Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Oops.

She immediately turned her gaze back.

Meeting Xiangzi's golden eyes.

Xiangzi smiled.

"Just now, when you first saw it, your reaction was to look away."

Xiangzi said.

Chapter 4 Chatting with an Old Friend (7k Blade Extra)

Look away?

It is impossible for me to look away while facing the enemy.

Not to mention seeing acquaintances.

I didn't react like that.

Lixi was very, very sure.

The other party is just interfering.

“(That’s right.)”

Even if this is Xiangzi, what does it matter if he appears here?

It is not uncommon for a colleague of Hanasakigawa's in the BCPD to suddenly become a mercenary, vagrant, band gang, or armed group one day and come into conflict with his former acquaintances.

"(……)"

If you are surprised, sad, and overreact to every little thing, you can't survive in the City of Joy.

“(I have to keep my pace.)”

Li Xi thought.

……

"……haven't seen you for a long time."

Li Xi stared at Xiangzi.

"It's been more than a year since Crychic disbanded." Li Xi said, "I didn't expect to meet you in a place like this."

Xiangzi raised his eyebrows.

"Starting from that long ago?"

Xiangzi said in surprise.

She showed an expression of obvious surprise.

"..."

Li Xi noticed that his right hand, which was placed on the hacker's workbench, was shaking.

When did you start shaking?

Li Xi held his right hand with his left hand to suppress it.

“I didn’t expect that you would start working for the band gang,” Lixi said.

“Being a refugee and then being recruited?” she said. “I don’t know what you’ve been through. I’m sorry you’ve taken this path. However, your crime of attacking the BCPD’s underground storage facility will not change.”

"[BCPD Article 375: Personnel who attack BCPD restricted facilities must be detained and handed over to justice. If necessary, compulsory measures may be taken.]"

"Who assigned you here?" Li Xi asked.

“……” Xiangzi just raised his eyebrows and looked at Lixi.

That sight made Li Xi feel unhappy from the bottom of his heart.

But she restrained herself.

"You don't want to talk. It doesn't matter." Li Xi took a deep breath, left the hacker workbench, and said, "I will detain you here. When the situation is over, the BCPD handlers will come to take you away and conduct a formal interrogation and Mewtwo ingestion on you."

An intuition told Lixi that she couldn't stay here any longer.

If she stayed any longer, the meaning of her leaving the main city, her former companions, and everything in the past would just disappear.

"Are you leaving?"

Xiangzi asked, on the other side of the explosion-proof glass.

"I am so glad I stayed here," she added. "I thought you wanted to catch me yourself. If I had known, I would have run away too."

"……what?"

Lixi didn't know what Xiangzi was talking about. She stopped.

"Aren't you looking for me?" Xiangzi continued.

"I'm sorry. I thought you were definitely looking for me," Xiangzi said. "When I first found out, I was very uneasy because you seemed to be taking this matter very seriously. I thought you would catch me sooner or later."

"You looked really scary in those videos. When I first saw you were the one chasing me today, I almost thought I was going to be killed." Xiangzi said, "But it seems that you are at least keeping your sanity now."

"That's good. I think that now that you've been caught, we should talk it out and you can let it go." Xiangzi said, "If we miss each other now, I'm afraid we'll meet when you're in greater danger - after all, BCPD will also assign tasks to police officers suffering from [cyberpsychosis]. You look like you'll really come to me at that time, so I thought that if I get caught, I'll just get caught and stay..."

image?

reason?

Let's talk it out?

Cyberpsychosis?

Lixi could understand every short sentence Xiangzi said.

But when they were put together, Lixi just didn't know what she was talking about.

"...What are you talking about?" Li Xi asked slowly, "Do you think I'm looking for you? Why?"

"Because I read your records." Xiangzi said, "You were the one who used the BCPD police super dream camera to search in the underground sewer for a long time. Wasn't it you? I checked the contents of that super dream camera. There were pictures of the police badges with the words [Shiina] and [SHIINA] on them."

"..."

BCPD's police super dream camera has leaked to a strange place again.

It just happens to be the one I need.

Li Xi sighed in annoyance because of this matter.

...But this does not solve Lixi's doubts about this conversation.

"I'm not looking for you." Lixi said, "I'm looking for the light."

"Looking for a light?"

Xiangzi's eyebrows raised again.

"Why?" she asked.

"…The lights disappeared in [Phase 2 of Reclamation New Land]. It happened during the lockdown." Li Xi said, "It was reported on the news. However, if you came to [Phase 2 of Reclamation New Land] very early and there was no internet, you might not know—"

Lixi realized that she had talked too much with this criminal.

She turned around and walked out again.

However, Xiangzi's even more surprised voice came from behind.

"How can you say such a thing?"

After the shock, Xiangzi began to talk to himself behind Lixi's back.

"So you didn't see me that day?"

"But, shouldn't it?"

"Your Super Dream Recorder captured some brain waves related to special geographical locations, so I thought you must have recognized the situation on that day yourself."

"But...wait, no wonder..."

"What do you mean by Crychic disbanding? I thought it was weird when we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"It wasn't that long ago when we last met."

"No wonder, no wonder."

"No wonder you don't know why I feel like 'you're looking for me'."

"I see."

"You avoided this matter."

"BCPD's treatment? Or your own practice?"

"Oh no. If I had known, I wouldn't have stayed... I was arrested for nothing."

Li Xi felt his blood running cold.

Deep in my head, there was a buzzing sound.

Some long-ago fragments that she wanted to forget began to take shape in Lixi's mind.

They can no longer be ignored.

They fit into each other.

That day.

That dark underground sewer.

melee.

More melee.

The rush of water as it rushed up the stairs from below.

Through the scattered water and chaotic battlefield, I saw the lamp being held in the hand of a mobile exoskeleton.

Shout the name of the lamp yourself.

At the end of the aisle, someone called out another name: Oblivionis.

The light seemed to be turning back.

Li Xi heard a voice yelling at the lamp:

"Come here! Are you going to die?"

Even in the noisy environment, the voice sounded so familiar.

The voiceprint on Lixi's sound pressure scanner showed the name "Toyokawa Shoko".

Feeling threatened, Deng did not look at Lixi who had been calling her.

She looked straight ahead of her.

There, a young woman in a red and black dress stood there. In her hand, she held a gun.

"On the day when [Phase 2 of Reclamation Land] was blocked, you and several members of the MyGO!!!!! band were in the underground waterway near the aquarium in the [residential area], right?"

On the other side of the explosion-proof glass, Xiangzi said lightly.

“That day was a disaster.”

"It was said that someone got a serious virus at the Poppin' Party concert. It was constantly being fought over by [Seven Bands], and the Toyokawa family came as well," Shoko said, "My situation hasn't been good these days either. I was kicked out of the Toyokawa family. Family feuds are common. Suyo knows, and she may have told you."

"I thought about helping the Seven Bands to win something, get some benefits, and make my life better. Unexpectedly, I still didn't win... As expected, it's not that easy to win."

“It was only after I went in that I realized that the person was the lamp.”

"I totally understand how you feel."

"I'm really sorry."

"If possible, I don't want to kill people I used to know."

"However, for people like us who live in the City of Joy, sometimes we just can't worry about so many things other than ourselves, right?"

Xiangzi spoke slowly.