Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

"(Mu, you...)"

"(Sometimes, it's really high and mighty.)"

Xiangzi turned around and left.

……

Mu searched for her whereabouts in the bar street, Xiangzi could not stay there any longer, so she left the bar street and went to the nearby streets.

These places do not have dense intelligence exchange centers like bar streets, but they also have some scattered traders.

Xiangzi plans to find a trading partner here.

...As you can imagine, this process was not smooth.

There are simply no credible trade candidates.

After just contacting a few people, Xiangzi realized that the traders who did not settle in Bar Street were those who "made a quick buck and ran away", "monopolized a piece of territory", and "robbed robbers".

They are more insidious, cunning and capricious.

Unable to find a suitable candidate, Xiangzi could only keep moving forward. She walked westward, passing through alley after alley.

Still, I couldn't find a chance to escape.

The sky was getting darker and darker, street lights were turned on on the roadside, and the neon lights reflected brightly on the clouds.

“…It’s going to rain.”

Xiangzi looked at the cumulus clouds in the sky.

"(At least find a place to stay first.)"

Xiangzi hurried through the alley in front of him.

Before she knew it, she had come to a place very close to the edge of the rich area. Standing on the roadside, she could see the towering cranes in the industrial area bordering the rich area from afar. There were not many people around, and not far away, rows of containers were stacked.

"……what."

This scene is a bit nostalgic.

Xiangzi walked to a place she knew.

This road passes by the Moon Forest and the Music Complex Building. In the past, the cars that picked up crychic members often took this road to go to the rehearsal room.

Unwanted memories began to resurface. Xiangzi quickened his pace.

“(Let’s go to the container to take shelter from the rain.)”

Xiangzi looked around and crossed the wide road.

Behind me, vehicles were passing by at high speed, making a buzzing noise.

"(Let me see if there are any unlocked containers...)"

Xiangzi began to look for a place to stay.

"(No. We need to go a little further inside...)"

hum.

Hey.

There was the sound of vehicles driving behind me, some fast, some slow.

There’s more…

very slow.

buzzing.

A car veered off the road.

It stopped behind Xiangzi.

"..."

Xiangzi turned around.

The door opened.

She saw the vicious members of the Kidney Slasher gang getting out of the modified SUV with baseball bats, assault rifles and double-barreled shotguns.

Chapter 17 Broken Persistence

The first drop of rain fell in the dark night. Then, the rain poured down.

In the corner of the container cluster, a predictable atrocity was taking place.

boom.

Xiangzi curled up in the gap between the container boards, and fists, carbon fiber baseball bats and rain hit her body.

"——!——!"

The kidney-cutters roared in the rain, swearing at all kinds of vulgar words.

The rain slid down Xiangzi's body and fell to the ground, taking on the red color of blood.

Ah...ah.

The pain was inflicted too much. Xiangzi felt that he could no longer feel the pain.

The body is light and airy.

The sound, temperature, humidity, everything seemed to be covered with a layer of frosted glass, unreal.

Noisy sounds surround.

In a trance, Xiangzi's thoughts began to wander.

Miscalculated.

The boundary between two territories is very dangerous.

I didn't even notice that I had walked into such a place.

what are you doing?

Too big.

Escape from the Kidney Shredder, reach the garbage dump, and then go to Roselia's jurisdiction.

I didn't see any pursuers and gradually became careless.

I always feel that I can make it in time, I can make it in time. I can do it alone.

——How can this be possible?

The leather shoe kicked Xiangzi in the abdomen.

She was kicked out and coughed in the rain on the ground.

"(We should look for Chuhua.)"

When I was at the garbage dump, when I was cheated by Miao Meng, when I couldn’t find a place to sell on the bar street.

If I had realized that I was at my wit's end at those times and asked Chuhua for help, things wouldn't have turned out like this.

"(We should find someone who is harmonious.)"

Mu came to find me.

After the incident, I have always refused to contact Mu.

Because, Mu will never lie.

Mu's brain-computer interface was implanted with Ruoye's high-precision positioning software. All her travel control software, including auditory assistance and visual assistance, had monitoring backdoor codes.

She is, literally, a "doll".

From head to toe, she was completely controlled by the Ruoye family.

Telling Mu would be equivalent to telling the Ruoye family.

Wakaba and Toyokawa's "private relationship", those things that should not be seen in public, were all based on blood.

Wakaba must also obey Fengchuan.

If people knew that Wakaba's heir was in contact with Toyokawa's abandoned child... If people knew that "Mu" was in contact with "Shoko", perhaps the entire Wakaba family would be considered untrustworthy.

That's not something that can be solved by the death of one or two people.

It's very dangerous to involve Mu.

After the incident, I met with Mu specifically and told her about it.

But unexpectedly, she still came.

"(Because Su Shi asked me to do that?)"

Sushi's mother is a high-ranking official in Fengchuan. Mu, you haven't forgotten it, have you?

If she can't do it, there's nothing else to do...

"..."

...But, so what?

Even if there are these reasons, so what?

Why didn’t I go up to ask for help when I saw Mu on Bar Street?

boom.

Someone picked himself up and threw him out.

Xiangzi was thrown far away again and crashed into the cold mud and water.

Do I have the energy to care about others now?

Care about Chuhua, care about Mu, care about the Ruoye family.

Shouldn't we take care of ourselves first?

What can be more important than life?

You are going to die.

Begging them, so what?

Can you protect anyone now?

"(……No.)"

In his hazy consciousness, Xiangzi said to himself.

"(Stop saying such self-deceiving things.)"

Don't make things difficult for Chuhua.

Protect Muhe and the Wakaba family.

That kind of saintly reason isn't even on your mind.

You just don't want them to see you in such a miserable state.

I don't want to see the way they look at you now.

Accept the help, then what?

Lose your identity, be worried about them, be watched with cautious eyes. Accept their kindness, hide in a small house, take the money they give, and let them pay a huge price to turn you from a waste into a slightly better waste. No identity, can't go out, can't be found, can't do anything, escape to a distant city, rely on cheap excitement and entertainment to spend your life, just like your father who can only rely on you -

You just don’t want to live that kind of life!

——But have you ever thought about the life you have now?

Toyokawa Shoko.

Is it better now?

Being chased like a dog. Falling to the ground and being beaten?

After being thrown against the container, Xiangzi opened his eyes with difficulty.