Cyberpunk: 2075

"Your real appearance is better."

This was the first sentence Carl heard after taking off the helmet matching the Arasaka combat uniform.

The person who said this was naturally Mashi.

As friends, this is indeed the first time the two of them have met with their true faces.

"If you compliment me now and say I'm handsome, I'll be happier."

Taking off the somewhat stuffy helmet, Karl took a breath: "It's really uncomfortable to wear this thing. I really don't like covering myself with things."

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"Do you feel uncomfortable, like in the academy?"

"Almost."

Carl faced Mashi's eyes that carefully looked at his appearance, and turned his eyes to Haruko, who was sitting next to him with a smile: "Did you tell Mashi all about my work this time?"

"It's just that I can't see Maki's rough cover-up."

"As expected, Maki's keenness is compensated by other parts...::

Mahi didn’t quite understand what Karl said:

: "What does sensitivity mean when you make up for it with another part?"

"Don't worry, I'm complimenting you."

"But I can tell that what you said just now, Karl, was mocking me."

"You can't tell the meaning of words, but you can judge good from bad, right?"

Karl didn't care and sat down at the small round table where Mashi and Haruko were sitting. There are many places in the banquet hall where guests can sit, and this place happened to have four seats, which was enough to seat people.

After Karl sat down and took a bite of the bun that Chiyome probably brought for Haruko and Maki from the table, feeling the sweetness and softness remaining on the tip of his tongue, Karl spoke:

"So, why are you calling me here? I've been standing guard for a long time, and after the banquet, friends are having a dinner together?"

"If you want to do this, Karl, of course you can, but...:"

Haruko glanced at Chiyome, who was walking over, and Chiyome handed over something in front of Karl at the right time.

"This is?"

Looking at what Chiyome handed over, which looked like a data tablet, Karl glanced at Haruko for some reason, but Haruko just pointed at Karl's right hand.

‘Verify by hand. ’

She was signaling this.

Carl has his own special verification, which is a bionic arm named 'KK'.

Seeing that Haruko had indicated this, even though Karl didn't quite understand what was in the data tablet, he still did as he was told.

He placed the five fingers of his right hand flat on the data tablet and watched the data flowing through the verification flashing on it.

Could it be personal compensation?

When Karl was thinking this, he noticed Mashi's expression on the side and found that there was also a sense of expectation in her expression, as if she knew what was in the data tablet.

"drop."

When the verification sound sounded, Carl found a photo appearing on the data tablet.

The face in that photo was quite familiar. It could be said that Karl saw it every day, because it was his own face.

As the ID photo appeared and then disappeared, pieces of information appeared below.

"This is..::

Karl looked at the pieces of information: "My personal information?"

"Blood type, height, weight, experience, etc. are all recorded."

Chiyome said, Karl didn't feel much surprise about this.

After all, he had received treatment at Arasaka Hospital. It was not surprising that the hospital recorded this information. As for the relevant personal experiences, this information could be easily found by almost any middleman, let alone Arasaka.

However, as the records emerged one by one, Karl discovered that there were several gaps at the end.

Before he could be confused, Haruko's words sounded first: "Open it and take a look at Karl."

Open it and take a look?

What's there to open about the blank space?

Karl tried to touch the blank space with his fingertips, and found that one of the blank spaces disappeared, and then a bunch of pull-down options popped up on the data tablet.

‘Taiping State Migrants from the Night City of America, Graduates from the Asian Turkish Branch College, Members of the “Manic” Tribe of Allentown, Pennsylvania, New America, Residents of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia….

"Is this...identity?"

Karl looked at the rows of data and was a little confused: "Does this require me to choose an identity on my own file?"

"I don't care what you did in the past, Karl..."

Haruko said: "Because even Arasaka cannot fully control the children of the homeless tribe who were abandoned at birth, the orphans born in the streets and alleys, and the illegitimate children of some wealthy families, but now , I want you, Karl, to choose an official identity to fill in the gaps in the file."

"Not completely in control...

What Haruko said is true. Although Arasaka has strong capabilities in intelligence collection and can obtain the required information through numerous spy networks, even Arasaka cannot be omniscient and omniscient:

For example, the birth of Haruko's mother, Michiko Arasaka, was a secret deliberately concealed by his eldest son for Saburo Arasaka, who controlled the entire Arasaka Group. Haruko did not know about her past life, but she did not care about it. This really fits her character. only-

Karl doesn't quite understand one thing:

"Why do you suddenly ask me to choose a formal identity at this time? If I choose one, can you easily help me get the relevant certificates?"

"Of course."

Mashi said beside him: "These are much more formal than your disguise in school, Carl. Even if someone wants to check, they can only find the information you chose after layers of files."

"All of them are OK?"

Listening to Mashi's words, Carl couldn't help but look at the option of 'New American Lieutenant Colonel Orphan'. Isn't it true that Arasaka can get this thing?

"All of them are OK."

Hearing Haruko's affirmative words, Carl found that his vision was still low.

For the eldest lady of Arasaka, it is really not a big deal to get an identity that others can check no matter how they check.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but glance at the 'orphan of the new American lieutenant colonel', and asked Haruko tentatively: "Is it really okay for me to choose this?"

"You can try to click it. I remember that there are four different options below."

"Are there four?"

In other words, Haruko can insert four of her own people into the army of the new United States at will. Considering the orphan of the lieutenant colonel, the inserted nail should have been a lieutenant colonel in the past.

This level is not small.

Carl was dazzled by the pile of identity choices. For a moment, he couldn't think of which one he should choose. While thinking, he suddenly came to his senses and remembered the question he asked before but didn't get an answer.

"So, why do you suddenly ask me to choose a formal identity at this time?"

"Because after a while, Karl, you need to go with me as a friend to meet someone, and Maki will go with you at that time."

"Because I need to meet someone, I need a formal identity...

Carl didn't understand: "Who are you going to meet? Why can't I have even a blank experience in the past? I have to have the most basic formal identity?

Facing Carl's confusion, Haruko slowly said:

"To see my mother."

"Huh?"

Carl remembered that Haruko's mother was.,

"Arasaka Michiko?!"