How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

113. Others

Leonard turned off the engine and let out a small sigh. I scanned my surroundings three times to make sure it was safe, so it wasn’t because of the danger.

It is common for results to come out differently than intended, but it was difficult to get used to the emotions you feel when you are the subject of the result.

“I don’t know if I get a lot of credits.”

It was all the more so because it was a penniless service that started as if to pay back the debt. It feels like only suffering and noticing. Still, I couldn’t quit now, so I took a deep breath and got out of the blue rain.

It was late at night when the sun was setting, but it was lively like a white town with good security. It was natural to see the couple walking arm in arm and the father and daughter holding hands side by side while shopping. Even at the end of the century when old traditions disappeared and a significant part of the body was replaced by machines, there were things that did not change.

“That’s a real family.”

Leonard clicked his tongue and turned his gaze to the luxury villas on 3rd-7th Streets. Last time, I hacked through the security, but this time I didn’t have to. I approached the guard android and proudly revealed my purpose.

“I’m here to see Mr. Jamie Bolt.”

The android’s mechanical eyes blinked rapidly.

“Visitor ‘fixer.’ Reservation from 19:00 to 21:00. Confirmed.”

It was a fun woman to send a hitman and schedule a visit. Should I say the liver is big? Seeing an unauthorized intrusion the other day, he might have thought that facility security couldn’t stop it.

Leonard climbed into the automatically summoned elevator and put the brought case on the floor. I would like to resolve it through dialogue as much as possible, but it won’t be easy. I checked the revolver and knife in the shoulder holster in turn, activated the Hexagon hacking module, and picked up the case again. We arrived on the 29th floor just in time. The AI guide greeted me in a soothing voice.

-Have a good day.

“I hope so.”

As if the lobby had contacted me in advance, the front door was wide open. Leonard strode in without showing hesitation. Then came the expected response. Clap-!

“Your guts aren’t normal.”

The other day, there was Jamie Bolt on the sofa in the living room opposite each other. But he wasn’t alone. Two classic bodyguards in sunglasses stood in the back, three mercenaries armed with submachine guns lurked in the kitchen, and an obnoxious captain with a pistol to Leonard’s temple.

“I just came to finish the request. I’ve never lost an enemy, so there’s nothing like this, right?”

“After killing three of my men?”

“Why are you acting like an amateur? That’s our job.”

“Don’t treat a young hyena like you as one of the same kind.”

When a third person sees it, it is there, but there was a difference between freelancers and corporations. There was no mutual good feelings as much as the work overlapped.

“Where is the King?”

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Jamie Bolt intervened in the brawl. Leonard pushed the muzzle with his finger and entered the living room. The glare shot from all directions stung me. Still, it was a sting that I could endure until I pulled the trigger.

“Hmmm.”

Leonard sat down where he had sat the other day and crossed his legs. It seems that the liver protruded from the side of the solver.

“First of all, I apologize. The client says he doesn’t want to meet you.”

“So did you just come?”

“Because the one who hired me is King. You should do as the person giving the credits says. What can I do?”

Actually, I didn’t get a penny of credit, but it was annoying to explain, so I skipped it. Jamie Bolt’s fine implants were crumpled.

“Then I order it. get the king No, you just need to tell me where King is.”

They say it’s family and mother, but he didn’t even hide his true colors anymore.

“That is troublesome.”

“why? Because they are friends?”

“By the way, there is such a thing as commercial morality.”

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Jamie Bolt laughed when Leonard politely declined.

“I’m just a scavenger. A parasite without citizenship. Besides, are you a mutant? Aren’t you feeling bad? Isn’t it terrible that non-humans talk and act like humans?”

Leonard was silent. It was because of sympathy, not sympathy.

Leonard was also born as an illegitimate child and disabled in a pure-blooded underground city, and was looked down upon. Despite wearing high-end implants and receiving a decent education, he couldn’t stand it on his own and fled under the pretext of war. But King was worse than that. Even the sewers of Junk Town did not provide shelter.

