"

Seeing that he was really about to leave, and using the absurd excuse of "going to school," Lucy quickly asked, "Wait a minute, can I still go out?"

As a prisoner, she was prepared to spend a long time in jail, but she didn't expect the management to be so lenient.

Leo walked upstairs without looking back: "Okay, but let me make this clear beforehand: if you try to escape and I catch you, you won't have this kind of freedom to move around freely anymore."

Lucy lowered her head, her eyes unfathomable.

Ten minutes later, Leo set off for Arakawa Academy.

After explaining to the AI ​​teacher why I suddenly took leave yesterday at noon, and chatting with David for a few more minutes, the lesson officially began.

At noon, he kept his promise and took David to a fancy barbecue restaurant not far from the school for a big meal.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, they chatted casually and soon the topic of the Mewtwo movie came up.

"Let me tell you, I recently rented an incredibly awesome Mewtwo cartridge from a prosthetic doctor I know well. It was made by a super famous Mewtwo editor named Jimmy Kurosaki."

Besides the usual action videos, he also has some really awesome cyberpunk videos, though I don't know if they're real or not…”

Leo paused slightly in his hand holding the cup, causing ripples to spread across the water: "You mean Blackie Dream, right?"

"Ah, uh, sort of, I guess. I heard it's not really legal."

"That's Black Sunshine Dream, or something about cyber lunatics..." Leo put down his water glass and looked at him seriously. "Go deep into the minds of lunatics and experience their madness. I advise you to stop doing such stupid things. Only bastards and lunatics like those kinds of movies."

David had only wanted to share what he found interesting, but instead he was scolded.

But somehow, this straightforward way of getting along made him feel that Leo was a friend worth getting to know better.

Leo was also satisfied with David's willingness to listen to advice. Soon, Arasaka Academy would be bombed to the ground, and then David could be recruited to Blue Dream Company for further training.

He's the male protagonist of Cyberpunk: The Edgewalker, no doubt an SSR card.

Chapter 343 Miss Lucy, Forced to Work...

After lunch, the two went for a stroll on Alexander Street in the city center.

It wasn't for shopping, but to get rid of the strong smell of barbecue on my clothes.

They returned to Arasaka Academy before 1 p.m. to begin their afternoon classes.

Another uneventful day passed by.

Leo felt his life was slipping away meaninglessly, which strengthened his resolve to bomb the school as soon as possible.

After school, David made a request to him—he wanted to take some pictures of the car from yesterday.

His words reminded Leo of Jack, who was also passionate about modifying cars, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Are you also interested in vehicles?"

David shook his head: "I'd say it's just so-so, but there are a few older hippies in our building who get together every day to play guitar and sing songs by the old Samurai Band."

"Oh, I see. You're a Johnny Silverhand fan, right?"

Leo's lips curled up slightly.

David nodded: "That's right, I get along with them pretty well. Yesterday when I went back, I casually mentioned the Samurai Band's itasha (decorated car), and I didn't expect them to be so interested. They asked me to take some pictures of them as a way of remembering them."

"Sure, no problem. You can borrow it... but you have to get a driver's license first. Driving without a license is not allowed."

Leo recalled David's appalling driving skills from the early days of the animation and immediately changed his tune, telling him not to ruin his limited-edition luxury car.

The two walked out of the school gate and came to the waiting area. Looking around, they did not see Leo's conspicuous black and yellow convertible Porsche 911.

"Maybe I changed cars today; I have quite a few cars."

Leo boasted for a moment, but quickly realized that wasn't the case—there were over twenty cars in total, and he didn't recognize a single one…

"Where's my car?" He scratched his face awkwardly. "It's probably stuck in traffic..."

David had nothing to do anyway, so he decided to wait with him.

The two waited for a full ten minutes, and just as Leo was about to send a text message to urge them on, the Samurai band's itasha finally appeared in the distance.

To Leo's surprise, this vehicle came from the northwest, not the usual south. Had it taken a long detour? Were the road conditions that bad today?

As the vehicle slowly approached, both men looked puzzled.

Leo's confusion lies in this: the driver isn't Sasha, nor is it V, but... Lucy!?

David's question was: the driver looked vaguely familiar, and he seemed to have seen that hooded sweatshirt somewhere before.

"I'm here—"

Leo, worried that Lucy had overshot the sign, waved and shouted.

