Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 413 26. Accept the job
At the warehouse in the Arasaka waterfront area of ​​Night City, Kenichi Shiro stopped and turned to look at the members of Carl's team walking behind him.

"This is the reward warehouse we agreed on. You can use all the parts in here as you like. The verification is the ID card I gave you. With that ID card, you can enter and exit the seaside area at will. Just remember..."

Kenichi Shiro paused and looked at Carl: "You are not allowed to enter other places."

"I see."

Carl was brought to this place after leaving the super aircraft carrier. He has been quite silent along the way, even now when he was looking at the huge parts warehouse in front of him.

Carl is certainly not a taciturn person by nature, he was just maintaining basic communication with Arasakase Nobuyuki through the communication.

Kenichi Shiro looked at Carl and saw from the way he was holding the phone that he was in contact with Arasakase Nobuyuki. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Are you going to take the escort mission that Arasakase Nobuyuki mentioned?"

"Not necessarily. We are discussing the compensation and time now. If it's a good offer, there's no reason to refuse."

Karl held the phone and said, "After all, we have to eat, and we have to do our work."

As he spoke, Carl seemed to remember something and glanced at Kenichi Shiro: "If you want me to be a spy to help you get information about Arasakase Nobuo, or to find an opportunity to become Arasakase Nobuo, then forget it. I am trustworthy and will do my job well if I accept it. I will forget about spying on my employer or attacking him."

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Kenichi Shiro had nothing to say about Carl's attempt to find out about Arasakase Nobuo and what Arasakase Nobuo said, as if he didn't take it seriously.

Carl's courage was beyond his expectation. Kenichi Shiro mentioned this matter simply because he wanted to ask Carl's opinion on guarding Arasakase Nobuo. As a result, Carl's mind jumped directly to the idea that Kenichi Shiro wanted to do something to his employer.
Kenichi Shiro couldn't help but ask himself, was he the kind of person who would do such a thing in his mind?
"I just wanted to ask what you think about Arasakase Nobuyuki staying in Night City."

Kenichi Shiro remained calm: "What do you think he is going to do?"

"I would never discuss the employer after I accept the job, but I haven't accepted it yet. According to my thinking, to be honest, I don't know."

Carl was very honest: "After all, today was the first time that Arasakase Nobuyuki and I met. To be honest, I was quite confused when he suddenly asked me, a stranger to him before and someone he didn't know at all, to be his bodyguard."

“It’s really something to think about.”

Kenichi Shiro frowned and thought for a while, but he really didn't understand it.

He didn't say that he understood everything related to Carl, but he definitely knew about 80% of it. Kenichi Shiro really didn't understand why Arasakase Nobuo would choose an outsider who was not from his faction and even participated in the cleansing of his faction to be his bodyguard.

Guards, even for a short period of time, are people whose lives are at stake. Instead of choosing more trustworthy hawkish subordinates, choosing outsiders like the KK team, would cause considerable controversy even under Arasaka Nobuo's command, right?

After a brief exchange, Kenichi Shiro, who couldn't understand Arasaka Nobuo's actions, left. He planned to go back inside to conduct some inspections and thinking. In any case, Arasaka in Night City was also the territory of the doves. Even if Arasaka Nobuo was a dragon crossing the river, if he wanted to do things here, he had to put away his fangs and sharp teeth.

The other members of the KK team who witnessed the entire conversation between Carl and Kenichi Shiro finally no longer had to stand and wait after Kenichi Shiro left. Among them, V almost couldn't wait to take out his identity verification card, came to the door of the warehouse, and swiped his verification at the checkpoint.

"It's finally over. Let's see what cool parts we can bring back to repair it."

When Kenichi Shiro was present, Oliver, who had been somewhat quiet, became active because of his aura. He quickly walked to V's side and looked expectantly at the slowly opening door of the warehouse: "I hope there will be a cart inside so we can carry the parts away." "I actually think we can drag the Sky Hera over for modification."

Carl was not as excited as V and Oliver about car modification. He just stood there and watched the eight-meter-high warehouse door slowly open after the card was swiped, without moving a muscle.

"Forget about remodeling in this place."

Jack shook his head and walked closer to the warehouse to look inside. "I took a quick glance and saw no less than four cameras in the open area. If we carry out the transformation in this place, I'm afraid we will have to be under Arasaka's watchful eye. We can't let Arasaka know our secret transformation formula."

"Secret transformation formula, are you Mr. Krabs?"

Carl was talking in jokes that Jack and the others couldn't understand, and after the door was completely opened, he moved closer to some warehouses. As soon as he got closer, he heard the exclamations of V and Oliver as they rushed in as soon as the door opened a little.

"Is this not a Gree company's automotive air conditioning compressor? I remember that one of these things starts at 4,000 Euros."

This surprised Oliver.

"A flying clutch. I've never seen this before. I didn't expect that all the parts are available."

V was already moving around the warehouse like a little bee, jumping up and down, uttering little exclamations from time to time.

"Can we really take all of these things?"

Even though they knew it was the reward for the action, V and Oliver still couldn't believe it. It's not that these things were so precious, they could definitely afford them if they wanted to, but they didn't expect there would be an entire warehouse for them to choose from.

"Take it. You can take whatever you want."

Jack found a large cart next to the warehouse door and said, "This warehouse is full of rewards that we can choose from. If you don't take them well, it would be a shame for our efforts in this mission."

"That being said, we actually just stood there for a while."

Leaning against the door of the warehouse, Carl, who knew nothing about cars, believed in his partner's ability and continued to talk with Arasakase Nobuyuki on the phone. During the conversation, Carl's fingers paused.

Arasaka Nobuyuki has already sent the outline of the mission.

'I will escort him during his ten-day stay in Night City and accompany him to various places in Night City to meet people.'

Meeting people?

For some reason, Carl suddenly remembered what he had heard in the Afterlife Bar before.

It seems that the mercenaries in the city have all received work recently. I wonder if it has anything to do with the rumors that Arasakaze Nobuo is coming to Night City.
(End of this chapter)