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What? Kenji Tanaka was stunned when he saw David kill an innocent mother.
'How could David become like this...? No, this is definitely not David's style.'
Especially that mother is very similar to Gloria.
The only possibility is...
David's subsequent conversation with Kiko, Rebecca, and Falco confirmed Kenji Tanaka's thoughts.
Obviously, there is no blocker installed in Arasaka Corporation, and the communication signal is very good.
But David said he got stuck for a while and pretended that nothing happened. But
manga fans who saw the plot a moment ago knew that this was nothing.
David is now almost the same as when Maine had cyberpsychosis! If it were switched to David's first-person perspective right now, it would definitely be like Maine's initial illness, with a chaotic image in front of his eyes.
That's why David said he got stuck for a while, thinking that the other party had installed a blocker.
David's killing at Arasaka Corporation also alarmed its counter-intelligence department, as the place where David killed Arasaka employees was a laboratory mainly dedicated to the study of military technological countermeasures.
They began to suspect that this was related to the recent investigation of the case where a mysterious hacker erased Tanaka's original mind data, and the hacker killer who investigated this case was killed one after another.
However, due to the differences in the methods and styles of both cases, they dispelled the suspicion that the perpetrator was the same person.
Even so, they understood that, although both cases were independent, there were intertwining clues.
Then, they chose to first find the intermediary related to military technology,
using Night City's most common method.
On the holographic projection screen, photos and information of several well-known Night City intermediaries appeared.
Faraday, the intermediary David contacted, was among them.
"If you are not driven by profit or are not treacherous, you cannot be an intermediary in Night City."
The senior executive of Arasaka Corporation's counter-intelligence department said with a mocking smile: "But in the end, you are just a hyena licking the company's bounty."
"We just need to remind them that the company is the owner of this city. Only
by being obedient can you survive." The words were full of disdain and arrogance.
But...
Kenji Tanaka and other manga fans knew he was right. In Night City, Arasaka Corporation and military technology are the owners of this city.
Anyone must rely on them to survive. Disobedience has only one end: being attacked by the hyenas seeking the company's bounty.
And Arasaka Corporation directly used Night City's usual method to remind Faraday, David's intermediary:
to arrange an attack.
Faraday's car was suddenly attacked on the road, almost wanting to kill him. After sacrificing the lives of several loyal men, he finally managed to escape.
At the same time, he realized that the attack that almost killed him was the work of Arasaka Corporation.
In his conversation with the senior executives of Militech, they accused him of spending so many resources without managing to complete the task.
And a new term emerged in the conversation: "cyborg".
"Arasaka's security system is stricter than usual, which shows how important Cyborg is to them," Faraday said grimly.
But the senior executives of Militech didn't care as much and told him directly: "If you don't get more results, our investment will end."
This, obviously, put pressure on Faraday.
"Damn corporate bastards!"
Seeing the senior executives of Militech walk away, Faraday choked and cursed.
The last scene shows Faraday standing in the center of Night City, looking at Arasaka Corporation's promotional posters on one side and Militech's on the other.
His four artificial eyes began to glow, and it was clear that he had started to act.
"End of episode."
Kenji Tanaka, obviously, was a little dissatisfied after seeing this plot.
This episode's plot not only let fans know that David's previous prosthetic tremor is, in fact, the same as Maine's original, showing symptoms of "cyber-delinquency."
And since he started to lose control and directly killed two people, his "cyber-delinquency" has also reached a very serious level.
Furthermore, Arasaka Corporation also officially appeared and began to respond to David and Lucy.
Obviously, Arasaka Corporation, as the designated villain of "Edgerunners", is ready to directly fight David's protagonist group!
In addition, the name "cyborg" that appeared in the conversation between Faraday and the senior military technology executives is also quite curious. The name
of this episode is also very interesting. This episode's title, "Repeated Long Road", has something to do with "repeating the same mistakes."
Most importantly, this name corresponds to the episode "Long Road", where older brother Maine became ill.
This means that David is following the same path as him.
But, fortunately, Kenji Tanaka won't have to wait until next week to see the plot of episode 30 of "Edgerunners".
He'll even be able to finish episodes 31 and 32 in one go! Kenji Tanaka took a sip of the water of happiness hidden in his cup, picked up the next magazine, opened it, and finished reading the "Edgerunners" he missed this month all at once.
Faraday began to act, and Arasaka Corporation was overseeing and waiting for him.
As for David and Lucy, in the middle of the night in Night City, Lucy woke up from her bed and discovered that David had disappeared.
David was sitting on the hallway sofa with a dull face, watching TV.
"David?" Lucy asked, looking at the dazed David.
David woke from his daze. "Ah, excuse me, did I wake you up?"
At that moment, anyone could clearly see that David was suffering from severe cyberpsychiatric symptoms.
"Can't you sleep?" Lucy asked.
"I don't know why, I just want to stay awake."
"Really?"
"I turned off the TV."
"Aren't you watching it?"
"I turned it on by accident...".
David's gaze was still dull, but at that moment, he saw the image on the TV. "Huh?"
A lunar tourism advertisement appeared.
David said: "It only costs 250,000 yen to go to the Moon, which is cheaper than I thought...".
This made people sigh.
David still remembered Lucy's dream.
Lucy also smiled and said: "It's just going up."
"Yes...".
"Do you still remember...".
Lucy said with a smile: "I'm going back to sleep."
"Well, good night."
David continued to stare blankly at the TV and said.
At that moment, Lucy carefully noticed that David's left prosthetic hand was still trembling slightly, as if uncontrollable...