Cyberpunk: 2075

"Everything you heard today is rotten in your stomach."

In the elevator going downstairs, listening to Kenichi Shiro's words, Karl nodded: "Of course I won't say much,

after all...."

Karl smiled: "At least I have reached a funding agreement with you."

"I don't know why the lady would value you, but I hope you won't live up to my expectations and do something irrational."

Kenichi Shiro made no move, but there was a vague sense of oppression in his eyes: "Compared to letting the lady know that the person she trusted betrayed her, I think the accidental death of the person she trusted is more acceptable to the lady."

"Yeah."

Karl said calmly, but his eyes were fixed on Kenichi Shiro, and his wrist was slightly raised: "But now, I have to ask you in turn, Mr. Kenichi Shiro."

"Ask me?"

"Which one are you loyal to, the leader of the dove faction, or the lady in your mouth?"

What Carl said made Kenichi Shiro stunned. This was when he took over Kenichi Saburo's responsibilities.

Fourteen years ago, after being arranged to be a half-fatherly guardian to Haruko Arasaka who grew up in Japan,

It's something I've never thought about.

Because in terms of concepts, how can father and son, mother and daughter not be in the same faction?

"Of course I am..."

Halfway through, he didn't know what to say anymore.

It is said that he is loyal to Miss Haruko, but the order for him to protect Haruko was actually the order of Haruko's mother Michiko Arasaka. But if he is said to be loyal to Michiko Arasaka, then why has he not told Michiko Arasaka what Miss Haruko is hiding? And acquiesced to Miss Haruko's secret actions?

"I don't need someone who has never thought about loyalty to teach me this. Instead of interrogating me, a trusted person, you, a more trusted bodyguard, shouldn't be responsible for the security of the young lady. Work?"

"bite."

When the elevator reached the first floor, Karl glanced at Kenichi Shiro and took a step forward:

"Protect Haruko Arasaka, Mr. Kenichi Shiro. I don't want to see my sponsor die because of some inexplicable trivial matter before I arrive. You are a more capable person than me now, so be good." Complete your security duties.”

Kenichi Shiro listened to Karl's words and looked at Karl's back. After his expression changed for a moment, he regained his composure.

His eyes were deep but thoughtful.

As a bodyguard, he doesn't need to think much, but now, he thinks a lot.

"You see something, Carl.'

Or do you really understand the young lady's ambition better than me? ’

The elevator is closed.

Kenichi Shiro, after all, did not call out Karl and ask him what he really thought.

It would be ridiculous for a domestic servant who has never thought about whom he is loyal to to ask an outsider about his loyalty.

Infighting with each other, fighting with each other every day, fighting with each other to the point where even those who are loyal can no longer distinguish who they are loyal to. I have completely understood Arasaka's style.

Karl on the other side was thinking in his heart, but he smiled.

But rarely, I got an interesting idea.

Reaching the top of Arasaka and reshaping Arasaka according to your own wishes is really ambitious.

"How can I not be interested in this kind of internal fighting?'

It's interesting to think about the weakling who tried to climb to the top of Arasaka without much support but the wishful thinking, and the mercenary she selected to start to climb to the top of Night City.

It's just looking for death.

But why would I agree?

Carl realized why.

Maybe it's like Jack and Oliver asked, what is their dream.

Reaching the top of Night City is just the first step, just the beginning.

What we really want to do is to change,

Changing Night City is too niche and not enough.

Ambition takes the world as its stage.

Karl's heart was a little excited.

Why do I keep pursuing continuous fun, why do I keep challenging various tasks,

Why do I set a hopeless level of difficulty for myself? Why do I have the heart to challenge strong men like Adam Hammer and Kenichi Shiro?

It turns out that from the beginning, when I held the gun, I thought that I shouldn't be ordinary or numb.

The heart can be numb, and people can keep looking down at the earth, but as long as I am still here, as a person from the past, it cannot be said that an era has passed.

People of this era should also be allowed to look at the sky.

Look at the clear sky, not covered by brilliance,

Karl is a man from the past, how much is this world worth to him?

Worthless.

But that's exactly what it is, unparalleled.

"It's decided."

Karl took long strides and walked out of the Bi Building.

"I'm going to make sweet and sour pork for lunch today."

Kenichi Shiro took the elevator back to the suite on the 100th floor and saw Karl's figure on the big screen in the suite.

Opposite the figure striding forward was Arasaka Haruko, sitting outside the screen, swiping matcha carefully.

Kenichi Shiro looked at Karl, whose face was clearly visible in the surveillance cameras around the Bi Building, showing a bright smile, and couldn't help but walked over.

"Miss, have you really decided to believe him? Now we need to erase him to prevent information leakage. We can also activate emergency preparedness procedures."

"I believe him."

Without any hesitation, Arasaka Haruko turned her head and said softly to Kenichi Shiro: "It's like believing,

Just like Mr. Kenichi Shiro who takes care of me like a father. "

Her words made Kenichi Shiro stunned again.

This was the second time today that he was stunned.

Once it was Carl and once it was Haruko.

Both of them exceeded his expectations.

"I...."""

Kenichi Shiro wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. After forcing his face to control his expression and trembling, he sighed and sat down in front of Haruko Arasaka to the left.

He now has a clear understanding of his loyalty.

That guy really saw something.

Sitting a little speechless and decadent, Kenichi Shiro looked at Haruko Arasaka, and then at the smiling Carl on the screen. For some reason, for Carl, as a person whose thoughts were understood, Kenichi Shiro's heart could not rise. A little bit of goodwill.

On the contrary, there is an inexplicable feeling of emptiness and loss.

Kenichi Shiro looked at Haruko Arasaka's eyes and returned to the screen, and couldn't help but said: "He is bright and cheerful. Looking at him like this, he doesn't feel like he has accepted a mission at all."

Arasaka Haruko listened, but smiled softly, and handed over another cup of prepared matcha.

"That's how I feel about my mission."

People who can smile in the sunshine in the City of Night are already incredible.

Kenichi Shiro took the matcha in silence, and Arasaka Haruko turned her head and stared at the screen.

The young lady should be reminded that looking at the screen with her native eyes for a long time may cause vision loss.

Pick up the tea cup.

Take a sip.

So bitter.

The lady's craftsmanship is still not that outstanding...

'Bastard boy...

Kenichi Shiro, who was not very good at cursing and was well-educated, just cursed silently in his heart in the end.

"You'd better not let me know what you think about Miss!'