How To Live as a Cyberpunk Solver

13. traitor

A-044 City 21-1 Street was the main street of Junk Town, lined with illegal implant parlors.

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Just like the name of the street, junk, garbage, waste, and surplus implants are the mainstream, but Leonard has visited a few times because items that are rarely seen in White Town come in from time to time. However, this was the first time he had come as a fixer.

rip off rip off…

Molgol was worse than when he was a guest. The SUV, which should have looked for a junkyard rather than a repair shop, struggled to come up to the parking lot on the side of the road. The moment I turned off the engine, smoke came out of the engine and the car body sank about 10 cm. In terms of people, it was fainting.

“What is that? Is it scrap metal?”

“This is not a junk shop! Go somewhere else!”

Gangsters running around inside and outside the building gathered with interest. Leonard wasn’t normal either, but the gang here wasn’t particularly fine either. The majority of the body is implants, but there were no unified parts, no matter how many modifications were made. Too big or too small is standard, and there were many gangsters with knives like praying mantis paws and fingers like scarab claws.

He didn’t even leave the body he had from birth. Dragons, tigers, lions, bears, women, frogs, snakes, chicks, etc. I drew everything imaginable and put dozens of beads and rings on them. There was also a funny guy who had thick piercings all over his face. These were the gangsters native to Junktown.

“The twins have business to see.”

Ki-Ik-Push-Woong-!

The rental car made a strange noise. I unintentionally became Bae Soo-jin. All eyes turned to the car and back.

“Are the twins your friend? Do you want to see it?”

“Tell me that Leonard Walker is here.”

A-044 It’s the name of the best solver in the city, so you probably know it… I was a little nervous, so I pulled out another card.

“You can say that Joel Cooper sent it.”

A gangster made a call with a brain chip. Leonard tried to hack the call log, but gave up. The pistols and clubs surrounding him were burdensome. Besides, it didn’t last long enough to hack.

“Go inside.”

said the gangster in a more polite voice. Leonard was worried about the cargo in the rental car, so he followed it. This is the den of the Twins, so the Twins gang will be in charge.

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The leader of the Twins gang was, of course, the Twins. The residents of Junk Town knew it with common sense. However, surprisingly, many people did not know that the twins were sisters, not brothers, and that they were not real twins at the DNA level. Max whispered softly.

“Are there fake twins?”

“Yes, of course. This is an implant parlour.”

Changing the face and body was easy with just the credits. When Max tried to ask again, he gestured to be quiet. There was a twin boss in front of an operating table with limbs for implants hanging in clusters.

“Big kid? little kid? Which one is the ‘fixer’ Walker?”

“As you can see, it’s me.”

one twin said cheerfully. Unlike a leader who leads a three-digit organization, he was young and beautiful. Her chrome-tinted breasts were a little burdensome, but even without that—or because of that—she was an outstanding beauty. But none other than Max were fooled.

As with all body implants, the real face and real age were unknown. I even had to question whether it was a real woman. In real life, it could be an overweight middle-aged man full of pimples, or a grandfather in his 90s full of age spots. Maybe, really, maybe not even a person.

“Do you have anything to give us?”

“They are loaded into the car.”

The other twin touched their ear lobe and contacted them somewhere. A bodyguard with a submachine gun went outside.

“yes. I checked. yes. It’s ours.”

The twins looked at each other and nodded. It was creepy to hear that they were fake twins.

“We’ll call ‘Rattle’ Cooper. Good work, Fixer Walker.”

That was it. I turned to the other side of the building with the bodyguard. It was the coolness of a gang leader. Leonard thought about it for a moment, then just did it.

“There was an accident when I came…”

Leonard parted his lips and the twins turned around again. It was terrifying to see that they looked the same and acted the same.

“Joel Cooper is a well-to-do human bastard, but he is not an idiot who will cut off his own flesh. They’re not even corporate employees who have a clear control over information.”

“What does that mean?”

He had enough brains to take over the junk town business. I guessed the text in a hurry and got angry in advance. So I went straight to the conclusion.

“Take a good look at the people around you. Isn’t it time to take care of yourself?”

I turned away because I thought I would draw my gun if I spoke any further. Max came after me a beat late. I wouldn’t shoot a gun in the back of the head of a fixer who had commissioned a fixer unless I wanted to get out of hand with a fixer broker. Then no solver will accept the job. Nothing happened until I left the clinic.

After rounding a small building and passing a group of gangsters trying to look scary, the rental car reappeared with the luggage compartment stolen. Not only the cargo, but also the interior and exterior decorations were thrifty.