Lucy glanced up at him, but the moment her gaze fell on the large company logo in front of Arasaka Academy, she quickly lowered her head as if she had been electrocuted, trying to hide her face as much as possible.

Soon, the itasha pulled up beside them, making a sharp, screeching sound.

The way he's slamming on the brakes... it's not his own car, so he can really go all out...

Leo muttered to himself, then stepped forward and knocked on the car door: "Lucy, get out first, my classmate wants to take some pictures of the car."

Lucy frowned and complained softly, "This is so troublesome... Please hurry up, I feel uncomfortable here."

To be honest, the company square was already a terrifying place for her, let alone the area in front of Arasaka Academy, which was full of Arasaka people...

She got out of the car, her back to the direction of Arasaka Academy, and tapped the ground with her toes, looking extremely impatient.

Leo didn't know what to say to her, so he turned to David and said, "Alright, go ahead and take the pictures. My new employee doesn't like Arasaka very much, so don't worry about her."

“Oh…V yo seven VIII peel the underworld and abandon it too oh.”

David responded blankly, the inexplicable doubt still swirling in his mind.

He took out his phone, found the right angle, and took several photos from the front, side, and overhead views, intending to take them back to the hippies.

Meanwhile, his gaze kept sweeping over Lucy's back, and he gradually remembered something.

"Ah...you, wait a minute, aren't you that subway pickpocket!?"

He finally recognized the criminal as Ming; 8 o'clock 9 IMII 6!

Lucy was stunned for a moment, and reflexively took off running. After a few steps, she suddenly realized that she was already "arrested" and there was no point in running anymore.

She walked back to the car dejectedly, looking at David with annoyance. She recognized him from his school uniform: "Oh, it's you, you worthless guy."

“Wh…what do you mean?” David didn’t understand why he would receive such an evaluation.

Lucy's annoyance turned into disdain: "Seeing you wearing the Arasaka Academy uniform, I thought your chip was worth a lot of money. Turns out it's such an old model, and you didn't extract any valuable information. You only sold it for 75 euros, tsk..."

Her disdain was conveyed simultaneously through her expression and voice, instantly making David blush.

"You thief, you dare to be so arrogant while stealing! I'm going to report you... Uh, Leo, what's going on?"

Halfway through his sentence, David suddenly realized something was amiss and looked at the person watching the commotion from the side.

Leo sighed and gently patted his shoulder: "What happened yesterday was Lucy's fault, but she's mine now. Anyway, I'll compensate you for the loss."

"Ah... well, no need, it's nothing really." David quickly waved his hand to refuse. They were good friends, and the big meal David had treated him to at noon today was actually worth more than the pocket money he had lost.

"Let's keep things separate. It feels weird to give you money directly. I'll give you something nice tomorrow as an apology."

Since he had already said that, David couldn't really refuse. He planned to wait until he had seen it before deciding. He would definitely refuse if it was a valuable item, but he would be very interested in seeing something like a Mewtwo cartridge that a rich person had kept privately.

After they reached an agreement, David took one last look at Lucy and waved goodbye.

After he left, Lucy quickly returned to the car and buried her face in her hands again.

Leo shook his head with a smile and sat in the passenger seat: "Look at you, so embarrassed, really... Sigh, let's go home."

Lucy started the car without saying a word and slammed on the gas pedal.

The Porsche 911 sped off and headed northwest.

"Hey, no, Heywood's in the south. Is the road closed or something?"

Lucy ignored his question until they drove out of the company square, then looked up and defiantly pulled down her hood: "I like to drive this way, is that not allowed?"

Leo was dazzled by her rainbow-colored hair flowing in the wind, and immediately swallowed back his doubts.

Oh well, it's not like we're short of gas money. As long as she's happy~

Seeing that he didn't object, Lucy immediately drove further away until she reached the outermost ring road of the city, where she turned left at the end of the road.

After turning the corner, she immediately turned her face to look in Leo's direction.

Leo initially thought she was looking at him and was about to return a smile when he realized that wasn't the case; her gaze wasn't focused on his face.

Following her gaze, Leo saw the Night City International Lunar Spaceport in the distance.

Perhaps they were lucky, as a spaceship was launching at that moment.

Leo's heart skipped a beat, and he joked, "Orbital Aerospace's lunar travel packages have been incredibly popular in recent years. Especially after they announced their collaboration with Crystal Palace, they even used the slogan 'Spend a wonderful vacation with the stars.'"