Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 234 93. Floor Cleaning
"The 79th, 78th and 77th floors have been suppressed and cleared!"

Listening to the hacker's report, the Arasaka executives sitting on the 133rd floor looked at the surveillance projection displayed on the conference table and were somewhat unbelievable about the speed of the cleanup.

This speed is too fast!
The most surprised among the senior executives was Susan Abernathy. As the director of special operations at Arasaka, she was very familiar with the quality of the people who were cleared out on those three floors. Those were floors specially provided for training of Arasaka ninjas and agents. In other words, those were the floors where the most elite people among Arasaka personnel stayed. After most of the people on those three floors betrayed and took control of the floors, how long did it take for the two people who went down to clean up?

5 minutes? Or 4 minutes?

Even if you include the time it takes to take the elevator, it definitely won't exceed 3 minutes.

Just two people, Adam Hammer and Carl, cleared out no less than thirty betrayers in three floors. Except for the 79th floor which took less than twenty seconds for the two of them to clear, the 78th and 77th floors were cleared by one person each!
"A monster?"

I don't know if I murmured such words. Although she was in a high position and had great power in Arasaka, it was the first time that Abernathy witnessed the real terrifying power from her own kind. She swallowed her saliva subconsciously.

Humans will unconsciously develop emotions such as fear, dread, and terror in their hearts because of powerful strength, and now Abernathy's heart is occupied by such emotions.

"They are just like two killing machines."

Killing people is like doing some kind of efficient cleaning.

Abernathy puts herself a little bit into the betrayer's perspective, if she were the one being protected by the betrayer, facing them.
While thinking, Abernathy had a vague phantom pain, as if his body was torn into pieces or cut in half.

Matsudaira, perhaps he should be thankful that his death was the most friendly and decent one.

While the Arasaka brass were watching the killings through the surveillance cameras that had been recaptured by hackers, Kenichi Shiro was looking at the projection on the conference table and frowning.

'There are many flaws.'

Kenichi Shiro was judging Carl. This was his first time seeing Carl's fight in person via projection, so he could see some problems.

Adam's Hammer's killing method is a perfect fit in which his consciousness coordinates the machinery like gears. It is a different way of fighting from Kenichi Shiro's. Kenichi Shiro has no way to judge the pros and cons, but Kenichi Shiro can understand Carl's fighting method.

Both of them are good at short-range combat, and when facing difficult enemies, they basically use speed-type close combat attacks to deal with troublesome enemies, so Kenichi Shiro can make judgments during the action.

In his evaluation, each of Carl's combat moves was standard, even exemplary, but the only problem was.
'The connection between the movements is still a little unfamiliar.'

Kenichi Shiro didn't know how Carl trained. Each of his techniques was great, but at the connection points, there was a slight slowness that only someone who was an expert in this field could notice.

If Kenichi Shiro were to make an analogy, it would be running. There was nothing wrong with Carl's starting movements and his movements while running. They were both excellent, and Kenichi Shiro couldn't compare to them in some aspects. However, the moment he started and the smooth connection between his movements and running were, for some reason, a little slow.

It's like an old tape recorder. After playing side A, you have to take it out and play it to side B.

However, this problem is not particularly big. As long as you fight more, it will become smoother sooner or later like clearing a clogged water pipe. What Kenichi Shiro can't understand is why Carl has such a problem.

This is a mistake that only newcomers who have just learned fighting skills for less than three months would make. Why did Carl make this mistake?
If the person he was facing was Chiyo, it would be fine, but if the person he was facing was himself, he could take advantage of the moment when he was not smooth. Thinking of Chiyo, Kenichi Shiro temporarily put aside his observation of Carl and looked at his Chiyo who was standing behind Miss Haruko with her face covered.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but once he did, his eyebrows twitched involuntarily.

She was actually staring at the projection on the conference table.

Have I ever taught her this before?

Kenichi Shiro had an inexplicable feeling of dizziness. If it weren't for the biological monitoring that confirmed that his blood pressure did not rise, Kenichi Shiro would have thought that he had high blood pressure due to anger.

When protecting Miss Haruko, she didn't pay attention to the surrounding environment at all times, but was still looking at boring cleaning matters. I actually thought that this kind of disciple had already completed the apprenticeship and recommended her to Mrs. Michiko with confidence. This is really. Really.
After conducting actual combat tests, Kenichi Shiro no longer believes that his apprentice can pose a threat to him, but he believes that Chiyome today can completely ruin the reputation of his teaching apprentice.

How could I teach such a thing? I used to train her as my personal disciple, but now it seems that any other student I taught casually is not better than her? !
As if she had some kind of intuition, Chiyome sensed the unfriendly gaze and looked away quickly. When she found that it was the person who was derelict in his duty who was staring at her, she almost instinctively tensed her body. The pair of eyes that were not covered by the mask were full of vigilance, and her hand quietly touched her waist.

I almost forgot that this derelict of duty is right next to me. People like him are not able to protect Miss Haruko. I can't be like him.

Maybe he is planning to do something now, so I have to protect Miss Haruko.

Chiyome moved forward a little, and in the posture, protected Haruko from the side.

There might be traitors present, so I have to be ready to throw smoke bombs at any time and evacuate with Miss Haruko.

She noticed Chiyo coming forward out of the corner of her eye, but Haruko didn't care. She silently stared at Carl in the projection, then looked at Adam's hammer in the projection, and then her hands, which were originally on her knees under the conference table, quietly took out a mobile phone from the sleeve of her kimono and sent a message to Carl.

"You're going to lose, Carl."

"Then I can only hope that the people on other floors won't clean up so quickly, so I can get involved."

On the way down the stairs in the elevator, Karl panted slightly: "After all, this kind of opportunity to compete with the legend in killing company dogs in an open and aboveboard manner, and to get paid for it, is a rare opportunity."

'I'm not a company dog,＜（￣︶￣）＞'

After Haruko sent a cute emoji:

'They have all been fired.'

"Next time, you should use picture emoticons."

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