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As David's symptoms of cyberpsychosis worsened, even after returning home, confused hallucinations continued to torment him.
Kenji Tanaka, as expected, became very worried upon seeing this.
He was mainly worried that David would attack those around him as Maine did in the past.
Now he's at home, alone with Lucy by his side...
But when David got sick, he suddenly fell to the ground and fainted.
"David...", Lucy's worried cry came from the side.
But, in general, David's illness was not like Maine's in the past, when he couldn't control himself and attacked those around him at will.
This is still a good thing.
The scene changed, and unconscious David appeared in the clinic of the ripperdoc with whom he had always gotten along well.
He slowly woke up under the ripperdoc's watchful eye.
Beside him, Lucy slept against the wall in a gown.
It was obvious that she had sent David there.
The ripperdoc began to ask David: "When did you start...?"
"What?"
"Trembling hands, dizziness, nausea? Do you have all that?"
The ripperdoc looked at David and said with a strange smile.
"A while ago...", David said weakly.
In his conversation with the doctor, it can be heard that David's condition is not what he showed before or what he said, just a slight cyberpsychosis.
It's a very serious situation.
Even...
The ripperdoc directly asked him to stop prosthetic transformation: "Stop prosthetic transformation for a while; you're already on the verge of cyberpsychosis."
When Kenji Tanaka saw this, he was surprised.
David... is he already on the verge of cyberpsychosis? On the verge... on the verge, that is, just one step away from becoming a cyber-lunatic.
But as mentioned before, David is unwilling to stop prosthetic transformation.
Just like Maine at first.
He told the ripperdoc with an almost demented expression: "Then give me stronger medicine!"
"Hey, hey, hey, are you crazy?!"
The doctor continued: "In this case, there's no medicine!"
David heard this and instantly lost control. He grabbed the doctor by the neck and pushed him against the wall.
And the "cyberpsychosis" logo appeared in his eyes.
"Give me the medicine quickly! Don't you just want money?"
David... He was very serious. The way he treated the doctor was definitely not something he would do with his normally calm personality.
This even startled Lucy, who was sleeping soundly.
"David!"
David calmed down and let go of the doctor after Lucy called him.
And the doctor finally prescribed a strong immunosuppressant.
"Here, this is the last medicine I'm prescribing for you. It's nine times the standard dose and can be used nine times."
"It's enough to send you directly to the edge until you completely lose control and plunge into hell...".
"Take these medicines; it means you'll never come back...".
"Go, be your cyberpunk legend, or do anything else."
David took the medicine, with regret in his heart, and left the clinic with Lucy.
But after leaving, the doctor, sitting on the floor, looked at him with great emotion...
"I will transmit your legend...".
Kenji Tanaka saw this and felt a little confused.
He remembered that in Maine's hallucination there was a sentence called...
"There are no living legends in Night City."
Did the doctor's words imply that David would die like other Night City legends in the future?
After leaving the clinic, David and Lucy argued.
Naturally, Lucy wanted David to stop prosthetic transformation, or even reduce his prosthetic body, just as Dolio convinced Maine.
Now... she no longer wants to go to the moon. She just wants to live a good life with David.
But David remains stubborn. He already understands why Maine didn't want to reduce his prosthetic body.
Because it's a responsibility.
Such a great responsibility that, even though he knows he's about to become a cyber-maniac, he still has to bet that he's the most unique.
After the ultimately unsuccessful discussion, David unexpectedly told Lucy: "Perhaps it's better if we go our separate ways."
Is this... breaking up with Lucy? But thinking about Dolio and Maine's ending, Kenji Tanaka understood again.
David was worried that after completely losing control, he would involve or even kill Lucy.
But Lucy didn't agree. She had detected traces of Arasaka's hackers.
So she decided to deal with Arasaka's hackers first and then have a good talk with David.
"Let's go home and finish talking!"
Lucy abruptly stopped talking and followed the trail to find the Arasaka Corporation hacker.
However, just as she was about to use the same trick to kill him...
her system was suddenly attacked by a powerful attack, and sparks of explosion appeared directly on her head, causing her to collapse to the ground.
At that moment, the characters in the latest manga were Faraday and... Kiko!
"Alright, this will be our ticket to Arasaka," Faraday said happily.
"End of this chapter."
What? Kenji Tanaka's eyes widened; Kiko and Faraday appeared together.
Did Kiko betray David and the others and sell Lucy?
This, this, this, this... How is that possible?
The betrayal of the protagonist's companion is completely unreasonable! However, Kenji Tanaka suddenly remembered that when Kiko and Lucy had just talked...
"Don't trust anyone in Night City. If they betray you because of this, it's your fault."
He thought this was Kiko's teaching to Lucy.
And don't words like these usually include partners?
But Kiko's final betrayal of Lucy obviously told Kenji Tanaka and other manga fans.
No, anyone here, even their own partner.
And Kiko is a person who firmly believes in this law of survival.
Think about it... it's true.
Night City is a place where it's truly impossible to talk about trust and loyalty.
Morals and righteousness are not as important as toilet paper in Night City.
However... after reading the plot of this episode, Kenji Tanaka discovered that... there was no
next episode. In other words, he couldn't see the next plot.
Lucy was betrayed by Kiko and then captured by Faraday. This is the most tense and worrying climax of the plot. But it ends here...
"Ah..."
But after the teacher returned to his seat, he looked at the manga magazine in front of him and sighed: "Does the manga author really want to kill David and Lucy?"