Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

So, how can we be happy?

As expected, it is...

"Thanks for your hard work--"

"You've worked hard, too."

After finishing the field work, Sanjiao Chuhua greeted the staff with a smile and got into the nanny car used for celebrities to rest.

The light changes from bright to dark.

Sitting on the soft leather seat of the spacious nanny car, Chu Hua breathed a sigh of relief.

"..."

She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket.

The agency's notice, email... feedback from the last job... the agent's itinerary...

No new To Do items.

The phone screen glowed in the dark.

Chuhua brushed them aimlessly.

Unconsciously, the fingers stopped.

【Toyokawa Shoko】.

The fingertips stopped at the call record of this ID.

Chuhua clicked it.

It contains textual records of the conversation contents.

【Congratulations on your debut. 】

【Thanks. 】

The last conversation displayed was more than a year ago.

But it had not been that long since Chuhua last saw Xiangzi.

With fingertips tapping on the interface, the call content was closed and entered into the call record list.

You can easily find another ID by just flipping it.

【Oblivionis】.

This was the ID Xiangzi used when he contacted Chuhua again three weeks ago.

"(Xiao Xiang.)"

How are you now?

After that sudden meeting.

Chuhua has been thinking about her all the time.

"Thank you~"

The door of the nanny car was pushed open again, and light poured into the car.

Mana Junda, the partner of the Hatsuka Sumimi group, also came in.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Chu Hua put away his phone and smiled.

"Yohoo~ I thought I was here earlier! Chuhua has already come back to rest!"

Mana came over to Chuhua and sat down.

"Yeah. I finished faster today."

Chu Hua said.

indeed.

Generally speaking, in addition to the two people of Sumimi, there will also be drivers, agents, makeup artists and others in the nanny car. Moreover, many of them will finish their work before the two artists. Therefore, every time Chuhua returned to the car, there were people in the car.

Today, it is rare that the filming work ended first.

Others were still packing up or communicating with the venue staff about the next arrangements.

"Today there are only two of us."

The door was half closed when Mana suddenly spoke.

Chu Hua was a little surprised that she suddenly brought up this matter, but he still nodded.

"Indeed, the others haven't arrived yet."

"Haha, sitting in the car like this reminds me of the past."

"When we first came to the City of Joy, we always lived in the car together like this, right?"

"..."

"Because at that time, we had nowhere else to go - but now it's different!"

"We actually made our debut successfully! Until now, I still feel it's unreal—"

"——It's like a dream to be able to live like that!"

……

Mana Junda is Hatsuka's partner.

She is the lead vocalist of Sumimi.

He is an emerging idol singer in the city of music.

But Chuhua knew her before she had these identities.

Mana Junda.

She was also once a child soldier on an island where she was born in Chuhua.

Unlike Hatsuka, whose parents were both "cyber pirates" and who had to accept the life of a child soldier since childhood, Mana came to the island when she was nine years old.

That year, when the ship Mana was on passed through the waters monitored by Hatsuka's organization, the crew had an internal conflict over issues of interest.

Guns and cannons roared, swords clashed.

The ship was not in the islanders' "fishing" plan. But there was no reason not to eat the delicious food that was delivered to their doorstep.

After receiving the radar signal and understanding the situation, the islanders immediately went out to sea and took control of the ship.

Many passengers and crew had been killed by then, and those who remained were just some thugs who were greedy for money.

The well-equipped islanders easily captured the ship and threw the thugs into the sea.

But they soon discovered that the thugs were not the only ones alive on the ship.

There was also a little girl who escaped the disaster by hiding under a bedside table in the crew quarters.

This little girl is Mana Junda.

Mana originally lived on another island, and this time she was coming to the City of Joy by boat. Both her parents died in this unexpected disaster, and now she has no one to rely on.

The islanders make a living by "fishing", but that doesn't mean they are demons.

In the cyber age, demons are those who do not kill.

The islanders brought Mana Junda back to the island and trained her to be a child soldier.

At first, Mana resisted. She couldn't accept it, didn't eat, and didn't talk.

But slowly, she began to understand her situation and finally became cooperative.

And so, a year later, Mana began to perform simple tasks as a child soldier.

Chu Hua, who was the same age as her, was already the best pirate on the island at this time.

Hatsuka often guides Mana. However, the two do not interact much during this period.

At most, they both liked singing. When the islanders held a bonfire party to celebrate their success, they would sing a song together.

After that, another four years passed.

Something big happened on the island.

Something happened on the island.

After walking in the gray area too many times, this "cyber pirate" base, which has experienced many dangers, finally met its demise.

Due to an oversight in intelligence reconnaissance, the islanders touched something that they shouldn't have touched.

They directly robbed the Xianjuan Group and took the goods that old man Xianjuan wanted.

A terrible punishment befell this island a few days later.

The terrorist mobile teams dropped precisely from the sky, one after another, as if there would never be an end. The assault troops rushed to the shore along the decks of amphibious ships, and every burst of bullets could take away a life.

The only ones who survived were Hatsuka and Mana.

That day, it was their turn to maintain the optical cables buried under the sea, and they escaped the disaster.

All are dead.

Chuhua does not blame the Genmaki Group, nor does he blame the Toyokawa family for providing positioning for the Genmaki Group.

Because this is the fate of pirates.

The adults around her have been telling her this since she was very young.

Doing this job will take the lives of others. Similarly, your own life will also be taken away suddenly one day.

You will rob others, and one day others will rob you as well.

Just like a wild dog preying on a hare, and then being preyed on by a tiger or leopard, just like a jackal preying on a spotted deer, and then being killed by the deer's antlers.

Those in high positions who are targeting you are the captured prey.

One day, something will take our lives.

Life and death rotate between every individual. This has been the law of the jungle since ancient times.

Now, the jungle is made of steel, but the principle has never changed.

So Chuhua does not hate, nor does he want revenge.

She knew that revenge was meaningless and would only result in unnecessary casualties.

She calmed down without even crying.

It’s more of a feeling of “this day has finally come”.

But Mana's ability to accept is not as strong as Chuhua's.

"I've had enough! Living this life where I don't know when I'm going to die - every time, every time!"

Mana cried.

Chu Hua couldn't do anything about it.

Chapter 300: Until Today ( Blades Plus)

After the island was bloodbathed, the "fishing" work could no longer continue.

In order to make ends meet, Hatsuka and Mana drove the boat they left behind and started trading between islands, transporting goods from one island to another day and night.

Having served as child soldiers for many years, they knew all the safe trade routes and knew the water conditions better than anyone else. It took them little effort to successfully adapt to the trade.

But there are not many small-volume freight jobs after all. It is difficult to support yourself.

Chuhua found an old model electric guitar in the pirates' warehouse and installed a cheap guitar skill chip. During the transportation, she and Mana would sing on the streets of various islands to earn a little extra income.

Because I don’t have money to buy vocal plug-ins, I just sing live.

But as the saying goes, what is truly valuable is not "excellence" but "scarcity".

There are too many singers who have undergone rapid vocal training. On the contrary, singing like this, which improves slowly on its own and does not rely on any plug-ins, has become more popular.