Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

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So Mu nodded slowly.

She picked up her schoolbag and left the room.

Click.

She closed the door.

Chapter 31: Playing Cards? (Additional chapters for rewards)

The lights in the room became dimmer than before.

Now, there are only two people left here.

Su Shihe, Xiangzi.

"Please sit down." Su Shi said.

"..."

Xiangzi walked over.

She did not sit on a sofa farther away like Mu, but sat on a sofa that was only separated from Su Shi by a low coffee table.

The distance between the two became very close.

Probably the most recent one since that unpleasant separation in the park.

Su Shi looked at Xiangzi for a while before he sat down.

Xiangzi also looked at her.

She suddenly laughed.

"Xiao Xiang, you really came." Su Shi played with her fingers and said, "I thought of it...but I didn't expect it."

"When I thought our relationship was okay, I kept looking for you, trying to communicate with you and asking for your opinion...but you didn't even bother to give me a positive response."

"But now."

Su Shi said.

"Our friendship has completely come to an end. After I used my personal connections, money, and even coercive means on the people around you..."

"You are looking at me so clearly."

"..."

In response to Su Shi's words, Xiangzi simply raised his eyebrows slightly.

Su Shi stroked the edge of her rounded nails and continued:

"Xiao Xiang's last name is [Fengchuan], right?"

"..."

Xiangzi did not answer this question.

So, Su Shi changed the subject.

"Xiao Xiang." She smiled and asked, "Do you play poker?"

"..."

Xiangzi neither nodded nor shook his head.

So, Su Shi opened his schoolbag.

She pulled out a deck of cards.

“I haven’t touched paper poker in a long time.”

Su Shi said with a smile.

"However, it has become popular among the young ladies of Tsuki no Mori recently - although I don't fight against it -"

"...Texas Hold'em, neurasthenia, blackjack..."

Su Shi said, opening the card box.

She turned the card box upside down.

Shala la la la la.

About a few dozen thin magnetic disks fell out of the card box and scattered on the table.

Xiangzi picked up one with his hand.

Black shell with metal adapter for brain-computer socket.

These are audio and video chips.

Unlike Super Dream tapes, which record information on multiple tracks, this type of audio and video chip usually only records images and sounds.

...Generally speaking, it is used to record business intelligence.

"What you play costs much more than poker," Xiangzi said calmly.

These audio and video chips were probably obtained by hiring specialized mercenaries, brokers, and hackers in underground bars or the dark web.

even……

Xiangzi saw a small police recorder in the audio and video chip.

"Xiao Xiang cares about this?"

Noticing Xiangzi's gaze, Su Shi picked up the police recorder.

She pressed the play button.

……rustle……

There was a noise coming from the recorder.

Then, there were the voices of the rock youths who were handcuffed by the police, which Xiangzi had heard outside the RiNG venue that exploded that day.

"—he—he hired us—and after that, we started hearing—voices—"

Click.

Su Shi pressed pause.

The sound of the police recorder stopped.

"How much did you pay to buy this from the obsessed BCPD officer?" Xiangzi asked.

"Seven hundred thousand." Su Shi said, "It's cheaper than I thought."

"It's been a while since we last met. Your curiosity has become stronger." Xiangzi said, "If I hadn't known that you were a student of Yue Minomori, I would have thought that you were going to set up your own business and become a middleman."

She looked at Su Shi.

"But you are not a middleman, and neither am I." Xiangzi said, "But you look like you want to make a deal with me."

"..."

Su Shi looked at Xiangzi.

"Phase 2 of Michelle Park, which started construction a few years ago, will be transformed into Phase 2 of the reclaimed land." Su Shi suddenly said.

"..."

Xiangzi was silent.

But Su Shi seemed to have obtained some definite answer.

"The iris recognition lie detector test shows that you have known about this for a long time." Su Shi said, "You really did know about it."

Xiangzi looked at Sushi.

"Xiao Xiang, I want to know what the Toyokawa family is doing." Su Shi continued.

This is quite different from what she wanted to know last time.

Xiangzi thought.

but.

One thing has not changed.

She always asked questions that were difficult for Xiangzi to answer.

"Why do you want to know this?" Xiangzi asked.

"Xiao Xiang, are you asking even though you already know the answer?" Su Shi said.

"It's impossible for me to know everything in this world," said Xiangzi.

"…Because Toyokawa is related to the RiNG bombing."

Su Shi said.

"That's it."

Xiangzi still had the same expression as before.

"..."

"The iris polygraph shows that I don't know about this, right?" Xiangzi smiled.

"...your [calmness] has increased again." Su Shi said.

"Maybe." Xiangzi said.

"..."

Su Shi no longer maintained that gentle smile.

She looked at Xiangzi.

"To be honest," she said to Xiangzi, "Xiao Xiang, you know what? I don't want to see you at all."

"..."

Xiangzi was silent.

Su Shi continued to speak alone.

"Just thinking about meeting you makes me feel really disgusted."

"The things you said to everyone when you disbanded crychic, the things you said to me in the park."

"Think of this."

"Very annoying."

she says.

"I can't control myself, I can't bear it. You've torn apart the most important thing in my life, over and over again. Just sitting side by side like this, it's hard for me to accept it—"

She looked at Xiangzi.

The corners of his eyes wrinkled slightly in anger.

"I will never forget what you said."

"If you want to disband crychic. Also, if you reject my words."

"I always remember things from the past very clearly."

"My personality is not that good. After someone said something like that, I couldn't just laugh it off and forget about it."

Su Shi looked at Xiangzi.

"——Now, only you can answer my questions."

“For this reason alone, I am here.”

She asked the question again:

"What are the Toyokawa family doing?"

This can't even be said to be a difficult question for Xiangzi to answer.