When Leonard kept his mouth shut, Jemji Bolt misunderstood.

“I don’t know how much King promised, but I give him twice that and an extra 20,000 credits. Isn’t that enough for the ransom of one mutant test subject?”

“The mutant ransom is enough.”

Leonard replied quietly. Jamie Bolt’s expression brightened. However, people had to listen to the end.

“However, the alimony of my convictions and friends is not enough.”

Still, the reaction was good because they are writers who eat bullet food. The bodyguard behind Jamie Bolt pulled a handgun from within. However, it has already been 3 minutes since I met the former Hexagon. It was enough time to manipulate the code of the brain chip one by one. As Leonard’s pupils shifted, blood spurted out of his seven holes. It was directed like a classic cartoon, but seeing it in real life was devastating.

“Kill!”

There were still four armed mercenaries left. Instead of drawing his gun or attempting further hacking, Leonard tossed the case he had been fiddling with into the kitchen. The mercenaries with a lot of real-life experience were frightened and avoided their bodies. It seems that the big and heavy thing was thought to be a bomb. About half right. A bomb is a bomb, but it was a bio-bomb.

Take-!

squeak-!

The case opened in the air and black things poured out. It was the most familiar beast in Junk Town. Even if you have never seen the real thing, it was a beast that was so famous that you could know it at a glance.

“mouse?!”

After throwing a hundred rats, Leonard slid under the sofa and took cover behind a table. The mercenary commander behind Leonard pulled the trigger, but it was one beat too late. The sofa oozes out, and leather and sponge protrude, but there is no blood or pieces of implants. The counterattack came quickly.

bang-! thump-!

Sparks erupted from under the wooden table. The mercenary commander guarded with his thick left arm, but it was a little weak to parry the 45-caliber armor-piercing bullets. The metal casing fell off in one blow and the skeleton was broken. Since the head didn’t fly, it was worth the price, but it was difficult to leave a review right now.

“Protect your employer!”

It wasn’t easy. The mercenaries waiting in the kitchen had to fight an unexpected enemy. It was a hundred rats that crawled up on two legs and bit here and there.

“This, these rats!”

“Keah-!”

It was an enemy that could not be subdued with guns. I squeezed it with my hand and burst it, and I crushed it with my foot, but there were too many of them. It crawled up to my face, picked up the lens, and bit the nape of my neck, so I couldn’t ignore it. Physiological aversion also played a big part.

“It’s a crazy rat!”

One mercenary abandoned his gun and rolled on the floor. It’s ugly, but the effect was good. A rat weighed down by its weight. Boom! pop! burst out And the mercenary’s head also exploded. bang-!

Leonard jumped up, knocking the table over and blowing the defenseless mercenary’s head off with his revolver ‘Army’.

The mercenary commander fired again after replacing the magazine, but it was blocked by the wooden table and had no effect. Even Leonard couldn’t shoot, but he didn’t have to fight only with a gun. I flung myself across the table.

The moment the wood cracked by the gunfire broke, a sharp jab flew like an awl. The mercenary commander reflexively lowered his head to avoid it, but a follow-up hit awaited. The short upper hit the nose bone as it was.

“Keugh…!”

Even with the development of the brain chip, the basic central nervous system was the brain. In an instant, my eyes would have gone black. Leonard stepped left and right and fired a series of hits. It seems like it would be faster to shoot, but it didn’t make much of a difference. He turned his chin with a one-two and hit the top of his head with an elbow, and he was immediately knocked down.

“stop! Please stop it!”

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Jamie Bolt bangs the sound! shouted I had no reason to follow him, but the timing was wonderful. Of course, the captain fainted, and even the mercenary struggling in the kitchen stopped moving. To be precise, the rats that had been harassing them stopped.

“Is the child here?”

Leonard glanced at the mercenaries sitting on the floor. I don’t know what it would be like if I came to my senses, but I didn’t seem to have the will to fight right now. But just in case, I uploaded a hacking program.

