Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 518 131. Like-minded
"You're on the news Carl."

"Well, I expected that."

Carl nodded to Jack, and then stared at the TV projection screen in Tavernier's suite on the 100th floor of the Blue Bi Building: "What happened in the morning was reported at noon. It was pretty fast."

"Didn't you delete the footage he filmed?"

Arasakase Nobuyuki watched the performance on the screen, secretly surprised by Carl's strength, and asked Carl with some curiosity: "I thought mercenaries like you would pay attention to your privacy."

"Mercenaries value privacy. This doesn't sound right, Mr. Sei Xuan. You've been in the company for too long. In today's streets, information about mercenaries is never a secret.
As long as you have some fame, those middlemen will have your information in their hands, and they are waiting for you to do some thankless work. "

Carl looked at the first-person view of the sky on the screen and said:

“And I also looked through his materials in passing;
Although he was not a good guy, having helped small companies cover up many secrets and obeyed orders from large companies, he also took the initiative to submit reports on industrial pollution in Santo Domingo and child kidnapping in the city center;
Although none of this was approved by the higher-ups, he did it anyway, so I don’t mind him filming it.”

'Because the other party has done something within their ability, out of their profession, and it may not be a good thing from the heart, are you willing to ignore it?'

Listening to Carl's words, Arasaka Nobuyuki somehow thought of the core business of Arasaka Corporation.

Arasaka Corporation specializes in providing security services to dignitaries and important groups, and their security services often involve obtaining intelligence on that person or that group while providing protection. In other words, this business, which is nominally security but is actually intelligence gathering and utilization, is Arasaka Corporation's main business and the capital for Arasaka Corporation to survive in the world for a long time.

Arasaka Corporation often uses secrets in intelligence to threaten others and force them to work for them.

Among these people, there are mercenaries who leaked secrets.

Compared to those mercenaries who are willing to serve Arasaka until death for their own dark secrets, Carl is different even as a mercenary.

Do mercenaries not value privacy? Actually, it is not the case, but they have not yet revealed their most core secrets.

Once they reveal the real secret, under the scrutiny of senior management, all their reasons and purposes for their actions will be expected by them.

In Arasakaze Nobuo's memory, there was an example of the consequence of the mercenary's most core secret being exposed.

The legendary lone wolf from the past, Satan, has long been an enemy of Arasaka, and Arasaka Corporation does not understand why this mercenary keeps attacking their operations.

After in-depth digging, the core secret of Saito was placed on the table of the company's top management - a close female relative of Saito had been violated by someone from the Arasaka family. In order to retaliate, Saito regarded the destruction of everything in Arasaka as the most important goal in his heart.

After knowing this, Arasaka often used it to attract Saito Nozomi and almost killed this legendary mercenary several times, but failed repeatedly because the other party received assistance from military technology.

The military technology obtained this information, and because of the secret of Saito Nozomi, they also used it to control Saito Nozomi. They used the hatred of Saito Nozomi to attack Arasaka, and continued to profit from the activities of this legend.

After the secret of this legendary mercenary was exposed, he became a tool for the two companies to wrestle with each other. This is the importance of secrets.

'shackles.'

Arasaka Nobuobu thought of Arasaka Saburo, a sentence that his father, whom he hated and despised, often said.

'Everyone has shackles that bind them, and secrets are perfect for being such shackles.'

The reason why Carl doesn't value secrets is that for him there is no such thing as a secret that cannot be told, or does he have a real secret that has not yet been known to others?

For a mercenary, even his combat performances and prosthetics are no longer secrets, so what other secrets does he have?
Some hidden family members, or underground lovers, or perhaps their origins?
Arasaka Nobuyuki was thinking about it, but suddenly he realized that his thoughts were heading towards exploring Carl's secrets and controlling him, and that was exactly what Arasaka Saburo was accustomed to, which he hated the most and absolutely did not want to become.

Arasakaze Nobuyuki was sure that at the moment he was thinking, he had the idea of ​​using secrets to control Carl and make him work for him. "You have been in the company for too long."

Carl's previous words lingered in Arasakaze Nobuyuki's mind.

The fire in Arasakase Nobuo's heart has never subsided, and his will has become more and more firm after years of polishing. However, his actions and thoughts have gradually deviated from the past and leaned towards the company over the years of company affairs.

When did it start?

Is it when you realize that you can't overthrow the company from the bottom, and you can't solve the problem by cooperating with people above you, and you can only go back to the company and destroy it from the top?

Is it when you think that you are the only one who can control the company, and then perish along with all the companies to overthrow them?

Only a company can defeat a company. When did this impression become ingrained in my mind? Because of this thought, did I start using Saburo's methods?

Arasakase Nobuo looked at Carl, and he thought of the Iron Lotus that he and others had formed, and the Steel Dragon that he founded. These two were organizations he formed with like-minded partners in order to overthrow the company.

Like-minded.

It was not coercion or inducement, nor was it forced, but rather it was because they were comrades with the same will, the same ideas, and the same desire to change the world that they came together to resist.

Like-minded, comrades.

My ambition has never changed.

And my will has never changed.

I am not Saburo Arasaka, and I will never become Saburo Arasaka.

If he really needed this young man and needed Carl's help, then what he would do would definitely not be coercion or inducement, nor could it be to explore his secrets.

All you need to do is believe in him.

I believe in this young man who still has kindness towards the world and others, and who still has the sunshine that can pierce the darkness.

"By the way, Mr. Setobu, what do you want to eat for lunch? It's almost lunch time, and we should eat something."

Carl's voice interrupted Arasakase Nobuyuki's thoughts.

"I'd like to have something that a company dog ​​like me would eat."

Arasaka Nobuyuki's words were calm and steady.

"Then we'll make you street food. Is the noodles okay?"

A corporate dog like Arasakaze Nobuo?
Aren't they just street people?

People on the street just enjoy having a whole mouthful of noodles.

(End of this chapter)