A huge lamp cast a blinding light straight at him.

He subconsciously raised his intact right hand to resist.

But I still couldn't help but let out an "ah" under this stimulation.

Waiting quietly in the small dark room, without the concept of time, and then suddenly blinded by spotlights, that fragile feeling hits from all directions.

"David Martinez, you have nowhere to go. What will I ask next and what will you answer?"

"Ah..." He opened his mouth blankly.

"State your crime in full."

"I……"

He couldn't see clearly what was in front of him, but he could feel two people sitting behind the table behind the light source that blinded him.

Subconsciously, he began to describe what happened to him.

Time went back to yesterday evening.

……

"Mrs. Martinez, we have received an itemized bill for system maintenance, and have sent the information to you as per the agreement. Maybe you have thought about it. If the payment cannot be paid in time, we have no choice but to expel David from school ..."

"If you want to continue the appliance contract, you need to pay a penalty of 500 Euros, plus late payment and late fees. If you continue to fail to pay, your appliance will be shut down..."

"Mrs. Martinez, it's time to pay the rent! What's going on? If this continues, I will not only change the locks, but also kick you out and let you sleep on the streets, do you hear me?"

While dragging his exhausted body and walking on the familiar yet unfamiliar streets of Santo Domingo, David had never felt as depressed as he was at this moment.

It's as if the body is dragging the soul.

The body is half dead, like a walking dead.

But the soul is half a beat behind the body, as if it will immediately lose touch when it encounters a dump truck.

After finally cheering up, no matter what else, I went to the academy to attend class first, but was beaten up by that guy named Katsuo Tanaka.

Said he was poor, a loner, a freak, and just messed up other people's trash.

None of this matters.

But he even said that his mother was "earning quick money" outside!

Even if David is a rock, he can't stand it anymore.

However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

Katsuo Tanaka seems to be preparing to take this opportunity to take revenge on him.

David has seen it on TV and in the ubiquitous advertisements on the street——

Kuaibi 400 power arm, and a matching kung fu chip.

There is no doubt that he was severely beaten.

Collapsing in the waste pile like a piece of garbage, he was beaten so that his own blood was all over his head, face, and body.

The joints are aching, the bones are creaking, and even the eyes used to see the road are spinning and blurred.

I haven't tasted such humiliation for a long time.

But the other party is the son of a member of the senior council of Arasaka Academy, and he can't beat him, and he can't fight against him, so what else can he use to fight against him?

No, don't make trouble——

I promised my mother.

Not long before the crash.

David rubbed his crooked nasal bone, and with the screams mixed with nosebleeds, tears and snot, he snapped it back.

Just like a defeated dog in the water, he licked his wound and moved little by little towards home.

No, that place can't even pay the rent, and maybe it won't be my home soon.

"The implant I showed you yesterday, you said it could sell for [-]?"

David got into the house in the same way and called the prosthetic doctor.

"Oh~ it's you kid, why, are you willing to come to me for business today?"

He showed a smile that he had already expected, "Buy it now, six thousand euros."

"Six thousand now?! Wait a minute, I only said [-] yesterday!"

David's voice suddenly raised a level, his eyes widened, he was shocked and angry, "We both know that the price of that item is definitely more than that! And I checked..."

"It's only six thousand. Do you want to sell it or not?"

"Yeah? Well, fuck you! Bitch!"

David kicked the trash off the ground with a kick, hung up the call of the prosthetic doctor again, then sat back on the sofa with gritted teeth and panting.

Grass!This mercenary bastard!He will take advantage of the fire and rob me when I need money!

David gritted his teeth with hatred.

What's going on these days?

It feels like the whole world is against me.

Damn!

"Drip-drip-drip-"

At this moment, the caller ID also popped up.

It was the same son of a bitch who let himself suffer so much humiliation, so high up that he wished he could gouge his eyes out.

Katsuo Tanaka.

"I'm Katsuo, I heard that your mother is lying unconscious in the ICU?"

"Oh~ I know I owe you my condolences, but I really can't sympathize."