“Bastards!”

It’s a rental car anyway, so it’s not a loss because it’s going to be scrapped soon, but I felt bad for some reason.

“Hey, Mr. Leonard? What did you just say?”

Max asked impatiently. The warning to keep your mouth shut didn’t last 10 minutes.

“Information leaked in this operation.”

“Did the Wildkid gang raid?”

“yes. I knew the exact time, place and even the cargo.”

someone betrayed In all likelihood, he would be a subordinate of the Twins.

“Because there’s no way the middleman ruined his reputation by ruining the request, and there’s no way the company handled the covert mission poorly?”

“You’re pretty smart, aren’t you?”

When Leonard praised him, Max twisted his body in embarrassment. However, he did not show any manners.

“But why did you tell me that? Because the twins are beautiful?”

“Don’t learn strange things from Sigma. Do you think I’m going to get hooked on a cyborg or something?”

It was convincing because he was from an underground city. So Max took it in a different way.

“A pure human if not a cyborg… Whoa! So hold me! scary!”

“Ah, should I really kick you out…”

After agonizing seriously for about 3 seconds, I passed it off as a joke.

“I made you suffer, so I have to get revenge.”

“Are you a traitor?”

When I opened the car door, the bumper fell off. I was worried if I could make it home.

“It’s tiring to do it yourself, and the twins will catch it and kick it. Because he has that level of skill.”

Otherwise, the Traitor gang, not the Twins gang, will rule Junk Town.

“Our work ends here. Let’s go home.”

Coming home from work has always been pleasant since mankind began working. Max smiled brightly.

“Whoa… It’s been a rough day.”

“What did you do?”

“Please buy some noodles. I am hungry.”

“So what did you do?”

Still, it wasn’t bad for a first job. Being fearless and having a thick face was also a talent. Since the head is good, I thought I would teach it once.

‘I don’t know if that’s a good thing…’

However, the fixer was not a job that was in the limelight.

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The request came in the next morning.

The rental car was more than half broken, but the ‘rattle’ was not a big problem. The broker was also responsible for the unscheduled shootout. He’s a veteran like Leonard, so he got through without incident, and if he was sloppy, his cargo was stolen and his limbs were dismembered – that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to die – compared to paying a penalty to Big Ground and being forced to take ‘responsibility’ by the Twins gang, a rental car is nothing. It was a cheap price. Of course, there was a lot of gossip.

“It’s 5,550 credits.”

That was all I received after deducting corporate taxes, city levies, brokerage fees, and rental car rental fees. The company had big hands.

“Come find my truck, let’s get a gun for the kid.”

Sigma opened up a firearms catalog and made a few recommendations. Rykov’s semi-automatic pistol, which is good for beginners, and the Schneider’s submachine gun, which are easy to carry and less likely to break down. said Max as he touched his short-off shotgun.

“I like this gun.”

“Then write that too. The more guns, the better.”

Traditionally, it has been said that human heart comes from a bank account. My credit bank account was strong, so I had room in my heart. I buried myself in the sofa and raised my legs arrogantly. Sigma picked a few from the catalog, put them on the linked TV screen, and advised.

“Mr. Leonard’s body needs to be checked as well.”

Even if it’s not a gunshot wound, it’s time to get a regular checkup. Leonard’s expression hardened slightly. It’s been 7 years since I came up on the ground, but there was no implant parlor I liked. The upper town was too expensive, and the lower town was completely unreliable. Even with their eyes open, it was full of people taking out screws. As Leonard, who uses a high-end module in a high-end body, I was always anxious. Max was amazed.

“You didn’t go to the hospital because you were afraid?”

“Am I a kid? And not a hospital, but an implant parlour.”

On the ground, implant parlors were cheaper and more common than hospitals. If something hurts, rather than prescribing medicine, it is cut and replaced with a machine. As a result, the number of scavengers selling implants from living people has increased.

Leonard suddenly remembered 21-1 Street. It’s funny to believe in gangsters, but wouldn’t it be different if you were the boss?

“So what do you think it will be like?”

Even if the subject was omitted, it was understood wholeheartedly. If the traitors were not weeded out, even if there was a tank, not a rifle, it would be an inevitable defeat.

“Has it only been one day?”

“One day is enough.”

Few gangs know of contact with the corporation. By examining the few memory chips, it was not difficult to find out from the first love to the last affair. ‘Have you deleted the memory?’, ‘He’s the prime suspect!’ There were others as sure as Leonard.

– A fixer walker? Do U have a time?

The tigers were the twins of the gang of mean twins.