Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

I originally thought that once the indicator jumped to [Moderate Abnormal] that would be enough.

Xiangzi looked at the rows of indicators that kept jumping back and forth between [Moderate Abnormal] and [High Risk], and thought.

Li Xi yelled "Why!" and hit Xiangzi in the face again.

Blood and broken glass splattered.

If she were on the streets of La La Land, she would be detected immediately and the BCPD cyberpsycho alert would be sounded, announcing that there was a person who "just went crazy."

“(It really hurts to hit someone with this hand.)”

Xiangzi thought.

However, it's just a small error.

No impact.

Xiangzi took the beating quietly, looking at the direction indicator of RAS represented by Yi's eyes, and waiting.

Lixi rode on her, punching and roaring.

"Damn-damn!"

180-240 seconds left?

"Do you know how much the lamp values ​​you!"

Probably in this range.

"I never realized before that you were such a person!"

Judging from the voiceprint, the angle of RAS is pretty good.

"Do you still have any bottom line as a human being?!"

Next is waiting.

"You take away someone else casually - an important person - that's a lamp! Haven't you ever been with her, worked with her, and worked hard together with her? Haven't you also composed music, written lyrics, and performed with her?"

wait……

"How could the lamp trust someone like you! Trust someone like you who is so self-degrading and doesn't care about the lamp at all - trust someone like you who betrayed the lamp's trust!!!"

……a little.

Just slightly really.

I'm a little angry.

"Haha."

Xiangzi, who was pressed under Lixi, smiled.

She looked at Lixi with her bruised eyes.

"…You're doing so well?"

After being beaten, Xiangzi spoke for the first time.

Chapter 385: First time getting sick, no experience

Xiangzi was still able to laugh after being beaten for such a long time.

This unusual scene made Li Xi stop what he was doing.

You're doing so well?

Is there any need to ask?

Anyone can ask Lixi this question.

Only Xiangzi, who fired the gun and turned on the light, had no right to ask this question.

“…I can do much better than you.”

Li Xi's face darkened.

The violent look that only a cyber-psychopath could have appeared on her face again.

She raised her hand and was about to punch again—

however.

"Didn't you fail to protect the lamp?"

Under the body.

The devil whispers.

"I read the BCPD's investigation report." Xiangzi said slowly, "Deng is not involved in the situation because she is 'Teng Takamatsu', right?"

"Deng accidentally entered the forbidden underground floor during Poppin'Party's live show and was infected with the virus, which led to the subsequent events..."

"That live was attended by all the members of MyGO!!!!!"

"Shiina Tatsuki, you are the drummer of MyGO!!!!!"

"Of course, you're here too, right?"

"—"

Lixi told himself: Don't listen to this bastard.

She clamped her grip around Xiangzi's throat.

Without any effort.

However, she began to feel difficulty breathing, as if her throat was being strangled by an invisible hand.

Was she using too little force on her hands?

Even though Xiangzi's throat was grabbed, he was still able to speak.

"The report said that when the lamp was infected, it was a person."

Xiangzi said.

"A person entered a forbidden area on the Seven Bands' territory?"

"Where's the rest of your band?"

"What about you?"

"Why was Deng alone there at that time?"

"—"

Shut up.

Li Xi put strength into his wrist, trying to crush Xiangzi's throat.

But why——

Why, she can still speak?

"MyGO!!!!! It's very famous." Xiangzi said with a smile on his face, "I also saw your personnel composition."

"Miss, junior high school student, ordinary student..."

"…You are the only candidate member of the judiciary, right?"

“The other members of your band may not know what the underground of [the Seven Bands] is like.”

"Because they are just ordinary people, they don't have this kind of experience, nor do they have this kind of awareness."

"But how could you not know?"

"You are from the BCPD?"

"There you were, that day, wearing your certification as a [BCPD trainee police officer]."

"It's up to you to stop this from happening."

"Isn't it?"

Lixi was shaking more and more violently. Her pupils began to shrink.

"--My--my identity--" She squeezed out anger from the depths of her throat, "Identity--is not--everything--"

"But your identity determines other people's expectations of you."

Xiangzi said with a smile.

"—"

For a moment, Li Xi felt that he was not sitting on this damned, unforgivable enemy with whom he had once had a friendship.

She felt like she was sitting on the wet, muddy ground that was her nightmare every night.

"Deng must be thinking that since Li Xi is from the law enforcement agency, he must know about these things."

Xiangzi was still talking.

"The lamp has expectations for me. Doesn't she have any expectations for you?"

Xiangzi was still laughing.

But gradually, the smile could no longer hide the other emotions hidden behind her expression.

"Doesn't she trust you?"

"She believes that you can stop when it's dangerous, that you can guide in the right direction, that you know what to do and what not to do—"

"You really have no chance to save the light?"

“In those moments, you didn’t see the things you should have seen, you didn’t make the judgments you should have made.”

"You are the closest to her. But you have missed so much."

“So, this is what happened.”

The emotions behind the smile outweigh the smile itself.

Shoko talked without her Ave Mujica mask.

But now, at this moment, it seems that another "mask" has fallen off a little bit.

"You wouldn't be able to do as well as I do if you were in my position. Shiina Riki."

Xiangzi said with a mixture of laughter, calmness and madness.

"But if I were in your position, I would do better than you."

The next moment.

Li Xi let out a roar from deep in his chest.

……

[Gorilla Arm] lights up explosively, and all the pneumatic compression parts release energy in an instant. A huge amount of energy is injected and circulated in an instant -

boom!

The ground shook, and glass shards flew.

then.

There was silence for a second.

"……hehe."

Xiangzi smiled softly.

On her face, a drop of bright red blood slid down from the wound caused by the glass fragments and rubbed onto Li Xi's [gorilla arm] on the side of her face.

Lixi didn't hit Xiangzi on the head.

She staggered a little bit—less than a centimeter—

It hit the ground beside Xiangzi's ear.

Xiangzi's expression disappeared, and the "mask" was put on again. The faint smile returned to Xiangzi's face.

"You are really kind-hearted." Xiangzi smiled dangerously and said, "You are the kindest lunatic I have ever seen. Even after saying this, you don't even have the heart to hit me."