"Damn it! What happened just now!" Maine exclaimed, annoyed.
Tanaka's situation was not very promising, and he seemed to be on his last breath.
"Oh no! It would be troublesome if he died!" Maine exclaimed with a grim face.
David instantly panicked. 'What was he doing now?''Why did he hesitate?'
'Why did he fail here?'
He fell into a deep sense of guilt and panic.
On the other hand, Dolio watched David, who was still panicking, operating the deep dive access system.
"Come on! David, you helped her connect, right?"
David looked at Lucy in the ice pool.
He instantly woke up, and with Dolio's help, he disconnected Lucy's deep dive connection.
At that moment, Maine looked at David, who failed at the critical moment, but he was angry.
"David!"
David didn't notice anything at that moment. He just said with relief: "Ah... Lucy is here too..."
But instantly, Maine's huge slap landed directly on his face.
"David! What are you doing?!" Maine angrily interrogated David.
However, David turned and asked Maine: "Ah... what about you?"
"What are you doing?!"
"What did you say?" Maine asked, stunned, condescendingly.
"You hurt Kiko and forced Lucy to come alone... What are you doing?!"
"David... you..."
Suddenly, Maine felt a little guilty.
'Yes... if it weren't for him...'
But at that moment, Dolio shouted: "Maine! David!"
"When Tanaka died, the inhibitor exploded!"
"The signal has been sent to the Trauma Team!"
This means that the Trauma Team will soon send armed personnel to try to save Tanaka's life!
And the arrival of the Trauma Team will likely attract the NCPD, Night City police!
At that moment, they will face the siege of two large armed forces! "Damn it!"
Maine also woke from his guilt at that moment: "David! We'll talk later!"
"Go prepare the car!"
David was still stunned, and the always gentle sister-in-law Dolio couldn't help herself.
She punched him in the face and said angrily: "Come on! David! You promised to do this job well! So do it well!"
David also instantly woke up, holding Lucy and taking direct action.
"We'll be there soon, wait in the car!"
Maine obviously meant that he and Dolio were responsible for the rear guard.
"Understood!"
David held Lucy and directly used the powerful time-stopping ability of Sandevistan.
At that moment, the Trauma Team's mobile hovercraft also arrived in the sky one after another.
"Is this the treatment for Trauma Team platinum members?" Maine asked, looking at the armed team in the sky.
"Gunshots are registered in the service area, or armed personnel are requesting armed NCPD support."
The armed personnel in the Trauma Team's mobile hovercraft said.
There, David took Lucy to the car and, starting it, turned up the music loudly.
Lucy instantly woke up.
And with the arrival of the Trauma Team and the NCPD, the battle between Maine and Dolio was about to erupt.
"The end of this episode."
Kenji Tanaka was stunned upon hearing those words.
He was watching the most exciting and nervous moment, and you interrupt me?
His mind was filled with speculations about the next plot.
What will happen to David and the others? Why is there information about David in Tanaka's neural network intelligence?
Will older brother Maine and older sister-in-law Dolio finally escape? All of this is too imaginative.
This left Kenji Tanaka unable to sleep or eat.
However...
"David is too detrimental," Kenji Tanaka said angrily: "Why did he hesitate?"
In the eyes of these manga fans, David didn't hesitate and directly administered anesthesia to Tanaka, so everything would go smoothly.
As a result, David was tricked by Tanaka and was stunned.
That's why Tanaka died later.
Even if Tanaka died in the end, it's different to die accidentally before getting the information versus being killed afterward.
After getting it, he was killed and handled by Maine and the others.
Then Maine, Dolio, and the others would have had enough time to evacuate the area where Tanaka died and completely resolve the matter.
So David's hesitation was truly detrimental.
Ren Amamiya's previous life's animation, "Edgerunners", was probably because all 10 episodes were broadcast at once.
Therefore, everyone was affected by the plot's coherence at that time and did not feel resentment towards David at that moment, due to the hesitation that led to Maine and Dolio's deaths.
But "Edgerunners" is different when it becomes a manga.
Due to the long serialization cycle of the manga, David's hesitation and the killing are particularly magnified at this moment, and they have not been offset by the advantages of the subsequent plot.
This, naturally, caused dissatisfaction in everyone.
As for older brother Maine, he injured Kiko due to his illness, which led to the slip-up.
Everyone can understand that; after all, it's not a problem caused by Maine's subjective factors.
It's due to that damn cyberpsychosis.
Illness...
No one wants to get sick.
Maine is the same: he doesn't want to get sick and make it difficult to complete the mission.
Only he is a bit stubborn and doesn't plan to switch to a lighter prosthetic to delay the onset of the illness.
However, even if Maine wanted to switch to a lighter prosthetic to delay the onset of the illness, at the time of the mission, he certainly cannot change it.
So, is Maine wrong?
Yes.
But it can be understood and forgiven.
Conversely, David's indecision led to Tanaka's death, which led to the arrival of the Trauma Team and the NCPD. This is unforgivable.
The same is true on the Edgerunners forum at this moment.
"If it weren't for David's hesitation, the Trauma Team and the NCPD wouldn't have come either. Why did he hesitate?"
"This protagonist... I'm stunned. Doesn't this hurt others and himself?"
"I think even though older brother Maine made mistakes, he can be forgiven, but what about David? What is he doing?"
"The enemy fools you so easily. You're a true tiger, brother!"
"Oh, I hope the older brother can evacuate smoothly and safely. In the next episode, won't the older brother risk his life to protect his sister-in-law and die?"
"Given the current situation... I think it's very likely. Another knife..."
"Actually, I'm more curious about why Lucy is so afraid of Arasaka Corporation and why there's information about David in Tanaka's system."
Ah...
But all of this has nothing to do with Ren Amamiya, because at that moment he and Pochita were accompanying Sakura, who had just returned to Tokyo.
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