Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 303 65. Haruko's Arrival

The girl with azure hair is a friend that Carl met during his time at the academy. The two had never exchanged their real names. When Carl met her, he always faced her as Gaius. Today, I attended the Arasaka banquet as a security guard and saw her by chance. It must be said that it was quite a coincidence.

But this seems to be taken for granted.

After all, the girl is a student of Arasaka Academy, and she carries with her the keys to top Spanish sports cars like the Herrera Outlaw GTS. It would be too outrageous to say that her family is not powerful in Arasaka. Now, because of family relationships, it is not particularly surprising that she comes to this banquet with her family.

It's just that the two of them were classmates before, but now one is a young lady who comes to the banquet to eat and drink, and the other is a "humble" security guard who has to wear clothes and cannot show his face at the banquet. The gap is quite big.

'It feels like applying for a security guard position at a villa, only to find out that my friend is the owner of the villa.'

Thinking in his heart, Carl stood up straight.

It is a very happy thing to meet friends whom you haven't seen for a long time, but Carl came here on a mission today and it is not convenient for him to meet his friends. His face appearing at the banquet will only cause panic, so it is better not to cause more trouble.

After the meeting, I can go over and chat.

Thinking of this, Carl noticed that the blue-haired girl's eyes swept across him, but then turned back and stared at him again.

For some reason, Carl felt something was wrong.

It can't be that he was recognized.
While Carl was thinking nervously, something happened that interrupted the blue-haired girl's increasingly suspicious gaze.

The dishes for Arasaka's banquet were only laid out after the participants arrived, and now was the time to serve food to the participants.

Teams of waiters came out of the staff passage of the banquet hall one after another, carrying all kinds of delicacies in their hands. They shuttled through the hall and placed plates of exquisite dishes on various tables in the banquet hall. As long as the guests were interested, they could take the luxurious food themselves.

'As for banquets, buffets are the best and most convenient form of hospitality.'

Feeling that the blue-haired girl's eyes had shifted away from him because of the servant's arrival, Karl breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to pay attention to the dishes again.

He really wanted to know what was served at Arasaka's high-level banquets in this era.

Needless to say, the real ingredients are of course important, but what Carl cares more about is whether they will eat something special, something new that is cultivated through genetic modification.

For example, something like cherry melon which looks like a watermelon but tastes like cherry flesh when you bite it.

If those things were available, Carl would also like to eat some.

After Carl carefully looked at the plate in the hands of a waiter who passed by him, he was disappointed.

It doesn't have any fancy stuff and actually looks quite ordinary.

Carl stood there idly, watching the menu that was projected on the wall near him as the banquet staff entered.

'There are about 15 types of dishes of each type. First, there are salads, including roast beef salad, Caesar salad, potato salad, Italian sausage salad, etc.;

Then there are the cold cuts, including rose salmon platter, asparagus and tomato assortment, rose soy sauce chicken, Iberian ham slices, cheese platter, etc.
The main dishes include French seafood stew, Spanish paella, Provence grilled pork chop, Danish Arctic sweet shrimp, fried lamb chop with rosemary sauce, etc.; desserts include Napoleon cake, egg pudding, Black Forest cake, macaron, Japanese cheesecake, Dorayaki, Daifuku, and red bean water jelly.

Gulu.

Karl clearly didn't swallow his saliva, but he felt as if he heard the sound of swallowing saliva.

There's even Japanese Kobe steak grilled on site.
Well, Carl had to admit that these dishes were extraordinary. At least Carl was tempted and even had the illusion that he could hear himself swallowing his saliva.

You know, these things are made of real meat and vegetables, and some are even the top-quality ones with real meat and vegetable grains. How could Carl, who has been in this era for almost half a year but is still eating unmarinated and unbled dead pork, not be tempted?

He felt that some of his desires were aroused.

'Damn it, I want to eat it.'

When serving this kind of dishes, there will be extra food left in anticipation of loss. This group of people probably can't eat that much, so this trip is over. I'll ask Mr. Kenichi Shiro if I can take some of the extra food away.

Carl's eyes moved among the food, and suddenly he noticed that V, when passing by a waiter in the crowd, took a glass of something that looked like apple juice from his plate, and started eating it in the corner he was in charge of, along with a plate of fried shrimps and fried pork chops that he had gotten at some point.

How come you've already eaten and you're still using juice to get rid of the greasiness, right V!

Looking at Lehe who was eating happily and no one cared about his V because of the badge on his chest, Carl admitted that he was jealous and jealous to the point of madness.

"Don't eat it anywhere else, give your brother a bite too."

As if he noticed Carl's gaze, V, who was biting the tail of the fried shrimp, turned his head and looked at Carl.

"Ahhh."

After he slurped down the whole fried shrimp, he nodded to Carl and gave him a thumbs up.

?

Why are you giving the thumbs up here? I'm not asking if you are okay or not. I'm asking if you can give me a bite too. What do you understand?
Damn it, this guy V is just enjoying all the good things.

The only thing that made Carl feel a little comforted was that Oliver and Jack were guarding outside the hall. They couldn't even see the food, let alone eat it. Although Carl couldn't show off the food like V, at least he could still feast his eyes.
No way, it just makes me greedier.

Carl didn't eat dinner when he came. He had breakfast and lunch together. He had a very ordinary sandwich: a few slices of bread, spread with synthetic butter, and sandwiched with homemade smoked bacon. That little bit of food had been consumed long ago. He could still bear it, but now seeing V eating so deliciously, he could hardly bear it anymore.

Just as Carl was seriously thinking about whether he could get some food during the slow time, and then find time to remove his helmet and stuff the food in from the bottom, Kenichi Shiro's figure appeared and interrupted Carl's thoughts.

Because along with Kenichi Shiro appeared a girl followed by Chiyo, who, as always, was wearing a kimono that seemed to never change.

Haruko Arasaka, the only member of the Arasaka family in Arasaka Tower and the highest-ranking Arasaka company employee in Night City, has arrived at the scene.

　p.s. There was no water or electricity outage, so I’m here to update. I have engraved this victory in my consciousness, so I win!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)