Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 311 73. Being favored V
"be honest!"

The controlled blue-eyed man in a suit was escorted by two Arasaka operatives equipped with military ICE protective equipment to a special isolation detention room.

Carl watched the blue-eyed man in a suit and the Arasaka personnel who had taken him away walk away, and asked Kenichi Shiro who was walking over, "Have you dealt with the matter downstairs, Mr. Kenichi Shiro?"

Kenichiro, who was wearing a red and black suit without any wrinkles or bloodstains, just nodded calmly in response to Carl's question without saying a word. Seeing his expression, Carl understood something:
"It looks like the cleanup downstairs is pretty horrible."

"To say it was tragic might not be enough to describe it."

V, Jack and Oliver came over. V's combat uniform was stained with blood, and it looked like he had killed a lot of people in the previous operation. When he approached Carl, he continued what he had said before: "Almost all the people in the first team were killed, but more than half of the staff survived."

Even if more than half of the dead were a group of middle-level personnel who could be quickly replaced by their subordinates, it would still be a considerable loss for Arasaka.

"Have the personnel who interfered with and destroyed the power supply been identified?"

Carl looked at Mr. Kenichi Shiro again, and Mr. Kenichi Shiro answered: "The power distribution room belongs to Arasaka staff."

Is it your own people?
Come to think of it, if the staff in the distribution room had not cut off the power to the floor themselves, how could ordinary personnel have cut off the power to the entire floor of Arasaka Tower without the action team reacting?

"The identity of the attacker this time. Oh, this is probably not within the scope of my mission, so I'd better not ask."

Carl looked at the banquet hall, which was gradually ending and leading people to leave as Kenichi Shiro and V and the others arrived, and folded his hands: "Anyway, this matter is also your internal matter, Mr. Kenichi Shiro, right?"

Kenichi Shiro neither admitted nor denied it. His eyes swept over the blue-eyed man in a suit who was being escorted out of the banquet hall. On the communication device, he briefly instructed other personnel to keep watch along the way, and then turned to Carl and changed the subject calmly: "Your team performed the mission quite well this time, which was beyond my expectations. It was my mistake to decide that you were not needed before."

Although it was a bit of an abrupt change of subject, what Kenichi Shiro said still made Carl open his eyes wide in surprise.

He heard something.

Mr. Kenichi Shiro admitted his mistake?

Wow, ever since Carl met Kenichi Shiro, his impression of him was that he was a stinky stone with a stiff face every day, and he never said anything nice. Carl never thought that Kenichi Shiro would actually say such words to him, actively admitting his mistakes and realizing his mistakes.

According to the stereotype, shouldn't Kenichi Shiro say with a cold face that you did a good job this time, I'll give you more money, and then you can leave?
What on earth did they do to allow Kenichi Shiro to say this?

While Carl was amazed, Kenichi Shiro turned to V and the others, or rather, to V. He looked at V with some appreciation in his eyes: "You have great potential. If you are interested and don't want to be a mercenary anymore, you can come to me. You are a person worth training. I am in need of talents like you. I can teach you personally."?

Seeing Kenichi Shiro speaking to V in a rather friendly manner, Carl subconsciously wiped his eyes.

Carl still remembered that when he borrowed a car from Kenichi Shiro, he said he was going to pick up a friend. After investigating his social circle, Kenichi Shiro gave him a rather contemptuous evaluation. He remembered what Kenichi Shiro said at the time: "You are just an ordinary vagrant. You really make friends with everyone."

However, since then, including the note for submitting the mission, V and Kenichi Shiro have only met twice. How come Kenichi Shiro's attitude has changed so much after the second meeting, and now, instead of looking down on V, he admires V and plans to train him?
Something is wrong, is Kenichi Shiro still himself?
Doubts arose in his heart, but facing Kenichi Shiro's behavior of recruiting members of his team, Carl immediately responded:
"Hey, Kenichi Shiro, what do you mean? If you're short of people, you don't have to look for my friends."

There was a hint of dissatisfaction and vigilance in Carl's words. He was obviously confused about Kenichi Shiro's intentions. His eyes were fixed on Kenichi Shiro, as if he wanted to find answers and flaws in the other's expression.

But no matter how Carl looks at it, Kenichi Shiro is still Kenichi Shiro, and what he says is completely sincere.

“People with potential should not be buried on the streets.”

Kenichi Shiro glanced at Carl and said, "Compared to your personality, he is obviously more worthy of training, and has room for further improvement in protecting and assassinating people."

Listening to the argument between Carl and Kenichi Shiro, Oliver and Jack looked at V. They didn't quite understand why Kenichi Shiro suddenly saw V's potential and planned to train him.

However, compared to Carl who did not see the scene below, Oliver and Jack understood it after just recalling the battle at that time.

In the battle downstairs, Kenichi Shiro did not take action at all, but just stood there. The main force was undoubtedly V, who opened the Sian Westin and cleared the personnel with a thermal samurai sword in hand. In that dark battle, V showed his appearance.
Oliver and Jack noticed the similarities.

V's fighting method is very similar to that of the Arasaka ninja, that is, using prosthetics such as Swanwestin that allow people to have high mobility and reaction speed to approach others, and then use the sword in his hand to kill people. Especially when V was still wearing an Arasaka combat uniform at the time, it really looked like an Arasaka ninja carrying out extremely efficient killing in the crowd.

So, Kenichi Shiro saw that V's fighting style was similar to his own and thought that V was worth training?

But in the impression of Oliver and Jack, Kenichi Shiro has a personal disciple, Chiyo, who is now protecting the Arasaka lady, but now he has his eyes on V.
Is it because V has good potential that Kenichi Shiro is excited, or is it because his main account has failed and he is planning to practice with a smaller account?

Oliver and Jack didn't understand, but they knew that Carl and Kenichi Shiro's words could not decide the matter. The person who could really make the decision on Kenichi Shiro's recruitment was
Almost at the same time, the four of them looked at V, who was listening in a daze and didn't quite understand.

V You are the one who can decide your own path.

(End of this chapter)