"It's meaningless and ridiculous that she would break the law and commit crimes so that her precious son could afford to go to school, and it turned out to be an accident, don't you think?"

"Hehe...Everyone has their own path in life, and deviating from that path will not bring happiness. This is a lesson for your life. Your mother tried to live a value beyond her own destiny, and then To end up in this field..."

"roll--!!!"

David's body was shaking, his breathing was intermittent, and he kept shaking his legs.

He remembered being cornered, humiliated over and over again.

The muscles in the shoulders were tense, and the scalp was slightly numb. Although he had pretended not to care, he still felt a gaze staring at him all the time.

The sarcastic sarcasm and stares from other students in the class, and the discussions behind them.

Every time, I have to pretend to walk out of the resplendent Arasaka Academy with my head held high, and then return to the crowded apartment where I am considered an "inferior person" in the midst of laughter.

Something unknown rolled under his skin, burning, stinging at his dignity.

I picked up the worthless face again and again like my mother said, and put my dignity in my pocket with both hands, but why did you trample on me like this? !

why--? !

His eyes were completely red at some point, and he punched himself hard on the head.

"Bang! Zila... Kalala..."

With a muffled sound, his subcutaneous implant had been directly deformed and damaged by the blow, making a cry of electric leakage.

David's only remaining intact right hand was still near his temple at this time, and the finger was pierced by the deformed iron sheet.

Blood, running down his cheeks and fingers, slid down suddenly, and then dripped to the ground.

It hurts, it hurts too much.

But the physical pain is far less than the soul pain in his eyes.

He opened his mouth, moved his lips, and finally his eyes froze, then he rolled his eyes, and his body fell to the ground next to him.

"puff."

It was slapped firmly on the ground and fell into a coma.

He is too tired.

The physical and mental torture he endured in the past two days almost turned him, a heartless young man, into a walking corpse that lost his soul.

All kinds of fatigue swarmed over him, crushing his defenses.

In his drowsiness, he saw his mother in the car and everything he had said.

As long as you are poor, is everything worthless, should you be born to experience this?

【Prove it to them】

【Prove it to them】

【Prove it to them】

Work hard, become an elite, and climb to the top of Arasaka Tower.

Mom knows that you have such a talent, and you will definitely be able to do it.

Under the projection of the setting sun, the mother's tears stayed on that half of the side face, lingering in front of his eyes repeatedly.

endure, endure, suffer...

Year after year, day after day, I've had enough of all this poverty!

All the good things are always someone else's, even the sunshine.

I don't understand, why! ?

There is nothing left for them in this world, and people like Katsuo Tanaka let themselves not wishful thinking.

【Everyone has a predetermined destiny】

【Everyone has a predetermined destiny】

【Everyone has a predetermined destiny】

...I hate fate!

I hate! !

……

"What? Jobs? We don't have jobs for a boy like you."

A few tall mercenaries, holding their own eating guy, the three of them gathered together, looking down at the guy in front of them.

In order to make sure that he was not mistaken, he raised his sunglasses a little bit to see him clearly.

He was wearing ordinary sportswear, and his body bones looked very thin.

"Such a little hairy kid? Are you kidding me hahahaha..."

Another brawny man with a bare chest and only a bullet belt on his waist heard that he seemed to have heard something extremely funny, so he pressed his big gun on David's shoulder, making his body endure I couldn't help but took half a step back.

"If you look like this, I can hit ten with one hand. Don't make a fuss. Working is not a joke. Hurry up and go home to find your mother."

After finishing speaking, he walked forward without looking back, and the other two tall mercenaries also looked back at him a few times laughingly, and followed.

"Even if you want to find a job, you shouldn't be looking for us. We don't accept rookies."

The tall mercenary reminded David before leaving.

He pointed across the street.

"You've got to start with the easy stuff and go to them, not us."

David looked in the direction he was pointing.

I saw a group of street kids wandering outside the bar.

In such a place, one can always meet many people who gather here for various reasons.

If you need a suitable job, it's better to come here to try your luck than to go to the talent market that has never opened the door... right?

David turned his head again, but saw those mercenaries disappear.

He was left standing blankly on the side of the street.

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