“Because it’s true that you took care of King.”

A mouse climbed onto the sofa and stood upright. Jamie Bolt was taken aback, then realized he was King’s alter ego.

“My research was successful.”

It was not good as the first ambassador we met in nearly 10 years. Leonard gave King a chance, a mutant friend with a gloomy expression on his face.

“Did you love King?”

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Jamie Bolt looked up at the fixer who messed up the house.

“Have you ever had a dog?”

Leonard’s brow furrowed. For some reason, nothing good seemed to come out.

“Even if I have a dog, I feed it, put it to sleep, and love it. But out of necessity, for a better life, you have to train hard.”

“King is a man. Not dogs or horses.”

“Do you really think a mutant abandoned in the gutter can live like a human?”

“It is love that believes so.”

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Jamie Bolt did not respond. Leonard pulled the cock of his revolver and aimed it at Jamie Bolt’s head. The mercenaries flinched in the kitchen, but did not rush into it. They were smart friends. It was unwise to go against the brain-chip hackers and the rat-mongering mutant gang.

“King, speak. Do you want to kill this woman?”

It was good to set the mood, but the rat couldn’t speak. Leonard realized that fact belatedly and was ashamed.

“There is no need for that.”

Fortunately, death was avoided. King’s body appeared in the hallway.

He was so tall that his head seemed to touch the ceiling, and his shoulders were so wide that the walls seemed narrow. It was all the more so because Max, who is smaller than his peers, was with him. Leonard gave way to King and asked Max softly.

‘How did you come?’

‘It’s a free pass because you name that woman? The number of visitors doesn’t seem to be in the reservation.’

I thought it wouldn’t be good for King to come upstairs himself, so I put it downstairs, but it ended up leaving the cat with the mouse. Max, a curious kitten, began to watch with excitement. If he had been a millionaire, he would have brought popcorn and ate it. However, the parties were serious and sincere.

“You’ve grown a lot.”

“Because it’s already been 10 years.”

King’s voice was polite and serious as usual. In other words, I was treating them as strangers, not as family.

“Let me tell you what you want first. Your research is a failure.”

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Jamie Bolt’s expression turned fierce.

“It can’t be! then what is that? What are those mice?”

“What you are trying to develop is a bioroid that moves with the collective consciousness. it is impossible. My powers are not due to neural action, but to mutated hormonal effects. It will not work unless the living tissue is maintained as it is.”

“You don’t know that. Endocrine organs can also be cloned, so if transplanted into an implant…”

“I have already tried it. Do you think I would never have considered implants in 10 years?”

Leonard and Max didn’t even understand half of the conversation. A strange sympathy was formed with the broken mercenaries over there.

“Yeah, but there must be another way. Let’s go to the lab. I won’t hurt you like before. Promise. With you, I can get my senior researcher position back. that you can get a job. Let’s go together. You will be a hundred times better than living in the sewers.”

Even if I couldn’t follow the conversation, one thing was clear. Jamie Bolt was not a good mother.

“There is no such thing as that.”

“Uh, why?”

“Because today is the last time I will see the doctor.”

King lifted his mug and held out his hand. I couldn’t see it right away because my hands were so big and thick, but there was a dainty gun in my hand. Is it because of its relatively small size or because of King’s calm demeanor? I didn’t realize my next move until the fire spewed from the gun.

bang-!

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Jamie Bolt’s head was thrown back. Despite its small size, it has enough lethal power.

“You monster bastard!”

When their employer died, the mercenaries sprang into action. They were also clever writers. This made it impossible to keep alive for silence. Tata Tang-! Tattang-!

Leonard did not see the mercenaries’ struggles. The sight of him putting a bullet through his head wasn’t particularly beautiful, and more than that, I was concerned about King’s expression.

Returning home after 10 years, the mutant king was crying bitterly. It was as quiet and calm as ever, so it was even more heartbreaking tears.